His left hand reached into
his holster and drew the Tech Revolver. Without charging it, he fired.
With a boom, the bullet-riddled window shattered outright, and half the passenger's head was blown away. He was dead beyond any doubt.
"Su, get back here!"
He looked back and saw that Jack had already turned the car around. V and Lucy, sitting in the back, kept up suppressing fire on the white pickup behind them.
They made sure no one in the pickup's open cargo bed dared operate its general-purpose machine gun.
Su Xiao pulled out two grenades and hurled them toward the white pickup, then hurried back to the car without even looking.
With a boom, the white pickup became a mass of roaring flames in the explosion, fire soaring into the sky and smoke filling the air.
Once Su Xiao was inside, Jack stepped on the gas and drove them away.
They followed the main road out of the city, leaving the site of the gunfight farther and farther behind.
Su Xiao scanned their surroundings. Finding no more armed enemies nearby, he let out a small sigh of relief. "We're safe."
He looked at the others. "Is everyone all right?"
Jack kept his eyes on the road and didn't turn around. "I'm fine."
"Jose, what about you and your girlfriend?"
"I... I think I'm okay, sir."
"Good."
"Sir?"
"What is it?"
Jose looked close to tears. "Are we safe now? Have we lost them? Will the Salamanca Group come after us again?"
Su Xiao couldn't answer that question either, so all he could do was encourage him.
"Don't think about that right now. You're a man, so stop sniveling and act like one."
Jose nodded. "I... I understand."
Their protection target was reasonably sensible and cooperative. What Su Xiao