The scene he had anticipated did not unfold before Tapana. At the moment he pulled the trigger, Su Cui was already fully prepared. She moved almost simultaneously with Tapana, pushing off with her feet to leave her original position, and then... dashed toward Tapana.
Tapana's first shot missed.
His blue eyes reflected Su Cui's astonishing speed, showing a hint of surprise. Tapana's interest was reignited.
His hand holding the gun was extremely steady. Facing Su Cui's charging figure, he showed no panic at all; instead, he smiled. In the final moments before death, people either panic extremely or burst out with a strong will to survive. He had seen too much power erupting at the brink of life and death, so he was not surprised. At least not at the moment Su Cui grabbed his right wrist that held the gun.
Tapana looked at the mask on Su Cui's face and felt like uncovering it to see the old woman's terrified expression at the brink of death. He even thought with interest: Old age makes people foolish. Wouldn't it be more likely to survive by just running away? Instead, she insists on trying to drag him down with her. If she ran, he could enjoy the thrill of the hunt a little longer. What a pity.
As Su Cui approached, he raised the right hand she was holding, pulling her toward him, and suddenly lifted his knee to strike her abdomen... He had performed this move many times, and it carried a natural fluid grace.
But the next moment, Tapana's face began to twist, and he drew in a sharp breath. All movements happened in an instant. Su Cui could feel the immense force of his knee striking her abdomen—truly not something an ordinary person could deliver! A normal burly man hitting her with full force would feel like a mosquito bite, but this handsome killer's knee strike was like a pea being shoved under her stomach while lying on her belly—uncomfortable and a bit annoying. Really impressive! Hmm, but it didn't hurt much.
But for Tapana's knee, it was a different story. His knee felt as if he had just kicked a steel plate hard—can't hurt the steel, but hurts oneself immensely.
Su Cui deliberately smiled as she fell into the security guard Tapana's arms, looked up, and pinched her voice to say coquettishly, "How mean!" "I'm a very sturdy old lady. Young people being so enthusiastic makes me shy~"
Not bad, not bad. Thanks to this killer for the experimental result. Her confidence grew even more. After this single exchange, Su Cui's confidence increased.
Having disgusted him with her coquettishness, Su Cui suddenly yanked back the hand that Tapana had raised, and under Tapana's genuinely horrified gaze, she tightly grasped the killer's wrist with her palm and instantly squeezed hard!
Tapana groaned. The gun finally fell from his right hand. The streamlined silver body traced a cold gleam in the moonlight and dropped onto the snow. Cold sweat dripped from his forehead due to the pain. Tapana's wrist bone was crushed.
Almost instinctively sensing the huge disparity in strength, Tapana immediately shed his contempt. The two exchanged several moves while close together. In terms of combat skills, Su Cui was naturally no match for a professional killer. But no matter how good the combat skills, striking a steel plate won't hurt the steel.
"Steel plate" Su Cui only needed to hold onto Tapana's wrist to render all his counterattacks futile. Tapana quickly realized that unless he cut off his own wrist, he couldn't escape Su Cui's grip.
The next second, his left hand moved slightly, and a dagger fell from his sleeve. He gripped it tightly and thrust it toward Su Cui's head, who was in his embrace! Su Cui also sensed Tapana's reaction. She had never been shot, and she didn't let her guard down during this fight. Her highly focused mind slowed down Tapana's actions by several seconds. In those critical seconds, she immediately understood Tapana's intention. She cursed inwardly: What a ruthless bastard! Knowing she was "hard," he wasn't afraid of bending the blade!
At this moment, the two were extremely close—Su Cui was practically in Tapana's arms! Su Cui tightened her grip on Tapana's wrist to prevent him from leaving, and Tapana, sensing the disparity, decisively pulled out the dagger and stabbed at Su Cui. Su Cui dodged slightly. She had tested it at home. Even a kitchen knife couldn't cut her, let alone a dagger? However... After the down jacket was slit open, Tapana pressed a small button on the dagger's hilt, and the entire blade suddenly began to spin violently, stabbing inward with lightning speed!
Su Cui shuddered, sensing something wrong. The moment the blade touched her skin and cut through her flesh, she released her grip on Tapana's wrist, switched her hands to grab Tapana's waist, gave a loud shout, and lifted his entire body to smash him behind her...
The dagger's distance from Su Cui increased. For the first time, panic appeared in Tapana's blue eyes as he watched this short, sturdy old woman lift him. His waist was almost crushed by those wrinkled hands, and the strength in his lower back could no longer control his body, which could only follow Su Cui's force and go backward!
When he hit the ground, if it weren't for the grass covered with a layer of snow, Tapana had no doubt his spine might have fractured. As his entire body fell backward, he only had time to use his left hand to adjust his landing posture and protect his vital head area!
With a "bang," heavy snow fell all over Su Cui and Tapana's heads and bodies.
Su Cui hated watching TV dramas where villains would put a knife to someone's neck and then keep babbling endlessly. She wasn't like that. Although she had never killed anyone, the moment the foreign killer landed, she immediately thought of finishing him off. First, snatch the killer's dagger!
She pounced, punched the rising Tapana back down, snatched the dagger from his hand, positioned the blade at a stabbing angle toward his throat, and pinched her voice to ask, "Who are you? And who was that tall, thin man you just killed?"
Tapana's face was even more handsome up close. "Speak quickly!" Su Cui placed her foot on Tapana's stomach and threatened coldly, "If you don't say anything, I'll make your stomach burst."
Tapana stared at Su Cui for a long moment. His gaze lingered from her wrinkled forehead to her graying hair, and then he suddenly broke into a wicked smile. "Tapana," he said softly.
Su Cui felt the name was oddly familiar, but she couldn't recall it at the moment. "You're so strong... I'm willing to let you remember my name."
Tapana's gaze began to soften, and his deep-set eyes carried a natural depth of emotion. Under Su Cui's puzzled look, with an indescribable expression, he used his relatively intact left hand to caress Su Cui's old woman's shoe, and a small blade appeared at his fingertips, approaching Su Cui's calf...
Su Cui: ??? What the heck! She pressed the blade down a little. "Behave yourself, or I'll kill you." "To die at your feet is my honor," Tapana said without stopping, even smiling.
Su Cui immediately cut open Tapana's left hand with the knife, withdrew her leg, and instead gave the killer a fierce kick. For a moment, her hair stood on end. So... so disgusting. She remembered who Tapana was. Was the world in this book really that small? The story of this pair of perverted twins wasn't supposed to appear until after the heroine graduated from college! How could she run into them?!
Su Cui wanted to confirm, so she looked down at Tapana and asked, "Do you have a younger brother?" Tapana's excited gaze froze slightly, then turned into a deeper smile. "How did you know? It seems our meeting is indeed fate."
Great. Su Cui made a swift decision. She used her left foot to step on the right snow boot, pulled her right foot out, performed a crane stance, and took off her right sock. She had no time to worry about the tall thin man's death now. There was something she had to do. Right now, immediately! She had to do it.
"Hehe." Under the mask, Su Cui picked up her sock and revealed a sincerely honest smile. She put her shoe back on her bare foot, rushed over, and pressed the sock tightly over Tapana's mouth and nose as he wore a perverted expression. "Yeah, you're fated! You're fated to be stunk to death by my sock," Su Cui said viciously as she pressed.
Stinky feet! Stinky feet! The stinky feet she had been obsessed with and grinding her teeth over! Her coming to this world must have something to do with these villains. She could convince herself of anything, but she couldn't accept the daily stinky feet!
"Why can't you just be decent people? Taste my stinky sock!" Perhaps Su Cui's sock was too lethal. Tapana's twisted infatuation and excitement finally sobered, and he began to struggle vigorously. Suddenly, Su Cui saw a red dot appear on Tapana's neck. She was alarmed! In the original text, this pair of twins always acted together. Red dot? Nighttime laser sight? A sniper?
She quickly dove to the side, rolled on the spot, and looked back at the surrounding buildings, only to find that the red dot was just the rotating lights of a distant building changing color and reflecting off nearby glass windows. Crap!
Su Cui turned back again, and Tapana had gotten up and started running away! Both hands disabled, knee injured, yet he could still run this fast? What the heck... Su Cui immediately planned to chase, but she wasn't as good at tracking as Tapana. If this guy hid in some dark street corner like she had done earlier, in such darkness, she wouldn't be able to find him.
But after just two steps, Su Cui turned back to pick up the pistol from the ground. She was a law-abiding commoner and had never had the chance to touch a gun in real life. She didn't know about guns, so she didn't rashly tuck it into her bosom; she just held it in her hand.
Su Cui had heard that guns have safeties; if not engaged, they might accidentally discharge. She didn't know the gun's model. If she tucked it in her bosom and it fired during a fight, killing herself, that would be too ridiculous. She had hidden her phone well; if someone found it, she could explain. But the gun couldn't stay here. This book world also banned such things. If someone picked it up and turned it in while she was gone, her fingerprints would be on it.
The night wind by the river was strong. The tables had turned: the original killer chasing Su Cui had become Su Cui chasing the killer. It wasn't that Su Cui couldn't catch up, but she rarely came to the city center and never expected there to be a river nearby! She watched helplessly as Tapana leaped into the surging river waters. Su Cui, a non-swimmer, was dumbfounded.
She didn't give up and took off her shoes to test the water temperature. It was freezing, making her shiver. She let out a muffled breath of hot air. In such cold water, with injuries that severe, Tapana probably wouldn't survive. Tsk. Su Cui wasn't sure. After all, in the world of a censored novel, the wicked live long.
It seemed she would have to find time to learn swimming.