Chapter 328 - Overly Professional Robbers
Luke didn’t follow the SUVs until a moment later.
On the road, Selina alerted him: “It looks like they’re going to take Route 91. If that happens, they would be able to escape using either Route 605, Route 5 or Route 57.”
Luke agreed with her.
Suddenly, three SUVs sped past them.
He quickly checked the surveillance feed, only to see that it was Big Nick and his brothers.
Frowning, Luke took a right turn at the next intersection and sped up, before turning back onto the earlier road.
At that point, he was in front of the robbers’ two SUVs.
It was actually a good thing that the county officers led by Nick had arrived, or there would be a lot of bickering between Westside LAPD and LASD later.
Suddenly, one of the tires blew on a big freight truck in the distance up ahead, and the car behind it crashed into the truck.
The truck immediately swerved and scraped the cars next to it before it finally stopped.
The driver of the truck got out and looked around with a worried frown on his face; he knew that he was in serious trouble.
Sure enough, the drivers of the other cars got out to surround him and kick up a fuss.
Some of them called the police, but the road was completely blocked.
Luke’s car was fifty meters away from the accident, and he couldn’t move further.
He looked at the surveillance feed with an odd expression on his face.
Selina raised her head and looked at him. “The robbers are stuck as well.”
Luke heaved a helpless sigh. “Let’s just hope that nobody gets hurt.” There wasn’t much he could do in this situation
The eight fully-armed robbers in the two SUVs probably had special force training, and were highly anxious at the moment.
It was the middle of the day, so Luke couldn’t reveal his full strength.
More importantly, the county officers including Nick had reached the back of the traffic jam.
Considering what Luke had seen, he didn’t think that the bad-tempered Big Nick would be able to hold back.
“Let’s change into our gear,” said Luke.
Selina pressed a button to recline the passenger seat, and she crawled into the back and quickly put on the gear which Luke threw to her.
In the meantime, Luke darkened the car windows while he monitored the robbers and the officers behind them.
A moment later, he couldn’t help but curse. “Are they crazy? There are dozens of cars and people here.” He had considered waiting until the robbers drove to a less populated area, but Nick obviously wasn’t as patient.
The county officers had already gotten out of their vehicles. They were all armed with the heavy firepower weapons that Luke had seen in their office.
Luke quickly checked his own guns and threw an M4A1 to Selina in the backseat, but didn’t take a gun himself.
It wasn’t the first time that he had fought among cars.
He had done it before when he eliminated Sergei’s gang in New York.
His opponents this time were stronger, but he had grown stronger as well.
Luke was certain that in a range of twenty meters, he could attack faster with a pistol than the robbers could with their automatic rifles.
The next moment, he was slightly relieved.
The county officers, including Nick, weren’t too crazy after all.
Coming up from the rear, the twelve officers spread out and pushed forward slowly while they warned the people in the cars to stay low or run away ASAP.
The green bulletproof vests and the yellow “Sheriff” words on them were a clear indication of their identities to everyone.
Seeing the heavy firepower weapons they were holding, almost everybody who was warned fled quickly.
Hiding inside their cars wasn’t safe, since there was still a chance that they would get hit.
The officers weren’t holding pistols but automatic rifles. Anybody with the slightest bit of common sense knew that apart from the engine, a regular car couldn’t block a rifle shot.
But a car only had one engine, and wasn’t absolutely safe.
Done changing, Selina examined her gun and asked, “When do we take action?”
Luke frowned.
He didn’t really dare open fire in the current situation.
This was Los Angeles County, not downtown Los Angeles.
More critically, the county officers and the robbers were all heavily armed.
If Luke was the first to shoot, all the casualties would be on his head.
It would be impossible for him to immediately kill eight fully-armed, highly vigilant robbers with military backgrounds.
“Wait a moment. Don’t be hasty,” Luke said.
But his tone changed the next second. “Sh*t!”
That was because he saw a robber get out of the passenger seat of one of the cars… with an M249 paratrooper machine gun. Lunatics!
That was all Luke could think.
Do you need such a lethal weapon for a robbery? This isn’t a warring country!
Thinking quickly, Luke took out a tear gas grenade from his inventory. Getting out of the car, he threw it out.
With his current Strength, fifty meters was nothing.
A moment later, smoke suddenly spread out from the robbers’ SUVs with a bang.
Alarmed, the county officers immediately went low.
But the robbers were too professional. A few gas masks were thrown out of the cars, and everybody put them on.
Luke was lost for words. Are you here for a robbery or to fight terrorism? Why would you carry gas masks for this operation?
But his tear gas grenade had achieved its purpose.
The robbers’ pace was disrupted, and the county officers behind Luke were now more vigilant and had slowed their approach as they became even more cautious.
Luke sat back inside his car and closed the door in relief.
If he hadn’t thrown the grenade out just now, it was possible that some of the county officers might’ve been killed.
Though they might be dirty cops, there was no evidence to prove it yet. Besides, they were doing their duty to catch the robbers, and Luke certainly couldn’t watch them die.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Selina was quite shocked by the deafening gunfire. Her mouth was wide open as she watched the surveillance feed on the tablet. “A machine gun? Seriously?” Those who had never seen a machine gun barrage could barely imagine its power.
Machine guns appeared in countless movies, but their force tended to be weakened for plot purposes.
A burst of hundreds of bullets from a machine gun could easily suppress dozens of foot soldiers.
This was something that the county officers were all too well aware of.
Almost everybody was lying on the ground, and didn’t dare raise their heads at all.
Even so, there were still two screams amidst the gunfire.
Luke looked carefully at the surveillance feed; it seemed that two unfortunate officers had been hit by stray bullets.