Chapter 603: Protect Mr. Xu to the Death

Chapter 603: Chapter 603: Protect Mr. Xu to the Death

What Lei Yunping didn’t expect was the unfamiliar voice that came from the other end of the phone: "You must be Lei Yunping, right? Your brother is already dead. You’re next!"

WHIR!!

Lei Yunping felt as if his mind had just exploded!

"Who are you? How do you know my name? Why do you have my brother’s phone?"

"Vice Governor Lei, how can you not know who I am? Weren’t you the one who sent your brother after our Hu Family? Your brother has been hacked to pieces and fed to the dogs, leaving not even a scrap of bone behind. With pathetic strength like yours, you think you can get revenge on Xiaoyuan? You’re simply looking to die! Just you wait! Xiaoyuan will be back in Luocheng for you soon!"

BEEP... BEEP...

Hu Yidao hung up.

Lei Yunping was so terrified his soul nearly fled his body, his entire frame drenched in a cold sweat.

’Didn’t Yunhai say no one in all of Dongshan was his match?’

’How could this be happening?’

Seeing Lei Yunping look so utterly broken, his wife, Sun Meiling, asked nervously, "Old Lei, what’s wrong?"

"Yunhai is dead! Cheng Yuan will be back in Luocheng for us soon! We can’t get revenge for our son, and now we’re going to die too!"

"What? Yunhai is dead? Wasn’t he a genius from the Land of Great Evil? How could he die in a backwater like Dongshan?"

"I don’t know what happened! Hu Yidao has Yunhai’s phone, so I’m afraid he’s most likely dead. Let’s go! We have to get out of the country! And never come back!"

’Leave the country?’

Sun Meiling was not about to accept that!

’I absolutely cannot let my son’s killer get away with this!’

"Lei Yunping! You spineless coward! What are you running for? So what if we can’t kill Cheng Yuan! Can’t we still kill Xu Ke? Xu Ke is just an ordinary person! Didn’t you hire a bunch of Mercenaries and Japanese Wanderers? Offer them a higher price! Ten times the price! Even if it bankrupts us, we have to kill Xu Ke! Killing even one of them will be worth it!"

"Fine!!"

...

Qingyuan Hotel.

Gao Qingyuan received Xu Ke and settled him in the penthouse safe house.

Gao Qingyuan gathered his core subordinates and said in a grim voice, "Mr. Xu is Mr. Cheng’s brother, and someone is trying to hunt him down. Are we going to allow that, brothers?"

"No!"

"We’ll protect Mr. Xu to the death!!"

Gao Qingyuan nodded in satisfaction and commanded sharply, "From now on, no one is allowed on the top floor! For anyone who tries to force their way into the safe house, you have permission to kill first and ask questions later!"

"Yes, sir!"

With all the preparations made, Gao Qingyuan was finally able to breathe a small sigh of relief.

But what was coming would come.

「Ten minutes later.」

Several commercial vans pulled up to the entrance of the Qingyuan Hotel. A doorman walked up and said politely to the driver, "I’m sorry, you can’t park here at the entrance. Would you like me to valet the vehicle for you?"

Unfortunately, the driver ignored the doorman’s words.

WHOOSH. WHOOSH.

Seven or eight burly, masked men exited each van. They were all fully armed.

Some carried Hot Weapons, others held longblades from East Japan.

The doorman’s expression changed. He instinctively pulled out his walkie-talkie to sound the alarm.

SWISH!

A blade flashed, severing the doorman’s hand and sending him into shrill, agonizing screams.

The burly men stepped over the doorman’s body and charged into the hotel lobby!

A few clueless security guards moved to intercept them, only to be met by a long Samurai Blade!

SQUELCH! SQUELCH!

Two guards fell into pools of their own blood!

Radiating a murderous aura, the Japanese Wanderer Nakagawa Hisashi strode menacingly to the front desk. He held out a photo of Xu Ke and asked coldly, "Tell me which room this man is in. Or I’ll kill you."

The three young women at the front desk turned pale with fright, nearly losing control of their bowels. The one in the middle stammered, "That person... he isn’t a guest. I think he’s a friend of our boss. I don’t know which room he’s in."

Nakagawa Hisashi grinned. "A pity. Such a pretty face."

SQUELCH!

The front desk clerk collapsed in a pool of blood.

The other two clerks were so terrified they collapsed into their seats!

The quicker-witted of the two immediately shouted, "Our boss’s office is on the top floor! He must have taken his friend to the top floor! Don’t kill me! Please, don’t kill me!"

"Now that’s more like it."

Nakagawa Hisashi reached out and pinched the young woman’s cheek. His large hand then slid slowly down and wrapped around her throat.

CRACK!

Her throat was crushed. She fell to the ground, her face a mask of disbelief and defiance.

The last clerk fainted from sheer terror and slumped to the floor.

Nakagawa Hisashi gave her a cold glance, then turned and announced in a low voice, "The target is on the top floor! We’ll split into four teams and assault from four directions!"

"Yes, sir!"

At Nakagawa Hisashi’s command, the Mercenaries split into four teams, heading upstairs from different directions and by different means.

As the leader of the Sakura Squad, Nakagawa Hisashi had absolute confidence in his own strength, so he chose to take the elevator for a frontal assault.

Four Japanese Wanderers quickly followed him into the elevator.

WHOOSH. WHOOSH.

The elevator doors slowly closed.

The camera in the elevator blinked with a blue light and shifted its angle slightly. Someone was clearly monitoring these Rangers.

SWISH!

One of the Rangers drew his blade and shattered the camera.

The surveillance room quickly reported, "We have five Rangers in elevator 6! All brothers on the top floor, prepare for engagement!"

CLICK! CLACK!

The men tasked with defending elevator 6 braced themselves. They surrounded the elevator doors in a fan-shaped formation, their eyes nervously glued to the ascending floor number.

The burly man in the lead had a long scar across his face. He wasn’t holding a gun, but a large cleaver.

This man was one of Gao Qingyuan’s Four Great Vajra—Brother Scar.

Brother Scar stared intently at the numbers. Soon, they stopped. The elevator had reached the top floor.

Before the doors could even open, Brother Scar roared, "Light ’em up!!"

BANG! BANG! BANG!

RAT-A-TAT-TAT!

His men frantically pulled their triggers!

The elevator doors were instantly riddled with holes and creaked open.

As the smoke gradually cleared, the men were dumbfounded.

There wasn’t a single Ranger in the elevator.

"Brother Scar, was the intel from the surveillance room wrong?"

Brother Scar frowned and pointed at two of his men. "You two, go check it out."

"Yes, sir!"

The two men cautiously approached, peering inside.

The elevator car was empty.

They instinctively looked up, and their pupils contracted violently.

There was a large hole in the ceiling of the car, and a Ranger was grinning down at them.

SWOOSH!

A blade flashed!

SQUELCH! SQUELCH!

Red lines appeared on the necks of the two men. They instinctively raised their hands to their throats, but they couldn’t stop the blood that gushed out!

Nakagawa Hisashi leaped down, using their bodies as meat shields as he charged!

The other men were confused, but luckily Brother Scar reacted quickly. "What the fuck are you all gawking at?" he roared. "Xiaochen and Xiaozhang are dead! Open fire! Kill that Ranger!"