Chapter 540: Battle
Xiao Luo trudged along the streets of Brewer City, a place now in complete ruin. Occasionally, the voices of Evil Dragon and Skeleton could be heard over the walkie-talkie, checking with their compatriots about the situation. Based on the replies he got and their conversations, Xiao Luo could triangulate the calls and roughly locate where Khun Sa was hiding.
On the other hand, Sarah Mich.e.l.le wasn’t as a.s.sured walking alongside Xiao Luo. Of course, she was not as courageous as him and didn’t feel safe walking on these streets in a city where a demonic mercenary could appear at any given moment. Besides, there was still a sniper that was hiding somewhere. Wouldn’t they be sitting ducks if the sniper realized that they were just imposters?
“Mr. Mie, I strongly advise that we leave Brewer City as soon as we can. This place is too dangerous, and the chances of us running into Khun Sa’s mercenaries is very high.”
Sarah kept looking left and right and was really anxious for their safety. Xiao Luo’s casual demeanor really shocked her–from putting on the rebel’s outfit and carrying their equipment to having the guts to amble down the street. This guy was a madman!
The consummate professional he was, Xiao Luo couldn’t be too bothered about this woman’s feelings. “Well, I’m not stopping you. If you want to leave, then please go ahead!” he said.
A confused Sarah asked, “Didn’t you come here to rescue me?”
“Before I do that, I’ve got to kill Khun Sa first,” Xiao Luo said.
“Do you have a grudge against Khun Sa?”
“Yes.”
“Mr. Mie, I…”
“Can you just shut up?”
Xiao Luo turned his head around and glared at her. Sarah was going on and on with her questions, and it was beginning to annoy him.
Sarah immediately clammed her mouth shut, looking at him in distress, and nodded her head.
Finally enjoying some peace and silence, Xiao Luo lifted his head up and looked at a row of low-rise buildings just up ahead. He thought about it for a bit and decided to walk in that direction. Xiao Luo chose a unit in the building which gave him an uninterrupted view of the street and set up the rifle rest for his high-precision weapon. He checked to see how much ammunition he had left and was pleased to note that there were more than two hundred rounds, which should be more than enough.
“Just stay in one corner.”
Xiao Luo urged Sarah, and then added, “Don’t say anything, ok?”
“Ok, Mr. Mie, don’t worry about it, I won’t disturb you,” Sarah replied, nodding her head.
Xiao Luo adjusted his voice, then switched on the walkie-talkie, and spoke in Lynx’s voice. “Lynx to Team Leader Evil Dragon! Lynx toTeam Leader Evil Dragon! I’ve located the target–they’re at twelve o’clock from where I’m positioned. Hyena is injured, please provide support, please provide support!”
“Lynx, stay there! Don’t act recklessly–we’ll be there soon!” Evil Dragon’s voice could be heard over the walkie-talkie.
“Roger that!”
Xiao Luo turned off the walkie-talkie and waited patiently for his prey to show up like a poisonous snake poised for the strike.
Sarah was shocked and thought to herself, this guy is seriously thinking about getting rid of Khun Sa mercenaries!
She had a.s.sumed that Xiao Luo was just talking about it.
A little later, two mercenaries and a huge wolfdog appeared in his sights. Xiao Luo finished them off with three shots to their head, sending them and the dog to meet their Maker.
“Six of them.”
A smirk could be noticed at the corner of his mouth, and then he turned around to look at Sarah, “How many people did you say they had with them? Each mercenary group has twenty members, so two groups would mean forty. Including Khun Sa, the total would add up to forty-one, right?”
Sarah nodded her head. “That’s correct, Mr. Mie!” she replied.
“Didn’t your bodyguards try to fight them off when they tried to protect you? You mean they failed to even kill one of them?” Xiao Luo asked.
Sarah kept her head down, saddened at the thought. “Yes, they failed to kill even one. Khun Sa’s Mercenary Corps have unbelievable combat skills, and my bodyguards were no match for them. There was nothing much they could do in the face of their prowess and superior firepower,” she said.
Their prowess and superior firepower?
Xiao Luo furrowed his eyebrows and refrained from saying anything else.
Xiao Luo wasn’t aware that Sarah was already treating him as if he was G.o.d. In her eyes, the difference between Khun Sa’s powerful mercenary corps and this man from the Hua Nation was like comparing a child with an adult. She found it hard to imagine that if America and Hua Nation fought one day, what could the American soldiers bring out to compete with the Hua Nation soldiers? Advanced weapons? Stop daydreaming! Hua Nation’s weapon technology was not too far behind their own, and in certain aspects, they might actually even be more advanced than theirs!
…
Why did their men keep getting killed? Evil Dragon and Skeleton noticed that something didn’t seem right and hurriedly raised their concerns to Khun Sa.
“Eight casualties and all of them were around where Lynx is? What is going on here?” Khun Sa, who was in a jeep, furrowed his brows.
Evil Dragon nodded respectfully. “According to what Lynx had said, Mie is back, and all eight of them were killed by Mie,” he answered.
Khun Sa chuckled as he thought out loud and said, “How did he know that his opponent was Mie? If he was able to spot Mie but was Mie not able to spot him, why didn’t he just finish him off?”
“Boss, are you suspecting Lynx? But I’m sure that was Lynx’s voice–there was no way it could’ve been Mie,” Evil Dragon said.
Khun Sa raised his hand and cut him off. “I’m not suspecting his ident.i.ty, but I’m sure he’s betraying us,” he said.
Evil Dragon and Skeleton glanced at one another. Since their boss had said that Lynx was a traitor, then he must be betraying them. Khun Sa had never ever made a wrong judgment, and when it came to traitors, they hated them to the core.
“Hurry up and rush to where Lynx was at. I don’t care if it’s Mie or Lynx, whoever you find there, just kill them!” Khun Sa pulled on his cigar smoke and then exhaled the smoke out from his nose.
“Understood.”
Evil Dragon and Skeleton replied.
…
Mercenaries from all over received Evil Dragon and Skeleton’s order and slowly headed toward Xiao Luo’s last known location.
After a while, Xiao Luo had a nagging feeling that something was not quite right. The walkie-talkie chatter had suddenly gone quiet.
“It’s about time we leave.”
Xiao Luo packed up the ammunition and his rifle and got ready to leave with Sarah.
But at that moment, he detected a familiar sound–the whump of mortar rounds! A salvo of mortar sh.e.l.ls was screaming in their direction, and before he knew it, they smashed into the top of the building they are at.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
It was a relentless barrage as sh.e.l.ls landed with violent explosions nearby, and the walls of the apartment unit collapsed one after another. Debris and falling concrete beams came cras.h.i.+ng down as the entire building unit started crumbling.
Xiao Luo rushed toward Sarah and threw himself over her immediately. They were crouched on the floor, and Xiao Luo took the brunt of falling debris and was slightly injured.
Before he could even get up, a sniper bullet fired from an L115A3 sniper rifle penetrated through multiple obstructions and flew toward him. There was no time for Xiao Luo to avoid it, and he instantly raised his palms out.
ROAR!
A force emanated from his hand with the roar of a dragon, as Xiao Luo placed his palm in the trajectory of the incoming bullet. Bricks and debris swirled around in a tornado above him, and Xiao Luo used the same force that changed the course of a mortar sh.e.l.l to slow the speeding bullet, although he couldn’t stop it completely stop it.
THUD!
The shot went right through Xiao Luo’s left shoulder, and blood splattered on the wall behind him.
“Mr. Mie!” Sarah cried. She was so shocked that her eyes were wide open.
“Lie down and don’t move!”
Xiao Luo shouted at her and tried to ignore the pain in his left shoulder. He quickly rushed toward the balcony and aimed his sniper rifle at the thermal sensor mounted on the rail above the L115A3 sniper rifle.
BANG!
The sniper bullet flew out of the muzzle, carrying a potent destructive force within it as it streaked through the air, and it instantly shattered the thermal sensor.
“Oh, sh*t!”
The look on Evil Dragon’s face changed. He pulled the bolt back to chamber a cartridge and continued to engage in a sniping battle against Xiao Luo. All the other mercenaries pointed their guns toward the balcony and fired in unison.