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Seeing how futile the pursuit was, with a distance of four or five li separating them, the leader with the scarred face viciously spat on the ground and cursed through gritted teeth, "Damn it, they're running too fast. Even if we ran ourselves to death, we couldn't catch up! Third Brother, quickly notify the men ahead, they must hold those people down, otherwise our brothers don't stand a chance at survival!"
"Yes, Big Brother!" The man called Third Brother hurriedly responded, taking out two tubular objects from his waist and lighting the fuses on top with a fire match stick.
All of a sudden, the moment they were lit, two dazzling lights shot upward with a whoosh, piercing into the high sky dozens of feet above, instantly streaking through the pitch-black night.