Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

From the darkness, a chilling, venomous voice rang out: "Don't lose me."

"This old dog left in a hurry, without even bothering to cover its tracks. There's still a distinct human scent in this cave."

The man known as Brother Lei spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, his tone revealing undisguised greed and cruelty. "If a pimp like him could afford to spend four large yellow croakers and a thousand dollars in cash to buy our brothers in Xishan'ao to commit murder, then the money he has in his own pocket is definitely much more than that!"

The man next to him swallowed hard, letting out a few chilling laughs. "Brother Lei's got a sharp mind! That old bastard must have been sneaking off to dig for gold behind his employer's back. Let's just double-cross him right here in this dead man's pit, grab all the money, and why bother going to the mountains to kill that Zhao guy!"

"Open your eyes wide!"

Lei Ge's gun barrel scraped against the rock wall, making a chilling screech: "When we get in, if we see anyone, pull the trigger and shoot them all. Leave no one alive!"

Zhao Shanhe, hidden in the shadows of the waste ore, had an extremely cold look in his eyes.

In just a few words, he had already pieced together the complete background of the people outside in his mind.

The statement that Scarface Liu made after his leg was broken matched perfectly.

The men outside carrying long guns were the escaped convicts that Scarface Liu had hired at great expense from the dilapidated brick kiln in Xishan'ao, intending to take the lives of Zhao Shanhe and his entire family in Laoyagou.

Unfortunately, Scarface Liu, the cunning old fox who had schemed his whole life, ultimately misjudged the appetite of the desperado.

These "living ghosts" with murder on their hands had no intention of honestly taking the money and doing their jobs. Instead, they were greedy and, finding Scarface Liu Kai's price too high and revealing his true intentions, they followed him all the way to Blind Man's Gully, preparing to stage a murder and robbery in this desolate place.

These living ghosts were bought to kill themselves.

Now, following the scent of his employer's blood, the knife plunged directly into his own face.

A few crisp clicks.

Several blinding beams of cold light from flashlights suddenly lit up at the mine entrance, like several pale lightsabers that instantly sliced ​​through the thick darkness inside the mine.

The beam of light swept haphazardly across the slippery rock face and the scattered rocks.

Four ghostly figures, each carrying a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle gleaming with metallic coldness, moved slowly into the depths of the landslide opening, their bodies spread out in a battle formation, stepping over the shards of ice scattered on the ground.

The sound of military-style hard-soled boots stepping on gravel was amplified several times in the empty, deathly silent mine, drawing ever closer.

Zhao Shanhe crouched in the shadow of the huge waste ore.

He watched as the four crisscrossing beams of light swept across the cracks in the rocks above his head, his breathing remaining perfectly steady.

The thumb of his right hand, gloved with a half-finger leather glove, silently pressed the bolt-action hammer of the shotgun all the way down.

If that dark figure at the very front takes just half a step forward and enters the all-encompassing line of fire from that pile of rubble, he will not hesitate to fire.

At this critical moment.

Lei Zi, who was walking in the middle of the group, suddenly raised his hand.

"etc!"

He forced out an extremely short, low growl.

The two people leading the way froze instantly, and the four beams of flashlight that were swinging wildly stopped at the same time, shining straight at the slippery rock wall in front of them.

"Brother Lei, what's wrong?" The henchman at the front had sweaty palms, and his hand holding the gun trembled involuntarily.

Lei Zi did not respond.

Like a venomous snake that has caught the scent of its predator, he slightly raised his chin, twitched his nose twice, and his eyes instantly turned extremely sinister.

"Can you smell anything?"

Lei Zi's hoarse voice sounded particularly chilling in the deathly silent mine.

The skinny man sniffed hard, then shook his head blankly. "No, Brother Lei, it just smells like bat droppings, nothing else."

"wrong."

Lei Zi craned his neck forward stiffly, his nostrils flaring violently twice more, his voice as deep and sharp as a poisoned knife: "It's the smell of blood. A very strong, pungent smell of blood, and it's fresh blood that's just been released!"

The gaunt man's expression changed drastically, and the gun in his hand trembled slightly: "How can there be such a strong smell of blood in this godforsaken place?"

Lei Zi's muscles tensed instantly, his eyes turning extremely sinister: "That old bastard probably hired someone else, or maybe someone beat us to it and killed him first. The smell of blood is so strong, he definitely hasn't gone far; he might be hiding in this cave right now!"

The gaunt man swallowed hard, his voice trembling, "Brother Lei, then... what do we do?"

"Turn off the lights! Stick to the wall!" Lei Zi growled.

A few clicks.

The four men instantly turned off their flashlights and scrambled to their sides, disappearing into the dark corners on either side.

Lei Zi, pressed against the cold rock wall, shouted at the top of his lungs into the depths of the mine: "Friends inside! We're all just risking our lives for money, all we're after is wealth! You eat the meat, but give us brothers some soup! If you agree, just say so, we'll take the money and leave, and we'll go our separate ways!"

The mine was deathly silent, save for the dripping sound of water droplets hitting the ground.

Zhao Shanhe crouched in the shadow of the waste ore and the broken wooden winch, his breathing unchanged, as still as a real stone.

I waited for a full half minute, but there was no response from inside.

The gaunt man lowered his voice in the darkness: "Brother Lei, it's been so long without any movement. Could it be that they've already taken the money and run away?"

Lei Zi did not answer immediately.

He pondered silently in the darkness for a moment, his serpentine eyes fixed on the depths.

Suddenly, without warning, he leveled the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in his hand and pulled the trigger directly into the blind spot deep inside.

boom!boom!boom!boom!

Deafening gunfire erupted instantly in the narrow, dead mine shaft.

Flames spewed wildly, and scorching bullets whistled through the air, unleashing an extremely fierce barrage of blind fire.

The bullets slammed into the pile of waste ore and rotten wooden support frame where Zhao Shanhe was hiding.

Sharp wood chips, mixed with fragments of stone, flew everywhere in the darkness.

A sharp splinter grazed Zhao Shanhe's cheek, instantly leaving a long, thin gash.

Zhao Shanhe's eyes were as cold and piercing as a lone wolf's. He lay in the mud without even blinking, letting the warm blood drip down his chin.

After a burst of blind sweeping, the mine was filled with smoke.

Lei Zi held his gun and listened intently for a while longer.

Apart from the echo of the bullet shattering the rocks, there was still no sign of any living person inside.

Lei Zi finally breathed a sigh of relief and spat out a mouthful of phlegm: "It should be alright now. Skinny Monkey, you go in and check on things!"

"I...I'll go in?"

In the darkness, Skinny Monkey's voice trembled like a leaf in the wind, and he desperately pulled back, his feet shuffling backward: "Brother Lei, I can't! Didn't you just say there might be someone inside? If I go in rashly... what if he shoots me?"

"What the hell are you afraid of!"

Lei Zi cursed in a low voice, his tone revealing impatience: "I fired that burst of blind fire just now to be on the safe side! There's not a sound in there right now. If someone was really breathing, even if they weren't turned into mincemeat by bullets, they would have given themselves away long ago!"

Skinny Monkey swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing violently, his hands gripping the rock face tightly. "But Brother Lei..."

Splash!

In the darkness, Lei Zi raised the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, which was still steaming, without warning. The scalding barrel was pressed directly against the skinny monkey's chin, making him shudder violently.

"What if what?"

Lei Zi's voice instantly turned icy cold, like a venomous snake flicking its tongue: "If you utter another damn dirty word, I'll shoot you right now. You choose: either obediently go inside and wade through the tunnel, or die right here."

In the deathly silent mine tunnels, the air was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

Using the faint light reflected from the cave entrance, the skinny monkey could clearly see that his two accomplices had silently slipped away half a step. The two men were staring at him menacingly, the muzzles of their two spears intentionally or unintentionally blocking his escape route.

These bastards who killed police officers and escaped from prison are really capable of sacrificing their own brothers as a sacrifice.

The skinny monkey felt a chill run down his spine, a cold sensation shooting straight up his head. He knew he had no choice.

"I...I'll go in. Brother Lei, don't hold back, I'll go in right now..."

The skinny monkey nodded stiffly, his voice trembling with tears.

He shakily pulled out the flashlight again and turned it on with a "snap".

Holding a flashlight in his left hand and gripping his gun tightly in his right, he crept step by step into the darkness at the deepest part of the collapse opening, close to the cold, slippery rock wall.