BXBX NOVEL Chapter 526: The Mastermind Of Equinox Flower Was Caught – 2
Chapter 526: The Mastermind Of Equinox Flower Was Caught – 2
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Xu Wei’s fighting moves were fluid and smooth, very similar to those of the formally trained special forces in the army.
Leaning against the wall, Fu Zhi looked at her and asked, “Where did you learn kickboxing again?”
Xu Wei’s heart skipped a beat, and she was stumped.
She seemed rather hesitant. She hemmed and hawed for a long while before finally deciding to tell her daughter the whole story.
“When I was a kid, there was this psychic in my village. He told me that I would have a tough life and I might not be able to form a family in the future because I looked dumb and stupid. Your grandpa and grandma worried that I wouldn’t get married, so they asked the butcher to teach me some kickboxing skills. They said that they would pay someone to marry me if they had the chance in the future, and if my future husband didn’t like me and wanted to beat me up, at least I could protect myself.
“But...” Xu Wei scratched her head before continuing. “Since I didn’t have a chance to put my skills to use, the butcher asked me to help him slaughter pigs. Well, you know, we needed to make sure that we killed the pigs as quickly as possible to reduce their suffering, so I used to go all out while killing the pigs. Then, after I grew up, I met your father and eventually married him. He’s the best man I’ve ever met, so I couldn’t bring myself to beat him. Today is the first time I fought with someone after so many years, so I couldn’t control myself and...”
Fu Zhi and Ye Jiu did not know what to say.
Both of them felt relieved that Lu Jingqing had never treated Xu Wei badly.
Otherwise, he might have ended up like those pigs!
Then, Xu Wei added, “Why are you guys asking, though? Your grandpa and grandma have always told me that, as a girl, I have to learn how to fight to protect myself, so I don’t understand why you guys look so shocked. This is nothing impressive, and I’m sure there are other people who know how to fight better than me.”
“This is nothing impressive?” Ye Jiu was stumped. While they took the elevator, he couldn’t help saying, “Besides, not everyone knows how to fight, alright? Your friend, Mrs. Liu, doesn’t have any martial art skills at all.”
‘Even if she practiced martial arts, who the hell could defeat a sixth-degree black belt holder with just one hit?’
The door of the elevator opened with a ding.
Although she was her partner in crime when it came to shopping, they were honestly not that close and they seldom talked to each other on normal days.
Therefore, Xu Wei was not very sure about the things going on in the Liu Family. She waved her hand and said, “Well, we shouldn’t talk about other people behind their backs. It’s not a good habit. Who knows if she’s a boxing queen? I mean, we can’t judge a book by its cover, right?”
Ye Jiu was speechless.
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In the restaurant on the first floor, Xu Wei and Ye Jiu were sitting on wooden chairs not far away.
After Fu Zhi handed the voucher to the cashier, she took a look at the menu and said, “One strawberry slushie, a cheese-topped oolong tea, and a chocolate taro milk tea. Thank you.”
The cashier smiled at her and replied, “Alright. Please wait in line here or go sit on the couch in the lounge area over there and wait a little bit. I will call you when your drinks are ready.”
Fu Zhi nodded and headed to the couch in the lounge area. No sooner had she entered her game than the hall manager of the first floor came to the milk tea shop with a printout of a wanted notice in his hands.
It was a detailed shot of the wanted person’s face, name, and the crime he had committed.
Equinox Flower was the most heinous serial murder case of the past decade. It loomed over everyone, especially the people in Myanmar, like a dark cloud. After all, Myanmar was where Matthew and Anmisu had committed most of their crimes.
“Attention! Attention!” the manager said through a microphone. After he arrived at the milk tea shop, he turned to the customers and said, “I’m sorry, but there is an emergency, so I have to inform the workers right away. Xiao Qi, Xiao Yuan, please come over here.”
Nobody could see what the manager was holding, as he had gone behind the counter of the milk tea shop.
However, a masked man waiting in line suddenly set his jaw tight.
“Take a look at this,” the manager said. “The police station said that the last location where Matthew was sighted was the Lucky Cloud Pavilion. If you guys spot any people with strange outfits or come across any suspicious individuals, don’t approach them and call the police, okay?”
“Okay.”
The hall manager then showed the wanted notice to them before going to the western dining area to inform the workers there.
“Manager, don’t you think that guy wearing a mask is suspicious?” a waiter said as he pointed at the man wearing a mask not far away. “If my memory serves me right, I remember him having a pair of blue eyes...”
“What?!” The manager was startled, and the wanted notice nearly fell from his hand. He swallowed a few gulps of saliva instinctively and looked in the direction the waiter’s finger was pointing.
“Keep an eye on him,” he said. “And you, go look for Ms. Chen Min. You, send a message to Xiao Yuan. Tell her to stay calm. I’m going to call the police now.”
After he finished giving out orders, the hall manager turned around and went back into the office.
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In the meantime, inside the police station...
The sheriff put the phone down and shouted, “Attention, all officers! Go gear up now and head to the milk tea shop at the Lucky Cloud Pavilion. Matthew has been sighted, and we must not let him get away this time!”
“Yes, sir!”
Every police officer in the police station geared up and headed out.
The sheriff went into a fast police car and called the captain of the 4th division. “We received a report that a man that looks like Matthew has been sighted in a milk tea shop on the street near the Lucky Cloud Pavilion. Please send help!”
“Roger that.”
The captain of the 4th division turned the car around, and the captain of the 5th division asked with a frown, “What happened? Did they find Matthew?”
The captain of the 4th division nodded. “Inform our people to form a barricade at the intersection of Evergreen Street and send someone to the Lucky Cloud Pavilion.”
“There are six streets around the Lucky Cloud Pavilion, and Matthew could escape through any one of them. Besides, he’s very good at covering his tracks, not to mention that he’s a profiler. We might not be able to get him.”
“We don’t have any other choice. This concerns the reputation of the International Crimes Unit, so we have to succeed no matter what! If we don’t, the people here might laugh at us!”
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The police cars and the sports cars of the International Crimes Unit swarmed into the street.
The cashier of the milk tea shop raised her head and took a glance at Matthew, who was standing at the front of the line. Then, she turned to look at Fu Zhi and wondered if she should call her forward to pick up her drink or not.
“Erm, miss, your strawberry slushie...” Just as she cleared her throat and said something, Matthew lifted his head at the same time as Fu Zhi.
The heart of the cashier leaped into her throat, but she tried to make herself look as calm as possible. She put the drink on the counter, but before she could say anything, a dark-skinned hand appeared out of nowhere and snatched the drink.
Facing the cashier, Matthew shook the drink in his hand as he began to take his mask off his face.
“Hold on, sir!” the cashier shouted. “This is not your drink. This is for the lady behind you. Yours will have to wait a little longer.”
The police officer had told them to hold Matthew off, so she had poured Matthew’s milk tea into the sink.
The man ignored her and continued to take the mask off his face. His eyes were blue like the sea as he stared at her and said, “Really?”
He had the same face as the man on the wanted notice. It was just that he looked skinnier because he had not been eating for a few days straight.
“Ma... Matthew...”
The cashier’s eyes widened in shock. The man grabbed the rest of the milk tea on the counter and said, “Oh, sweetheart, I’m really sorry to meet you and get to know you this way, but it’s not nice to tell on your friends, don’t you think?”
The cashier’s heart skipped a beat.
A second later, as countless police officers swarmed into the building, Matthew turned around and shot at the window.
“Ahhh!!!”
The gunshot left everyone in the building feeling confused.
Then, Matthew jumped out of the window.
“Matthew! Matthew!” The cashier shouted as she pointed at the window. “Officer, that’s Matthew!”
“Lawson, hurry up!” The sheriff ran toward the window and saw a blue sports car speeding away on the road.
“F*ck!” The sheriff punched the windowsill. He turned back to the cashier and asked, “Did he hurt you? What did Matthew take with him?”
“No, he didn’t hurt me. He took the strawberry slushie, and this is the worst thing he could do. You know what, officer? Due to the scarcity of the ingredients, this was the last cup of strawberry slushie made today!”
The sheriff was speechless, while Fu Zhi was stunned when she heard what the cashier had said.
“What did you say? That was the last strawberry slushie?”
The cashier nodded. “Yes. How about I make you something else?”
Fu Zhi did not say anything in return. Her expression changed, and she put her phone down.
She did not care if Matthew had killed somebody, set the building on fire, or broken the window. The one thing he should’ve never done was take her drink. Not to mention that that was the last strawberry slushie of the day! Did he not know that she had been wanting to drink a strawberry slushie for an entire day?
This was unforgivable!
Fu Zhi stretched her arm and got to her feet.
Chaos ensued inside the building. Everyone was shouting, screaming, and running haphazardly for their lives.
As Ye Jiu dragged Xu Wei behind a couch, she asked, “Xiao Jiu, where’s Zhizhi going? It’s so dangerous.”
As she was talking, she tried to break free from Ye Jiu’s clutches.
‘I have to protect Zhizhi! Go, go, go, Xu Wei! You can do this!’
However, Ye Jiu did not give her the chance. He grabbed tightly the back of her collar, and she nearly choked herself to death.
“Calm down, Xiao Jiu,” Xu Wei said. “I will not go anywhere, so can you please let go? I can’t breathe!”
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It was not an easy task to capture Matthew, as he broke through the barricade set up by the police and crushed a few cars.
When the sheriff heard the report, he hissed in exasperation, “How could you guys fail to stop him when there is only one of him and plenty of us? Where is the International Crimes Unit? Are they not here yet?!”
The stone gambling session was around the corner. There were a lot of visitors from China and Country M, so it would affect the image of their country if they allowed Matthew to continue wreaking havoc in their country.
As the sheriff was feeling anxious, he felt a strong tug at his back and he was dragged out of his car. Then, before he could do anything, the other person had slithered into the car and slammed the door shut.
Vroom!
The engine was startled before the sheriff snapped back to reality.
“Hey! Hey! What are you doing?!” The sheriff shouted and pulled his gun out. He squinted his eyes, and it was only then that he saw clearly who the person inside the car was.
It was a young girl. She looked youthful but she had an imposing aura about her. There was no expression on her face as she rolled the window down.
The sheriff was stunned for a few seconds. The girl in front of him had a fair, delicate face. Her phone was on the passenger seat, and it seemed like she was playing a game, as he could hear the shouts of her teammates.
“Li Wan, where the hell are you going?!”
“How could you dump us again?!”
“You’d better watch out when you go out. I might hire someone to kill you!”
“I’ll be damned if I ever play games with you again!”
The sheriff was stunned. However, he soon came back to his senses. He pointed his gun at her and shouted, “Girl, do you know that it’s a serious offense to assault a police officer? Get out of the car now!
“Sheriff,” Fu Zhi said as she stepped on the accelerator. “Didn’t you ask for help from the International Crimes Unit?”
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