309: Chapter 307: Someone You Can’t Afford to Offend 309: Chapter 307: Someone You Can’t Afford to Offend Carrying four long guns on his back, Gao Yang walked very slowly.
Although he was physically strong and there were still four or five hours left before it was completely dark, he didn’t need to walk too fast.
As he moved, Gao Yang also had to be careful of the possibility of encountering poachers, so after walking a certain distance, he would stop to carefully observe with his binoculars before continuing forward.
Stopping and starting, the progress was slow, but after Gao Yang had walked for about three hours, and it was past six in the evening, he saw a column of smoke in the distance.
Upon seeing the smoke, Gao Yang became cautious.
He moved away from the tire tracks and started to proceed with caution.
After walking for over half an hour, he could see a long thorn wall, and about a kilometer away from the thorn wall, there was an off-road vehicle parked with roughly dozens of people gathered around it.
Still almost two kilometers away, Gao Yang wasn’t too worried that the poachers would spot him.
After finding a slightly higher terrain, he lay on the ground and began carefully observing through his binoculars.
The poachers were in groups of three to five, some sitting, some standing, looking like they were eating.
Gao Yang counted a total of thirty-six people.
The poachers wore similar clothes, making it impossible to distinguish a leader from their attire through the binoculars.
The only clue was that one person was half-lying on a recliner.
After a close inspection, Gao Yang quietly retreated a distance and lay down in a dense patch of grass.
Outnumbered with no weapons that could shoot effectively from a distance, Gao Yang’s only advantage was the darkness.
With about an hour left until complete darkness, he planned to approach the poachers after it was fully dark.
While waiting, Gao Yang completely relaxed.
He set his guns aside and, in the most comfortable position, closely monitored the activities of the poachers.
The observation didn’t last long; about twenty minutes later, Gao Yang noticed someone opening the door of the off-road vehicle, and the person who had been sitting in the lounge chair stood up, walked a few steps, and then got into the off-road vehicle.
They were on the move.
The first thing Gao Yang thought was that the off-road vehicle would likely take the same route as the truck because it had been gone for so long.
Therefore, if the off-road vehicle was to travel along the same route, he would not let the people in the car get away.
To ignore the off-road vehicle or to quickly find a way to intercept it was the decision to be made, and Gao Yang almost immediately decided.
Since the person who looked like the leader got onto the off-road vehicle, he would find a way to take him down.
If the off-road vehicle went in a different direction, then there was nothing to be done, but if it really traveled the same route as the truck, Gao Yang would not miss the opportunity to engage the people in the vehicle.
Gao Yang ran back to a spot less than thirty meters away from the tire tracks left by the truck, put down an AK47 in a patch of grass, then quickly sprinted to another nearby patch of grass.
After turning off the safety on the FAL and the double-barreled Shotgun, readying himself to shoot at any moment, he placed them on the ground within easy reach.
Then Gao Yang picked up an AK47, cocked it, and lay down in the thick grass, praying the off-road vehicle would pass the way he hoped.
Gao Yang’s guess was correct.
He had barely finished preparing when, less than two minutes later, the off-road vehicle was already coming his way, and the route it took was almost identical to the tire tracks left by the truck.
As the vehicle drew closer, Gao Yang aimed his gun at the driver.
When the car was at a forty-five-degree angle and less than sixty meters away from him, he finally pulled the trigger.
After a burst of semi-automatic fire, several holes appeared in the windshield of the car, and when Gao Yang saw bloodstains on the windshield, he immediately aimed his gun at the position of the front passenger seat and started firing.
It was then that the off-road vehicle, not moving too fast, suddenly turned in the opposite direction to Gao Yang.
Gao Yang didn’t know if he had already killed the people in the front seats, but seeing the off-road vehicle start to turn, his only choice was to quickly pursue it.
Since the distance was getting wider, Gao Yang put down the AK47 and picked up the FAL.
After slinging the double-barreled Shotgun over his back, he leaped out of the bushes and chased after the off-road vehicle.
The off-road vehicle lurched forward as if someone was controlling it, and its speed increased.
Although Gao Yang ran as hard as he could, he couldn’t catch up, and the distance quickly widened to over three hundred meters.
Just as Gao Yang was about to give up the chase, he saw the off-road vehicle lose control and topple onto its side after hitting a low ant mound.
Overjoyed, Gao Yang immediately sprinted even faster.
As he rapidly closed the distance to the overturned off-road vehicle, he saw the upper side’s rear door open, and a person was trying to crawl out from the opened door.
Gao Yang immediately stopped in his tracks and used two bullets to shoot the person who was trying to crawl out of the car door, causing him to fall back into the car.
Then Gao Yang aimed at the side of the car cabin that was against the ground and fired six consecutive shots, ensuring that if anyone was still inside, they would be hit by these bullets.
After firing, Gao Yang continued running until he reached the overturned car.
He dropped his FAL, pulled out his revolver, and went around to the front windshield to take a look.
The driver had been shot in the head and had fallen from his seat, crumpling into a heap with the person in the passenger seat.
Both were immobile.
Looking back through the gaps in the seats, Gao saw two more people in the back, and the one trapped under the bodies was still wriggling.
However, the confined space inside the car prevented him from pointing his rifle forward.
Gao Yang stepped aside and fired five rounds through the car’s roof at the people in the back seat with his revolver.
The thin metal of the car roof offered no resistance to the .357 Magnum bullets.
After several shots, there was no way anyone could have survived.
Returning to the front of the car, Gao Yang carefully inspected the person in the passenger seat.
He had already hit him with the AK47 earlier, but on closer look, Gao Yang saw that although the person was motionless, he had only been shot once in the right shoulder.
A gunshot wound in the right shoulder was not fatal, and Gao Yang suspected the man was feigning death.
After kicking the windshield to shatter it, he pointed the handgun at the man in the passenger seat and shouted, “Get out, or I will make you really dead.”
After saying this, Gao Yang realized he had been foolish; he had spoken in English, and the man likely wouldn’t understand.
But just as Gao Yang was about to reach in and pull the man out, he saw the passenger open his eyes and weakly say in English, “I’ve been shot in the waist, I can’t move.”
Despite the person’s heavy accent, Gao Yang was overjoyed.
He decided not to kill this man just yet.
It was rare to find someone with whom he could communicate, and he had some questions that needed answers.
Gao Yang first dragged the driver’s body aside and then grabbed the arm of the man in the passenger seat.
He pulled him out of the car and then realized the man had indeed been shot in the waist.
The bullet had come from behind and exited through a hole in his abdomen.
This was a wound caused by his own FAL during the shooting.
Time was of the essence.
The poachers would surely hear the gunfire and come running, so Gao Yang had to hurry.
He demanded in a stern voice, “Why did you kill our tribal people?
Who did it?”
The man did not answer Gao Yang’s question, but after looking down at the wound on his belly, he retorted, “I’m a goner and you’re done for too.
Our people will kill you.
They’ll catch you and torture you to death slowly.”
Gao Yang immediately fired a shot, blowing a hole in the leg of the defiant poacher who was already on death’s doorstep, and in the midst of the poacher’s screams, he shouted, “You can choose not to talk and let me slowly put holes in you, or tell me so I can end it quick.
It’s your choice.
Speak, who killed the people of our tribe!
Why do this!”
The poacher stared at Gao Yang with hateful eyes and said, “Why?
There is no why.
If we come across you two-legged animals, we kill if we feel like it.
Just like that.”
Gao Yang’s hands began to tremble with rage, yet he still managed to suppress his anger and asked, “Who are you people?
Poachers, or some other shitty thing?”
“We are from the Nuer United Front.
Hunting is just a side hustle.
We’ve got a lot of men, and they will avenge me.
They will catch you and flay you alive.”
“Everybody in my tribe is dead.
Tell me, who is behind the killings?”
“Who?
Everyone had a part in it.
Which tribe are you talking about?
If we come across you two-legged beasts, we’re more than happy to have some fun.”
Upon hearing that everyone had a part in it, Gao Yang felt he no longer needed to ask.
After all, he wouldn’t stop until he had wiped these people out.
As he pointed the gun at the man’s head, before Gao Yang could fire, the doomed poacher, with a fierce expression, said, “Killing our people, you are definitely dead.
No matter where you run, you’re finished.
The Nuer United Front will not let you go.”
Gao Yang too grinned fiercely and said, “I won’t be leaving.
I won’t leave until I’ve killed all of you.
I’ve already killed dozens of you, and I will eliminate the rest, one by one.
If you think I cannot do it alone, that’s fine too.
Just so you know, I also have many people, lots and lots of people you can’t afford to provoke.
Rest assured, I will bring many people here, until all of you are dead.”
The poacher, who had appeared fearless until now, finally showed a look of terror on his face and exclaimed, “Who on earth are you?”
Before firing, Gao Yang coldly smiled and said, “Someone you can’t afford to mess with.”(To be continued.
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