Lee Taken Hostage.

The Next Day...

It was bright sunny weather, with a cold wind blowing slightly. Lee was driving on his was to his station. It was his police patrol car.

"I have almost perfected my skills which I got from system and that principles of jeet kun do is really amazing, the more I practiced the more it ingrained in my instict. Though I do not need to think much but its too far from ultra instinct."

Lee muttered to himself, ultra instinct was what every martial arts tried to gain. It was something that makes oneself calm in every situation, with tremendous observations and a body acting on its own.

But he knew with his meagre skill, it won't really make him that good. After a month of training he saw that he was not improving that fast anymore.

Which might be due to already digesting his skills or atleast what he got from the system. So Lee was in hunger for mission to gain skills.

"System I pray to you to give me a mission with atleast intermediate reward."

Lee could only pray to the system as without him he would not have been able to come this far. Neither would he have this good expertise in guns nor in fighting.

After reaching the station, he talked with the lady officer whom he almost saw everyday first. Then he waited for Adam.

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"Finally the time to make my stomach relish in your misery. As you humbly asked me so how about we go for asian hotpot. It's a bit cold today good for warming up."

Adam couldn't help but relish in his joy. To which Lee rolled his eye, after all he was never the one to ask. Who would want to treat others with his little bit money.

"Sure sure, who told me to get such a good senior colleague to make me treat him."

The more Lee thought about his money the more he felt worry and sigh. Lee asked Adam for any good restaurant as he didn't knew. He too felt that he should enjoy himself more, after all it was his hardearning.

"Let me think... Well lets just eat somewhere near. This job doesn't even give the time to eat."

Adam then told Lee to drive to nearby asian hotpot restaurant.

When Lee entered the restaurant, he guessed that it should be a well received one. Afterall the customers were almost packed inside.

They found a table and sat. Adam called for a waiter and said, "one Hotpot and a dish that you think will go along with it please."

The waiter nodded to Adam's request. Afterall many didn't knew much about asian cuisine and the dish to go along with it.

Lee unlike Adam saw the menu and was counting his expense. He counted the total expense and sighed, " There was a time where I didn't even care about money and now...."

"umm did you say anything." Hearing Lee sighing Adam asked. Though Adam didn't hear it, he felt like Lee was grumbling like an old man.

"No, nothing just reminiscing." Lee said with a blank look as he daydreamed.

"You are still young, so don't talk like tou are older than me. Unlike you I already crossed 30 but look aren't I still young. What a waste..."

Adam complained to Lee about his grumbling. But he stopped saying as he saw the waiter bring a hotpot which he kept in the electric stove.

After that he brought some rice and veggie leafs to go along with it.

"Here's your food, sir. Hope you enjoy it." The waiter said while bowing and went away.

"mm nice reception," Lee muttered, as in small restaurants there wasn't much attention in waiter codes.

Ofcours, Lee wasn't one who cared about it.

Lee then started to eat the food. But as he was eating he saw Adam taking the leaf in his left hand wraping it with rice and meat slices. Watching that he could only advise Adam.

"Officer Adam, you know it's not really a healthy behavior to eat with your left hand according to asian food ethic, if you wanna eat or wrap things in your hand use the right."

"I know but you know old habits die hard. I try to but after a bit unconsciously I am back at square one."

Adam laughed and said his situation. He was not wrong after all. Things that you have done for your whole life specially from childhood is hard to forget and change.

He then continued on eating but as he was facing the door, he heard a clinking sound and saw two person enter the restaurant.

Both were walking awkwardly as if there was something impeding from moving there right leg freely.

He only found it awkward so he came back to his eating. They talked as they ate.

Suddenly they heard some crash sound and when they looked towards the sound, Lee saw plates strewn on the floor broken.

One of the two man that just entered before was graabing his right hand as if he was in pain. Warm soups were all over his right side of the body.

At that point, watching the man grabbing his right hand and wrenching in pain, something clicked his mind.

He then thought about something, though he didn't have clues, he was sure of something. So he said to Adam softly.

"Officer Adam, look at the two man do you find something odd in them."

Adam thought about it a bit and looked at the man in pain. "Well the soup should only be warm and not hot too cause that much pain. So he must have some injury like scald, burnt..."

"Exactly or like a gunshot." Lee interrupted in between and finished Adam's sentence. Hearing it Adam was a but shocked too and looked at Lee as if both of their thoughts were on the same point.

Lee then looked at Adam and behaved normally and said softly. "Look at 1 o'clock of their waistline."

Adam looked at them and casually glanced at their waist. He saw something bulging out a bit.

"Don't tell me they are the escapees." Adam was shocked at the coincidence of their situation.

But before Adam even went with his thought Lee denied and said, "No, it's not. They must have been on to us for quite sometime. Quite a daring one ain't they to be following a officer."

"aissh. Captain sure brought us a problem. So they haven't solved their case yet and look if it wasn't due to the waiter, we wouldn't have known at all."

Adam was gutted at their Captain's work and William. After all it has been 3 weeks and they are letting them roam so freely.

"So Officer Adam, what to do. They have gun, if they find us suspicious, it would be a problem ain't it?"

Lee looked around the customers eating. He soon calmed down as public safety is important So they decided not to act here.

After finishing their food they called up the waiter and paid. As they were passing by them to go out of the restaurant, Adam looked at the escapees. But what he didn't expect was that one of them to be staring at them too.

The escapees were experienced so when Adam looked back at them they knew that they were caught.

So without delaying the man who was in pain took out his gun and hold the waiter that was cleaning the broken dish and pointed his gun at the waiter's head.

Adam too didn't slowed down he tackled the other person who just took out his gun which made the gun fly away from the escapee hand. Watching all the this the customers started to run out of the restaurant. But unluckily the waiters and the kitchen staff was left inside.

"Shit." He knew the moment he saw both Adam and the escapees act, that there's no hiding anymore. He cursed as he saw the waiter was taken as hostage.

"Get away from my partner or I will Shoot his head."

One of the Escapee who had a hostage shouted at Adam. Adam was about to beat the person he tackled but hearing the warning he got off the person but didn't release him.

Lee took a moment of breather and said, " Don't shoot the waiter we will release your partner, but you have to release the waiter too."

"Do you think I am fool to let go of my bargaining chip. Should I shoot him then."

"Don't, it won't do anyone good, you will only increase your crime. How about this. We will release your partner, you let go off the waiter instead take me as hostage."

Lee then offered himself to be taken as hostage after all the waiter in panic may do something which might lead to his death.

Adam couldn't help but say to Lee quietly, "No don't, Lee a police officer can't let himself be taken as hostage, you will have sever repercussions. And it was my fault anyway, i shouldn't have looked back."

"Lets forget about the consequences, look the waiter might do something untoward. And don't worry I have plan, just take care of the other one.."

Lee then told Adam to look at the waiter who seemed to be panicking a lot and shaking.

Adam wanted to exchange himself in place of Lee but he wasn't able to after thinking about his family. After all it was his mistake that cause this mess and in addition to that if he let himself be caught as hostage, he might even be fired.

Unknowingly Lee acted as if he was the senior. In situations like this that Lee turns calm the most.

Thinking of it, the person was after revenge because of his partner getting caught and himself getting shot, they had to be in run now.

The person then nodded. He then asked Lee to come empty handed. Lee threw his handgun under the table and walked towards the person with his partner. The person let go off the waiter, then grabbed Lee by his Neck.

Adam watching all of it was full of guilt but a deed already done can't be undone, so he waited for Lee. He then took the released waiter and sent him to the kitchen staffs.

"Now then what should I do, after all it was cause of you that my other two partner got caught and my arm injured."

The person said coldly while he pointed his gun at Lee's temple.

*Ding*

But Without them knowing Lee only smiled after hearing the mission notification.!