Chapter 92: Subduing
When Su Huan’s three shots pierced through the 50 cm thick wall, the victor had actually already been decided.
Although the sniper rifle couldn’t fire for a short time due to the gun barrel overheating.
But He Jie and the others didn’t know that.
The enemy had no sniper left, while they had two, so basically anyone who showed their head would be killed instantly.
To completely avoid Su Huan’s electromagnetic sniper rifle, they had to hide deep inside the building, but if they hid inside, there’d be no point in ambushing anymore; the ones below would just drive away directly.
They could only keep shifting positions and grit their teeth to fight Lu Xiao below.
In the end, Liang Kuan and his group, hearing the gunshots, also rushed over, with rocket launchers and anti-aircraft machine guns, giving the barely hanging on Captain He a harsh lesson.
By the time Su Huan arrived, he saw Lu Xiao lying miserably in the passenger seat of the fire truck, his thigh and arm shot with blood flowing nonstop, unable to tell how many bullets he had taken.
And this was still with the bulletproof vest on; otherwise, judging from the bullet distribution, he should have been cut in half at the waist.
A woman sat in the driver’s seat pressing his wounds, her face stained with quite a bit of bloodstain, carrying a bewitching sense of tragic beauty.
It was exactly that Dodder Flower.
“If you had come a bit later, you could’ve collected my corpse for me.” Lu Xiao said, gasping for breath.
Su Huan glanced at the bullet holes on the car window, then at the woman in the driver’s seat, and chuckled lightly, “Gunpowder from metal, fiery beauty, coming early would ruin your heroic aura.”
“Bullshit!”
“Don’t worry, I brought a professional surgeon with thirty years of experience; even if your guts get shot out today, I can still save your dog life—after all, you owe so much debt.”
He beckoned, and Doctor Lin Xia hurriedly ran over carrying the medical kit.
Lu Xiao lifted his eyelids and wanted to curse upon seeing Lin Xia’s young face, but the aftereffects had kicked in, and the pain left him without strength.
Lin Xia was dumbfounded at the scene inside the car; the teacher had never taught how to extract bullets.
His hesitant gaze turned to Su Huan.
Su Huan gave him a reassuring look and said in a low voice, “Don’t worry, it’s far from the heart. Defenders have good constitution; just dig out the bullets first.”
“I’ll try…”
Although the two kept their voices low, in such a small place, it was almost no different from whispering in the ear.
Lu Xiao even suspected this black-hearted guy was saying it deliberately for him to hear.
Just after handling Lu Xiao’s side, Old Er ran over; He Jie’s subordinates had all been killed, and he was out of ammo and grain, trapped inside the building.
Old San had specifically sent him to ask how to handle it.
Su Huan didn’t rashly go over but carefully checked the corpses of those already killed.
What surprised him was that his shot through the wall had actually hit someone.
Moreover, it was one shot through two, one dead and one seriously injured.
The rest were casualties from rockets and anti-aircraft machine guns.
As for conventional ammunition, it basically had no effective output.
It seemed impossible to take down Steel Council’s troops with conventional combat; after all, the opponents were well-trained evolvers. If not for borrowing the information advantage and step-by-step scheming, they couldn’t have achieved this result.
Walking inside, Su Huan finally understood why Captain He didn’t dare move at all.
This was an office, with workstations having some zombies that had long been cleared out; judging from the clean suit on the body, they probably never left the company until death.
He Jie was hiding in the boss’s office inside.
Liang Kuan and Old San led a group of people surrounding outside, holding rocket launchers and various light and heavy machine guns.
With this setup, Su Huan felt that thin wall was trembling.
If not for everyone waiting for his decision, He Jie would have long been drowned in cannon fire.
Su Huan raised his hand to check his wristwatch, “Good afternoon, Captain He. I’ll treat, care to join me for dinner tonight?”
A hoarse voice came from the office, “Who are you?”
“Armored Train’s Train Conductor Su Huan.”
The room was pitch black without windows; He Jie sat behind the boss’s solid wood desk, bandaging the wound on his arm, and frowned upon hearing this.
‘Armored Train… never heard of this force. Could it be much higher level than the company?’
‘Then this defeat makes sense; as for those ordinary people, they were probably disguises to hide their identity…’
From one form of address, He Jie had mentally supplemented a logical background identity for Su Huan.
Biting the gauze with his teeth to tie the knot tight, He Jie took a deep breath, “You’ve overstepped, haven’t you? The acid rain area is Qing Steel’s territory.”
Su Huan’s gaze outside the door suddenly sharpened.
‘Acid rain area!’
No one but him knew this term; survivors initially still called the land under their feet Qingchuan Province.
This further confirmed his earlier guess.
Only those major forces who knew the apocalypse was coming in advance would redraw the map from a macro perspective using various disasters!
“How about I make a condition? Captain He, see if you can accept it. If yes, we’ll sit down for a good dinner tonight; if not, I’ll send you on your way now—hurry two steps and you might catch up with your brothers ahead.”
“…What condition?”
“Betray Steel Council and join me.”
“Huh?”
He Jie was really stunned this time.
Could the core team of a major force still be poached like this?
“Are you joking with me…”
Su Huan didn’t waste words and directly threw out the trump card, “As far as I know, Captain He not only has both son and daughter, but his wife is also gentle and virtuous, and she’s an art teacher, right?”
Silence instantly fell in the office.
Su Huan continued, “This task has already failed, and at least fifteen people have been lost, maybe more. Would the councilor behind you still protect a dead man like you? He’s probably unable to protect himself…”
“Do you think a beautiful and gentle woman can raise two children to adulthood in this cruel apocalypse?”
“I’m afraid the night your death news gets back, a bunch of well-dressed gentlemen will knock on your house door, saying to your fragile and pitiable widow: Madam, you wouldn’t want—”
“Bang!”
Something unknown in the room smashed hard against the room door.
Captain He’s furious cursing voice came out, “Fuck you—you, you shut your damn crow mouth!”
Halfway through cursing, Captain He remembered the other party might be his only way out, so he forcibly swallowed the nastiest second half and switched to a milder version.
Su Huan smiled; as long as the other was angry, the matter was more or less done.
He Jie wasn’t a die-hard company loyalist; in his previous life, he had sold his life to Steel Council just to let his wife and daughter live better.
So he tested it with information from his previous life.
Sure enough, compared to the company and those dead temporary comrades, Captain He cared more about his own wife.
Hearing the faint corpse roars outside, Su Huan urged.
“Then come out. If we drag it out, we might have a little trouble.”
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