Shadow 380,000 Level 17 Suspended Spirit Hurricane Arrives

Chapter 6

"Brother." I was pretending to be looking down at two ants working together to carry food when a voice came that made me breathe a sigh of relief.

I looked up and realized why I had waited so long.

After being locked up in the detention center for so many days, we looked no better than beggars when we escaped. I'm a man, and I'm used to being careless. I just washed my face in the toilet, swept my hair back with water, and used my ten fingers as a comb to tidy it up a bit, which took three minutes. But Kou Yun is a girl, and a pretty one at that.

A female friend once told me that two hours a woman spends on her face in the morning is not a lot. Thinking about it that way, even though she didn't use any cosmetics, it's not unreasonable for Kou Yun to spend this much time taking care of her appearance after neglecting it for several days.

The lighting in the cell was poor. Kou Yun was still in shock when she first escaped, and her hair was sticky with sweat. Now, looking at her like this, she seems to be even better looking than average.

She had probably washed her hair, which was still wet and loose. There were water droplets on her arched eyebrows and the tip of her delicate nose. Her eyes were cunning and lively. When she saw me looking at her like this, she smiled into a crescent moon, revealing her sharp little tiger teeth.

"Let's go, bro." She reached out and took my arm, leading me forward.

Actually, with her lively and energetic steps, it should be said that she was pulling me forward.

After only a few steps, Kou Yun let go of me, wrinkled her nose, and said, "You smell terrible."

“You’re not much better off,” I retorted.

"No way!" She glared at me fiercely and turned her face away.

Seeing her expression, I wondered to myself, could it be that she really has accepted me as her brother?

The two walked for a while, laughing and joking, and saw a free park. They turned into it together without hesitation. It was an old park, and not far ahead was a small grove of trees with thick trunks and lush foliage, blocking out the sunlight.

As we walked along the path through the woods, we both fell silent.

Kou Yun sat down on a blue stone bench. It seemed like she had something tucked into her waistband, which hurt when she bent over. She adjusted it slightly with her hand.

I had noticed the bulge on her waist a while ago, and since we seemed to be quite close, I asked her, "What's that?"

Kou Yun reached into his clothes, pulled the thing out, and handed it to me.

My hand suddenly felt heavy, my heart skipped a beat, and I felt my hand go limp, almost dropping it. My first instinct was to turn my head quickly to both sides to see if anyone was nearby.

Fortunately, it was a summer afternoon, and there weren't many people in the park. In the woods on this small hill, it was just Kou Yun and me.

This is a gun, still warm from Kou Yun's body.

"Where did this come from? Wasn't it taken by the cleft lip?" I asked her in a low voice. In my nervousness, I hadn't considered that cleft lip was just a nickname I made up for that big man, and Kou Yun had no idea who it referred to.

"Huh, is that what you call him too?" Kou Yun's eyes widened, as if the fact that we both had the same nickname for cleft lips was more important than the black gun in her hand.

I shook the gun: "That's what I'm asking you."

"It's not the one with the cleft lip. I think this thing is much more powerful than a knife or anything. There was one on the ground, so I just picked it up. Let's see who dares to bully me now." Kou Yun showed a smug smile, as if he had done something great, wagging his tail and waiting for my praise.

I was so dizzy that my eyes were unfocused when I looked at her. I quickly composed myself and said, "No, we can't take this."

Kou Yun's face immediately fell: "What? You want to return it?"

Do you know what this thing represents?

Kou Yun shook his head vigorously, seemingly innocent.

I sighed and said, "Losing a gun is a very serious matter for a police officer. Our prison break was serious enough, and a cleft lip with a gun would definitely be a prime target for capture. I didn't expect you to have one too. This is absolutely asking for trouble. Do you understand that a fugitive with a gun can be shot dead if necessary?"

Seeing Kou Yun blink, I emphasized, "Kill means kill!"

"Oh dear, throw it away, throw it away!" Kou Yun jumped up suddenly.

"So you're only just realizing how troublesome this is?" I stared at her until she obediently lowered her head and sat down again.

She really does resemble a naughty younger sister. I couldn't help but think to myself.

However, what I just said is absolutely not an exaggeration. I hope the police station's surveillance system didn't capture Kou Yun picking up the gun, otherwise it would be a very bad situation. If the public security system really launches a full-scale manhunt for us, we probably won't be able to hide for long before we're caught.

I don't plan to commit any major crimes with a gun, nor do I plan to openly resist arrest with a gun when the police find me. Carrying a gun on my person is just trouble.

"We can't just throw it away, let's bury it."

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, I squatted down, used my gun as a tool, and started digging a hole under a large tree next to the stone bench. As for whether the gun would get damaged, who cared?

As I instructed, Kou Yun stood guard nearby to prevent being discovered.

"Hey, were you making any big movements when you picked up the gun? It would be terrible if you got filmed," I said as I dug.

"Not big, definitely not big. Besides, it was so chaotic back then, who would be taking pictures nearby?"

“Miss, don’t you know what a camera is? There are a lot of these in the police station.” I tilted my head to look at her.

Third, the mysterious younger sister who came up to us (2)

Kou Yun shook his head sheepishly.

"There's something else that's become very popular in recent years called pinhole cameras. If you don't know about them, it can be very dangerous."

"Hidden camera? Does it have anything to do with injections? Will it hurt a lot if I get pricked?" Kou Yun looked scared. Seeing my defeated expression, she said embarrassedly, "Brother, I haven't been out of the village for long, and there are many things I don't know."

"Is your village isolated from the world?" I know that farmers are quite modern these days.

"Pretty much, we basically don't go out."

I was curious, but I first explained what a camera and a pinhole camera are.

"Brother, don't worry, I'm very fast, the cameras probably won't catch it."

I shook my head, thinking to myself that this little girl was still being stubborn.

By this time, I had dug a fairly deep hole, and the gun barrel was stuffed with dirt. I put the gun in, stood up, and used my foot to push the dirt around me back in, but then something suddenly occurred to me.

When they escaped from the detention center, Kou Yun held her hand the whole time and rushed out without stopping for a moment. How could she have had the chance to pick up the gun?

Could it be that someone else picked it up and handed it to Kou Yun while she was running, and she kept this from me? Now she's watching me bury the gun. What is this little girl who keeps calling me "brother" up to?

A chill ran down my spine, and I felt it was impossible. This gun should be the one the policeman kicked away, and the direction it flew was roughly the same as the direction the crowd rushed out in. But in my memory, no one bent down to pick up the gun.

Kou Yun said she picked up the gun very quickly. Does that mean she wasn't just being stubborn, but actually very fast? It's not impossible to pick up a gun on the ground while running without bending down.

The image that flashed through my mind was this: a group of people frantically running towards the detention center, and a little girl among them, with a quick flick of her toe, lifted a gun off the ground, grabbed it, and stuffed it into her clothes. The whole process probably only took a second.

Could it be like this?

However, such a move is absolutely impossible for the average person, even an outstanding graduate of a police academy, because ordinary confrontations do not require this level of skill.

So what kind of training does a person need to undergo to complete this action while running at high speed, and why should they undergo such training?

As I continued thinking along these lines, I realized that this girl named Kou Yun was truly extraordinary, and I slowed down my footing.

Looking down, I saw that the soil had been almost trampled flat. I turned back to look at Kou Yun.

"Are you really not going to take this gun?"

"Of course not," Kou Yun said with an embarrassed smile.

I began to have doubts again. People who have received this level of training would not act aimlessly. This little girl took the gun, but hid it so poorly that I discovered it and watched me use it like a shovel. This doesn't make sense.

"How...how did you pick up the gun? Weren't you running right next to me the whole time?" I hesitated for a long time before finally asking. Having been a reporter for so many years, I've met all sorts of people, and I really didn't think this girl had any bad intentions.

"Ah..." Kou Yun was speechless when I asked him that question.

"I... kicked it while running, and the gun was in my hand, haha."

This answer was exactly what I expected, but judging from the little girl's stammering, I was clearly wrong.

Seeing her clumsy attempt to remain calm, despite my heavy heart, I couldn't help but want to laugh. I picked up a stone and threw it in front of her, saying, "Use this stone as a gun and kick it at me again."

The little girl fiddled with it several times, sweat dripping down her face. Finally, she retreated a long distance, rushed forward fiercely, and kicked the stone. The stone flew away with a "whoosh" and disappeared into the distance.

She shrugged at me and said, "There's nothing I can do. That was a critical moment, and I performed exceptionally well. Maybe we can go back and try again, and that might work."

She put on such a convincing act, looking exactly like a spoiled and unruly girl.

Now it seems that although she refused to tell the truth, it was merely a private matter she didn't want to disclose, not an attempt to scheme against anyone. So I stopped pressing her for details. The matter was indeed strange, but everyone has their secrets.

I crouched down again, dug up a blade of grass from the side, and transplanted it onto the gun as a final cover.

"Brother, have you thought it through?"

"What?"

"What should we do next? We're not going to be caught and taken back soon, are we? What will happen if we are caught?" Kou Yun said fearfully, grabbing me and running away desperately. Now she was scared too.

"How much money do you have on you?" I asked.

Kou Yundong rummaged around and pulled out a small pile of coins and a few banknotes. Together with what I had, it wasn't even a hundred yuan.

What can you do with this little bit of money?

"The police took my bag," Kou Yun said angrily.

"But... I didn't have much money to begin with, otherwise I wouldn't have..." She stuck out her tongue.

I suddenly remembered how she got arrested; she definitely wasn't a wealthy person.

"You're not really in any trouble, so the police probably won't bother to arrest you. You work in Guangzhou, so you can probably get away with it in another city."

"I have nowhere to go. You're not going to kick me out, are you? No, I want to stay with my brother." Kou Yun's face fell, and she looked at me expectantly.

"Nowhere to go? I haven't even asked you what you do for a living. Don't you have a job?"

"I came out to find my brother."

"Looking for...looking for me?" I was stunned. Why would they be looking for me?

"No, I'm looking for my older brother, his name is Kou Feng."

Third, the mysterious younger sister who came up to us (3)

All this talk about brothers is really confusing, and I can't help but think to myself: How many good brothers do you actually have...?

Kou Yun's village was nestled in the mountains of Hunan, almost completely isolated from the outside world. There was no electricity, and reaching neighboring villages with electricity and roads required a nearly day-long trek through the mountains. The village was self-sufficient; the children weren't sent to school, but were taught by their parents. Even after growing up, they never left the mountains, living their lives in this way for generations. The village elders only visited the nearby town occasionally, so the curriculum wasn't much more advanced than old-fashioned private schools—basically classical Chinese, history, geography, and a little basic physics and chemistry, some of which was even taught incorrectly. This was why Kou Yun didn't know what a security camera was; she only had a vague understanding of cameras and guns.

However, young people are inherently curious, and the little information revealed by their elders when they occasionally returned from outings greatly excited the few young people remaining in the village. Five years ago, Kou Yun's older brother, Kou Feng, secretly left the village late at night, leaving behind a short letter saying that he was going to see the outside world and would definitely return within three years.

As a result, five years passed without any news.

Kou Yun and her elder brother had a very close relationship since childhood. After Kou Feng left, she would look out at the village entrance every day, hoping that he would one day return with a gift for her. Day after day, year after year, finally, more than three months ago, she decided to go and find her brother herself. Of course, just like Kou Feng, she left a letter and secretly slipped away in the dead of night.

After hearing her tell this story, I was secretly thinking to myself, judging from the longing look on Kou Yun's face when she talked about Kou Feng, the two must have a good relationship. But given Kou Yun's personality, I simply couldn't believe that she ran away from home just to find her brother.