Chapter 26 (1/2)
Chapter 26 – To Kill a Hundred People
TL: Milaryn
Edit: IlkonEbi
TL Note: Bold text is spoken in English.
Marilyn’s “I don’t know” caused Heidi to cautiously raise her head, “Mommy, is it…”
“Don’t speak.”
Marilyn hurriedly clapped a hand over the little girl’s mouth, but Tang Jingyao had already heard her. With a giant smile on his face, he walked towards them as Heidi’s face paled. Suddenly, a huge explosion, akin to an earthquake, shook the entire building. Tang Jingyao hurriedly grabbed the side of the table and was about to pick up the walkie-talkie to ask what the situation was, when gunshots could be heard!
The light inside the room where the Italian mobsters were was suddenly extinguished. Due to the explosion, the light in the room they were currently in was also flickering. Under the shouts of the Italians and the rat-tat-tat of machine guns and handguns, one could also see flashes of pistol fire. Marilyn tightly hugged Heidi and they sprawled on the floor, while Tang Jingyao froze in place, horrified as he pointed a gun at the room’s entrance. One of the mobsters that was standing by the entrance of the room barely managed to pull out his gun when he stumbled and collapsed into the room, a bloody hole in the center of his forehead.
After a few moments, the shaking stopped and the sounds of gunfire also ceased. From the room, the three could see the corpses of the mobsters lying in fresh pools of blood all over the hallway. Tang Jingyao gripped the gun in his hand tighter, and did not dare to head out of the room. After a pause, when everything became quiet, his heart pounded. He pulled Marilyn up from the floor and shoved her in front before heading towards the entrance.
Marilyn had a basic idea of who it was, so she was not afraid at all. The other room was illuminated by the light behind them, when they looked inside, she sucked in a deep breath and secretly rejoiced. The room was a complete mess, there were five corpses and the floor was splattered with fresh blood. The only window in the room was wide open and it was clear that whoever attacked had entered from there. After massacring the Italian mobsters in this small space, the person had unexpectedly exited via the window.
After seeing that scene, Tang Jingyao started trembling. He looked at Marilyn and shouted into the walkie-talkie, “Give me a report! Just now… what happened just now?”
“Boss, there was a package on the west side conveyor belt, and it exploded. We… we lost around five people to that.”
The voice on the walkie-talkie sounded panicked and Tang Jingyao only anxiously shouted, “I don’t care, get everyone to come up here… I need everyone here right now!”
Just as the other side heard this, another voice suddenly interrupted, “Help! Help me! He’s outside! He just jumped down from up there. Ol’ Two and Ol’ Four were both killed. It’s a kid, no, he’s…”
The walkie-talkie suddenly cut off.
“It’s not possible for that person to be a kid… I know, it is a midget. It has to be a midget…” He hurriedly ran over to the window to take a look; they were on the third floor of the factory which was at least five floors high. It was completely dark outside, and he could not see how that person had gotten up here and then down there. The walkie-talkie suddenly started up again.
“Boss, a collapsed cement pillar is blocking the corridor. We’re currently pushing it aside, we’re nearly done…”
Suddenly, the sounds of gunfire could be heard.
“…He’s coming, he’s rushing in!”
Hearing the gunshots coming from downstairs, Tang Jingyao could only feel his whole body shake. As he walked back into the room, he only glanced briefly at the mother-daughter pair, keeping an ear on the sound of gunshots that was gradually decreasing. He asked into the walkie-talkie, “What happened, did you get rid of him?”
A tense and confused voice came through, “N-no, we haven’t. He’s very nimble, like a monkey. A few of my fellows have already been shot in the confusion. N-now…”
Now that Tang Jingyao knew the reason why the gunshots decreased, he gritted his teeth in anger. “What?? You’re saying that it’s only one person, and you have so many people with you… You guys are being suppressed by one person?!”
“Boss, h-h-he… his gun shots are incredibly accurate; whoever goes out instantly dies…”
“My a#$%^…” Tang Jingyao was so angry that his words became unintelligible. He shouted into the walkie-talkie, “On my count to three, I want everyone to shoot! I don’t believe that this many people cannot kill one person! One, two, three…”
On the “three”, all his remaining subordinates did start shooting, and as if in response to him, a voice suddenly broadcasted in the factory, “You really think that’s going to happen?”
A few of them rushed out and discovered that they could not find their opponent’s location. The broadcasted voice caused them come out of hiding and shoot wildly at their surroundings. Machine gun bullets rained down from above and tore through four people’s bodies and the remaining subordinates scurried back to their original hiding spots. The leader of the group nervously said into the walkie-talkie, “Boss, be careful. He’s at… the broadcast room…”