Chapter 258: Life-or-Death Escape

"Little Su? Don't shoot!!"

Just as Su Tianyu moved his gun barrel over, Old Li's shout rang out from behind a tree trunk diagonally opposite.

"Mayor Li, is there anyone behind you?!" Su Tianyu didn't immediately approach, but asked softly with gun raised.

"No one, it's Old Lu - he ran!" Li Mingsheng replied.

Su Tianyu paused before immediately bending down to move cautiously, slowly approaching Li Mingsheng, and seeing no movement at all from the other direction, finally asked with relief: "What happened? Why was there shooting?!"

"He tried to kill me!!" Li Mingsheng replied: "He also had a gun, but vision was too dark - he didn't hit me! I think I shot him once!"

Hearing this, Su Tianyu was completely stunned - he couldn't understand why these two with extremely poor qualities would suddenly turn on each other.

"All along the way, I felt something was off about him," Li Mingsheng said panting. "Given his personality and previous political stance, he actually had no need to run with us, but he kept following. Now it seems he must have made his choice."

"Whose man is he?" Su Tianyu had returned too recently and hadn't mixed in the system - he wasn't clear about Dragon City's upper level situation.

"Not certain - Republican faction, Old South Hu faction, Old Northern faction, all possible!" Li Mingsheng replied.

Su Tianyu immediately understood: "Then which faction are we?"

Li Mingsheng glanced at him, replying vaguely: "...Count as civil affairs party faction!"

Hearing this, Su Tianyu's heart sank halfway: "So that means, except for whatever civil affairs faction, now people from other circles and factions might all cause trouble tonight?"

"Right!"

"Fuck!" Su Tianyu broke down: "We two fight the whole world?!"

"...If I get back, everything can be discussed!" Li Mingsheng replied: "Old Lu running basically means showing cards! Tonight someone definitely wants to intercept me."

Su Tianyu immediately worked his gun bolt, calling softly: "Then what are we thinking about?! Let's run!"

"Do you know which way to go?!"

"I know, follow me!" Su Tianyu led the way in front, advancing very quickly toward where he had observed earlier.

Though Li Mingsheng's energy hadn't recovered and running was somewhat difficult, he definitely didn't want to die here, so he also gritted his teeth to persist!

After running wildly for over ten minutes, they finally left this small mountain range, fleeing toward the large canyon Su Tianyu had seen earlier.

Just as the two were passing through a small basin at the edge of a forest, slight droning sounds suddenly rose in the sky.

Su Tianyu suddenly turned back looking behind, the sky pitch black.

"What's wrong?!" Li Mingsheng asked.

"Reconnaissance helicopter!" Su Tianyu replied looking at the sky, voice trembling: "That dog-fucking Old Lu definitely has a locator! Otherwise helicopters by the forest couldn't follow over so quickly!"

Hearing this, Li Mingsheng immediately said: "Then go back, run into the forest! The terrain there is complex!"

"Can't run back into the forest anymore - that would be a dead end!" Su Tianyu suddenly turned, looking around, the scene he had observed flashing in his mind: "Run forward!"

"Are you fucking stupid?! Running forward is plains - at this distance if helicopters lock on, we're completely finished!" Old Li cursed angrily.

"Don't fucking shout at me!" Su Tianyu no longer cared about honorifics at this moment, saying unequivocally: "You're good at sitting in offices - in the wild you don't know shit! Follow me!"

With that, Su Tianyu stepped toward one side of the great canyon, constantly urging: "Don't look back, just run, quick!"

Li Mingsheng had no wild combat experience and didn't understand military equipment - he could only follow Su Tianyu running wildly!

As the two ran, the droning in the sky grew increasingly clear.

An OH-69D small reconnaissance helicopter approached rapidly from the distance.

In the cockpit, a man wearing private armed forces uniform sat in the observation position calling: "Distance too far - firepower coverage effect not great!"

"Launch guidance flares!" the pilot immediately replied.

Two seconds later, the copilot replied: "Ready!"

"Fire!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Four flares flashing with light shot from the helicopter's gun mount, then entered the sky, becoming dark.

In the basin, Su Tianyu shouted again: "Faster!"

As the flares' supersonic gliding sound rang overhead, while Su Tianyu ran gritting his teeth, he suddenly saw the open ground ahead light up bright as day, the entire canyon's outline appearing incredibly clearly before his eyes.

After the flares burst, they brilliantly lit up the night sky!

Near the forest, seven or eight SUVs immediately set out upon seeing the flares flash, rushing straight toward the target location.

Helicopters had slaughter capability in the air, but this was only relative to clearing organized armed personnel - while Su Tianyu and Li Mingsheng were just two people - as long as they hid in areas with complex terrain like behind rocks or buildings, helicopters would appear somewhat clumsy - even turning around was difficult, so they had no way to focus on killing small numbers of targets.

This being the case, truly solving the problem still required desperadoes on the ground, so when the flares lit up, unidentified armed members who had already approached this side immediately rushed to the scene!

Meanwhile, the helicopter also quickly pressed in!

Fortunately Su Tianyu and Li Mingsheng were already nearly at the great canyon - otherwise at human running speed, trying to race helicopters would be pure nonsense!

When they neared the great canyon, Li Mingsheng stepped to charge toward the mountains!

"Don't go there, useless!" Su Tianyu shouted, instead heading toward the relatively broad plains, because just over a hundred meters away were two connected pastures!

"Are you stupid?! There's nothing there!"

"Damn it, you say one more word and I'll shoot you dead!" Su Tianyu was truly anxious - he shouted while running wildly: "Come over!"

Li Mingsheng could only comply.

Su Tianyu jumped over the fence in one step, rushing into the pasture then directly charging toward a row of livestock pens on the left!

Entering the building, a pungent smell of cow and horse manure came as large cows and horses all stood up fluttering!

Su Tianyu kicked open the small fence gate panels one after another, running to the pen entrance without doors, directly raising his automatic rifle!

"Rata-tat-tat..."

Gunfire rang out vigorously!

Five seconds later!

"Thud thud thud..."

Deafening hoof-striking-ground sounds rang out as large numbers of cattle and horses rushed out of the pens!!

Su Tianyu mixed among the cattle and horse herds, running to Li Mingsheng's side saying: "Pastures definitely have water sources!! Find the water source, lie in the mud pit, don't move!!"

In the helicopter, the copilot looked at the thermal imager in shock, seeing a group of red dots explode on screen - and the helicopter was still at least two kilometers from the pasture, so the thermal imager had no way to see heat shapes, could only see masses of red dots dispersing in all directions!

"Damn, their guide reacted too fast!! We need to get closer!"

"We're reconnaissance aircraft - he has automatic rifles and grenades, maybe even gun-mounted grenade launchers - we risk being shot down approaching at low altitude!" the pilot immediately replied.

"Run quick!" Su Tianyu waved shouting wildly at Li Mingsheng!