Chapter 463 - 389: Outsmarting Oneself?
Chapter 463: Chapter 389: Outsmarting Oneself?
Hatred festered in Han Yang’s heart.
’Once this is over,’ he thought, ’I’ll make Wu Guo disappear. He’ll cease to exist.’
They continued forward for another hundred meters or so.
Suddenly, Wei Nan, who had circled around from the other side, met up with Wei Shang and the others.
"Well? Found any clues?" Wei Shang asked with a smile.
Wei Nan shook his head. "Nothing. It doesn’t look like anyone’s been here at all!"
"Unless they can fly or burrow into the ground, there’s no way they wouldn’t leave a single trace!"
"Captain Han, could your intelligence be wrong?"
"Or maybe we’re in the wrong place? This place doesn’t look like it’s been occupied at all!"
Wei Nan’s gaze shifted to Han Yang.
He hastily shook his head. "Impossible. The intelligence can’t be wrong, and this isn’t the wrong place..."
"Alright, if you say it’s not wrong!"
"How about this? Let the men from the police department go in and scout it out."
"If there’s really a problem, we’ll charge right in. How about it?"
Wei Nan said with a light chuckle.
As soon as he spoke, Han Yang’s face fell.
"Send the police department’s men in?"
"What? Is Captain Han scared? Or are you reluctant to sacrifice them?"
"Or... could this be a trap? Just waiting for us to walk right into it?"
"How is that possible? Why would I set a trap for you..."
Han Yang reacted as if someone had stepped on his tail.
His expression changed drastically, and he scrambled to defend himself.
But before he could finish, Wei Nan burst out laughing.
"Captain Han, I was just kidding. Don’t take it so seriously!"
"But let’s go with that plan. Have the police department go in first to scout the path and check the situation inside."
"We, the Right Guard, will wait outside. As long as you lure out the remnants of the Blood Handprint, we’ll charge right in. Not a single one will escape!"
"After all, your reputation, Captain Han, is already famous throughout Qishan City!"
"The moment they see you, they’ll turn tail and flee. They wouldn’t dare fight back, right?"
Han Yang: "..."
Although he was completely against it in his heart,
the Town Martial Department was his superior department.
Wei Shang and Wei Nan were both his superiors.
How could he dare defy an order from his superiors?
After a long pause, he finally nodded. "Alright. We’ll go in first. If anything happens, you come in and support us immediately!"
Wei Nan and Wei Shang both smiled and nodded at him.
Only then did Han Yang walk toward the factory gate.
The moment he turned, a murderous glint flashed in his eyes.
Once the group returned to the main gate,
Han Yang called over all the men from the police department.
He briefly explained the situation to them and led them directly into the factory.
RUMBLE—
The heavy, dull sound of the iron gate was especially jarring in the quiet night.
Even those over a hundred meters away could hear it clearly.
However, there was no movement from either the factory building or the office block.
In truth, if remnants of the Blood Handprint were really hiding here,
they would have long since discovered their approach.
The sound of car engines when they arrived.
And the beams of the headlights.
If the people from the Blood Handprint couldn’t even detect that,
then they would have no business existing.
As Han Yang led the police department personnel into the factory courtyard,
they trampled down the waist-high weeds.
Even after they passed, the weeds sprang back up.
However, they were no longer as straight and tall as before.
This only served to confirm what Wei Shang had said earlier. If there were really people here,
how could the weeds still be so upright?
Han Yang was filled with regret. ’How could I have overlooked such a detail?’
Instead, this detail had made Wei Shang and the others suspicious.
This was definitely not the outcome Han Yang wanted.
As they slowly walked deeper into the factory grounds,
Wei Shang and Wei Nan exchanged a look.
"What’s the next step?"
Wei Shang smiled. "Wait. Wait for news from the Lord General!"
"This factory is full of Blood Handprint members lying in ambush!"
"They’re just waiting for us to go in so they can wipe us all out in one go!"
"But Han Yang never dreamed that the ones going in would be his own people!"
"I doubt he ever imagined they would die at the hands of their own allies!"
Hearing this, Wei Nan also nodded.
A frosty glint passed through his eyes. "I’ll go give the signal. Let them have at it."
With that, Wei Nan ran off toward the other side of the factory.
「Time ticked by, second by second.」
The inside of the factory was eerily quiet.
Han Yang glanced around, and just as he was about to find an excuse to leave,
suddenly, a sharp WHOOSH was heard.
A flare was shot directly into the factory.
In an instant, the factory grounds were bathed in bright light.
It also exposed the position of Han Yang and the police department.
This was their signal.
Han Yang’s expression changed dramatically. Just as he was about to order a retreat,
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH—
BANG BANG BANG—
Arrows and bullets rained down on them in a volley.
In the blink of an eye, twenty or thirty members of the police department were hit.
They let out waves of agonizing screams.
Han Yang couldn’t care about anyone else.
He was solely focused on getting out of there.
He just couldn’t understand why someone had given the signal.
He was the one who was supposed to give it, as he had arranged with the ambushers.
The next moment, he glanced toward the factory gate.
When he saw the figures standing there indistinctly,
he understood everything. His plan had been exposed long ago.
In fact, Wei Shang and Wei Nan had turned his own scheme against him.
’They deliberately lured us in so we would kill each other?’
As Han Yang figured it out, rage burned within him.
But before he could get far,
suddenly, several figures leaped out from both sides of the weeds.
Wielding sharp weapons, they pounced on Han Yang.
Seeing this, Han Yang had no time to explain and could only respond in a panic.
CLANG—
Sparks flew as he drew his weapon and blocked the first wave of attacks.
But immediately after, the second wave came.
Three people with incredibly fast Body Techniques slashed at him from behind.
Three massive blades cut through the air, creating a humming sound.
Not daring to be careless, Han Yang immediately rolled on the ground.
After a hair’s-breadth escape, before he could even get back to his feet,
the next wave of attacks arrived.
Han Yang was suddenly in a wretched state.
He was constantly dodging, without even a chance to counterattack.
Looking at the police officers he had brought with him, more than half had been slaughtered.
Although the rest were fighting back desperately,
they had already fallen into disarray.
It was only a matter of time before they were all annihilated.
As Han Yang was desperately trying to figure a way out,
outside, Wei Shang and Wei Nan glanced into the factory.
"Should be about time, right?"
"Mmm, I think so!"
"Then it’s our turn. There, and there, and on the roof of that office building—Blood Handprint members are in ambush!"
"Are you taking those spots or am I?"
Through observation, Wei Shang had already located all their ambush points.
Wei Nan shot him a glance. "I’ll take the ambush points. The inside is yours."
"Deal. Let’s make it quick!"
The two reached an understanding. Wei Nan took a dozen or so Right Guards
and stealthily crept toward those ambush points.
Meanwhile, Wei Shang was in no hurry. He observed for a while longer.
Only when the fighting had nearly run its course did he wave his hand.
The next moment,
the Right Guards behind him all poured into the factory in a single file line.
They moved with extreme speed, quickly melting into the darkness.
When they saw someone ahead, they didn’t hesitate.
They would approach silently and cut them down.
It didn’t matter if they were from the police department or the Blood Handprint.
They were all on the Right Guard’s kill list.
Because those police officers had long since been assimilated by the Blood Handprint.
Making his way forward, Wei Shang also strode through the tall grass.
Before long, when he was less than ten meters from Han Yang,
he saw that Han Yang was covered in wounds, an arrow at the end of its flight.
Wei Shang said quickly, "Captain Han, how did you end up like this?"
"Wei... save... save me..."
The moment Han Yang saw Wei Shang, he cried out for help.
In response, Wei Shang shook his head.
"How does it feel to be attacked by your own people?"
"You never imagined that in the end, you’d be the one caught in your own trap, did you?"
"You... you knew all along?"
Han Yang’s heart trembled as he looked at Wei Shang with terror in his eyes.
But Wei Shang just smiled. "It wasn’t me who knew. The Lord General saw through your plan long ago!"
"Don’t worry, not a single member of the Blood Handprint will escape!"
"And that includes you..."