Chapter 1698 - 935: Oil City Hidden in Plain Sight, Straight to the Trump Card!

In the drone footage, a few vehicles could be seen coming from afar, exchanging fire with the dozen or so vehicles that had been parked there originally.

It was obvious that those vehicles that arrived later were the ones Feng Wei and his people, who Chen Er had said wanted to come and cause trouble.

Feng Wei and his crew clearly hadn’t expected that Chen Er, who was supposed to come tomorrow, had shown up already. Outnumbered, they were quickly no match for the men behind Chen Er.

Bullets flew everywhere, gunshots sounding nonstop.

Feng Wei glared at the dozen vehicles ahead, seething with rage.

The plan he’d worked out on the way here had just gone up in smoke like this.

He never imagined Chen Er would move this fast!

"Retreat! Fall back, now!" Seeing the already few remaining subordinates dropping into pools of blood one after another, he shouted anxiously.

However, before coming down to Oil City, Chen Er had already instructed Wu Li that if they ran into Feng Wei’s group, they had to try to wipe them out.

With a numerical advantage, and Wu Li long prepared on this side, there was no way he’d let Feng Wei’s people go. Over a hundred men kept firing at the tires of Feng Wei’s vehicles.

For the moment, Feng Wei’s group was stuck, unable to advance or retreat. The road was only so wide, and the way ahead was blocked by Wu Li’s people; the only option was to back up.

But at this point they didn’t dare stick their heads out to get into the vehicles. The moment they got in and tried to reverse, they’d likely be hit by bullets.

Feng Wei had no choice but to abandon the frontmost vehicle and slowly fall back toward the one behind.

Boom!

Wu Li’s men closed in steadily on Feng Wei’s group, with casualties mounting on both sides.

Back at Oil City.

Chen Er’s expression changed; he was about to get in the car and head back the five kilometers, but he quickly stopped in his tracks.

He hurriedly said to Xiao Jun:

"Boss Xiao, looks like bad timing—turns out that traitor Feng Wei really did come to wreck things. I need to go back and clean house first."

Xiao Jun pulled his gaze away from the drone monitor and said to Chen Er:

"Go ahead, take care of your business."

Seeing that Xiao Jun didn’t seem put off by this, Chen Er secretly let out a breath of relief. He’d been worried that people in Oil City would see this mess and lose interest in cooperating with Southern Paradise.

After all, nobody likes partnering with a faction that’s unstable.

He hurried into the vehicle and quickly told the driver at the wheel, "Move it, we have to kill Feng Wei this time."

Rage flared in his eyes, driven both by his personal dislike of Feng Wei and by the mission Mr. Hu had assigned.

Boom!

The driver nodded, then floored the gas, heading back toward Wu Li’s position.

The setting sun was blood-red. On the road a few kilometers from Oil City, over a dozen bodies lay scattered, the blood flowing from them a scarlet smear in the dusk.

Xiao Jun watched Chen Er’s convoy disappear, then thought for a moment and walked straight toward the wall. He needed to tell Director Li about this.

With things taking such a turn, he wasn’t sure whether they should still cooperate with this Southern Paradise.

After all, Southern Paradise clearly seemed to have internal problems now. If they got dragged into that, it wasn’t that they were afraid they couldn’t handle it.

But getting dragged in for no reason? There was no need.

Sitting in front of the military radio, Xiao Jun picked it up.

He urgently contacted Big Camphor Tree Base.

"This is Xiao Jun from Oil City. I have critical intel to report to Director Li..."

Crackle—

In the duty room, Lao Xie heard Xiao Jun’s voice and quickly replied:

"This is Big Camphor Tree Base. Hold on, I’ll call Director Li over right away."

After speaking, Lao Xie immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and contacted Li Yu: "Director Li, this is Duty Room One. Xiao Jun from Oil City sent a message saying he has important intel to report to you. Please come to Duty Room One as soon as possible."

Lao Xie repeated the message twice into the walkie-talkie.

At that moment, Li Yu was up on the wall, watching the many Cooperative Personnel and Extra Staff building the Fourth Outer City.

Zhong Chuchu, Dongfeng, and the others who had just returned yesterday hadn’t taken a break; today they were back in the construction team for the Fourth Outer City.

Hearing Lao Xie’s voice on the walkie-talkie, Li Yu picked it up and replied, "I’ll be right over."

He spoke as he walked toward Duty Room One.

Before long.

He arrived at Duty Room One.

He picked up the military radio headset.

"This is Li Yu. Xiao Jun, what happened over there?"

After waiting a few minutes, Xiao Jun finally heard Li Yu’s voice.

He quickly recounted everything that had just happened to Li Yu, and also described the current fight between Feng Wei and Chen Er from Southern Paradise.

"Director Li, should we still cooperate with Southern Paradise? And with the two of them going at it like this, should we step in?

From the looks of it, that Feng Wei really was planning to make trouble for us, but Chen Er got here first and stopped him."

Li Yu fell silent for a few seconds at that.

In his previous life, he had actually joined Southern Paradise, so he knew a fair bit about them.

Southern Paradise’s original helmsman was Mr. Hu, a righteous and loyal man who treated his brothers well. Many people respected him deeply.

But later he was betrayed by his sworn brother Scar. After Southern Paradise lost Mr. Hu, it was suddenly leaderless. Scar couldn’t keep the others in line, and with the internal turmoil, Southern Paradise took massive losses and eventually fractured.

In the end, Li Yu and Guan Zhongjin left Southern Paradise and went back on the road as wanderers.

He knew that Feng Wei was basically in bed with Scar.

Having heard Xiao Jun’s account in full, he realized that the Big Camphor Tree Base he’d founded in this life, along with the Oil City sub‑base, had invisibly altered Southern Paradise’s trajectory.