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Chapter 401: Chapter 403 The Cost of Underestimating an Opponent

Seeing that it was Zhongyi Hall’s people, Lin Yu’s anger flared up as he had long wanted to teach Zeng Sikui a lesson. He decided then and there that he wouldn’t go easy on them.

However, after Qin Tian thought about it calmly, he said, ”Second brother, calm down. Your main task right now is to find the whereabouts of Murong Fei and Meng Yao and rescue them. This is the most difficult and important mission. What does it matter if you kill those few underlings?”

Indeed, with the absolute strength of Lin Yu, Jiang Hu, and Lin Qiushun, the three of them, killing six members of Zhongyi Hall would be as easy as flipping a hand.

But doing so could easily startle the snake and alert Zeng Sikui, which would be counterproductive.

”Fine, I’ll hold back. Boss, don’t worry, I will definitely save the hostages,” Lin Yu took a deep breath on the other end of the earpiece and then calmed down, speaking to Jiang Hu, ”Jiang Hu, you follow these six people and see where they go. Qiushun and I will continue moving inward. Let’s mark our paths and split up. If you find any trace of the hostages, notify us immediately.”

”Understood,” Jiang Hu responded.

Qin Tian instructed Lin Yu on a few points, then continued forward with the main force.

Bang bang bang!

Not long after they proceeded, intense gunfire erupted from the woods ahead!

Everyone was stunned!

Bang bang bang!

The gunfire continued, with each shot reverberating echoes through the woods, sparking curiosity among the members of War Dragon.

”The fight has begun.”

Wild Boar, standing next to Qin Tian, said with a tone of surprise.

He looked towards the distance with a somewhat concerned expression and then turned to Qin Tian, ”Boss, the police have engaged with Zhongyi Hall. Do you think the hostages might be...”

Qin Tian cut Wild Boar off before he could continue, ”Don’t worry, the two hostages in Zhongyi Hall’s hands are their last bargaining chips. I believe they’re not that foolish.”

After that, Qin Tian waved his hand at everyone, ”Everyone, stay alert and move forward, let’s see what’s happening!”

Everyone tightly gripped the daggers in their hands, covering each other as they hurried towards the source of the gunfire a few miles ahead.

On a slope in the Primordial Forest ahead, Xiao Mao’s policemen had encountered one of Zhongyi Hall’s squads.

Zeng Sikui seemed to have long known the police would come, so he had dispatched several patrols.

This encounter caught Xiao Mao’s policemen somewhat off guard.

After they entered the Primordial Forest, Xiao Mao confidently split his subordinates into two groups.

One group, led by a Special Forces team leader, initiated a carpet search from the East, while the other group was led by him personally, encircling from the West.

The idea was sound, but Xiao Mao severely underestimated the manpower and firepower Zhongyi Hall possessed within Panlong Mountain.

Xiao Mao himself, leading nine policemen totaling ten men, also encountered a ten-man Zhongyi Hall squad on the slope. Both sides engaged in fierce combat.

Once the battle commenced, Xiao Mao was somewhat dumbfounded. They had handguns, and their opponents actually had submachine guns! How could they fight against that?

Most crucially, the gunfire triggered a chain reaction. About ten minutes later, another six-man squad from Zhongyi Hall arrived. The two squads sandwiched Xiao Mao’s group from front and back, instantly trapping the ten policemen in a pincer move—putting them in a very precarious situation!

”Chief Xiao, how... how can Zhongyi Hall have so many people here? These don’t seem like ordinary hoodlums. Damn it, we’ve underestimated them, and now we’re surrounded...”

Upon seeing the mercenaries of Zhongyi Hall around them, one of Xiao Mao’s deputies, a middle-aged man with glasses who had been at the police station for more than a decade and had never been involved in a gunfight, became panic-stricken at the scene before him.

”It’s just a bluff, Zhongyi Hall has only so many people, there’s no need to be afraid. We’ll wear them down, and Liang Fei with his Special Forces will come to support us soon,”

Xiao Mao said firmly.

However, as time ticked by, the people from Zhongyi Hall, instead of avoiding the police after seeing them, actually surrounded them. The posture seemed to be that they intended to take down the cops they despised the most in their daily life.

After waiting for a few minutes, instead of the Special Forces support they were expecting, what arrived was increasingly fierce gunfire from the mercenaries of Zhongyi Hall. Xiao Mao’s complexion changed.

”Liang Fei, where are you? Come and support us!” Xiao Mao roared into the headset.

”Xiao Bureau, we’re on our way, but I can’t determine your exact location, I can’t even hear the gunshots... Xiao Bureau, hold on for another ten minutes, we’ll speed up our march over!”

The words from the Special Forces captain Liang Fei left Xiao Mao speechless.

Hold on for another ten minutes?

Hold on for ten more minutes for you to come and collect my corpse?!

”No, we can’t let them encircle us, organize a breakout!”

Xiao Mao did have some ability, and he quickly deduced that the firepower from the six small teams of Zhongyi Hall behind them was relatively weak, so he decided to break out from the rear.

The analysis was correct, but he and his men executed it very poorly.

Of this group of more than ten people, half were potbellied middle-aged men, his trusted aides. Xiao Mao had brought them out intending to commend them for promotion after taking down Zhongyi Hall.

But now, the prospect of earning merit was gone, and their lives were in peril!

Middle-aged men in their forties, struggling to walk with a pistol in hand, thought of sprinting through the mercenaries’ firepower to break out?

Wishful thinking!

”Ouch!”

”Hiss... I’ve been shot, it hurts so much!”

”I can’t move, I can’t move... Xiao Bureau, my leg is injured, I’m bleeding... hiss.”

Almost within three minutes of Xiao Mao shouting the breakout slogan, several of his core members were shot and fell one after another, those who had hoped to rush out from lower ground now quickly shrank back.

Seeing this, Xiao Mao noticed that out of his ten men only nine had come back, and four were seriously injured, causing cold sweat to streak down his forehead!

This time, they really were in grave danger. These criminals were truly ruthless, killing even the police!

”Sniffles... Xiao Bureau, Xiao Dong is dead, Xiao Dong is dead... I just saw him get shot in the head... sniffles...”

”Ah... if I had known, I wouldn’t have come. In these wild mountains and forests, there are so many bandits, even machine guns... we can’t cope with this...”

”How about, we surrender to the bandits? Surrendering might give us a slim chance of survival, if they surround us, we’re all going to die!”

All of a sudden, a wave of utter negativity and despair permeated around Xiao Mao.

Everyone was looking at Xiao Mao with pleading eyes full of hope, waiting for him to make a decision.

Xiao Mao scanned his men, these small city officials who used to drink and talk big, now in the Primordial Forest seemed like entirely different people—wounded, despaired, some even crying...

Xiao Mao sighed, shook his head, and then made his decision.