Chapter 1 The Outskirts

On the road outside Maka Village, more than a dozen pickup trucks sped towards the sound of gunfire.

Inside one of the trucks, a young man of twenty-two or three, wearing camouflage and a cigarette dangling from his lips, said softly, "Hurry up, the terrain around here isn't complicated. They can't run far."

"Damn it, Xu Hu's informant is useless. He was supposed to call, but he leaked it early," someone in the passenger seat cursed.

"Hurry!" the young man urged. His name was Xue Pengyu, and he was a member of the Xue family, active in Dragon City and the surrounding District One.

The Xue family had only emerged in recent years, mainly dealing in gold bricks. They had many gold brick processing plants in war zones, as well as their own armed force. They were the new supply channel that Xu Hu had found.

To expand their business and quickly seize the market, the Xue family set extremely low prices. As long as Xu Hu asked for something that wasn't too excessive, the Xue family would agree.

Most of Dragon City's goods came by sea, so to take over this lucrative market, they needed to cooperate with the dock gangs. Among them, Xu Hu was the most eager to cooperate, so the Xue family strongly supported him.

Xue Pengyu was one of the core members of the Xue family. He was in charge of a factory in the Sierra Sinaloa mountains, which allowed him to bring forty-odd people to the outskirts of Dragon City so quickly.

...

More than a dozen pickup trucks sped towards Maka Village and soon met Cheng Gang, who was shouting on the road.

The other trucks continued to chase, but Xue Pengyu's truck stopped by the roadside. He lowered the window and asked Cheng Gang, "Are you the informant?"

"Yes, hurry and chase them. You must catch Wei Xiangzuo, or we're in trouble if he gets away," Cheng Gang said. He and Wei Xiangzuo had been brothers for nearly a decade, sharing hardships and difficulties, and could definitely be considered comrades in arms. But at this moment, he hoped more than anyone that Wei Xiangzuo wouldn't survive the night.

"Get in," Xue Pengyu said.

Cheng Gang stepped into the car and added, "Also, someone from the Yu family is here too. If you catch him, you can completely pin the blame on Wei Xiangzuo for colluding with the Yu family and killing Old Gu. Then they won't be able to turn the tables!"

Xue Pengyu raised his eyebrows and asked, "The Yu family is here too?!"

"Yes, they're here," Cheng Gang nodded, "But only one person."

Xue Pengyu threw away his cigarette and urged again, "Drive faster, I want to catch the Yu family's man myself. Those bastards have no rules, bringing Zhou Yaoxiang from District One to invest in Dragon City. That's disrupting the market!"

Thirty seconds later, Cheng Gang borrowed Xue Pengyu's phone and dialed Xu Hu's number.

After a brief exchange, Cheng Gang handed the phone to Xue Pengyu, "He wants to talk to you."

"Hello?" Xue Pengyu took the phone.

"Listen carefully, Wei Xiangzuo needs to be caught, but the Yu family's man is even more important! As long as they're both caught, then as far as the dock gangs are concerned, Gu Tongshan must have been killed by them, understand?! " Xu Hu roared excitedly, "The dock gangs follow the rules. Only with solid evidence will no one help them or speak for them."

"I understand," Xue Pengyu replied before hanging up.

...

About five or six minutes later, Xue's family's motorcade had completely locked onto Su Tianyu's off-road vehicle, and the distance between them was constantly closing.

The terrain around Dragon City was very simple. Because many areas on the left and right were war zones, there were no dense buildings or villages nearby, only forests, mountains, and various lakes and rivers.

Maka Village was too small. Su Tianyu and the others were trapped inside and had no chance of escape, so they could only run outwards. But the terrain outside was too simple, the roads were straight, and once the car drove out, there was nowhere to hide.

Su Tianyu glanced at the rearview mirror and asked urgently, "How many bullets are left in the guns?!"

"Not many," Xiao Feng replied in a low voice, "We used almost all of them at Dragon Bridge."

"Damn it!" Su Tianyu cursed and pulled out his phone.

"Da-da-da...!"

From behind, gunshots rang out, and sparks flew from the rear of the car.

Xiao Feng lowered his head and shouted, "They're catching up!"

Su Tianyu gasped and clutched the phone, waiting for three seconds before asking, "Where are you?!"

"East to west, about to enter Maka," the other side replied.

"Don't come, go to the mountains, quickly!" Su Tianyu replied, "I'm about to be caught, abandoning the car soon, listen for the gunshots."

"Got it."

"There are a lot of people, more than a dozen cars," Su Tianyu reminded.

"Okay." The other side replied without any emotional fluctuations, "Don't hang up."

"Screech!"

Hearing this, Su Tianyu slammed on the brakes, driving the off-road vehicle directly to the foot of the mountains on the left, "Get out, get out!"

Hearing this, everyone rushed out of the off-road vehicle. Wei Xiangzuo, holding a gun, shot towards the rear, while Su Tianyu, about to run, turned his head and saw Lao Gao still lying in the car.

"Take him, take him with you," Xiao Feng shouted to Su Tianyu, pleading as he fired his gun towards the rear.

"Damn it!"

Su Tianyu cursed, bent down, dragged Lao Gao out of the car, and carried him up the mountain.

Xiao Feng and Wei Xiangzuo fired a few shots towards the rear before fleeing into the forest on the mountain.

"Screech, screech!"

The Xue family's men arrived at Su Tianyu's abandoned car in less than ten seconds. Xue Pengyu jumped out of the car and said succinctly, "Catch them all, don't let one get away!"

As soon as he finished speaking, more than forty people jumped out of the pickup trucks. They were all wearing camouflage uniforms, bulletproof vests, and armed to the teeth with M-series automatic rifles and P-series pistols.

The situation inside and outside the District was completely different. Families like this, active in war zones and dealing in life-and-death business, almost all had private armed forces, or cooperated with them. Otherwise, they definitely couldn't survive.

More than forty people, holding guns, swarmed into the dense forest.

Su Tianyu, supporting Lao Gao in front, deliberately kept a certain distance from Wei Xiangzuo and the others. He really wanted to save them, but he also didn't want to die, so he was avoiding the main force of the pursuers.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Su Tianyu ran to the side, more than a dozen people chased after him, clinging to him tightly.

"Damn it, these people want to kill me!" Even a fool like Su Tianyu could understand the other side's motive, so he could only desperately flee into the mountains.

Running uphill with a person was already extremely exhausting. In addition, the other side all had guns, so even Su Tianyu, who was in very good shape, felt exhausted after running for a hundred meters.

"Bang!"

Just as Su Tianyu slowed down and felt weak, a Xue family gunman fired a shot that hit Su Tianyu's left thigh.

The burning pain, coupled with the feeling of exhaustion, caused Su Tianyu to stumble and fall to the ground.

Behind him, a group of more than a dozen people was less than sixty meters away from Su Tianyu.