The Black Swan Behind (Beauty of Fire)

177 Discarded Hero

“What?!” Afei immediately stood up from his seat. Then he rushed to the highest floor in his base building to see further what was happening.

Sure enough, the road conditions were so chaotic. All the factory employees had rushed out, running to save themselves from the group of gangsters who suddenly became a riot. It looked just like a riot scene in the movie.

It appeared that the gangsters led by Oscar were destroying the property of factories and roads in the Chingsu District. They were trying to destroy Chingsu District to get the Creeper fired. Oscar Chopper would destroy a group that no longer gave him an advantage.

Afei’s hands clenched tightly. His eyes trembled at the chaos that had occurred. Wasn’t it obvious that he would be over soon? Wasn’t it obvious that the Creeper he had raised for years would fall?

But Afei was a warrior. He was a commander who led a powerful army. He would not let that cowardly group determine the future of the child he had raised for almost his entire life. Behind Afei, two of his assistants or right-hand men stood, ready to take orders. The man turned around, “Get all the members out. Clean up the mess. Nobody can sit around today. Finish all of Oscar Chopper’s men.”

“Yes, Sir!” The two assistants answered respectfully. After that, they immediately ran to carry out the leader’s orders.

Afei stepped down to the lower lobby and glanced at the reception desk with one woman and one man working behind it. It looked like they were busy picking up the phone that kept ringing. Afei knew that it was the calls from the companies who were questioning the riots that had occurred.

Afei immediately approached the table and grabbed the handset of the two wired telephones that were being held by the two employees. He snatched the handsets and put them back on their bases.

“Tell them it’s a group of thugs we don’t know. Don’t give them any information other than that.” He ordered. “You understand?”

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The two pale-faced receptionists nodded quickly, “Understood, Sir.”

Afei left the two clueless receptionists. He went outside the headquarters to make sure that all his men had been deployed. Almost a hundred men were seen lined up with metal rods in their hands. In one shout, the group immediately dashed out of the base area towards the battlefield.

***

“It’s started,” Emma said after reading the latest text message from Lune.

She and Rachel rode two different motorbikes. Rachel got her bike from Marcel. Since they no longer had to go in and out of the Chingsu District in hiding, they had to move apart.

“Good luck,” Marcel said to the two Blacks who had just put on their helmets.

Emma smiled from behind her mask, “It’s in my pocket.” she replied and started the engine before pulling the throttle, “Don’t forget your duty.”

“You can count on us.” Marcel nodded.

Then the two men drove their motorbike out of the headquarters’ basement. Marcel turned around and walked back into the base with Kenny beside him, “Tell the others to get ready. Everyone can move in around fifteen minutes.”

Kenny nodded and spread his orders via text message to the leader of each group that he had divided into three locations.

Not long after, Kenny again received a message from Black saying that the situation in the Chingsu District was chaotic, so that all those tasked with attacking the branch headquarters could move.

‘Move now,’ – Major.

Vico, Damian, and Danis smiled after reading the short messages sent en masse by Kenny. The three guys were in different locations. Each of them stood with about thirty men gathered behind them.

“Attack!” The three of them exclaimed.

**

Emma and Rachel had arrived in front of Chingsu District and saw a container truck parked on the threshold of the main gate that had collapsed.

“Your grandfather is safe, isn’t he?” Emma asked Rachel.

Rachel nodded as she stared at the phone screen for a message from her grandfather. Then she put the cell phone back into her pocket, “He managed to escape from the area with his friends.” She answered with a sigh of relief.

“Ah.. What a relief. Let’s go inside then.” Emma said before closing her helmet visor and continuing riding.

At full speed, they drove to the northern part of Chingsu District towards the secret path they used to cross. They immediately got off the motorbikes and headed for the swamp, which turned out to have melted quite large so that the surface of the ice could no longer be stepped on.

But they were already prepared for it. Rachel had brought two large cutting pliers to cut the wire so she could enter without having to cross the swamp water. The large pliers were sharp and could instantly cut through the series of wire fences that stretched along the north side. As usual, the back of the waste factory looked empty, especially since there was a riot going on on the factory’s main roads now.

It didn’t take long for Rachel and Emma to work together to cut the wire and pull it wide so their slender bodies could slip through.

As planned, the two masked girls headed straight for the back of the Creeper’s main base. Like most buildings, the ends of the air duct were usually at the back or side of the building to maintain the aesthetics of the building itself.

“There are two guards over there,” Emma said in a low voice while hiding behind the ornamental bushes that were planted neatly around the building. “Looks like they’re circling the building,”

Rachel nodded, “Are we going to beat them up? Looks like we can hide their bodies in that dumpster,” she pointed to a green dumpster next to the wall of the building.

“Alright. We attack right away when they turn around.” Emma said.

The two girls were on standby waiting until the two men seemed to have finished making sure conditions were safe and headed off to the other side of the building. When the two men had their backs to them, Emma and Rachel immediately ran and attacked them from behind by hitting their humps which made them both faint without a sound.

After the two men were lying on the asphalt, the two girls worked together to move the men’s bodies into the dumpster one by one. They closed the dumpster after the two men’s bodies got inside.

“They’re so heavy,” Emma complained by hitting her back a little which felt sore after carrying two big men.

“We have to climb up now,” Rachel said with a glance up at the air duct that was about three and a half meters from the ground. It just so happened that the large dumpster was right under the air duct. They should be able to get up there easily.

They immediately climbed onto the closed dumpster. Rachel was in charge of opening the air duct’ cover with the screwdriver she had brought while Emma was on guard in case a guard came. Having become accustomed to disassembling motorcycles, Rachel’s hands could use screwdrivers in agility. In less than a minute, the cover was already open. Rachel let Emma go up first and then she followed.

Finally, the two girls were already in the air duct passage in a crawl position. Not wanting to waste any more time, they quickly crept deep inside, leaving the sunlight in from the hole they had made until the light disappeared completely. They had to use the small flashlights they brought with them to light the way.

Emma turned off her flashlight when she realized there was a light ahead. She looked back with limited movement and placed her finger on her lips at Rachel who immediately nodded in understanding. Cautiously, Emma crept forward again to reach the light coming from below.

It was a ventilation hole that led to the front lobby of the first floor. It seemed that it was still quiet there, which meant Oscar had yet to reach the base. As planned, Emma would wait until Oscar and his group made it inside the base. At that time, Emma and Rachel could freely search for the treasure they were after in this mission.

Emma dan Rachel waited there in the still position for about fifteen minutes. Even though they felt like their arms and legs were going numb, they still try to be patient for the success of the mission.

**

The lips smiled widely. Oscar’s confidence crept up as he saw that his plan had worked. His group had messed up Chingsu District. They randomly destroy the property of factories and offices. Not only that, they wrote text messages on the walls of the factories that contained threats to the Creeper. That way, everyone would know that the reason they came and messed up was that they had a problem with the Creeper group.

All of Lee Mu Fei’s men were indeed strong. However, because of the sudden and unexpected attack, they were not prepared at all. Although many Oscar men lost at the hands of Afei men, that did not prevent him from successfully reaching the Creeper’s main base.

A clean simple styled building truly described Lee Mu Fei’s disciplined figure. Oscar had even almost forgotten how it felt when he was still living in that base. The time when he was still accompanying Lee Mu Fei to build Creeper, helping him develop a business run in Chingsu District until he was eventually forced to leave the comfort of it to expand the power of their group for the fear of the owner of Chingsu District didn’t want Creeper as a guard anymore. But now, he was no longer welcome in the building. He was considered a rebel whose presence would be blocked.