Special District 9 Chapter 124: 100 Meters of Life and Death

“Ignore Guan Qi! He has been surrounded!” a brother from the Ma Family shouted. “It’s impossible to save him anymore. You need to hurry up and get away!”

“Fuck!” Heat rushed into Old Cat’s head, and he actually turned around and tried to head back to the hostel.

“Come back!” Qin Yu bellowed. “You can’t do a thing even if you go in right now!”

A brother from the Ma Family ran over and dragged Old Cat to run away with them without caring about the latter’s protest.

Several seconds later, the group finally arrived at a fork in the alley. Yong Dong scanned the area for a moment, but he simply wasn’t familiar with the terrain here. In the end, he pointed to the distance and shouted, “There’s a hill on the left. We’ll head there!”

“Go, go!”

Receiving the approval of Old Ma and Qin Yu, the crowd immediately headed leftward.

Sprinting all the way forward, the foot of the hill was soon right ahead of them. But the following sight before them left them stunned.

Right in front of them was an alley of around 100 meters long. On the left was the back walls of a two-storey hostel, and on the right was a supermarket. Due to the tall walls, they could only run straight forward through this place. There was simply no time for them to try climbing over them.

“Fuck!” Yong Dong cursed vexedly. “Even the heavens are helping them!”

“We can’t retreat anymore! Close your eyes and charge straight forth!” Yong Dong’s friend shouted. “Let’s go!”

Everyone only hesitated for an instant before they sprinted desperately toward the end of the alley.

In the blink of an eye, just as the team led by Yong Dong had run around 20 meters, Yuan Hua, Baldie, and their men arrived here as well. When they saw the narrow alley with tall walls right before them, they were also taken aback.

“Our opportunity has come!” Baldie was the first one to react as he howled with a wave of his hand. “Ten of you, advance with me by the side of the wall! As for the rest of you, fire them from the middle!”

After saying his piece, Baldie began leading his men into the alley. He pressed his body closely against the right wall as he ran forward swiftly.

After that, he began to move to the left side of the wall in order to pursue Yong Dong’s group, but one of the men immediately stepped forward to grab him worriedly as he said, “Bro, don’t go.”

“Get lost! Don’t pull me!” Yuan Hua’s eyes had already turned crimson at this point. He flung away the hands of the brother behind him as he charged forward and shouted, “Fire!”

Bang bang bang!

There were less than ten people left at the entrance of the narrow alley, and they fired shots at the center of the path, toward those from the Ma Family.

As the gunshot sounded, two of the brothers from the Ma Family, who were at the very back of the escaping group, were shot, and one of them fell to the ground.

“Those who have guns, hold them off a little! Or else, none of us will be getting out of here alive!” Old Cat shouted as he turned around and began firing.

“Bao Long!”

“Support him!”

“…!”

It was a complete mess. There were shouts all around as those of the Ma Family tried to pull up the fallen brother, and Yong Dong’s two friends also turned around to retaliate.

“Shoot! Put your gun on the shoulder of the person in front of you and fire at them!”

Bang bang!

The enemy had far more guns, so their firepower was far greater. Yong Dong’s friends only managed to hold them back for a little before one of them was fed a bullet to the head. That person immediately fell to the ground as blood spurted all over the walls.

Meanwhile, Yuan Hua’s group took this opportunity to close the distance between them even more.

By this moment, they were less than 10 meters away from one another, and they had started firing at one another. The brother from the Ma Family who had been pulled up from the ground earlier suffered several more bullets and fell to the ground yet again.

“I’m here to capture your head!” Yuan Hua roared. “Those who are just working for them, if you put down your guns right now, I can let you leave safely!”

At the front of the group, after Old Ma saw that someone had already collapsed, he pushed Qin Yu forward and shouted, “Run straight ahead, I’ll stop them!”

“You won’t be able to stop them!” Qin Yu shouted as he grabbed Old Ma’s arms. “You’ll just be leaping to your death. Continue running ahead!”

At the same time, Old Cat also pushed Old Ma forward as he bellowed with reddened eyes, “If you survive today, it’ll be them who’ll be paying with their lives tomorrow. Don’t stop! Continue running!”

Before the fallen brother of the Ma Family could get up again and run, Yuan Hua’s group had already caught up with him.

“Stop moving, throw away your gun!”

“Raise your hand up!”

“…!”

The men from two sides of the wall shouted as they shoved their guns at him.

“Fuck you all! I’ll be dead if I get captured by you anyway!” The brother of the Ma Family abruptly raised his gun and pulled the trigger.

Bang bang bang!

A gunfight at close distance was bound to be bloody and callous. Baldie suffered a bullet to his left arm, but the brother of the Ma Family was shot dozens of times in return. With his eyes still glaring at those around him, he breathed his last.

“Don’t bother about him, advance ahead!” Yuan Hua shouted as he continued rushing forward.

With his body pressed against the wall, Baldie clutched onto the wound on his left shoulder and gasped for air as he muttered, “Something is wrong.”

“What is wrong?” a subordinate beside him asked.

“Don’t you think it’s weird?” Baldie asked with sweat dripping from his forehead. “Have any of you seen Xing Zihao?”

Everyone froze in place.

“Yeah, you’re right. I don’t think I saw Xing Zihao amongst them!”

“He’s definitely not in front. He didn’t escape together with Old Ma and the others.”

“…!”

Those words made Baldie’s face turn ghastly white. He murmured worriedly, “Let’s hope that he has been left behind in Fengbei, or else… Those who aren’t injured, hurry up and chase them!”

After that slight pause, everyone continued rushing forward.

…

A 100 meters long alley, but within less than thirty seconds, Qin Yu’s side had already lost half of their people.

The foot of the hill was already right before them, but their guns had hardly any bullets anymore. It was with the tenacity to live on that they charged out of the alley.

Di ling ling!

While they were running, Qin Yu’s phone rang. He shook his head as he growled with a voice so hoarse that it sounded like his throat had been ripped apart, “Uncle Ma, the phone. Answer the phone for me!”

Uncle Ma quickly fumbled for Qin Yu’s pocket and pulled out his phone. But before he could receive the call, the other party had already hung up.

“What’s wrong? Should I call back?” Old Ma asked.

“No need for that… He has already seen us…!” Qin Yu replied hoarsely as he gasped for air. “Run toward the hill. As long as we get to the forest, we’ll be able to survive…”

“Who saw us?!” Old Cat asked anxiously as hee ran behind them.

…

Along the main road of Wengnan Replenishment Stop, there was a signage that wrote ‘Wish you a pleasant journey’ placed on the right side of the road.

A jeep stopped by the road, and two young lads wearing a thick woolen shirt and breeches got off. Stepping on the snow with their leather boots, they began rushing in the direction of the hill with a meter long sacks on their backs.

In the car, the young man seated on the passenger seat lifted his walkie-talkie as he asked, “The sound of the gunshots has been moving. Can you hear them?”

“The gunshots are currently at our 5 o’clock, presumably around the foot of the hill,” a person replied through the walkie-talkie. “The gunshots seem to be clustered together, so they were probably firing at one another earlier. However, it seems more like a one-sided chase. Their strength should be around 20, but a number of them appear to be firing from a fixed location.”

“Don’t move first, wait for the tail!” the young man instructed with a frown.

“OK!” a static voice sounded through the walkie-talkie before the other party replied.

The young man in the jeep pointed to his right side and said, “Off the lights and drive over there.”

“The engine is quite loud. Is it safe for us to get that close?” the driver asked.

“The gunshots of the pursuers sound quite erratic, so I reckon that they are just street thugs or something,” the young man replied with a shake of his head. “Those bunch of people are nothing at all. We can just go right in and get rid of them!”

At the same time.

Over at the alley, Yuan Hua, Baldie, and the others had finally reached the end of the alley too. Standing by the side of the road, they raised their guns and fired at Qin Yu’s group.

Bang bang!

While running to take cover, Old Cat tripped on a stone and fell to the ground.

Qin Yu unhesitatingly turned around and pulled him over to take cover behind a massive boulder.

Bang bang bang!

A rain of bullets arrived right afterward. Old Cat had successfully gotten behind the shoulder by then, but Qin Yu suffered yet another shot to his back, causing blood to gush out.

“Qin Yu!” Old Cat howled with widened eyes.

In the car, the young man vaguely heard Old Cat’s shout, so he immediately picked up his walkie-talkie and asked, “Who was he shouting for?”

“Qin Yu!”

“Those bunch of fuckers!” the young man bellowed. “Sweep the area and find the place where the shout came from. Hurry up!”