"Brother Long!"
When I heard the loud gunshot, my entire brain seemed to be controlled by the gunshot. In an instant, I completely lost control of my body and stood there in a daze, staring ahead, because I clearly saw that the moment the gunshot sounded, a lot of blood appeared in front of Bai Longfei!
From the moment Xiao Dai pointed the pistol at Bai Longfei's head, I knew that if Xiao Dai fired, Bai Longfei would be dead for sure! Everything I saw and heard at this moment entered my brain. Although I couldn't see Bai Longfei's face, the image of Bai Longfei's forehead being shot through, his face covered in blood, and falling to the ground with his eyes wide open, appeared in my mind!
However, I stared at Bai Longfei's back in grief for a long time, but did not see any change in Bai Longfei, while Xiao Dai, who was standing in front of Bai Longfei, suddenly screamed and fell heavily backwards. The moment he fell, I was shocked to find that there was a lot of blood on Xiao Dai's arm holding the gun, staining his entire sleeve red!
After Xiao Dai fell down, Bai Longfei slowly turned his head and looked at us behind him. He didn't have any scars on his body at this time, but his face was a little pale because he was too frightened just now. What's even more strange is that when Bai Longfei turned around, in addition to fear, there was more surprise and confusion in his eyes!
When I saw the situation in front of me, I instantly understood what was going on. I immediately looked to my side and saw that Li Hua, who had been lying on the ground before, was now half-kneeling on the ground, holding a pistol in both hands and pointing it at Xiao Dai in front of him. A faint trace of smoke could be seen from the muzzle of the pistol.
It was obvious that at the critical moment just now, Li Hua suddenly shot and injured Xiao Dai, saving Bai Longfei who was about to die under Xiao Dai's gun!
The gunshot wound on Xiao Dai's arm seemed very serious, and he kept screaming loudly. Li Hua gritted his teeth and said, "Don't just stand there, catch him quickly!"
After hearing what Li Hua said, Bai Longfei finally reacted. He nodded to Li Hua gratefully, then turned around and prepared to catch Xiao Dai. However, at the critical moment of life and death, Xiao Dai actually endured the pain of the gunshot wound in his arm, stood up from the ground at once, and used the strength of standing up to throw the gun in the injured hand into the air, then hurriedly caught it with his other hand, turned around and quickly fired several shots at us behind him!
Although Xiao Dai's movements this time were smooth and looked like some Hollywood blockbusters, he was injured after all, and all of us had awakened from our previous state. Seeing Xiao Dai taking action, Bai Longfei immediately dodged to the side, and we hurriedly lay on the ground. While lying on the ground, Li Hua and Lin Yingxue shot at Xiao Dai in front of them at the same time, but they didn't know whether they hit him or not.
This situation was of no help to me, I just hoped that I would not fall behind. As Xiao Dai was shooting in front of me, I did not dare to look up, I only heard the continuous sound of gunfire in front of me and beside me. When the gunfire stopped, I opened my eyes and looked forward, but found that Xiao Dai in front of me had disappeared.
Bai Longfei had already walked out from the nearby rock, came forward to help us up and said, "Chase! From the noise we heard just now, the helicopter might be on the top of the mountain. We must not let him escape!"
I nodded immediately and followed Bai Longfei to run towards the top of the mountain in front. After running about a hundred meters, I saw that there seemed to be a cave at the end of the mountain top!
We rushed to the cave in two or three steps and saw that it was pitch black inside. We couldn't see what was inside clearly. Lin Yingxue was about to chase in, but Bai Longfei immediately stopped her and said, "Be careful of ambushes? This kind of place is the most likely to cause trouble! Let me do it!"
While Bai Longfei was speaking, I had already taken out my phone and dialed Bai Qi's number, and briefly told him what had happened here. When Bai Qi learned that we had found the real drawings and the leader of the gangsters, he immediately told us that we must stop the other party at all costs. He would arrive as soon as possible and let Ding Yang and others bring people to support us.
After hanging up the phone with Bai Qi, I suddenly realized that Li Hua was missing. I immediately turned around and saw Li Hua walking towards the cave step by step with difficulty using a crutch. It was only then that I realized that there was a series of fine bloodstains on the ground where Li Hua was walking. The blood was flowing from Li Hua's injured leg.
"Are you OK?"
Seeing this, I hurried down and helped Li Hua up. At this time, Li Hua's face was pale, and he shook his head with gritted teeth. I couldn't help but take a look at the wound on his leg. It seemed that he was injured by some flying debris during the explosion just now.
Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue stood on both sides of the cave. When Li Hua and I arrived at the entrance of the cave, Bai Longfei asked Lin Yingxue for the gun in her hand, leaned against the corner with both hands tightly holding the gun, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then suddenly lay on the ground, slid from the bottom of the cave entrance into the dark cave!
Bai Longfei went in so suddenly that we didn't even have time to react. After Bai Longfei entered the cave, he immediately lay on the ground and pointed his gun left and right. Then Lin Yingxue rushed into the cave, took out his cell phone to illuminate the cave. Only then did we realize that Xiao Dai was not lying in ambush at the entrance of the cave.
"He has already left, chase him!"
After Bai Longfei got up from the ground, he immediately chased into the cave, but I stopped him and said, "Brother Long, don't panic. Don't you see that there are two passages in this cave?"
After I followed Lin Yingxue into the cave, I began to look at the cave carefully and found that there were two passages inside the cave. Because the light was too dim now, the ends of the two passages were dark and I couldn't tell where the two passages led to. If I wanted to chase, I could either act separately or take a gamble and choose one passage to chase to the end!
There were two passages in front of us, which made it difficult for us to choose. However, at this moment, Li Hua finally couldn't hold on any longer. He sat on the ground leaning against the wall and said in a hoarse voice: "Look at the blood! He was injured, there must be blood!"
After being reminded by Li Hua, I realized this problem. It seems that my brain has not yet recovered from the thrilling scene just now, and I can't even remember this simple common sense.
After hearing this, Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue immediately squatted on the ground to look for the bloodstains left by Xiao Dai when he escaped. Sure enough, they found a series of bloodstains on the ground. But then, another difficult problem was presented to us, because we were shocked to find that there were bloodstains in both passages!
I know that this must be a maze set up by Xiao Dai, the purpose of which is to disrupt our sight and buy time for him to escape, but this kind of trick can't stump us at all.
Before I could say anything, Bai Longfei pointed to the passage on the left and said, "Here! The blood fell on the ground in this direction. Xiao Dai has already fled in this direction!"
I looked down at the bloodstains on the ground, and it was just as Bai Longfei said, the bloodstains were dripping towards the passage on the left, so Bai Longfei immediately took the lead and chased after them.
"Wait, take this, you must get the blueprint back!"
Li Hua, who was weak on the ground, called out to Bai Longfei and threw the pistol in his hand to him. Bai Longfei turned around and nodded to him, saying, "Don't worry, we will definitely do it!"
We didn't have time to waste any more time. Bai Longfei took the gun from Li Hua, turned around and led us to chase madly into the dark passage on the left. Except for the light from the mobile phone in Bai Longfei's hand in front of us, we had no other light source. Fortunately, the ground of this passage was relatively flat and it seemed to be artificially built, otherwise we would easily fall in the dark.
After running forward for about five minutes, we were still in a dark environment. Because my physical fitness was not as good as theirs, and I was also very anxious, I was already sweating profusely. The sweat kept dripping down my chin to the ground. However, as the sweat continued to drip, I suddenly realized a very serious mistake. I immediately stopped and called Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue in front of me.
"Stop chasing us, we are going in the wrong direction!"
Hearing my voice, Bai Longfei and the others immediately stopped, turned around and looked at me in confusion, and said, "Were we chasing in the wrong direction? How is that possible? We just saw the blood dripping in this direction!"
"The blood was indeed dripping in this direction, but we didn't realize one thing: Xiao Dai was injured on his arm!"
As I was running, my sweat dripped down my chin to the ground. Although I couldn't see with my eyes, I could imagine the trajectory and general shape of the sweat dripping on the ground. Since I was basically running at a constant speed, the distance between each drop of sweat should be exactly the same.
And I recalled the shape of the bloodstains I saw at the cave entrance just now. Although the direction of the bloodstains dripping on the ground was indeed on the left, there was no pattern. It was obvious that Xiao Dai deliberately shook it out from his arm!
Xiao Dai must have blocked the wound first to stop the blood from flowing out temporarily, then ran into the left passage, and then escaped from the left passage to the right passage. While running away, he allowed his injured arm, which was completely powerless, to swing. In this way, the blood would be thrown to the back by his arm due to running, creating the illusion that the blood was dripping to the left!
Seeing that Bai Longfei and the others still didn't seem to understand, I said anxiously, "Don't worry about it. Anyway, we are chasing the wrong place now. It's not too late to turn around now!"
Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue both believed what I said. Although they hadn't figured it out yet, they chose to believe me and immediately turned around and chased in the direction we came from.
Since we had wasted a lot of time chasing in the wrong direction, we turned back faster and returned to the cave entrance in only three minutes. But when we arrived at the cave entrance, we were surprised to find that Li Hua, who was resting at the cave entrance, was gone!