Using Herself as Bait
On the quiet street, seven cars were blocked off, lying quietly on the road.
The vehicle's electronic components have been completely destroyed by the EMP grenade. It is possible to restart the vehicle, but someone needs to get out and manually start the diesel engine.
Most importantly, communication between the seven vehicles was cut off.
If they want to communicate with each other, they might have to open the door and shout to convey the message, because the bulletproof glass is too thick and the car is soundproof.
However, the sniper is still alive, and opening the door rashly would cause problems.
There was no noise along the roadside. After hearing the sniper gunfire, the residents inside the building hid in their homes and sought cover.
The Fourth District is where the gangs are most active, and fights are common, so the residents know how to protect themselves.
Only a few windows remained, and it seemed that there were still figures moving about.
"What are they waiting for?" Qing Chen asked. "A minute and a half has passed since they blocked this place with vehicles. Logically, these ambushes are all interconnected, and the attacks should follow one after another. But it seems they're not in a hurry; it seems they just want to keep you here for now..."
Li Changqing thought for a moment and said, "They may not be sure if I have a backup plan yet, and want to wait and see."
"So what are you waiting for?" Qing Chen asked again. "Besides sending drones to find the sniper, you haven't done anything else. I don't believe someone capable of carrying out the cleanup of City No. 1 would sit here and wait to die. So, where's your backup plan?"
Li Changqing said with a smile, "Do you have that much confidence in your aunt?"
She wasn't much older than Qing Chen, but she especially liked to tease him by calling him "Qing Chen."
Just then, a burst of light erupted from the dark window of the sniper's location that Qing Chen had just identified.
It appears someone threw a grenade from that room, killing the sniper along with him.
The shards of glass shattered in the sky and fell to the ground with a crisp sound, which could be faintly heard even inside the car.
Qing Chen suddenly realized that not only were there ambushes by Li Changqing's men in this building, but Li Changqing's men had also laid ambushes there in advance.
He wondered to himself, "Are all the struggles between conglomerates so meticulously calculated?"
"How many ambushes do you have in the building?" Qing Chen asked. "Not many, I suppose."
"Why do you say that?" Li Changqing asked curiously.
"I don't believe you knew the ambush location was here in advance, otherwise you wouldn't have put yourself in such a passive position here. So I'm inclined to think that you've planted a few people in each building along the way, to be used as surprise troops at critical moments," Qing Chen analyzed.
Li Changqing's eyes lit up, but he did not give a direct answer.
The next moment, the ambushers seemed to realize that the sniper had been taken out. The trailers of the two trucks blocking the way suddenly opened, and a group of soldiers in black combat uniforms filed out, all of them carrying automatic rifles.
They're attacking from both sides in a pincer movement!
The long street was not wide, and the enemy was about to complete the encirclement of Li Changqing's convoy.
"79 people," Qing Chen said immediately. "There are still ambushers upstairs, so the total number should be over 100."
And they, including the Old Liu, only have 26 people.
Qing Chen knew that Old Liu was powerful, but the problem was that even B-Class expert couldn't withstand so much concentrated fire from so many guns.
Old Liu narrowed his eyes and said to Xiao Ying, "Stay in the car and protect the boss. Even if you die, the boss can't die."
"Understood," Xiao Ying nodded decisively.
In an instant, Old Liu opened the car door, pushed off with one foot, and was launched out like a cannonball.
When the enemy saw someone emerge from the armored vehicle, they immediately opened fire on Old Liu. But after landing, Old Liu rolled over and started limping along a wall by the roadside, seemingly unaffected by gravity. Bullets kicked up a trail of dust behind him!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, everyone in the convoy opened the car doors, set up their weapons, and launched a counterattack against the enemies attacking from both sides.
Xiao Ying pulled a pistol from his side and said, "Boss, don't be afraid in the car..."
Before he could finish speaking, he turned around and saw Qing Chen reach out from the back seat, pull out the sniper rifle holster, and then, over Li Changqing's body, open the car door on the woman's left.
"Get out of the car," Qing Chen said. "I'll take you straight into the building!"
Li Changqing thought for a moment, "But the building isn't safe either. Just as you judged, I only planted one key piece in this building. Now that the other side has risked their lives to kill the sniper, they're probably dead too."
"That's still better than staying here as a sitting duck," Qing Chen said. "The car is bulletproof, but if Old Liu and the others can't hold out, those thugs can just plant a bomb under the chassis and blow us to bits."
"But Auntie isn't as weak as you think," Li Changqing said with a smile. "Perhaps her reinforcements are already on their way?"
"Then we need to find a safe place even more," Qing Chen said calmly. "On the battlefield, moving targets are always harder to hit than stationary targets. What you need to do now is move around."
Li Changqing asked thoughtfully, "But what if I enter the building with you, and you hand me over to the enemy? What if you're also an undercover agent?"
"Then do you believe me?" Qing Chen asked.
Li Changqing suddenly got out of the car with a smile, "I believe you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qing Chen emerged from the car behind Li Changqing like a cheetah, grabbed Li Changqing's arm, and ran towards the building.
The firepower on the battlefield had been completely tied down by Old Liu and his men, so much so that everyone didn't realize what was happening until Qing Chen and Li Changqing entered the building.
The Old Liu secretly thought to himself that things were not going well. The reinforcements arranged by the boss would arrive soon, and at this time it would obviously be wiser to stay in the bulletproof car and wait for the reinforcements.
If we hold out for just 10 more minutes, the reinforcements will be able to completely surround the area.
What Li Changqing was going to do tonight was to use himself as bait to lure out some people with ulterior motives.
Before she returned from City No. 1, she had already obtained some information from Hu Corporation Intelligence Agency. There were clues indicating that a big shot from Kashima had secretly infiltrated City No. 18.
This bigwig from Kashima had clashed with Li Changqing in City No. 1, but unfortunately he was defeated and fled in a sorry state. It's no wonder that the other party infiltrated City No. 18 with good intentions.
However, the other party went silent after entering City No. 18. Li Changqing searched for them for three days but found no clues.
Seeing that a storm was brewing in City No. 18, Li Changqing was unwilling to let such people take advantage of his territory, so he took a risky approach and used himself as bait.
Even her schedule tonight was leaked by an informant she had cultivated for many years.
Old Liu watched Qing Chen and Li Changqing's figures disappear into the building, he thought to himself, "It's one thing that Qing Chen hasn't received proper security training, but the boss knows the plan himself, so why is he still going along with Qing Chen's nonsense?"
At this point, there was no idea how many enemies were Reagan the building; everything was unknown. How could they risk leaving the armored vehicle?
However, at that moment, a palm-sized black mechanical spider suddenly emerged from the shadows beside the street and, controlled by neural connections, quickly crawled under a car.
Immediately afterwards, a huge burst of flames erupted from inside the mechanical spider's structure, forcefully throwing the car and the security personnel hiding behind the car door out!
"The Kamishiro Family's long-range self-destruct bomb!" Xiao Gong shouted from the back, "Kashima and Kamishiro have joined forces."
These mechanical spiders are special military equipment and are also included in the key control list of the Federation Group Army. Now that the other side is using EMP bombs together with mechanical spiders, it seems that after failing to gain a foothold in City No. 1, they are angry and ready to overturn the table and start a war.
Old Liu stared at the building where Qing Chen and Li Changqing had disappeared, feeling a wave of fear. If Li Changqing had been in the car just now, the mechanical spider's target would definitely have been vehicle number 2!
Inside the building, Qing Chen released Li Changqing's arm and pressed the elevator up button.
Li Changqing asked curiously, "Is it really safe to take the elevator at a time like this? Once the elevator doors open, the people inside will be riddled with bullets, won't they?"
Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "Yes, everyone thinks we're too scared to take the elevator up, so let's take the elevator up. There shouldn't be any problem."
Li Changqing was taken aback; what the young man in front of him said seemed to make sense.
Qing Chen held up his pistol, his face calm, aiming it at the center of the elevator, waiting for the elevator to open.
When the elevator doors opened, the elevator was empty.
"Let's go," Qing Chen said, taking the lead and pressing the buttons on each floor.
However, instead of patiently waiting for the elevator to slowly ascend, he smashed open the ventilation opening in the elevator ceiling and leaped into the elevator shaft.
He looked down at Li Changqing and said, "Give me your hand."
Li Changqing suddenly found it amusing, and she reached out to let Qing Chen pull her into the elevator shaft. "And then?"
As the elevator slowly ascended, Qing Chen pointed to the vertical ladder on one side of the elevator shaft and said, "Climb the ladder with me. We'll be faster than the elevator. While everyone else is focused on the elevator floor, we'll already be up there."
Li Changqing glanced at his high heels. "I'm just an ordinary person, I can't climb that fast. Carry me. If we both make it out alive this time, we can use any bullets we want at the sniper range, and I'll owe you a favor."
Qing Chen hesitated for a second. "Okay."
As he spoke, Li Changqing jumped onto Qing Chen's back, while the boy climbed the ladder quickly upwards.
The elevator didn't stop until the 5th floor. By the time it stopped on the 5th floor, Qing Chen had already climbed to the 9th floor.
Li Changqing lay on his back, his head resting on his shoulder, and his pleasant scent kept wafting into Qing Chen's nose.
Qing Chen suddenly said, "You are a superhuman."
These words startled Li Changqing so much that he almost let go and fell!
"Why do you say that?" Li Changqing asked.
Qing Chen said, "Stop pretending. You are an extraordinary person. An ordinary person would not be able to support their own weight in this kind of vertical climbing and would have lost their grip on me long ago. But you are different. Your arms are strong and powerful. This is not a strength that ordinary people can possess."
The main problem was that Li Changqing's embrace made it hard for him to breathe.
Sorry this update is a bit late, and I really don't have any more drafts saved up. The video you saw was recorded on May 9th, before I uploaded it.
Since it went live, the two gold-level and so many silver-level big spenders on Tencent have completely drained me... I'm still figuring out how to get back on track and pay off my debts...