Chapter 310: 242. Use oneself as bait
On the eerily quiet long street, 7 vehicles were blocked, lying silently on the road surface.
Affected by the EMP grenade, all electronic components in the vehicles had been destroyed. Although restarting the vehicles was possible, someone would have to get out and manually crank the diesel engine.
Most importantly, communication between the seven vehicles had been cut off.
If they wanted to communicate with each other, they might need to open the doors and shout, because the bulletproof glass was too thick, and the vehicles were soundproofed.
However, the sniper had not yet been killed, and rashly opening the doors could lead to problems.
There was no noise from either side of the road; the residents inside the buildings had sought cover inside their homes after hearing the sniper rifle shots.
The Fourth District was an area where clans were very active, and shootouts were common, so the residents also knew how to protect themselves.
Only a few windows still seemed to have shadows moving behind them.
“What are they waiting for?” Qing Chen asked. “From the time they used the vehicles to block this place to now, one and a half minutes have passed. By all accounts, such ambush plans are supposed to follow one after another, and the attacks should have continued by now. But it seems they aren’t in a rush and only seem to want to trap you here for now.”
Li Changqing thought for a moment and said, “They might not be sure if I have a backup plan and want to wait and see.”
“So what are you waiting for?” Qing Chen asked again. “Apart from sending drones to search for the sniper, you aren’t making any other moves. I don’t believe that someone capable of clearing City Number 1 would just sit here and wait to die, so where’s your backup plan?”
Li Changqing smiled and said, “Do you have that much confidence in Auntie?”
She wasn’t much older than Qing Chen, but she particularly liked to tease Qing Chen by calling herself auntie.
Just then, from the dark window where Qing Chen had located the sniper, a burst of gunfire erupted.
It appeared someone in that room had thrown a grenade, killing the sniper along with it.
The sky was filled with shards of glass falling to the ground, making a crisp sound that could even be faintly heard inside the cars.
Qing Chen suddenly understood that there were staged ambushes inside the building, not just aimed at Li Changqing, but also preseted by Li Changqing’s people.
He wondered, were all battles between conglomerates so meticulously schemed?
“How many ambushes do you have in the building?” Qing Chen asked. “It can’t be many, right?”
“Why do you say that?” Li Changqing asked curiously.
“I don’t believe you could have known the exact location of the enemy’s ambush beforehand, otherwise you wouldn’t have let yourself be passively blocked here. So, I assume you’ve placed a few key people in each building along the route as sudden shock troops,” Qing Chen analyzed.
Li Changqing’s eyes lit up but he did not give a direct answer.
The next moment, as if the ambushers realized their sniper had been taken out, the cargo containers of the trucks blocking the front and back suddenly opened, and a group of soldiers dressed in black combat uniforms poured out, each carrying automatic rifles.
They started moving inwards from both sides!
The long street wasn’t spacious, and the enemy was about to completely encircle Li Changqing’s convoy.
“79 people,” Qing Chen said immediately. “There’s still an ambush in the building, so the total should be over 100.”
And they, including Old Six, were only 26 people.
Qing Chen knew Old Six was capable, but doubted even a B-Class Expert could withstand so many aimed guns.
Old Six squinted his eyes and said to Xiao Ying, “Stay in the car and protect the boss. You can die, but the boss must not.”
“Understood,” Xiao Ying nodded resolutely.
Suddenly, Old Six opened the car door, pushed off forcefully with one leg, and like a cannonball, shot out.
Seeing someone emerge from the armored vehicle, the enemy immediately opened fire on Old Six, but as he landed, he rolled and started to sprint limping along a wall as if unaffected by gravity, with bullets kicking up dust behind him!
Taking advantage of this, everyone in the convoy opened their doors, set up their weapons, and returned fire at the enemies closing in from both sides.
Xiao Ying pulled out a pistol from his side and said, “Boss, don’t be scared in the car…”
Before he had finished speaking, he turned his head and was startled to see Qing Chen stretching over the back seat to pull out a sniper rifle, then climbing over Li Changqing’s body and opening the car door on the woman’s side.
“Get out,” Qing Chen said. “I’m taking you directly into the building!”
Li Changqing thought for a moment. “But the building isn’t safe either. As you guessed, I’ve only placed one key piece here, and now that someone has risked their life to take out the sniper, they’re probably dead too.”
“It’s still better than sitting here as a sitting duck,” Qing Chen said. “The car may be bulletproof, but if Old Six and the rest can’t hold on, those thugs could just plant a bomb under the chassis and blow us sky high.”
“But Auntie isn’t as weak as you think,” Li Changqing said with a smile. “Maybe Auntie’s reinforcements are already on their way?”
“That’s even more reason to find a safe place,” Qing Chen said calmly. “On the battlefield, a moving target is always harder to hit than a stationary one. What you need to do now is get moving.”
Li Changqing, looking thoughtful, asked, “But what if I go into the building with you and you end up handing me over to the enemy? What if you’re an undercover?”
“Then do you trust me?” Qing Chen asked.
Li Changqing suddenly smiled and got out of the car, “I believe.”
As soon as his words fell, Qing Chen sprang out from behind him like a leopard and pulled him towards the building.
In the battlefield, the firepower had been completely contained by Lao Liu and the others, to the extent that when Qing Chen and Li Changqing entered the building, everyone else just reacted.
Lao Liu internally cried out worryingly; the reinforcements arranged by the boss were about to arrive, and at such a time, it would have been wiser to stay inside the bulletproof car and wait for reinforcements.
They just needed to hold out for another 10 minutes, and the reinforcements would be able to completely surround the vicinity.
The task that Li Changqing was meant to perform tonight involved using himself as bait to lure out some people with malicious intentions.
Before returning from City Number 1, he had already bought some information from Hu’s Information Agency, which indicated that a significant figure from Deer Island had clandestinely infiltrated City Number 18.