Chapter 81: Detonation
“White Rabbit!” Gao Yang rushed toward White Rabbit and helped her up.
“Don’t mind me! Kill him!” White Rabbit shouted with bloodshot eyes, her voice trembling with overwhelming emotions. “Don’t touch his right hand!”
“I know!”
Even without her reminding him, Gao Yang had figured out much of the way the red-haired man’s power worked.
His Talent was most likely Detonation, serial number 22, and his red right hand was the key.
As for how the Talent worked exactly, it was likely that he could detonate any organism his right hand had touched, and the power of the explosion depended on the duration of the touch.
That would explain why the explosions Wu Dahai and Heavenly Dog suffered were so serious, while White Rabbit only had a hole in her right leg.
It had only come into brief contact with the red-haired man’s right hand when she kicked him, while Wu Dahai and Heavenly Dog had supported the man for quite a while before they realized the danger, allowing the man’s right hand to stay in contact with their bodies for much longer.
And the red-haired man had been patient. He only ever moved his right hand within a reasonable limit. If he had recklessly touched Heavenly Dog’s and Wu Dahai’s hearts or heads, he would attract suspicion even though he would have killed them with one detonation. Originally, the man had planned to take out all four of them in one fell swoop.
Gao Yang felt chilled to the bones. If he hadn’t exposed the red-haired man with Lie Detection, the man would have found opportunities to touch all four of them with his right hand. Then all of them would have been blown up, rendering them sitting ducks awaiting easy hunting.
Gao Yang was reminded of what War Tiger had said:
—Don’t be misled by those shonen mangas. There is no absolute ranking for power. Real-life battles aren’t one-on-one matches in an arena, but a mix of schemes, exploitations, ambushes, lies, poisons, psychological warfare, traps, and the age-long tactic of going after someone with greater numbers. There are more tricks than one can feasibly predict and prepare for.
“Watch out!” White Rabbit shouted. Gao Yang had just turned around when the red-haired man reached out to touch Gao Yang’s face with his right hand. Please visit fr𝐞𝐞w𝒏.𝒸𝑜𝔪 website to read fastest update
His opponent was quick. He had rushed up to Gao Yang in only a few seconds. However, Gao Yang was prepared—he had left himself wide open to lure the man into attacking him, in fact.
With a hand supporting White Rabbit, Gao Yang put up a show of losing his composure due to his companions’ conditions. All the while, he had a hand hidden under his armpit with the palm facing his back, holding a ball of condensed energy that was ready to be unleashed.
Gao Yang silently prayed that White Rabbit’s injured legs would give out only after she got to Lovely Lamb.
Now it was time to deal with the bastard!
When Gao Yang turned around, he was shocked to see that the red-haired man had disappeared. All there was was the broken vending machine. Then he heard the sound of a car starting from a short distance. He whirled around and saw that the red-haired man had gotten into their car. With blood streaking down the corner of his mouth, he covered his chest with one hand and moved the wheel with the other, giving Gao Yang a cold smirk through the window.
Gao Yang was caught off guard. How could the man move after getting such a heavy kick in the chest?!
The car hurtled toward Gao Yang. He quickly dodged out of the way.
When their eyes met through the car window, the red-haired man gave Gao Yang a vicious, hateful, and frustrated look, as if he was silently declaring that he would have his revenge sooner or later.
Gao Yang rolled to a stop. The car had already gotten quite far from him.
His replication of Jump had run out. There was no way he could catch up to the car. Rooted to the spot, he watched the car disappear at the end of the road. Only then did he collapse to the ground with sprawling limbs like a balloon man losing all the air.
He breathed in heavy puffs, drained.
Although he had made only two moves. Each took all the energy he could muster. He hadn’t pulled back at all.
He smelled a strange smell then. It was completely foreign to him. But then a gust of night wind swept it away, and the smell was gone.
After a few minutes of resting, Gao Yang took out his phone to call White Rabbit. She didn’t pick up.
He got to his feet and walked toward the Millennium Tower. About ten minutes later, his phone rang. White Rabbit called back.
“Hello?” Gao Yang said through a constricted throat.
“I got back in time. We’re with Lovely Lamb.” She sounded positively frosty. “Did you get him?”
“He ran.” Gao Yang paused. “How are they?”
“Not good.”
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