Chapter 114 Arriving at the Scene (E)
"What in hell happened here?" Jin thought out loud when he saw the gory scene inside the basement room.
He had been asleep when he received an Emergency Mission notification.
The task was to save Flora.
After going through the mission contents he checked her location.
It would take him an hour to make his way to the site where Flora was.
He pushed himself off the bed and rushed out.
A while later he was in his car and was speeding towards Flora's location.
He was all ready to fight tooth and nail to save Flora's life but before he could reach the destination he received a message from his system.
"MISSION DISSOLVED"
"ASSIGNING NEW MISSION…"
"What the hell?" Jin thought that when he saw this message, the content of his mission changed in front of his eyes.
x-x-x-x-MISSION-x-x-x-x-
Objective: Unbind Flora
Location: [Click]
Reward: 100 KP
Penalty: Flora's death
Intel:
Flora is currently unconscious. Her hands and legs are restrained so even if she wants to she can't help herself. Remove them so that she can take care of herself.
-x-x-x-x-x-END-x-x-x-x-x-
"The mission was dissolved and then changed? This has never happened before," Jin muttered as he checked the new content.
The priority in the given situation was to help Flora so Jin didn't mull over these thoughts for long.
He went through the new contents and then once again checked her location on the mission panel.
Flora's location was still the same. Seeing this, Jin pressed on the throttle, and his car rushed towards its destination.
He soon reached a place on the outskirts of Neon City.
It was a sparsely populated area, and the few houses present were quite a distance from each other.
Flora's location was inside one such household.
Jin switched off his car's headlights once he was in the nearby area and parked it there.
He changed his appearance to that of William's before exiting the car.
From that place, he walked on foot and soon reached the location.
It was a small dimly lit house. The dirt patches on the walls were a clear indication of the fact that the owner didn't care much about the house.
A white expensive car was parked right beside the house. It was in clear contrast to its surroundings.
Jin silently made his way in and glanced inside through the window. It was completely dark.
The window had iron railings so he couldn't get inside through them.
His only option was the front door.
Jin slightly pushed the door with the hope that he might find it to be open but it was not.
He sighed.
His only option now was to kick the door open and so he did.
The dilapidated door couldn't hold itself for long under the barrage of Jin's kicks.
Once inside, Jin turned on the lights and looked all around the room.
A frown soon formed on his face. There was nobody inside.
He once again checked the system. The location was this only.
'Wait a minute,' Jin thought and zoomed in on the map.
"So there's a basement in here," Jin said and searched the room intending to find some secret entrance.
On the floor, A rectangular rug the size of a bed was placed. Jin pulled it up and there it was, a door attached to the floor.
Jin opened it up and found stairs leading downstairs.
He walked down and was welcomed with another door soon after.
Without wasting any time, Jin kicked it open.
Two bodies were lying on the ground not far from him.
One was lying in a pool of blood while the other had little patches of blood around it.
Seeing this Jin couldn't help but rush towards Flora's figure.
Seeing the dried-up blood on her face he grew worried and checked whether she was breathing or not.
Sensing that she was alright he finally took a sigh of relief but soon a furrow formed on his face.
Seeing the tattered and dishevelled state of her top a sense of anger invoked in him.
It didn't need a genius to figure out what she had gone through.
Jin's gaze then fell on a flesh-like thing nearby which was smeared in blood. He picked it up and observed it for a while.
A while later he looked towards the man who was lying in a pool of blood not far away.
Jin then glanced at the dried-up blood on Flora's mouth thereby figuring out what had transpired.
"I'm impressed…" Jin genuinely praised.
It required guts to pull something like this in such a situation.
Cough Cough!
A couple of coughs attracted his attention all of a sudden.
The source was not Flora but the man who was lying in a pool of blood.
Hearing this Jin pushed himself off the floor and made his way towards him.
There he saw the man struggling to keep his eyes open.
It was clear that the blood loss was too much and he was unable to physically exert himself.
Jin crouched on his feet and looked at the man's face. Their eyes met.
"You didn't die yet?" Jin asked.
"Sa…ve…me" A powerless voice escaped his mouth.
"Too bad, you'll soon wish that you would have died earlier," Jin commented and took out his pistol from the inventory.
He was finally given a chance to vent the anger that was brewing inside him.
The man's eyes widened in surprise seeing the gun appear from thin air.
However, this surprise didn't last long and was replaced with horror.
The barrel of the pistol was aimed at his groin all of a sudden.
Jin turned to look at the man's expression while pressing the barrel of his pistol on the man's groin.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"You want me to stop?" Jin asked the man.
The man nodded desperately. This reaction pleased Jin.
"Make me," Jin returned a sadistic grin and pulled the trigger.
Pew!
A torturous screech escaped the man's mouth as he rolled on the ground while crying out in pain.
It continued for a few seconds before he finally stopped struggling.
He was dead.
Jin watched the entire scene with relish in his eyes.
When this was over Jin stood up and turned towards Flora only to see her eyes clear like crystals looking back at him.
"So you're awake?" Jin asked after a brief pause as he made his way towards her.
"Who are you?" Flora couldn't help but ask as her gaze fell on the pistol Jin held in his hand.
"Let's say that I'm someone who's going to save you tonight," Jin remarked in a playful manner as he bent down and started undoing her legs.
Sensing no hostility from him Flora didn't feel scared by his touch and instead asked him.
"Why would you do that? I don't know you," Flora stated as she felt the ropes around her legs loosening.
"Someone had put that man on the hit list, so I came here," Jin said, "I didn't know that I would find you in here as well. Seeing a pretty lady like you here isn't it normal for a man to help her?"
"It would be more normal for him to take advantage of her helplessness don't you think?" Flora countered.
"Hmm, that might be true. Guess it's just me who's different," Jin remarked while undoing the rope around her arms. Explore hidden tales at empire
Flora figured out that the man didn't want to state his true intentions so she didn't push him further and instead asked while getting up, "So you're a hitman?"
Aaachoo!
Her question was followed by a sneeze from her side.
Jin took out his jacket and gave it to Flora.
Flora readily accepted it.
She removed what was left of her shirt and wore Jin's jacket over her body.
She didn't mind Jin's gaze falling on her bare upper body because in her opinion he had already seen what was there to be seen earlier.
With the jacket on she felt a lot warmer now and looked towards Jin with an inquisitive expression, "You still didn't answer my question,"
"Yes, I indeed am a hitman. Are you scared now?" Jin responded. Flora's boldness earlier has distracted him a bit.
"Can you kill someone for me?" Flora asked.
"You should thank your saviours for saving you instead of asking them to kill someone else you know?" Jin joked not taking her words seriously.
"I'm ready to pay whatever sum you require. If it's too much then I'm ready to pay you in instalments until I've fully paid my debts," Flora added.
"I'll listen to you at least. Tell me, who do you want to kill?" Jin asked.
He too was becoming curious as to who exactly she wanted dead.
"Henry Gordon, the chairman of 'Light&Heavy Motors Ltd', it's him who had planned my kidnapping tonight because I refused to sell my patent to him," Anger was apparent on Flora's face as she mentioned that bastard's name.
"Is that so?" Without saying anything else Jin turned around and started rummaging Dobey's body for something.
"What are you searching for?" Flora asked with a frown.
"This," A couple of seconds later Jin replied.
There was a car key in his hand.
He threw the keys towards Flora who caught it although clumsily.
"The white car outside should be yours right?" Jin asked.
Flora looked at the keys and nodded.
"Good, drive yourself back home," Jin replied and started walking towards the exit.
"Wait!" Flora exclaimed. He had still not answered whether he would do the mission or not.
Jin didn't stop and left the basement soon after. It seemed as if he was in a hurry.
"He chickened out didn't he…" Flora muttered.
She didn't have much hope in the first place and was just testing her luck with this request.
A while later she dragged her weary body outside and went back to the hotel in her car.
It was a long drive and It gave her a chance to look back on all the events that has transpired and form plans for the problems she will be facing in the future.