The sound of the vehicles crashing carried far into the night.
The other party came on aggressively, and Liu Yu's car was thrown two meters away, its rear end hitting the front of my car.
I wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and my body lurched forward, hitting the steering wheel. Because it aggravated an old injury, I was in so much pain that I couldn't move.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw several figures wielding sticks rushing to Liu Yu's car and beginning to smash it.
"Bang!"
A man slammed a stick at the car in front of him and pointed behind him: "Don't just circle around one car, go to the back!"
Hearing the man shout, Song Laosan, who was in the passenger seat, reached out and shoved me: "Xiao Duan, don't just stand there, drive off!"
"Hold on tight!"
Seeing the brutal methods those people outside used, I realized they weren't police officers, but probably gangsters double-crossing each other. So I slammed the steering wheel and floored the accelerator.
"Buzz!"
The engine let out a deep roar and then shot forward. One person in front was unable to dodge in time and was knocked to the ground by the front of the car. The others also dodged to the side.
I drove through the crowd, not having time to rescue Liu Yu and the others, and sped straight onto the road ahead.
Because of the collision, one of my car's headlights is broken, and the other headlight, which is covered with tape, can only provide extremely weak illumination.
Looking ahead, I saw at least four or five cars coming, all blocking the mountain road ahead. Seeing that the only way down the mountain was blocked, I slowed down the vehicle slightly and drove up a gentle slope on one side.
When Song Laosan saw the direction I was driving, he looked nervous and said, "Dude, are you sure you can drive well?"
"I started working as a designated driver when I was nineteen, so buckle up!"
I drove up the gentle slope ahead and began to drive on the roadless hillside by the dim moonlight. When the attackers saw our car leave, they started their vehicles and chased after us.
"What's going on? Didn't they say that Qinghuai's people had already taken care of everything on the periphery? Why are they attacking us here?"
The monkey, bouncing around like a bouncy ball in the back seat, gripped the armrest and shouted, "Could it be that Qinghuai is planning to double-cross us?"
Song Laosan responded without hesitation: "Impossible. We only dug a small tomb today. Although the set of chime bells unearthed is valuable, it's definitely not enough to make the Qing family resort to such tricks. Don't forget, they're after Su Gouzi's business!"
I glanced at the car chasing us in the rearview mirror: "Could it be that there's something wrong with the team of pickers you hired? The leader kept talking about money, and when he saw us take out a set of chime bells, he got greedy?"
"It's unlikely. I hired this drilling team from the south. I chose them because they have no local connections, and the middleman who helps me is very influential locally. If these people try to cheat me, they won't be able to continue in this business, and..."
Song Laosan was speaking when his phone rang. He stopped talking and answered, "It's me, it's Song Laosan... How did you know... Okay, I understand!"
Song Laosan spoke a few words into the phone, then looked at me: "The call was from Qinghuai's men. They're heading up the mountain and will be there soon."
I was stunned by his words: "What do you mean? Weren't the people down the mountain attacked?"
"Qinghuai said he had just received a distress call from Liu Yu and thought we were being watched, but after talking to the people down the mountain, he found that they had not been attacked, which means that these people must have come around from another route."
Old Song also found it strange when he brought it up: "Besides the three of us, only Qinghuai knew about our tomb raiding plan today, so the problem is very likely with him..."
"Buzz!"
As Song Laosan was speaking, a mountain motorcycle suddenly rushed up beside us, and the rider smashed a glass bottle containing paint against our car window.
"Splash!"
The glass bottle shattered, and the paint inside splattered all over the windshield, completely obscuring my view.
Song Laosan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw me driving towards the ravine ahead. Without saying a word, he pounced on me and grabbed the steering wheel.
"Clang!"
Our vehicle suddenly swerved, one of its tires burst due to the mountain bike, and then the chassis got stuck on the hillside, completely losing power.
The two SUVs that had been chasing us closely came closer when we stopped.
"get off!"
Old Song pushed open the car door and saw the mountain bike rushing towards him. He swung the chime bell in his hand and smashed it violently onto the rider's helmet, knocking the rider and the bike down.
"Monkey, let's go!"
I pulled an entrenching tool out of the car and rushed into the nearby woods to block the off-road vehicle's pursuit.
"Stop! Don't run!"
The two SUVs behind them also stopped, and the people in them all caught up with flashlights.
Old Song, who was beside me, shouted to the back, "Friends, everything we took out is in the car behind us. We have nothing on us!"
A beam of flashlight shone directly on Song Laosan: "He's over here! Chase him!"
"They didn't come for the goods!"
Upon hearing the other person's response, I grabbed the monkey and plunged into the woods, starting a frantic, reckless run.
The three of them stumbled and ran for about fifty meters when Song Laosan, who was in the lead, lost his footing and fell forward.
I reacted quickly and grabbed his wrist, but then I felt a sudden weight on my hand, and I was pulled away by Song Laosan.
In the chaos, I reached out and grabbed at something nearby, managing to grab a tree with my left arm.
We hadn't seen the road ahead when we were running, until Song Laosan lost his footing and fell. Only then did I realize that there was no road ahead, but instead a cliff more than ten meters deep.
The mountain wind made Song Laosan's clothes flutter, and he gripped my wrist tightly: "Xiao Duan, hold on tight! If you let go, our Song family will be completely reunited today!"
I had just recovered from serious injuries, and now, holding onto Song Laosan, I felt like my arm was about to break. I squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth: "Stop talking nonsense, hold on tight to me!"
At the same time, a flashlight beam shone on me.
Upon seeing this, the monkey rushed out, shouting, "I'll stop them!"
I lay on the cliff and heard the sounds of monkeys fighting with those people behind me. I used all my strength to start pulling Song Laosan up.
Old Song grabbed my arm and, using his legs to push off the cliff, climbed up in a very disheveled manner.
"Gulp!"
Before Song Laosan could even regain his footing, Monkey was kicked to the ground next to us. Immediately afterwards, someone stepped over Monkey's body, rushed up, and slashed at me with a knife.
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