Delta: Who are you saying has suffered a loss of strength?

For some reason, Li Hao was very reluctant to start a fight.

But having made up their minds, there was no reason to back down, given that they were just two prison guards.

Jiang Chi, who was at the front of the group, peeked out from the intersection and glanced at the other end of the corridor.

The two prison guards had already reached the end of the corridor, turned a corner, and disappeared from sight.

"I had a bad feeling about this," he said. "These prison guards have changed."

Chen Xiaoxun asked, "Then what should we do?"

Jiang Chi stood still for a few seconds, carefully analyzing the situation.

"Fight." He made his decision anyway.

The three men made their way down the corridor. When they reached the corner, Jiang Chi gestured for them to stop.

He peeked out and looked down the corridor. The two prison guards were walking forward in the middle of the corridor, their backs to him.

The distance is less than thirty meters.

Jiang Chi stepped back and whispered, "I'll count to three, then we'll all attack together. Once we're done, we'll get over there immediately. Don't let the other prison guards come and surround us."

Li Hao and Chen Xiaoxun nodded.

Jiang Chi held up three fingers, then pulled them back one by one.

Three, two, one.

Open fire!

Three men emerged from around the corner at the same time, their guns pointed at the backs of the two prison guards.

Bang bang bang!

Three Tenglong guns fired simultaneously, bullets whistling through the air.

Unfortunately, it missed.

The two prison guards moved before the gun was fired.

One lunged to the left, the other rolled to the right; their movements were incredibly fast.

"Holy shit!" Chen Xiaoxun cursed.

The two prison guards had found cover. One was huddled behind a wall, and the other was hiding behind a pillar.

Immediately afterwards, retaliatory shots rang out.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

It was the characteristic crisp sound of the small-caliber Bison submachine gun. The bullet grazed Jiang Chi's ear, and he quickly ducked back around the corner.

Chen Xiaoxun also shrank back, his face a little pale. "Is this some kind of ordinary prison guard?"

Li Hao squatted by the wall, peeked out, then withdrew: "Don't they only do pedicures?"

The ambush failed, and everyone was shot once or twice. Fortunately, the protection provided by the Dragon Club this time was a level 4 hearing helmet and level 5 armor.

The bison failed to penetrate their armor, but their morale was significantly dampened.

Gunfire continued outside, suppressing the three men's cover.

The two prison guards were positioned on the left and right, one firing while the other reloaded, their firepower leaving no gaps.

The bullet hit the corner wall, sending fragments flying everywhere.

Jiang Chi gritted his teeth and fired another burst.

The prison guard hiding behind the wall suddenly moved, and all the bullets hit his cover with a clanging sound.

Then the prison guard peeked out from behind the box and fired a shot.

The bullet hit Jiang Chi in the head, making him dizzy.

Jiang Chi quickly shrank back, leaning against the wall and panting heavily. He touched the bullet holes on his helmet. "Were they using level 3 rounds?"

"No," he said, "if we keep fighting like this, we'll attract even more prison guards."

Chen Xiaoxun shouted from the side, "Li Hao! Pretend to peek! I'll go with you! If you back down, I'll fire!"

Li Hao nodded, and the two acted simultaneously.

Li Hao sidestepped half a body, successfully drawing out the prison guards' firepower. Then, Chen Xiaoxun, a beat slower, pulled out from the other side and opened fire.

"Hit!" Chen Xiaoxun fired two shots and retreated into cover. Both shots hit the prison guard squarely.

The prison guards stopped suppressing the fire, and Jiang Chi immediately dodged and fired a follow-up shot. There was no one left in the corridor.

All I could see was the retreating figure of a prison guard disappearing around the corner of the opposite corridor.

"He ran away?" Jiang Chi's eyes widened in disbelief. He never expected that a prison guard would escape!

"What's going on? They're trying to escape?" Chen Xiaoxun finally realized what was happening and stepped out from behind cover to see. "Did they go to call for backup?"

"It's possible..." Before Jiang Chi could finish speaking, Chen Xiaoxun immediately overtook him.

"Chen Xiaoxun, slow down!"

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Da da da da!

"Aaaaaah!"

As Chen Xiaoxun crossed the cover where the prison guards had just been hiding, gunshots rang out again.

The prison guard, his face covered in blood, lay on the ground, struggling to grip his submachine gun, having broken Chen Xiaoxun's leg.

"Chen Xiaoxun!" Jiang Chi shouted as he ran to Chen Xiaoxun's side. Looking behind the cover, he saw that the prison guard was already dead.

"How is it?"

"Damn it... isn't this still just pedicure?!" Chen Xiaoxun cursed.

With the DICH training helmet having a long hearing range, Li Hao keenly sensed the footsteps coming from the direction they were coming from.

"Let's go inside first! We'll be doomed if the prison guards surround us!" Li Hao warned.

Jiang Chi put a painkiller into Chen Xiaoxun's mouth. "Bear with it, I'll treat you later. Let's get out of here first!"

Li Hao put his arm over Chen Xiaoxun's shoulder and carried him with force.

Jiang Chi looked down at the box in his hand, put it on the ground, and pressed the lock.

The box was opened.

Inside is the technology Li Hao developed from the main battle tank model he brought out from Tide Prison, including an anti-riot shield.

Jiang Chi pulled it out, shook it, and with a few clicks, the shield unfolded.

It is over a meter tall and over half a meter wide, with an observation window on top.

Jiang Chi raised his shield and held it in front of him. The team was temporarily short-handed and threatened by pursuers, so this was exactly the time when they needed it.

"Follow me." The huge riot shield made movement even more inconvenient and significantly limited visibility, but there was definitely a sense of security behind it.

The three of them ignored where the corridor led and walked straight ahead until the footsteps around them disappeared before they hid in a small room.

"Huff...huff...where are we?" Li Hao put Chen Xiaoxun down and said, panting heavily.

"I don't know." Jiang Chi wasn't much better off, wiping away sweat. "I've never been to this place before."

"The core area, right? What's this?" Li Hao asked uncertainly.

"Brother... dear brother! Give me some medicine!" Chen Xiaoxun sat on the ground, his face almost bloodless. The painkiller had reduced the pain, but he hadn't had time to get his wound bandaged to stop the bleeding.

"Here it comes." Jiang Chi walked over, squatted down, and took out various medical supplies from the ammunition pouch.

Li Hao observed the layout of the small room from the side. It looked like a small office with a set of circular desks.

There is a metal door at the very back of the room, but it can't be opened.

This has never been recorded by any club before, so this information is worth recording.

"We just launched a sneak attack together, how come we still couldn't take down two ordinary prison guards?" Chen Xiaoxun asked through gritted teeth.

"I suspect they knew all along that we were following us..." Jiang Chi replied while applying medicine to Chen Xiaoxun.

"Then why didn't they fire?"

"I don't know...maybe it was intentional?" Li Hao guessed casually.

"The prison guards used to just hide, but these two, their movements and teamwork are like a completely different group."

"Luckily, it was a level 3 bullet that hit our level 5 armor, otherwise we would have been in real trouble..." Jiang Chi sighed.

"You guys think," Chen Xiaoxun asked in a low voice, "the prison guards have all become this fierce, what must the warden be like now?"

"I don't know, it's best to avoid it," Jiang Chi said, frowning and shaking his head.

Li Hao suddenly asked, "What if we actually run into the warden?"

"The intelligence says he's not in prison recently."

"What if?"

"..."

Jiang Chi tightened the straps around Chen Xiaoxun's legs. "Then die."

Li Hao paused for a moment, then laughed: "Captain, you've learned to joke around too."

Jiang Chi didn't laugh.

"I'm not joking," he said.