Mission 2: The Awakened Runaway Part 2

"We will now begin the life or death game, Human Chess!" the announcer said on the microphone.

The crowd roared in excitement.

"Today's odds are black 3, white 7." the people started to bet.

"Where are you Hu Xiao Ling?" YiRu asked himself his eyes kept finding him.

"Game begin!" the referee initiated to start. "Black up first!"

The stage floor opened and a boy came out with a sword in his hand.

"Hey, come on, I bet on black." the old man said and everybody around him laughed.

The boy in the middle of the stage was too much nervous. Cold sweat running to his face.

"Second up, white!" the referee announced again.

The stage floor opened again and a very anxious guy pops out with dagger in his hand. As soon as he got out, he quickly attacked the boy with the sword. They both fight tremendously until the boy fled the other guy's dagger. The dagger fell off the stage and when the boy is about to attack him, the other guy took out the gun and pulled the trigger. The boy with the sword drop dead. He keeps on pulling the trigger until the bullets finished.

"They give weapons to men driven to the edge and make them kill each other." YiRu was so shocked when he saw the fight. "This isn't right."

"M-maya..." the boy said before he took his last breath.

The crowd shouted excitedly. The winner is white.

"Referee! That was against the rules!" the old man shouted from the bleacher.

"There was no rules. The only rule is to kill the opponent." he said.

"Bring out the nuclear weapons!" the old man shouted angrily.

"That would put us in danger." the bald guy said at the back. His men laughed at the side.

They pulled out the body of the boy and another player came out of the stage. The guy with the gun put another batch of bullets then, a big javelin stick thrown straight into his chest. The big guy kept on attacking him, putting holes in different parts of his body.

"I'm the one who'll survive!" he said and laugh devilishly.

Meanwhile in one of the rooms upstairs.

"Welcome Mr. Teng." the bald guy and a lady stood up from the seat and greeted the people who came. "Thank you for coming."

"Thank you for the other day." the lady followed.

"No, no, we're always on the receiving end." he laughed together with the bald guy.

"I think we'll have a run of five today." the lady informed him while she guided them to the glass window showing the underground casino and the fighting stage.

"I see. He looks strong." Mr. Teng said. "Could I get a closer look?"

"Not a problem. Please come this way." the lady guided him to the VIP seat.

After the lady guided Mr. Teng to his seat, she went down and took YaLun to the fighting arena.

"Hu is counting on you." the lady told YaLun.

"Hu? Why?" YaLun asked.

"Hu has great intuition. Whoever he chooses always wins. The prize is one million. But not even the best built ones have survived. Any questions?" they passed by all the players in the back stage.

"No."

"You're brave."

The boy who played a while ago passed by them.

"He got beat right off the bat. He said he had to pay his little sister's hospital bills. I guess someone like that wasn't cut out for this kind of work." the lady informed YaLun about him.

"Little sister?" he remembered the blind little girl at the hospital.

"What is his name?" YaLun asked.

"Jun Wu or something." the lady answered.

"Jun?"

They are on the side of the stage and another player came out to play against the big guy.

"You never know when you're up. The fear pumps their adrenalin to the max." the lady smirked. "It makes for a totally realistic killing game our audience loves. Isn't it a great idea?"

YaLun gave her a cold stare.

"I can't stand it anymore!" one frightened guy tried to ran but the securities hold him.

"Let me go! Let me go home!" he struggled from their hands.

"We don't need a coward." the lady said when she saw him trying to ran. She shot him.

"I've opened a spot for you. That's why we have to have an alternate for situations like this." the lady said to YaLun.

"Thanks for your hard work." YaLun left the lady and he went to the coward guy's spot.

"I've never been thanked before." the lady smiled.

"Hey, this is off limits!" the security said to YiRu who' coming down with drinks on his hand.

"I'm sorry. I'm new here." YiRu answered.

He looked at YaLun and nodded.

ChunNie was waiting on the rooftop but he knows what's happening inside.

"YiRu, has Hu showed up yet?" ChunNie asked on the radio.

"Not yet. I'm calculating when YaLun will be up." YiRu was preparing everything at the kitchen.

"And he wins again! Will he be the winner?" the announcer said about the big guy on the stage.

YiRu was trying to figure out in the computer. "Based on the way the whites are fighting, and the strength of the men who are left,it'll be around ten minutes before YaLun is up."

"What's the point of doing that?" ChunNie was pressed against the wall still waiting. "All that matters is that YaLun wins, right?"

"But they could have any weapon." YiRu concerned written on his face. "Not even YaLun stands a chance if he's attacked by a gun."

"That would be bad! Should we change the plan?" ChunNie said and watched from the roof again.

"I thought we might run into a problem like this, so I have another plan. Later." YiRu closed the radio.

He tries to find out how they can solve this mission.

"Under no circumstances can the mission fail." YiRu said to himself while working it out. "Activate Bombay Mission."

YiRu clicked the enter button and a bomb exploded inside the fighting arena and all the people panic and heard screaming.

"What is going on?" the people said to each other.

"Hu Xiao Ling, can you hear this? Come out now. If you don't, we'll blow up this casino! Come out Hu Xiao Ling! This isn't a threat! If you won't come out..." YiRu's pre-recorded voice filled out the whole place.

Another bomb exploded inside.

"Ok. Stop. I'm Hu Xiao Ling." the bald guy together with the lady said.

"As his assistant, I'll attest to that. This man is Hu Xiao Ling!" the lady shouted.

YiRu went to the exhaust railing aiming his arrow at the bald man.

"Damn! I can't make it from here." YiRu said.

"Hu Xiao Ling!" the pre-recorded voice still calling.

"Continue the match!" the lady said to the announcer.

"Y-yes!" he pressed the enter button and YaLun came out of the fighting stage.

"YaLun!" YiRu said when he saw him on the stage.

"What is going on?" Mr. Teng came.

"This will be over soon. The games are a little rough today." the bald man informed him.

The guards saw someone moving at the railing.

"What should we do?" YiRu hide and get out of the railing.