"Taking down three top-tier gunmen in seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds. The result is not bad but not satisfactory."
Li Yao picked up the gunman's hands with the mechanical arm and examined them carefully, paying particular attention to the calluses on the web between the thumb and the index finger. He then called the two little fellows over. "Look. The lines on the web between the thumb and the index finger and the pulp of the index finger have almost been smoothed out. They are traces that can only be left after years of using firearms. Plus, the muscles around his eyes are loose in his left eye and tight in his right eye. This is also the result of using a scope all day long. Therefore, this is a very good gunman. It is understandable that you let him slip through the net."
Han Te and Coloured Glaze observed carefully. Just like Li Yao said, they could not help but admire 'Grandpa Yao' even more.
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao said, "At first, the Village of Peace had sixteen super searchlights deployed on the streets that were four kilometers long. The enemy only had four people, but they were able to blow up the sixteen searchlights in different directions in the blink of an eye. It means that every gunman had to shoot four times in one second on average.
"Also, based on my perception of the trajectories of the bullets, the direction where they shot was at least two to three kilometers away from the red line at the beginning. From such a long distance, they shot four times in different directions in one second. Every shot hit the target, and their teamwork was impeccable. This is a well-trained sniper team. What I find rather strange is that the villages other than the Village of Peace are obviously barren, and the villagers are as poor as starving ghosts. Do they have the wealth and resources to raise such an elite squad of gunmen?"
Ordinary gunmen needed to be fed with an astronomical amount of bullets. This kind of special-class gunman was even more difficult to find. Just the drugs used to maintain the eyes and improve their vision were priceless and could not be bought anywhere. Li Yao did not think that a small village in the remote countryside could produce four such experts.
Han Te and Coloured Glaze shook their heads in suspicion, too. "We don't know. By logic, such super gunmen should be very famous, but we have never heard of such experts in any of the villages nearby."
Han Te thought for a moment and plucked the super gunman's vest first. However, other than the bullets and the tobacco that could calm the soul, there was nothing inside that could prove his identity.
He then took out a dagger from his waist and cut open the soft armor on the other party's body. He found a very strange tattoo on the other party's chest. It was a black water droplet that was dripping into a pool of water.
"The Black Water Gang!"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze exclaimed at the same time.
Li Yao saw the fright on the kids' faces. He could not help but ask curiously, "What is the Black Water Gang? Is it very strong?"
"Yes — it is very strong!"
Coloured Glaze said, her voice shivering. "About three hundred kilometers to the west of the Village of Peace, there is a valley named 'Double Dragons Valley'. At the end of the valley is a ruined city. However, the damage is not too serious. I'm told that even the radiation and the pollution are very weak. Rescue assets often arrive from the sky. Therefore, the place has been regarded as the nest of almost ten ferocious gangs. It is a 'Bloody World' that is full of smoke.
"The Black Water Gang is a gang that rose in the place in recent years. It is said that they have committed all kinds of crimes. Although we have never seen them with our own eyes, it is not hard to imagine that they would rise in the Double Dragons Valley when there are already almost ten gangs if they are not all brutal and strong bandits."
Thinking quickly, Li Yao asked, "Did those gangs mess with the Village of Peace before?"
"Of course they did."
Coloured Glaze said, "When I was little, gangs would come to the Village of Peace to make trouble every now and then, but they were all beaten back by my father. Also, the Village of Peace has the advantage of terrain. Our village is at the center of the lake, and there is no shelter on the boundless lake. Whoever dares to invade us will be able to see them from dozens of kilometers away. Even if the tough bandits can swim over, they certainly cannot carry heavy magical equipment.
"Besides, we are just a small village in a Desolate World after all. This bone is hard to chew and does not have much meat. My father and Zhao Lie … uncle beat back quite a few batches of tough bandits and reached an agreement with the few biggest gangs in the Double Dragons Valley, paying them a certain amount of assets every year. Just like that, the safety of the Village of Peace was ensured. At least in the past five or six years, few tough bandits have attacked the village on a large scale."
"However, the Black Water Gang is a new gang."
Han Te sniffed and said, "They don't know how tough my master is. It is not entirely impossible that they intend to uproot the Village of Peace to establish their dominance."
Li Yao did not comment on the analysis of the two little fellows. Instead, he spread out his soul and discovered a lot of feeble spiritual waves lurking deep inside the city ruins. Sneering in his heart, he went on, "Then, have the gangs ever looted the 'Bliss Ceremony' on a large scale?"
"Not exactly."
Han Te was slightly dazed. He shook his head and said, "The angels deliver the relief assets almost at the same time in various places. Right now, the relief assets floating above the Double Dragons Valley must be a hundred times more abundant than ours. The ferocious bandits are not idiots. How can they give up the fat meat that is right in front of their mouths and come to steal the bone from us?
"Therefore, it is possible that lone, desperate bandits are out of options, but it does not seem likely that an entire gang of bandits will come out."
"Got it."
Greatly puzzled, Li Yao instructed casually, "Cut off the fingers and the tattoos on the chests of the four bodies and collect them together with the sniper rifles. Then, deform the bodies and throw them into a random skyscraper. Then, blow up the skyscraper. Go back and say that you accidentally found a few bodies on the roadside and felt that something was not right when you saw that they were well-equipped. So, you went forward to investigate, only to discover that they were all members of the Black Water Gang. Remember, do not reveal your capabilities to anyone for now, especially 'Blood Eagle' Zhao Lie!"
"Understood, Grandpa Yao!"
The two little fellows had just taken down three experts of the Black Water Gang. It was not until then that they realized how powerful the arts of spiritual energy that Li Yao taught them and the magical equipment that was specially crafted for them were. They were very confident. Hearing the solemnity in Li Yao's words, they knew that 'Grandpa Yao' must have sensed something wrong, and the situation might have changed subtly.
However, as long as' Grandpa Yao 'was here, there was nothing to be scared of.
Did they not see that even the special gunmen of the Black Water Gang had been killed by Grandpa Yao as easily as if they were chickens?
Li Yao led the two little fellows deeper into the city ruins. This time, they did not alert the enemy but simply investigated the surroundings.
Li Yao naturally found some clues, but he had not connected all the glittering pieces yet. There was no need for him to tell them to the two little fellows right now.
After taking a long detour, when they finally returned to the base of the Village of Peace, 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' had already disappeared behind the dark clouds.
In the east, however, the bloody dawn was vaguely showing up.
A new day had begun.
But the slaughter and destruction in the Land of Sins would never end.
The battle above the red line was already over.
In terms of strength, the sinners of the other villages were far from a match for the experts of the Village of Peace. However, with their bravery and the madness of dying together with the enemy, they launched a suicidal charge.
But their skulls were not as hard as the clubs after all. Such a charge certainly could not last long. The hundreds of sinners at the front were all knocked to the ground, screaming nonstop.
'Sky Breaking Hammer' Gu Zhengyang and 'Blood Eagle' Zhao Lie marched forward unstoppably. The mobsters that had been temporarily gathered finally collapsed. Leaving the wounded on the ground who were screaming miserably, they retreated again.
But the Village of Peace suffered heavy casualties, too.
After only one to two hours of fierce battle, more than a hundred warriors had been killed on the spot, and almost five hundred of them were heavily wounded. In the Land of Sins that was short of medicine, their internal organs had been stirred up by the rusted chainsaws. Even if they were not killed on the spot and could be saved, they were basically crippled.
What was even more critical was that almost all the casualties were brawny men in their prime years. They were the strongest hunters, warriors, and explorers in the village.
There were only several thousand people in the entire village, and almost five hundred of them had been slain in the battle alone. Such a loss was like a bolt from the blue.
The rift between the village leader and the captain of the exploration team finally collapsed. Furious fury was spurting out of it.
Hardly had Li Yao returned to the camp with the two little fellows when he ran into Gu Zhengyang and Zhao Lie. A conflict that was ten times fiercer than the night before broke out.
"Revenge! Revenge! Those scumbags have to pay the price!"
'Blood Eagle' Zhao Lie had fought for a whole night. His armor had been dyed red, with suspicious pieces of meat hanging on it. But he could not have looked more excited than ever, showing no sign of exhaustion at all. His burning eyes were almost popping out as he waved a broken saber and roared, "They killed one of the Village of Peace. I'm going to kill ten of them for revenge. Kill, kill, kill! Don't leave anything alive. Kill all those scumbags!"
Some of the young warriors were on Zhao Lie's side. Those people's fathers, brothers, and friends had all been heavily wounded or even killed in the battle of the red line. At this moment, they couldn't have been more infuriated. Led by Zhao Chong's' Iron Blood Youths', the young warriors reorganized the tanks and moved the ammunition, preparing to march to the other side of the red line.
"Enough!"
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