Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 872 Highway Interception
Mountain Eagle heard the warning from the moose on the radio, rushed out, and, under the watchful eyes of panicked passersby, pinned Galahad down and tore open his bulletproof vest to check him...

The body armor produced by the Master Chief System is of very reliable quality, but the ballistic plates in the tactical backpack are a bit thin and cannot completely stop .338 Magnum bullets.

The steel core of the bullet pierced the bulletproof plate in Galahad's ribs, and then, fortunately, it shifted sideways.

The old man had a bloody gash about a finger's width carved into his ribs. It looked like a serious injury, but it wasn't actually fatal.

Mountain Eagle pressed around Galahad's rib wound, and seeing the old man let out a painful groan, he breathed a slight sigh of relief. He pulled out a large amount of gauze from his pouch and stuffed it into the old man's ribs, then roughly wrapped it with duct tape a few times before saying, "He shouldn't die, but we have to get out of here immediately. We'll go back and eat those guys in front of the bank. Are you okay?"

Galahad stood up, clutching his ribs, and tightened the Velcro straps on his body armor. He glanced in the direction of the sniper and said, "I'm going to check that out. Don't worry about me..."

Galahad glanced in the direction they had come from, then shook his head and said, "Gawain is very cautious. With Geraint and Tristan dead, he will definitely retreat."

Ignore them, you guys get out of here first. Staying too long could get you trapped by the authorities!
I'll contact you once I've finished taking care of my business..."

Looking at Galahad's determined eyes, Mountain Eagle realized something and nodded slightly, saying, "Then do as you please. Our radio communication range is quite wide. Contact Robin yourself and have him leave the group to rejoin you..."

Galahad closed his eyes and thought for a few seconds, then nodded and said, "Alright..."

Mountain Eagle could roughly guess what the old man was going to do, but he didn't try to dissuade him...

After receiving a reply, Mountain Eagle took out two stun grenades and two smoke grenades from a pocket in his backpack and handed them to Galahad. Then, turning around, he said, "I'll be staying in Bucharest for three to four days..."

Galahad, his steps faltering, turned toward the church, saying as he went, "Thank you..."

Mountain Eagle glanced at Galahad as he crossed the road and disappeared into a small alley. Just as he was about to quicken his pace, he heard Elk call out over the radio: "Attention, Bucharest special police are trying to surround you. Retreat, retreat, retreat eastward. We will drive to pick you up."

The eagle's attention span wasn't long enough for him to have comprehensive control over a large area in the heat of battle, which is why he needed to leave the elk and camels on the perimeter. So, upon hearing the elk's call, he didn't hesitate to turn around and run eastward towards the road...

As they passed through the alleyway they had come from, Blood Fox and his group also ran over.

When Robin, carrying a large bag of ammunition, passed by the Mountain Eagle, he returned the bag. Before leaving, he took three boxes of 5.56mm bullets from the bag, said "thank you," and rushed across the road to chase after Galahad.

Mountain Eagle glanced at Blood Fox, who was slightly out of breath, nodded to Eddie to hold him back, and then started running headlong toward the east intersection.

The three men covered a distance of about 300 meters in just over a minute. The moment they appeared at the intersection, Camel, driving a BMW X5 on the north side of the road, drifted across the intersection with a screeching sound of brakes, then squeezed between two cars, ran a red light, and stopped in front of Mountain Eagle...

"Get in the car..."

Mountain Eagle flung open the car door and climbed in first. After Blood Fox and Eddie got in, he slapped Camel's shoulder hard and shouted, "Drive! Drive! Turn left at the next intersection..."

Camel's driving skills were excellent. He pressed the accelerator hard, and the BMW X5 shot forward instantly.

As they entered the next intersection, they abruptly turned left onto a relatively narrow side road, then turned right onto the E81 highway, and sped along the left bank of the Dönboviča River for several kilometers, circling around a roundabout before arriving near the Bucharest train station.

Mountain Eagle had been using drones to monitor the movements of the Bucharest special police, watching as those men arrived at the entrance of the Tiriak Bank from five blocks away in armored vehicles nearly 10 minutes after the battle began.

A dozen or so police cars circled the streets around the bank a few times, seemingly without any intention of giving chase, which made Mountain Eagle slightly puzzled...

Since the authorities didn't directly intervene, what were their strange actions before?
Without needing instructions from the mountain eagle, Camel drove the X5 quickly away from the busy train station area and then turned north again.

As the camel drove away from the city center and onto the ring road into the northern suburbs of Bucharest, Blood Fox suddenly nudged Mountain Eagle and said in a low voice, "Look behind you..."

The mountain eagle instinctively glanced back...

After exiting the ring road, the car entered the highway. The highway has four lanes in both directions with a median strip in the middle and a large forest on the side.

There were many vehicles on the highway, and perhaps due to road conditions, people weren't driving particularly fast...

The X5s were driving in the middle lane, followed by a black Audi A4 at their rear door, while the right lane was mostly filled with trucks.

As the mountain eagle turned its head, a black SUV accelerated past them from the left and quickly disappeared on the bend leading into the mountains.

Mountain Eagle had been distracted the whole time, but despite his sharp eyesight, he couldn't discern anything amiss from the A4 behind him, as the driver was a man in a suit and the passenger was a woman in a red sweater.

Knowing that a seasoned veteran like Blood Fox wouldn't speak without reason, Mountain Eagle frowned and asked, "Is there anything unusual?"

Blood Fox's eyes were fixed ahead...

After the X5 accelerated slightly and navigated the winding road between the two mountains, he pointed to a black SUV that appeared a few cars ahead and said in a deep voice, "This is the third time I've seen it..."

The Audi A4 behind us kept following us. Camel tried to accelerate and decelerate, but it kept going.

There was also a minivan sandwiched between the second and third trucks on the right rear. The minivan driver's driving was unusual. Mountain Eagle quickly switched to the drone's view, locked onto Blood Fox, and pointed out several vehicles…

The camel, who was in charge of driving, accelerated at the right moment, stepped on the gas and brought out the performance of the X5, and quickly overtook the black SUV in front.

After driving for nearly 20 minutes, as the number of vehicles on the road decreased and Camel returned to the middle lane, Mountain Eagle noticed that the three marked cars also began to accelerate...

After confirming that the other party had ill intentions, Mountain Eagle checked the road ahead through the drone's perspective and decisively said, "Speed ​​up, go down at the next intersection, there's a mountain road there leading to Snagov Lake Park."

Upon hearing this, the camel pressed the accelerator again, and the X5 unleashed its surging power, accelerating to 180 kilometers per hour within seconds...

As it approached the exit, the camel used a bend in the valley to block the view of vehicles behind it, nimbly cut into the inner lane, slightly reduced its speed to use trucks and vehicles in the middle lane as cover, and then turned off the highway.

When Mountain Eagle saw the three vehicles following behind, he was not bothered at all and continued to follow closely for about a kilometer. He leaned out, opened the sunroof of the X5, and then stuck his head out to look at the sky.

After confirming that no drones were tracking us from the sky, Mountain Eagle frowned and said, "They're following us. Someone is watching us through the highway traffic cameras..."

The other party either has hackers capable of infiltrating Romania's transportation system for monitoring, or they have persuaded the authorities.

Which one do you think it is?

Eddie, who kept glancing back, shrugged and said, "I bet 100 bucks, it's a hacker!"
Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to drive smoothly on the highway for so long!

These guys clearly don't want the Romanians involved in the fight; they want to deal with us themselves..."

Seeing the three cars behind him accelerating frantically through the drone, Mountain Eagle leaned forward, pulled the seat back, and then squeezed himself into the X5's fairly spacious trunk with great difficulty...

Sensing the vehicle slowing down as it entered a bend in the mountain road, Mountain Eagle braced the two extra tactical backpacks from his ammunition bag against the inside of the trunk, then grabbed his AK-105, aimed it at the rear, and fired a shot at each of the four corners of the windshield…

As the glass on the trunk lid shattered, the mountain eagle shouted, "Camel, slow down..."

As the Mountain Eagle prepared, Eddie, carrying the M27, flipped over and braced his rear end against the center armrest of the front seat. Looking up at the sunroof, he laughed and said, "Guys, how long has it been since we've done something this exciting?"

The passenger in the passenger seat, a rather overweight man, couldn't find a suitable shooting position while holding the SVD. He could only pick up his secondary weapon, the UMP45, and roll down the window to provide some firepower assistance, though it was better than nothing.

"I hate chasing cars, why can't we just find a place to stop?"

As soon as the deer finished speaking, everyone glanced at both sides of the mountain path and shook their heads in unison, saying, "NO..."

As the X5 approached a series of hairpin bends, the roar of a beast-like engine came from behind...

The black SUV roared fiercely and emerged from the bend in the mountain road behind the X5 when the X5 was still hundreds of meters away from the curve, charging straight at the X5...

The mountain eagle pulled the trigger the instant the enemy peeked out...

"Clap clap clap..."

This time, instead of firing in bursts, the Mountain Eagle pulled the trigger and unleashed all 30 rounds at the black SUV...

But looking at the patterns on the black SUV's windshield, Mountain Eagle cursed loudly...

"Fuck, it's an armored car..."

Seeing the people in the car behind roll down their windows and gun barrels protrude from inside, Mountain Eagle quickly changed magazines, firing to suppress the enemy while shouting, "Camel, speed up, speed up..."

As the mountain eagle shouted, the camel slammed on the gas, using a near-extreme drift to cut into the first hairpin bend...

Because it was an uphill road, when the X5 approached the bend, the two vehicles had a slight difference in elevation and passed each other.

"Clap clap clap clap..."

"Bang bang bang bang bang..."

With their superior field of vision, Bloodfox, Eddie, and Elk simultaneously pulled their triggers, using their height advantage to unleash a barrage of bullets on the three vehicles passing below...

Eddie, leaning out of the sunroof, shot and killed a gunman in a bulletproof SUV. Then, looking at the van diagonally behind him that seemed on the verge of going out of control, he suddenly gasped...

"Shit, RPG..."

(End of this chapter)