8PM
The roar of an engine tore through the silence of Yuncheng City's night.
Wu Xiuxin drove for almost an hour after saving a child from criminals who roamed around the city.
"Hey, listen. Don't be afraid of me. I am taking you because your parents told me to."
Wu Xiuxin looked at a 7-year-old-girl who happened to be one of the criminal's targets.
The authorities nowadays are failing as the number of criminals rapidly increases, and they are blamed for not taking their job seriously.
These criminals targeted were most likely coming from a wealthy family. Holding them hostage in exchange for money known as 'ransom.'
News spread across the city. Hence, people called the cops 'useless'.
Wu Xiuxin seized the opportunity to save others, knowing it would serve her own interests.
The girl in the passenger seat beside her looked terrified and a bruise on her forehead marked a sign of violence.
"Don't worry. You're in good hands now," she added and used her other hand to pat her head gently to make sure she was ready to go home.
She focused her presence on driving, using her one hand, she took a cigarette from her leather pocket and lit it up.
At seventeen, she knew smoking was off-limits but waiting another year for permission felt pointless. Cigarettes were the only thing that could steady her nerves.
However, she only allows herself to use it when she's all alone.
But before she could even take a puff, a bullet struck through the side mirror of the driver seat.
"Shit," she mumbled, unable to believe those men had still managed to catch up. She had been confident all along, thinking she had left them kilometers behind.
She gritted her teeth in frustration when another bullet struck the glass behind the car that shook them.
Both of them crouched down and covered themselves.
With no other option, she deliberately rammed the car into a tree in the dark, dense forest and immediately rushed the girl out.
The girl cried out in fear as they successfully got out to hide behind the tall tree. Enough for them to survive and get away from striking bullets.
"Listen, just stay here and don't come out. You got me?"
Despite the girl's fear and crying, she wanted to be saved and just nodded.
Wu Xiuxin's anger became rigid.
These guys have been testing her patience. She couldn't help but think about how they outdone her skills in driving.
She then took the gun from her holster and cocked them up.
Despite her situation she was in, she tried to pull herself.
Turning back wasn't in her vocabulary.
She needs to kill.
"Looking for me?" She came out from the dark with a confident stance, making the men tremble vigilantly.
They couldn't manage to make a move when she showed up as they couldn't get what they wanted if they began to be aggressive. Their guns were then held high with alertness, ready to pull the trigger anytime.
There were 6 of them. One stood forward, presumably their leader with a sneer, "Where is that child? Give it to us or else we will end your life in a second."
Wu Xiuxin smirked but her eyes still filled with a stoic expression, "Make me."
The leader gritted his teeth and his playful reaction gradually turned pissed.
"Get her!" The leader said and everyone rained her with bullets.
Too bad her moves were few faster than the bullets in which all of it went to waste. They couldn't believe she had managed to dodge all of those.
She ran as fast as she could.
And when she finally made her way near them, she immediately struck one with her elbow that made him trampled in pain.
Every gun shot echoed in the night but none hit her as she moved swiftly, like a thunder bolt.
Without hesitation, she instantly pulled the trigger and killed the guy who was lying on the ground then continued to attack another before pulling another shot.
Five of them had already fallen on the ground and one of those five was still fighting for his life.
She scanned her eyes around the area. She grinned when she had come to realize that their leader had run away. What a coward!
She then looked behind her, a guy screaming in pain while holding his stomach.
She thought this would be a moment for her to prove to herself that she could face blood without having an episode.
It took a minute before decided and went near him, deliberately pressing her gun on his head and pulled the trigger with no remorse.
Blood spurted out his mouth and that is what she had been avoiding to see since the day she had experienced trauma.
Her flesh, shaking but the situation she has been facing doesn't want her to get away from this.
Voices suddenly echoed as if it could break her head in no time.
"You are a mistake."
"You should have died before you stepped into this world."
Crimson blood is making her insane.
She grasped her hair and screamed uncontrollably but nothing helped her lessen the pain.
The last guy, who happened to be the leader, suddenly came out from the dark forest with trembling feet and arms, a sign of being scared to die.
Out of all of his men, he was the only one left.
He was out of ideas on how to defeat her, now seeing her having a trouble, he thinks it could be his opportunity.
Despite the trembling arms, he managed to aim the gun on her. But instead of a bullet coming out from the barrel, a click-sound broke the silence.
Wu Xiuxin heard it that interrupted her from seeing the vision of her past.
Although she was out of her mind, Wu Xiuxin could see he was a coward because of his behavior.
With eyes wide open out of horror and fright, he kept on cocking the gun and tried to pull the trigger, hoping there could be at least one bullet to strike the girl to death.
The man looked so annoyed while repeatedly cocked the gun and aimed towards Wu Xiuxin and pulled the trigger once again.
The man realized he was out of bullets.
Her eyes became cold and her presence as though she was surrounded with a dark aura.
Although he knew there was nothing he could do, his hoarse voice trembled with hopelessness as he ran in fear.
Wu Xiuxin's vision became dark and ran after him and was able to pull his hair to knock him on the ground and started strangling his neck violently.
The guy tried to look for a possible defense and his hand tried to reach for her face but seemed to no avail, only his stifled voice escaped out of his mouth.
He was on the brink of death when his face turned purple.
She was not done as the voices kept provoking her to do something.
The voices became worse and she began to see scenarios in her mind.
"Enough! Enough! Enough!" She stood with staggered feet, screamed uncontrollably while pulling her hair.
The guy who almost died breathed, coughed hardly as soon as she stood and lost her grip, crawling for an escape.
But escaping seemed useless, when Wu Xiuxin dragged his hair and hit him in the head using her foot.
The guy couldn't even scream as his head hardly slammed on the ground.
Wu Xiuxin, who was out of control, continuously hit him without mercy.
Blood dripped from his head and mouth but she didn't stop until his face became hardly recognized.
She only stopped and came back to her senses when a loud cry broke through her frenzy. Slowly, she turned her gaze to the girl who had come out of hiding, frozen in shock and fear.