Hidden Assassin

Edit: IlkonEbi

TL Note: Bold text is spoken in English.

Marilyn’s “I don’t know” caused Heidi to cautiously raise her head, “Mommy, is it…”

“Don’t speak.”

Marilyn hurriedly clapped a hand over the little girl’s mouth, but Tang Jingyao had already heard her. With a giant smile on his face, he walked towards them as Heidi’s face paled. Suddenly, a huge explosion, akin to an earthquake, shook the entire building. Tang Jingyao hurriedly grabbed the side of the table and was about to pick up the walkie-talkie to ask what the situation was, when gunshots could be heard!

The light inside the room where the Italian mobsters were was suddenly extinguished. Due to the explosion, the light in the room they were currently in was also flickering. Under the shouts of the Italians and the rat-tat-tat of machine guns and handguns, one could also see flashes of pistol fire. Marilyn tightly hugged Heidi and they sprawled on the floor, while Tang Jingyao froze in place, horrified as he pointed a gun at the room’s entrance. One of the mobsters that was standing by the entrance of the room barely managed to pull out his gun when he stumbled and collapsed into the room, a bloody hole in the center of his forehead.

After a few moments, the shaking stopped and the sounds of gunfire also ceased. From the room, the three could see the corpses of the mobsters lying in fresh pools of blood all over the hallway. Tang Jingyao gripped the gun in his hand tighter, and did not dare to head out of the room. After a pause, when everything became quiet, his heart pounded. He pulled Marilyn up from the floor and shoved her in front before heading towards the entrance.

Marilyn had a basic idea of who it was, so she was not afraid at all. The other room was illuminated by the light behind them, when they looked inside, she sucked in a deep breath and secretly rejoiced. The room was a complete mess, there were five corpses and the floor was splattered with fresh blood. The only window in the room was wide open and it was clear that whoever attacked had entered from there. After massacring the Italian mobsters in this small space, the person had unexpectedly exited via the window.

After seeing that scene, Tang Jingyao started trembling. He looked at Marilyn and shouted into the walkie-talkie, “Give me a report! Just now… what happened just now?”

“Boss, there was a package on the west side conveyor belt, and it exploded. We… we lost around five people to that.”

The voice on the walkie-talkie sounded panicked and Tang Jingyao only anxiously shouted, “I don’t care, get everyone to come up here… I need everyone here right now!”

Just as the other side heard this, another voice suddenly interrupted, “Help! Help me! He’s outside! He just jumped down from up there. Ol’ Two and Ol’ Four were both killed. It’s a kid, no, he’s…”

The walkie-talkie suddenly cut off.

“It’s not possible for that person to be a kid… I know, it is a midget. It has to be a midget…” He hurriedly ran over to the window to take a look; they were on the third floor of the factory which was at least five floors high. It was completely dark outside, and he could not see how that person had gotten up here and then down there. The walkie-talkie suddenly started up again.

“Boss, a collapsed cement pillar is blocking the corridor. We’re currently pushing it aside, we’re nearly done…”

Suddenly, the sounds of gunfire could be heard.

“…He’s coming, he’s rushing in!”

Hearing the gunshots coming from downstairs, Tang Jingyao could only feel his whole body shake. As he walked back into the room, he only glanced briefly at the mother-daughter pair, keeping an ear on the sound of gunshots that was gradually decreasing. He asked into the walkie-talkie, “What happened, did you get rid of him?”

A tense and confused voice came through, “N-no, we haven’t. He’s very nimble, like a monkey. A few of my fellows have already been shot in the confusion. N-now…”

Now that Tang Jingyao knew the reason why the gunshots decreased, he gritted his teeth in anger. “What?? You’re saying that it’s only one person, and you have so many people with you… You guys are being suppressed by one person?!”

“Boss, h-h-he… his gun shots are incredibly accurate; whoever goes out instantly dies…”

“My a#$%^…” Tang Jingyao was so angry that his words became unintelligible. He shouted into the walkie-talkie, “On my count to three, I want everyone to shoot! I don’t believe that this many people cannot kill one person! One, two, three…”

On the “three”, all his remaining subordinates did start shooting, and as if in response to him, a voice suddenly broadcasted in the factory, “You really think that’s going to happen?”

A few of them rushed out and discovered that they could not find their opponent’s location. The broadcasted voice caused them come out of hiding and shoot wildly at their surroundings. Machine gun bullets rained down from above and tore through four people’s bodies and the remaining subordinates scurried back to their original hiding spots. The leader of the group nervously said into the walkie-talkie, “Boss, be careful. He’s at… the broadcast room…”

“Then why haven’t you gone there yet?!” Tang Jingyao trembled in agitation.

There was, in fact, a broadcast room in the factory after Tang Jingyao took over the location, and it was right next to the room he was in. But how can it be?! Even though my subordinates downstairs were blocked from coming up, there should still be a few people stationed outside. Have they all been silently killed…

As he thought about it, he could already see that demonic assassin draw closer to their room. He promptly took out a submachine gun from the drawer. He was just considering using Marilyn and Heidi as hostages when the voice that was heard on the broadcast suddenly came from the walkie-talkie.

“Mister Tang, please know that my codename is Phoenix. Someone spent a lot of money in exchange for your life. Once you’re dead, please don’t come back and haunt me. It’s just business.”

Tang Jingyao tightened his jaw. To think that when the Italians died, that person had not entered the room because he was not there to save the mother-daughter pair. It was purely… because someone wanted to kill him…

“How much did he give you, I can…”

Bang! Someone was thrown against the door and at the same time, Tang Jingyao’s fingers subconsciously tightened, causing the machine gun to spray bullets. The voice continued leisurely on the walkie-talkie.

“Don’t be silly, Mister Tang. If I was moved by money, I would not be suitable to be an assassin. At this point in time, please accept your fate,” the hoarse voice gently said, offering earnest and well-meaning advice.

If there had been a lot more people attacking, then Tang Jingyao might not have felt like it would become like this. But the situation tonight was really too bizarre, it was only one person that had gone through this five-story building. He had created an opportunity with the explosion, calmly dispatched six experienced members of the Italian mafia, then single-handedly suppressed all the remaining people in the factory. This person had controlled the situation from the start and made the impossible happen, just like a supernatural being.

The door had been destroyed by the machine gun and as it fell with a crash, it revealed one of the subordinates he had arranged to guard outside the room. The poor man was riddled with holes from his wild shooting earlier and had become a human sieve. Tang Jingyao started recklessly shooting again at this sight, and then, with a final ‘click’, the machine gun ran out of bullets. At that moment, pu, pu!, two bullets tore through both his hands as a child-sized figure calmly entered the room.

“Daddy…” Even though Heidi knew that her father was a bad guy, when she saw Tang Jingyao on the ground wailing pitifully, she just could not help but call out to him. Marilyn pulled her along, and the two of them headed towards the door.

“Um…”

“M-mister…”

The two of them were startled at the appearance of the middle-aged midget with a scar on his face instead of the regular harmless-looking young boy. The midget only waved his hand. “We don’t have much time. Marilyn, take a gun and get ready to leave.” After a brief pause, he hesitantly asked, “Can you use a gun?”

“I-I can.” At this point, Marilyn understood that this person was that little boy. She did not know which one was his real identity, but Marilyn nodded regardless and took the dropped pistol near Tang Jingyao. The little girl ran towards him. “Mister… are you really Mister? W-why do you look like that?”

“Heidi, be good, we’ll talk once we get out.” The little girl’s hands were reaching towards his face, and Jiaming hurriedly turned away as he looked towards the stairs near the room they were currently in. If he had been alone, he could easily leave this place, but now that he had to take these two females with him, it had become a difficult situation. As he considered their escape route, a gunshot sounded from behind him and he whirled around in a conditioned reflex towards Marilyn’s side. It turned out that Marilyn had shot Tang Jingyao while he was still struggling on the ground.

He had seen people kill backstabbing husbands, but had not seen such a clean kill. Was this due to a deep love turning into a strong hatred…

Not thinking too much into it, he turned back to the door. “Ok, prepare to…” He did not finish speaking when Heidi screamed, “Mommy—!”. Fortunately, Jiaming had quick reflexes; Marilyn had turned the gun towards herself, but he interrupted her. With a sharp noise, the gun flew into the air and scattered into pieces.

“You big boobed, empty-headed stupid woman!” Jiaming stopped himself from slapping her when he saw her tearing up, but he roared, “I risk my life to save the both of you, and this is how you repay me?! You owe me two lives! According to a Chinese saying, you have to spend the remaining of your current life and then the whole of your next life working hard to repay me! If you want to die, then I will leave right now. I will leave you and your daughter here to be raped and killed by those gang members! Raped and killed!”

He usually acted like an airhead, but this time he scolded her with a mouthful of profanity. When Heidi heard that he was going to leave them behind, her hand tightened nervously around Jiaming’s hand. Marilyn trembled faintly, tears filling her eyes as she looked down at the dead man on the floor. After a moment, Jiaming placed another gun in her hand and said coldly, “Follow behind me, I will point out the safest route to leave this place. I don’t want to waste any more time on nonsense. If you do die today, I will definitely leave Heidi behind! I said it and I will do it, so keep that in mind!”

Those who had tried to commit suicide and did not succeed the first time, generally would not have the courage to try a second time. With a small submachine gun in his hands, Jiaming shot two people directly in the head as they appeared from the stairs. The rubble downstairs had been cleared away, so many people rushed up and the next part of the battle was about to start.

There was a degree of difficulty to it, but they could do it…

The corners of Jiaming’s mouth curved up slightly; combined with the scar on his face, it made him look cold and sinister. Not bothering with the foolish blonde beauty behind him, he patted the little girl on the head and softly said, “Let’s go home.”

2 / 4 chapters of the week (next release is Wednesday, Feb 21).

Jiaming is just that OP.

The title is actually referring to something like this – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest_to_kill_100_people_using_a_sword