Shadow Empire
Chapter 573 When I opened my eyes, the table was already on the table
Chapter 573 When I opened my eyes, the table was already on the table
Feeling the violent shaking of the door, Gao Li quickly pushed some things around him to block the door.
He didn't use his body to block the fire because he wasn't sure whether the people outside would shoot.
The sound of him pushing things startled the people outside the room, and the rhythm and force of his banging on the door became stronger.
He couldn't help but turn his head and look at the sniper, "How long will it take?"
The sniper didn't answer his question. He was waiting for the company's door to be opened again.
His index finger, which had been trembling slightly, suddenly became stable and slowly pressed on the trigger.
The banging sounds of the door startled the other two young men, and the four of them joined in banging on the door.
Even though there was something blocking the door and there was a safety lock, the door frame finally cracked after four people worked together.
Although the door was not open, every impact would cause it to open a small gap.
The four people who discovered this immediately turned their collision into pushing and squeezing, pushing inwards. The door seemed to be about to open little by little, and Gao Li tried his best to block it.
Maybe he was lucky, because after stacking so many pieces of furniture together, the door could only be opened a tiny gap, enough for an arm to fit in at most.
At this time, the door of the new company was opened again, and several Lance's bodyguards walked out. They were scattered on both sides of the convoy, looking at the pedestrians on the road vigilantly.
The pedestrians were also very cooperative and didn't have any thoughts of "I have to fucking get through here right now." Many of them knew Lance and had no ill feelings towards him.
You can dislike someone who is not good to you, but it is also difficult to hate someone who is good to you.
After Lance came here, everything in the Empire District has undergone tremendous changes. Even if some old-fashioned people don't like Lance so much, they will not hate him.
They stand on the sidewalk and wait, or they go around the road, and that's fine.
To the Federals, the powerful were themselves members of the privileged class, and the trivial privileges they exercised were not a problem at all!
The sniper could already see the bodyguards beginning to gather, and he realized that Lance was probably only a few steps away from the door.
He took a deep breath slowly, held his breath, and his whole body entered a state of "emptiness".
The only thing left in his world was the scope.
The moment a foot appeared from the door, time seemed to slow down in his perception.
He pressed his shoulder against the butt of the gun and had already locked the shooting position. All that was left was to wait for Lance to "bump" into his crosshairs and then pull the trigger at that moment!
At this moment, he completely ignored the people outside the room.
Several young men could not push the door open, but they heard noises coming from inside. This place was just diagonally opposite the company, and if anything happened, they would have to bear huge responsibility.
One of the young men simply pulled out a pistol and pulled the trigger at the apartment door.
The moment the firing pin hit the primer hard, the gunpowder in the bullet began to burn.
The pressure generated by the energy released at the moment of flame burning pushed the bullet out violently, accompanied by a loud sound!
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
He pulled the trigger randomly and without rhythm. The bullet penetrated the door and shot into the room, and the sound it made was also heard through the window.
Almost at the same time, or perhaps a little later, a very short time that is difficult for humans to perceive, the unique sound of a rifle gun was heard in the room...
boom!
It seemed that the door of the room that was pushed open was slightly vibrated by the gunshot. The four people outside the room had a brief "pause", but soon began to forcefully dismantle the folding wooden door along the bullet holes.
The moment Lance walked out of the company, he vaguely heard a gunshot, followed by another gunshot.
By the time he reacted, he had already been knocked to the ground by Madore!
Madore gasped, protecting Lance and his own head, and the people around him only reacted at this time.
"Someone fired a shot," Madore said.
Lance nodded, "I heard you."
As they were talking, the other bodyguards also reacted. They helped Madore and Lance up and helped them into the company.
People on the street suddenly began to scream. The successive gunshots seemed to foreshadow something. The federals seemed to have a natural sensitivity to gunfights. In an instant, there were no pedestrians on the street.
The continuous gunshots helped them find the approximate location of the shooting. A large number of Lance's men rushed towards the apartment building with weapons in hand. They wanted to see who had the courage to assassinate Lance in the Imperial District!
Lance returned to the hall and walked towards the room calmly and calmly, lighting a cigarette for himself.
Apart from the unpleasant look on his face, there was nothing resembling a gloomy or frightened expression on his face.
In the past two years, he was assassinated more than once. Sometimes the guns were only ten meters away from him, but he still survived.
He believed that this time, next time, the next time, and even any time thereafter, he would survive as a winner.
He returned to his office, sat behind the desk, then looked at the watch on his wrist and waited slowly.
The smoke from the cigarette was rising, leaving an unpredictable trace, and no one could guess what he was thinking.
At this time, behind the window more than a hundred meters away, the sniper glanced at the large number of people holding pistols, submachine guns and even rifles gathering towards this side on the opposite street. He turned around and pulled out the pistol from his arms.
He already had a premonition that today might be the last day of his life.
He had never thought of actually selling his life to Gao Li, although Gao Li did give him enough money to buy his life.
After he and Gao Li looked at each other, they both fired at the door at the same time.
Gao Li also moved some of the furniture away to give them space to evacuate.
The sound of fierce gunfire made the people downstairs move faster. They didn't know if it was their own people who were exchanging fire with the gunman, so they could only speed up.
If someone was not afraid of death and looked out of the window from upstairs at this moment, he would see the people on the street holding weapons in their hands and moving towards the apartment. There were people everywhere!
The two finally rushed out of the room. When they saw the elevator going up and heard noisy footsteps coming from the stairwell, they had no choice but to continue going up.
There is no point in hiding in the room, it will only make your death more miserable. Maybe after going up to the rooftop, there is still a chance of survival.
But when they rushed to the rooftop, they found that there was still no way to survive.
This is a ten-story apartment building. There are no other buildings of the same level or lower on both sides of the apartment. It is either much lower or much higher.
There was indeed a fire escape at the back of the apartment, but there were already people trying to climb it in the alley below the fire escape.
They were trapped, trapped on the roof of this apartment building.
Although they were on the ground, they felt like they were living on an isolated island.
The sniper, who had always been calm, couldn't help but curse at this moment.
He looked at Gao Li with some resentment. Gao Li suddenly laughed twice, took out a cigarette box from his pocket, took one for himself, and threw it to the sniper.
The sniper hesitated for a moment and lit one as well.
He exhaled the smoke from his mouth and nose in a way that resembled a sigh before Gao Li took a puff, "Sorry."
The sniper shook his head. "You gave me so much money. This is a risk I need to take myself."
"I can only say that I was unlucky this time."
At this time, a group of people also rushed out from the staircase room. When they saw Gao Li and the sniper, they stood not far from them.
The two sides confronted each other, with Gao Li holding a cigarette in one hand and a pistol in the other.
The wind on the roof was quite strong, making his clothes rustle and his hair a little messy.
He knew that if he dropped the gun and told them who he was, he would have a good chance of survival.
But what will you face after surviving?
Facing Lance's interrogation.
In fact, there was one thing he didn't tell Bandy, which was that he believed in Stone.
Shi Dong is a "good kid". Although he has never experienced any big scenes in the true sense, nor has he experienced the thrills and fights of escaping life and death, he is ultimately the best among this generation of young people.
There must be a special reason why he betrayed Lance. He must have done so only after he had been tortured.
He remembered an incident that Fleming and Bandy may not remember clearly. At that time, they were only about twelve or thirteen years old. The two guys were playing together. When they were playing in the yard, Fleming wanted to climb the gardener's ladder.
It was midsummer, and the gardener had to prune the horticultural plants every once in a while to ensure that they grew decently and became a face of the family rather than a laughing stock.
He was temporarily distracted by other things. The two teenagers were very interested in the beautiful gardening and wanted to go up and see how it became like this.
But they don't know that sometimes those beautiful and harmless-looking garden landscapes are not safe.
In order to make them look more stylish and not messy due to the shape, gardeners sometimes use some additional means.
Things like wire and iron rods are relatively normal props. After all, who the hell would be so bored as to want to know what is inside the beautiful gardening?
On the guy's ladder were these tools, along with a knife for pruning branches.
Fleming overturned the ladder and the things on it fell down. Stone protected Fleming immediately and got himself injured.
Bandy and he ran over from a distance because of Fleming's shouting, and they saw Stone bleeding.
There was a wound about seven or eight centimeters long on his arm.
The child's skin was stretched tight, and the wound was turned inside out, revealing the flesh underneath.
They were terrified and immediately went to see their family doctor. There was no special anesthetic at the time, and Stone thought he could do it.
So without any anesthesia, the doctor cleaned his wound with hydrogen peroxide, and even... used sterilized gauze to gently remove some stains that could not be washed off.
Stone is a very brave man. He will not give in just because of simple pain or hurt.
He must have been subjected to unimaginable fear to have betrayed his family.
To be honest, from a father's perspective, Gao Li may not be able to do all these.
He didn't think that even Shi Dong couldn't endure the torture, so he could.
There is a high probability that he will compromise and surrender, but he does not want to compromise or surrender.
He didn't know what shocking inside information he would confess if he compromised himself and surrendered to Lance, but it would definitely be devastating.
He didn't want the Kodak family to be completely destroyed because of him, so he couldn't fall into Lance's hands.
He took another puff of the cigarette. The feeling of the smoke filling his lungs made him feel more comfortable than ever before. He turned his head to look at the sniper and whispered, "I'm sorry."
The sniper was stunned for a moment. He didn't react. "You've already apologized."
Gao Li gave one last smile, then he suddenly raised his pistol and pointed it at the people who surrounded them, in the sniper's unbelievable and shocked eyes!
Fierce gunfire rang out in an instant. He didn't even have time to pull the trigger before he and the sniper beside him, who had a complicated expression on his face, were shot into a sieve...
Seven or eight minutes later, Erwin came back, slightly out of breath, "It's Gao Li."
Lance nodded slightly, "Where are the people?"
Erwin pursed his lips and recounted what happened on the rooftop. "We have packed up the bodies. The other man should be the gunman. He has military tattoos on his body. I don't quite understand what unit he is from."
Lance thought for a moment and said, "Take a picture of him and see if I can find out some information about him."
"Save Gao Li's body for now, maybe it will be useful."
"Are any of us injured?"
Erwin nodded, "Four guys found them during the routine ward rounds. One of them was shot twice and is in a bad condition. He has been taken to the hospital."
"Another one was shot, but not seriously."
Lance shook his head slightly, "That's terrible news."
He paused for a moment, picked up the phone, and after thinking for a moment, dialed the number of Stone's villa.
The phone was quickly picked up, "Let Shi Dong answer the phone."
Soon, the receiver was heard to sound footsteps approaching from afar, and it was picked up. "This is Shi Dong."
"Gory is dead," Lance said.
He could feel that the person opposite him suddenly... stopped moving!
This state lasted for more than 20 seconds. His emotions seemed to be collapsing. Lance could hear his voice trembling. "How...did he die?"
Lance recounted what happened here, "I didn't intend to kill him. He asked to die on his own initiative."
"I have collected the body. If you need, I can help you arrange it."
Shi Dong was silent for a while, "Please help me bury him."
"If it wasn't me...there's no point in saying this now, right?"
"Thank you for your message. Contact me if you have anything else. I need to be alone for a while now."
Lance asked someone to keep an eye on him and then hung up.
Gowrie's death could further drive the Stone and Koda families apart.
Another person who became a little autistic after knowing that Gao Li had died was Bandy. In fact, he really didn't want to use this incident to do anything. He just felt that... he could only feel at ease if he let Gao Li be responsible for the most critical things.
But he never thought of letting Gao Li die, nor did he think that Gao Li would actively seek death in this way.
After losing Stone and Gao Li, although there are still many people in the family, these people may not be able to come in handy at this critical moment.
He didn't know what to say. He didn't even have the desire to express his thoughts. He just rubbed his cheeks for a while and sat there quietly.
He was also recalling his childhood with Gao Li, recalling how they followed their fathers and emerged from one battle after another.
He thought that his and Gao Li's life would become a legendary story in Jingang City. He never imagined that this day would come so suddenly.
For some reason, he thought of many people.
Paul, Rick, and those famous gangsters from earlier times, each of them was once a living legend, but in the end, few of them could live out their legendary lives.
Maybe... those who are still alive don't deserve to be called legends?
But how can one become a legend if one is dead?
He doesn't understand.
After Fleming knew about this, he hurried back from outside. Along the way, he had been thinking of many words he wanted to say to Bandy.
But the moment he saw Bendy's haggard face, he suddenly... didn't know what to say.
The father and son just sat there facing each other, in silence. No one spoke, no one tried to comfort anyone, they just sat there.
After an unknown amount of time, Bandy recovered from his deep sorrow and asked, "How is the asset transfer going? Where are the children?"
Fleming nodded quickly and said, "The money, bearer bonds, and stocks have all been sent away, and the children have almost been transferred as well."
Bendy nodded, "You go too."
This sentence made Fleming's eyes widen, and he even stood up, "Why?"
Bendy shook his head and didn't explain.
All-round crushing.
In fact, he has been thinking about it these days, but as he thought, he thought about themselves over the years.
Are they the same, after having all the "power", they can easily crush everyone?
Then I thought about the demise of the three major families. Does their demise mean that they were not actually destroyed at the hands of the new five major families, but were destroyed by the fact that they were abandoned by higher-level forces?
Perhaps the last moment of the three major families back then was as desperate as he is now.
He slowly turned to look at Fleming, "Because we are served at the table."
(End of this chapter)
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