Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 319 Battle on the Riverbank in the Wilderness

Late at night, the fire was still burning on the gravel pile by the river, but the crackling sound from before was gone.

Chen Shu casually chatted with Achai and learned that Achai's parents had passed away when he was very young. He started wandering around when he was 13 years old, and had been a child soldier in ethnic armed groups and also lived with drug trafficking organizations.

Finally, due to good luck and growing old and fearing death, he secretly ran away and took up the lowest level of illegal immigration work. Because he learned Chinese quickly, during the day when there was no work, he would squat in front of shops in the streets and alleys, or in front of wildlife markets, providing information to tourists from H country and earning a few hard-earned coins. If a deal was made, he could also earn a commission from the stall owner.

When asked about his future, Ah Chai sniffed and answered somewhat embarrassedly that he wanted to become a big information broker and make more money.

After speaking, he nodded and smiled gratefully at Chen Shu, a smile that was unusually sincere. It turned out his girlfriend was a prostitute in X Bei, and this deal would earn him a large sum of money, enough for her to leave prostitution and settle down with him, marry him, and have children.

Zhu Chaoran, who was standing nearby, heard the words "(tong) soldier" and "information broker" from afar, and ran over excitedly, shamelessly asking Achai to tell him about his time as a (t-ong) soldier.

After thinking for a long time, Achai said that he didn't really feel anything special. It was just running and shooting every day, and in their spare time, everyone would get together to gamble and do drugs. Life was very monotonous. Occasionally, they would go to war with other organizations, and people would die then, but no one cared. The next day, they would just go about their business as usual, since they could get enough to eat here.

As they were talking, a "swish, swish, swish" sound came from afar. This sound immediately made Chen Shu, who had served in the special police force, realize that it was the sound of someone wearing boots swishing through the weeds.

Before he could think much, he saw shadows approaching the fire in the darkness, first revealing three figures, and then suddenly more than ten more people emerged.

The people who were originally sitting in a circle all stood up and faced the dozen or so uninvited guests who came from the south.

The first person was Brother B, a bald thug from the fraud gang who had rushed over without stopping. Behind him was a group of fierce-looking young men who quickly spread out and surrounded Chen Shu and his group in a semi-circle.

Brother B thought he had the situation under control. He held a pistol in his left hand and kept stroking his bald head, which gleamed even in the darkness, with his right hand.

Under the threat of the pistols, Chen Shu and his group did not make any rash moves.

Brother B squinted and glanced contemptuously at the limping man standing to the side, then focused his gaze on the fat man who had given him the middle finger in the private room of "Heaven on Earth" earlier.

He chuckled, thinking to himself that he didn't hold grudges overnight. Without saying another word, he moved the gun towards the fat man and pulled the trigger.

"Boom! Boom!"

Chen Shu, who had been keeping a close eye on the enemy ever since Brother B and his group appeared, noticed Brother B's action of firing his weapon immediately. Although it was too late to warn him, he still shouted "Get down!" to alert his teammates to avoid stray bullets, while simultaneously drawing his Big Black Star weapon from his waist, throwing away his crutch, and lunging at Brother B, who was leading the charge.

The principle of "capture the king first" is as simple as it sounds.

Hormones surged, and he had no time to care about the pain in his foot or whether Brother B's shot had actually hurt anyone, because the two men following behind Brother B had also raised their guns and pointed them at them.

Fortunately, the two men were also distracted by Brother B's sudden, unannounced shooting. Due to their neglect of the limping man, they didn't react at all to Chen Shu's decisive lunge. Brother B was also startled. He had thought the limping man was suddenly leaping towards him with incredible speed. In his surprise, he immediately raised his gun and hurriedly fired.

Suddenly, everything went dark.

Xiao Qiang, who was standing by the campfire, took advantage of the gunshot and Chen Shu's sudden attack to kick over the campfire and charge at the bald man who was leading the charge and taking the money.

In the blink of an eye, Brother B, who had been in control of the scene with a dozen or so men, was suddenly attacked by two men from the left and right in just a few seconds. In a panic, he took a few steps back and fell to the ground.

The two gunmen behind him reacted, pointing their guns at the person rapidly approaching from the left in an S-shaped trajectory, and then at the person circling around the waist-high grass on the right. They shouted for him not to move, but they never fired.

Fish
Chen Shu felt relieved. Facing several bullets that grazed Brother B's head, he rushed forward and kicked one of the gunmen directly into the haystack behind him with his right foot. Then he pounced on Brother B, who was sitting on the ground.

Yu Guangzhong saw Xiao Qiang use the same grappling technique to pin another gunman to his knees.

He delivered a direct knee strike to Brother B's face, causing blood to spurt from his nose. Then, he raised his gun and fired a shot into the night sky above, before steadily pressing the gun against Brother B's bald head.

Fortunately, this imposing Brother B didn't manage to hit anyone present with a single shot from beginning to end.

"Brother, let your men retreat. If I get excited and my hand shakes, the gun might accidentally go off," Chen Shu said in a deep voice, pointing the muzzle of his gun at Brother B's bald head.

Brother B originally wanted to say a few harsh words to save face, since there were more than a dozen security guards from the company there, and he, Brother B, couldn't afford to lose face like that.

He glanced at the lame man (or rather, the limp man) standing in front of him. The man's eyes were filled with murderous intent, and his previous fearless charge terrified him. He could only wave his hand to send his men away.

The gunman under Xiaoqiang's control was also sent back after his weapon was removed, leaving only Brother B, the leader, behind. Xiaoqiang then tied Brother B up with a thick rope and threw him by the newly lit campfire, where Zhu Chaoran kept a close watch on him while Xiaoqiang was responsible for the surrounding security.

After settling in, Chen Shu suddenly realized that A Cai, who had led the way, was nowhere to be found. Thinking back, he realized that perhaps A Cai had run away when things got bad earlier.

For someone like him who has survived by living in the lower rungs of North America for many years, it is always reasonable to leave himself a way out, no matter what.

Chen Shu looked at the bald man sitting by the campfire and wondered what would happen to him later with this burden. He also thought that the gunfight that had just broken out must have disturbed the kayaks that were smuggling across the river.

I guess I won't be able to go back tonight.

(End of this chapter)