Chapter 8: Die with Brian
The person who came was the Chief of the Raccoon City Police Department, Brian Irons!
He was holding a large .357 revolver in his hand and slowly walked out of the darkness.
The moment he saw Brian, Yang Ren immediately raised the gun in his hand and pointed it at his head.
Who knew the latter was faster than him!
Boom!
"what!!!"
Just before Yang Ren fired the shot, Brian shook his head and shot Yang Ren in the right shoulder.
The huge impact force caused the gun in Yang Ren's hand to fly out, and the shot he fired at Brian missed.
What followed was Yang Ren's heart-wrenching scream that echoed throughout the entire parking lot.
"Nicholas! No!"
boom!
Claire shouted anxiously and immediately ran towards Yang Ren, but was forced back by Brian who shot her to the ground.
Brian glanced at Claire with disdain, then threw a strap at Elliot.
"Elliot, tie her up."
Elliot looked down at the straps on the ground and did nothing.
Due to a series of confusing operations Brian did before the virus outbreak.
For example, police officers were asked to empty their weapons cabinets and disperse their guns throughout the police station, resulting in police officers having no guns in the early stages of the virus outbreak.
There are also some scandals that everyone knows or has noticed to a certain extent, and most police officers do not have a very good impression of the chief.
Even when it came to the Arklay Mountains murder case, when zombies first appeared, he was the one who stopped the investigation and directly disbanded the STARS team.
So, Elliot did not carry out the director's orders.
"Sorry Chief, I can't do this!"
Brian frowned.
"This is an order! Officer Elliot, you dare not even listen to me?!"
Elliot remained unmoved and stood in front of Claire with his right hand on the holster.
"Take your hands off your holsters, Elliot."
"You don't want that kid to get shot again, do you?"
Brian pointed his gun at Yang Ren again.
Elliot turned his head slightly to glance at Yang Ren who was in a very bad condition behind him.
After a brief hesitation, he put his hand down.
"Now, get down on your knees and put your hands up."
Brian warned again.
Elliot and Claire could only do as they were told, kneeling on their knees with their hands raised.
"Shirley, tie them both up."
Brian threw out another strap and signaled Shirley to tie them both up.
“Why did you do that…”
Shirley asked weakly.
"Shut up and tie him up!"
Brian's attitude was very tough.
Shirley looked down at the straps on the ground, but perhaps because she was afraid, she did not take any action.
"Well, either you tie them up... or I kill them!"
Brian put the revolver directly to Elliot's head.
There was no other choice, Shirley could only pick up two straps on the ground and tie Elliot and Claire's hands behind their backs.
"What do you mean?"
Seeing Brian's fearless look, Claire couldn't help but ask.
"You're exposing children to danger, that's point number one."
Brian glanced at Claire, then waved to Shirley.
"Shirley, come here."
Claire asked again:
"What do you want to do with her?"
Brian didn't even lower his head:
"none of your business."
"My brother is a member of STARS. If you dare to touch her, I will definitely..."
Claire wanted to intimidate the other party by using her identity as his brother, but Brian didn't buy it at all.
Without waiting for Claire to finish speaking, Brian stepped forward and kicked her in the ribs, knocking her to the ground.
"You fucking..."
Yang Ren, who was lying on the ground, had his teeth almost broken, and his eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger.
With just the slightest movement, the gunshot wound on his shoulder began to hurt again, causing him to break out in cold sweats.
"Shirley, come here!"
Brian waved to Shirley again, and his voice rose several notches.
Shirley didn't move.
Seeing this, Brian walked straight to Claire, squatted down and began to question her.
"what's your name?"
Claire stared at Brian, her beautiful light blue eyes filled with anger and disdain, and did not answer.
Brian grabbed Claire's amber ponytail, causing Claire to grit her teeth in pain.
"What's your fucking name?"
The latter gnashed out the name:
"Claire!"
Having been severely hit by a steel pipe before, and with large amounts of blood gushing out of his shoulder, Yang Ren’s condition was now extremely bad.
There are even large black edges in my field of vision, and everything I see is blurry.
While Brian's attention was on Shirley and Claire, Yang Ren endured the pain and crawled towards the pistol beside him.
"Shirley, come with me, or you'll say goodbye to Claire forever!"
Brian grabbed Claire's high ponytail, put the muzzle of the gun to her chin, and looked up and said to Shirley.
"Okay, okay, I'll go with you...!"
"But you have to take me to my mother..."
Seeing this, Shirley had no choice but to compromise and trot to the door.
"Of course~"
Brian opened his arms to show OK~
Claire sat up still firmly.
"Don't believe him! He's full of shit and lies!"
Hearing this, Brian's eyes sharpened.
He rushed forward and swung the butt of his gun at Claire, breaking the corner of her mouth and causing a mouthful of blood to spurt onto the ground.
But it also allowed Claire to see the broken glass on the ground.
"Stop hitting her, please!"
Shirley pleaded for Claire.
"I don't need you to tell me what to do at my job!"
Brian simply stopped acting and roughly grabbed Shirley's hand, pulling her to the parking lot gate.
Just as he reached his other hand into his pocket to take something.
He saw Yang Ren picking up the gun again and pointing the black muzzle at him.
Brian immediately realized something was wrong and pushed Shirley in front of him, while aiming his gun at Yang Ren.
"You fucking bastard!"
As Yang Ren cursed, both sides opened fire at the same time.
A fierce gunfight suddenly broke out in the parking lot.
For a while, the sound of gunfire continued to ring out, and Shirley's screams echoed in the parking lot.
When the gunfire stopped, Claire and Elliot were stunned.
"Nikola!" X2
Claire immediately used the glass fragments on the ground to cut the bandages on her hands and rushed to Yang Ren.
At this time, Yang Ren's mouth was full of blood, and his chest was heaving and gasping.
"Yang… are you… are you okay…?"
Claire called his name from first name to last name, her voice trembling noticeably, and tears welled up in her lower eyelids.
Elliot also broke free and came to Yang Ren's side.
"Hold on, kid, we'll get you out..."
There was a bloody hole flowing with blood in five different places on Yang Ren's left thigh, left and right shoulders, chest, and abdomen.
The bullet stuck in the body makes it impossible to use blood coagulation spray, a drug that can almost bring people back to life.
The two could only watch as Yang Ren lost too much blood.
Faced with this irreversible situation, Yang Ren used all his strength and forced out a smile.
His eyes stayed on Claire, revealing endless attachment and reluctance:
"Claire... it's nice to meet you..."
"I...can't...stay with you till the end..."
At that moment, Claire felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife, and tears welled up in her eyes like a flood.
"You promised me that we would get out alive..."
"Why are you so stupid..."
Looking at Claire's beautiful face from such a close distance, Yang Ren's heart was filled with regret and reluctance.
Once upon a time, he also fantasized about having a beautiful future with Claire, but from the moment the zombie bit him, his fate was doomed.
And no matter how fearless you are, you will still feel fear when you really face death.
The cold feeling came like a tide, penetrating into every cell in his body. He could even clearly feel that his life was slipping away and he was unable to resist.
He also thought that as long as he didn't give up, maybe he could find a vaccine, and he also wanted to live.
But at this moment, I feel inexplicably relieved.
He slowly stretched out his trembling hand and gently wiped the blood from the corner of Claire's mouth.
A strong smell of blood rushed up my throat, and the blood surging from my lungs instantly filled my entire mouth.
His lips kept trembling, as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Claire immediately put one ear close to Yang Ren's mouth:
"What did you say…?"
She longed to hear Yang Ren's last words, even just one word.
"Go on..."
When the words came to his lips, he changed the words.
All the strength in his body seemed to be drained away in an instant, and the hand that was caressing Claire's face fell down.
The Bloom HC in his other hand fell, making a crisp sound when it hit the concrete floor.
"Fuck!"
Elliot punched the concrete floor, blood seeping out from between his fingers, and his entire arm was shaking.
I just promised Marvin that I would protect these two young boys, but only a few minutes have passed and...
Claire hugged Yang Ren's still warm body tightly and burst into tears.
Shirley also trembled to Yang Ren's body, squatted down, at a loss as to what to do.
She was insidiously used as a shield by Brian, but unexpectedly she was not injured.
After a moment, Elliot stood up and simply packed up Yang Ren's belongings.
He picked up Yang Ren's Bloom HC on the ground, replaced the magazine, and walked to Brian with an expressionless face.
There were no fatal wounds on Brian's body.
There was a bloody hole on each shoulder, the left kneecap seemed to be broken, and one ear was also missing.
There were bullet holes in the upper body, but some Kevlar fibers were faintly visible inside.
He also wore a bulletproof vest.
Brian, lying on the ground, looked at Elliot who walked up to him with an expressionless face.
Knowing that he would not survive, he gave a sinister smile and spat at Elliot.
“Fuck you…”
Elliot remained calm even though he was spat on in the face.
The next second, he raised his gun and emptied the magazine at Brian.
After shooting Brian, Elliot retrieves a key card from his jacket pocket.
Unfortunately, the key card had been broken in two by a bullet.
I don’t know whether it was Yang Ren or Elliot who hit him.
As a last resort, the two had to take Shirley back to the police station to look for the key card.
Before leaving, Claire took a last look at Yang Ren's body.
"Sorry…"
After leaving behind a word that sounded like an apology and also like a vow, the two adults and one child disappeared in the parking lot.
Just as the three of them were about to leave the parking lot, the manhole cover that had been closed after they came up from the boiler room was removed.
A man with a split hair popped up.