To the naked eye, the Liangben enforcer’s temple sunk an inch under the sun, his eyes bulged out, and his right-handed knife, sliding with his tilted body, unconsciously left Chen Zhiyu’s neck.

At the same time, the glint of a knife from a Mountain Path Association enforcer came from behind.

Gu Ji contracted his core, dodging downward instantly, his left hand firmly gripping an underhand stab, plunging the knife into the enforcer’s upper thigh, with more than half the blade buried into the rectus femoris. He dug forcefully toward the knee!

Puff-puzz!

The sharp Japanese dagger sliced open the enforcer’s thigh flesh, exposing the white bone within, severing the arterial vessels and nerves entirely, spraying everywhere.

Even under the influence of drugs, the enforcer couldn’t remain indifferent to the nerve pain. The agony twisted his facial features, bringing him to one knee because his thigh was incapacitated, kneeling forward.

But what followed immediately was Gu Ji’s baton!

Crack!

The black baton tip, whistling through the air, struck the throat.

The Mountain Path Association enforcer couldn’t even scream, blood flooding his lungs through the fractured trachea, collapsing forward.

"Gu Ji!!"

By this time, Gao Bo’s startled cry just escaped his lips.

Yet, in just a blink of an eye, both enforcers had died at Gu Ji’s hands!

Gu Ji pulled Chen Zhiyu over, checking the injury, which was at the trapezius on her right neck side, meaning just mere inches more, and she would have been stabbed through the neck!!

Chen Zhiyu stared blankly, gripped by sudden fear.

But what shocked her even more was that Gu Ji had killed someone just now!

"Take care of Mrs. Qiao!" To everyone’s surprise, Gu Ji’s expression remained unchanged. He only coldly uttered this before pushing her away to support the injured Zeng Dan at the waist, then kicked the dagger from the corpse’s hand to Gao Bo’s feet, "From now on, no one holds back!"

Wu Kang couldn’t help stealing a glance at Zeng Dan and incoming Shi Zhengmin.

"But Gu Ji..."

"I am the scene commander! I said, hold nothing back! That’s an order!!"

Gu Ji suddenly roared, cutting off Wu Kang, jolting everyone into focus.

Shi Zhengmin’s eyes trembled slightly but said nothing.

Incredibly, he saw real veteran-level intimidation from this young probationary officer, reminiscent of when he first joined National Security Special Service and encountered the hellish instructors!

"Yes!!" Gao Bo was still the first to respond.

"Everyone, follow up, move towards Ogura Toshi and the Mountain Path core members immediately!"

Gu Ji didn’t give everyone a moment to process.

He charged forward briskly, sidestepping to dodge, reversing the blade to block an enforcer’s wrist attack, slicing hard, blood spurted, the blade dropped, his right hand wielded the baton, sweeping left and right, specifically targeting knees.

As the enforcer fell, a knee collided right into the enforcer’s jaw and neck, unclear if dead or alive.

Meanwhile, another flash of silver approached at head level.

Wu Kang behind him warned, "Watch out," and as the words left his mouth, Gu Ji’s baton already struck the enforcer’s knife-wielding wrist, the sound of cracking bones, the enforcer attempted to tackle Gu Ji, but with a twist and thrust of the knife, pierced through the throat!

Blood splattered across Gu Ji’s white shirt and face.

Yet he didn’t even blink, leaving Wu Kang, Lang Shaobo, and others in shock.

Truth be told, even Chen Zhiyu had never seen Gu Ji fight so ruthlessly and brutally, only Gao Bo vaguely found his moves somewhat familiar.

A flash of realization.

It was the Xiangzhou exchange meeting, where a combat instructor demonstrated CQC hand-to-hand combat and assassination!

Did he remember it after only seeing it once!?

Since close-quarters combat wasn’t the focal point of the exchange, firearms tactics were the core, so back then, they merely practiced briefly with the combat instructor and concluded, no one gave it much thought.

After all, engaging in close-quarters combat with terrorists during counter-terrorism operations was considered a life-or-death situation.

Unexpectedly;

Now it is this life-or-death situation!!

"Sinai!"

"Puff!"

Gu Ji, risking getting his arm slashed, retaliated with a stab to a Liangben enforcer’s face, the blade penetrating the white Hannya mask, piercing through the eye, turning the mask blood red, and finally nearing Ogura Toshi.

"Damn! It’s you dirty cops!!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Lang Shaobo, translate right now, say Otsuka Katsuyuki was killed by Liangben, the one who acted was the short-haired female gunner beside him, the mastermind behind this funeral attack was Liangben too, tell them if they want to survive, they must cooperate and break out, keep saying it!"

"O... Okay!"

Despite his fear, Lang Shaobo followed orders obediently.

Likely exhausting all his birthday Japanese learning, he repeated Gu Ji’s words at the fastest speed several times.

"Baka-ru! Abe Shigehide!!"

"Everyone, let’s kill these Liangben scum together! Charge!!"

"Kurosu!!"

...

Actually, this group must have realized the situation long ago, but no one stood up to clarify and break the silence. Gu Ji became the one to thread the needle.

In an instant, the Mountain Path Association, Inner Circle, and Muraoki Group.

The remaining hundred or so thugs from the three major branches of the Yijuan Association shouted angrily in unison and finally began to cooperate, resisting the Liangben and simultaneously fleeing down the mountain.

At this point.

Jingshang Gaoming finally understood what Gu Ji meant by "creating a shooting environment"!

That’s right.

The eight of them alone might not make much of a wave, but with over a hundred people charging down, even a whole tactical team would need time to shoot them all.

Moreover, they weren’t there to massacre the gang in the first place.

This undoubtedly gave them an opportunity to approach in the chaos and secretly eliminate the shooters!

As the situation spiraled out of control, the ghillie-suited snipers hidden in the forest indeed reappeared.

"Bang—!"

"Tutu! Tutu..."

The sound of gunfire meant someone was falling.

But the thugs at the front were mostly death-defying addicts of the "Heaven" drug, not afraid of death, and the distance between the two sides grew ever closer.

"Quick, follow me, Jingshang, keep an eye on my signal at all times!!"

Gu Ji dashed forward, taking out a Liangben thug who lunged at him from behind with a single knife strike.

In a flash.

[Killed five enemies: Gained the viewpoint of a Private’s binoculars*1!]

Until the distance between the two sides narrowed to fifty meters, the ghillie-suited shooters also seemed to feel threatened, and the gunfire became noticeably more concentrated. "Take cover!"

He shouted, sliding behind a bush and tree, and quickly pulled out a VX nerve agent bomb from his pocket.

That’s right.

This was the final step of his tactical breakthrough plan.

First, concentrate firepower;

which meant unifying all gang forces possible for a full-force breakthrough;

Second, take advantage of the upper wind position to let the VX nerve agent’s toxic mist drift into the ghillie-suited sniper area.

Although VX nerve agent’s lethality is greatly reduced in open areas, it’s colorless and odorless, and exposure through breathing or skin contact causes poisoning. Gu Ji didn’t expect to kill them all, just to cause symptoms like coughing, dizziness, vomiting from a small inhalation, as in the airplane crash checkpoint’s drug traffickers...

That would be enough.

As long as Jingshang Gaoming wasn’t lying and with his championship-winning shooting reflexes, he was bound to hit the target!

And the only flaw in this tactic.

Was that it required using the gang’s lives to hold the front line!

Although cruel, it was the only method Gu Ji could think of to break through!

He had no {Poison Needle Trap} landmines in hand, preventing him from taking a defensive stand; otherwise, given how densely the Liangben thugs were positioned, he could have taken them out in one fell swoop!

"There are just five of them! Go and kill them!"

"Ah!!"

"Bang—!"

Ogura Toshi was yelling for his subordinates to rush forward when the next second, a sniper bullet pierced through his neck. Seeing their leader fall, his subordinates, eyes filled with bloodlust, seemed provoked into a frenzy, charging with knives in hand.

It’s hard to imagine.

A deceptive, profit-driven gang society.

Could still harbor such loyal individuals willing to sacrifice their lives for loyalty.

Or perhaps.

Those fighting alongside Ogura Toshi until now were undoubtedly his closest confidants.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the crowd, Gu Ji used a tree trunk for cover and quickly tossed the VX nerve agent down the slope, the "hiss" sound soon drowned in the roar of the charge.

The distance between the two sides shrank again to 30 meters.

As Gu Ji was about to make a move, a red flash alert in his visual periphery triggered him to quickly dive forward, and with a ’thud,’ a bullet hole appeared behind him in the tree trunk.

Luckily, {Crisis Alert} was there!

He quickly sprang up, and through his sight, he vaguely saw a tree shadow moving. Gu Ji immediately used the Private’s binoculars viewpoint, and his gaze locked onto an armed shooter in a green leaf ghillie suit taking turns providing cover while retreating with another teammate.

Suddenly.

One of them stopped, starting to cough on the spot.

"Jingshang! Target at 1 o’clock, 31 meters! Under that three-forked tree, two people! Hurry!!"

"Cough!!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Two bullets instantly struck them both.

Not for nothing is he the Police Headquarters shooting champion, Gu Ji smacked the ground hard, "Gao Bo! Let’s go, seize their guns!!"