Chapter 292
by 林方方Chapter 292 Dark Night, Strong Wind
Terror and an eerie, sinister atmosphere grew heavier. Li Xuan immediately decided to retreat, after all, the open space outside was vast, unlike inside the factory where equipment was densely arranged, making it too easy for people to hide.
The two missing subordinates were both skilled fighters, yet even they had disappeared without a sound! This indicated that the opponent’s strength was at least several times greater than his own!
Could it be that Su Rui had anticipated their actions and arrived here in advance?
Once this thought emerged in Li Xuan’s mind, he could no longer suppress it, and it began to grow wildly!
How could he have come? How could he have guessed my actions? This is impossible!
Li Xuan kept comforting himself with the words “impossible.”
“Quickly gather outside!” he shouted loudly.
But just as they were about to head outside, the three people at the front fell down simultaneously!
Yes, simultaneously! All of them fell face-first to the ground!
On this dark and windy night, with the faint smell of blood in the air, having three people suddenly collapse was truly too bizarre!
“What happened? Go check on them!”
Li Xuan forced himself to appear calm, ordering someone with a flashlight to examine the fallen comrades!
If he hadn’t been forcefully maintaining control, this team that Nangong Shun had invested countless efforts in would have already panicked!
“Captain, they’re all dead!”
A team member with a flashlight checked the breath of all three men, finding no air movement. Just as he was about to turn over the bodies, he suddenly felt warm liquid on the back of his hand!
“All three are dead, definitely murdered!”
The team member continued shouting, while his scalp tingled with extreme fear!
Murdered? When were they killed? Who killed them?
After all, everyone had watched with their own eyes as the three men collapsed together, and before that, no one seemed to have harmed them!
“Could it be… could it be a ghost?” a voice filled with fear rose up, sending chills through everyone’s hearts!
If not a ghost, what reason could explain all this?
Several teammates dying unexpectedly—this factory must be haunted at night! Otherwise, in today’s booming real estate market, how would a perfectly good door and window company go bankrupt?
Li Xuan forced himself to appear calm. He couldn’t show any panic, or the entire team would completely fall apart!
Just as Li Xuan was about to say a few words to boost morale, suddenly one guy shouted: “If it’s not a ghost, then it’s a person. The killer must be among us!”
“What? The killer is among us?”
Hearing this, everyone became frantic!
Due to poor visibility and everyone wearing the same clothes, it was impossible to see their faces clearly! If the killer was mixed among them, it was absolutely possible!
But when did the killer strike? This was a major question!
Cold sweat poured down Li Xuan’s face!
By now, people had started crowding toward the exit!
“Everyone stand where you are, don’t move!” Li Xuan pulled out his gun and fired a shot at the factory ceiling!
In this open environment, the gunshot was deafeningly loud!
Apart from the gun in his hand, all his other subordinates’ weapons had silencers!
“Whoever disobeys orders, I’ll shoot them immediately!”
With the gunshot, everyone stopped moving! No one wanted to die at the hands of their own people!
“Everyone stand still, I’ll personally check your faces with the flashlight,” Li Xuan said coldly. “Let me see where this living ghost is hiding!”
It was to his credit that he maintained his composure, staying calm and thinking clearly in this situation—something many others couldn’t do.
Li Xuan held his gun in one hand and shined the flashlight on each person’s face with the other. Having lived with these guys for several years, he was naturally very familiar with their appearances!
He was extremely nervous now. If he actually identified the killer, he would undoubtedly be in the most dangerous position!
Li Xuan’s palm was covered in sweat as he gripped the gun tightly, ready at any moment to pull the trigger if he noticed anything wrong!
He checked one by one, going through more than a dozen people without finding any problems!
Just then, he illuminated the face of the seventeenth person. Nothing seemed wrong, and as he was about to check the next person, the seventeenth suddenly displayed a strange expression!
Li Xuan instinctively sensed danger. He stepped back, about to raise his gun, when he saw the person’s head suddenly droop and then roll off his neck!
Witnessing a human head roll to his feet was as horrifying as it gets!
As the head fell, a circular, clean cut on the neck was revealed!
Blood gushed out uncontrollably, spraying all over Li Xuan’s face and head!
He was fine just a moment ago, how did he suddenly lose his head?
Li Xuan wiped away the warm blood that had sprayed from the body cavity, and an extreme sense of panic rose in his heart!
It felt as if ghostly hands were constantly caressing his heart. Li Xuan could no longer pretend to be calm and shouted loudly: “Run!”
With Li Xuan’s command, the panic that had been silently building in everyone’s hearts suddenly erupted. No one cared about fighting the enemy hiding in the darkness anymore! They abandoned their equipment and rushed toward the exit in a chaotic mass!
Morale completely collapsed!
Run?
Could they really escape like this?
In a dark corner not far away, two gun barrels had already extended. Amid the chaotic footsteps, the sound from guns with silencers was virtually imperceptible!
There was no need to aim carefully—with people crowded together rushing outside, bullets couldn’t miss their targets!
Li Xuan completely failed to notice that as these people frantically ran out, another dozen or so subordinates fell and never got up again!
Having finally escaped the factory, Li Xuan seemed completely exhausted, bending over with his hands on his knees, gasping for breath!
What had just happened was too bizarre—definitely the most terrifying scene Li Xuan had encountered in his thirty-plus years!
“Gather up, everyone gather!” Li Xuan called out, still in shock!
After his repeated calls, his subordinates slowly stood up in small groups. The previous situation had made their legs go weak!
But when he looked around, he was stunned! Standing beside him were only about twenty people!
He had brought a full forty-nine subordinates, how were there only this many left?
“Where are the rest?” Li Xuan felt a chill throughout his body, almost scared out of his wits!
“Captain, captain, it’s bad!”
Someone, looking as if they’d seen a ghost, gasped: “The enemy… the enemy really was in the factory. More than a dozen brothers didn’t make it out, all shot dead! I was also shot in the arm!”
“All shot dead?” Li Xuan felt his brain explode with the news!
These were the “elites” he had trained with so much effort, how could they just die like this?
“Everyone be alert, find cover!” Li Xuan shouted, his face covered in cold sweat!
He never would have imagined that before the battle had even begun, he would suffer such devastating losses!
The opponent hadn’t even shown their face, yet nearly thirty of his men were already dead!
Su Rui, it must be Su Rui who had arrived at the scene! Besides him, no one else would have such capability!
But this time, no one listened to Li Xuan’s orders!
Everyone was fleeing, rushing toward the factory gate in a chaotic mass!
They had knives but didn’t know how to resist! They had guns but didn’t know how to fire back! They had legs and only knew how to run!
This elite team of Nangong Shun’s, claiming to be no less capable than special forces, showed a response that revealed the vast difference between them! They were worse than clay chickens and pottery dogs! Completely worthless!
“Don’t run, don’t fucking run! All of you stop! Bastards!”
Watching his subordinates flee frantically, Li Xuan’s eyes bulged with rage. He pulled out his gun and fired three shots into the air!
But even if he emptied his magazine, he couldn’t stop those fleeing subordinates!
Nightingale stood in a patch of shadow, watching the chaos in the open area, her gaze complex.
By now, she seemed to have figured out Su Rui’s plan.
First create panic, making these people too fearful to fight, then when it came time to attack, it would be much easier!
Originally, Li Xuan’s forty-nine skilled fighters had arrived aggressive and confident, but after this chaos, they had lost all will to fight, thinking only of escape. Killing them now was like slaughtering chickens and sheep!
In fact, Nightingale seemed to realize that Su Rui had deliberately slowed his attack speed. Otherwise, with his true abilities, he wouldn’t need to go to such lengths, creating panic and setting traps. If he had simply charged in with a military dagger, it would have been like a tiger entering a flock of sheep!
“Is he really teaching me?” Nightingale felt that Su Rui was deliberately demonstrating combat techniques for her to see!
“Why would he do this?”
First eliminate the snipers to remove the long-range threat, then secretly kill a few people to create an atmosphere of panic, making them lose the will to fight and only think of fleeing.
It seemed like a simple approach, but it showed a mastery of human psychology, utilized to its fullest!
Fortunately, Nightingale was quick to understand, otherwise she wouldn’t have been able to develop her knife skills to their current level. Watching those people rushing toward the exit, determination flashed in her eyes. Her feet planted firmly, her form moved like lightning, and two cold flashes of steel slashed out!
Wielding dual blades, cold light flashing, Nightingale now looked like a gust of wind gleaming with sharp light. Wherever she passed, people fell!
Those struck by Nightingale never stood up again!
Li Xuan turned around, wanting to shoot at Nightingale, but she swung her arm, and a cold flash flew from her hand, piercing straight through his palm!
If Su Rui hadn’t specifically instructed her not to kill Li Xuan, his throat would have been slit open just then!