Chapter 76

"Bang! Clang! Clang!"

On the basement floor, what began as a thrilling hunt devolved into a chaotic brawl where friend and foe were indistinguishable within the music.

Chi Xia and her two companions mingled among them, silently taking down one group after another. When their ammunition was running low, they retreated in an orderly and tacit manner. This commotion caused the other people to become paranoid, and in the end, they picked up their weapons and started shooting at anyone they saw.

Anna: "What a bunch of idiots. What's so hard to see? Do they think there's a real dragon mixed in with the fish and shrimp in the music? With such trash marksmanship and brains, killing them would make me look low-class. It's as easy as chopping cabbage."

Chi Xia: "My sister Na is awesome!"

Anna hugged Chi Xia tightly, took off her gloves, and hooked her chin. "I never would have guessed that my little Xia Xia is so talented. She has 200 more than me. That's amazing!"

While the two were talking, Xin Ran took Zhao Nan's left hand, opened the armory door, and the three of them went in. The door was about to close.

"Wait a moment!"

The three of them turned around at the same time and said in unison, "Klee?"

Sure enough, Lin Keli took out a gas mask, stood at the door with her face covered in sweat, and looked at the three of them with a half-smile, saying, "I've been looking for you three for ages."

Anna smiled as she looked Lin Keli up and down, her eyes filled with amusement. Chi Xia pulled Lin Keli into the brightly lit corridor, saying, "Let's go inside and talk."

The four men did not remove their equipment, but took out gas masks and gloves before entering the armory.

As Chi Xia walked, she dialed Ye Feng's number.

"Clang! Clang clang clang!"

The sounds of fierce fighting came from Ye Feng's direction.

Chi Xia: "I'll sync my location with you, you guys come right away."

Ye Feng: "I was separated from Brother Feng by them, and I can't contact him now."

Chi Xia was originally about to throw off her gloves and go to the bar for a drink, but upon hearing this, she put her gloves back on. She wasn't wearing an earpiece for the call, so of course everyone else heard it too.

Xin Ran stuffed several useful and essential weapons into his combat uniform, picked up two AKs loaded with bullets, and tossed one to Chi Xia, "Let's go, let's go up and find them."

Lin Keli was leaning on her legs with both hands. She was sweating a lot, as if she had run several kilometers. She was out of breath and couldn't hear the whole sentence. "No way, we have to go up again?"

Chi Xia glanced at Lin Keli and Anna, "You two rest for a while and wait here for Ye Feng to come and meet us. Xin Ran and I will come down as soon as we find Feng Xu."

Anna gestured with her chin. "Be careful."

Chi Xia and Xin Ran, carrying Zhao Nan's left hand, left the armory again. As they walked, Chi Xia dialed Feng Xu's communication.

"Beep...beep...beep..."

As expected, the line was busy. Chi Xia looked at Xin Ran and asked, "Where's Xun Jiang? Where is he right now?"

Xin Ran opened her bracelet and found Xun Jiang's location. Xun Jiang was approaching this way. "He's shrewd. He set up his location with me as soon as he came down. The fighting here is fierce, so he's probably hiding and hasn't moved."

Chi Xia smiled faintly, "We should be more careful; he's just a frail doctor."

Xin Ran felt reassured as Xun Jiang drew closer. "President Feng is also frail. If he wasn't worried about you, he probably wouldn't have come down. What do you think?"

Chi Xia sighed softly, "Making trouble."

Xin Ran laughed, "That's right, they're just causing trouble, one after another they're coming down to make things worse."

The two followed the direction Xun Jiang had approached, intending to meet him first and then search for Feng Xu once they were sure he was safe. The path led like a confluence with the sea, and the view gradually widened as they ventured deeper into the territory. Strangely, however, after walking several hundred meters, they hadn't encountered a single person.

The two exchanged a glance, then tacitly slowed their pace and separated into two groups. Xin Ran walked ahead, hugging the wall, while Chi Xia followed about 50 meters away on the other side of the wall.

"drop!"

Xin Ran's bracelet vibrated, indicating that Xun Jiang was less than 50 meters away from them, but there was a right-angle turn ahead. The other end of the road was very quiet, so quiet that it didn't seem like Xun Jiang was approaching.

With both of them now on the same page, Xin Ran took out a pull-ring smoke grenade from his pocket, stopped close to the wall, exchanged a glance with Chi Xia, and then tossed the smoke grenade over.

"Bang!"

A burst of gunfire.

Xin Ran then threw another one. This time, there was no sound except for the smoke grenade rolling on the ground.

The opponent is very vigilant and is quite strong.

Xin Ran made a hand gesture, and Chi Xia followed lightly in a few steps. The two switched positions, Xin Ran took a running start, Chi Xia threw in a few bombs, and Xin Ran rushed in amidst the chaos.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

This was a deafening firefight. Chi Xia rushed in while stuffing thumb bombs between her fingers. As she went in, she quickly and accurately launched each bomb at intervals around her.

A large group of people lay in ambush in a spacious hall, their gun barrels black and firing in rapid succession. From upstairs to downstairs, like a mille-feuille cake, they were all firing wildly at the center. As soon as Xin Ran and Chi Xia entered, they immediately attacked and dodged, quickly confirming their spatial position and rolling to the base of a pillar on the opposite side.

The floor in the middle of the hall looked like popcorn, popping into pieces one after another.

“Your friend is now in our hands. If you two surrender, I can release him. Otherwise, after three shouts, he will be hung in the middle of this hall and riddled with bullets by our men.”

The man was wearing a voice changer and a megaphone, and strange mechanical sounds echoed in the hall.

While that person was rambling on, Xin Ran opened her bracelet and sent a message to Chi Xia: Break the rope.

Chi Xia: OK.

"It seems you're not as loyal and righteous as you appear, completely indifferent to the life and death of your good friends. Very well, then I won't be polite. Three!"

Chi Xia aimed her gun at the top of the hall, where smoke was billowing and rising, estimated to be twenty meters high.

"two!"

Xun Jiang, who was tied up and gagged, had appeared on the railing of the top floor. Two people were holding him up, waiting for an order to throw him down.

The man chuckled, his voice distorted by the equipment like a mechanical dog barking at home, "Good, one!"

Xun Jiang was tied up and thrown off the railing. Just how fast was Chi Xia's marksmanship?

Before those people could even pull the trigger, and before the rope binding the other end was even taut, Chi Xia had already hit the rope above Xun Jiang, and Xun Jiang plummeted vertically.

Xin Ran, like a marble, leaped and rolled out dramatically the instant the rope broke.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The sound of thousands of arrows being fired at once was so powerful that it shook up a thick layer of dust, making everyone feel as if they were in a desert.

Chi Xia moved swiftly through the hail of bullets to reach the hall exit, where she met Xin Ran, who was carrying Xun Jiang and dodging and weaving as she rushed over. Without uttering a word, the two of them each carried Xun Jiang in sections and disappeared like the wind at the exit.

"Stop! You bunch of useless trash!" The person in charge roared in fury, his voice deafening.

It's unbelievable that so many people could be hit by a single shot. How outrageous is that!

The gunfire in the hall stopped, but the lingering buzzing sound still echoed in everyone's ears. Everyone was somewhat dazed until the man realized something crucial and suddenly laughed, "Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news to announce! Those two have narrowed down their search further, placing them in the top five of the Dawn Ranking! Capture them, and the bounty will be ten billion each!"

"roar!"

After a burst of excited screams, everyone in the hall went crazy and chased after the exit where Chi Xia and her companion had disappeared.

Chi Xia and Xin Ran ran a long way before turning around and running in the opposite direction instead of towards the armory. They stopped and put Xun Jiang down when Xun Jiang couldn't stand the jolting anymore and started making "woo-woo" noises.

Xin Ran took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement after the intense activity, reached out and took Xun Jiang's bracelet, took a few steps, and tossed it into a private room for VIP guests on the basement floor.

When Xin Ran arrived, Chi Xia had already untied Xun Jiang's ropes, and with one last burst of energy, she ripped the tape off Xun Jiang's mouth, "Swish!"

"Ouch!" Xun Jiang gasped, clutching his mouth in pain. After a moment, seeing that Chi Xia and Xin Ran were alright, he breathed a sigh of relief. "Should I have come down?"

Chi Xia: "It's a bit late to ask now, Brother Xun Jiang."

Xun Jiang sighed, "I'm sorry."

Xin Ran laughed and pulled him up, handing him a convenient pistol with gentle recoil. "It was alright, it was really exciting. It was so much fun coming down. I'll come again next time."

All three of them laughed. Such a narrow escape from death would have left most people crushed in the flying dust, unable to even be glued back together.

Chi Xia pulled out her bracelet, glanced at the route, and said that she had turned on the marker when she went down to the basement. The route she had taken would quickly be drawn on the bracelet as a map. "The person who just spoke can definitely open the armory. For now, let's concentrate our firepower to open a passage, and the rest of us can go up first."

Xin Ran nodded, while Xun Jiang frowned. "What do you mean? Why did the others go up first, instead of all of us going up together?"

Chi Xia: "We can't get in touch with Feng Xu, so Xin Ran and I will stay here to find him."

Xun Jiang looked at the two of them. "Isn't there any other way?"

Xin Ran laughed, "Hey, I already revealed my strength when I saved you. President Feng will probably have a hard time getting out of here this time."

Xun Jiang: "How can you be sure he was arrested like me?"

Chi Xia dialed Feng Xu's number again.

"Hello? Xia, is that you?"

This time, they actually made it through. The three of them quickly moved towards the entrance of the passage while talking to Feng Xu.

Chi Xia: "Where are you? Why did you lose contact with me just now?"

"Ouch!" Feng Xu seemed to move slightly, then stopped in pain. "I don't know where I am. It's very dark here. The circuits must have been damaged during the firefight. I was just tracked and located, so I switched to offline mode. How about you? Are you alright?"

Chi Xia: "Are you injured?"

Feng Xu: "It seems like my left leg is broken."

Chi Xia: "Share your location with me, I'll mark it, and you'll stay offline. I'll come find you soon."

Feng Xu paused for a moment, then asked, "Xia, are you worried?"

Chi Xia was speaking into her speakerphone when the two people next to her curiously turned to look at her. Chi Xia: "..."

Feng Xu: "Are you worried about me?"

Chi Xia coughed lightly, "President Feng, you asked that at the perfect time. Don't ask again next time. Location."

After finishing her conversation, Chi Xia hung up the call. Three seconds later, she received Feng Xu's location. Chi Xia quickly marked it on her wristband map. Afraid that the other party would forget, she sent another message to tell him to go offline.

Feng Xu actually replied: Okay.

Chi Xia looked at the reply and felt a sharp pain in her head, as if she had been hit by a hammer.

Xin Ran laughed, "Go ahead, a cool beauty will save a domineering CEO."

"Shut up." Chi Xia glanced at the two of them and walked towards another fork in the road.

Xun Jiang watched Chi Xia's retreating figure and sighed, "What a deeply affectionate and domineering CEO."

Xin Ran pulled Xun Jiang into his arms. "Let's go. We don't encourage or promote domineering CEOs who prioritize love over life." He pointed to his head. "This doesn't work."