Seeing that the fire suppression had been effective and the gunfire inside the house had temporarily drowned out the shouts outside, Qin Ye decisively waved his hand and shouted in a low voice, "Cease fire!"
Although the Tibetan men behind him were bloodthirsty, they had developed an instinctive sense of trust in the steady man before them, and immediately stopped firing.
Qin Ye took a deep breath of the icy air, and with all his might, his voice boomed like a bell, piercing through the dilapidated wooden door and the howling wind and snow: "Listen up, those in charge outside! Your men have been captured! Put down your weapons immediately, I'll only talk to your leader!"
The moment those words were spoken, the outside fell silent for a moment.
Outside the granary, the bandit leader Wang Kui's fierce face twitched suddenly.
He had initially thought they were just a bunch of lambs to the slaughter, unlikely to cause any trouble, but the sudden fierce resistance and Qin Ye's shouts made his heart skip a beat.
When did such a tough nut to crack appear in this village?
"Brother Kui, this kid is just bluffing at us, don't believe him!" a one-eyed thug said as he approached.
Wang Kui was also worried. His group was made up of desperados, none of them were willing to submit to anyone else, and they were kept in check only by his gun and ruthlessness. If his men thought he was backing down, the team would be difficult to manage.
"Shut up, all of you!" Wang Kui roared, silencing the crowd's murmurs. He decided to personally confront this tough nut.
He walked up to the wooden door riddled with bullet holes and roared gruffly, "I am Shan Kui! How do you want to talk?"
Inside the door, Qin Ye's lips curled into a cold smile.
The so-called negotiation was nothing more than a smokescreen to buy time for Su Tang.
"It's very simple." Qin Ye's voice was calm and unhurried, carrying an undeniable sense of pressure.
“Give us food and a way to leave safely. Otherwise, the brothers in your house will be dead.”
"Bullshit!" Wang Kui cursed. "Do you think I'm a three-year-old? We gave you the grain and cleared the way, what are we brothers supposed to eat? Starve?"
"That's your problem," Qin Ye said calmly. "I'll give you ten minutes to think it over. After ten minutes, for every minute you hesitate, I'll send one of your brothers on their way. You can gamble on whether your gun is faster or my knife is faster."
These words were ruthless and confident, making Wang Kui's eyelids twitch. Although he was ruthless and didn't care about the lives of his men, Qin Ye's words struck a nerve—he couldn't show indifference to his brothers' lives in front of everyone.
"Brother Kui, don't listen to him, that bastard is definitely cheating!"
"Yeah, Brother Kui, we outnumber them and have more guns, let's just charge in and wipe them all out!"
His men started making a fuss again.
Wang Kui was agitated and felt like he was being roasted over a fire.
If we talk, it will make us seem scared; if we don't talk, and the other side really kills those guys, our morale will collapse.
Twenty minutes passed in this standoff between the two armies.
Neither side was willing to give in.
Wang Kui's patience finally ran out, and he chose the most direct and foolish method: "Get the guns ready! Blow this damn door open! I'm going to snap his neck with my own hands!"
"Da da da da—!"
The machine gun, already prepared, spat out its deadly fire, a dense barrage of bullets sweeping towards the wooden door like a storm. Wood chips flew everywhere, and the entire compartment shook.
"Fire!" Qin Ye roared, and he and the Tibetan men behind him, using the grain sacks as cover, immediately opened fire in return!
Gunshots, roars, and the whistling of bullets mingled together, and the small cubicle instantly transformed into a brutal battlefield.
But Qin Ye's goal was never to waste time with this rabble.
His eyes, like those of an eagle, were fixed on Wang Kuina's most robust figure outside the door.
Just as the two sides were locked in the fiercest exchange of fire, and everyone's attention was drawn to them, Qin Ye made his move!
His body was like a cheetah that had been poised for a long time, and he suddenly rushed out from a gap in the wall that had just been swept open by gunfire on the side!
"Protect Brother Kui!"
The two closest thugs reacted and lunged at Qin Ye with their machetes raised.
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