Intense gunfire continued to echo, with moonlight and distant lights casting spotty shadows throughout the forest, leaving dark splotches, where the dense branches and lush leaves of the surrounding trees seemed to be like demons dancing with claws in the dark.
There was still some distance to the actual battle upfront, relatively safer; the person that Lao Lv had at gunpoint was named Qin Zhengming, one of the five newly appointed Elders of the Longhua Association.
Although he was called an Elder, Qin Zhengming wasn't actually old; he was forty-three this year and had fought his way up, participating in tonight's battle with his men.
In his position, he theoretically didn't need to personally engage in life-and-death struggles, but because he was a newly appointed Elder with insufficient seniority, he needed to demonstrate his achievements to gain respect from others, and tonight's battle that would determine the fate of the Longhua Association was an excellent opportunity.
