Chapter 49: Close Conflict
Lin Cheng's sudden appearance successfully caught John Walker off guard.
Gianna is his good target, however, compared to the unarmed Gianna, this new unknown enemy is more threatening than the unarmed Gianna, so John Walker chose to deal with Lin Cheng first.
The Glock-19 is a small-caliber pistol with excellent concealment, and with a muffler, the sound of the shot is not much different from Lin Cheng's building block pistol.
Bullets and blocks scurried in mid-air, but no one noticed what was happening.
Lin Cheng could have chosen to stay here and kill his idol, but his mission this time was to protect Gianna, so he couldn't risk Gianna getting hurt to let her stay here.
Therefore, between the two options of confronting John Walker and leaving with Gianna, Lin Cheng chose the latter.
While John Walker had exhausted the bullets in the pistol and was changing the bullets, Lin Cheng pulled Gianna and rushed out of the gate directly.
Outside the door, the bodyguards in charge of guarding saw their boss running out with Lin Cheng in a panic, and before they could ask, Lin Cheng jumped over them directly with Gianna.
"There's a killer in there, go and inform Cassian, I'll take the boss to withdraw first-"
Before the two bodyguards could react, John Walker had already run out of the bathroom, but when John saw it clearly, Lin Cheng had already run farther and farther away with his target, running through the corner of the underground corridor, and a trace of anger involuntarily rose in his heart.
Seeing John appear, the two bodyguards immediately realized that the situation was wrong, and immediately jumped aside, using the pillars and low tables in the corridor where the artworks were placed as cover, pulled out their guns, and shot in the direction where John Walker was.
The loud gunfire immediately attracted the attention of others.
"There are gunshots in the underground passage, the boss is attacked, and all units immediately go to support!"
Gianna's security team was very responsive, and after being notified, Cassian immediately ordered everyone to pick them up.
After receiving the order, a large number of armed security personnel who remained on the ground marched towards the underground passage of the palace ruins, so that for a while, John had to face several times more enemies than himself.
However, fortunately, he is a top killer, and when the last bullet in the magazine is emptied, there is no one else standing in the entire underground passage except him.
His Glock-19 only brought two magazines, which were completely empty, so John pulled out the Beretta 92F on the fast belt on his waist, and chased out of the underground passage directly in the direction that Lin Cheng left.
The ruins of the palace were everywhere, and they were full of guests who had come to participate in this succession ceremony, and they did not react much to the appearance of John Walker, mainly because the music was too loud, and the laser lights were flickering brightly, and no one could see the gun in John's hand.
John stood on the periphery of the crowd, his gaze through the crowd, and saw the figure of Gianna, who was being pulled by the unknown Asian through the edge of the crowd.
Seeing the direction she left, it seemed that she was heading towards the old mansion of the Antonio family, John had an idea in an instant, but before he could leave, a black bald head in a suit suddenly appeared in the crowd and stood in front of John.
John Walker and Gianna are old friends, and Gianna's security director is naturally very familiar with John, when Cassian saw John Walker, he immediately realized that John was here to kill his boss, so he took his men to block John Walker.
"Cassian—"
"Hello, John, do you look busy, at work?"
"I'm sorry."
Before he could finish speaking, Cassian and John Walker fired a shot at each other at about the same time.
The bullet landed on the bulletproof suits of the two men, and the huge impact knocked the two to the ground, and the sound of gunfire aroused the uneasiness of the crowd, and a large open space was instantly vacated around the two.
Cassian struggled to get up from the ground, and just wanted to shoot John again, but saw that John had already rushed into the crowd, in this case, Cassian naturally couldn't shoot at the crowd.
After all, most of the people present were either rich or noble, and they were friends of the Antonio family, and he couldn't hurt them.
"Attention all units, the killer followed the boss and ran towards the evacuation point, don't shoot in the crowd, use a knife."
Looking at John who disappeared into the crowd, Cassian held back the sharp pain in his chest and yelled at the communicator on his wrist, although the bullet failed to penetrate the bulletproof suit, the pain in his chest still affected John Walker's speed of movement.
John walked through the crowd in front of him, and as soon as he came to an open lawn, he saw two bodyguards in suits in front of him, and even two people rushed towards him from behind, both with bright knives in their hands.
Because they received an order not to shoot in the crowd, these security personnel directly took out bayonets and daggers, rushed up and tried to kill John, but how could John let them get their way, immediately turned around and jumped directly onto the main stage of the band's passionate performance.
Before John had taken two steps, a man suddenly appeared on the stage and tried to snatch the gun from his hand, but John kicked him out, followed by a bullet that burst his head.
Although the gunfire was loud, it was drowned out by the sound of rock music, so that the people under the stage did not even notice that there was a dead person above, and John wasted no time, directly bypassing the dead body in front of him, jumping off the main stage and breaking into the crowd at the front of the stage.
However, when he walked off the stage, he was again blocked here.
There were a lot of security guards with knives in the crowd, and when they saw John, they pounced on him.
There were so many enemies that John could only shoot in the crowd, but every shot he fired at the enemy, and in the blink of an eye, four or five men in big suits who rushed towards John were put to the ground by him, and their souls returned to heaven.
Hearing the gunfire up close, seeing the flames bursting from the muzzle of the guns and the bodies lying to the ground, people realized what was happening, and they screamed and began to run outside, taking advantage of the opportunity, John blended in with the crowd.
Two more big men rushed over, and they were knocked to the ground by him one by one.
"Damn, how many of them are there—"
At this point, he rushed to the edge of the crowd, hid behind a stone wall, and replaced the empty magazine.
It was also at this time that at the corner of the stone wall where John was hiding, an enemy with a pistol suddenly came out.
Taking advantage of the fact that the other party did not react, John directly put the gun against the other party's head, and then pulled the trigger, but the sudden gunfire also revealed his location, and the surrounding security personnel who heard the gunshots surrounded John's direction.
Only then did he realize that he had never been safe.