Shadow Empire

Chapter 418 Two Left
How do you choose between killing the enemy leader or saving your own leader?
This is a very complicated issue. Some people choose to continue hunting down the other party's leader, while others choose to save their boss.

After all, saving the boss's life is far more likely to win the boss's favor than killing the other leader.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief when the gunmen from Yalan started to fight back and pulled him out of the car.

In this extremely short period of time, he made a decision to go back to the hotel.

There are many rooms in the hotel, unlike here where the space is so spacious. As long as he guards a corridor or a stairwell, he can save his life.

Rick has also experienced this kind of battle. Before he showed the ability to inherit the family, he was just a captain and had to go to "work" frequently.

He didn't know how long he hadn't been in such an environment. The illusion brought about by the adrenaline rush made him feel like he could rush out with a gun and kill everyone.

His mind told him that he was not cut out for this.

But this road was not so easy to walk on. The firepower around him was too fierce. He didn't know how many enemies there were, but he knew that those who were protecting him were constantly dying, so much so that he needed to pick up a pistol from the ground and start trying to fight back.

The whole process probably took about three or four minutes. The sound of gunfire finally subsided a lot. Rick, hiding behind a car and gasping for breath, looked a little desperate.

He watched helplessly as a gunman in front of him used the car as cover to shoot, and in less than five seconds, he fell to the ground with several bullet holes on his face.

At this moment, he thought of his son, and a fear grew from the deepest part of his heart and began to spread...

He panicked, pushing away the gunman who fell on him like a woman in panic, and told himself to find a way to escape back to the hotel.

It was clearly only a distance of twenty or thirty meters, but this distance seemed like a bottomless abyss that was constantly swallowing up people's lives.

One of the gunmen struggled and fell to the ground. This guy had the slightly darker skin color that was unique to the Yalan people, and his skin was very rough.

There were some pimples on his face and he looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old. He just stared at Rick, his shoulders shrugged, and then he began to vomit blood.

In a matter of seconds, he seemed to lose consciousness.

At this moment, revenge, dignity, and the two emperors are not as important as life!

He regretted it a little, but it was too late.

Several dark shadows with their backs lit appeared behind him. He turned around to look at those people. The sun was right above their heads, so he could only squint.

He couldn't see these people's faces clearly, he could only see their cold eyes. Just as he was about to say something, gunshots rang out.

So this is what it feels like to be shot.

He slowly fell to the ground leaning against the tire. Just now, he felt countless fists falling on his body, but strangely, it didn't hurt at all.

Then he felt his strength was slipping away and he had a severe panic attack.

If a doctor were here, he would tell Rick that this was a near-death experience.

These are the last signals sent by a living thing before death, and these signals are telling his brain to think of a solution.

If you can find a way, the feeling of dying will disappear.

If he can't figure out a solution, then it will disappear.

Because the dead have no feelings.

The brain deprivation caused by blood loss made the world in front of his eyes begin to darken. When he was about to lose consciousness, a young man came to him.

He had seen that young man before, and his name seemed to be...Lance.

Yes, Lance White, a small role.

He watched as Lance nodded at him, and then the gunmen around him surrounded him, drowning him in bullets in an instant.

What he didn't see was that behind Lance, there were two other people, Alberto and Francisco.

Francisco looked at Rick, who had been beaten into a honeycomb, with a little disbelief. He couldn't believe that this man, who had brought huge losses to the family and even Paul's death was partly due to him, had died on this street, in the sun.

Blood spread out from under his body, and Francisco suddenly felt a little sad and a little relieved.

The gunfire continued in the distance, with some gunmen still attacking Salifo.

"It's over," Alberto let out a breath. He glanced at Lance and noticed that Lance was looking at the block in another direction.

"Salifu is not a good person. You may not believe it, but Bandy has come to me."

Lance's eyes shifted to Alberto's face, "What did he want with you?"

"He said that Salifo said that we were the ones who killed Rick's son, and he asked us to stay out of this matter."

Lance had a very special expression on his face, "It's actually not over yet!"

Under Alberto's confused gaze, Lance called over the braided Hiram and whispered something in his ear. Then he called for his men to run towards Sarifor.

Alberto was a little confused, "You want to save him?"

Lance shook his head, "I'm just afraid he won't die."

Then, under Alberto's astonished gaze, he also ran over there.

Sarifu was shot twice in the leg. He suspected that the two shots were not fired by Rick's men, but by people on his side, because when he was shot, it was impossible for him to be shot in the leg at that position. It could only be from behind.

But saying this now will not only fail to solve the problem, but may also cause some unnecessary trouble, so he has been encouraging everyone to continue resisting, and reinforcements will be here soon.

There weren't many people left on his side. They were lucky. The car crashed into a roadside shop. Then they gathered some people and stayed here. Even if there were many people on the opposite side, it would be difficult for them to rush in.

He is a little panicked now. These gunmen of Yalan are so damn fierce. They fight without caring about their lives.

He was afraid that his men would not be able to take care of Rick, and he was also worried that they would not be able to withstand the attack of the gunmen outside.

And they don't have many bullets left.

This is a very despairing thing, but suddenly, a burst of fierce gunfire rang out outside, and then it seemed that all the gunfire stopped, and it was quiet in an instant!

A look of surprise appeared on Sarifu's face. He shouted loudly, "Who's outside?"

"It's me, Lance!"

"Are you ok?"

"Can you get out by yourself?"

Sarifu breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and a smile from the heart appeared on his face.

Lance's arrival means Rick has been taken out and he is safe.

Just as he was about to stand up, severe pain began to attack him and he fell to the ground all of a sudden, causing him to cry out in pain.

"What's wrong with you? Do you need help?"

"Yes, I was shot, and this car... is a bit of a hindrance. Can you help me get out of here?"

"sure……"

Soon, Lance and the others walked in. There were only five people left in the store, and a few of them were lying on the floor, probably asleep.

This is the good thing about young people: no matter where they are or whether there is noise or not, they can just fall asleep immediately.

Lance's eyes fell on Sarifor's thigh. The wound was not fatal. If it was fatal, he would not have survived until now.

For some reason, Sarifu suddenly felt something was wrong, because these people did not come over to help him up or drive the car away, but just stood there and looked at them.

He forced a smile, a very forced smile, and he was extremely nervous!
"Lance, you guys..." Lance asked with a smile, "I heard you told Bendy that it was Alberto and I who killed Rick's son?"

At that moment, Sarifu knew where the problem lay, and he also understood that Bandy and Rick were in cahoots, and they set up a trap to harm him!

That's why they revealed to Lance and Alberto that he was the one who leaked the news so that they would not help him.

But he never expected that Lance and the others would not only come in, but also want to kill him.

"Let me explain..." His brain started working at an unprecedented speed. He had never used so much effort in his life!

The people around him also looked at him as if he were a madman. They couldn't understand what Salifo did.

At this time, betraying your allies, are you really crazy?!

The very actions he wanted to explain showed that these were what he did.

Lance raised the pistol in his hand and pulled the trigger at Sarifo, who was lying on the ground with one hand covering his wound. "Go to heaven and explain to God!"

Sarifo, with his eyes wide open, looked at Lance and the others, but his mind was not completely blank -

Bandy, that son of a bitch!
The gunshot was like a signal, and the survivors in the room were shot to pieces in an instant, including Sarifu.

There seemed to be a "why" lingering in his mouth that he wanted to ask Lance, and his eyes were full of confusion at the last moment.

Lance noticed two girls in the corner. They were so scared that they had wet their pants and were shaking violently.

Lance looked at them, his tone was light, gentle even!
"You haven't seen us. He was killed by the gunmen outside. The gunmen killed them and left. Remember?"

The two girls could only nod and tremble at the same time. It was not difficult to tell from their faces that they themselves did not expect that they could survive!
Lance smiled brightly and gave them a very federal military salute, which is commonly seen in movies. Then he stepped on the building debris on the ground and led his people out of the store.

The police quickly blocked the entire street, and the mayor, who was lying on the hospital bed, was also alarmed and rushed to the scene. However, there was no anger or other emotions on his face, only calmness, and even a hint of a smile.

Although his future is ruined, he can still smile because of these people's misfortune. Perhaps this is the most true portrayal of "no appeal, no fatal weakness"!
In fact, when the police arrived, they saw Lance and Alberto's convoy. However, based on a strict legal attitude, they would not stop the convoy before there was sufficient evidence, and they would not unreasonably suspect that the people in the car had any connection with the gunfight just now.

The results of the gunfight in the city center spread throughout the city within twenty minutes, and after thirty minutes, even the governor had heard about it.

The Tita family and the Cassia family, two of the five major families, were engaged in a gunfight on the main road outside the Golden City Century Hotel in the city center.

It is rumored that Salif had previously killed Rick's son, which may be the reason for the escalation of the conflict.

A total of more than seventy gangster bodies were found at the scene, and according to eyewitnesses, a large number of people fled the scene.

Among the bodies they found was that of Rick Cassiar, the head of the Cassiar family.

And the body of Sarifu Tita, the head of the Tita family.

This news shocked the entire Jingang City and even Likalai State. Later, news came out that the two had negotiated at the Jincheng Century Hotel before the fight. It was said that Bandy also participated in the negotiations...

When Bandy heard the news, his hands trembled and the coffee spilled on his legs. He wondered for a moment whether he would be killed if he left too late.

Because there was obviously another group of people at the scene. Who were they and why did they do this?
So much so that he began to doubt, did Rick and Salifor really die in a gunfight?

But there was no point in thinking about it now, so Hunter called him and asked him to go to the police station to talk.

Such a big thing happened, and although they did find two people who could take on all the problems, the necessary procedures still had to be followed.

When Bandy traveled, there was a lot of fanfare. Hunter, who was meeting him at the police station entrance, couldn't help but frowned, "I thought you were going to attack the police station."

Bendy shook his head and said nothing. He was just uneasy.

Whether it was Rick or Sarifu, they were once representative figures of the top forces in Jingang City.

Now they were all dead suddenly, which gave him a very bad feeling.

In just one year, Paul died, Rick and Salif died, and only he and Fergal were left from the "old times".

He hadn't felt this way before, but now, he did.

It's like a huge storm is about to hit the city, and some signs have appeared!
Although traveling with so many people might be a little...embarrassing, it's better than losing your life.

"Isn't this Charlie's room?" Bandy, who was sitting opposite the desk, felt a little strange. In his memory, Charlie's office was not in this location.

Hunter didn't answer his question, but the answer was "yes", this was not Charlie's office, and he did not continue to use Charlie's office, but chose a new one.

Although there is nothing wrong with doing so, it more or less reflects some of his personal wishes.

He placed his hands on the table naturally, "You already know why I asked you to come here, can you tell me what happened?"

Bendy crossed his legs and put his hands on the armrests of the chair. He looked a little nervous and was trying hard to hide it. "There are some conflicts and contradictions between them. I want to help them mediate."

"You know, the city's security is getting worse and worse. As a member of Jingang City, I also hope to be able to return to its previous state as soon as possible."

"I arranged for them to meet at the outdoor cafe of the Golden Century Hotel. We talked for a while, but the talks fell apart."

"Neither of them was willing to let go of their hatred. I saw that I couldn't convince them, so I left first."

"And then what happened, I still listened to you, I know as much as you know, or even less than you know."

Hunter stared at Bandy, as if trying to find some signs of lying on his face, but he obviously failed.

After a brief silence, he asked, "Tell me something you know."

Bandy chose to say some of the things he could say, but these things were of no value and it didn't matter if they were said.

After listening to those complicated and meaningless things, Hunter finally waved his hand and said, "You'd better say it as you said. It has nothing to do with this matter."

After a period of sorting out his state and talking, Bandy's mood recovered a lot. He frowned slightly and said, "Charlie doesn't dare to talk to me like this."

His meaning was very clear. Hunter was just Charlie's subordinate. Who did he think he was? How dare he talk to him like that?

Hunter shook his head slightly. "I just want to know what happened and catch the criminal as soon as possible."

"If you don't want to say it, you don't have to."

Bandy's eyes suddenly flickered. "I suddenly thought of something. Recently, Salifo has been very close to the people of the Pasretto family, Alberto, and Lance White. Maybe they know something."

Hunter wrote this down. "I'll investigate them. Are there any other valuable clues?"

Bendy shook his head. "No more."

Hunter knew that he could not get anything out of it, and this was just a formality. He stood up and held out his hand. "Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Kodak. If you think of any valuable clues, please call me anytime, anywhere."

Bandy nodded, turned and left. Hunter walked him to the door of the police station and watched him leave in the car.

If this gunfight had happened at night or in a remote area, it could have been easily resolved.

However, with a fierce gunfight in the city center in broad daylight, the case would surely spread quickly. If he did nothing, it would be tantamount to giving the mayor an excuse to remove him from his position.

Even though he had already decided to make this case a "both parties died in the gunfight" case, he still had to try his best to do what he should do.

When he heard that the case involved Lance, he had some new ideas.

Lance is challenging his and Charlie's base, and now police officers from many police stations are discussing the "profit sharing" issue between the Imperial District and the Port District.

They have a special debt collection company, and then give each police officer in the jurisdiction an additional legal income, which is still very attractive among the police.

After all, the money is clean and they have no burden to use it, let alone worry that they will have problems because of the money one day in the future.

And once the profit-sharing model is implemented, they will no longer be able to do without Lance.

For Hunter and Richard, whose base is the police, this is tantamount to challenging their bottom line!
(End of this chapter)