I Am A Killer

I AM A KILLER : CHAPTER 38 ♦ CHANCE

The three SF soldier found their way over by tracing the footsteps. The team leader leading in front waved his hand at the other two to halt their movement. He made another gesture and the two ducked to the two sides and slinked in quickly while the team leader continued his way forward. The three of them formed a circle, as though a large web, with its opening directed at the target they were tracking down.

Qin Ke Xuan was squatted on the tree. Upon seeing the three SF soldiers moving here in an encircling arrangement, she couldn't help but raise her brows. Such alert and sharp SF soldiers were the ones that were as good as what she'd heard about. She could overlook the three soldiers she'd taken care of within a few moves from yesterday. They had underestimated them too much and so they relaxed their vigilance.

She clipped the stone she had readied long ago between her fingers and shot it at the bushes where she had hidden her backpack and rifle. The rustling noise created immediately attracted the attention of the vigilant SF soldiers. They laid low. After careful observation, they discovered a corner of the camouflage backpack filtering through the leaves.

The team leader made hand signs silently and the two members continued outflanking over without a sound while he laid on the ground and set his assault rifle to aim there. There was a 20-metre distance between them so he would not inflict any injury. He would immediately shoot her "dead" the minute she showed herself.

Suddenly, he heard a whirl of wind coming from above. Before he even had the time to look up to find out what it was that had happened and just as the black figure pounced right at him, the soldier, owing much to his battle experiences, grabbed his rifle and rolled one round on the ground on reflex and managed to avoid the heavy item that had smashed from above. He gave it a proper look and realised that the heavy item that landed was actually a person, and the person was just the person they were currently tracking.

Qin Ke Xuan had a dagger in one hand and the other hand pressed flat in support against the ground. Both her feet and hand pushed off the ground, she borrowed the momentum to lunge at the team leader that had already gotten up.

The team leader immediately used the rifle he held in his hand to block the dagger Qin Ke Xuan was slashing at him. Upon meeting his eyes with Qin Ke Xuan's clear and expressionless ones, he tugged his lips into an eerie smile: "Close combat huh? Do let me keep you company!" With that, his arm waved with sudden force, and his rifle pushed aside Qin Ke Xuan's dagger. Throwing down his rifle, he swept out his leg at the same time at her.

Qin Ke Xuan bent backwards and flipped, evading the team leader's attack. However, her feet did not immediately land, rather, she flipped half a somersault, both her feet landing on the trunk of a tree. Both her hands pushed off the ground, her body shot off and she lunged towards the team leader again, one of her hands becoming claw-shaped as she tried to clasp the team leader's throat.

The team leader had not expected Qin Ke Xuan to make such a move. Upon seeing that things were not turning out well, he retreated, but it was too late for him to evade her attack. Just as he saw that Qin Ke Xuan was about to claw at his throat, a hand that appeared from the side tried to catch Qin Ke Xuan's hands. Qin Ke Xuan's gaze slanted and she changed her direction of attack towards the person who had suddenly appeared.

That person was not a member of this team. When Qin Ke Xuan felt him approaching, she had thought he was someone from the RS. However, upon seeing his actions, it seemed like he wasn't from her faction. But seeing he had no examiner emblem either, was he a neutral party? If he was a neutral party then why did he want to cut into her duel with the examiner? She sure didn't care what faction you were in. As long as you made a move at her, she would not be merciful.