Special District 9

The four men were stunned by the question. It took a moment before the leader replied, “The enemy was quite tough. They were well-armed. We had to protect Little Qu…”

“Where’s your gun?” Xing Zihao interjected.

The leader was taken aback by the abrupt question. He reflexively raised his right arm and replied, “My gun is here.”

Bang!

Without any warning, Xing Zihao raised his rifle and shot it point-blank toward the other party’s hand.

“AHHH!”

A cry of agony echoed within the alley. The leader’s entire right hand was blasted off before falling onto the dirty floor.

Everyone was stunned by this sight.

Xing Zihao roared in fury, “Someone of your guts actually dares to make a living with a gun? AH?! I don’t ask you to capture them, but the least you could have done was to stall them! Useless trash! You really think that I’m a money tree that drops money for free, don’t you?”

The leader kneeled onto the floor as his body convulsed from sheer pain. He glared at Xing Zihao with tightly gritted teeth.

The three companions behind him felt rage surging into their heads, and they looked as if they would charge forward to take Xing Zihao down at any moment.

“Don’t… Don’t move…” the leader stopped his companions amidst gasps of air as he grabbed onto his injuries tightly.

“Give them money and get them to scram!” Xing Zihao spat before turning around. “The rest of you, follow me!”

A lad walked up to Xing Zihao’s left and asked carefully, “Do we send Little Qu back?”

Xing Zihao halted his footsteps before turning around.

Little Qu was currently standing in the middle of the crowd. When he saw the madness that was inside Xing Zihao’s eyes, he immediately kneeled to the ground and cried out loud, “Bro, please… Look, I’ve done a favor for the Yuan Family too… When you asked me to bait them over, I did as you have said! Please, spare me just this once… I’m begging you…”

Bang!

Xing Zihao shot Little Qu in his chest, sending the latter flying half a meter before collapsing on the ground.

“Ma Lao-er has already gotten away. What use do I have for you?” Xing Zihao sneered as he tossed aside the rifle, which had used up its last bullet, to his subordinate. After that, he began walking toward the main road while issuing instructions, “Clean up the alley. The rest of you, follow me. We’ll be pursuing them!”

Xing Zihao’s psychotic appearance left Wen Tao and his friend utterly despaired. With a furious cry, they rose to their feet and tried to flee for their lives.

But after a series of gunshots from those men whom Xing Zihao had brought over, they still ended up breathing their last in the midst of the empty streets.

Several seconds later.

While the men who stayed behind were dragging the corpses into the car, Yong Dong finally arrived while gasping for air. When he saw the lifeless body of Little Qu, his eyes widened in astonishment.

“W-What happened?” Yong Dong pointed to Little Qu as he asked. “How did he die?”

One of the men looked at Yong Dong with a pale face as he replied with a stutter, “Y-Young Master Xing thought that he was useless now that Ma Lao-er has gotten away, so… he shot him.”

Yong Dong froze on the spot for several seconds before he cried out helplessly, “What’s the point of all of this if he’s just going to act as he pleases?! We found Little Qu in order to protect our market share and guarantee our profits, not for him to use as target practice! As long as Little Qu remains alive, Old Ma would surely go to all lengths in order to get him. Why the bloody hell did he shoot Little Qu?!”

There was no one who dared to respond to Yong Dong’s words.

“We had such good cards to work with, but he played them like shit!” Yong Dong cursed as he stomped back into his car.

…

On the car.

Xing Zihao took drugs due to the stress from repressing himself at home and in the company, but as the effects finally died down, his nose started running, and his body kept perspiring inexplicitly.

His subordinate sitting on the passenger seat shouted into the walkie-talkie, “Those two cars behind, don’t keep following us. Turn around that bend and surround them from the other side. They have injured personnel, they won’t be able to get far!”

Hu! Huhu!

Xing Zihao pulled his collar as he took in two deep breaths. With a hoarse voice, he shouted, “Give… Give me the medicine… I can’t breathe…”

“Brother Hao, the dosage you are taking is too much!” the subordinate replied worriedly.

Xing Zihao suddenly got up, grabbed the subordinate, and shouted wheezily into his face, “I said… I can’t breathe! Are you… trying to kill me? Are all of you… waiting for my death?”

Seeing that Xing Zihao wouldn’t listen to him at all, the subordinate opened the glove compartment and took out the syrine inside. “I understand. I’ll prepare the injection for you. You’ll feel better once you inject the medicine in.”

…

On a dimly-lit nameless road, Ma Lao-er dragged Little Liu forward as he spoke anxiously, “Bro, hold on a little longer. Zishu has already made the call, and our people will be arriving soon!”

Little Liu’s consciousness was extremely fuzzy. With a limp head, he muttered, “Don’t… Don’t bother about me… I really can’t move anymore. My head feels so heavy… Let me down… Let me down…”

By the side, Liu Zishu was holding onto his phone as he spoke anxiously, “Brother Ma, we’re in a really bad shape… We didn’t think that they would get to Little Qu before us! As soon as we made a move, they ambushed us with four jeeps and almost twenty people! They kept firing at us… and they killed Maozi too!”

“Calm down and talk to me properly,” Old Ma spoke with a steady voice. “Where are you at the moment? What’s the current situation? Is the enemy still chasing you?”

“They are still chasing us. Little Liu has been shot, so he can’t move anymore. We aren’t familiar with the area. We don’t even know where we should run to… You need to come here quickly, or else Little Liu will die as well!” Liu Zishu was still in a hysterical state, and he was simply saying anything that came to his mind.

“Fuck! Have you never seen anyone dying, or have you never fired a gun before?!” Old Ma suddenly hollered. “I told you to calm down! If you don’t give me your location properly, how the fuck am I to find you?”

That abrupt roar jolted Liu Zishu out of his traumatized state. He quickly scanned his surroundings before noticing a construction site that had barely begun building. After that, he immediately said, “We’re in the vicinity of Special District 9’s Memorial Square… There’s a construction site right in front of me…”

“Alright. Listen to me carefully. Try to stall for as much time as possible. If you are able to escape together, that would be for the best. If not, you have to abandon those who are unable to move. All of you are my children, and I wouldn’t want to see any of you die. However, what scares me even more is if all of you were to be wiped out together. Survive! Do you hear me?” Old Ma shouted with a firm voice. “Don’t panic, you need to calm down in a situation like this. Remain in contact.”

“A-alright!”

The two of them ended the call there. Liu Zishu immediately grabbed Ma Lao-er and shouted, “Let’s head to the construction site. Brother Ma is on his way here!”

“Little Liu, do you hear that? Our men will be coming soon!” Ma Lao-er said as he dragged Little Liu with him to the opposite side of the street.

Weng!

It was at this moment that the whirring of car engines sounded in the air. A jeep did a drift turn at the intersection and was currently heading in their direction. Inside the car, Xing Zihao, who had just injected another dosage of medicine into himself, swiftly noticed the three of them, and his eyes lit up. “Rush there quickly. I’ll cut off Ma Lao-er into pieces and have Old Ma claim them one by one!”

The subordinate sitting on the passenger’s seat tried to talk Xing Zihao out of this, “Should we wait for our men to arrive before going in?”

“Are you familiar with the construction site?” Xing Zihao glared at the subordinate as he asked. “Once they get in and turn at a few bends, they’ll be able to quickly shake us off!”

The subordinate sighed deeply on the inside before instructing, “Charge in!”

…

On the streets.

Old Ma was rushing Guan Qi anxiously, saying, “Drive faster! My children are dying!”