Chapter 461 - A spent force (1/2)

After arriving outside the manor, Zong Cheng realized he might have taken too big of a risk. The third ancillary branch was refusing to save him?

Zong Cheng was terribly upset as his ears were still ringing. Zong Cheng said coldly over the radio, ”Fourth Brother, aren't you afraid the main branch will take revenge on you later if you refuse to help me? Our main house might not be able to do anything about the entire third house, but do you think you can get away if we're only fighting against you? There's only one supernatural being pursuing me, so the troops here are enough to handle him!”

Fourth Brother was the eldest son of the third ancillary branch, as well as the commander of the 1229th Battalion which was under the 107th Combat Brigade.

Fourth Brother lividly pondered this for a few seconds before saying, ”Move the hedgehogs aside and let Zong Cheng through.”

Seeing that the hedgehogs had been shifted away, Zong Cheng was overjoyed. Then he floored it and drove forward.

However, he did not stop after entering the defensive position and continued driving deeper into the manor. He was going to escape from the western entrance of the manor.

When Fourth Brother saw Zong Cheng continuing to flee, he felt that something was wrong. If the troops here were really enough to handle the supernatural being as Zong Cheng had claimed, why would he still need to run away?!

The Zong Consortium's Fourth Brother growled, ”Zong Cheng, you treacherous bastard, you're despicable!”

”Sir, what should we do now?” the deputy commander of the 1229th Battalion asked.

”Defend the position! As if a supernatural being can take on an entire stronghold all by themself!” the Zong Consortium's Fourth Brother said.

As the steam locomotive approached the manor, Ren Xiaosu resorted to his usual tactic again and started dropping grenades on the defensive line to break it up. In between, he also threw out four ”fives” from the Explosive Poker deck he had. However, the power of four ”fives” was much weaker than that of four ”sixes.”

Then three soldiers on the Zong Consortium's defensive position carrying RPG launchers fired at Ren Xiaosu!

As the steam locomotive was a really large target, how could the RPGs miss?

But as they waited for the RPGs to explode, they saw the huge steam locomotive transforming into black mist. A second later, an armored being sprang out of the mist.

While still in midair, he contorted his body and dexterously dodged the incoming RPGs by passing through the gaps between them.

When the armor-clad Ren Xiaosu landed on the ground, he started charging forward, making the entire ground quake as he did so. The Zong Consortium's soldiers felt a sense of powerlessness. Seeing that their bullets were totally ineffective against their enemy and with their RPGs missing him entirely, they didn't know how to deal with him!

However, Ren Xiaosu did not engage the enemies here any further. He was only looking to destroy the manor quickly with his grenades and kill as many of the enemy's troops as possible.

The third house was doomed.

Of course, Ren Xiaosu could not guarantee that all the places he had just attacked would end up getting destroyed, nor could he finish off the soldiers and members of the Zong Consortium who had survived the blasts. Whether or not they were killed was all down to luck.

After the third ancillary branch's manor was attacked, an old man crawled out from under the ruins. When the Zong Consortium's battalion commander saw that his father was alright, he immediately ran forward to help him up. ”Father, let's retreat. We can't stay here any longer!”

The old man looked especially comical when the combover used to cover his bald head were scattered. He snapped, ”Retreat? Haven't you realized by now? This is the main branch's scheme! Zong Cheng has more than a 1,000 soldiers under his command, yet he couldn't even stop a supernatural being? No matter how strong a supernatural being is, they don't have an endless amount of mental strength. So why was that supernatural being still up and running? It's obvious that Zong Cheng is taking this chance to eliminate his dissidents!”

The expression on this battalion commander's face turned extremely sullen. Earlier, when Zong Cheng entered the defensive position and continued fleeing, he had already thought that something was amiss.

The elder's expression turned dark. ”That little shit, Zong Cheng, has turned against our Zong Consortium, so don't blame me for not caring about our family ties! Call the fourth branch immediately! We must unite against the main branch!”

After so many years of infighting within the Zong Consortium, Zong Cheng's first thoughts after encountering Ren Xiaosu's attack on Stronghold 146 was to lead him to wipe out the third and fourth ancillary branches. At the same time, he also wanted to use the third and fourth houses' strength to wear down Ren Xiaosu.

Meanwhile, after the third house was implicated, they did not choose to flee, nor mention anything about organizing a search party to hunt down Ren Xiaosu. Instead, they immediately wanted to join up with the other faction to get their revenge!