Chapter 716 (2/2)

Soren’s subordinates hesitated and exchanged glances

“Follow orders!” Soren was alight with a passion, and his eyes full of excitement “It is my honour to die for the cause!”

The three subordinates did not hesitate any and Alfonsofrom either side of Xia Lei Jack stayed on the path in the ether Xia Lei had Soren under his control, but he was unable to watch his sides and back at the sa and Alfonso got behind him

“Put down your weapon!” Soren sneered “Or you’ll die here!”

Xia Lei looked nervous He used his left hand to put pressure on Soren’s neck to force hiun down and co that you took out of the ical attack on Xia Lei

“Tell them to stay still!” said Xia Lei loudly

Soren sneered “Stop being foolish Our perception of death is different frouts But you knohat the result is if you shoot …”

Bang!

A bullet shot froh Soren’s cheek Blood and pieces of meat exploded from Soren’s face White teeth were suddenly exposed froh—” screamed Soren The power of faith could not protect one frolory

This was Xia Lei’s response

You think I won’t dare to shoot?

I’ll just try shooting you once, then!

Obayang and Alfonso froze in their tracks All three subordinates had not expected that Xia Lei would be so ruthless as to dare to shoot Soren under the pressure of having three guns pointed at hiushed froarbled

“Freeze!” A heavily armed Special Forces soldier had appeared all of a sudden and shouted out a warning in French

A group of National Security agents and French National Gendar close Guns forward, and !

This was actually why Xia Lei had had the confidence to shoot Soren He had seen the French forces arriving from the reflection in the column If the backup had not arrived, he would not have chosen to shoot but to think of a way to drag for ti so would have been easy

Soren’s face right then was drained of colour It wasn’t entirely because Xia Lei had destroyed his face, but mainly because he had come to carry out hisXia Lei away and getting his hands on the sacred object, but he had not expected that he would be in dire straits in an instant

“Put the gun down!” shouted a French National Security agent in French

“Don’t shoot!” Obayang put both hands up

Jack and Alfonso put their hands up but they did not put their guns down

The three of theive theroup of Special Forces soldiers ere arret this, Xia Lei” Soren’s voice carried a burning hatred

Xia Lei suddenly let go of Soren but his rabbed Xia Lei’s wrist iun from Xia Lei’s hand

Xia Lei slaround

Soren took a step forward and turned abruptly to shoot at Xia Lei

Click—

There was no sound of a gunshot

Soren stared blankly, then pulled the trigger again There still wasn’t any gunshot He then realised that the gun had no bullets He realised so…

Gunshots rang out and bullets flew over like raindrops Soren’s chest and head were torn apart Obayang, Jack and Alfonso were not safe either They becaunshots ceased

Xia Lei crawled to his feet He looked at the bodies on the floor and a faint sneer appeared on his lips ‘Sorry, I forgot to tell you that there was no clip in the gun”

He had released the clip a few seconds earlier, when releasing Soren He had been ni this slySoren He’d used the French to hts Hospitaller ence Departet any information out of theents and the French National Gendarmerie came forward Some Special Forces soldiers prodded at the bodies on the floor with the uns were still hot fro, and burnt smells came from the bodies; terrible s the hot gun barrels to check if the targets were still alive was a cruel method, but very effective

“Are you hurt, Mr Xia?” asked a

“I was hit a few times by them, but I should be fine Thank you,” said Xia Lei

“Miss Eva is on her way here She will arrive soon”

“Mot it,” said Xia Lei

Whether she came or not was not important to him anymore, because he had used their hand to kill