In haste, she unleashed her power. A water power. Well, she can use it, but not very well and not up to par with her deceased son.
But since it was Wang Yong who killed her favorite son, she doesn't hesitate to make an effort to kill him.
"DIE, YOU SON OF THE B*TCH" She throws a weak water ball to Wang Yong.
Not only is this just a normal water ball, but her hit was missed. Instead, she hit the table near the target, which made them fall and everything on top of it.
Dirty spoon, plate, motorcycle remote key, all of them were thrown to the floor.
Wang Yong’s, seeing what his mother had done to him, cried. He felt that this was unfair to him.
"Stop! Mom, look. I didn’t mean to kill brother!!!” he said, his voice shaking.
"HOW DARE YOU TALK BACK TO ME??!! HOW DARE YOU EVEN KILL MY SON???!!! HOW DARE YOU EVEN LIVE RIGHT NOW??!!!!! YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED INSTEAD OF MY SON."
His mom cried while continuing to rant her anger toward Wang Yong. Wang Yong on the other hand, felt hopeless. He felt like the gods abandoned him.
Unfortunately, the situation escalated. His mother opened the windows and shouted.
"HELP, THERE IS A MURDERER INSIDE MY HOUSE. SOMEBODY, HELP!!!!!"
The people in the vicinity began to notice that.
“Mom, please, stop yelling!” Wang Yong keeps begging his mom.
But his mom just kept shouting. “HELP!!! SOMEBODY HELP!!!!"
Seeing this, Wang Yong had no choice but to run away. His eyes look at the motorcycle remote key that is glinting on the floor. He immediately grabbed it and darted toward the door to escape. Before he ran away, he looked at his mom.
He cried and whispered, “I’m sorry, Mom.”
He then proceeds to run away with tears on his face.
“YOU SON OF THE BITCH!!! COME BACK!!!! DON'T YOU EVEN DARE RUN AWAY!!! COME BACK”.
Her sound can be even heard from the hallway, as Wang Yong sprinted down the narrow staircase.
Just as Wang Yong reached the first floor, he bumped into his old neighbor. Both of them fall.
"Ouch, watch where you are going, boy!!!" That old man's back got sprained, thanks to that fall.
"Sorry, Mr John." Wang Yong get up, ignore that old man as he continued to run.
“Hey! Wait! Help me up, boy!!” Mr. John yelled, but Wang Yong didn’t stop.
When he reaches the outside of his apartment, he runs straight toward Wang Liang's motorbike. With one button press, the motorcycle engine was immediately on. The satisfying sound of the motorcycle can be heard loudly.
And that means, the sound reach Wang Yong's apartment room, and also, his mom.
“HELP, PLEASE!!! SOMEBODY, STOP THAT MURDERER!!!” His mom continue to shout while pointing at Wang Yong, who was ready to run away with a motorcycle on it. Her shout caused people to look at Wang Yong.
Wang Yong, still in tears, glances up at his mom. With a bitter mood, he rode off.
"Hey, boy. Don't go!!" Some people run off to him, trying to stop him. But when the human versus the expensive motorcycle face-off, it was an obvious result.
Wang Yong, zigzagging the crowd, was in tears. "I am sorry. I am sorry. I am sorry" These words keep repeating in Wang Yong's mouth. He continued to ride off without knowing where to go.
Back at the apartment, the alerted neighbor came to Wang Yong's house.
Some of them started to console Wang Yong’s mom. Some of them did their prayer, presumably to make Wang Liang rest in piece.
“He kills my son! And now he’s running away! Please, find him!!!" Wang Yong’s mom sobbed as the bloodstain were on her body. She runs back to Wang Liang to hug him again. "Wake up, my son. Wake up, please. Don't leave mummy behind."
"Don’t worry. We’ll call the police. They’ll find him.” Linda, one of the neighbors, quickly pulls out her phone. She contacted the police number.
The sound of the phone ringing can be heard, along with Wang Yong's mom sobbing sound.
"Arkbaiki emergency center, what's your emergency?"
“Hello? Yes, this is Linda. I am calling here from Lotus District. There is a murder in room 219 from the 19th apartment. A boy named Wang Liang was dead. His little brother, Wang Yong, just ran away on a motorcycle. His mother says he killed his brother, Please send help!”
"Understood. We can see that the target that you mentioned has been running away from Tuisro Street. We will send a unit to chase him. We will also send help to the murder scene. We will do our best. Please be patient and leave it to us."
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“Yes, please hurry. Thank you.”
The phone hung up. Linda sighs in relief, then turn to Wang Yong's mom to console her.
“They’ll send a unit to track him down. Don’t worry. They will find him”
“Liang'er…. Don't leave me behind. Don't sleep, please……." Wang Yong's mom still sobbing about her passing son.
In less than one minute, a unit consisting of drones was sent to chase Wang Yong down. Since his data and whereabouts are tracked thanks to the advanced technology in Arkbaiki, within minutes, they can find Wang Yong.
Still oblivious to this, Wang Yong keeps running nowhere. He nearly ran over several people in the process and knocked some of the food carts while frantically trying to avoid possible pursuers on the land.
But he was powerless in the air.
A drone immediately approaches him, flashing a blue light to make him notice it.
“Wang Yong, you are to stop at once!” an angelic but stern voice called out from the drone. “You are under arrest for killing Wang Liang!”
“No, no, no!” Wang Yong immediately fastens his pace. Taking a sharp turn to the narrow alley. The drone wasted no effort to follow him closely.
“Leave me alone!” Wang Yong shouted while looking at the motorcycle's mirror. The drone doesn't even listen to a potential criminal.
Suddenly, the drone fired a warning laser shot near Wang Yong and hit the road. It left a scorch mark on the ground.
“Whoa!” it was enough to make Wang Yong swerved. “Shit, I don’t want to die! Please!”
“This was just a warning shot. You have been warned to stop. Surrender now, or we will shoot you!!!”
"No way I will stop. Please just leave me alone."
In front of Wang Yong was a random street full of crowds. He immediately charged at them, causing some of them to fall while the other ran to the side.
"Hey, watch out."
"Stupid kid, do you know that's dangerous??"
"Whoa, whoa, what's with this drone??"
Each of them tries not to be hit by a crazy boy riding a motorcycle while being chased by multiple drones.
And, of course, the chase continued. The drone keeps firing lasers, and each of them nearly hit Wang Yong and hit the ground. None of them hit the civilians.
In front of Wang Yong, there is a gap, and below it, was a huge river.
"I will go straight to that river. I hope it will shake them off."
With increasing speed, Wang Yong runs straight to the river.
But unfortunately, one laser managed to hit Wang Yong's fuel tank, causing fire to emerge from the motorcycle's back.
"Sht Sht, Don't f*cking expl—"
It exploded.
The explosion managed to make the motorcycle burn and swirled, crashing some food trucks nearby, while also throwing Wang Yong, directly into the river,
The drone immediately scan the river, but there was no sight of Wang Yong. “Subject lost,” and after a moment, the drone flew away to search elsewhere.
Wang Yong's body was at the bottom of the river. He was practically drowned.
And the first thing on his mind is to swim to the top. He mustered his strength to survive.
"Blub blub blub blub"
He managed to swim across the river.
"Puah, that was so close. Wait, where was the drone?"
A sound from above made him realize that first, he was in the river. Second, the drone above is flying over his burning motorcycle scene. Third, some of the drones are scanning the river not far from the Wang Yong location, but they are facing away from it.
"I must escape. I must not let the drone see me."
With his might, he swam while avoiding the drone. Eventually, he managed to get out of it and swim to the shore. His clothes were wet. Before he knew it, it was completely dark.
The night was cold, and below a small bridge, Wang Yong was there, trembling under the old, tattered hooded black cape he had found in the corner of the bridge. On top of it, he hadn't eaten since the afternoon. He soon found his stomach grumbling on his own.
"Growlllllll"
"Ugh, my stomach hurt. I need to eat something."
With a weak move, Wang Yong gets up and goes to the night market plaza to search for food, with his black cape now as a new accessory.
The marketplace is as busy as ever. More people swarm in search of food, clothes, and cheap accessories. The smell of the delicious food swarms over the marketplace.
"Fresh fish, fresh fish."
"Want to get a supper? All-you-can-eat meat is just for you. Come on"
"Dad, I want to buy that toy car."
Wang Yong, with a black cape and wet clothes, passed on them. He followed the smell of food, and his eyes grew when a big roasted pork was in front of him.
"Growlll~~"
"Are you hungry, boy?"
Wang Yong, look at the seller, with sympathetic eyes that look like a cat, said.
"I am starving, sir. Can you give me some roasted pork?"
"That would be 9 asro."
Wang Yong remembers that he has 10k asro now. With a weak hand, he pulled out his phone.
But the thing is, his phone is dead because of the water in the river earlier.
"You don't have any money, do you?" The seller looks Wang Yong as a beggar with a dead phone, "Get lost!! You dirty piece of sh*t!!"
Wang Yong leave with no arguments, as he was afraid to argue and leave to find another.
He walked and walked until he arrived in front of a tower, which had a big screen on it.
The screen mainly shows ads and entertainment. As Wang Yong looks at it, suddenly there is a news flash in it.
It shows a girl as a news reporter with a news background. Beside him was shown a young boy, with messy hair, with the name Wang Yong below the image.
“This just in. We received a bounty report for searching a young boy with the name Wang Yong, 14 years old. He is wanted for killing his brother and fleeing the scene. The police marked him as a dangerous individual. If found, please take him to the police immediately. You will be rewarded for 100k asro.”
All the people who watch the news discuss the boy in the image. Wang Yong on the other hand, watched in horror, he immediately turned away and held his hooded black cape tightly to not showing his face.
As he walked away, he heard a conversation nearby.
“100k??!!!! Let's catch this boy. I can use him to pay my debt!”
“But he’s just a kid.”
"A kid can murder us, you know. Better watch out from the street. Who knows, he can kill us from behind."
“Dangerous or not, if I see that boy, I swear I will beat the sh*t out of him, and use it to claim the reward myself. You hear me?? I will claim the reward.”
The more Wang Yong listened to this, the more Wang Yong feel terrified.
“Sht. Sht. SHTT. SHTTTT!!!! I have to run. I have to go. But where do I have to go???” Wang Yong keeps mumbling.
His first immediate priority was to escape the town, but even out of town, he was unsure where to go.
Suddenly, a face popped into Wang Yong’s mind. Shi Ying.
“That’s right, A Ying. I have to find her. She’ll know what to do. I have to go to her place.”
But then, he realized something.
"Where does A Ying live? I even forgot to ask her that. How f*cking stupid of me!!"
The only thing he knew was their usual meeting spot, which was a quiet, narrow street where they always hung out. Since it is a hidden street that not many people know about, it became their secret place.
“Alright, I’ll start there. Maybe she’ll be there.”
He tightened the hood of his black cape and walked quickly, sticking to the shadows, blending with the marketplace crowd as he quietly disappeared.
Once Wang Yong arrived at that street, a faint smell of old garbage in the vicinity hit his nose. He carelessly stepped into the puddle, which made the water splash all around his leg.
“A Ying?”
The voice was echoing down to the quiet street.
"A Ying? If you are here, please help me!! I need your help!!"
Again, he could only hear his voice echoing down the street.
Suddenly, he heard faint footsteps behind him.
"A Ying?? Is that you?"
When he looked back, instead of a petite girl, he only saw a glimpse of a big man behind him.
"Thud".
And Wang Yong passed out.