?48: Chapter 46: Melee 48: Chapter 46: Melee Sean sent the text he had edited long ago but had never sent.

    The Sand Scorpion had already taken position, and Suleyman’s opponents were also well-ambushed.

    Suleyman’s opponent was indeed Franciska, but he didn’t know if Franciska would really only offer two hundred thousand dollars as he had claimed.

    Mexicali was a border city where a densely packed cluster of buildings lay just along an Iron Wire fence, and the United States side was a desert, requiring a few more kilometers’ walk before reaching the downtown area of El Centro.

    Gao Yi had always thought the tunnel entrance was outside the city, but unexpectedly, on a street about a hundred meters from the border Iron Wire fence, in what seemed like an ordinary block, Sean suddenly hit the brakes.

    The entrance to the tunnel was provided by Suleyman and since the tunnel was not drivable, parking a truck full of money at the entrance clearly could not transport the money across.

    Sean spoke softly, “We’re here, where’s your car?”

    Suleyman hurriedly said, “Dude, no matter what you guys thought before, have you changed your mind now?

    Are you sure you’re letting me go?”

    Sean nodded, but Suleyman turned to look at Gao Yi and said, “You speak, you guarantee!”

    Gao Yi didn’t want to promise, but after looking at Sean, he finally said, “I promise I won’t kill you!”

    Suleyman spread his hands and said, “Then how will you take the money?

    If you can’t take the money, how could you possibly let me go?”

    Sean unhesitatingly said, “I told you I have support, I found someone, let them take the money, and we both will take you through the tunnel.

    Once I confirm the money is safe, I’ll let you go on the US side.

    Sounds reliable, right?”

    Suleyman hesitated for a moment, then said, “Okay, get out of the car!”

    “Wait.”

    Sean picked up his phone and said, “I’ll make a call.” S~ea??h the N?velFire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Sean dialed a number and while waiting for the call to connect, he whispered, “Are you in position?”

    He didn’t know what the other party said, but Sean immediately said, “Now you come out and open the truck filled with money.”

    After speaking, Sean turned to Suleyman and demanded, “Where’s the money?

    The truck with the money?

    The tunnel entrance?”

    Gao Yi picked up a Hammer, and Suleyman immediately said, “I’ll make a call!

    I’ll make the call!”

    Suleyman quickly dialed, and once the call connected, he urgently said, “Bring the truck out, let them see the money!”

    Without hanging up, following Suleyman’s order, a roller gate in front of Gao Yi began to rise, and then a pickup truck backed out, blocking the not-so-wide street, turned around, and parked very close to Gao Yi’s vehicle.

    Gao Yi looked around briefly; vehicles had blocked both ends of the street, and most astonishingly, apart from Suleyman’s men, there were even several police cars.

    Then, what should they do next?

    Just then, Sean suddenly said, “Do you know what to do after we get out of the car and enter the tunnel?”

    Gao Yi hesitated, because Sean had not informed him earlier about this plan, so he now couldn’t distinguish whether Sean mentioning getting out and entering the tunnel was true or false.

    “Uh, I don’t know.”

    Gao Yi honestly admitted his ignorance.

    Sean said, “You get out first, stay to the side, I’ll handle him, and then the three of us will go through the tunnel.

    Once we reach the other side, it will be safe.”

    After speaking, Sean turned to Suleyman and asked, “Right?”

    Suleyman immediately said, “Right!

    But how will you take the money?

    Where are your people, and why aren’t they coming to take the money!”

    Sean said, “As long as you are in our hands, we aren’t worried about losing the money.

    Once we get there and confirm it’s safe, it will not be too late to take the money.

    Go on, get out, you go first.”

    Sean let Gao Yi get out first.

    Gao Yi hesitated for a moment, then he still opened the car door.

    The moment he got out, Gao Yi’s legs really felt weak, and his heart was thumping wildly inside his chest on the right side.

    He truly didn’t know how many guns were aimed at him from all around.

    He couldn’t see a single one now, and the less he saw, the more panicked he felt.

    Gao Yi got out of the car and walked a few steps to the side; he reached the door of the roller gate and peered inside, but there were only four people inside, none of them holding a gun, just nervously watching him.

    Gao Yi felt much relieved, he waved towards Sean’s car.

    How come he couldn’t see Sand Scorpion’s men or any others?

    For now, it seemed like only Suleyman’s men had fully blocked the street.

    While Gao Yi was curious, Sean finally got down from the driver’s seat.

    First looking around, Sean opened the back car door and then waved to Suleyman, “Come out, slowly, if you rush, I’ll kill you, your legs first out…”

    Suleyman first put his legs down on the ground, and by this time, he was basically assured.

    But just as Suleyman’s feet touched the ground and before he moved, Sean suddenly grabbed Suleyman’s clothes, violently pulled him out, didn’t wait for Suleyman to come out, turned his head, and ran towards the roller gate where Gao Yi was.

    “Get in!”

    Sean roared, rushing towards Gao Yi; Gao Yi turned into what looked like a garage room after the roller gate, waved his left hand, swinging the Hammer in his right.

    Suleyman was dragged out, he staggered a bit, stood puzzled next to the car, watching Sean.

    Then, gunfire erupted.

    At least a dozen guns fired simultaneously.

    Suleyman had just steadied himself when bullets started flying densely from all around, and in an instant, Suleyman’s body had at least a dozen bullet holes before collapsing lifelessly.

    With wide-open eyes, Suleyman didn’t understand what happened until his death.

    Sean, head lowered, just kept sprinting.

    As Suleyman lay dead, really dead on the street, a second round of gunfire suddenly erupted from both sides of the road centered on him, but this time the bullets were aimed at Sean.

    The pursuers stopped at least three hundred meters away at both ends of the street, because Suleyman had not allowed them to get closer.

    Dozens of guns quickly turned into a chaotic crossfire of hundreds, but since Suleyman’s men ultimately couldn’t fire at first, by the time they verified Suleyman was dead and turned their guns on Sean, he was already inside the roller gate.

    Just what he needed, that slight difference in time.

    Four unarmed men inside, Gao Yi took down each with a hammer.

    By the time Sean ran in, all four were already down.

    Sean pulled Gao Yi to the side, against the wall, then said, “Wait!”

    With a bang, something exploded outside the roller gate, and the blast brought dust swirling in.

    Then bullets pitter-pattered on the walls on both sides of the gate.

    Gao Yi confusedly asked, “What’s happening?”

    “I don’t know.”

    “What do we do next…?”

    “Wait.”

    It wasn’t loud, but given the dense gunfire and sporadic explosions outside, Gao Yi glanced at the door inside the room and said, “Aren’t we going into the tunnel?”

    “We can’t!”

    Sean pointed towards the gate, “We’re right in the eye of the storm, it seems dangerous, but it’s actually the safest place!

    Now you understand why I don’t care about the money, right?

    Because it’s simply impossible to take!”

    Outside, he couldn’t see the battle, Gao Yi urgently said, “Where’s Sand Scorpion?

    Was it Sand Scorpion firing just now?”

    “No!

    It was Franciska’s men!

    They would surely start firing once they saw Suleyman, because they weren’t sure if what I said was true or not.

    But once they spotted Suleyman, they would definitely shoot, so now that Suleyman is dead, your mission is completely accomplished and you’ve even kept your promise.”

    It really was the eye of the storm, outside the fierce battle continued, but here, no bullets came directly in.

    Gao Yi anxiously said, “But eventually they will cease fire, and if we don’t leave by then, won’t we end up dead anyway?”

    “No, if Suleyman hadn’t died, his men would have fought to the end.

    But now Suleyman is dead!

    He died right in front of his men, they will scatter, Franciska’s men will keep fighting until the end, and Sand Scorpion will come for the money.”

    Confidently finishing, Sean smiled, “So, the last to break in, Sand Scorpion, will be the most determined fighters.

    We just need to follow Sand Scorpion’s men and leave.

    Now, we just wait!”

    The plan was simple, almost as if there was no plan—simply call everyone, let them start a massive brawl.

    But Sean staked his and Gao Yi’s lives on this unpredictable brawl.

    However, Sean did indeed take on the most dangerous task for himself, since he first let Gao Yi get out of the car and enter the tunnel entrance.

    The fight lasted approximately just two minutes, the gunfire thinned out unexpectedly.

    Sean picked up the phone; he loudly said, “Take the money, we are right behind this roller gate, protect us as we leave, the money is on the pickup truck!

    If you don’t act now, someone else will snatch the money.

    Now that Suleyman is dead, anyone can claim this money, everyone wants it!”

    After Sean finished, the previously sparse gunfire outside resumed.

    It wasn’t long, just over a minute, when sudden urgent shouting was heard outside; Sean looked out and said, “Sand Scorpion has arrived, prepare to go.”

    Gao Yi was very close to the money truck; he watched a group of tough men in plain clothes, but each wearing Bullet-Proof Vests and fully armed, reached the pickup.

    “The car is damaged!”

    “There’s money, but how to take it?”

    “Falke!”

    “Move the money down!”

    “No, tie the truck up, drive out!”

    Checking the vehicle, checking the money, figuring out how to take the money took time, so inevitably, those outside fell into disarray.

    The bustling crowd outside, one of them looked towards Sean, and Sean waved and said, “Hey, Sand Scorpion, no need to kill mine, should be no problem taking us along, right?”

    One middle-aged man with sunglasses tilted his head and yelled into the walkie-talkie on his shoulder, “Drive over here!

    Clear the barricades, too much money, can’t move it in time!”

    He didn’t promise to protect Sean, but he didn’t fire at Sean and Gao Yi either.

    Sand Scorpion knelt on one knee, then raised his gun and fired.

    Gao Yi whispered, “Shall we go out?”

    Sean pointed and said, “Don’t rush, it’s still dangerous outside, watch.”

    A mercenary leaning against the wall, firing his weapon, suddenly fell backward, his gun clattering to the ground, his face facing Gao Yi, but with a bullet hole already in his face.

    Sean whispered, “That’s a mercenary, that’s battle, one can die any moment.

    No matter how good your Kung Fu is, you’re just a person like him in this kind of battlefield—a normal person who will die if shot!”

    Gao Yi immediately said, “I don’t want to be a mercenary.”

    “Given your style, you’re more suited to be a mercenary than an assassin, but even if you become an assassin, operating alone means you will eventually die.

    Think carefully, you really need us, you need aids, people to help, to help you avoid such situations.”

    Gao Yi really conceded, somewhat helplessly, he said, “You didn’t enter the tunnel just to show me all this, did you?”

    Sean shook his head, “Of course not, I also have to take care of my own life.

    The other end of the tunnel surely has many people waiting for us, so definitely can’t go through the tunnel.

    Wait a bit, let Sand Scorpion clear the way and then we can leave, just wait a bit.”