Kena Chin welcomed its first snow after entering winter.
The snowflakes fluttered down, not heavily, mixed with dense, soft drizzle. In the exceptionally quiet night, they were rustled by the breeze, making a sound.
Li Qiqi didn’t bring rain gear. With one hand, she pulled the scarf around her neck, tightly wrapping most of her face. The speed of her electric scooter gradually increased.
Kena Chin is a relatively prosperous town in northern Myanmar, where chaos is common, and shootings and homicides occur from time to time.
Especially this abandoned factory in the eastern suburbs. Every time Li Qiqi passed by after work, she could hear the chilling wind frantically sweeping through the messy ruins.
It is said that corpses are found inside every once in a while.
“——”
Rounding a bend, the glaring white light forced Li Qiqi to stop. She squinted her eyes and looked ahead.
Less than fifteen meters away, a domineering military off-road vehicle was parked by the gravel road. A lazy-looking man leaned against the front of the car.
He wore a black shirt and a baseball cap, vaguely revealing his face.
The white light from the headlights enveloped his unreal silhouette, flickering, mottled, and shadowy.
Just as Li Qiqi was about to twist the throttle and continue forward, two more men appeared behind the off-road vehicle, wearing uniform black jackets, one on the left and one on the right, carrying a dark brown sack.
Strands of red blood dripped down from the bottom of the sack, splattering on the thin layer of snow.
The white of the first snow, the scarlet red… intertwined in the limited field of vision.
It stimulated Li Qiqi’s heart to beat wildly.
What she feared most was happening!
Li Qiqi stared at the heavy-looking sack in the men’s hands and swallowed. She quickly realized—
They were dumping a body!!
The man in the baseball cap in front of the car held the brim of his hat with one hand, slightly raised his eyes, and his gaze met Li Qiqi’s.
They were a pair of cold, deep, light blue pupils, like wild wolves lurking in the night, dark, sharp, bloodthirsty, and indifferent as if they could penetrate the silent air.
With just one glance, Li Qiqi shivered several times.
She gritted her teeth, withdrew her gaze, gripped the throttle with her right hand, and turned around to run without hesitation.
A breath of extremely contemptuous sneer came from behind, wrapped in the cold wind and fell into Li Qiqi’s ears.
Li Qiqi’s hand holding the handlebar trembled involuntarily, and the car body began to skid.
Then there was a “砰” gunshot.
A bullet pierced the skin of Li Qiqi’s shoulder. Accompanied by heart-wrenching pain, she wailed and fell heavily to the side of the road with her scooter.
Leaving a long mark on the gravel road.
The man’s marksmanship was too accurate. If the car hadn’t skidded, the bullet would probably have pierced her heart.
Li Qiqi gritted her teeth and curled up in pain.
In the quiet night, three sets of footsteps sounded at the same time, stepping on the thin layer of snow, eerie and terrifying.
Getting closer and closer to Li Qiqi…
Their steps were steady and not fast.
As if sure that Li Qiqi couldn’t escape, the man didn’t fire a second shot. Instead, he used this suffocating way to oppress her nerves, forcing her to approach death little by little.
Three dark shadows intertwined and enveloped under the pull of the headlights, gradually covering Li Qiqi’s petite body.
Extreme panic swept over her.
Li Qiqi didn’t dare to delay any longer. She didn’t even have time to look at the bloody shoulder wound. She pulled her scarf to cover her face even more tightly.
Then she propped herself up and darted into the small woods on her right.
“Master Qi.”
“Chase.”
Li Qiqi is not from Myanmar, but she grew up in Kena Chin and is familiar with every plant and tree here.
She has also heard of many of the big shots in Kena Chin. The flamboyant and unruly are called “Brother,” and the restrained and low-key are called “Boss.”
The various forces talk about friendship on the surface, but compete secretly, check and balance each other. No one suppresses anyone until they tear their faces.
Here, there are not many people who can be called “Master,” and she has never even heard of “Master Qi”!
If a young man dares to call himself that, if he doesn’t have the power to make things happen in Kena Chin, handling both legal and illegal matters with ease, then he is an outsider who doesn’t understand the rules.
And outsiders who are too arrogant will eventually be swallowed by this small, demonic city.
Li Qiqi’s mind turned quickly, and the complex terrain imprinted in her mind became her greatest advantage.
She ran forward desperately. When walking through the forest, even the snowflakes on the branches did not fall off much. The blood seeping from her shoulders was also absorbed by the heavy coat, leaving no trace on the road.
Li Qiqi ran smoothly, but the three men had difficulty moving forward and could only follow the messy footprints on the ground. Finally, they stopped by a lake inlaid with thin ice.
Qi Xiaoye stared at the footprints that suddenly disappeared by the lake with cold eyes, and smiled lightly.
Atai and Lin Ke behind him stopped, looked around, and then frowned and spoke at the same time.
“Master Qi, she… ran away?”
Seeing that Qi Xiaoye didn’t respond, which was regarded as acquiescence, Atai and Lin Ke looked at each other in tacit understanding and disbelief.
They have been with Qi Xiaoye for many years, and very few people can escape under Qi Xiaoye’s nose.
Especially… a wounded woman.
Although it cannot be ruled out that Qi Xiaoye just had a whim and didn’t fire another shot, wanting to torture the other party, which gave the woman a chance.
But they chased after her all the way, but the woman disappeared out of thin air, which is too strange!
“Damn, could it be a female ghost?” Atai gasped.
Lin Ke knocked him on the head, “Which female ghost would ride an electric scooter?”
Seeing that they were about to argue, Qi Xiaoye closed his eyes and opened them lightly, glanced at them sideways, and the fierce and terrifying aura on his body scared the two of them to straighten up immediately.
“Master Qi, what should we do next? She saw it.”
Qi Xiaoye inserted the pistol back into his lower back and took out a cigarette and lit it.
The light and slow-moving smoke slowly came out of the man’s lips and nose. Through the night mist, light blue eyes looked at the small city with bright lights in the distance.
Interesting city, interesting people…
The man chuckled, “Find a way to find her and get rid of her.”
“Yes.”