314: A bullet for your life

"Run! Falling rocks!"

"What's going on? Is it a landslide?!"

"No! Someone's throwing rocks down! Look at the mountaintop! There's a mechanical arm..."

The man's voice cut off abruptly, his body crushed by a falling rock.

Panicked shouts rose and fell, drowning out the roar of the motorcycles.

By the time the Paradise Gang realized someone had broken in, it was too late.

Jiang Fei and the Axe Gang immediately opened fire with machine guns.

At the same time, the underlings on the mountain stopped throwing rocks to avoid friendly fire.

The Paradise Gang's weapons were not as good as the Axe Gang's, and some of their men had been killed by falling rocks, so they were no match for Wim and his men.

Wim led his underlings smoothly to the deepest part of the gully.

The remaining members of the Paradise Gang all ran out of the buildings.

Those with guns fired, those without used knives.

The scene was utterly chaotic, making it impossible to tell whose side anyone was on.

While the two gangs were fighting, Jiang Fei rode her motorcycle to the Paradise Gang's warehouse.

Twisting the throttle, she charged forward, crashing through the tightly shut warehouse door with a bang.

The guards had long since run off to kill the Axe Gang outside, leaving only a pile of disorganized supplies scattered on the floor inside the warehouse.

Jiang Fei got off her motorcycle and started searching.

Dried fish, old rice, tree bark, leather belts, shoes, candles, matches, fishing nets, fishing rods, plastic buckets, soap, rusty sickles, moldy ham... Jiang Fei searched the entire warehouse but found no gold.

It was all junk.

The Paradise Gang was truly poor.

Her first zero-cost shopping spree yielded nothing, so Jiang Fei, annoyed, went out to kill people.

Whenever she encountered someone speaking the gibberish language of Country R, Jiang Fei would unleash a burst of bullets, turning them into a hornet's nest.

Bullets were used as if they were free.

The main idea was to trade bullets for your life.

After an unknown period, the gunfire in the gully ceased.

A strong scent of blood hung in the air.

Countless bodies lay haphazardly on the ground.

Most were members of the Paradise Gang; Wim's men had only lost a few dozen.

Wim found Jiang Fei, grinning from ear to ear: "Today's fight was so exhilarating, it was practically a one-sided slaughter of the Paradise Gang."

Jiang Fei: "Send the used machine guns and vehicles back to the mountaintop for me."

At this, Wim's smile faded, and he reluctantly stroked the machine gun in his arms.

"Miss Jiang Fei, could you ask your boss if he can sell me a few guns?"

"Machine guns are so much better than my crappy guns."

With business to be done, Jiang Fei's patience increased: "My boss does indeed sell guns externally, but she only accepts gold."

Before Wim could rejoice, he heard Jiang Fei say:

"One machine gun is 10,000 grams of gold, and a box of 100 matching bullets is the same price. How many do you want to buy?"

"That's too expensive..." Wim gasped.

Although he didn't have to spend supplies, dozens of catties of gold for one machine gun and one box of bullets was a price even higher than before the apocalypse.

Jiang Fei: "You've seen the quality of the guns; they're good stuff not found in Mos City."

"Moreover, weapons are scarce, and we only accept gold, not supplies, which is already a good deal."

"If you don't buy, plenty of others will."

Wim gritted his teeth: "I want 50 machine guns and 100 boxes of bullets."

"Once my men transport all the Paradise Gang's supplies back to the Axe Gang, I'll have them load the gold for you."

There was a small gold mine in the back mountains of the Axe Gang; he had previously sent people to mine it and had stockpiled a large quantity.

He had thought that after the apocalypse ended and the world returned to normal, he would have money to spend.

Now it was fine to use it; he could send people to mine again.

Mos City was never short of gold mines.

"After I deliver the vehicles to my boss, I'll go to the Axe Gang to find you. It will be a cash-on-delivery transaction."

With that, Jiang Fei rode her motorcycle to the mountaintop.

Wim called over an underling: "Go track Jiang Fei and see where her boss lives."

"It would be best to find out why they don't accept supplies."

Supplies were scarce, weapons were precious, yet Jiang Fei's boss only wanted useless gold. It was too strange; he had to figure out their objective, otherwise, he wouldn't feel at ease.

What if Jiang Fei and her people's next target was his Axe Gang?

—

On the mountaintop.

The Axe Gang's men had put the machine guns and remaining bullets into the back of the truck.

The grabber and motorcycle were parked next to the truck.

Taking back the keys they returned, Jiang Fei got into the truck and drove down the mountain.

She had intended to drive around for a bit, waiting for the Axe Gang's men to leave before returning to the mountaintop to collect her things, but through the rearview mirror, she saw a motorcycle following behind.

As if afraid of being discovered, the motorcycle kept a considerable distance.

The Paradise Gang's men were all dead, and there were no residents nearby, so the other party was most likely Wim's man.

Trying to pull a double-cross?

Unsure of Wim's intentions, Jiang Fei changed her route and drove towards the large flat house where Zhao Jinbao had tricked her into going.

After parking the car, Jiang Fei got out and walked into the house.

Not far away.

The underling hid his motorcycle, tiptoed closer to the flat house, and squatted beneath a window.

Just as he was concentrating on listening to the sounds inside, a cold, hard object pressed against the back of his neck.

He turned his head to look.

It was a machine gun.

Jiang Fei stood right behind him.

The underling immediately slumped to the ground: "Don't, don't shoot, Wim sent me."

"He was worried that you would be unsafe delivering weapons alone, so he told me to protect you in secret... Ah!!!"

Shot in the knee, the underling trembled violently in pain.

Jiang Fei aimed the gun at his other leg: "If you don't tell the truth, you'll spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair."

"I'll talk!"

Afraid of becoming a cripple, the underling told Jiang Fei Wim's plan.

"Can I go now...?"

A bullet was his answer.

Jiang Fei took out a knife, cut off the underling's head, and put it into a sack.

Wim hadn't finished what he promised her, and she couldn't find a suitable partner at the moment, so she couldn't kill him yet.

This incident would serve as a warning to Wim for now.

If Wim didn't know better and tried to pry into her privacy again, she wouldn't mind sending the Axe Gang to join the Paradise Gang.

Putting the sack with the head on the passenger seat, Jiang Fei went to the back of the truck to separate the guns and bullets to be sold to Wim, and put the remaining weapons into the Supermarket warehouse.

Driving back to the mountaintop.

The Axe Gang's men had already left.

Jiang Fei packed up the grabber and motorcycle and went to the Tube Building.

She contacted Su Liuyuan and Ling Zhaorui on the walkie-talkie to come down.

Wim still owed her one-third of the supplies, and the truck couldn't hold it all, so she needed friends to help her drive.

Although the Paradise Gang's supplies were poor, she could sell them for gold outside.

She also told everyone about tonight's events, so they wouldn't worry about the Paradise Gang seeking revenge.

A few minutes later, Su Liuyuan and Ling Zhaorui came down from upstairs.

Seeing the sack on the passenger seat, both of them consciously went to the back seat.

Jiang Fei started the car and drove out of the Tube Building, remembering Lu Yu's condition, she asked Ling Zhaorui:

"How are Lu Yu's injuries?"

Ling Zhaorui: "He's almost better. His wounds started healing after applying the miraculous ointment. He should be fully recovered by tomorrow morning."

Jiang Fei felt relieved.

She found a deserted place, took out two trucks, and gave them to Su Liuyuan and Ling Zhaorui to drive.

The three of them drove to the Axe Gang.

Wim's men had already separated her supplies and laid them out on the ground.

Including the gold for buying weapons.

Seeing Jiang Fei arrive, Wim walked over:

"Miss Jiang Fei, who are these two?"

Jiang Fei: "My friends."

"It's a pleasure to meet you."

Wim exchanged a polite greeting and said to Jiang Fei:

"Those boxes contain gold bars and gold ore. I've weighed them, and I guarantee there's only more, not less."

"If the weight isn't right, you can come to me anytime for the difference. Where are my guns?"

Jiang Fei: "They're in the car. Have your men unload them, and then help me load the supplies and gold ore onto the car."

"Don't forget one of our cooperation conditions: you have to spread my reputation."

"No problem, you'll see the results tomorrow." Wim called his underlings to come and move things.

To speed things up, Wim also helped move.

He occasionally looked up at the entrance.

Why hadn't his man returned yet... Nearly two hours later, everyone had finished moving the gold and supplies.

Before leaving, Jiang Fei gave Wim the sack from the passenger seat of the truck.

"A gift for you."

"Curiosity killed the cat."

With that, Jiang Fei drove away.

Wim, still standing there, curiously opened the sack, and his pupils suddenly constricted.

Inside was his underling's head.

Wim wasn't stupid; he immediately understood that this was Jiang Fei's warning.

If Jiang Fei could cut off his underling's head this time, she could cut off his next time.

But to make him give up, he was unwilling.

After all, the other party had a lot of weapons. If he could steal them all, he would be the only boss in Mos City... —

On the other side.

Jiang Fei and the two others drove their vehicles onto a secluded road.

After Su Liuyuan and Ling Zhaorui got out of the car, Jiang Fei put all the trucks and cargo vans into the Supermarket warehouse.

System: [Ding — Detected gold: 3,001,206 grams]

As Wim said, there was only more gold, not less.

Taking out an off-road vehicle, Jiang Fei and the two others got in.

This time, Su Liuyuan was driving.

After driving for five or six minutes, Su Liuyuan suddenly spoke:

"Have you two noticed that the temperature seems to have risen?"