Chapter 999: Chapter 260: Car Crash and Motive

Chapter 260: Car Crash, Motive

The four of them were talking by the roadside, with the street on one side and Heaven Mansion on the other. Suddenly sensing a faint murderous intent, Li Yan immediately locked his focus on the direction behind him, because he could hear the sound of a car approaching from that way.

Seeing Li Yan suddenly looking back, the other three followed suit. Not far from them was the car Li Yan had just parked, and on the road behind it, another car was approaching.

"Is there another friend coming?" Sun Hui stepped forward and asked.

"No," Li Yan shook his head and patted Sun Hui’s shoulder, "Weren’t we going to eat? Let’s go!" 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

He only took a glance without staring, already making a judgment in his mind. The faint murderous intent he felt came from this car, not a distant location. Turning back at this moment, whether it seemed coincidental or intentional to the driver, had already startled the enemy. Thus, he needed Sun Hui, who had just stepped onto the road, to move back to the sidewalk, but he couldn’t say so directly.

"Alright, let’s go eat then! Do the two ladies have any good suggestions?" Since they weren’t familiar, Sun Hui didn’t pay attention to the car anymore, nor did he find Li Yan’s behavior odd. After all, they were at the company’s headquarters entrance; it was normal to mistake it for a colleague’s car.

Just then, the car had already accelerated, bypassing Li Yan’s car, and suddenly seemed out of control, rushing toward the four of them on the roadside!

"Ah——!"

Ye Xin and Liu Yunyun stood on the sidewalk, facing the car, so they directly saw it coming and had room to escape. Screaming, they turned and ran towards the company’s entrance, rushing up the steps, making themselves relatively safe from the approaching car. In an emergency, their instinctive reactions prioritized themselves, forgetting to warn the two behind them.

Sun Hui, who was already facing away, was surprised by their reactions. He lacked professional training and didn’t instinctively follow them to safety. Instead, he habitually turned his head to see what was happening, costing him the best chance to evade.

Li Yan, although initially following Sun Hui, was fully alert. When the car ’lost control’ and swerved, he quickly reached out, pulling Sun Hui aside to dodge.

His response was timely, and his judgment accurate. He could not only evade effortlessly but also drag Sun Hui away. However, he underestimated the reaction of ordinary people encountering such danger!

Originally, pulling Sun Hui to one side would have completely avoided the danger. Even if the driver was prepared to crash, they would turn to hit, not pursue directly. A car’s agility can’t compare to a person’s. But Sun Hui, while being pulled, didn’t follow his lead, froze upon seeing the car hit, scared stiff!

Thus, instead of being pulled to safety, it turned into Li Yan having to drag him entirely, leaving his body safe but his foot was hit by the car’s bumper!

Li Yan was surprised, not expecting such an outcome. He wasn’t used to saving people in such situations; there was a similar incident involving Yu Xiaodi before. In that case, he carried her to safety, not realizing ordinary people might be paralyzed by fear.

As Sun Hui screamed in pain, Li Yan swiftly lifted him and rushed up the company’s steps.

The roadside accident and the girls’ screams had already alerted the company’s security guards. By the time Li Yan set Sun Hui down, two security guards had arrived. The terrified girls, seeing the car stopped, didn’t continue fleeing, but were still frightened and watching anxiously.

"How are you? Are you alright?" Li Yan asked quietly.

Sun Hui only screamed once, now gritting his teeth to endure the pain, his face twisted with agony. He gasped, "No... I’m fine... is it... broken?"

He said this meaning he could still bear it. Internally, he suspected his foot was fractured.

The car had stopped, seemingly suddenly out of control, but seeing the crowd, the driver quickly reversed and drove away.

When the car started again, a security guard shouted, "Hey! You’ve hit someone! You can’t leave!"

Liu Yunyun and Ye Xin, slightly calmer, came over to check on Sun Hui, "How is he? How is he?"

Li Yan handed Sun Hui over to a security guard and then stood up. Another called security guard walked forward, but the driver completely ignored him and had already turned around and started moving forward.

"The injured person is a colleague from the company’s human resources department. Call 120, send him to the hospital! I’ll chase the car!" Li Yan instructed the security guard and then quickly rushed toward his own car.

The security guard glanced up and recognized Li Yan. He was once the assistant security team leader and is reportedly now a consultant for Jie Rui. They still have quite a deep impression of him. Encountering such a situation at the company’s entrance, even if the person is not from the company, they should be sent to the hospital, not to mention if they are company staff. Seeing that Li Yan had already left, he called out loudly in response: "Alright! Brother Li, if you can’t catch up, it’s fine. I’ve already noted the license plate number, and the company’s surveillance cameras can capture everything here. He won’t get away!"

Li Yan said nothing, got in the car, and started chasing forward.

If it was just an ordinary car accident, he believed that with the license plate number and recorded video left by the security guard, the traffic police would be able to track down the perpetrator. But just now, he clearly felt a slight hint of murderous intent, the kind of intense intention to kill which cannot be mere accident! Even if disregarding this faint murderous aura that only he sensed and cannot prove, seeing how the car that was running fine suddenly hit them as if it lost control, and now can escape smoothly, it certainly raises suspicion that this was an intentional hit-and-run!

Since it was intentional, it should be a well-prepared action, with the license plate not covered, it might even be a fake plate, and the car might be stolen. If he doesn’t pursue now, there will be no result.

With Li Yan’s driving skills, even if the car gets further away, he could easily catch up in no time, so he wasn’t anxious, calmly following the hit-and-run vehicle that was desperately speeding away.

At the same time, he was analyzing the underlying issues behind this incident in his mind. If he believed it was intentional, then the hit-and-run driver must have some aim or motive. At that moment, there were just the four of them by the roadside, standing together, all within the collision range of a single car. But who had the greater chance?

The two women he was not familiar with, he didn’t know their identity or background. But just for two women, there was no need to ram them with a large vehicle. Or if they really intended to, there would be other times and places with a higher chance of success than near Heaven Mansion.

Eliminating the low possibility for the two women, it left Sun Hui and himself. Sun Hui has always been someone who avoids offending others, whether in the company or outside, he is known for his smooth dealings, and it’s unlikely someone would want his life. Maybe there’s only one possibility, and that’s because of Liu Yunyun, a woman that Sun Hui said was interested in him, and he reciprocated the feelings!

If Liu Yunyun joined the Paradise Group, discovered Sun Hui was easily seduced, and deliberately showed goodwill, if caught, there’s a slight possibility that Sun Hui would be targeted.

But in Li Yan’s view, this reasoning didn’t hold. Because Sun Hui obviously was the earliest of the four to arrive, if it were really so, why wouldn’t the driver hit him when he was alone, and instead wait until all four gathered when the chances of collateral damage were higher?

With such a comparison, Li Yan felt it most likely targeted him! Because he was the last to arrive among the four, moreover, just after he arrived and exchanged some pleasantries, the incident began to unfold. But how did the driver know he would be there?

With his anti-tracking skills, he would quickly notice if there was someone or a car following him. He was confident this car didn’t follow him but was waiting nearby. Was the adversary lying in wait near the company? If so, they would have waited until work hours! It was still a holiday, and if not for Sun Hui’s call, he would instead go to Huang Ying’s place.

Unable to make sense of it, Li Yan stopped fretting over it. Anyway, catching that individual would reveal the truth!

After some pursuit, the hit-and-run driver encountered a problem — a red light ahead! The distance wasn’t far, and once stopped by the red light, the pursuing car would immediately catch up.

He understood that using a car to create an accidental collision could only work once. If it failed, he must leave immediately.

He wanted to charge through the red light, but there were vehicles ahead blocking the road. With the pursuer getting closer, and no immediate chance of the light turning green, he quickly changed tactics, abruptly braking, and switched from moving forward to reversing toward Li Yan’s car at close distance!

If Li Yan’s car dodged, he’d retreat a bit, then switch to the side road, and leave at the turn ahead. If not, he’d crash into it. Although a car crashing into another might not kill someone in the back car, the chances of injury were certainly high.

From the rearview mirror, he saw no hint of Li Yan’s vehicle dodging, instead, it seemed to be accelerating toward the collision!

A collision? Who’s afraid of whom? He sneered, continuing to slam backward!

At this moment, ear-piercing honks rang out everywhere, yet instead of feeling tense, the driver found it utterly thrilling. That Li Yan dared to drive into him was unexpected and exhilarating.

One car moving forth, one back, at a high-speed collision course... but as they were about to collide, Li Yan’s car slid sideways at an improbable angle, moving from a collision trajectory into a parallel one. The other car, having lost its target, realized too late and crashed into the front of a honking, decelerating truck behind them! (To be continued, for more details please visit www.qidian.com, support the author, support legitimate reading!)