Soul Fire (GUARDIAN BL)

Chapter 20."Life force that flows through every single living being"

One of the walls was made up of windows, in the middle of the room was a glass door that led to the balcony of Zhao's hotel room. The view of Mount KunLun. All around the grey rock broke the blue skyline in craggy peaks. Even in a photograph you could tell it was summer, for this range was only naked of its snow June through early September. The rest of the year the mountain were as white-peaked as any storybook mountains. In any other year, at any other time Shen would like to have stood here in awe, admiring the view, revelling in this land God gave the world.

Shen Wei think all hope is lost, he feels like he is drowning and there is no hope of being saved. The blackness of his memories start to spread through his mind, clouding his thoughts and taking him back to places he never wanted to revisit. Until then when everything seems to sink in, he hear a voice. It is like a ray of light in the darkness of his past. It guides him back to reality. He feel like someone just take his hands in his, pulling him into his arms like a child. The screams dies down.

As Shen saw Zhao jump down from above, as the air suddenly rent by the sound of gun shots sound like a powerful revolver gun get fired from all around the room like crazy. Breaking glass.

The shooting definitely unplanned and irresponsible just like what Zhao always do. Shen saw Zhao rushing into the room diving to the glass door of the balcony trying to cover himself from the breaking of the glasses that might hit, his hands over his head, he landed faced down on his knees.

He even hear bang from the front door, the force of a leg kicking that door down, and stomps all around searching as their eyes roll up to the woman that had entered and start all the rucus.

The woman was going to fled at once to save herself like a flock of doves scared by the scream of a hawk but Chu held him at the exact time with his puppet string, enabling her to move and escape.

Chu was the kind of person who'd been born in a suit. He was never a baby or an infant. He was a serious man with a serious gun who rolled off the department line as he had the standard issue tanned face with the ubiquitous square shoulders and squarer chin. He was close shaved 24/7 and he spoke with a baritone voice and few legalistic words. Life had no colour for him, no shades of grey either, it was all black- white, right-wrong. When he wasn't preparing perfect paperwork he was chasing down criminals with that action-man run of his - his fingers held straight as if his aerodynamic form could conceivably make a difference. He clocked more hours than any of the rest of SIU in the battle range. He was the perfect back up, but he didn't want for a partner. He never had a fragile ego or anything. Chu just didn't trust anyone without a visible weakness, it made him wonder if it was all a facade over something less stable, less honourable. But Shen Wei is an exception. Chu trust him to his deepest core.

If given a chance, Chu would always want to partner with Shen; his conversation was about as interesting as sharpening pencils but he noticed things no-one else did. At the scene Shen would flash the badge and let Zhao do all the talking, he just listened, read  body language and followed eye movements. Then he'd ask the perfect question at the perfect time with such an innocent tone of voice, like he genuinely just wanted to know. They got so many leads that way before. In any crime scene everyone could rely on Shen Wei to notice whatever was odd: a picture at an angle, a footprint going the wrong way, furniture and objects misplaced. Chu also realized that Shen never been to a single one of their staff functions, apparently he lives with their Chief secretly before that even him didn't notice.

On the other hand, senses sharpened with adrenaline, the woman held her breath, straining to hear with every ounce of her concentration. Not quite silent. Cool air whispered through the apartment’s ventilation system.