Chapter 122: Pursuit

Chen Mu had originally budgeted about three days for this outing, but now only half a day has passed and he has already reaped quite a harvest; although he still doesn't know what is inside this container truck, from the hurried glance just now he can see that the whole container is almost full of things.

Thinking that Yi Zhong had specially sent two experts to guard it, these things are definitely not simple; it's just puzzling that since the cargo in this truck is so important, why wasn't the container truck placed in the middle of the convoy but left at the rear, giving Chen Mu and the others an opportunity.

Chen Mu hastily glanced at the battlefield.

Only see that the Yi Zhong and Qingbei groups are getting farther and farther away, and at this moment they are almost out of sight.

Wei Dalei pulling this truck is actually not strenuous, his speed remains much faster than the others, but Chen Mu worries that there might be valuable items inside, and it would be a pity if they were damaged, so he had him reduce speed.

Moreover, there are two living people inside, and he hopes to extract information about Yi Zhong from them.

"Are we going back now?"

Lu Shanshan had been worried about encountering danger when she set out, but since Chen Mu personally sought her out, she had no choice but to agree; however, now that she's just gotten into the excitement, she still feels unsatisfied.

But now that they're hauling such a big guy, the target is too large; perhaps the Yi Zhong people are already searching the world for them.

"If you feel it's not enough, you can come out again next time; anyway, we're going to form an External Duty Team, and even if you're not a fixed member, as long as you're interested you can apply to go out together."

"Pretty interesting." Xue Xu echoed.

Chen Mu was about to speak when He Ying said, "They're chasing after us."

Everyone turned back and saw a dozen or so people running wildly behind them.

Wei Dalei heard the sound and hastily prepared to speed up, but Chen Mu stopped him: "You can't get away; it would only expose our base."

"What should we do?"

"Let's fight."

"Are they from Yi Zhong?" He Ying gripped her short sword tightly.

"Seems so."

"Did they take care of the Qingbei people?"

"It looks like they already knew Qingbei would ambush, so they set up an ambush; we just don't know whether Song Yu and the others have escaped."

It's only been a few minutes since Chen Mu and the others left the cafeteria; if Yi Zhong has already dealt with the Qingbei people, it's indeed possible they could catch up along the way.

But from the number of pursuers, even if Yi Zhong won the battle against Qingbei, they still lost many; at least the number still able to fight is now small.

With so few people, Chen Mu isn't too worried.

He had Wei Dalei put the truck down first.

Then he unfastened three grenades from the specially made belt around his waist.

This belt was made by him before departure, using the plastic that had lightened Lu Shanshan's load, fashioned into pocket-like sections, inlaid in a circle around the waist; the principle is similar to an egg rack, except this one is fully enclosed.

With this belt, he can carry many more grenades, and since the grenades are now only ping-pong-ball sized, they can be placed close to the body at the waist and then covered by his upper garment.

Put simply, it's just making a plastic shell for the grenades and wrapping it around the waist.

This way it's convenient to carry and won't be accidentally triggered.

Earlier, when he grappled with Yangbu'an on the ground, there was no accident.

Chen Mu handed all three grenades he had taken out to Wei Dalei.

"Old Wei, it's up to you."

"Sure!"

Wei Dalei was delighted to see this; although he had trained at home, he had only used ordinary stones, lacking explosive effect, which always felt lacking.

Old Wei gripped two in his left hand, flicked the other with his right, gave a hehe smile, and flung it out.

The Yi Zhong crowd is still some distance away; we can tell their number but can't see their faces.

At this distance, only Wei Dalei can throw accurately enough.

Of course, even with some training, accuracy is still not high, but fortunately this reinforced grenade specially made by Chen Mu greatly lowers the precision requirement.

Wei Dalei threw one grenade, and before it hit the ground he immediately threw a second.

The two grenades arced toward the Yi Zhong crowd.

"Boom!"

After the blast and the clatter of steel balls came a wave of screams.

From afar, several people were blood‑stained and fell down one after another.

However, because the grenades themselves are small and contain few steel balls, although the lethal radius is large, the density is somewhat lacking.

These two grenades, failing to detonate in the middle of the crowd, only affected about half of the people.

But the remaining Yi Zhong members were obviously frightened; seeing their companions collapse and scream around them, they were momentarily at a loss, wanting to rush forward yet not daring to, yet leaving like that left them unwilling.

In the midst of their hesitation.

Wei Dalei's third grenade arrived as expected.

From the opposing crowd, one person quickly rushed out, thrusting both hands upward.

Chen Mu remembered that this person was the one who had played a defensive role in the earlier fight against Qingbei, capable of creating an air wall.

But it's obvious that this person's ability isn't strong, and after the earlier battle his mental energy was considerably depleted; the grenade pierced the air wall instantly, and although its speed did slow a bit, it still wasn't completely blocked.

The grenade landed.

Moreover, this time Wei Dalei exerted a bit too much force; originally it would have flown over the crowd, but because of the air wall it ended up detonating in the middle of the crowd.

This blast left almost no one unscathed.

The one who created the air wall took the brunt; the grenade fell almost straight onto his back, exploded, and five or six steel balls penetrated his body, fortunately missing vital spots like the back of the head.

But his back was drenched in blood; whether he lives depends on luck.

Seeing Wei Dalei's three grenades score, Chen Mu also had no desire to linger; he didn't want to go back harvesting heads, and it was too risky, besides the enemy couldn't see their faces clearly anyway.

"Give two more, boss."

"That's enough, don't waste it; the squad leader worked hard to make these."

This type of grenade was specially requested by Chen Mu from the squad leader; Dong Junwei indeed put in a lot of effort to keep the explosive power within a fixed range.

Just as with Chen Mu's ability, the biggest difficulty in Dong Junwei's energy infusion lies in precise control—it's easy to exhaust one's mental power each time, but accurately regulating the input so that all grenades have equal power indeed requires long practice.

This time going out, Chen Mu carried a total of twelve enhanced grenades, precisely to deal with such sudden incidents.

Looking at it now, the effect is actually quite good.