Chapter 97: Closing the Net

Someone shouted outside the stone chamber.

"Yang Qing, come out; we only want money, not lives."

The warrior staying inside the stone chamber, hearing this, stretched out his hand and fired a gun.

It almost hit Sun Hao.

Sun Hao gripped the gun, furious; if not for Yang Qing, how could he have gotten mixed up with these people?

These people are no good at all.

This just made his dark history even darker.

He just wants to live a decent life—why won't you die?

It would be great if you died; everything would be settled—why are there still so many troubles?

Xu Liangcai hid behind others; seeing those inside open fire, his heart jumped.

"Chen Yatou actually gave Yang Qing a gun—I said I wouldn't get involved, didn't I?"

Things turned out a bit beyond his expectations.

Yang Qing having a gun makes things much more troublesome for them.

At the very least, it will drag on a long time, until Yang Qing's gun runs out of bullets.

But the longer it drags on, the more likely an accident will occur.

Think again about the tunnel and the well.

Once an accident happens, they won't be able to escape even with wings.

Suddenly he felt uneasy inside; time cannot be delayed.

He said to the other few leaders.

"Going on like this won't work; dragging it out makes accidents likely."

The others are all experts; they understood his meaning.

"One group stays close to the left wall, another group stays close to the right wall and feels their way forward."

"We'll draw his fire from the front to suppress him."

As he spoke, the division of labor began.

Zheng Changgui and his assistant were pushed forward to stand in front of the crowd.

This is obvious—they're being made into human shields to die.

A bunch of bandits were scared silly.

"Spare my life!"

"I don't want the money anymore—don't kill me."

"Big brother, please…"

These people are destined to be cleared out; to keep things secret, they can't be allowed to live.

Only when they're dead will the others feel at ease.

They were just tools to begin with; now they're useless, so of course we'll use them as disposable—do we really have to treat them as our own?

Pop……….

"Quiet down, whoever shouts again I'll shoot."

"Yang Qing is just one person—it's not that easy to hit you."

"Charge forward, rush in, and the riches will be yours."

"Anyone who doesn't move, I don't mind killing you right now."

A flock of sheep, driven forward to charge.

They crouched behind and charged.

Ge Liang saw that it was about time.

There was hardly anyone left in the tunnel; they had all rushed into the cave.

At the same time he didn't dare wait any longer; if these people rushed in, his comrades would be in danger.

Pop pop pop………

Several beams of flashlight shot out from the tunnels, lighting up the whole cave like daylight.

Pop pop pop, bullets struck the cave ceiling.

"Don't move, everybody put your hands up."

The crowd was caught off guard by this sudden situation.

As soon as they entered, the bright light inside the stone chamber drew their eyes, and they forgot to check the other tunnels.

Now they were all exposed to the guns of Ge Liang and the others.

Xu Liangcai, Sun Hao, and the others instinctively raised their hands.

But that sturdy man turned and fired a shot.

Those with him likewise grabbed the person in front and used them as a shield.

Seeing resistance, Ge Liang immediately gave the order.

"Fire."

Life and death—there's no time to persuade them to surrender.

But now most of them have their backs to us.

So the other side only had one or two people fighting back—pop pop pop………

People fell like wheat being cut.

That sturdy man and his people were singled out and shot full of holes.

Zheng Changgui was seized by one of them and likewise was beaten to a pulp.

Xu Liangcai, being at the forefront at the end, was also shot dead.

Sun Hao, to guard against others turning on each other, being the nearest to the tunnel as they approached, charged toward the tunnel mouth the instant the lights lit up.

The man tasked with sealing the tunnel entrance was shot into a wasp nest.

After a burst of gunfire.

Hundreds of people, in an instant only a little over thirty remained.

They lay on the ground shouting.

"We surrender, we surrender, spare us!"

Ge Liang, seeing that no one remained standing inside the cave, raised his hand to halt the fire.

"Raise your hands so I can see you."

"If you dare move either hand, you'll be shot dead instantly."

A few men in the stone chamber, hearing Ge Liang's command, raised their guns and stepped out, pointing them at those people at close range.

At that moment, gunfire echoed from inside the tunnel.

Yang Qing also emerged, brandishing his Browning.

Seeing that the situation was already under control.

He rushed over and tore the masks off each of those people's faces.

"Zheng Changgui!"

"Alright, so you are the real villain."

He had originally thought Yi Zhonghai was one of them.

He didn't expect it to be this Zheng Changgui, who seemed like a transparent man.

He is an honest, simple man, with two children at home, and had never been involved in any matters targeting Yang Qing.

He didn't expect him to be the one most deeply concealed.

Skipping over Zheng Changgui, Yang Qing kept pulling off masks, after a while.

"Xu Liangcai…"

He hadn't expected that the tailor who had always looked after him was also a person targeting him.

Just a few days ago Xu Liangcai had kindly greeted him, and today he died here.

"Damn, what merit does he have, he drew so many people."

Yang Qing felt a chilling cold in his heart; reality was too frightening, leaving him unable to distinguish who was human and who was a ghost.

He kept pulling them off, all the way to Sun Hao.

"Sun Hao."

He finally exhaled in relief; this man was the one who cast the deepest psychological shadow on him.

Seeing him dead, Yang Qing felt much lighter.

At that moment Ge Liang had already led his men into the tunnel.

Inside the tunnel, gunshots kept echoing.

Sure enough, his suspicion proved correct; the terrain was too complex, and even though they blocked those people, capturing them remained very difficult.

Yang Qing glanced at his Browning, then looked enviously at his comrade's Type 54, enviously beyond words.

The bandits' guns had already been taken away.

Yang Qing never even got a chance to have any fun.

Yang Qing tried to peek inside the tunnel, but was stopped.

"Yang Qing, our captain has ordered that your safety be guaranteed."

"So, just wait here."

There was nothing he could do; Yang Qing could only stand aside, watching a bunch of trash, like dogs, being bound upside down, squatting there.

Their fate was already sealed.

Even if they only wanted to make a little money, they got tangled up in the affairs of these armed bandits.

They no longer had any hope of ever seeing daylight again.

If Ge Liang hadn't needed to dig confessions from these people, perhaps there would be no desire to capture them.

An hour later, the gunfire had stopped.

Ge Liang also returned with his men.

Seeing Yang Qing, his first words were:

"They only caught them after they ran out of bullets."

Yang Qing hurriedly asked:

"Is anyone injured?"

That is the attitude that must be conveyed.

Ge Liang nodded.

"A few unlucky ones were hit by jumping eggs, but it's not a big problem."

"Let's go, let's get out first and see what's outside."