The Law of Webnovels - Chapter 271
Chapter 271: Chapter 271
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Raising my head with a brightened face, I soon fell into despair. Those who dashed toward us with gritted teeth were now in a very short distance. That was when Ban Yeo Ryung was put on alert while holding a broken beer bottle upside down. The noise that pierced through the group of guys struck our ears. Ban Yeo Ryung and I became goggled-eyed.
The guys hesitated one after another, then slowly turned around. The sound coming from outside was quite extraordinary.
“Who the fu*k is he?!”
“Help! This ain’t no joke!!!”
A choking noise then echoed around; voices began to disappear by ones and twos. What was going on outside? While we blinked swiftly in wonder, the group of guys in front of us swarmed out of the warehouse as if they felt a sense of urgency upon hearing their co-worker’s groan. Even though Choi Yuri yelled at them from behind, they ignored it.
“Uh…!? Where are you going? Hey, where are you going?! You guys must do what you’re paid for!”
Leaving Choi Yuri shouting with a high-pitched voice behind us, Ban Yeo Ryung and I also ran as fast as we could. Running hand in hand tightly as if no one could let go of our grip, we soon left the warehouse.
Outside the wide-open warehouse door, the gray air of dawn poured in. The ground glowed dark red with the early morning light. I smelled something like rusty iron mixed with a scent of thick grass.
When I lifted my head, I saw a human figure moving freely in the radiant light pouring into my eyes.
It was such a quick and elastic movement, which looked like an elegant dance. Every move was so light that it seemed as weightless as a shadow. Nevertheless, the muscular guys collapsed one after another upon receiving a hit from the fist that seemed as weightless and shapeless as a shadow. To be precise, each person was knocked out with just one punch. The person’s blow was, therefore, quickly clearing up the fuss outside.
Ban Yeo Ryung and I just flickered our eyes at the sudden appearance of the unidentified reinforcement. No, it might be the enemy force, but the point was that the person was helping us to escape.
Ban Yeo Ryung moved ahead of me. She turned herself to pick up an empty beer box moving about the space then threw it to the guy, who was turning his back against us.
“Urgh!”
As he collapsed with a shriek, every eye was bent on us again; however, the guys couldn’t look at us for long. The shadowy figure that fell towards them kicked their chests and shoulders one by one and blew them away.
Watching the guys getting blown away with gasps, Ban Yeo Ryung and I then turned our heads to the front again. As I finally saw the person’s face gradually approaching us, my jaw dropped onto the ground.
Although the day was breaking, the sky was still dark red since it was still early in the morning. His blond hair fluttered over his forehead every time he walked with his back against the sky.
Ban Yeo Ryung was also struck dumb when she found out who he was. She blurted out his name before me.
“Yi Ruda?”
“Why are you staying still? Come on, let’s go!”
He… no, SHE shouted while pointing at the aircraft standing behind her with her chin.
Signaling that she just got here using that helicopter, I realized that the blades of the aircraft were still spinning without a pause. The breeze coming from the propeller was fiercely disheveling Yi Ruda’s hair.
When I checked the driver’s seat instinctively, I found out that no one was sitting there. ‘Then…!!!’ I gaped at the sight, thinking, ‘Did she drive that by herself? Yi Ruda??’
Before I tried to check, Ban Yeo Ryung snatched my hand. She lifted a beer box again on the other side of her hand and threw it to another guy. Ban Yeo Ryung then began to run with me.
“Donnie, let’s go! I’m not sure, but, at least, it would be better than just staying here!” she shouted.
“Then, do you think I’m gonna kidnap you guys again!?”
The way Yi Ruda spoke to Ban Yeo Ryung was, unexpectedly, not that soft and warm.
Regardless of his tone, Ban Yeo Ryung stretched out her leg to kick a guy, who tried to grab us from behind, in his stomach. Gently getting back on the ground, she then pulled my hand again and yelled, “Donnie, hurry!”
At last, we almost rolled into the opened helicopter, and, at the same time, Yi Ruda, who perfectly cleared out the last guy standing, came running in our direction.
Before she ran, Yi Ruda suddenly turned around to glance at the warehouse. That was when I recalled the presence of Choi Yuri and followed Yi Ruda’s glance.
Both Ban Yeo Ryung and Yi Ruda didn’t attack Choi Yuri. From their point of view, she was relatively less threatening; once they defeat the guys she brought here, Choi Yuri might lose her substantive power. If not, maybe Ban Yeo Ryung and Yi Ruda just lacked time.
Inside the empty warehouse, Choi Yuri was looking this way while sitting on her chair. The view of her having a phone call earlier with Eun Jiho triumphantly while leaving both Ban Yeo Ryung and I aside overlapped on her appearance right now.
Suddenly, I felt like this entire situation looked like a play. It seemed like a dream that Choi Yuri had just shouted at me with her face close to mine.
‘Now, you can see?’
She asked.
‘Can you see me now?’
I nodded involuntarily and, at last, got an answer that I had not managed to utter before her.
‘I… see you. Instead of a puppet on a string, I see you stretching out your hand to the future you desire. Even if you made an effort in the wrong direction, I admit that you attempt and endeavor; however, that’s why you have to pay for all that by yourself,’ I concluded my thought this way.
That was why freedom and choice were oppressive and frightful at the same time.
After jumping on the driver’s seat like riding on horseback, Yi Ruda slammed the door. She then wore a headphone and controlled some buttons on the dashboard. With the previous ‘THITH-THITH-THITH—’ noise, the helicopter soon wafted its substantial body slowly in the air.
It was my first helicopter ride ever, but it didn’t seem real. As if she was also feeling the same, Ban Yeo Ryung just stared outside the window in silence.
When the helicopter increased its altitude slowly, the warehouse where we had been locked up began to look so small that it seemed as unrealistic as a miniature model. The trees and the farmland surrounding the warehouse gradually shrunk into the distance; the horizon amid the gentle hills came into view.
The cloudy fog on the road… dump trucks and cars running through the mist and over the deserted overpasses.
I lifted my eyes.
After a long night, the morning started to dawn bright.
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After a few rounds of wandering, Ban Yeo Ryung and I managed to find and wear our seatbelts. Meanwhile, the helicopter continued to fly across the sky. It then passed a bridge that looked like Seongsu Bridge. I thought I saw the dawn light, but it still took a while for the air to turn bright.
At last, the glows of Seongsu Bridge and the skyscrapers that reflected in the Han River shone like pearls in the fully rising sunlight. The subway going over the bridge and the cars marching like meteor showers…
Ban Yeo Ryung suddenly turned to look at the driver’s seat.
She then asked, “What time is it now?”
“Almost six in the morning,” Yi Ruda answered back while tapping the dashboard. The helicopter then gently swung in the air and began to raise its altitude by making a slight curve like a cable car.
When I looked at the surface of the river and how it slowly receded from my view, I trembled for a second with an unfamiliar sensation. I then heard Ban Yeo Ryung flinging another question from behind me.
“Did you reach out to the others?”
“The others? Oh…”
Controlling the dashboard at her eye level again, Yi Ruda murmured, “You mean, the Four Heavenly Kings?”
Yi Ruda then continued with an apathetic voice.
“I’m gonna get in touch with them a little later. Sorry, but as long as you’re inside here, no.”
“What?”
Leaving the bewildered Ban Yeo Ryung aside, Yi Ruda turned to look at me. She then flaunted a grin. Curving her blue eyes into a warm smile, Yi Ruda asked in a furtive tone.
“Because I have a reason. Well, Donnie, you trust me, right?”
Reading Ban Yeo Ryung’s countenance, I carefully nodded.
“Uh… yeah, I do.”
Since Yi Ruda was operating a helicopter, not a car, I couldn’t help but trust her intention as well as her ability to maneuver this thing. Even if she had an evil purpose, I couldn’t jump off the sky, so wasn’t it better to just stay inside the helicopter that she was driving than to die?
