Ch. 8 - First Action, Witnessed By Peoples.
On the way, I followed them westward. Until a while later, I saw the GPS on the car dashboard showing my position, and a few more kilometers I would reach the eastern border of Shining city in the west of Tienji city.
''Still need to pass through 'A Mountains of Halimun' first to reach the border.'' I muttered as I looked at the scenery in front of me, the road winding around the mountains.
The Jeep Hammer that James and his men were riding was going about 280km/h on the freeway and I followed behind them with a few meters of distance like a convoy and occasionally zigzagged to avoid the congestion and overtake all the Group 1 vehicles that were only going 100-150km/h.
It makes sense that in their view, the Jeep Hammer and Ferrari 448 Pista that passed them were in a convoy. But still, it was too brave to speed in the middle of the heavy traffic on the toll road because it was entering work hours.
This attracted the attention of people from the media who were currently inside the helicopter and were covering the news from the air.
Inside the helicopter, a cameraman was covering the inter-provincial highway below, and the cameraman switched his camera to the opposite seat where a very beautiful young woman was getting ready.. And started presenting the news.
[MXN Live:]
"Hello, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Back with me, Sherina Ziudith on the latest MXN Live news."
"This time I'm reporting live on the traffic conditions on the inter-provincial highway that connects Tienji City in the west of Gem province with Shining City in Pala province."
"As usual, the highway connecting these two regions always experiences vehicle congestion in the morning and evening. and as you can see..."
"Wow, look over there..." Sherina pointed and coded to the cameraman, "Two luxury vehicles are traveling very fast in the midst of this heavy traffic..."
*****
Apartment Boulevard Building A, 21st Floor No. 17 Tienji City Center.
In the living room, Novia was watching a cartoon movie with Susan by her side. then suddenly her watching was cut off by an impromptu news.
"Ah..mom, why did the film change program?!?" Novia said annoyed. Susan who was combing Novia's hair said.
"It's breaking news, usually it won't take long. just wait, the movie will be show again later." Susan said soothingly.
"Hmm.. mom, look! Doesn't that car just like yours?" Novia shook Susan's shoulder and said. Susan couldn't help but turn to the TV and look at it.
When she saw the news at first, she doubted if it was her car. But in the end, she was dumbfounded after noticing a 'middle finger sticker' attached to the rear body of the car that was being covered.
Susan said to herself 'There's no mistaking it, it must be Nine driving my car...'
Seeing Nine speeding and being highlighted by the media, she muttered.
"Not even a day into life, already acting up..."
'But whose car is he tailgating?'
Seeing her mother who suddenly looked strange and said something vague after seeing the news, Novia became curious and asked.
"What's wrong mom...? Is the car really yours? But who's driving it? Is it uncle Nine?"
Susan who heard her daughter easily guessed the situation, she also intended to divert it and said.
"Yes, he borrowed mom's car, but it doesn't seem to be him. There are several people in this town who own cars like that."
After saying that, she stood up and wanted to pick up the cell phone lying on the dining table and intended to call Nine to confirm the truth.
But Susan recalled that Nine's cell phone had been in her bedroom chest of drawers for six years, and she finally walked the other way and went into the bedroom to check.
Seeing her mother enter the room, Novia said.
"Are you going to bed?"
"No, I just want to check something."
"Alright, but don't be long..."
"Yes, wait there for a while...I'll be back soon."
*****
When I was about to enter the left lane, I saw that in the distance there were several cars stopped on the shoulder of the road and there seemed to be a feud going on.
[MXN Live:] "As you can see, there are several cars pulled over on the shoulder of the road ahead...
"It looks like the Ferrari driver saw it too, the Ferrari broke away from the convoy with the Jeep in front of it by taking the left lane...is he going to pull over too?"
As I passed them, I saw a woman surrounded by several men. I didn't want to interfere, but my intuition told me that the woman seemed to be bound by fate.
Then I pulled over to the shoulder of the road and backed up the car slowly. after a short distance from them, I was about to get off intending to approach them.
However, I felt that I was being watched so I asked Luna to put 'Light Blur Unseen' on my face.
[MXN Live:] "look, the Ferrari backed up after pulling over on the shoulder of the road. the Ferrari driver got out and headed towards the group of people in combat uniforms there...is there going to be a showdown, viewers..."
*****
"Mom, hurry up..! Look, the driver got out of the car, but I can't see his face." Novia shouted loudly.
Susan who heard her daughter's scream was a little annoyed and intended to scold her. But she undid her intention, and immediately rushed to the living room after pocketing Nine's cell phone.
Susan then sat next to Novia and listened to the live news.
*****
Sure enough, I saw a helicopter in the air and it seemed to be circling the area.
'It's a good thing I went with my instincts and activated the 'Bokeh overload' skill, so they couldn't expose my face to the media'.
As I walked towards them with the distance between me and them still tens of meters, I noticed that they were dressed like soldiers with full armaments such as vests, and long-barreled rifles.
'But why are they all wearing hoods and covering their faces?!' After thinking about it, I guess they were some kind of people from a secret organization.
The woman's position was facing me, but she had not yet noticed my presence.
While I looked at her face that looked very familiar, but again I had difficulty remembering it.
There were too many memories that were eroded, due to several injuries while exploring the Subliminalverse using my Divine Cloning.
"Who's that?!" pointed out one of them whose position was behind the woman facing me.
Everyone started to look in the direction the man was pointing, and they immediately got ready to intercept me.
"Who are you! What are you doing here!?"
"Are you one of this woman's acquaintances?!"
"Do you intend to interfere?!"
"Who is this?! Does she intend to be a hero?!!"
"Scram! Or you'll regret it!"
It was really annoying when there were so many questions coming at once, so I ignored all of their questions and got straight to the point.
"Calm down, I don't mean to interfere, it's just that I'm curious why a soldier like you would attack a lone woman."
"I told you it's none of your business!"
The soldier with the red star badge not only wanted to drive me away but also directly attacked me using the back of the rifle.
'Hit hover!'
"hey..hey, calm down! why do you want to try to hit me?! can't we talk nicely...??" I dodged his attack and smiled wryly.
To me, the impromptu attack from one of the star-badged soldiers was very slow, so I could easily dodge it.
'This guy is no ordinary person!' muttered someone who had just launched his fatal attack, but dodged it easily.
'It seems that this guy is very surprised. hehe.' the grin on my face put the soldier who had just attacked me on alert.
"Everyone, this guy is no ordinary person, let's take care of this one first!" Said the soldier with the red star badge, giving orders to the other seven people.
The seven soldiers, consisted of three yellow star soldiers and four green star soldiers. And it seemed like the one with the red star was the captain.
Seeing the eight soldiers preparing to attack me, I was excited and had already taken my stance, preparing to fight back. However, suddenly a voice rang out and broke the atmosphere.
"Wait...! Let him go...! Don't involve the civil.. Ok?! I'll go with you.." The woman behind the barricade of eight soldiers, spoke up and intended to stop us.
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