Chapter 175: Ruthless Li Long, firing without mercy

"There is a woman in my room, it's not convenient." Li Long felt calmer after touching the gun. "You guys rest outside the door. It's April now, and it's not very cold outside, so make do for one night."

"Brother, have some mercy. I'm not only cold but also hungry. Can you get something to eat? I picked some deer antlers; how about I trade the deer antlers with you for something?"

"We don't have anything to eat either." Seeing the other party insist on Li Long opening the door, Li Long knew the people outside were not simple, so he said, "Food in the mountains is hard to come by, and it's late at night now, so let's talk tomorrow."

Li Long hoped these people would retreat in the face of difficulties, but for the sake of safety, he slowly opened the gun's safety and loaded the bullets.

Although the wooden door was quite sturdy, if the people outside were determined to come in, the internal lock with double bolts wouldn't be able to stop them.

The reason Li Long sensed something was wrong was because he heard there were at least two people outside, but he asked the other party, and the other party only said it was one person.

There must be a problem here!

"Brother, have some mercy, open the door, it's too cold outside! I don't have high requirements; just open the lock of your room next door and let us stay inside for one night. Don't worry, I absolutely won't take your things. I'll leave as soon as it's dawn, okay?"

"Then just smash the lock and go in." Li Long's eyes turned, testing, "I'm also scared late at night. We don't need the lock; there's only miscellaneous stuff inside and nothing valuable... "

"No, no, no, how can that be? Smashing the lock is not good; buying a lock also costs money. Just open the door and take the key out; I'm not a bad person!"

"It's fine, didn't you say you'd trade deer antlers? A deer antler is worth a lot of money, what's a lock? You guys smash it, alright, we're sleeping." Li Long finished speaking and didn't intend to answer again.

The other party was obviously not giving up and was using other methods to try to get Li Long to open the door.

Li Long stopped talking, slowly walked to the door, and held the wooden door with his gun.

"Brother, what nonsense are you talking to him for! We have tools in our hands, just smash it! It's pitch black, who would know what we did?"

Sure enough, not a good bird!

Then, the wooden door shook violently, making a huge sound "Bang!"

Obviously, the other party used some tool to smash the door!

"Bang, bang, bang!" The other party smashed a few more times in succession, and the wooden door shook.

"Stop smashing! We have guns!" Li Long shouted from inside the door. He still hoped to scare the other party away; he didn't want to see blood.

"They have guns!" The smashing sound stopped.

"Fart gun! If they had guns, why would they be so cowardly before? They're lying! Brother, give me the axe, I'll smash it!"

Another person changed, and a fierce axe blow smashed onto the door, and the door shook violently!

"Stop smashing, I'm really going to fire!"

Li Long became ruthless, aiming the small-caliber at the door. If the other party still didn't listen, he wouldn't be soft-hearted again.

Answering him was another violent smashing sound.

"Bang!"

"Bang, bang!"

Li Long pulled the trigger. He aimed at the chest position and fired three shots in succession.

"Ah—! Damn it, they really have guns! My arm!"

"My hand!"

Screams came, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling and footsteps running far away.

Li Long opened the bolt, held the gun, and went out. In the dim dawn light, he saw two black shadows running far away more than ten meters away.

"Don't run, if you run again, I'll shoot your heads!" The two black shadows stopped.

Screams were still being issued. Li Long turned his head, took a flashlight on the wooden kang, and shone it at the two black shadows. These were two men who were not tall, with stubble, one with blood on his arm, and one holding his right hand. Obviously, both were injured.

"Come over!" Li Long pointed at the two people with his gun. At this moment, he didn't dare to lower his guard at all because he saw an axe under his feet. If he hadn't been carrying a gun, he would probably have fallen under the axe by now.

The two people slowly moved to a place two or three meters in front of Li Long. Li Long shouted again:

"Kneel down!"

The one with the injured arm knelt down directly, shouting with a crying face:

"Big brother, can you bandage it? I'm bleeding to death!"

This person was relatively young and seemed to be unable to bear pain and injury more. The other one was older. Li Long guessed he was in his thirties to forties, his eyes flickering, not daring to look directly at Li Long.

"You, kneel down!" Li Long's gun was always pointed at the two people. He scolded the man with the injured hand. This man hesitated, not wanting to kneel down at all.

"Big brother, hurry up and kneel down!" The one with the injured arm next to him was in too much pain to bear it and begged the older one next to him, "Otherwise, I can't bandage my arm."

That middle-aged man glared at his brother and had to kneel down.

Li Long scolded:

"Kneel and don't move!"

He went into the room, took a hemp rope, and threw it to the one with the injured hand:

"Tie him up, tie his arms back! Expose the injured place, I'll apply medicine to him in a while! Tie it tightly, otherwise, I'll kill you guys now!"

The middle-aged man refused to tie him up. Li Long fired a shot at the ground and said in a deep voice:

"Just like you said, in these desolate mountains and wild ridges, if I shoot your two heads, find a place to dig a pit and bury you, no one will come to look for you, right?"

That man was scared and had to pick up the hemp rope, kneeling there to tie the other person.

The young man heard that Li Long wanted to apply medicine to him, so he stopped struggling and honestly let himself be tied up.

"Tie yourself up too!" Seeing this middle-aged man tie the young man up, Li Long ordered again, "Don't tell me you don't know how to tie, use your mouth! Both hands! Tie it tightly!"

This person looked at Li Long and then lowered his head. Li Long could see unwillingness in his eyes, but he didn't care.

"I still have six bullets in my gun. If you think you can run away or resist before these six bullets are used up, then you try!"

Li Long really didn't mind giving the other party another shot at this time.

He had already shot, so it wouldn't matter if he shot one more.

This person didn't speak. When he tied himself, Li Long saw his palm was full of blood; it should have been pierced by a bullet. When tying, there was blood on the hemp rope and the sleeve of his clothes.

Finally, this person used his mouth to tie a slipknot on the rope end and turned his head to look at Li Long.

Li Long didn't say a word, gave him a gun butt, and knocked him to the ground. The young man looked at Li Long in horror; he thought Li Long was going to silence them!

"Tying a slipknot is to run away halfway, right?" Li Long sneered and kicked him again, picked it up with the gun barrel, and turned the slipknot into a dead knot. "Or do you think you can outrun a bullet?"

After saying this, he didn't wait for the two people to react, went back to the room, took a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao, and poured half of it on the young man's arm first—this arm had a piece of flesh directly shot off by the bullet, and blood flowed down the sleeve. It should have stopped flowing, but it flowed out again when tying the arm.

Li Long pulled out the cotton from the Baiyao, and then poured half a bottle of medicine onto the wound. The young man roared "Ow". "What are you roaring for? I poured half a bottle of Baiyao that costs one yuan!" Li Long scolded. "Damn it, a big man can't bear this little pain?"

Seeing Li Long pour Baiyao for him, the young man stopped shouting after hearing this.

Li Long went over again to pour medicine onto the middle-aged man's hand; at this moment, his vigilance was high, fearing that this fellow might suddenly lash out and attack him.

Fortunately, the other party didn't do so and waited quietly for Li Long to apply the medicine.

Li Long poured all the remaining medicine onto his hand and stepped back a few steps, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

He really didn't want to leave human lives in his hands; it was better to hand over the remaining things to the authorities.

"Get up, walk!" Li Long pointed at the two people with his gun.

These two people climbed up with effort, careful not to touch the wounds.

Before they moved, Li Long locked the door of the large room, opened the door of the small room, took the things off the bicycle and put them away, pushed the bicycle out, and locked the door.

When he pushed forward, he kicked something under his feet. Looking down, it was a black cloth bag, so he picked up the bag and clipped it on the back seat of the bicycle.

"Walk, walk in the direction I point. I'll take you out of the mountains now. Don't play tricks; my patience is limited, and I won't remind you a second time. I don't have any extra Baiyao in my hand!" Li Long finished speaking, held the gun with one hand on the bicycle handlebars, and pointed at the two people with the other hand holding the bike.

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These two people seemed to have accepted their fate and walked forward one after another.

"Follow this sheep path, don't tell me you can't see it," Li Long said again:

"Keep walking forward!"

It was more than an hour later when he escorted the two people out of the mountains and onto the main road.

"Can you let us rest for a while?" The young man felt his wound hurting severely and begged.

"Fine." Li Long said. "Rest for a while."

After resting twice in the middle, Li Long finally brought the two people into the county town and arrived at the police station diagonally opposite the large courtyard.

At this time, the sky was just dawning.

Not to mention the two injured people, even Li Long himself was exhausted.

He who travels a hundred miles half-way, he arrived at the entrance of the police station, carried the small-caliber rifle on his back, and shouted loudly:

"Officer Guo, Officer Guo!"

A duty police officer immediately ran out. Seeing Li Long carrying a gun and the two injured people, he was also very surprised.

"You are... you are Xiao Li, right?" That person actually recognized Li Long.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's me." Li Long thought it was great that he knew him. He pointed at the two injured people and said:

"I went into the mountains to collect things. When I was staying in the winter den, these two people attempted to smash the door. I suspect they are habitual offenders and very likely have a criminal record. At that time, in order to fight back, I fired and injured them. This is my gun—this gun is registered at the supply and marketing cooperative; Section Chief Li of the purchasing section can testify..."

"Fine, come in." The police officer was quite clear about Li Long's situation. He opened the door and let the three of them in.

After entering the police station, the duty director also heard the movement and walked out draped in clothes. Seeing Li Long was also somewhat surprised, he asked a question, and after knowing the general situation, he nodded and said:

"That's fine, since the wounds have been simply treated, let's interrogate them now."

"By the way, the bag clipped on my bicycle should be theirs. I don't know what's inside; I haven't looked yet."

When Li Long said this, he clearly felt the two people tremble.

The duty police officer brought the black bag in. When he opened it, he found clothes stuffed inside messily, as well as some money and some fritillaria packed in paper bags.

"There is blood on these clothes!" The police officer had rich experience and immediately saw the problem with these clothes under the light.

Li Long thought, don't let me be a crow's mouth, really saying it right. These two people—had they committed a crime beforehand?

Li Long finished the transcript here, and the duty police officer asked him to hand over the gun and took him to the duty room to rest. They all knew Li Long's situation, knew his roots and bottom, his family background was clean, and they didn't worry about him having any situation.

On the contrary, the director became more and more shocked when interrogating the other two people separately!

These two people not only committed crimes, but there were also human lives under their hands!

After the sky was completely bright, the duty police officer brought a meal to Li Long and said to him with a smile:

"Comrade Xiao Li, you have brought us a great merit again this time! It was also your caution to fire first; otherwise, maybe you would have really been harmed by them!"

These two people were blind drifters who came from the mouth. In fact, many places in the north at this time accepted these foreign populations. Of course, after acceptance, they mainly engaged in farming.

These two people didn't want to do farm work. They had picked medicinal materials before, so they thought about getting some medicinal materials in the mountains to earn some money. Then they met another person in the mountains who had the same idea. They wanted to join forces with the other party. The other party was quite good at picking medicinal materials and only wanted to work alone. The two sides didn't discuss it well, so they accidentally beat that person to death.

After they beat the person to death, they robbed the person's things and then continued to flee in the mountains.

Because it was a crime committed by two people, they were interrogated separately and found out.

"Comrade Xiao Li, you are also lucky. The younger one said that they originally intended to knock open the door of the winter den, tie the person up, and rob them. As a result, you didn't open the door all along. At that time, they had the intention to kill. It was also your quick reaction to fire first... This counts as self-defense, it's fine."

It was about the same as Li Long guessed.

The interrogation of these two people was still continuing, but the part about Li Long had already ended. It was already morning when Li Long left the police station.

The gun was also returned to him. He pedaled his bicycle to the large courtyard.

Tired for a whole night, he needed to make up for a good sleep.

Li Long slept until the afternoon before getting up, feeling that his spirit had recovered. He simply washed up. Because the gun holster for the small-caliber rifle was still in the mountains, he had to find a sack to roll up the gun and tie it to the bicycle, intending to go into the mountains again.

Just as he pushed the bicycle out and turned around to lock the door, Guo Tiebing's voice came from there:

"Comrade Xiao Li!"

Li Long locked the door and turned around, looking at Guo Tiebing walking over quickly, asking with concern:

"Comrade Xiao Li, are you okay?"

"I'm okay... I've recovered..." Li Long's recovery referred to rest, but Guo Tiebing obviously misunderstood. He nodded and said:

"It also took me several days to recover the first time I fired at a criminal suspect. It's okay, you hit a criminal. You have to understand that if you didn't fire at him, it's very likely that you would have been killed or injured, and even after they got your gun, they would have harmed more people later..."

Li Long finally understood. It turned out that Guo Tiebing was afraid that he would have a psychological burden because he fired and hit someone. He felt moved and funny in his heart, but this was not easy to explain to Guo Tiebing.

Guo Tiebing comforted him for a long while, then patted him on the shoulder and said:

"Alright, if there's anything, come to me then. But I still want to advise you, this gun, it's okay to hit animals, unless it's a situation like today, it's better to use it less on people. You have to grasp the measure."

After saying goodbye to Guo Tiebing, Li Long pedaled his bicycle into the mountains.

He first went to Xiaobaiyang Gully, saw that everyone was still weaving carrying poles with peace of mind, and then went to Halimu's place.

They had already moved away, the winter den was empty, and the sheep corral and cattle corral were also empty.

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