Super Soldier in the City
Chapter 964 - 105 Ninja Appears

Chapter 964: Chapter 105 Ninja Appears

The police officers and soldiers glanced at Aoki Reiko, not giving her another look before they went to inspect the vehicle, which only made Aoki Reiko feel more despondent. Could these people really not recognize her?

If Aoki Reiko could only see her own face at that time, she would definitely have been furious enough to want to kill Li Yifei. At some point, Li Yifei had smeared several smudges of black grease on her face. Who could recognize her as Aoki Reiko, that great beauty, when even the police officers and soldiers showed no interest in taking a second glance at her?

The most infuriating thing for her was that the police and soldiers hadn’t noticed her gestures. How could they be so stupid!

However, Aoki Reiko still held onto hope because she knew that they were transporting that "thing" in the vehicle. If they just opened the vehicle’s compartment, they would surely find it, and Li Yifei would definitely be captured, then she could truly be free.

Following the sound of opening the vehicle’s compartment, Aoki Reiko’s face showed a flicker of joy. But as she looked at Li Yifei, she felt that although he appeared to be compliant, he actually didn’t seem panicked at all. This made her feel uneasy. Could it be that the soldiers and police weren’t able to find the thing inside the vehicle?

As Aoki Reiko listened to someone climbing into the back compartment, riffling around, her heart raced uncontrollably. This was her only hope.

But the sounds from the back ceased quickly, and then she heard the soldiers and police jumping down from the vehicle.

"You can go."

The last thing Aoki Reiko wanted to hear finally reached her ears, and then two police officers opened up the roadblock in front of them.

Li Yifei released Aoki Reiko, thanked the officers, and then slowly started the vehicle, driving forward.

After a few hundred meters, Aoki Reiko suddenly felt that she could move again. Her lips trembled, and she managed to make a sound. As she looked at the pitch-black empty space on either side, her heart felt like it was in her throat.

"Where... where are you taking me?"

"We’ll be there soon," Li Yifei replied indifferently.

After a while, Aoki Reiko, with her heart in her mouth, asked again, "Why couldn’t I move or speak just now?"

Li Yifei turned to look at Aoki Reiko, who hastened to lean away from him. Now, the sight of Li Yifei truly terrified her.

"It’s nothing. I just did a little something to you. It won’t have any effect on you."

"A little something? Did you cast a... spell on me?"

"You could say that."

Aoki Reiko’s complexion turned even whiter, her arms wrapped around her shoulders, feeling an unexplainable chill throughout the vehicle as if the temperature had suddenly dropped.

Li Yifei did not converse with Aoki Reiko any further and concentrated on driving. This time, the ride seemed very smooth, all the way to the seaside. Li Yifei’s vehicle stopped, and the headlights blinked thrice long, twice short, a signal that was immediately followed by a small boat emerging from behind a sea rock.

It was like the kind of small boat you’d use in a park, and even though it was made entirely of wood, it was not really that small. It wouldn’t be too crowded even with ten people sitting in it.

The boat reached the shore, and four men jumped off, securing the boat to the rocks. At that moment, Li Yifei also got out of the car, but before doing so, he patted Aoki Reiko twice, and immediately she felt her legs could not move again.

Li Yifei opened the rear door of the car, and all five of them hopped in, throwing the boxes underneath out, leaving only one box in the middle that was not very high. The important item they had obtained seemed impossible to fit into such a small space.

But when the five men lifted that box, they discovered a recess in the bottom of the vehicle’s compartment. The vehicle was specially modified, allowing the items to sink down that much further, which is why the inspectors couldn’t conceive of the possibility that the significant item could fit in there and thus hadn’t given it a second thought.

Five people strenuously removed the goods and then began to move them onto the boat bit by bit.

As soon as the goods were loaded onto the small boat, the vessel immediately sank lower. Over a ton of weight was akin to the combined weight of a normal twenty men, and for this tiny boat to carry such a load without sinking was already quite a feat.

With the goods loaded on the small boat, Li Yifei let out a temporary sigh of relief. The danger on land had been too great, but before he could finish his breath, a sense of alarm suddenly arose in his heart, and he said in a deep voice, "You guys go first."

Without a word, the four people started pushing the boat towards the sea through the water. All four were exceptionally skilled swimmers, even more agile in the water than on land. With so many rocks around, paddling the boat out would have been extremely difficult, but pushing it through the water made it much easier.

At this moment, Li Yifei stood on the shore with his hands behind his back, staring intently ahead. The sky was pitch black, and it seemed like darkness enveloped everything before him, but Li Yifei was able to sharply catch four dark figures speeding towards him with great velocity.

"Ninjas!" Li Yifei’s eyes narrowed, and his alertness surged instantly.

Over the years with the Flying Hawk Squad, he had encountered ninjas numerous times and had clashed with them on several occasions. He knew a thing or two about them. Ninjas were not like the samurai of Japan; samurai would fight you head-on with honor, but ninjas were particularly sneaky, using various terrains and tools to conceal themselves and launching devastating surprise attacks.

From the speed and stature of these four figures, Li Yifei could tell that each of them was stronger than any ninja he had previously encountered.

If he didn’t stop these four now, they would undoubtedly rush to the sea and take out his four subordinates, making it impossible to get the goods away.

Hence, Li Yifei didn’t wait for them to approach. Instead, he suddenly let out a loud shout and fiercely kicked the ground, sending a cloud of sand flying. His figure charged forward, following the rising sand, and threw a punch directly at the ninja in the center.

The sand kicked up by Li Yifei certainly carried a powerful force. If one were hit by this sand, it wouldn’t be unlike getting struck by small stones, not lethal perhaps, but enough to cause severe bleeding and head injuries.

But at that moment, the four ninjas dodged with agile movements. Three of them disappeared as if evaporating into thin air, leaving only the one in the center.

The ninja in the center materialized two ninja swords in his hands, his blades danced through the air, dispersing the sand, and he even took the chance to slash at Li Yifei, displaying incredible reaction speed.

Li Yifei’s fist retracted cunningly as his body charged forward like a tank, seemingly ignoring the opponent’s blades. The vigor emanating from him made him seem like an indestructible force.

The ninja felt the might of Li Yifei’s charge and hastily dodged back, retracting his swords. But at that moment, three figures suddenly flashed by his side, and three ninja swords struck at Li Yifei from three different directions.

"Nice try!" Li Yifei bellowed, his hands whirling in defense. Amidst the clashing sounds of metal, the three ninja swords were forced away, and Li Yifei continued his advance without a pause, still barreling towards the ninja in the center.

The central ninja retreated rapidly, sheathing his swords, but with his other hand, he continuously unleashed what ninjas are best known for—ninja darts. At such a close distance, dodging the darts would have been extremely challenging.

"Ting, ting, ting..." Li Yifei didn’t even bother to dodge. He was a master of hidden weapons himself; even Sophia’s Flying Dagger was no match for him, let alone a ninja’s darts. As his hands flew, he deflected all incoming ninja darts, now armed with two daggers in his own grasp.

Three gusts of wind sliced towards Li Yifei from the sides and the back. With a thunderous shout, his body suddenly accelerated, narrowly avoiding the side and rear attacks. His proximity to the central ninja now even closer, the daggers in his hands, cold with intent, slashed towards the ninja’s throat.

"Clang!" In a split-second response, the ninja managed to raise his ninja sword to block Li Yifei’s fatal blow. Although he prevented a lethal injury, Li Yifei’s dagger still carved a long cut along his neck, narrowly missing severing the major artery.

At that point, the attacks from the rear came again, this time even fiercer. Li Yifei’s assault was finally interrupted, forcing him to turn and meet the charge of the three ninjas.

In just one exchange, Li Yifei, surrounded by the four ninjas, severely wounded one of them. This stunned the remaining three, who had never imagined encountering such a powerful adversary. They didn’t dare underestimate Li Yifei any longer and went all out in their fight against him.

Li Yifei was equally surprised. He had recognized their strength immediately and had exerted nearly all of his power from the start, aiming to take out at least one opponent. But in the end, he only inflicted severe injury instead of delivering a kill, which he considered a failure.

What concerned him most was that the strength of these four ninjas far exceeded his understanding of ninjas. Individually, they were definitely stronger than the members of the Flying Hawk Squad. Had the Squad encountered such ninjas during their missions, they would have suffered greatly. He never expected to face such formidable foes from Japan, and since they didn’t emerge when he was with the troops but in this situation instead, it meant that Japan had not revealed the full capabilities of these ninjas, clearly a hidden strength.

At that moment, Li Yifei suddenly pondered another issue. He had always believed that the Phantom Squad was the nation’s strongest fighting force, but now, whether that was still true, he wasn’t so sure.