novelraw Chapter 25: The battle begins, slave suicide squad
Chapter 25: The battle begins, slave suicide squad
Yu Yuan looked at the location of the Landmark Hotel on the virtual map.
This sewer he was currently in had been carefully selected after thorough consideration.
It was situated exactly west of the intersection between Golden Orchid Avenue and Waterside Street, directly opposite the Landmark Hotel, with Waterside Street right in front of him.
He had already unlocked the sewer manhole cover earlier, ready to open it immediately whenever needed.
Perhaps because the typhoon was approaching, although the time wasn't even 7:30 yet, the sky had already turned extremely dark, giving a vivid sense of an impending storm.
"The sky's dark, and darkness is good!" Yu Yuan murmured to himself while watching the outside sky through the manhole cover holes.
Soon, the sound of car engines and tires scraping against the ground reached him.
Yu Yuan immediately made a judgment.
"They're coming, from the Waterside Street direction."
He resisted the urge to open the manhole cover to observe outside, quietly waiting for the battle to begin.Vroom vroom vroom....
The car engines grew increasingly closer, and perhaps because they were approaching the intersection, the vehicles began slowing down.
Meanwhile, Yu Yuan had already moved away from the manhole cover area, returning to the sewer and covering his ears.
Sure enough, as soon as he reached the bottom, continuous explosions sounded overhead.
Followed by relentless gunfire and roars.
Rat-tat-tat.... Boom... Rat-tat-tat...
Machine guns accompanied by explosions became the most terrifying reapers of the night.
Yu Yuan could even hear the sounds of cars exploding and flipping over.
Rat-tat-tat....
Another machine gun started firing, the sound very close to the sewer entrance. Yu Yuan guessed the Black Shield Police Department's counterattack had begun.
But the machine gun had only fired a few rounds before falling silent after an ear-shattering gunshot.
"A sniper!"
Feeling that the landmines should have already detonated, Yu Yuan climbed the ladder again and quietly pushed open the sewer manhole cover.
What met his eyes were continuously flashing gunfire and raging flames.
In the middle of the street, several wasteland combat vehicles modified beyond recognition lay overturned, burning with fierce flames.
From the third and fourth floor windows of the Landmark Hotel, two machine guns spat fire, suppressing the Black Shield Police Department personnel below.
From time to time, someone would throw Molotov cocktails that shattered on the ground, splashing flames across a three to four meter radius. Some thugs accidentally got splashed with the liquid inside the bottles, and flames immediately spread across their bodies.
Heart-wrenching screams echoed through the street, but before the thugs could remove their armor, bullets from unknown sources pierced through their bodies.
The smell of gunpowder mixed with fuel permeated the air, while bullets flew wildly through the sky.
Accompanied by successive grenade explosions that made Yu Yuan's eardrums ache with stabbing pain.
Pew pew....
Several stray bullets hit the wall near the manhole cover. Yu Yuan immediately closed the cover but opened it again quietly after a few seconds, squinting to observe.
"And this is only danger level - medium? This is insane." This was essentially a small-scale battlefield.
Clearly, the Thug Prison's ambush was quite successful.
The Black Shield Police Department personnel were all hiding behind the reinforced armor plates of their vehicles, waiting for opportunities to counterattack.
Just about ten meters ahead of Yu Yuan, seven or eight thugs from the Black Shield Police Department wearing full body armor had their backs to him as they fired at the Landmark Hotel, but they were all suppressed by machine gun fire, not daring to show their heads.
Rat-tat-tat.... Pew pew pew....
Just as Yu Yuan was continuously scanning the battlefield looking for targets to strike later, he heard the several thugs ahead suddenly shout:
"Grenade...."
The next moment, those seven or eight Black Shield Police Department thugs left the cars serving as their cover, took two quick steps, and made diving motions forward.
Boom...
A grenade exploded exactly where the thugs had been hiding.
The seven or eight thugs were blasted away instantly, and then the Thug Prison raiders picked them off one by one.
One of them was blasted near the sewer manhole cover where Yu Yuan was. Before the person even hit the ground, over a dozen bullets had already penetrated his body. He fell to the ground, rolled a few times, and then stopped moving.
Yu Yuan only felt a burning pain on his temple where a piece of debris had grazed him, but he ignored it, his gaze sharp as an eagle's as he quickly analyzed the situation.
At this moment, Yu Yuan resembled a hunter ready to strike, waiting for the perfect opportunity to act.
And only less than 1 minute had passed since the battle began.
The Black Shield Police Department's counterattack began.
Whoosh.... Boom....
Yu Yuan saw a flash of fire as the room housing the machine gun position inside the Landmark Hotel was actually taken out, now burning with raging flames.
Without the machine gun's suppressive fire, the Black Shield Police Department personnel immediately launched their counterattack and began moving toward Waterside Street.
At the same time, a signal flare glowing with red light shot into the sky.
The Black Shield Police Department was calling for reinforcements.
Bang....
Fire flashed from the upper floors of the Landmark Hotel - the sniper.
He had killed the Black Shield Police Department thug who launched the signal flare.
But Yu Yuan frowned, thinking to himself: "Idiot! The signal flare's already been launched, killing him has no effect and only exposes your position." He now suspected the Thug Prison sniper wasn't professional.
Sure enough, the next second, the sound he'd heard earlier rang out again.
Whoosh....
This time Yu Yuan saw it clearly.
He watched as a rocket from Waterside Street, spewing incandescent flames, flew toward the Landmark Hotel, penetrated into the room where the snipers were located, and exploded violently, blowing a gap in the hotel's exterior wall.
Two mangled human bodies were thrown out simultaneously, falling to the ground like rags, but nobody paid them any attention.
"They actually have RPGs? The Black Shield Police Department's firepower is this intense!" Yu Yuan's eye twitched slightly. The combat capabilities of both Thug Prison and Black Shield Police Department far exceeded his expectations.
Thug Prison's ambush was absolutely ruthless, but Black Shield Police Department's counterattack was equally decisive. More importantly, the Black Shield Police Department's equipment was clearly superior to Thug Prison's!
Was this really the kind of firepower a neighborhood thug organization could possess?
But... Yu Yuan felt something was strange.
As old rivals, Thug Prison couldn't possibly be unaware of the Black Shield Police Department's strength.
Since Thug Prison chose to ambush, how could they be so easily overpowered?
Soon, Yu Yuan's confusion was answered.
On Waterside Street, several figures appeared above the thug holding the RPG launcher and jumped down.
Some of these people died instantly upon hitting the ground, while others landed among the Black Shield Police Department vehicles.
Just as Yu Yuan found this bewildering, he witnessed a scene he would remember for the rest of his life.
Boom boom boom.... Those several corpses exploded violently.
Instantly blasting away the Black Shield Police Department vehicles and creating several large craters in the ground.
Flames engulfed the street. The Black Shield Police Department, which had just organized its counterattack force, was thrown into crisis again, while Thug Prison intensified their assault frequency.
Yu Yuan gasped sharply, instantly recalling a name mentioned in the information about Thug Prison.
—Slave suicide squad.