Chapter 497: Killing Through the Highway

"Holy crap!! He just smashed the car behind us with one punch?!" The assassin in the passenger seat of the last remaining car stared wide-eyed at the scene in the rearview mirror, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

"Damn it... so there really are supermen in this world?!""Should we still pursue him?""Pursue him, my ass! Our savings are gone! Do you want to lose your life here too??""Quick! Turn the wheel! Find another road!""This is a highway, damn it! Where else can we go?!""Then turn around!! We'd rather go against traffic than continue forward!"

Seeing the fate of the other cars' occupants, the two assassins panicked. Even though they were once a notorious killer duo overseas, they were now terrified and only wanted to turn back and escape this hellhole.

However, before they could slow down and turn around, the rear car window suddenly lowered on its own...

A low hum—"Why did you open the window?""I didn't... it opened by itself."

Just as the assassin in the passenger seat was about to speak, something resembling a black bird flashed past the rearview mirror. At the same time, the driver-assassin pressed a switch, slowly raising the rear window.

As the rear window sealed shut, the howling wind finally subsided, and silence filled the car.

"It looks like we don't need to turn around after all, we're only two hundred meters from the next exit!" The driver's eyes lit up as he suddenly spotted a distant sign.

"Good thing that superman didn't follow us. If he's protecting Su Zhiwei, he wouldn't chase us off the highway... We must have escaped.""What's with your silence??"

The driver-assassin grumbled, annoyed. As he was about to turn his head to say something, his gaze caught the rearview mirror between the two seats, and he froze.

A figure in a blood-stained brown overcoat sat calmly in the center of the back seat, like a hitchhiker.

The two assassins: "..."A deathly silence filled the car.

In the suffocating silence, the driver swallowed hard. Watching the exit sign draw nearer, he silently flicked on the right turn signal and began to turn the steering wheel, preparing to exit the highway amidst the "click-clack" of the indicator.

"Keep driving," Chen Ling said calmly.

The driver jolted, instantly straightening the steering wheel, and bit the bullet, continuing to drive straight ahead. Chen Ling looked at his trembling legs and slowly said, "Why are you driving so slowly? Weren't you driving quite fast just now?"

The driver flinched. "...Buddy, there might be a misunderstanding between us...""Floor it," Chen Ling said calmly. "If we get too far from the car ahead, it'll be troublesome for me to get back.""...Understood."

The driver slammed the accelerator to the floor. A powerful force pushed them back into their seats, and amidst the engine's roar, the air once again fell into a deathly silence.

"I'll ask, you answer." Chen Ling toyed with the boning knife in his hand, the cold glint of the blade constantly flickering across their peripheral vision, making their eyelids twitch in terror.

"Y-you... you go ahead.""Who sent you?""A middleman called Vulture. He posted a bounty for someone, saying to deal with a woman named Su Zhiwei...""Was he in those cars just now?""No, he wasn't. He's just responsible for posting bounties; he rarely acts personally.""Besides your cars, are there any other assassins?"

"The person who posted this bounty was very generous. Many people are rushing to Gusu; we were just the first to arrive... There are probably a dozen or so more, but they'll likely only arrive tonight."

The two assassins honestly spilled everything. Chen Ling sat in the back seat, deep in thought.

The person who posted the bounty must be Nie Yu... Chen Ling hadn't expected their movements to be so swift. If he and Yang Xiao hadn't arrived early, Su Zhiwei wouldn't have survived the night, no matter how she tried to escape.

"How many more are responsible for the pursuit?"

The assassin in the passenger seat nervously swallowed. "Only the two of us are left... The others, you took care of them..."

Chen Ling nodded slightly. "Pull over."

Hearing this, both men paused, then joy simultaneously appeared in their eyes. Chen Ling hadn't moved to kill them as before, giving them the feeling of having narrowly escaped with their lives! Without hesitation, the driver turned the wheel towards the emergency lane and quickly pulled over.

"Buddy, so we...""Turn on the hazard lights.""Huh? Oh..."

Although somewhat bewildered, the driver pressed the hazard light switch. Two beams of red light flashed rhythmically around the car, clearly visible even from a distance. After pulling over for an emergency stop and activating the hazard lights, the assassin in the passenger seat was about to say something more when a black gun muzzle calmly rose from the back seat...

Bang bang—!

Two gunshots rang out in quick succession. Blood mixed with brain matter splattered the inside of the windshield, almost completely obscuring the surrounding windows.

The two assassins stared wide-eyed in shock, but they had already lost all signs of life, slumped askew in their seats. The driver's head had even crashed into the center of the steering wheel, causing the car's horn to blare continuously.

Honk, honk, honk—

The blaring horn echoed on the highway as viscous blood seeped from the door seams onto the ground... A figure calmly opened the back car door. The hem of his brown overcoat passed over the pool of blood. With a casual tear from his chin, the previously blood-stained coat instantly appeared brand new.

The figure put away his handgun and, amidst the blinking hazard lights, gradually disappeared into the distance down the highway... Behind him, thick plumes of smoke rose from the wreckage of the destroyed vehicles.

"He... he..." Yao Qing gripped the steering wheel nervously, glancing in shock at the rearview mirror.

Just moments ago, they had witnessed Chen Ling detonating two cars and smashing another with a single punch through the rearview mirror. As the last car slowly pulled over, Chen Ling's figure completely vanished from their sight. Yao Qing had considered pulling over to wait for Chen Ling, but remembering his specific instruction to keep driving at the same speed before he left, she continued to speed forward with the accelerator floored.

Even Su Zhiwei and Yang Xiao, who had personally witnessed Chen Ling's abilities, were utterly astonished by the sight of him violently tearing through the highway. After all, shattering a monster with a single shot in a forest was a completely different visual impact than smashing a car with one punch on a highway.

"Dr. Su, surely you believe us more now?" Yang Xiao said helplessly.Su Zhiwei's expression was incredibly complex. "Good thing Director Chen isn't here to kill me..."

Just as they were speaking, a figure dropped onto the car roof from above. He casually opened the rear door and slipped inside as silently as a ghost. Chen Ling closed the door, brushed dust from his coat, and calmly stated, "All surveillance has been eliminated... We can head straight to the museum now."