Empire of Shadows

Bill looked at the police officers standing in place, his stomach full of nice and enthusiastic words to greet their parents.

These sons of b—tches actually did nothing, which was something he had not expected.

In his perception, even if these police officers couldn’t help him fight off those gunmen, at least… they could add some trouble for these gunmen, right?

But look, what the f—k did they do!

They did nothing!

In fact, the driver had also noticed that something was wrong. The way this place was hung with some colored flags today looked like there was some event.

He seemed to have heard that, just in these two days, “Boss, it seems there are a lot of people here today…”

Bill also found that the situation was not right, but just when both of them were a little distracted, a child suddenly appeared in front of the vehicle.

The driver’s whole person jolted. Although he was a gang member, he was not too bad. He slammed the steering wheel, and the car almost scraped past the child and crashed into a bollard on the side of the road!

With a loud bang, the car came to a complete stop.Bill, while cursing, kicked open the car door and crawled out, but it was unknown who he was cursing.

It could be the people who were chasing him, or it could be the driver, it was also possible he was cursing the child, or himself.

In short, he crawled out of the car door with uncoordinated limbs, cursing. He could no longer stand steady.

The violent impact caused his balance system to have some temporary problems. He leaned against the back of the car and looked back.

Three cars were chasing after him. He cursed a few more times, turned around, and pushed the driver in the driver’s cabin. There was no reaction.

Bill reached into his pocket and took out a gun.

“Brother, it’s not that I don’t want to help you, it’s that I really can’t,” he put the gun in his pocket and ran away, stooping.

Hiram, who was walking out from the other side, immediately changed direction after hearing the sound. Lance’s position was higher, and he could see a little of what was happening at the outermost edge of the crowd.

He turned to look at Robert, “Call for people.”

Robert was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned and ran!

He didn’t know what calling people was for, but he knew that something bad must have happened.

Lance was a little worried about Hiram running so far. After excusing himself to the other few people, he also hurried away.

Fortunately, he had a weapon with him today. Now when Lance went out, he would carry a weapon and a magazine. This city was indeed getting more and more chaotic, but also more and more dangerous, for everyone!

The three cars quickly stopped. Several people got out of the cars. They walked to the side of the car that had been in the accident, looked at the unconscious driver slumped over the steering wheel, and then looked at the back seat. There was no one here.

Their target was Bill.

These gangs from Fides, in the process of growing and developing, had clashed with some other gangs in the Port District. They found that those neighborhood families were very difficult to deal with!

Although they were few in number, they were very united, and were not afraid of death and didn’t care about their lives!

Many of these young people regarded Lance as an idol. Among the more mainstream rumors about Lance, his fearlessness of death was obviously the most frequently heard.

Things like a dozen people killing several hundred people had many versions. After all, even William (Patricia’s father) had believed it to be true!

Perhaps they still couldn’t understand what an idol was, but they knew to follow in the footsteps of a successful person.

Not just in the Port District, the emerging forces in the entire Golden Port all showed a more ruthless style!

There had even been situations where two people, at close range, without dodging or hiding, raised their guns and shot at each other directly, and both ended up dead!

The outside gang in the Port District had clashed with them several times, and both sides had suffered some casualties.

This made them realize that first integrating these difficult-to-handle small families and small gangs was not a smart choice.

If you weren’t careful, you would chip a tooth. Not worth it!

On the contrary, the largest gang in the Port District, the Red Dog Gang, was surprisingly “soft,” just like Bill’s rumored c—k, limp.

Plus Bill had recently been very high-profile about giving out money and guns. Today they seized an opportunity and gave him a hard one.

Bill didn’t know that his habits had been completely figured out by these people. He liked to eat breakfast on the side of the road. This morning, he came out of his house and found a place to eat something, and as a result, he ran into these gunmen.

His two bodyguards were most likely already dead. And it was thanks to these two bodyguards that he had a chance to escape!

The guy at the very front had a pair of deep blue eyes. His gaze was like that of a starving wolf, filled with a bloodthirsty emotion.

He had large tattoos on his body. On his shoulder was a wolf’s head. This was their logo, the Fides Wolf Gang!

He looked at the crowd around him, trying to find Bill in the crowd. Just at this moment, someone suddenly stood up.

“Hey, you guys!”

Hiram walked over from the side, followed by Lawn. It was just the two of them.

He looked at these few people and did not feel fear because the other party had more people, “There’s an event here, don’t cause trouble here!”

He was already very polite, but the other party glanced at the red armband on his sleeve, and as if thinking of something, the hand hidden under his shirt at his chest suddenly made a backward drawing motion!

Hiram had been staring at the other party’s movements. The moment he saw the other party seem to be drawing a gun, he pushed Lawn while hiding behind a bollard himself.

The next second after the gunshot rang out, the surrounding crowd began to scatter and flee, screaming. Hiram noticed that an unlucky guy seemed to have been hit by a stray bullet and fell to the ground screaming.

He suddenly felt like laughing, but he also drew his pistol to return fire.

The intense exchange of fire instantly made the people at the event scene frantically flee from the other side, including those on the main stage. For a time, the entire dock was plunged into chaos.

Lance found a cover. While the other party’s attention was all on Hiram and Lawn, he fired a few shots in that direction.

Someone was shot, but it didn’t seem to have hit a vital spot. They retreated behind other covers, and for a time, they were in a stalemate.

“Who the f—k are you?”

“Motherf—king son of a b—tch, tell me who you bastards are working for!”

Hiram squatted behind the bollard, quickly peeked out, then raised his hand and fired a few shots.

The people on the other side didn’t seem to have any intention of communicating with them. At this time, Robert had also run back with his men. Seeing that the strength of the two sides in the firefight had changed, the other party’s men decisively chose to retreat.

Their driver drove the car to their side. They fought while retreating. Although this kind of shooting was not necessarily accurate, who could guarantee that they would definitely not be hit.

“Let them go!” Lance shouted, and in the end, just watched them leave.

After they had indeed all left and were far away, only then did Hiram and Lawn come out from behind their cover.

When Lance saw that Lawn’s arm was stained red with blood, he quickly walked over, “Are you injured?”

Lawn nodded, “A bullet grazed me, it’s not serious.”

“Bear with it!” Lance borrowed a small knife from someone next to him, cut open Lawn’s sleeve. On the outside of his arm, there was a wound pierced by a bullet.

Because the position where the bullet hit was too close to the edge, it was equivalent to a piece of flesh being completely torn off.

Although it was bleeding continuously, it was indeed not that serious, just looked a bit scary.

He used Lawn’s sleeve to tie up his arm to slow down the blood loss.

While having someone call for an ambulance, he walked to the side of the crashed car.

The driver was already gone. The steering wheel had pressed on his chest for too long, causing him to die of suffocation while unconscious.

At this time, the sound of police sirens finally sounded in the distance. A large number of police cars rushed over. Lance put the pistol in his hand back, looking at the approaching police cars with a displeased expression.

John came personally. After all, Lance had just given him money yesterday and asked him to take care of the event here, but today he had messed everything up.

John walked over with a faint smile on his face. He scratched his head, “Sorry, I think I messed up.”

He apologized, but there was not a hint of apology on his face. Instead, he had a casual smile, which made Lance very angry!

“Is this your promise?” Lance looked at him.

John looked back, “There are a total of ten police cars here maintaining order, two police cars and four police officers at each intersection.”

“Plus those on the road, there are a total of about fifty police officers here. Lance, this is already one-tenth of the Port precinct’s police force!”

Lance continued to stare at him, “But you messed things up!”

John was also a little ashamed and angry. He felt that Lance was not giving him face, and his tone became not so good, “You only gave me $3,000, not $30,000 or $300,000. I can’t possibly hand over the entire police station to you!”

“For the sake of you being an adult, Lance, you weren’t injured, none of your people were injured. This was just an accident!”

“Except for this event… which might have been a little affected, and this unlucky guy, there’s nothing else…”

He wanted to say that no one else was injured, but looking at the two injured workers who were being helped over, he closed his mouth.

“In short, you are unharmed, Lance. Don’t cause trouble for me!”

As they were talking, more than thirty cars arrived from outside. A large number of armed men got out of the cars and directly surrounded these police officers.

The faint, arrogant smile on John’s face finally disappeared.

He walked in front of Lance, face to face with him, “What do you want to do, Lance?”

The surrounded police officers felt fear. They were very nervous now. It was possible that with just one gunshot, the biggest firefight with law enforcement in recent years could break out.

Lance didn’t care at all about the pressure John was trying to put on him. He even took a step forward, pressing close to John’s face, “You!”

“F—king!”

“Messed up!”

“The thing I told you to do!”

John looked at him, not to be outdone, “So what do you want to do?”

Lance continued to say, word by word, “Get the motherf—kers who caused trouble today and deliver them to me.”

“Otherwise, I will let you understand that my $3,000 is not so easy to take!”