Chapter 1045: One Thing After Another
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A sharp whistle sounded from afar and was approaching by the second; it was getting clearer as it approached.
Kieran quickly grabbed the injured lady and the unconscious pursuer and dashed outside with maximum speed.
"What do you think you are doing? Yo-…"
KABOOM!
Kieran's actions astonished the injured woman, she instinctively thought Kieran wanted to do something to her while she was weak, thus was angered out of embarrassment.
But the moment her shocking cry escaped her mouth, it was overpowered by the huge explosion.
99th Smorewill Street was destroyed by the shockwave from the explosion under the woman's gaze. The roof flew up a dozen meters in the air and the fire after the explosion was swallowing what was left of the building.
Seconds later, 99th Smorewill Street had sunk into the sea of fire.
The injured lady was dumbstruck when she saw the fiery scene, her mouth was even muttering to herself.
"A rocket missile?!"
"Impossible! Impossible! I only went to eavesdrop on some worthless information, how did it exaggerate itself like this?"
The lady was obviously frightened.
Though Kieran didn't want to comfort her, he knew it was a good chance to test the waters and he was always smart enough to seize the chance.
"Eavesdropping on some worthless information? I think that's your own assumption, not theirs. First, a man chasing after you, now a killer with heavy artillery. I am starting to regret my kind decision to save you! Now, please leave, I'll wait for the police here and tell them everything that happened, Don't you worry about compensating me also, I'll find my own ways to save myself."
Kieran purposely stepped back, pretending to draw distance from the lady.
"NO! You can't do that! You have the abilities to help me!"
She panicked but he didn't forget how Kieran moved her out of harm's way like a prophet seeing through the future, plus Kieran was able to easily defeat the strong man that was chasing her, the lady had treated Kieran as her life-saving straw; she tried to grab Kieran's coat but he easily shook her off.
"Of course I can and having abilities seems to be my own matters. Who are you to me? Why do I have to help you?"
Kieran looked down at the begging lady with his emotionless face and replied with a dull done.
"They knew you were with me and even if you tell the police, what difference will it make? Trouble will still knock on your door!" The lady tried to persuade Kieran with a cheap excuse.
"You don't know if you don't try, right?" Kieran replied with his own question.
Kieran's question though seemed to send her into a difficult position and what was more pressuring was, the police sirens could already be heard from further away.
99th Smorewill Street was located at the edge of the wealthy district, so it was still considered within the police's jurisdiction, thus the security around the area was much stronger than the common slums, especially such an obvious "explosion" went off.
"Hey, you know what, you won! Don't you wanna know why I head to the alley? Help me and I'll tell you everything!"
The lady chose to compromise with Kieran since she had no intention of meeting the police.
However, Kieran pretended to turn a deaf ear to her suggestion, he even walked aside a few steps, trying to draw the line between them.
"Damn you cold-blooded bastard! I, Emma Eddie won't let you off just like that!"
Sigh!
"I went there to deliver the intel I got for "Hell Breath" to a receiver! I don't know who it is, I got his contact through Scorch Fire Bar's Baryl! Now you know everything that I know, I will tell those bastards that are hunting me down! I will die and so will you!" Emma Eddie shouted.
"Hell Breath? Scorching Fire Bar's Baryl? And… the receiver?"
After getting the intel, Kieran walked towards Emma Eddie as thoughts lingered in his mind and when Kieran grabbed her, Emma Eddie was stunned.
Emma Eddie wasn't stupid since she started as a street-level goon from a young age, instead, she had sharp senses common people didn't possess, hence she reacted quickly to the situation.
"You bluffed me?!" Emma Eddie questioned Kieran
Kieran, however, didn't reply to her question since it was the truth.
"Release me! You liar!" Emma Eddie struggled to break free disregarding the injuries on her back.
Kieran then gave her another hand chop at the back of her neck to stop her from struggling.
He too grabbed the unconscious pursuer before swiftly hiding into darkness.
Emma Eddie didn't want to meet the police and Kieran shared the same intentions for now as well.
After giving Fire Raven which was soaring in the sky an order to track the attacker with his mind, Kieran hastened his steps as he headed towards the signaled direction.
Scorching Fire Bar, Kieran did catch a glimpse of that sign when he was heading to 99th Smorewill Street.
Soon enough, Kieran found his destination based on his memory.
It has a neon light sign that formed a fire shape, it was very recognizable during the night, even more so when a person was hung to death in front of the sign, it was undoubtedly eye-catching.
Even without asking, based on the cries of shock from the surrounding crowd, Kieran was sure the person hung to death was Baryl.
"Killing the witness now are we?"
Using his SSS+ Intuition to quickly size up the surroundings later, Kieran looked down at the two captives at hand and quickly formed a decision but before he moved, he took out [Lucky Card] from his bag.
"Let's hope this brings me good luck!"
Kieran said as he saw [Lucky Card] disintegrated into nothing after quietly activating it; he woke Emma Eddie later, with less than tender means.
"What is this "Hell Breath"?" Kieran asked.
"Why do I have to tell you?"
Covering her painful cheek, Emma Eddie was glaring furiously at Kieran.
If it was possible, she would have hung Kieran up and viciously beat him up.
However, when Kieran pointed at the direction of the bar, Emma Eddie followed the direction and saw the person hung to death in front of the sign, her eyes widened and the grudgeful thoughts in her mind flew away, leaving behind fear.
Despite living in the streets, Emma Eddie at most committed some petty theft to keep her alive. She did hear about matters regarding dead people before but when she saw it with her own eyes and the dead person was related to her, it was the first in her life.
"This is why you have to tell me," Kieran said.
Emma Eddie kept quiet as she squatted down on the ground, trembling in fear.
"Believe me, keeping quiet does you no good now. Tell me what "Hell Breath" is and I will be more than happy to help you from this situation for the time you saved me. I already got some hints from what you said before and it won't take me too long to find out by following the clues and hints."
"Come on, your situation is pretty bad now."
Kieran then picked her up as he spoke.
At the next moment, the concrete floor where she squatted down before was shot to ruins by bullet rain.
If Emma Eddie was still squatting there, she would be shot in half by a high caliber rifle gun; Emma Eddie wasn't an idiot, she knew that.
"I'll tell you! But you need to protect me!"
"Hell Breath is a sculpture!"
Chapter 1046: Assist
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Hell Breath is a sculpture from the papal era six hundred years ago! Master Sculptor Mordin's final masterpiece before he died, it's priceless! But as the papal era came to an end, the ancient art sculpture vanished as well."
"Recently it re-appeared in the underground market and was found by those folks Bloody Ridge! They didn't just want to sell it off for a huge amount of money, they wanted to double-cross their buyers as well. The receiver that Baryl introduced me was one of them, he did offer quite a high price, seems like they are determined to get it done!"
After Emma Eddie explained, she couldn't even pause and continued asking, "Now what should we do? I know a decent hiding spot, if we get there, we should be safe from the killers now!"
"Are you sure your hiding spot is really safe?"
Emma Eddie couldn't help but hesitate when Kieran questioned her about the safety.
Her hiding spot should be safe most of the time but now? In a desperate time like this?
Emma Eddie took another glance at Baryl who was hung to death further away, she eventually shook her head.
"So…
"We should take the initiative to strike first! Besides, I don't like being chased around like rats by others.
"Right, can you tell me more about Bloody Ridges?"
Kieran said as he saw police cruisers rushing to the scene, he also walked towards the police.
…
Pudder took the files in his hand and knocked on the desk with one of the folder's edges.
"2567, four months ago he stopped a robbery when the robbers tried to harm the public, disregarding the people's safety. After luckily apprehended three of the robbers, he joined the voluntary police force. Based on the witnesses at many of the scene of incidents, at least five cases of violence happened around Smorewill Street block are related to you."
Pudder said to Kieran who was sitting in the chair in front of him with a cold tone.
Pudder didn't really dislike Kieran but he hated those voluntary police who thought they were so high above the law.
If it was possible, Pudder didn't mind arresting the voluntary police instead.
After all, in the chief officer's point of view, all voluntary police acted recklessly on their own will and were barely any different than those dangerous criminals.
"Chief, I am here to report a case. My house was bombed by someone."
Kieran restated the reason he was at the station.
"I know right, your house was blown up! But can you tell me, under what circumstances that while your house was being blown to hell, yet you still appear around Scorching Fire Bar? What do you have to do with Baryl's death?"
Pudder was speaking fast but his intonation was clear and precise.
His way of questioning unconsciously added a pressuring manner on him and a common man would be frightened instinctively, but not Kieran as he looked at the chief officer with a calm gaze.
He had worked with too many "chief officers" before, so he knew how to handle the situation before his eyes.
"I was there chasing down the culprit that blown up my house! I have nothing to do with Baryl's death! And don't forget, I am a citizen seeking aid from the police, not some criminal being interrogated."
Kieran was emphasizing with a very slow tone and heightened pitch.
His voice instantly attracted gazes from the people around and based on the camera in front of their chest and notepads in their hands, taking down notes rapidly, their identity was obvious: reporters.
In this city which often had extraordinary powers showing off, a piece of explosive news was enough to attract the reporters' attention, especially when casualties were involved.
The reporters were like sharks picking up the scent of blood, they didn't just swarm over, but with an aggressive manner as well.
Even with the officers blocking them off with a "wall of men", it didn't really stop the uncrowned kings of their industry from showing off their enthusiasm and forcefulness.
"Damn it! You guys didn't have dinner? Or you do think this is a game?"
"People died! I am trying to find the clue to the murder here, so can you guys get these annoying bastards out for the sake of your uniform and the badge?"
One of the reporters somehow able to pass a portable recorder to Kieran but before it truly reached him, Pudder slapped the recorder off the reporter's hand and pushed him away.
He then shouted at his men, urging them to do their job properly while ignoring the camera flashes on his face, capturing the mean move of pushing away the reporter.
Pudder then looked at Kieran.
"You think your little tricks will work? You pesky little bastards, you like the limelight so much huh? I tell you what, if I am really scared of these annoying reporters, I won't purposely order my men to take you back to the station, instead I'll ask a beat cop to brush you off with some written testimonial!"
"Come here, you pesky bastard! The big wide hall doesn't seem to suit you enough, but I know another place that fits you perfectly!"
Pudder bent his body and lowered his head down before Kieran, warning right in front of his face.
The rage and sneers in Pudder's face were obvious but Kieran, on the other hand, didn't feel angry when he was treated like that, instead, he felt a little nostalgic.
Pudder's image unconsciously was overlapped with the other few natives in Kieran's memory that he could call friends.
"Similar occupations and persistence forged the same character? Though… I don't hate it."
Some would flow along with the current, some would stand their unique ground.
The latter would seem abnormal, antisocial and a deviant in most people's eyes but wasn't it because of the stubbornly persistent deviants that the world was given something to look forward to and yearn for?
Kieran stood up. He glanced over the few officers that moved quickly after being scolded by their superior yet a lot of them showed an unwilling expression; he then followed Pudder to the so-called "suitable" place.
Interrogation room.
The moment the door was opened, Kieran knew what the room was built for; he strode in right away.
Pudder who wanted to push Kieran inside was stunned by the little action but what shocked him more was when Kieran turned around, showing his back to the surveillance camera and signaled him with lip movements.
'Are you sure this place is safe? If not, we better change locations.'
Pudder though quickly came back to his senses. Many years of experience allowed him to know why Kieran did that.
Pesky little bastard trying to mystify the facts!'
Pudder commented on Kieran's action as a cheap move in his heart but his actions were not slow.
He shut the surveillance camera and closed the shutter on the wall.
"What tricks are you trying to play? Agitate me so you can have a tour of the interrogation room? If it's true, I'll bring you to visit more places! With bars!"
Pudder sat in front of Kieran after making sure no one would watch them and said with an angry tone.
"I'm sorry. Something happened and I am forced to do this. Know anything about Bloody Ridges and Hell Breath?" Kieran asked.
"A voluntary police like you joined this matter as well? Fret not, you are not the first and certainly won't be the last! We real police will settle everything! We are prepared for his!"
It seemed like Pudder knew Bloody Ridges got their hands on Hell Breath as well and Kieran wasn't all that surprised about it.
He nodded and continued slowly, "Um, preparation is good. After all, this is a really good elaborated hoax."