The corridors of the town hall were filled with lingering gunpowder smoke.
About ten minutes ago, this place was suddenly attacked by unidentified militants. Although this group of militants was small in number, they were well-equipped and well-trained.
Since most of the Alliance Army had been pushed to the front lines, the guards stationed in the town hall were undermanned. At the beginning of the exchange of fire, they were defeated by the militants swiftly.
“Sh*t! These people are definitely not from the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade!” shouted the guard who was hiding behind the bunker, fighting back while changing the magazine in his hand.
“No sh*t?!”
On the other side, passing through the smoke-filled plaza while carrying an electromagnetic assault rifle from an unknown corpse, Wang Peng frowned as he watched the flaming town hall. He muttered to himself, “Are they fighting amongst themselves?”
Without staying at the entrance for long, he stepped over the barrier that had been blown up, cautiously raised the rifle in his hand, and walked into the corridor.
Sporadic gunshots came from the corridor not far away. Wang Peng first shot down the two guards farthest from him, then slammed the rifle and brought down the person closest to him. Finally, he aimed the gun at the last person.
“Don’t, don’t shoot! I surrender…”
Looking at the guy who quickly put down his weapon, Wang Peng put the muzzle on his head and asked, “Where is Lu Zhou?”
“Lu-Lu Zhou?”
“Don’t talk nonsense, I have two people captured right now, I only plan to keep one.”
“S-sir, I really don’t know!”
Seeing the guard almost pee his pants in fear, Wang Peng frowned.
Such a spineless person was not the type who would take a secret to the grave…
The guard who had been knocked to the ground by one of his rifles had woken up. Seeing Wang Peng with his back facing him, his eyes flickered slightly, and he quietly reached out his hand to the pistol tied to his leg.
However, before he could pull the pistol out of the holster, there was an electric flash in his sights. His consciousness then fell into the boundless darkness.
“Now there is only one left. I advise you that you better not do something foolish like him.” Looking away from the guard who had turned into a corpse, Wang Peng looked towards the guard leaning against the wall. He pointed at the side corridor with his gun and said, “Take me to your mayor.”
“Okay, okay…” The guard got up from the ground tremblingly, walked ahead with his head in his hands, and stammered, “Please, please come with me.”
Looking at the captive that had risen from the ground, Wang Peng thought for a moment. He then suddenly spoke.
“Oh, yeah.
“What are your orders?
“And who are those people?”
Looking in the direction where Wang Peng’s gun was pointed, the guard saw militants lying on the ground wearing light armor. With his hands on his head, he spoke with a daze in his eyes.
“Aren’t they… with you?”
With me?
Wang Peng frowned and began to realize that something was wrong, but for a while, he couldn’t tell what was wrong.
However, this was obviously not the time to take care of these things.
Academician Lu was still in the hands of those people.
No one could guarantee that those who had failed wouldn’t do something reprehensible to him…
…
At the same time, on the other side of the town hall.
Under the escort of the most elite soldiers, Mayor Xiao and Gao Ruiming moved from the mayor’s office to the underground garage of the town hall.
There was a secret evacuation point here, designed to deal with special natural disasters.
The pipeline through the secret evacuation point could directly reach the safe house on the edge of the industrial zone, which happened to be behind the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade. If they really failed in the end and the militia organization in Tiangong City couldn’t stop the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade, then they could also disguise themselves as fleeing civilians and escape from Tiangong City along with the evacuation crowd.
“Damn, it’s been so long, what are those people doing?”
Mayor Xiao stamped his foot. He looked around, then cast his gaze on Gao Ruiming, who was standing next to him with a holographic computer in his hand. Mayor Xiao lowered his voice and asked, “How long until the reinforcements arrive! Tell them if they don’t hurry up, they will only be able to clean up the corpses for us!”
“The communication channel is busy, I can’t get in touch!” With an anxious expression on his face, Gao Ruiming cursed. His right fist slammed the wall on the side. “Damn it! Someone broke the signal base station in this area.”
Mayor Xiao was shocked. “What about the backup?!”
“Let me try—”
Before he could finish his words, the lamp above his head went out without any warning. The personal terminal in Gao Ruiming’s hand also turned off, as well as every other electronic device around him.
In an instant, the entire underground garage was plunged into darkness.
“EMP…”
After putting on the night vision goggles on the helmet, the captain of the security guards standing in front of Mayor Xiao had a solemn expression on his face. He took out a light stick from his tactical vest, lit the fuse, and threw it forward. “The electronic equipment here are all paralyzed, so be on the lookout.”
After hearing the captain’s instructions, several other guards also took out their light sticks.
As the torch-like rods were thrown out, the darkness in the underground garage was gradually dissipated by the orange-red light. However, the quiet feeling of doom was still pressing on Xiao Hong’s heart, making him almost out of breath.
Obviously, he was not alone.
Gao Ruiming, who put away the holographic computer, pulled him aside and said eagerly, “We can’t wait any longer, we must leave here right away… You don’t hear any gunshots from above, so that means there aren’t many guards left. Those Pan-Asian Cooperation special forces will find us here sooner or later!”
Xiao Hong nodded stiffly. He gulped and said, “You’re right.”
At this moment, in the darkness not far away, there was a gunshot.
Everyone’s heart tightened. They couldn’t see who was taken out by the gunshot.
Gunshots sounded one after another, piercing the fragile nerves of everyone including Xiao Hong, Gao Ruiming, and the security guards.
It was as if a devil were lurking on the edge of darkness, dragging everyone who accidentally stepped into the abyss of hell.
Finally, the gunfire stopped.
Only the crackling sound of burning light rods could be heard quietly.
After gulping, Xiao Hong, who was hiding behind the bunker, wanted to send someone over to see what was going on there. However, at this moment, a clear sound of footsteps drifted from the darkness.
“You guys should surrender.”
Surrender…
A trace of hesitation flashed in Gao Ruiming’s eyes while a trace of reluctance flashed in the eyes of the security guard captain.
Xiao Hong had a complicated look on his face.
However, it didn’t take long for all the complexity to be replaced by irrational madness.
He used the last bit of strength in his body and roared towards the boundless darkness.
“Want me to surrender…
“Not in your f*cking dreams!
“I would rather die than be stripped of freedom!”
