Chapter 174 Support

"I didn't tell you guys to come with me. Just retreat as planned."

The second team leader, "Liangshan Mariner," picked up the handgun of a fallen security guard next to him, firing with both hands to suppress the enemy while whispering, "I'll buy some time so that the Warden can hold out a little longer. Maybe we can hold out until reinforcements arrive."

Seeing that the enemies aiming at him were forced to retreat behind cover by his shooting, he hunched over, about to dash out when the Han Pear Small King suddenly tackled him to the ground.

"Bullshit! What bullshit are you talking about!" Small King's forehead veins throbbed with rage. "There are no reinforcements. There are no Saints in our branch. By the time the Saints from Honglin City arrive, it'll be too late. Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, you bastard. You just want to die, to use yourself as cannon fodder to get the Warden out."

Liangshan Mariner cursed and slammed his elbow into Small King's chest, trying to push him away. "It's just one dead captain. Headquarters can send a replacement in the shortest amount of time. But if a level 5 Warden dies, Saints aren't like cabbages. The new Warden's term will be very long, and they might not even be willing to stay. Do you know how important a stable Warden is?"

This guy was obviously weakened by the poison, but he burst out with tremendous strength. Liangshan Mariner couldn't push him away.

*Da da da!* A rain of bullets poured down, piercing the car's hood and embedding itself in the front of the car.

Liangshan Mariner immediately retracted his elbow, pushed Small King's head down, and shouted, "Your cousin sold his three-year-old son when you were in high school for a few tens of thousands to buy drugs. Your cousin's wife committed suicide by drinking pesticide because of this. He's the scum of your family. Everyone grinds their teeth when they mention him. You once wanted to kill him with a knife when you turned eight."

Wang Xiao'er was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage. "Don't mention that bastard to me. That's all ancient history! Are you trying to anger me? Yes, you succeeded in angering me!" As he spoke, he raised his arm and fired wildly in the direction of the pig farm.

"Your cousin is scum, but have you ever thought that he didn't want to be scum either?" Liangshan Mariner's voice suddenly turned low.

"You know about drugs. They're getting more advanced and more terrifying. Once you're addicted, you can't quit, not even in death. Compared to the drugs now, ******* is just throat lozenges, nothing at all. There are many, many more scumbags like your cousin on the border. How many people become the disgrace of their families? How many children are sold? Our job is like controlling floods. We plug the leaks, but once the Warden dies, the dam will burst, and the flood will submerge the entire Nanming City, the entire Guizhou province, and flow to the whole country. There will be more and more scumbags like your cousin."

Wang Xiao'er was stunned. Gunshots rang out continuously, and the enemy's firepower continued to pour down. Liangshan Mariner's speed also became faster and faster.

"Last year, you won third place in the transcendent-level fighting competition at the Qinghe branch. The Warden asked you if you wanted to develop in another city, but you refused. Why did you refuse? This is your hometown, so you don't want to leave. You want to stay and protect it. But this is also my home!"

Wang Xiao'er's eyes were red, but he loosened his grip.

"Don't be afraid to die if you choose this path. When your level goes up, you have to die." Liangshan Mariner kicked him away and shot out like an arrow.

*Bang bang bang!* Gunshots rang out one after another, and dust splashed around Liangshan Mariner's feet, kicked up by the bullets.

Soon, his body also splashed with water. He had been hit by bullets, but Liangshan Mariner ignored it and ran madly towards the darkness to the east. He was a Water Ghost. Ordinary physical attacks couldn't hurt him.

"Cover the Captain!" Wang Xiao'er roared with red eyes, stuck out half his head, held the gun in both hands, and kept pulling the trigger.

He knew the Water Ghost's passive skill very well. Every Water Ghost's passive skill had a limit. It couldn't continue forever, just like holding your breath. You always had to breathe. Once you were continuously hit by bullets, you would be riddled with holes when you took a breath.

And the Captain was poisoned with Gu poison, so his body wasn't in its peak condition.

*Bang!* A loud noise louder than the sound of the pistol echoed in the night. Sniper rifle! Wang Xiao'er, who was familiar with firearms, felt his heart sink. Immediately, he heard the sound of flesh separating and falling in the distance.

Wang Xiao'er's expression changed drastically.

He turned his head sharply and saw Liangshan Mariner lying in a pool of blood, his knee torn apart by a large-caliber bullet, with only a layer of skin left.

A scout, a fallen scout.

Wang Xiao'er understood the sniper's intention. The sniper's mission was to suppress everyone at the scene, ensuring that the Spirit Alliance's psychic could successfully besiege the Warden.

"Save him, save him!" Wang Xiao'er roared with a ferocious expression, and staggered out without hesitation.

The sniper hiding in the dark sneered and aimed at Wang Xiao'er.

He didn't kill the Water Ghost because he was setting a trap to lure out reinforcements. He was sure that the official Law Enforcers would save their teammates.

Morality, friendship, and justice were always the fatal weaknesses of this group.

Wang Xiao'er was only a level 2 scout. He couldn't see the sniper's exact location in the dark, nor could he judge the trajectory of the bullet. But with the speed of a sniper rifle, even if he could predict the trajectory, a level 2 scout's physical fitness wouldn't allow him to avoid the sniper bullet, especially since he was still a little weak.

But Wang Xiao'er calmly accepted his fate. He was just out there as a living target.

He hadn't said hello to his teammates behind him, or even made eye contact, but Wang Xiao'er believed that the moment he was hit, his teammates behind him would save Liangshan Mariner.

Also, only by being hit could he determine the enemy's location through the trajectory of the bullet. Before he died, he would return a shot. If he was lucky, he could kill the sniper. If he was unlucky and missed, he could force the sniper to hide, creating time for his teammates to save people.

*Bang!*

The dark, slender muzzle spat out flames, and the large-caliber bullet spun at high speed as it left the barrel.

At the moment the gunshot rang out, Wang Xiao'er's body, which was staggering but desperately dodging, stiffened, showing the agility of a scout.

But at this moment, a hand pushed him forward from behind without warning.

The high-speed bullet seemed to touch an invisible, soft wall of air, spinning with all its might, but still unable to break through that layer of defense.

The security guards and official Law Enforcers looked at each other in dismay.

A few seconds later, a level 2 Fire Master couldn't bear it any longer. Holding a gun in both hands with the muzzle pointing down, he slowly approached the pig farm.

When he was less than five meters away from the narrow entrance, he threw a fireball in. The burning flames illuminated the scene inside the simple pigsty: limbs and broken arms all over the ground, thick blood spreading along the pitted concrete floor. There wasn't a single intact body.

"They're all, all dead," the Fire Master murmured.

"Then, what about the reinforcements? They were reinforcements, right?" someone asked, the second half of the sentence spoken cautiously.

The Fire Master threw another fireball in and scanned the area with his eyes, shouting, "Gone!"

It was as if it was an illusion.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed. He saw a tube of light golden "Life Source Elixir?!" next to Liangshan Mariner's broken thigh.

Wang Xiao'er was both surprised and delighted, shouting, "Reinforcements! Official reinforcements!"

Only their own people would leave behind such a precious Life Source Elixir. The folk Law Enforcer organizations and the Qinghe clan experts wouldn't be willing to part with it. That mysterious expert was not only reinforcements but also a big shot, a big shot for the bottom-level practitioners.

"It really is reinforcements."

The surviving official Law Enforcers and security guards breathed a sigh of relief, their faces covered in blood and sweat showing the joy of escaping death and a sense of relief.

Wang Xiao'er staggered and ran to the Captain's side, picking up the Life Source Elixir and injecting it into his neck.

Liangshan Mariner, who had lost too much blood, quickly woke up. The first thing he said when he opened his eyes was, "#, I'm not dead!"

"Reinforcements are here, reinforcements are here, and they're very strong reinforcements!" Wang Xiao'er had just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by Liangshan Mariner, who waved his hand. "I wasn't unconscious just now. I only passed out after the beasts in the pig farm were all killed."

Wang Xiao'er smiled. "You're about to die, but you're still so steady. Did you see who the reinforcements were, Captain?"

Liangshan Mariner shook his head. "They were facing away from me. I didn't see them."

"Then how did they disappear?"

"I was in a daze for a moment. I didn't see clearly. Maybe it was because I lost too much blood?"

"But where did the reinforcements come from?" Wang Xiao'er calmed down. "We don't have this kind of big shot in our city, right? Could it be from the branch? But that's too late."

The Elder couldn't possibly arrive in such a short time.

The two were silent for a moment.

"Don't think about things you can't figure out. Anyway, the Warden is saved. We'll naturally know after the operation," Liangshan Mariner said.

Wang Xiao'er nodded vigorously.

Liangshan Mariner suddenly said, "Those words before seemed a little pretentious. Forget about them. I don't want to hear anyone mention them at the branch tomorrow."

"Don't worry, I'm not Yuan Ting from the Taiyi Sect." East of the pig farm was a large expanse of wasteland, overgrown with weeds and muddy.

The Poison Chaser was a swordsman with dark skin. His appearance was actually quite handsome, but years of wind and sun had made his skin rough, so his handsomeness was not so obvious.

In addition to being dark and rough, the only feature on his face was a broken eyebrow. Only half of his left eyebrow remained.

At this time, the Poison Chaser was wearing a vine armor emitting a faint green light and holding a silver long sword, fighting with a humanoid mantis.

The mantis man was three and a half meters tall, burly but agile, with two one-meter-long sharp horns growing from his wrists, stabbing, picking, or chopping, fighting the Poison Chaser in a difficult battle.

In terms of close combat ability, the psychics were no match for the swordsman, but the air was filled with a strong, pungent smell of Gu poison.

Fortunately, as a level 5 Warden, he had some assets. The Saint-level props included two items: the Wood Demon Armor, which could restore physical strength, detoxify, and enhance defense.

The sword was a treasure that could cut iron like mud, easily cutting open the mantis man's hard armor.

But the Poison Chaser was still in a desperate situation. In addition to the mantis man, there was also a psychic, this psychic was small and shaped like a rat, with short, thick claws twisting a half-foot-long black bamboo tube.

Accompanied by the blessed arrow, "poof poof" like rain.

The Poison Chaser blocked the mantis man's attacks while guarding against the sneak attacks of the Qi arrows, as if walking a tightrope. A slight carelessness would lead to death.

Even so, exhaustion was only a matter of time.

The two psychics' tactics were extremely insidious. One attacked and the other provided support. The supporting rat only sneaked attacks and didn't get close. Once the Poison Chaser tried to escape, the supporting rat could immediately stop him.

And if the two of them fought in close quarters, it would be easy for the level 5 Warden of the Nanming branch to escape.

"Hehe, Poison Chaser, actually the information you received was correct. We do have a large batch of drugs coming in, but the date is not today, but the day after tomorrow." The rat spat out two more poison arrows with a sly smile. "Killing you will allow the drugs to spread rapidly in Nanming City and be sent to all parts of Guizhou Province in the shortest time, and then flow to the whole country. At that time, it will be difficult to stop this batch of drugs."

The Poison Chaser said coldly, "You won't succeed."

The mantis man stabbed with his double swords, laughing angrily, "You're just being stubborn. You're at the end of your rope. Who can save you?"

A trace of pain flashed across the face of the pig farm Poison Chaser. He gritted his teeth so hard that his chewing muscles bulged, but his swordsmanship did not seem to be chaotic, and his steps were still smooth.

Swordsmen have an iron will, and their fighting spirit will never collapse.

*Crack!*

A sudden sound of bone cracking came. The mantis man and the Poison Chaser, who were fighting, retreated two steps tacitly, each glancing with the corner of their eyes.

This glance made the mantis man's liver and gallbladder split.

Beside the rat, a plain-looking young man had appeared at some unknown time, holding a bloody head in his hand, connected to half of the cervical spine. The bright red blood dripped down drop by drop.

The rat's headless body slumped to the side, and large amounts of warm blood flowed from the bloody neck wound.

A mysterious powerhouse who suddenly appeared killed a level 5 psychic without any effort.

And they didn't even know when this mysterious person approached.

The mantis man retreated again and again, his expression extremely frightened, roaring, "Who are you? Who are you!"

He was a native of Guizhou Province. As a backbone member of the Spirit Alliance, he knew the Saints of the Qinghe branch like the back of his hand. And with the level of this mysterious person, he was probably a level 6. Even in the entire city, there were only a few such figures, and only a handful in a province.

"I'm just a Fire Master from Songhai, Lingjing ID San Qing Dao Zu." Zhang Yuanqing's body ignited with a raging flame, illuminating the darkness, and spitting flames from his palm, condensing into a long knife.

The next second, he turned into a straight streamer of flames and crashed into the mantis man. Just as the mantis man was about to dodge, his pupils suddenly scattered, presenting a deep vortex.

He had been hit by Star Illusion.

*Poof!*

The fire line brushed past, and the head with tentacles rolled up and flew away, landing with a thud.

The headless body crashed down, the neck wound charred, and blood flowed out in small streams.

"Are you a colleague from the Songhai branch?" The Poison Chaser did not relax his vigilance as he held his long sword.

Zhang Yuanqing gave an "um" and took off his Yin-Yang robe openly in front of the swordsman Warden.

But in the eyes of the Songhai Fire Master who claimed to be San Qing Dao Zu, he simply flicked the dust off his clothes. Although the swordsman had the insight to see through illusions, he was still a little unclear due to the level suppression.

Zhang Yuanqing couldn't use the Night Wanderer skills openly. There was only one Yuan Kuang Tianzun among the Night Wanderers in the Songhai branch.

"You don't look like a Fire Master at all." The Poison Chaser said in a deep voice, as a swordsman, he still had this kind of insight.

"You don't know enough details. If you ask around, you'll find out that Songhai has two Fire Master disgraces, one is Tianxia Guihuo, and the other is me. Your people are here." The Poison Chaser raised his eyes and looked over, and sure enough, he saw Liangshan Mariner and others running over, and joy surged on their faces when they saw that the Warden was safe.

The Poison Chaser immediately greeted them, the first sentence being, "How many brothers were sacrificed?"

"Four brothers were sacrificed, and six brothers from the Security Bureau were sacrificed," Liangshan Mariner said sadly.

The Poison Chaser's eyes bulged out.

"If it weren't for this Warden!" Wang Xiao'er looked at Zhang Yuanqing gratefully, "We would probably all be dead."

Liangshan Mariner bowed deeply. "Thank you for the Warden's Life Source Elixir. Our branch will pay you back when we save enough money. Which branch are you from?"

"Songhai branch, San Qing Dao Zu." The Poison Chaser took the initiative to come forward, finally letting go of his guard, and stared deeply at the young man who claimed to be the Fire Master disgrace, "How did you come to our poor and remote place?"

He didn't seem to like to express emotions, and his expression was still hard, but the gratitude in his eyes was clearly visible.

"This is not a poor and remote place. This is a respectable battlefield." Zhang Yuanqing stretched out his hand and smiled, "I came to arrest a wanted criminal. I just reported to the Nanming branch and heard Captain Xue Hai Wu Ya say that you were ambushed, so I came to take a look."

"So that's how it is!" The official Law Enforcers of the Nanming branch suddenly understood, dispelling the last of their doubts, and the smiles on their faces became enthusiastic.

Fortunately, this senior Warden came to handle a case, otherwise the Nanming branch would have suffered a devastating disaster tonight. Then they silently pondered, who is San Qing Dao Zu?

At this time, the phone in contact person Wang Xiao'er's pocket rang. He took it out and looked at it, saying, "It's a call from Xue Hai Wu Ya."

When they were cleaning up the battlefield just now, they had confiscated the magic item that shielded the signal. Now communications had been restored.

The Poison Chaser took the phone. "Give it to me."

At the same time, a faint shadow swept over, attached to Zhang Yuanqing's back, and whispered in his ear, "Master, there is another evil profession nearby, it seems to be an acquaintance of yours."