The long way home

"Stop, don't try to run!"

"I'll shoot!"

Not expecting Andrew to run so quickly and decisively, the two officers were dumbfounded, and one of them in desperation, not paying attention to the fact that it was a busy area, immediately pointed a gun at Andrew's back and pulled the trigger!

BANG!!!

The sounds of gunfire caused screams from passers-by on the next street.

As he ran, Andrew looked back and clearly saw the bullets flying behind him, and could even make out all the swirling patterns on their tips.

Despite the fact that he lives in the United States, where there are "shootings" every day, he saw a real bullet for the first time, only he did not expect it to be fired at him.

Normal people should be scared to death of guns. After all, even the most low-powered modern pistol can become deadly when hit in the human body!

But at the moment, Andrew didn't feel the slightest bit afraid.

Because, in his opinion, the bullets were too slow and unhurried.

So slowly that Andrew felt that if he continued to accelerate, he would be able to leave the bullets far behind him- and so, as a matter of course, the pursuing bullets passed through his tousled hair when Andrew, moving at high speed, took a small side step to avoid them.

"Not good!"

Andrew had just easily dodged a bullet when his eyes suddenly spotted a car parked in front of him at an intersection, and with a second's hesitation, he stretched out his empty left hand and grabbed the bullet that flew past him!

"How did he do it?" "How can it be?!"

The policemen who saw this scene screamed in fear.

There is a slight pain and burning sensation in his palms.

Andrew looked back at the SWAT officer, dropped the bullet to the ground, which dented into a metal button, and turned back.

This time the two officers didn't make any more noise. They held their guns in the air like stakes and stood motionless.

It was like opening a Pandora's box, and today's meeting has not come to an end yet.

Rather, it is the beginning.

Andrew turned the corner at the intersection of streets and saw three police cars roaring down the road ahead, clearly heading towards him.

Not only that, but the roads on the left and right were also filled with the sounds of screeching sirens.

"I just want to go home, is that a bad thing? Also, is it that effective?" The corners of Andrew's mouth twitched. In movies and on television, when robberies or crimes occurred, didn't they wait until it was over before the police rushed to wrap up the case?

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, I can't stay on the road in the middle of the city." Not wanting to accidentally injure ordinary people, Andrew looked around the roadside buildings and quickly chose a relatively low four-story shop.

Andrew accelerated forward, and tried to jump onto the roof of the store with a jerk of his toes.

However, this time it turned out to be too difficult compared to the previous time.

Andrew's body suddenly experienced a momentary loss of strength, and he jumped only six meters before he was close enough to the building to fall to the ground.

Police cars were racing down from different intersections.

"Damn, don't play with me!"

Andrew danced in the air, experiencing the familiar sensation of falling and watching the roof get further and further away.

Only then.

Snort!

From Andrew's left hand, which involuntarily waved forward, a rope of golden light appeared in the air, spreading over the city like a dragon. One end of the golden rope was held tightly in Andrew's hand, and the other end was stretched forward until it was attached to the lightning rod of the building in front of him!

With a wave of his left hand, his body jumped back up to the four-story roof next to the intersection.

"Risky."

The golden rope was drawn with an astonished smile.

He used a nearby building as a treadmill to get away from the scene.

On the road below, five or six police cars braked sharply at the spot where Andrew jumped.

"Who the hell is that?"

The police officer got out of the driver's seat of the police car and looked with surprise at the crushed footprints on the sidewalk.

"Not an ordinary person, anyway." Another officer who got out of the car picked up the conversation.

"Nonsense." Many police officers were speechless: catching bullets with their bare hands at a distance of more than 100 yards, jumping to the fourth floor at a time, or just being a normal person - it would be outrageous!

"What are we going to do next?"

When the officers felt helpless, a police car with a siren arrived late and stopped on the road along with other police cars.

The car door opened and Sergeant George got out, glancing at the group of officers and quickly asking, "Where is the criminal?".

"Report to the officer, flew in the other direction ..., no, jumped away!". The policeman who arrived at the scene saluted and pointed to the structure of the building, whose height exceeded 10 meters.

"???"

It took Sergeant George five seconds to figure out what this so-called "sideways jump" meant.

After a short thought, Sergeant George said in a low voice: "Request immediate helicopter support from the local police, you cannot leave an unknown person, so dangerous, to the mercy of fate in this city!".

"Yes! Officer!"

...

Andrew moved quickly through the skyscrapers, and although he still couldn't control the superhuman physique of his current body, he finally familiarized himself with some of his actions.

"So that's what it's like to fly."

With a golden rope in his hand, Andrew jumps back and forth from a height of several to a dozen floors, using a lasso to pull himself up to another building when he uses too much energy or loses it so as not to fall off the roof.

The golden rope is made of an unknown material and can be extended and moved at will to attach it to any object, for example, to a railing, a cornice, hanging clothes, etc.

He was shocked to find out about it.

Even if it's not a solid object that can be touched, but just a swirling black smoke rising from the chimney, the golden rope can be used as a lasso for a solid object and give it strength!

Andrew even suspected that it could be used to catch clouds and even deeper things, such as so-called spirits!

Of course, this assumes that the concept of the soul exists in this world.

"Kind of got rid of them?" Andrew reached the top of the skyscraper and stood at the almost suspended railing, looking down at the small black dots of cars and pedestrians below, and still felt a throbbing feeling inside.

"We returned to the side of the house."

He jumped to his feet again, trying to throw a golden lasso to close the distance between himself and the opposite building. But it was only when he made a throw with his left hand that he noticed that the golden lasso that had come to his rescue in time had disappeared into thin air....

"No way, are you still playing with me?"

Andrew's heart gave a strong jolt, and for the third time tonight, he welcomed a long, long fall.

Newton is ecstatic!

So there was a scene that we saw for the first time.

Andrew landed on the roof of a five-star hotel and, seeing that a police helicopter was flying behind him, now he could only uncertainly continue to flee.

Ten minutes later.

Even Andrew himself did not know how long he had been running, only that he was getting further and further away from the urban area on the other side of his house.

He hid again in the shadow of the water tower of a high-rise building and watched the helicopter patrol in the wrong direction until it completely disappeared from his field of vision.

Only then did Andrew exhale, the heat rising from his body was enough to steam the ice and snow, his eyes tired.

"Now I can finally go home, can't I?". He whispered softly.

At the sound of Andrew's voice, a figure appeared out of nowhere and landed beautifully and gently on top of a tall water tower!