CHAPTER ~ 26

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The cars behind them showed no sign of slowing and just wouldn’t stop giving chase

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The cars behind them showed no sign of slowing and just wouldn’t stop giving chase. Engines roared, tires screeched, and the sharp echo of gunfire cracked through the air like a relentless drumbeat. Yn’s vehicle shuddered under the assault, its once sleek exterior now peppered with jagged holes from countless bullets.

Every impact rattled through the frame, a grim reminder that if not for the reinforced armor plating, they would have been nothing but a smoking wreck miles back. Yet even that armor was starting to give—metal groaned with each strike, and the windshield’s spiderweb fractures spread like frost in the cold.

Inside, the tension was suffocating. Wolf and Sam were in a desperate rhythm of return fire, their weapons spitting muzzle flashes that briefly illuminated their grim, focused faces. Each pull of the trigger was an attempt to carve out a few more precious seconds.

Cairn gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles blanched, the speedometer needle trembling near its limit. He swerved and weaved between the narrow dirt path and the encroaching treeline, but the enemy vehicles clung to their trail with feral persistence—unyielding, like a starving pack of hyenas closing in for the kill.

They knew grenades could end this, but one detonation in the heart of the forest would ignite an inferno that none of them would escape. That left only their guns, their wits, and the sheer stubborn will to survive. Still, the truth clawed at the back of their minds: if this kept up, they’d be surrounded, boxed in, and finished.

“Don’t you dare give up—no matter what!” Sam’s voice was a fierce growl over the chaos, his words slicing through the rattle of gunfire and the scream of engines. “Wolf! Cover me!”

Without hesitation, Sam thrust himself halfway out the window, the wind tearing at his jacket as he took aim at the lead pursuer’s tires. Each shot was a gamble against the relentless jostle of the speeding car.

Wolf shifted instantly, leaning out from the opposite side, his eyes locked on the enemy muzzles flashing in the distance. His finger tightened on the trigger, laying down suppressing fire with calculated bursts. Every bullet he sent was not just to keep the enemy back, but to shield Sam—buying him the slimmest margin to land the shots that could decide whether they lived or died.

At last—after what felt like an eternity of gunfire and near-misses—Sam’s persistence paid off. Bracing himself against the violent swaying of the car, he took a final, precise shot. The bullet tore through the air and struck true, punching into the front tire of the lead pursuer.

The tire burst with a deafening pop, shredding into rubber ribbons as the car jolted violently to one side. Its driver fought desperately for control, but momentum betrayed him—the vehicle spun out in a wild arc, metal groaning in protest, before it slammed nose-first into a thick tree trunk.

The sickening crunch of impact echoed through the forest, followed by chaos. The cars behind, too close and too fast to react, plowed straight into the wreckage. One after another, they collided in a violent domino effect—metal crumpling, glass shattering, engines sputtering out in clouds of black smoke.

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