You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

boom!
A violent lateral impact!

Wang Shengxiong's car jolted violently! A piercing, metallic scraping sound came from the passenger-side door! The heavily modified off-road bumper slammed into the side of Wang Shengxiong's car, sparks flying! The other party, relying on the vehicle's large size and extensive modifications, acted with complete impunity!
"Damn it! You're asking for it!"

Wang Shengxiong's forehead veins bulged as he jerked the steering wheel to narrowly avoid the curb ahead, and roared at Chen Yang.

"Old Zhang! Hold on tight!"

These bastards want us dead!

However, the opponent's offensive was like a leech clinging to a bone!

After the initial impact, the vehicles behind immediately pounced on the car even more frantically, like sharks that had smelled blood!

A modified SUV, resembling a monster, even crashed into us from behind!

"Boom—!"

The entire car lurched forward violently, and a large section of the trunk instantly caved in!

We can't keep driving along empty roads! Otherwise, we'll be smashed to pieces sooner or later!

"Hold!"

Wang Shengxiong's eyes widened in horror as a powerful force slammed his chest against the steering wheel!
Despite the excruciating pain, a fierce determination suddenly surged within him! Through the road signs and familiar terrain flashing before his eyes in the headlights, he gritted his teeth and slammed the steering wheel to the floor!
The black Hummer let out a strange roar, forcefully breaking through a strip of roadside weeds that was half a person tall, its front end rising high and then crashing down hard!

A narrow dirt and rocky path, almost covered by weeds, came into view, leading deep into the rolling mountains—an old road left behind by forestry fire prevention workers and illegal miners, abandoned for many years!

"Go with them into the mountains! Take the old road through the forest and shake off these bastards!"

Wang Shengxiong roared, "Step on the gas!" The off-road vehicle bounced and leaped wildly on the rugged, rocky, and potholed dirt road, like a wild beast struggling for its life, recklessly rushing into the depths of the mountains and forests!
Boom! BOOM—!!

Almost simultaneously!
Two earth-shattering explosions erupted right where they had just left the main road intersection! Flames shot into the sky, accompanied by the whistling of flying debris! And the distinctive, tearing sound of assault rifles firing!

"Da da da da—!"

Several bullets whistled as they struck the rear panel of Wang Shengxiong's car or grazed the roof! The other side was clearly reckless! They had even used explosives and firearms!

This has long since gone beyond the scope of so-called "revenge car chase"!

"Holy crap! A rocket launcher! There's a gunman!"

Wang Shengxiong felt a chill run down his spine, and cold sweat instantly soaked through his vest!

He chose to go into the mountains to avoid being ambushed on the highway, but he never expected that these people would dare to use such a deadly weapon!
This isn't just about being upset about losing money; it's about killing them!

He desperately steered the violently jolting, nearly out of control vehicle, and roared at Chen Yang.

"Old Zhang! Did you even see whose men they were?"

Despite the violent jolting, Chen Yang clung tightly to the handrail, his body swaying uncontrollably from side to side, his face filled with extreme horror and disbelief, his voice almost distorted.

"There was... one of the passengers in the passenger seat who showed his face... he looked a bit like... that short guy who registered the bets... one of Tiger Head Zhang's henchmen!"

"It really is that traitorous bastard! I'm not finished with him!"

Wang Shengxiong's last doubts were dispelled, leaving only endless anger and a chilling feeling of sinking to the bottom.

He understood that this was no longer an ordinary conflict; it was a premeditated ambush to silence witnesses!

The SUV sped desperately along the twisting, rugged, and completely dark mountain road! Eight blinding headlights behind it were like the murderous eyes of a demon from hell, relentlessly pursuing it!
Every turn, every brief moment of relative smoothness after a bumpy ride, was followed by an even more frenzied barrage of bullets! Bullets pounded the vehicle like the drumbeats of death! Tree branches and rocks were torn to shreds by stray bullets!

Wang Shengxiong's driving skills were indeed remarkable. Relying on his vague memory of this mountain forest and a fierce determination, he managed to avoid being completely blocked.

But the enemy's hunt was clearly meticulously planned!

They seemed to know this terrain very well!

After a treacherous sharp turn on a narrow, winding mountain road, two bright beams of light suddenly shot out from the darkness ahead! Two cars had been lying in wait, completely blocking the narrow mountain road! Wang Shengxiong's car was forced to brake suddenly and swerve!

Squeak—Bang!
The car lurched forward, its wheels screeching violently against the sharp gravel! Then came a dull cracking sound and the thud of the front of the car crashing heavily into the loose mud on the nearby hillside!
The front driveshaft, after a series of extreme maneuvers and crushing, finally gave way and snapped completely! The engine let out a desperate wail and shut down completely! Thick, acrid white smoke billowed from under the hood!

Like a caged beast with its legs severed, the SUV's front end was stuck in the soft soil and bushes, completely losing its ability to move! Behind the vehicle, eight blinding headlights instantly approached, focusing like stage spotlights, completely enveloping the two vehicles and the area they were in in a blinding white light.

The roar of the engine, the acrid smell of burning tires, the howling wind in the distant mountains and forests, all accompanied by the slamming of the car doors!

The noise of the doors being violently opened and slammed shut, along with the heavy, chaotic footsteps, intertwined to create a cold and desperate scene!

A large group of people dressed in various camouflage uniforms or black outfits, wielding machetes, baseball bats, and even several assault rifles, quickly and silently surrounded the two vehicles!

Their faces were filled with fierce murderous intent and mocking expressions!
Those dark gun muzzles, like the fangs of a venomous snake, were locked onto Wang Shengxiong's side.

The leader was an extremely burly, bald giant with a hideous scar on one side of his face!

He held a gleaming machete in his hand, grinned to reveal an unnaturally white set of teeth, and shouted in a hoarse voice like a broken gong.

"Young Master Wang!"

In the dead of night, you've brought this half-dead cripple to this godforsaken, impoverished mountain valley...are you off-roading? Broke? Want us to come help you out?

Wang Shengxiong's face was ashen, his heart pounding, but the ruthlessness he had developed over the years also surged to his head! He pushed open the car door, forced himself to calm down, got out of the car, stood in front of the car, forced a stiff but tough sneer on his face, and glanced at the desperate thugs who surrounded him.

"Who do we have here! Scarface Qiang! These vicious dogs that Tiger Head Zhang keeps dare to bare their teeth at their master's relatives? Look closely! Who am I! Wang Shuanglong of the Wang family is my uncle! Touch me? Have you thought about preparing urns for your family's ashes? If you know what's good for you, get out of my way! I'll consider today's incident as being bitten by mad dogs, and that's the end of it!"

He tried to intimidate the other party with his identity and background, making a last-ditch effort.

"Hahahaha! Wang Shuanglong?"

Scarface Qiang seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, and he and the group of desperados behind him burst into unrestrained laughter!
He laughed so hard he almost fell over, the scar on his face resembling a writhing, venomous centipede.

"What a prestigious name! You scared the hell out of me! Wang Shengxiong, did you lose your mind after those few blows? If it weren't for the fact that you, Young Master Wang, are Wang Shuanglong's nephew, we wouldn't have bothered coming here today!"

His eyes suddenly turned fierce, and he pointed his machete sharply at Wang Shengxiong.

"Killing Wang Shuanglong's own nephew would be the most exciting thing ever! That would qualify you for that share of the spoils your second uncle is offering! Do you understand? Tonight, I'm going to take your life!"

Wang Shengxiong's heart sank to the lowest point!

An unprecedented chill shot from the soles of my feet straight to the top of my head!
His pupils contracted sharply in utter shock and terror! Bonus? The bonus for the extinction of a family line?!

He turned around abruptly to look at Chen Yang, who had also gotten out of the car and was leaning against it, barely able to stand. The last glimmer of hope in his eyes was completely extinguished!
Finished!

This isn't a conflict, it's a manhunt! It's a deadly strike targeting the Wang family!

He and this old Zhang were just collateral damage, used as pawns to establish authority and serve as a sacrifice!
"You want to trade my life for money? We'll see if you have the ability!"

Realizing there was no way out, Wang Shengxiong's inherent ferocity, forced out of him, erupted completely!

He let out a desperate and frantic growl! Under the men's gazes, which were as if he were already dead, he swiftly pulled a small metal vial and a portable syringe from his lower back! His movements were lightning fast! The vial contained a viscous, blood-red liquid—a gene-concentrated berserker agent!

With his other hand, he swiftly pulled a gleaming brass knuckles from the tactical vest and put it on—it was a genetic weapon inlaid with special alloy spikes! Immediately afterward, he yanked out a tactical short sword from his thigh, its surface matte black, yet flowing with cold energy runes—genetic armor!
"Old Zhang! Grab your weapons! If you don't want to die, beat him to death!"

Wang Shengxiong roared at Chen Yang, his voice distorted by despair and the stimulation of the upcoming injection!
Without hesitation, he plunged the scarlet needle deep into his carotid artery! He pressed down hard with his fingers!

"Ugh—!"

A roar that was not human erupted from the depths of his throat!

The moment the drug was injected, Wang Shengxiong swelled up as if he were inflated! His skin instantly turned scalding hot and took on a sickly blood-red hue, and countless bluish-black blood vessels twisted and throbbed wildly beneath his bare neck and face like resurrected hellish runes!
His eyes instantly became clouded with a hazy, metallic yellow light!

A violent, chaotic, and extremely oppressive bloody aura swept out like an invisible hurricane!
The rubble and dust beneath his feet trembled slightly from the surge of energy!

At this moment, he seemed to have transformed into a true ferocious beast!
He gripped the gene-based short sword, which gleamed with cold runes, tightly on his other hand, and scanned the surrounding enemies with his eyes, which had lost most of their rationality and were now filled with a bloodthirsty red light. He then let out a final roar, like that of a wounded lone wolf, at the "weak" Chen Yang.

"These bastards won't be spared! If you don't want to be chopped up and fed to wild boars, then fight to the death! Every one of them who survives is a victory!"

There was no hope of survival left in his eyes; only the purest desperate struggle of a cornered beast remained!
"Hmph! He got a shot? Interesting! Go! Chop him up! Bring that valuable head back with you!"

Scarface grinned maliciously, completely disregarding Wang Shengxiong's desperate attitude, and swung his hand forcefully!
Hurala!
A dozen or so ruthless thugs, like hyenas that have smelled blood, brandished machetes and clubs, roaring like wild beasts, and fearlessly pounced on Wang Shengxiong and Chen Yang beside him in the direction of the car! A cold glint flashed, and a strong wind swept across their faces!

Wang Shengxiong roared, his body charging forward with the force of a raging bull! His movements were nearly twice as fast as before! The violent power of the gene enhancement drug briefly overwhelmed his reason, leaving him with only a bloodlust to tear everything apart!
The brass knuckles slammed into the face of a knife-wielding man on the left, while the gene-engineered short sword, shimmering with faint energy, slashed towards the throat of a man wielding a baton on the right like a viper's hiss! The movements were wide and sweeping, filled with a ruthless and desperate intent to take someone down with him!
The encirclement tightened instantly!
The shouts of battle and the clanging of metal shattered the silence of the deep night in the mountains. The stark white headlights, like giant searchlights, mercilessly illuminated this small, life-or-death battlefield.

puff!

A vicious-looking thug wielding a machete lunged at Wang Shengxiong from behind! Wang Shengxiong was struggling to parry the powerful slash from the bald giant in front of him, but the strength amplified by the drug seemed insufficient, and his back was instantly wide open!

Just as the cold blade was about to touch Wang Shengxiong's spine—

"what!"

A short, agonizing scream rang out!

The attacker was struck as if by an invisible rhinoceros; he flew sideways, blood spurting from his mouth and nose, and crashed heavily into a pile of rocks several meters away. He twitched a few times and then lay still.

Wang Shengxiong felt the deadly killing intent behind him suddenly disappear. He seized the opportunity to exert his strength and deflect the bald man's machete. He rolled on the ground in a sorry state to avoid the iron bar that came crashing down from the other side!

He glanced, still shaken, at the attacker who had died instantly, then looked at Chen Yang, who was "scrambling" to dodge another machete and whose body was still "trembling," his eyes filled with disbelief and lingering fear.

"Old Zhang?! Was that you just now...?"

Chen Yang, who plays Lao Zhang, seems to be frightened by the "huge coincidence" of his kick. His face is full of "shock" and "luck", and his voice is trembling with "fear".

"I...I don't know!"
He...he crashed into me! I just...I just blocked it haphazardly..."

He stammered as he spoke, his steps frantic, as if he were trying to dodge the incoming cleaver.

He "accidentally" tripped over a protruding rock again, and stumbled.

It was this seemingly fatal stumble!

Another short, agile thug, who was flanking from the side, seized the opportunity to thrust a dagger at Chen Yang's waist!

Chen Yang lost his balance.

While "gesturing wildly," his left arm swung forward erratically like an out-of-control windmill pole!
Snapped!
A crisp, eerily clear sound!
The short, desperate man's forward momentum abruptly halted, a deep, irregularly shaped, and terrifying indentation appearing in the center of his forehead! Red and white fluids gushed out instantly!

His eyes glazed over instantly, and he fell straight backward! In that instant of falling, the dagger in his hand was unfortunately flung away, piercing the eye socket of an accomplice who was wielding a club in support! (End of Chapter)