Chapter 553 - The Emerging Crisis (2/2)

“Brother Rice, you can’t blame me for this, it’s the guy from Hua Nation who suddenly stopped his car,” Thomas replied. He felt wronged and pointed at the jeep in front of them.

“That annoying guy from Hua Nation!”

Hearing that, Rice, who already resented Xiao Luo, became even more furious, and he forcefully opened the door and stepped out of the vehicle.

At that same time, Xiao Luo was also stepping out of his jeep. Rice stormed toward Xiao Luo in anger, intent on questioning him. “Mie, why did you stop the car suddenly? Didn’t you know what you just did is very dangerous?” Rice yelled.

Xiao Luo completely ignored Rice as if he was invisible. He looked up and gazed off into the distant skyline.

Sarah also got out of the truck, and she looked in the same direction that Xiao Luo was looking at with squinted blue eyes. “It seems like a sandstorm, but the height of a sandstorm shouldn’t be that low, right? It has already come so close to us, but I still don’t feel the wind!” she said.

She sounded unsure as she bounced her thoughts off Xiao Luo.

“That’s not a sandstorm!”

Xiao Luo disagreed with her right away. “It looks like the dust trail made by vehicles when they are speeding through the dunes,” he said.

“Hey, I’m talking to you, didn’t you hear me?” Rice screamed.

Rice was extremely angry, and he could no longer hide his fury as he did before. He reached out and grabbed Xiao Luo’s shoulder.

The moment he put his hand on Xiao Luo’s shoulder, Xiao Luo turned around and kicked him in the stomach.

THUMP!

Rice staggered backward, and he bent forward and held his abdomen. His face crumpled in pain, so much pain that it felt like his stomach was being pierced by an electric drill. The excruciating pain distorted his face.

Xiao Luo squinted at him coldly. “I hate it when someone grabs my shoulder from behind,” he said.

“F*CK!” Rice cried.

Rice blew his top, as this felt as humiliating as taking a bad spill. However, when he looked up, a dozen military trucks came into sight over the horizon. The trucks formed a row and were speeding toward them like beasts, leaving a trail of billowing sand behind.

At that moment, with his pupils dilated and his countenance changed, he started shouting as he pointed to the front. “We’ve got a situation here!” he continued to scream back to his team.

The others also saw the trucks and did not need his warning. A dozen other trucks were moving at an insane speed towards them from the other direction. The enemy was not only closing in from the front but attacking from the back as well. The speeding trucks kicked up sand, creating what looked like a sandstorm.

“Goddamn it, it’s the Libyan rebel fighters!” shouted Powell.

Powell had used his high-powered binoculars to assess the situation, and he couldn’t help but cry out in dismay.

The rebel fighters?!With the thought that they would encounter the Libyan National Army, the commandos felt chills creeping down their spines.Powell reacted immediately. “Mr. Mie, we are counting on you to protect Miss Sarah now. You two should go first. We’ll bring up the rear!” he said.Xiao Luo did not stand on ceremony. Before he could determine the number of Libyan rebel soldiers and what weapons they possessed, he was not about to act arrogantly and burn his bridges, especially with the enemy attacking from two directions. Together with Sarah, Xiao Luo fired up his jeep and pressed the accelerator pedal to the floor. He drove the vehicle off the road to make a right turn and accelerated toward the dunes.Rice had only contempt for Xiao Luo. “F*ck! That Hua Nation man has got no balls, he’s only good at running away!” he scowled.Rice was left speechless by Xiao Luo’s action. Xiao Luo’s actions were so quick and precise that Rice felt jealous at the slick manner that he made his getaway.”Shut up! You’re still interested in quarreling in such a critical situation? Do you f*cking wanna die?”Enraged, Powell scolded him and then waved his hand urgently. “Get in the car, fall back!””Yes, sir.”The other team members quickly responded.The two military trucks followed the jeep that Xiao Luo was driving. They drove as fast as they could to avoid being surrounded by the Libyan rebel fighters.The speeding trucks went over crushed stones that were everywhere on the dunes that stretched beyond the horizon, sending sand and dust flying up into the air. When Xiao Luo and his associates chose one direction to escape, the Libyan rebel trucks closing in from both directions also changed their course to pursue them, forming a fan-shaped convoy of vehicles.WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!Several RPGs were launched toward them, landing close to the trucks and exploding with loud booms. Upon its impact, the ground shook, and the surge of energy waves that rippled through the air inflicted pain on their eardrums. Their vision was also affected, and they could not focus.