Emperor's Cunning Wife

"I have a face making machine inside my car…" Situ Yi didn't even manage to complete his suggestion when the sounds of vehicles getting towed out of the Villa's garage entered the group's ears. "Well there goes my livelihood." He resumed his languid pose and muttered in a carefree manner, "I actually heard the food in the prison is not bad."

Nezha and the thief rubbed their faces in speechlessness. Whether it was during a modus or escaping they could not count on this guy who only knows how to have a good time. He even has the time to smile amidst the dangerous situation. Bold and reckless, he's really the group's number one sc.u.m.

"I guess there are only four of us now." The thief pinched the area between his brows.

Nezha didn't have an ounce of patience, "Hey Feitian and Little Lou if we ever get out of here. I'm going to…cut off his balls…" he gnashed his teeth while saying the last phrase. "It's better for him to die childless otherwise his children might be also demented."

The smile of Situ Yi didn't lessen, "Be my guest."

"That's enough."

"Xu asked if your cars had autopilot control system." Ning Lou lightly informed them whilst glancing at the prompt messages received by her satellite phone.

Nezha and the thief shook their heads.

Whilst Feitian nodded but he was concerned by the purpose of her question, "Three cars with an autopilot but their qualities can't match those armoured vehicles."

She typed another string on messages. "It's okay. We can…"

"Mine is semi armoured with bullet proof glasses, top notch durable wheels with a navigation panel on the driver's seat. It is also installed with an automatic shifting system." Situ Yi interjected their exchanges listing the unique features of his newly ordered custom vehicle. It was such a pity that he only managed to fully enjoyed it for less than a month.

"Honestly…If there is one good thing on you. It's your car." Nezha commented which caused the three to simultaneously agree.

"Then you're all blind."

"Yep, he's rotten to the core."

The others didn't linger their sights on him any longer and quickly formulated a plan.

Situ Yi didn't complain and closed his eyes to get a feel of the entire situation.

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Several minutes passed after going through the plan. The four wrapped everything up and only waited for the signal.

"Ready?"

Situ Yi also opened his eyes in reluctance. He might not have joined them in devising the escape plot but his ears were sharp enough to hear their discussion. He patted the dusty earth from his clothes and looked ahead, honing his senses from the awaiting play their group is about to perform.

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On the other side of the world, inside a room jam-packed with wires, computer screens, keyboards and a swivelling chair, there was a man whose age ranged from the late 20's to the early 30's continuously tapped a bunch of commands in C++ language. His spectacles reflected an unending computer codes appearing in the screen. On the left was the on-going chat with Ning Lou, on his right displayed the geographical location of the group in a myriad of blue, green and white. The red colour represented the heat signatures, the green were those without a temperature and the white was his addition of detecting firearms and any weapons.

The map on the screen was dotted with lots of white and judging from it the other group was aiming to catch them off good.

Honestly he couldn't care less for their safety but he only did them a favour after Ning Lou's promise.

Ah, my Titanic wine collection will soon be completed.

Yep, if there was one more thing he's obsessed with besides hacking was liquors, especially those aged wine with historical value. Ning Lou got her drinking habit from him.

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Five minutes passed and the group was inside the semi armoured vehicle Xu controlled through infiltrating Situ Yi's shifting system.

The pilot of the helicopters had difficulty regaining controls of the mechanism. Both loading and firing officers in each helicopter could only grit their teeth while witnessing the custom off road vehicle run amok and slipped inside the woods.

Without the aided vision from the air, the commanding officers and soldiers depended on the sturdy trunks of the trees and still compact walls of the villa to exchange fires with the group.

Feitian fired a series of shots through the small gaps of the window. Golden hands was behind him helping and loaded the barrel with bullet shells.

Only sensing the officers' location through the sounds coming from their weapons, Feitian was able to bring down almost half.

Nezha was on the driver's seat and manoeuvred the vehicle through the narrow gaps of the tall parashorea and gingko trees scattered around.

"Four o'clock." Ning Lou spoke grasping the satellite phone tightly.

While Situ Yi, well there's nothing really worth saying about him. The group was even glad that he was quiet and didn't do anything frustrating.

Finally after several minutes of navigating in the woods, the group saw the sign of the river docks where Feitian's submarine was located.

Meanwhile on the other part of the woods, a commanding officer extended the phone over to the man in a marine uniform.

"The third platoon."

Slender fingers grasped the phone. Eyes gazed at the flock of birds flying away from woods, "Where?"

"…" The other end of the phone replied shortly.

Several seconds passed when he returned the phone to the man and requested, "Hand me over the heat seeking missiles."

"Director…are you…from here…" The man was stunned. Even the most experienced artillery officer couldn't possibly secure an accurate shot just by relying on the heat detectors.

"Just hand it over."

Not long after large cannon like weapon was presented to him and the latter took it and carried the weapon with ease.

Aiming at a certain direction, the man released a missile in the air letting it land to the forest.

Situ Yi watched the tiny light dot from what's left of the rear-view mirror. Spine chilling coldness seeped into his bones.

"Watch out!" The group was only able to heed his words when there was a thunderous sound in the air and the vehicle turned upside down and rolled off a meter away from the river docks.

Within a few minutes, they reached the wreckage and surrounded it from all sides. Firearms rose to cover the FBI's leading agent inspection.

But when they thought they managed to catch or kill the criminals they found out that there were no signs of bodies at all.

The man crouched on the ground and observed the patches of fresh blood on the stalk of grasses that created a trail towards a tree.

The man gestured and his troops to immediately find some cover while he raised his gun. Carefully walking towards his suspected hiding spot, his men provided support from behind.

Splash-

The sound coming from the water halted the men.

The man made gestures with his hand to give the rest orders. Five armed people went to inspect the sources of the noise.

The rest continued on their pursuit.

At about two steps away from the tree a woman whose white dress were tattered appeared in front of them, the men nearly released shots at her from the surprise.

"Come here." One of the officers urged her to slowly approach but as soon as he said that a muzzle of the gun also appeared besides the pitiful woman's head followed by a voice. "Lower your weapons! Or I'll kill her!"

Trembling all over, panic, anxiety all together simultaneously invaded her body. The officers were reluctant to come over to her as a result.

This was in the middle of the forest and the appearance of the woman was out of their expectation. There were no reported residents around twenty mile radius so she must be abducted or trafficked illegally.

The man went to inspect the woman from head to toe. There was some gnawing feeling scratching his judgement. But without proper evidence that she wasn't part of their act the leading FBI director couldn't decide automatically.

Ning Lou, on the other hand, spotted the particular man in the group. He was in a marine's uniform and his decorated c.h.e.s.t signified the great deal of military feats he accomplished for his country and just like the captured image in Brother Long's surveillance clips, he was 'so young', 'so beautiful' and 'so scary'.

Ning Lou turned her attention to the other less pressuring officers and issued pitiful cries of help.

The officers were in a dilemma as a result.

Meanwhile Nezha, thief, and Situ Yi dived towards the area Long Feitian pointed out.

The unclear vision under the water lengthened their time in finding the submarine. Quickly, Situ Yi used his strength to steer the entrance.

Upon succeeding, the three swiftly bolted inside before closing it again and letting the water drained completely.

On the surface, Feitian and Ning Lou quickly closed their gap from the river.

The man followed their every movement, especially the woman because he somehow remembered there was another folder in his files that recorded information under the code name: Little Flower.

He raised his gun and aimed just to graze the bullets passed the woman's skin.

Bang-

When he fired his shot, Feitian quickly hugged Ning Lou and dived off to the river.

But in the midst, the agents as if triggered by their leader also fired consecutive shots at Feitian.

Ning Lou watched her Brother Long displayed a painful expression and hugged him closer.

Her eyes scanned the still clear surface and found out the striking pairs of eyes returning her piercing stares.

She would never forget that man's look that wanted them both dead, the words from Xu repeated in her mind, "There's a new FBI recruit and he was rumoured to have a high percentage in completing missions. The people from the security department call him 'Jaded Faced Asura'."

'Jaded Faced Asura'

Ning Lou mumbled the alias in her mind before sinking deeper in the river's abyss.

In the middle, she heard the sound light footsteps.

Her head spun and was confused to see the blurry silhouette of a man amidst the mauve flowers. His black boots were embroidered with dragon in golden threads crushed the budding flowers on his path mercilessly.

At the end of the path, Ning Lou saw a woman with the same look as the current body she possessed.

She was on the verge of crying but the man still wouldn't spare her a glance.

Ning Lou couldn't hear their conversation completely. But she picked up some titbits out of it.

'Medicine and flower…'

All she could muster from the short scene before the scenery puffed into a smoke.