Chapter 96: Kill Harris
“Chen Wujun!” Harris’s face showed some astonishment.
He never imagined that this seemingly ordinary case was a trap targeted at himself.
Even more unexpectedly, the person in front of him was… Chen Wujun.
“Who” Joe’s startled cry suddenly came from behind, but the sound only half rose before there was a “thud” of a strike on flesh.
Almost at the same time, the iron gate outside slammed shut with a bang.
At this moment, Harris had just leaped backward, the iron gate was already closed, and the rear was pitch black.
Then came the gurgling sound of flowing water.
Harris smelled a pungent gasoline smell.
Outside, someone was pouring gasoline through the gap in the iron gate, and it flowed down along the stairs.
Just a single spark would turn this narrow staircase into a furnace.
Harris calculated; earlier when he came in, he had noted this iron gate. Given some time, he could break out.
But clearly, the opponent wouldn’t give him time.
Moreover, outside there was at least one master who could subdue Joe in an instant, not even giving him time to fire, only managing half a warning cry.
To know, Joe’s reinforced reconstruction exceeded 42%.
Harris took a deep breath and walked down the stairs step by step, eyes fixed tightly on Chen Wujun ahead, only to find that Chen Wujun now held a shield blocking half his body.
This shield had been hanging on a pillar earlier; due to the great shock of seeing Chen Wujun, he hadn’t noticed it.
“Now there’s only one path!” Chen Wujun tilted his head and grinned:
“Throw away the gun, I’ll throw the shield too, and we’ll have a man-to-man fight. I kill you, or you get killed by me!”
“Why?” Harris was full of doubts.
Although he had caused trouble for Chen Wujun, it was only once, and merely verbal trouble, without causing him any loss.
The two sides had no deep hatred.
Yet the opponent had set up such a scenario targeting him.
“Because you wanted me to be a dog…” Chen Wujun looked at him playfully.
“I don’t want to be a dog, and I don’t want you constantly causing me trouble…”
“Just for this?” Harris was even more astonished; if it was just for this… this kid was simply a madman.
Then he thought of the video of Chen Wujun he had seen that day.
A teenager who killed Yu Wei with such methods, then challenged all the new technique masters from so many gangs in the audience.
At the time, his evaluation was: this kid was a born villain, a thug!
“It’s for this… and also to gather my mental will…” Chen Wujun didn’t explain much; there was no need.
He tapped the shield in his hand rhythmically, making thumping sounds, challenging the opponent.
“I have one more question… who’s outside? Sha Jiu… or your master Zhou Qing? What exactly is your master Zhou Qing?” Harris wanted to gather more information in this opportunity.
At the same time, his gaze swept over the iron pillars, his eye corner twitching constantly.
By the faint light, he could see a slight sheen on top of those iron pillars.
Clearly, something was very off about those iron pillars.
“You don’t need to know that… you can investigate after you go back.” Chen Wujun smiled.
Harris suddenly took a deep breath and raised his hand to pull the trigger.
Bang! A gunshot rang out.
Firelight flashed in the room.
Clang!
The shield in Chen Wujun’s hand made a light sound.
“11 rounds left… want to try again?” Chen Wujun grinned.
Harris ignored Chen Wujun; in that instant of firelight, he had seen the situation clearly.
Not only did the iron pillars have a faint reflective layer on top, there was a ledge about 20 cm around the room, also reflecting faint light, and even the walls were the same.
Harris reached out and touched the edge of the nearby dye vat, his heart sinking immediately; he finally knew what it was.
It was oil.
The entire room was coated with a layer of heavy machinery lubricating oil.
Harris frowned at Chen Wujun: “This isn’t fair. Didn’t you want to kill me? We can switch to outside.”
“If you’re scared, I can tie my hands and fight you.”
“No, this is very fair.” Chen Wujun was unmoved.
“Your speed is faster than mine too… but I’m smarter than you, so this is fair.”
“I’ll tie my two legs and fight you.” Harris said again.
“See, you always think you’re smart… just like last time you came looking for me…” Chen Wujun’s eyes held sarcasm.
At the same time, flames suddenly rose on the stairs behind Harris, gasoline burning as the fire flowed down along the stairs.
Harris’s heart sank to the bottom.
The guy opposite was a thorough villain.
Harris kicked off his shoes, leaped to the outer ledge on both sides, slipped immediately underfoot, nearly falling into the sewage below.
Though he didn’t know what was in the sewage… he definitely didn’t want to fall in.
Relying on powerful muscle control, he tensed his feet, abruptly regained balance, and ran quickly along the outer ledge.
The faster the speed, the easier to maintain balance.
20 meters was just an instant for him; he reached Chen Wujun’s side and fired a shot at his head.
Bang!
Clang!
Chen Wujun’s body shrank back, a bullet hole appearing on the top edge of the shield.
This was what Harris wanted; he kicked hard underfoot, but not only the ledge, even the walls were coated with machinery lubricating oil, making him nearly fall into the sewage again. Fortunately, he twisted his body fiercely and crashed toward Chen Wujun.
He wasn’t trying to knock Chen Wujun down, but to force him to give way.
As he expected, Chen Wujun shifted underfoot and landed on another iron pillar.
The oil-grease-coated iron pillar was no different from flat ground for him.
And as he moved, the shield suddenly slapped toward the gun in Harris’s hand, while a cold gleam slashed toward Harris’s feet.
Chen Wujun had long known he wouldn’t drop the gun easily, so in his hand was not just a shield, but also a knife.
Harris inwardly cursed; in that split second, he pulled his feet back sharply, then flat-stepped onto the blade.
In this split second, Harris’s retract-and-step motion was almost impossible to react to.
However, Chen Wujun’s knife rolled, slashing toward Harris’s sole.
In this environment, attack positions were fixed; Chen Wujun had simulated it countless times in his mind.
Even if Harris’s movements were faster, he could still react.
Harris punched the shield, using the momentum to leap backward; his feet landed on an iron pillar and slipped, his whole body about to fall toward the sewage pool below.
Quick-eyed and handy, he grabbed the iron pillar edge; his hand was slippery, veins bulging on the back.
When he felt the iron pillar shake, his other hand raised and fired two shots at Chen Wujun, then his body curled and leaped, returning to the iron pillar.
After the shield took a punch, Chen Wujun instantly switched three pillars to dissipate force, blocked the two shots, then spun back to the last iron pillar, slashing a knife along the shield edge straight at Harris’s head.
But only halfway, Chen Wujun retracted his hand.
This knife was a feint, just to make Harris fire his last shot.
However, Harris’s gun muzzle shifted toward Chen Wujun’s arm and head, not falling for it.
By now, the distant flames had ignited the lubricating oil on the dye vat outer ledge at the other end of the stairs, flames burning slowly along both sides like two fire snakes crawling.
Thick black smoke rolled toward them.
Both could smell the pungent toxic gas.
Harris grew anxious inwardly; this kid really was a madman.
Going on like this, before the flames enclosed them and burned them, they’d be suffocated.
“Didn’t you say we both drop weapons?” Harris stepped back one pillar, then spoke.
The opponent had a turtle shell and a knife in hand; his gun had only one bullet left, no chance at all.
Special Task Department missions always carried 12 bullets, but he… only brought 6.
So he planned for both to discard weapons and shield, then fight.
As long as the opponent had no shield or weapon, his strength far exceeded his, and in close combat, he had places to borrow force.
“Sure, you throw the gun first. If I wanted to burn you, I wouldn’t wait here.” Chen Wujun said from behind the shield.
Harris directly threw the gun into the water.
Ding!
The gun was immediately deflected.
Harris’s eye corner twitched; sure enough, there was something below the water.
Chen Wujun also threw the shield and knife far away.
He tore open his shirt, revealing extremely thick muscles, then fiercely inhaled, his whole body swelling a size larger.
“No wonder such courage; so it’s hardening kung fu.” Harris’s face darkened.
He was well-informed.
He had seen hardening kung fu masters before.
And Chen Wujun’s hardening kung fu was far from mastered.
Harris leaped toward Chen Wujun, his ten fingers bent like curved steel, clawing at Chen Wujun’s head.
Chen Wujun turned underfoot, stepping to another iron pillar as if on flat ground.
In the instant he landed, he felt a slip underfoot; at the same time, Chen Wujun advanced suddenly, stomping his instep, hands thrusting pierce palms continuously like two knives stabbing at his neck.
Harris couldn’t exert force now, bent waist and slapped above Chen Wujun’s knee, body leaping back again.
But as soon as his feet landed, he slipped again; before he steadied, Chen Wujun chased with strikes, form extended, hands whipping like steel whips.
Harris retreated another iron pillar, this time grabbing with both hands and one foot.
In the instant Chen Wujun followed, his arm thrust like a spear at Harris’s chest.
Harris seized the chance, suddenly grabbing Chen Wujun’s arm with both hands, but Chen Wujun’s skin was metal-hard; with hands full of lubricating oil, they slipped immediately, ten fingers sliding from elbow to shoulder.
Harris knew it was bad; his arms wrapped like giant pythons around Chen Wujun’s arm, veins bulging.
While Chen Wujun’s fist smashed directly into his chest.
Harris felt intense pain in his chest, whole body thrown backward.
But his arms wrapped like giant pythons around Chen Wujun’s arm; Chen Wujun was dragged forward two iron pillars, Harris yanked hard with arms, borrowing force to spin in midair with a whip kick sweeping Chen Wujun’s neck.
This move had ferocious momentum, even parting the nearby flames with the gust.
The other leg followed closely below.
After this whip kick was actually scissors legs, to clamp Chen Wujun’s neck and twist it off.
But Chen Wujun, in the instant he exerted force, heard his effort and knew his center of gravity.
Body fiercely arched back into an iron bridge, while one leg struck like a venomous snake, whipping Harris’s head.
Harris tumbled out, hugging an iron pillar, eyes full of stars.
Even with his reinforced reconstruction over 80%, even though Chen Wujun’s kick couldn’t use full power due to balance, it still dazed him.
While in the instant Chen Wujun kicked, he could no longer maintain balance and fell downward.
But he had calculated the position; right below him was an iron pillar.
Back hit the iron pillar; he half-turned, five fingers like fine steel gripping the edge from behind the shoulder, body flipped in air like a monkey hanging from a tree on the iron pillar, fingers pushing to leap up.
Almost without pause, after landing, Chen Wujun stepped across several iron pillars, kicking at Harris hugging the pillar.
But at this moment, fierce light burst in Harris’s eyes; arms and legs exerted fiercely, whole body leaping above Chen Wujun’s head, hands clasped into fists smashing down on Chen Wujun’s head with force like a pile driver.
The iron pillar he had just hugged flipped into the water under his force.
He had already discovered these iron pillars had a chassis below; with enough force, they’d flip.
Now Chen Wujun’s center was forward, impossible to turn back, and with Harris above, absolutely unavoidable.
But at this moment, Chen Wujun’s body crouched lowest, feet erupting with great force, kicking the iron pillar underfoot flying.
Whole body borrowed force to leap onto the falling iron pillar, stomped once, then fiercely leaped forward.
“This is all over…” Seeing the iron pillars kicked away below, Harris’s heart sank completely to the valley bottom.
He now had no chance to borrow force, could only stretch his arm downward.
Pfft!
Several 20 cm long steel nails pierced Harris’s palm, stabbing straight into his arm.
“Ugh—!” Harris couldn’t help a pained grunt, strength draining over half; he finally knew what was under the water.
The water was full of these things!
Densely packed, 20 cm long steel nails!
Chen Wujun now swiftly stepped across iron pillars in a circle, arriving behind Harris again, body leaping above him.
Foot viciously stomping toward Harris’s crotch, who was propping with one hand to maintain balance.
Splash!
Harris was stomped upside down into the sewage.
Steel nails pierced Harris’s head one after another.
His crotch was a mess of red and white.
Chen Wujun leaped to a nearby iron pillar, then a breath roared out his throat like a tiger’s roar.
