Ch74 Shen Que, Strike First to Gain the Advantage
"Shen Que, have you ever heard this saying?" Meng Ci placed his eyes on Shen Que.
Shen Que said, "What saying?"
"Strike first to gain the advantage; strike later and suffer misfortune."
"So..." Meng Ci looked at the man trembling under Shen Que's grasp.
"Let's just go and wipe out the Baihu Hall directly."
"Agreed." Shen Que consented to this idea.
Meng Ci hurried upstairs, took a speedboat, and then took a grenade out of the space.
When buying guns and ammunition, the bald man had said this thing was immensely powerful, so the supply was very limited.
It was only because the bald man tried every means that he found one grenade and three flashbangs.
Just these two items cost one hundred million.
Meng Ci did not know whether it was true or false, but he had a lot of money.
And as long as the power was strong enough, it could save his life.
So Meng Ci did not care about the price and bought them without hesitation.
Taking the items to the fifth floor, the two of them inflated the speedboat while interrogating the man tied up tightly.
The man was named Qian Zhe, who had survived by petty theft after the heavy rain.
Later, he went to a refugee resettlement point, but since he did not want to work hard, he ran away.
By chance, he entered the Baihu Hall and exchanged for the hope of survival by doing things for them.
The leader of Baihu Hall was called Brother Hu by them, and their main base was a seven-story hotel in M City.
This Brother Hu had been a small-time hooligan before the heavy rain. Two days into the rain, he took five people and occupied the hotel for themselves.
Since it was a hotel, the kitchen stocked a lot of food and had a power generator. Brother Hu took advantage of arriving first and claimed it for himself.
Because the water flooded to the fifth floor, they lived on the sixth and seventh floors.
Brother Hu had about thirty men under him, but only his five brothers were the heads, controlling most of the food.
These five brothers were strong-looking and all fierce and terrifying.
Brother Hu wanted to take advantage of the heavy rain to recruit people and become a local warlord.
Every time they brought back things, whether food or supplies, as long as Brother Hu and his men thought it was useful, it could be exchanged for food.
Moreover, Brother Hu also captured more than a dozen boys and girls, locking them inside the hotel for his own enjoyment.
The sixth floor housed the small fry, while Brother Hu and those boys and girls lived on the seventh floor.
Their weapons were just some knives and spears.
But many people in Baihu Hall said that a while ago, Brother Hu and his men killed a soldier, so they had a gun.
After learning about the Baihu Hall, Qian Zhe was now useless.
Meng Ci did not untie his ropes and pushed him directly into the water, leaving him to his fate.
"Help, help!"
Qian Zhe struggled and called for help in the water. However, Meng Ci and Shen Que ignored him and directly drove the speedboat away.
This hotel was not in the city center but was still in a prosperous area, surrounded by many tall buildings.
To prevent the noise of the speedboat's engine from alerting others, the two of them started paddling from afar.
Next to the hotel was a small alley, with a residential building suitable for observing the opposite situation.
However, this building was connected tightly to several others, so the two could only put the speedboat in a room, then dive and swim to the residential building.
After arriving, Meng Ci opened the backpack on his back, took out a sealed small box, and took out a fly drone inside, silently releasing it outside.
The drone flew circles around the hotel.
Several curtains on the seventh-floor windows were drawn open; some inside were sound asleep, some gathered in a circle playing mahjong.
The mahjong room had more than a dozen candles lit, making the room bright.
Most curtains on the sixth floor were drawn closed, but one curtain was open, probably used as a kitchen. An old man wearing a white chef's uniform was busy inside.
Retracting the fly drone, the two decided to enter through a room on the west side of the sixth floor.
The window was half open. Although two men were inside, they thought that once the door opened, the men would leave.
Their clothes were soaking wet and freezing cold.
But there was no way around it; they had to endure it.
Meng Ci took out a pack of compressed biscuits and gave half to Shen Que.
Shen Que drank mineral water, while Meng Ci grabbed a bottle of cola and gulped down several mouthfuls.
"Burp-"
"The cola is really tasty!"
Shen Que did not say anything. After finishing eating, he leaned against the wall and closed his eyes to rest.
The people of Baihu Hall start eating at six o'clock.
Therefore, Meng Ci set an alarm for six o'clock and changed its ring mode to vibration, holding it tightly in his hand.
Then he sat next to Shen Que, shoulder to shoulder with him, and closed his eyes to rest.
Even though their clothes were wet, perhaps because the earlier fight had drained their strength, Meng Ci quickly fell asleep.
Then his head tilted and rested on Shen Que's shoulder.
Shen Que opened his eyes, looked at Meng Ci deeply, then closed his eyes again to rest.
Before six o'clock, knocking sounds came from the hotel opposite, waking Meng Ci and Shen Que.
At this time, most curtains in the restaurant were drawn, but through the gaps, the inside was still brightly lit.
Meng Ci released the fly drone and found that the window of the sixth-floor room was indeed open.
He controlled the fly drone to enter the room, ensuring no one was inside, then stuck it on a cabinet directly facing the door.
Wearing helmets and each with a night vision goggle, guns and knives prepared, the two entered the water, swam to the hotel, and then climbed up.
They locked the door from inside, ransacked the place, and found some clean clothes to change into.
"This feels much better!" Meng Ci whispered.
With helmets and night vision goggles on, they opened the door and released the fly drone.
The sixth floor was pitch black. The two quietly went up to the seventh floor in the dark.
At the staircase on the seventh floor, they heard people talking Inside.
"Brothers, eat and drink well tonight. Later, we'll go out to avenge Brother Qian Zhe!"
The fly drone stuck on the wall reflected the situation there one by one.
Half of the seventh floor was various rooms; the other half was a banquet hall.
Several square tables were pushed together. A bald man wearing a sable coat sat in the main seat, holding a girl wearing a short skirt in his arms.
The girl's body was red from the cold, yet she still lay in Brother Long's arms, smiling faintly.
"Revenge, revenge."
More than twenty thugs shouted together.
The room was bright, entirely because of a crystal chandelier hanging in the air.
Shen Que and Meng Ci saw someone pouring wine and patiently waited until they finished drinking before making their move.
Shen Que took out a pistol with a silencer, aimed at the chandelier, and fired. With a bang, the crystals fell to the ground, and the room instantly went dark.
"Damn!" Brother Hu threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground. The noisy crowd immediately went silent.
Brother Hu stood up and pushed the girl who had screamed in fright to the ground.
"Someone, go check what's going on."
"Yes."
Amid their panic, Meng Ci and Shen Que struck.