Chapter 9: 9. Rapid Fire Kill
In the blink of an eye, the Kunlun Mirror had returned Lu Li to the familiar underground basement.
Everything was exactly as it had been when he left, untouched and unscathed. The urn that he so dearly cared for was still intact in its original place.
Lu Li quickly rushed over and held it tight in his arms. After checking it thoroughly and confirming that there were no issues, he let out a long sigh of relief.
But he was acutely aware that this was not because the Beheading Gang was of high moral standing. Leaving behind a bit of hope was meant to lure him back!
Lu Li was not panicked, instead, he calmly dragged a suitcase out from under the bed.
The suitcase was worn, filled with the keepsakes of his father, Lu Hongbing.
At the bottom of the suitcase, Lu Li found a small red box. Inside it, there was a medal — a Wei Country Memorial Medal.
This was Grandpa Lu's medal. The old man had joined the army at fifteen and spent his life in the military, killing enemies around the world.
As he lay on his deathbed, he left this most treasured medal to Lu Hongbing, laden with great expectations.
But this had also become the fundamental reason Lu Hongbing couldn't face returning home! He had subconsciously hidden the medal in the deepest part of the suitcase, not wishing to look at it.
At this moment, Lu Li placed the urn and medal together in the suitcase, side by side.
"No matter what, you have to face it bravely... I must do the same."
Just after he locked the suitcase, hurried footsteps came from outside the door, followed by a kick that burst the door open with a "bang."
Three tattooed big men walked in, guns slung at their hips, and each with standard-issue skull rings on their little fingers.
Toby, with a wide grin, teased, "Snow White has indeed returned. I've been waiting for days~"
The entire city was lined with the eyes of the Black Gang. Lu Li knew there was no escaping, so he calmly asked,
"Why are you so obsessed with me?"
At first, he thought they wanted to press him into service as a drug "mule," but as a conspicuous Asian, he did not fit the unassuming profile of a "mule."
And with a broken leg, selling him off to a brothel also seemed far-fetched...
Hearing this question, the unwelcome guests burst into wicked laughter, teeming with mockery.
Toby said with foreboding significance, "These days, a living person is worth much more than a dead one."
Beside him, a two-meter-tall bald strongman, with his hand down his crotch, sneered lasciviously,
"This monkey has wasted two days of our time! I want to kill him!"
"I'm afraid that won't do," Toby licked his lips,
"The laboratory has high standards for its samples. For the sake of ten thousand dollars, we must be a bit gentler this time~"
He beckoned to Lu Li with a hook of his finger and said, "Come on~ Snow White, let's take you to a nice place."
Once taken away, he'd likely disappear from Blue Star forever.
Lu Li slowly lowered his head, as though resigned to his fate.
Toby and his men, filled with disdain, didn't sense anything amiss. Asians from Xia Country were as meek as sheep, easy to bully.
But they were oblivious to the fact that Lu Li was using the act of bowing his head to spot their waist-holstered guns!
In a country where tanks openly fired on the streets, even if one were not proficient with firearms, constant exposure ensured total familiarity.
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The group passed through the narrow alleys of the slum and emerged onto a somewhat more spacious road.
There was a pickup truck parked there, the driver passing time smoking.
[In other words, including the driver, a total of four people came. To facilitate the crime, they chose somewhere quite secluded.]
The time had come. Lu Li took a deep breath, ready to make his move.
The gang members were oblivious.
Toby opened the car door, gesturing invitingly, "Get in the car, Your Highness~"
That disgusting bald strongman even stretched out a greasy large hand to push Lu Li's shoulder, unwittingly delivering himself right into the trap!
The moment he was touched, Lu Li gathered his spirit in his Sea of Consciousness and entered "Concentration State."
Everything around him slowed down, and he could even see the bald strongman's lascivious smile slowly spreading across his face.
Lu Li reached behind with a reverse hand and, as if picking an object out of a bag, drew the man's pistol from his waist—a gleaming silver, massive revolver.
This was the "Colt Python," the same model as the one used by the protagonist in "The Walking Dead."
The whole process was as easy as taking candy from a baby, and it wasn't until this moment that Toby and the others realized what had happened.
Their facial muscles slowly twisted, gradually revealing expressions of terror, like a video playing at 0.7x speed.
Without any hesitation, Lu Li slightly raised the gun barrel and pulled the trigger at the bald big man.
With a loud bang, the bullet entered under the man's jaw and exited through the top of his head, creating a "Bursting Blossoms" scene.
His clean face was speckled with a string of red dots, but Lu Li seemed unfazed as he turned the gun to the second man.
This man slowly displayed a look of shocking anger and cursed in a stretched tone, "Bas... tard..."
At the same time, his hand moved slowly to draw his gun...
But before he could touch it, fire burst from the muzzle of Lu Li's gun, and a .45 caliber bullet thundered out, blowing off the man's cranial cap.
Blood plasma splashed into his mouth, and Lu Li savored the strong salty taste, raising his gun to aim at Toby.
Thanks to years on the street, Toby reacted quickly.
He had already taken cover behind a car door and had drawn his gun, now flipping off the safety with his thumb.
But in the next instant, his eyes slowly turned to horror!
Lu Li had already looked over, his irises reflecting a starry brilliance!
Toby had just unlocked the safety but hadn't had the chance to fire when Lu Li's gun spat out fire first.
The target was 5 meters away, and Lu Li wasn't confident in his gun skills, so he aimed for the torso.
The bullet roared out of the barrel, shattered the car window, and hit Toby in the chest, knocking him backward from the huge kinetic energy.
The shattered pieces of the car window slowly scattered on the ground. Lu Li quickly turned, ready to deal with the last driver.
However, spending time on the other three had given the driver a head start, and he was already aiming and had pulled the trigger halfway—the bullet would shoot out in the next instant!
Even with Concentration State, Lu Li had to turn around and precisely aim at a target ducking in the car; it seemed he wouldn't make it in time.
At the critical moment, a rainbow light shot out from between his eyebrows and instantly hit the driver's face!
Accompanied by the crisp sound of bones breaking, the Kunlun Mirror smashed the enemy's nose into his face.
With the acidic and pungent sensation clouding his eyes, the driver screamed and shot randomly; the bullet pierced the car roof and flew off to who knows where.
But Lu Li's bullet was incredibly precise, and with a loud bang, the windshield was plastered with a thick red and white mixture.
With that, all the gang members were wiped out, leaving only Toby, with a severe chest wound, still breathing, lying in a puddle of blood, struggling.
In his wildest dreams, he never imagined that a "Snow White," a cripple, could have such a ruthless heart and quick gun!
They had no power to resist!
Little did they know, Lu Li himself was surprised that Refining God and firearms could spark such a dazzling spark!
Filled with endless emotion, Lu Li pressed the "Python" to Toby's forehead, ready to finish off the enemy once and for all.
"Wait a second! Wait a second!" Toby pleaded shrilly:
"It's the Harvard University Biological Laboratory that's buying yellow-skinned test subjects, not my fault! My uncle is the boss of the Beheading Gang; if you kill me, he won't let you go..."
To save his life, Toby spoke without restraint, but Lu Li couldn't bother listening further and shot him in the head with a bang, splattering a ground full of bloody tofu.
As for the "Harvard University Biological Laboratory" he mentioned, Lu Li didn't pay much attention.
Since the last century, the Star Alliance Country had been conducting various human biochemical experiments, even sparing neither their own citizens nor soldiers.
This was a well-known fact, officially admitted by their own declassified documents.
Thinking further was useless; the pressing matter was to first loot the spoils of war.