“I initiated an area scan. Hopefully I won’t find anything.” The driver’s voice came from Ming and Luoshan Zi’s handheld radio.
“Great. Thank you. If you see anything please just find safety first.” Luoshan Zi responded: “We will keep an eye on your bus as well. If you leave we will notice.”
“Don’t worry, it’s only a little chilly here. And I don’t see anything.” The driver responded.
The grass around them was tall but not too dense, which made it perfect for them to get close to the entrance to the abandoned subway station. It was not too far away, and was already visible from where they were - it was already half collapsed, with half a gate and some broken cement pillars standing outside. The cement flooring around the entrance still retained some integrity, as the grass was sparser around. They still did not see if anyone was around, so they just kept on going.
They had a rough plan, and the execution of which would require a lot of luck. Sue and Turner Ouyang, two civilians would need to sneak in and sabotage the internal protective arrays, while the rest of the group would need to eliminate or stall as much of the defense force as possible.
“Be on alert. The scan shows there are electronics scattered around the area surrounding the entrance. I think they might have spotted you already.” The driver’s voice came through the radio: “Please, be careful, if you could, then leave - ” His voice was cut short by static. This could be the fact that they were closer to the entrance and further away from the bus, or it could be those electronics around them.
“There’s no turning back now. Let’s go in.” Ming huffed and raised his walking stick as he continued leading the way towards the entrance with accelerating steps: “Young man, hand me those things you made.”
Turner Ouyang rushed forward and handed his backpack to the master with a limp, in which loaded the custom-made pepper spray bombs and even some crude hand made flash bombs. The master picked the back pack up with his walking stick, then leapt to the side of the entrance: “On my mark, get ready - one, two -
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“THREE!” The master flung the backpack deep into the entrance, his Qi flooding into it and activating everything inside. Everything exploded in an instant, blinding white light flashed from inside the tunnel three times. Right after this, Ming unleashed two palm strikes at the entrance, not intending to destroy anything or injure anyone, but to create a strong gust of wind to blow the pepper spray in the air deeper into the subway station.
“Now!” Luoshan Zi roared.
The team charged into the subway station in a formation they agreed on: Ming and Keying went first, followed by Ruo and Liao behind them on the flank, then Sue and Ouyang Turner followed them afterward with weapons like knives, tasers and pepper sprays and one crude makeshift shotgun. There were indeed people down here, there were many of them as well. Many of whom were crying and yelling, both in anger and in pain.
For anyone else, charging head first into an area like this would be immensely dangerous, but not for Ming and Keying, both were masters of hardening their bodies and Qi, as well as fighting in the dark. Keying tossed out two small cloth sacks in front of him, both of which broke, spilling out fire crackers in almost the entire immediate area.
The masters and Luoshan Zi spread out into two teams and struck at the potential guard positions already shown on the blueprints from Chef Tang. Their opponents were groups of people in black, all of who were armed with cold weapons. With the attack of homemade pepper spray bombs and flash grenades, the first wave of enemies were at a disadvantage already, and were instantly subdued. It was only after this did everyone notice that these folks
“Who dares!” A loud roar came from inside of the station, three figures burst out from inside and lunged at the two teams of masters.
These three figures were also masters of their own arts. Two of them lunged at Luoshan Zi, Ruo and Liao, one wielding two ring blades with both hands, while the other wielding a long metal whip whose sections were sharply toothed. The one figure lunging at Ming and Keying was one that wields a long metal staff with a crooked two-prong spearhead on the front and a curved handle on the back.
“The three sages of the Dark Ink Clan!” Ming gasped and roared: “Everyone be careful of their Ink Qi!”
“Clunk!” The weapons of Ruo, Liao had collided with the weapons of the two figures in black. Almost out of instinct, they chose to face the figures wielding similar weapons to theirs. Only that Ruo’s opponent was using one whip instead of two, and Liao’s opponent’s ring blades were larger in diameter and had more teeth.On the other side, streams of intense Qi shot from Ming’s fingers and lower tip of his walking stick, forcing the figure with a metal staff to back off.
Keying jumped into the air, his giant Dao rang in a pleasant and head-clearing sound as he swung it from upper right to lower left, unleashing a semi-transparent crescent shaped Qi blade at the figure. With a loud explosion, the figure blocked it with the shaft of his metal staff and was pushed back into the shadows.
Dark Qi with streams of white inside flowed onto Ruo’s own whips and Liao’s own ring blades. And almost in an instant, both of them felt the corrosion of their Qi from this dark and white counterpart. Both of them leapt back to cut contact. The two figures charged forward in a coordinated attempt to pressure on, yet were forced to back off by two blades thrown their way by Luoshan Zi.