Empire of Shadows

Chapter 288: Ambush [666+1]

In the morning, Lance had breakfast and set off from his residence by car, as he was planning to buy a manor recently.

The manor house would be large enough and quiet enough, isolated from the outside world, and, more importantly, safe enough!

He had communicated with Paul last night, and this morning he would go to Starlight to take over the bar that Paul had promised him.

Paul did not refuse, as this was what Lance deserved. He did what he was supposed to do, so he should receive this reward.

After Elvin and Madol checked the vehicles, Lance randomly chose one of the four cars.

In fact, logically speaking, the safest thing to do now would be to learn from Heller, find a place to build a safe house, lock himself in, and come out after everything was over.

But if he really did that, then he wouldn't be him.

He would appear in people's sight, and he would use this way to tell everyone that he was Lance, not a cowardly clown running away!

Everyone could also feel the recent tense atmosphere, and they were very careful along the way. During this time, Elvin even had the convoy change routes once.

This trip was very important.

The Starlight District is the most famous consumption area in Goldport City, with even higher spending power than the city center.

Wealthy people and celebrities can be seen everywhere, indulging in the nightlife of the Starlight District and willing to pay for happiness.

In the Empire District, Lance would only charge those poor people twenty-five cents for a glass of wine.

Slightly better quality wine would cost a dollar here.

As for those mid-to-high-end brandies and whiskeys, they easily cost two or three dollars, starting at three to five dollars.

Don't think this is expensive. For the truly wealthy Bay Area tycoons, this is just the most insignificant bit of all the profits they extract from this city!

Like those wealthy people who have invested a lot of money in the port, they can even calculate their daily income by "how much money they earn every second," rather than calculating it by the week or month like ordinary people.

So five dollars might just be the money earned in a dozen seconds, or a minute or two.

Using the money earned in such a short time, they can gain happiness for a long time through consumption. Isn't this a good deal?

Lance was full of expectations for the bar in the Starlight District. If the bar in the Empire District was to build his reputation, then the bar in the Starlight District was truly for making money!

The convoy drove safely on the road. When leaving the Empire District, Elvin seemed a little nervous, like the kind of nervousness after leaving a safe environment.

As the convoy continued to move forward safely, his nervousness gradually eased.

"The car doors have been taken care of, and steel plates have been added inside."

Elvin, sitting in the passenger seat, casually introduced, "Steel plates have also been added to the hood, so it won't be easily penetrated, affecting its function."

"Also, the tires, we've changed to solid tires. It might not be very comfortable to ride, but bullets won't stop our car..."

Lance unhesitatingly exposed him, "Are you nervous?"

Elvin was about to deny this, but eventually nodded, "A little bit. We've done so much...stuff, and they haven't reacted at all. That's not normal!"

Although the driver was also one of their own, Elvin didn't plan to tell anyone else about this until it was completely over.

Including those girls he sent away, they were now being closely monitored by the people he arranged.

If those girls didn't mess around, that would be fine, but as long as they dared to mess around, they would soon be silenced forever.

Sometimes he felt that Lance was too kind, unwilling to hurt those innocent people, and sometimes he felt that he should be kinder, so that the light he emitted could warm the people around him.

Elvin had heard people say before that butchers in slaughterhouses would go crazy after working for a long time, especially those who slaughtered cows.

They said that cows would cry and beg for mercy before being slaughtered, just like humans.

Stabbing a sharp knife into the heart of a crying cow is indeed a bit difficult for humans with empathy.

Killing animals is like this, let alone humans.

He was very scared at first, but then he became numb. He felt that he was not normal.

But he didn't think there was anything wrong with himself, because when he felt there was something wrong with himself, he would think of Lance.

This was a very contradictory feeling. The two emotions were intertwined, constantly colliding. There would always be a time when one would take the upper hand, but it would not always remain in the upper hand.

For them, Lance was not just a "big brother" in life, but also a guide on their life path!

He didn't want anything to happen to Lance, and no one wanted anything to happen to Lance.

But Eric was dead. Apart from saying that he would declare war on evil, the mayor didn't seem to be really doing anything.

Only the Dangerous Goods Administration was continuing to seal up bars everywhere. If this was declaring war on evil, then it was a bit too ridiculous.

But it was this ridiculous scene that made Elvin a little uneasy. He always felt that it wasn't that the mayor wasn't doing anything, but that he was doing something, but they couldn't see it.

This was the source of his nervousness.

Lance looked at the gradually prosperous streets outside the window. Presia District was the only way to go from the Empire District to the Starlight District, and it looked much better than the Empire District.

"The advantage he had so easily obtained has been broken by us, so next..."

Before Lance could finish his words, suddenly a car rushed out of an alley on the side of the road and crashed directly into the first car!

The huge force almost overturned it. If Elvin hadn't listened to Lance's suggestion and added steel plates to the car doors, making the car heavier, it might have really overturned!

The violent impact directly exposed everyone's changes. Elvin shouted "Get down!" and then picked up a submachine gun from under his feet. He couldn't even bother to distinguish whether the people around him were enemies or not, and directly pulled the trigger on those who were trying to approach the car!

Lance's heart began to accelerate sharply. The excessive secretion of adrenaline made his face rosy, as if he had endless strength.

He picked up the submachine gun from under the car seat and pulled the trigger at the outside.

In just less than ten seconds, the entire street was full of gunfire!

"Go, go, reverse!" Elvin urged the driver to reverse while looking outside the car.

The other two cars were also firing outwards, and for a while, they couldn't even see how many enemies there were.

The driver put the car in reverse and stepped on the accelerator to the maximum. The car began to reverse, but before it had gone far, suddenly there was a violent impact from behind!

A car blocked the way. Lance crashed into the back of the passenger seat, causing a burst of suffocation in his chest.

"Fuck! Fuck!" He looked back and raised his submachine gun, firing a burst of bullets at the car behind them that was pushing against their rear. The driver in the cab hadn't even reacted when his head was shot off!

At this time, bullets were already flying randomly on the road. The car doors they were in kept making clanging sounds as they were hit by bullets, and sparks were flying!

If Elvin hadn't added steel plates to the car, they might have been shot into sieves!

Now everyone was going crazy, shooting at whoever approached the car.

Lance patted the driver's seat, "Crash into the shop inside!"

As soon as the driver raised his head, Lance felt something warm on his face. The driver's whole body suddenly tensed up, and then quickly relaxed.

"Fuck!"

He cursed and continued to shrink his neck.

Elvin looked at him with heavy breaths. The two looked at each other for a moment, and then suddenly looked up at the surroundings.

Someone was trying to approach the vehicle, but when they saw them looking up, they hid back behind the surrounding cover and continued to shoot at each other from a distance.

Such intense gunfire could not possibly fail to alarm the entire city, and this place was not so far from the Empire District. What they had to do was wait!

Breaking through was impossible. The only thing to be thankful for was that they came in four cars, not one car!

If it had been one car, Lance might have been dead by now!

Fortunately, the car was protected by steel plates. If those gunmen didn't risk being killed and walked to the car door to shoot inside, they wouldn't be able to hit these people who had calmed down.

But once they got close, they would be shot into sieves first!

The screaming crowd on the side of the road had long since disappeared. The shootout lasted for about six or seven minutes, and Lance's submachine gun bullets were almost used up, so he had long since switched to a pistol.

When those gunmen saw that they couldn't approach the cars, that shooting at the car doors was useless, and that the police sirens were starting to sound, they quickly chose to evacuate!

If these gunfights had happened in the Empire District or the Port District, the police wouldn't have come so quickly.

But this was Presia District, a middle-class community. There might even be some capitalists living here, and their phone calls were much more effective than those of the poor!

Soon, a dozen police cars surrounded them. Although they knew that the four cars were the vehicles that had been attacked, they didn't dare to get too close and only dared to shout from a distance.

Lance didn't speak himself, but had Elvin shout for him, "Get Blue here, get Hiram here, otherwise we won't put down our weapons!"

"We can't confirm whether you are with the attackers!"

This made the police officers who came to the scene a little annoyed, but they wouldn't risk their lives to drag people out of the car.

Soon the phone call reached the desk of Blue, the branch director. When he heard that Lance's convoy had been attacked, he felt as if he had been electrocuted, and he went numb!

A little over ten minutes later, Chief Blue and the Lances family finally arrived at the scene. Lance breathed a sigh of relief the moment he saw Hiram.

Although this guy didn't seem very likable, he really could give people a strong sense of security!

After confirming that they had the situation under control, Lance slowly stepped out of the car...