CHAPTER 169: 119. ENCIRCLEMENT, PURSUIT, BLOCKADE

The modified Blackthorn Team, with steel spikes on their arms, glinting with a chilling light.

Just looking at it with the naked eye makes one shiver.

Just when Chen Che thought Angduo and Kainan were about to have a big fight with the Blackthorn Team, the two made a move that completely surprised him.

Angduo and Kainan turned and ran without hesitation. As Chen Che was taken aback, he saw the Special Operations Department members behind him decisively pull the rings on their grenades. Dozens of grenades flew through the air like snowballs towards the Blackthorn Team.

Boom, boom, boom!

Violent explosions accompanied by flames erupted throughout the Peru Market, like the continuous firecrackers at midnight during the New Year. The booming sounds of explosions were accompanied by flying flesh and a burnt odor in the air!

A large number of the Blackthorn Team were instantly dead or wounded!

Seeing this scene, Chen Che couldn’t help but laugh in disbelief.

Truly, my lord, the times have changed.

With guns and cannons at one’s disposal, who would still engage in close combat?

After the explosions, Angduo and Kainan decisively rushed into the crowd to finish the job, preventing the rest of the Special Operations Department from firing.

Partly because the series of explosions had already left the Blackthorn Team stunned, and given their strength, rushing into such a bewildered crowd would be a one-sided slaughter.

Furthermore, they wanted to capture two Yellow-robed Priests alive. If they continued shooting and killed the two priests, it would be a huge loss.

Although they could still announce to the council that the Special Operations Department had wiped out the Apocalypse Society’s branch in the Ninth Special Zone,

Dead ones are never as valuable as living ones.

Moreover, they had intel that one of the Yellow-robed Priests was the son of a Judging Priest.

This type of captive is always more valuable alive than dead!

Seeing the battlefield below about to conclude, a hint of joy flashed in Xia Na’s mind. Finally, she could lift a weight off her shoulders.

With this merit, An Nishang securing the position of chief would be guaranteed, wouldn’t it?

Yet, Chen Che observed from afar, feeling something was amiss.

Li Jifu had been keeping an eye on the moves of the security force, constantly reporting their status.

Listening to Li Jifu saying that the security force had suffered a big setback at the hands of these guys, their strength was definitely more than what was present here.

Especially since one Yellow-robed Priest was the son of a Judging Priest, a position that is quite transcendent within the Apocalypse Society.

How could the bodyguards assigned to the Judging Priest’s son be merely a few Blackthorn Team members?

So why haven’t they deployed their backup plan yet?

Johnny and Chana’s voices continuously came through Chen Che’s walkie-talkie, both sides continuously reporting that large numbers of followers were surging out of the Peruvian Slums, armed and attacking them, but they were all cut off outside.

These followers were no match for the forces trained by Chen Che.

As he listened to the reports, Chen Che’s eyes remained locked on the scene below.

Until his eyes landed on two figures amid the chaotic crowd, finding them extremely familiar.

His eyebrows raised, a decision formed in his mind, after some thought, he patted Xia Na on the shoulder and said, "Nana, come with me quickly."

Xia Na didn’t know where Chen Che was heading. She wanted to ask, but seeing him already striding away, she suppressed her questions and followed closely.

At the same time, Chana and others, who were blocking the followers emerging from the Peruvian Slums, also heard Chen Che’s voice over the walkie-talkie.

"Chana, can you spare a team on your end?"

"I can spare some people here," Chana responded.

"These followers don’t know how to fight at all, they just charge blindly, we can intercept them," Johnny replied as well.

Receiving such responses, Chen Che decisively instructed Chana to lead a team to the exit at the back of the Peru Market.

He had studied the entrances and exits of the Peru Market long beforehand.

Officially, the Peru Market only had four exits.

The Special Operations Department had stationed people in all four directions: east, south, west, and north. Once the battle erupted, there would certainly be a large crowd trying to escape.

According to the Special Operations Department’s plan, they first had to allow people to leave.

After all, with so many people crammed into the Peru Market, if they didn’t release some pressure, the chaotic crowd would riot, and the entire Special Operations Department would be overwhelmed by the masses.

Letting a wave of people out first was the best method, ensuring that only members of the Special Operations Department and the Apocalypse Society would remain inside the Peru Market.

Once the wave of people had left, the four exits would be quickly sealed. Anyone else trying to leave would have to wait until everything was resolved.

The consequences of forcibly breaking through the checkpoints were indifferent to the Special Operations Department, as they would rather kill a thousand wrongfully than let one guilty person escape.

Honestly speaking, humans who have managed to survive in the post-apocalyptic world have already been tempered with a new mindset.

Truly innocent people would know how to avoid danger, fleeing quickly the instant they hear gunfire, never putting themselves in peril.

Those remaining here are mostly driven by greed, attempting to steal amidst the chaos and escape with some loot.

These people, even if they die, can hardly be considered innocent.

As for those truly unlucky, the genuinely innocent who remain here and get wrongly shot, all that can be said is this: