In the morning, after having breakfast, Lance took a car from his residence. He had recently been planning to buy a manor.
A manor house was large enough, quiet enough, and isolated from the outside world. More importantly, it could be safe enough!
He had communicated with Paul last night. This morning, he would go to the Starlight District to take over the bar that Paul had promised him.
Paul had not refused. This was what Lance deserved. He had done what he was supposed to do, so he should receive this reward.
After Elvin and Mador had checked the vehicles, Lance randomly chose one of the four cars.
In fact, logically speaking, the safest thing to do now was to learn from Heller, find a place to build a safe house, lock himself in, and only come out after everything was over.
But if he really did that, then he would not be himself.
He would appear in people’s sight. He wanted to use this method to tell everyone that he was Lance, not a fleeing, cowardly clown!
Everyone could also feel the recent tense atmosphere. They were very careful along the way. During this period, Elvin even had the convoy change its route once.
This trip was very important.
The Starlight District was Golden Port’s most famous consumer area. The spending power here was even higher than in the city center.
You could see wealthy people and celebrities everywhere. They lingered in the nightlife of the Starlight District and were willing to pay for happiness.
In the Empire District, a glass of wine sold to the poor would only cost them twenty-five cents.
A slightly better quality wine would cost $1 here.
As for those mid-to-high-end brandies and whiskeys, they started at two or three dollars, or even $3 to $5.
Don’t think this is very expensive. For the truly wealthy people of the Bay Area, this is just a trivial part of all the benefits they have reaped from this city!
For those rich people who have invested a lot of money in the port, they can even calculate their daily income by “how much they earn per second,” not like ordinary people, who calculate by the week or month.
So $5 might just be a dozen seconds, or a minute or two.
The money earned in such a short time, through consumption, can make them happy for a long time. Isn’t that a good deal?
Lance was full of expectations for the bar in the Starlight District. If the bar in the Empire District was to make a name for him, then the bar in the Starlight District was really for making money!
The convoy drove on the road without any danger. When leaving the Empire District, Elvin still seemed a little nervous, like the tension after leaving a safe environment.
As the convoy continued to move forward safely, his tension gradually eased.
“The car doors have been taken care of. Steel plates have been added inside.”
Elvin, sitting in the passenger seat, introduced casually, “The hood has also been reinforced with steel plates, so it won’t be easily penetrated and its function affected.”
“And the tires, we’ve switched to solid tires. It might not be very comfortable to ride in, but bullets won’t stop our car…”
Lance exposed him without hesitation, “Are you nervous?”
Elvin was just about to deny this statement, but in the end, he still nodded, “A little. We’ve done so much… and they haven’t reacted at all. This isn’t normal!”
Although the driver was also one of their own, Elvin did not intend to tell others about this matter before it was completely over.
Including the girls he had sent away, they were now actually under strict surveillance by the people he had arranged.
If those girls didn’t cause trouble, it would be fine, but as long as they dared to cause trouble, they would soon shut their mouths forever.
Sometimes he felt that Lance was too kind, unwilling to harm those innocent people. Sometimes he also felt that he should be kinder. At least the light he radiated could warm the people around him.
Elvin had heard people say before that butchers in a slaughterhouse would go crazy after working for a long time, especially those who slaughtered cattle.
They said that cattle would cry before being slaughtered, would beg for mercy, just like people.
To plunge a sharp knife into the heart of a crying cow was indeed a bit difficult for humans with empathy.
Killing animals was like this, let alone people.
He was also very scared at first, then became numb. He felt that he was not normal.
But he didn’t feel that there was a problem with him because when he felt there was a problem with him, he would think of Lance.
This was a very contradictory mood. Two emotions were entangled together, constantly colliding. There would always be a time when one would gain the upper hand, but it would not always occupy the upper hand.
For them, Lance was not just a “big brother” in life, but also a guide on their life path!
He didn’t want anything to happen to Lance. No one wanted anything to happen to Lance.
But Eric was dead. The mayor, besides saying he would declare war on evil, seemed not to be really doing anything.
Only the Bureau of Hazardous Materials was still sealing up bars everywhere. If this was declaring war on evil, it was a bit too ridiculous.
But it was this ridiculous scene that made Elvin a little uneasy. He always felt that it wasn’t that the mayor wasn’t doing anything, but that he was doing something, but they couldn’t see it.
This was the source of his nervousness.
Lance looked at the gradually bustling street outside the window. The Priliccia District was a necessary route from the Empire District to the Starlight District. This place looked much better than the Empire District.
“The advantage he had worked so hard to gain has been broken by us, so next…”
Before Lance could finish his words, a car suddenly rushed out from an alley on the side of the road and crashed directly into the first car!
The huge force almost knocked it over. If it weren’t for Elvin following Lance’s advice and adding steel plates to the car doors, making the car body heavier, perhaps it really would have flipped over!
The violent collision directly revealed their changes. Elvin shouted “Get down!” and then took out a submachine gun from under his feet. He no longer cared to distinguish whether the people around were enemies or not, directly pulling the trigger on those who were trying to approach the car!
Lance’s heart began to beat rapidly. The excessive secretion of adrenaline made his face flush, as if he had an endless supply of strength.
He picked up the submachine gun under the car seat and pulled the trigger at the outside.
In less than ten seconds, the entire street was filled with gunshots!
“Go, go, reverse the car!” Elvin urged the driver to reverse while looking out the car window.
The other two cars were also exchanging fire with the outside. For a time, they couldn’t even see many enemies.
The driver put the car in reverse and floored the accelerator. The car began to reverse, but before it had gone far, there was a sudden violent impact from behind!
A car blocked their way. Lance crashed into the back of the passenger seat, his chest feeling stuffy from the impact.
“F—k! F—k!” He looked back, raised his submachine gun, and fired a burst of bullets at the car bumping their rear. The driver in the driver’s cabin didn’t even have time to react before his head was blown off!
At this time, bullets had begun to fly randomly on the road. The doors of the car they were in were constantly being hit by bullets with a clanging sound, sparks flying!
If it weren’t for Elvin having reinforced the cars with steel plates, they might have been riddled like a sieve!
Now everyone was fighting like mad. Anyway, whoever got close to the car, they would shoot at them.
Lance slapped the driver’s seat, “Crash into the shop inside!”
Just as the driver raised his head, Lance felt something warm on his face. The driver’s whole body tensed up, and then quickly relaxed.
“F—k!”
He cursed and continued to duck his neck.
Elvin, panting heavily, looked at him. The two looked at each other for a moment, then suddenly raised their heads to look around.
Someone was trying to approach the vehicles, but seeing them raise their heads, they hid behind the surrounding cover again and continued to exchange fire from a distance.
Such an intense firefight couldn’t possibly not alert the entire city, and this place was not that far from the Empire District. What they had to do was wait!
Breaking out was impossible. The only thing to be thankful for was that they had come in four cars, not one!
If it had been one car, Lance might have been a goner by now!
Fortunately, the cars were protected by steel plates. If those gunmen didn’t risk being killed and walk up to the car doors to shoot inside, it would be impossible for them to hit these people who had already calmed down.
But once they got close, they would be riddled with bullets first!
The screaming crowd on the roadside had long since run away. The firefight lasted for about six or seven minutes. Lance’s submachine gun ammunition was also almost used up, and he had long since started to use a pistol.
Seeing that they couldn’t get close to these cars, and that shooting at the car doors was useless, and that police sirens were starting to sound, the gunmen quickly chose to retreat!
If these gunfights had happened in the Empire District or the Port District, the police wouldn’t have come so quickly.
But this was the Priliccia District, a middle-class community. There might even be some capitalists living here. Their phone calls were much more effective than those of the poor!
Soon, a dozen police cars surrounded them. Although they knew that the four cars were the ones that had been attacked, they didn’t dare to get too close and could only shout from a distance.
Lance didn’t speak himself, but had Elvin shout for him, “Get Bruce here, get Hiram here, otherwise we won’t put down our weapons!”
“We can’t confirm if you are with the attackers!”
This made the police officers who had been dispatched a little annoyed, but they wouldn’t risk their lives to drag people out of their cars.
Soon, a call was made to Precinct Chief Bruce. When he heard that Lance’s convoy had been attacked, his whole person was as if electrocuted, numb!
A dozen minutes later, Precinct Chief Bruce and the people from the Lance Family finally arrived at the scene. The moment he saw Hiram, Lance breathed a sigh of relief.
Although this guy didn’t look very likable, he really could give people a strong sense of security!
After confirming that they had the situation under control, Lance slowly got out of the car…