Chapter 1717

Scorpion stuck to Poisonous Snake’s ear, carefully explaining to him why Eagle was so furious.

But Poisonous Snake didn’t care at all. Instead, he smiled, pulled a golden bank card from his inner pocket, toyed with it in his hand, and grinned at Eagle:

“My friend, I don’t think there’s anything in this world that money can’t buy.”

“Look at this Swiss Gold Card in my hand—there’s fifty million in it. Think of it as my apology to your Snake God, how about that?”

Hearing this, Eagle’s face turned green then pale, looking extremely ugly.

But very quickly, a smile surfaced on his face. He said, “My dear partner, you couldn’t be more right.”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and fired two shots at the so?called Snake God behind him, then pulled a grenade from his pocket, yanked out the pin, and hurled it straight at his “Snake God.”

“Boom—!”

In the night, a small mushroom cloud rose into the air. The Net Python was blown into two pieces, still twitching and writhing non?stop.

Its cloudy eyes were full of resentment, as if accusing the world of injustice.

A second ago it was a high and mighty Snake God worshiped by all; the next second, it became disposable, blown into two chunks.

Lin Beichen watched all of this quietly in the darkness, the muzzle in his hand unknowingly already aimed at Eagle and his men.

He was torn at this moment, unable to decide whether or not to open fire on them.

Even though the distance between them was practically point?blank, Lin Beichen still wasn’t confident, unsure if he could wipe them all out. As long as he left them even a split second to react, what awaited him would inevitably be their frenzied retaliation.

Even if Lin Beichen could take down five or six of them within a second, the rest would definitely launch a fierce attack on him. By then, he had no way of knowing whether he could get out of the storm of their overwhelming firepower in one piece.

Time ticked by, second by second, and Lin Beichen’s frown tightened. Even as Eagle’s group slowly moved toward the shore, Lin Beichen still didn’t open fire on them.

Lin Beichen didn’t like doing things he wasn’t sure of. Getting into a frontal firefight with them now was clearly not a wise move. But simply letting them walk away wasn’t what he wanted either.

“Tap—tap tap!”

The footsteps splashing in the puddles gradually receded, and Lin Beichen’s finger unconsciously tightened on the trigger.

“Brother, don’t you feel that something’s off?”

At this moment, Poisonous Snake finally snapped out of the shock from being threatened by Eagle and his men earlier.

He frowned and looked at Eagle, who still had his arm around his shoulder.

“My good friend, what do you think is off?”

“I think that big snake must have been the incarnation of a Demon. Luckily you were here to see through its disguise for us, or else we would have…”

Eagle just shook his head dismissively, his mind completely occupied by the gold card Poisonous Snake had handed him.

There was a full eighty million in that card, but he wasn’t sure if Poisonous Snake was bluffing him.

Still, in his mind, anyone Scorpion chose to follow wouldn’t be that despicable. And even if there really wasn’t any money in the card, worst case, he’d just fall out with Poisonous Snake and his crew when the time came. It wouldn’t cost him anything.

“No, what I mean is—how could something like that open fire on us?”

“If it really was the Snake God they said it was, why didn’t it just kill us when we got close to it?”

Poisonous Snake was a bit helpless, but still forced himself to be patient, trying to remind Eagle.

Of course, he didn’t dare tell Eagle that all their so?called Snake God talk was just superstitious nonsense. His life was literally hanging on Eagle’s every word right now; he had to go along with him on everything.

“You’re right. How could a Demon that crawled out of Hell possibly let us off so easily?”

Eagle suddenly seemed to figure something out. He smacked his own head hard, then waved his big hand at his men beside him and shouted, “Search. Turn this entire reed marsh inside out!”

Eagle’s men all nodded and quickly fanned out in all directions into the reed marsh.

Seeing this, Lin Beichen’s frown deepened. Without thinking, he fired two shots in Eagle’s direction.

However, Eagle and Poisonous Snake were shielded in the middle by his men. The two shots did kill a guy standing in front of Eagle, but didn’t actually injure Eagle or Poisonous Snake.

“Find him. Find him for me!”

Eagle had his face splattered with his own man’s blood, and the smile on his face twisted instantly. He jabbed his finger wildly in the direction where Lin Beichen had just fired and roared.

He was a drug lord, a big boss. When had he ever swallowed this kind of humiliation?

This was like someone deliberately spitting right in his face in front of everyone.

Eagle’s men howled as they surrounded him in the center, while part of them followed his orders and quickly closed in on the direction of Lin Beichen’s position.

Seeing this, Lin Beichen actually let out a silent breath of relief.

Yu Feng was still unconscious and had no ability to resist. If these people found him now, just seeing the military uniform on him would be enough for them to kill him on the spot.

Lin Beichen quickly crawled up from the ground, slung the Type?95 rifle onto his back, and sprinted deeper into the distant reed marsh.

“Swish—swish swish!”

The sound of reeds being pushed aside kept coming from behind Lin Beichen, along with the weird shouts from Eagle’s men.

Lin Beichen figured what they were yelling was probably something like “Stop!” But since he didn’t understand their language, all he heard were strange cries.

The footsteps behind him grew faster and closer. As he ran flat out, Lin Beichen instinctively glanced down at the ground.

There was a palm?sized rock on the ground. Without thinking, Lin Beichen bent down and grabbed the rock, then dove quickly into the reeds to the side.

After getting into the reed marsh, Lin Beichen hurled the rock hard back in the direction he’d come from.

“Swish—swish swish!”

The rock slammed into the reeds, sending a large patch of reeds into violent motion, as if some animal was darting through the marsh at high speed.

At the same time, Lin Beichen held his breath and clenched his tactical knife tightly in his hand.

The man chasing behind was getting closer and closer to Lin Beichen. Like a lurking leopard, Lin Beichen slowly shifted position through the reeds, closing in precisely on the pursuer’s inevitable path.

“Mmph~!”

When one of the men passed by, Lin Beichen struck like lightning, clamping a hand over the guy’s mouth while the knife in his hand sliced across the bridge of his nose without hesitation.

The warm, metallic smell of blood seeped into the air and into Lin Beichen’s nose. His eyes were as cold as frost.

At a life?and?death moment like this, it was either him or me. There was no room for mercy.

Right now, Lin Beichen was nothing more than a killing machine carrying out a mission for the state, and the people in front of him were the targets of that mission.

Maybe for these pursuers, they were only doing this to stay alive; but for Lin Beichen, he also had to survive and complete his mission. With the two sides on opposite sides, there was no such thing as right or wrong.

Only when the man stopped struggling did Lin Beichen slowly release his hand from the guy’s mouth.

Lin Beichen gently lowered the rapidly cooling body into the reeds, keeping the noise to a minimum, barely brushing against a few stalks.

Even so, a strange shout still sounded from not far away, and Lin Beichen couldn’t help but frown.

The man who had called out was walking in Lin Beichen’s direction—not fast, but definitely not slow.

He must have noticed that the companion who’d been moving at about the same speed as him had suddenly stopped, and when he called out, got no reply.

“Ah!”

When the newly arrived man saw the corpse on the ground, he let out a weird cry, followed by a string of shouting that Lin Beichen couldn’t understand.

Lin Beichen naturally had no idea what he was saying, but by then he had already crept up on the man. Seizing the moment, he sprang up from where he was and drove a hard kick into the guy.

Not giving the man any chance to react, Lin Beichen scrambled up from the ground and, ignoring the man’s struggles, drove his knife hard into the guy’s chest.

“Ah—!”