Wang Yong woke up.
He blinked a couple of times before the pain from the neck suddenly hit him. In reflex, he wants to touch the pain area, before realizing that he cannot move his hand.
"What happened?" He slowly opened his eyes.
That was when he realized something. First, he was in an unknown room. Second, he was tied in a chair, with a table and another chair in front of him. Third, he realized the entire room setting is more like an interrogation room.
On top of that, he lost his black cape, and he is back with a beggar costume.
The one that catches his eye is, on the wall of the room in front of him, there is a poster with Aiman's picture in it. He posed with running like a hero, with his shield in his hand.
Upon realizing that he was tied, he tried to move his leg, which unfortunately was also being tied in a leg chair as well. The rope was tied tightly, making his effort to escape futile at the start.
“Where am I? What is this place??”
He thought back on what had happened earlier.
"I was searching Shi Ying, and then a big guy hit my neck. Ouch… Am I being kidnapped??"
Once he thought he was being kidnapped, he started to think weird things. He looked at Aiman's poster that was in his front. The first thing that he thought was a police station based by the room that he was in.
"Am I being captured by the police??? Sh*t, I don't want to go to prison. But why am I alone?? But wait, if I am alone, I can have a chance to escape!! But how??"
He leaned back in the chair and sighed. But then, an idea sparked in his mind. His water powers.
"That's right!!! I finally have a Power."
His face brightens as soon as he discovers his Power, for he can have a chance to escape. So he immediately began to try using his Power again. He began to think of how he could activate that powerful ability.
But as he thought about it, something hit his mind. Wang Liang. He had just killed his brother.
"No, no, it's not my fault. I don't mean to do this…"
His mother also came to his mind.
“Shut up. YOU ARE NOT MY SON. I should just kill you. COME HERE YOU F*CKING MURDERER!!!”
"Mom, no, I am sorry." Tears rolled down his cheek.
But Shi Ying's image starts to hit his mind, and he immediately stops crying.
"That's right. I still have A Ying on my side. I have to find her first."
So, he was determined. With this memory in his mind, he focused on feeling his hand, and something formed. The same water dagger.
But Wang Yong can only feel the hilt of the dagger since he was tied with his hand behind his back. So he just used his feelings to feel the rope.
"C'mon. I can do this."
He then started to cut the rope himself. The dagger is made of water, but somehow, Wang Yong can cut it.
"I can feel the rope is loosening. Great!!! Just a little bit more."
~~Shrek~~
The rope is torn and split. Wang Yong is free.
"Yesss!!!"
His hand has the rope mark, and Wang Yong is rubbing it.
"Okay, now I will also cut the rope in my leg."
Quickly, he cut the rope in his leg. Using the same dagger.
Meanwhile, in Aiman's poster, in his eyes, was a camera, which is small enough to not let the normal person notice. It was well hidden.
And from that camera, captures Wang Yong's every single move, and shows it in another room, with a big screen in it.
Two people were watching closely. The first person is a big man, wide shoulders, with a beard, and a uniform with a badge in it. The second person was a small girl wearing a black hoodie.
"Hmm…." The big man stroked his beard. "I didn't expect him to break free from the rope. I thought he could not escape." His lips smirked.
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"What should we do, captain?" The girl beside him munched a popcorn. "Should we butt in?"
“Don’t! Let’s see what he does next. I’m curious about his ability.”
"Understood, captain. But I suggest we stop this guy before he makes trouble again."
Meanwhile, Wang Yong was cutting the ropes from his leg, and before long, he was finally free.
"Finally!! Ughh… That felt better."
He rubbed the rope marks on his legs and hands before studying his surroundings.
"Remember…. before you jump into action, first you have to study the surroundings. Otherwise, you are cooked before you even started!"
He remembered the lesson Shi Ying used to give him, and it helped him several times when he was involved in stealing some stuff.
And that was his doing right now.
First, he walked over to the door and realized the door turned out to be an electric door, which was locked.
"Okay, going through the door is impossible. But this is eerily quiet."
Out of curiosity, he knocked on the door.
Knock knock knock
"Hello, anyone here me??"
Silent.
"HELLLOOO…."
Still silent.
"Weird, but it means that I am alone."
He then studied his surroundings and found something.
At the top of the room, there is a vent.
"Great, I can use this. I need to investigate whether I can open it or not.."
He then stacked the chair on top of the table, positioned it on top of the vent, climbed it, and approached the vent.
Now, the vent is at his eye level. He noticed that screws were holding the vent.
"Let's see if my dagger can do this."
He summoned his dagger. He planned to let the tips touch the screw, and he was hoping that he can twist the screw open.
But the problem is, his dagger is a water dagger. When the dagger touches the screw, the tips seemingly blended in.
"Ah, sh*t. There is no way the tip can even move a screw. Now I am screwed.”
But he began to notice something. The screw that was covered in the dagger before began to corrode, causing a bit of metal to fall off.
"Huh, that's interesting… It might work."
Wang Yong continued to let the screw corrode itself using his dagger. Eventually, that screw fall off.
Clink!
"Greatl One screw down, three more to screw!!"
He then move and did the same to the other screw. Hope filled his heart as he thought anything was possible within his Power.
Within minute and minute, the screw clinked on the ground, and WAng Yong hold the air vent door carefully so that it didn't fall off and make a great clank, which may alert nearby, just in case. He then put it on the table and began to climb into the vent pipe.
"Here goes nothing. I hope I can escape from here…"
The vent was tight and dark, with barely enough space for him to crawl. Wang Yong moved slowly, carefully placing his hands and knees so the metal wouldn’t creak, though it was futile. The pipe did creak a little, but it was subtle.
"Oh, please don't let anyone hear me." He whispered.
The vent stretched in many directions, but only one path had a dim light, so Wang Yong kept crawling that way.
"I hope that way led to the exit. Although, why does that way have the light??"
After a while, he finally reached that light, which revealed to be…
Another vent door.
Wang Yong approached that vent door and peeked through it. He saw a dimly lit space below. It looked empty.
“I hope no one’s there.” his heart was pounding.
He didn't notice any voice as well, so Wang Yong try to open the vent door itself.
It has the screw again. Wang Yong did the same trick. He quickly summoned his dagger again.
When the screw began to corrode, it falls outside, and the vent door slowly but surely looks like it will loose itself.
And when the screw all is gone, so does the vent door, which began to fall 2 meters to the floor, so it makes a huge sound.
CLANGGG!!!!
"Sh*t, I didn't hold it properly. I hope it didn't alert someone."
He waited a few minutes, and it was empty. Again.
"Fuh… Thank god no one came. I better get moving."
Wang Yong slowly comes out from the vent, landing softly on the floor.
That's when he found himself in a big garage. He looked around. The room has several expensive cars and motorcycles. All of them are parked on one side. On the other side, just in front of the vehicles, were several tables. Each of them has a toolbox, a gun, some tools, a map, and a pencil. Some car keys were also hung on the wall on top of that table.
On another side was a monitor, a console. A gate console. Beside it is a huge gate door.
"A way out. This is it!!!"
He then studies the surroundings. He can just take the car key, take one of the cars, and then escape through the front door. A smile appears on his face as he figures a way out.
Now, he just needs to address a problem. How to open the garage door. The answer is, just press the button in the gate console. So he approached the gate.
As he walked, he suddenly thought of something.
"Remember, if the situation seems too good to be true, and it is blowing surprisingly well in our favor, there is an 80% chance that it might be a trap. You must be wary of this."
This is another lesson from Shi Ying.
And now, this situation did indeed weirdly in his favor, which made him wary. His pace becomes slow.
"This is very strange, it is too quiet."
Suddenly, a metallic sound was behind her. Wang Yong quickly looked around, and immediately summon his dagger.
"WHO'S THERE??!!"
His voice is loud, but it is shaking.
Wang Yong holds the dagger shakily.
A silence again.
This made Wang Yong even more nervous.
But suddenly, multiple swords appeared in Wang Yong's above. It strikes him, but Wang Yong managed to move back, which made the sword slightly graze his thigh.
"Ughh"
He fell from the impact of avoiding the sudden ambush, and his blood began to drip from his wound to the floor.
“Mwhahahahahaha, my boy. I’m afraid you’re not leaving us just yet~” the voice said. “You wouldn’t run off without saying hello, would you?”
A person suddenly appeared from the vehicle. It turned out he was hiding from the vehicle.
He walked, approaching Wang Yong. That is when Wang Yong noticed that man, surrounded by multiple swords, and that mysterious man walked with a flamboyant style,
“Sh*t!! Of course, I’ve been found.” He looked at the multiple swords at that man's side and was intimidated by them.
But he quickly stood up, bore the pain, and gripped his hand tightly, although his tremor made the sword shaken.
"WHO ARE YOU?!"
That man began to smile.
"Ah, you dare to question me~~~?? Boy, you are too early to question me, especially since you are a criminal now~~."
The way that man speaks makes Wang Yong disgusted. But the word choice of that man reminds him of Wang Liang.
That man, however, strikes an elegant pose.
"BUT IF YOU CAN GIVE ME YOUR PERFORMANCE IN OUR BATTLE NOW, I WILL FORGIVE YOU~~~~. SO GIVE ME WHAT YOU GOT~~!!!! MWHAHAHAHAHA~~"
The sword around him changed its trajectory. Each of the swords now pointed to Wang Yong.
"Prepare yourself, boy~~. Consider this my welcome gift to you~~" He winked.
And the sword began to go in Wang Yong's direction.