"Rhinos activated!" a gang member of Blood Wolf Gang waited for his next order.
"Aim the damn thing at Qian Li and blow his burrow away for me!" Dan Bao pointed at where his opponent is hiding and commands his people to blow that cover.
The "Rhinos" Dan Bao mentioned is actually not a real or mechanic rhinoceros. It was created by the people from Blood Wolf Base by putting together a scrap mover, a high caliber railgun, and a mixture of Grade-D and Grade-E steel.
Once attached together, it looks like a rhinoceros with an opened mouth. The only differences between them are instead of teeth, the "Rhinos" has a two-pronged muzzle pointing outward.
And what does it fire?
2 kilograms enhanced Grade-C steel rod!
Through exhausting the entire clip of Meteorite Battery, the Rhinos are capable of smashing through the wall from one end to another, with nothing except a Titan can block it.
If it's not because the Meteorite Battery is a precious commodity in this apocalypse, the Blood Wolf Gang may not necessarily be smaller than Xichen or Green Leaf Gang!
"Pew!" the electrical buzz is the only hint that the projectile is fired. What's following next is the piece of concrete wall shattered, and whatever on its path started to blow or screams.
Qian Li immediately exposed to the people of the Blood Wolf Gang. Without anything to protect him from open space, getting captured is better than getting shot at.
At least, a captured prisoner is still fed with Protein Bar daily. If he got shot, perhaps he'll be suffering for over a month before the wound heals. Worst come to worst, that shot might send him to another world instead, in case it was so accurate it lands on his head or heart.
"Green Leaf Gang, stop fighting! Your leader is in our hands now!" Dan Bao shouts to end this gunfight. With the death of a member and over ten people injured, the Blood Wolf Gang finally captured the boss of their opponent.
"Brother Qian..."
"Big brother Qian..."
"Boss..."
The people from Green Leaf Gang surrendered. There were 20 people at first, but the shot from the high caliber railgun took the life of two members and injured over 5 people.
Right now, there are only eighteen people here, not counting Qian Li.
After looting their available meteorite cores and other items like food, biscuits, and serums, the Green Leaf Gang is released. They're not taken as a prisoner because feeding and guarding them would not be cost-efficient.
"You better take a different road to walk the next time you see me." Dan Bao warns Qian Li before he let this leader leave. And by defeating the Green Leaf Gang, it also serves as a deterrence to other gangs that wished to split a piece of this sweet pie.
"You must be crazy, Bao." Qian Li said.
"Assigning over 50 people here just for the sake of some canned food and water daily? That's half of your base's fighting force, damn it," he added.
Dan Bao is indeed daring to invest half of his base fighting force here while neglecting other places. To a base with 100+ fighting power, the number of people they have to protect is estimated to be between 250 to 300 people.
And what does that mean for a base with a capacity of 250 to 300 people? The size of this base won't be just a building like QIN FENG GOODS TRADING, but between 5 to 6 buildings.
Security, Nightwatch, Clearing the surrounding area, handling trades, and hunting for resources. They're all jobs that needed to be done daily.
"For you, I might seem crazy. But that's because you're blind. My men are not as blind as you are."
"Do you think that I am that pretentious Xichen? My men come first. As long they're living well, we have hope." Dan Bao said. His people that heard what he just said also respectfully salutes their boss for worrying them.
"We can reduce the number of guards in this section. Move half of the guards to the direction Xicheng Gang will come. If they're here, make sure that we stop them from getting close to the General Store. I want no influence from Xichen in this area." Dan Mi ordered.
From the way he speaks, Xichen's influence is fortified through a different means. Or perhaps, it was just his own prejudice towards the largest gang in Changyang. (Changzhou is the city on earth, while Changyang is the version in Dimension X31-ITE)
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"The fighting stops. Don't tell me that the Devourer is still around the area? If it is, then I can say goodbye to my business..." Zhang Qin Feng sigh after hearing a few gunshots outside.
But that was just a few final shots exchanged at where Dan Mi and Qian Li is fighting. After the railgun is fired, everything returns to peace once again.
Close to 20 minutes later, five slips came to him, and more foods are given out to survivors that made an effort to bring him scraps. And unfortunate for him, there's nothing much to gain from the exchange today.
The day passed slowly without Dan Mi coming here to chat with him.
Finally, closing the sales at 95 Red Meteorite Cores, Zhang Qin Feng now has 257 cores in hand. The Batteries and Serum are not sold either, so there's no reason for him to keep making more.
But checking through the Tinkerer's Workbench, something delightful came to bring a smile on his face.
After moving a small part of his purchase onto the workbench, the option to craft a Leishen Model S-35i is available!
Without further ado, Zhang Qin Feng tapped on the choice and waited patiently for the sidearm to be printed out nicely. As it was a modern weapon from Dimension X31-ITE, even the build of this sidearm is different from the conventional firearms in his own world.
The size of this firearm is much bigger, which is about 600grams without ammunition. The bullet is also made different compared to the conventional one, which comes with the size a little bigger than a paracetamol tablet.
30 tablets can be filled into the magazine, which is another 300grams.
After putting them together, the sidearm comes with a weight close to 900grams. It was comfortable to grip with one hand.
Suddenly, he felt like testing the gun outside. Since there's nobody outside of his store, trying the gun shouldn't be able to create disturbance to other people.
Simply putting a few circles on a paper, Zhang Qin Feng stapled it on the tree before he takes close to twenty steps away.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" after removing the safety from the gun, he fired three shots over at the tree. The recoil from the weapon is almost unreal to him. Perhaps it was due to the bullet is using compressed hydrogen as the ignition, it behaves in a way unusual from conventional ammunition.
Plus, a gun like this holds 30 bullets compared to the standard 12 to 24!
And firing guns is indeed infectious. Zhang Qin Feng repeats what he was doing and keep firing at the tree, taking a few steps backward each time he's done three shots.
"This gun is just too fun for me!" Zhang Qin Feng laughed and fired without aiming. He only decided to stops after finishing two clips of bullets.
"D*mn. I should get this earlier!"