48 Hours a Day

Chapter 986: Knife vs Knife

Red forced Zhang Heng back with a knife, but she did not follow up afterward. Instead, she threw away the knife in her hand. Her goal was obvious. Wanting to end the battle with the pocket pistol on the table, she threw the knife at Zhang Heng to buy her more time.

However, if one underestimated the power of that throw, the person would have to pay a painful price.

In fact, every single member of the emergency response team, starting with the number zero, was a true all-rounder. With a skillful throwing technique, the knife was sent flying at Zhang Heng’s heart. It was fast and accurate, and they weren’t very far apart from each other either. If Zhang Heng failed to dodge the knife, he could die here.

Red was very confident in her throwing skills. However, she also believed that even if Zhang Heng could dodge the knife, he definitely wouldn’t stop her from taking the gun.

The expression on her face, however, froze the next moment.

Zhang Heng did not slow down at all, the steak knife in his hand fluttering and revolving at his fingertips like performing magic. He then caught the flying knife midair.

Red stared on with bulging eyes. Highly confident in her throwing skills, almost every known sword skill was programmed into her memory, more than sufficient to help her cope with whatever situation fate threw her way. However, when she looked through her memory, she could not find Zhang Heng’s knifeplay method.

In fact, the moment Zhang Heng started to play with the knife, she had failed to identify the skill that Zhang Heng was using. Red instincts shot her neurons with a strong sense of crisis. Reacting almost instantly, she gave up picking the pistol on the table because the plan to block Zhang Heng had failed. In this short half-second, she figured she couldn’t pull the trigger before Zhang Heng approached her.

So, Red made a decisive decision to kick over the table in front of her. After that, she held on to her injured hand and plunged into the crowd beside her.

And it was not until then that the onlookers in the bar realized what had happened.

They did not expect that the scene that looked like a young couple arguing with each other would eventually turn into something so bloody.

The moment Red took out the pocket pistol from her thigh, the situation went completely out of control. After Zhang Heng pinned Red’s hand to the table with a knife, Red pulled out the knife to throw at Zhang Heng. The entire bar had plunged into chaos. None of them knew who they should help.

However, Red, as a female, still had the advantage at this time. After all, Singularity was mostly a male-dominated bar. When men didn’t have a clear idea of what was going on, they’d usually take the women’s side. There were several strong men prepared to pin Zhang Heng on the ground.

Feng Zi was taken aback, and the sorrow on her face had disappeared. Not only did she show no fear, but she looked rather happy. This time, she got even more excited when she looked at Zhang Heng.

Since there were too many people in front of her, she took a lot of time to squeeze through the crowd. Fortunately, after all that, she finally managed to get closer to Zhang Heng. Just as she was about to open her mouth to say something, she realized that she had lost track of Zhang Heng, and he was nowhere to be seen.

Feng Zi rubbed her eyes hard and took a good look at her surroundings again. Zhang Heng had indeed disappeared right in front of her. Just like her, the few drunkards who were prepared to pin Zhang Heng down were left baffled too. Everyone was looking around, trying to spot Zhang Heng.

Suddenly, Feng Zi’s heart tightened. She was worried that Zhang Heng would take the opportunity to leave the bar at this time. Tonight, she finally found the kind of adventure that she dreamed of, and her woman’s intuition told her that Zhang Heng was a man with many stories to tell. The last thing she wanted was to let go of him so easily.

Feng Zi had no idea that when she looked around anxiously, trying to find Zhang Heng, a figure quietly approached her from behind.

As soon as Red rushed into the crowd, she took off her wig and stuck a paper-thin mask on her face. Of course, such a disposable mask would be useless upon closer inspection, but it proved extremely useful in such a chaotic environment.

After that, Red took off her red dress and wore it inside out. The red dress had now become a black dress, allowing her to blend into the crowd completely. After doing all that, she tore off the corner of her dress and wrapped it around the wound on her right hand to stop the bleeding. Finally, she let out a sigh of relief.

Strictly speaking, Red didn’t engage in close-quarters combat with Zhang Heng. As a member of the zero emergency response team, Red had a considerably potent close-quarters combat skill, typically resorting to this method in such a situation. However, after she witnessed Zhang Heng’s swordsmanship, she had to admit that her confidence was shaken.

This was also her first time fleeing her opponent, even before the fight began. Although she felt that Zhang Heng’s swordsmanship was far more superior than hers, it didn’t mean she was afraid of him. It was because Red could use more than just one type of weapon.

Since she could not defeat Zhang Heng at close quarters, she would be better off changing combat methods.

Such was the forte of the emergency response team. Each was equipped with dozens of combat skills, allowing them to deal with all situations with relative ease. Then, a chaotic bar situation was undoubtedly the most suitable place for a killer to execute their task.

After a deep breath, Red had already switched herself into killer mode. However, she also realized that she had lost track of Zhang Heng. Just like her, Zhang Heng also took advantage of the crowd to hide.

Despite all that, Red was in no rush. She had a way to force Zhang Heng to show up.

Red then quietly walked behind Feng Zi.

To draw their targets out, most killers usually set up a decoy. Thus, Red now intended to turn Feng Zi into her decoy. Although she wasn’t sure what relationship Zhang Heng and Feng Zi shared, the two obviously knew each other. Hence, it meant Zhang Heng would definitely care about Feng Zi’s life and death.

It was more than enough for Red. She had already grabbed a table knife when she passed by a table. As Red crept closer, she planned to stab Feng Zi’s belly with the table knife. The specific spot that she wanted to stab was the upper left side of the abdominal cavity. If it went well, the knife should rupture the spleen and cause hemorrhage.

At that time, Feng Zi would cry for help and lose consciousness for a short time. She believed that as long as Zhang Heng was still in the bar, such an incident would definitely attract his attention. By that time, Red would’ve figured out Zhang Heng’s position.

In such a short time, Red had cooked up an entire plan in her mind. Soon afterward, Red got closer to Feng Zi. When she quietly raised her knife and aimed at Fengzi’s spleen as planned, she felt a small knife touching her neck.

Red did not know when the knife appeared on her neck. When she reacted, her neck had already been slashed. After that, she heard Zhang Heng’s voice again.

“I told it’s not the wisest idea to use a melee weapon to fight me,” Zhang Heng paused for a while and added, “It’s the same with assassination.”