Chapter 38 A Shooting Incident (1/2)

Chapter 38 A Shooting Incident

“A minute ago, they stole a car and escaped with two hostages.” As w.a.n.g Zhaoping and his team were exiting the heavy black police van, they saw the city’s Criminal Police Head, Qian Wen’s pale white face in front of them, lying against a wrecked police car, trying to light a cigarette.

His hands were trembling so badly that he couldn’t even light it after many tries.

When he heard Qian Wen say such words, w.a.n.g Zhaoping was afraid that his six men behind him would make some untimely jeer.

But when he turned back to look, the six youngsters were wide eyed, staring incredulously at the state of the crime scene.

“Have we arrived in Iraq?” Li Yaosheng looked at the four craters in the ground in disbelief, unable to trust his eyes.

The air was filled with the stench of gunpowder from the highly explosive bombs and there were several tattered cars all over. These two things meant that the bombs which exploded here, weren’t ordinary self made grenades.

“Desert Eagle, AK-47, modified rifle.” Fu Shun examined the bullet holes all around, and identified the firearms that the robbers used.

As the firearms used were identified, the rest of the Black Hawk’s men couldn’t help but suck in a deep breath of cold air each time a new weapon was identified.

“Were those criminals here to rob or to fight a war?” Li Yaosheng exclaimed as he heard more and more weapons being identified. He felt that the situation was queer and something was amiss.

“Didn’t I ask you to stall them?” w.a.n.g Zhaoping after pausing for a while in astonishment, asked Qian Wen.

“Delay?! Stall?! How was I supposed to do that?!” Qian Wen, triggered, started roaring back at w.a.n.g Zhaoping. “They didn’t even have any intention to negotiate with us, and after only shouting out for the second time, four highly potent explosives came flying out at us. The situation was really too unnatural, as we were about to try and discuss the conditions with them, they immediately took two hostages and charged out guns blazing.”

“Calm down, calm down a little.” It was the first time w.a.n.g Zhaoping saw Qian Wen so agitated.

“F*ck your calm down!” Qian Wen screamed in despair. “With only one exchange with them we lost eight people. Eight people!”

“Even with so many people barricading the door, they managed to kill eight people on the way out?” All the Black Hawk’s men felt that it was really too incredulous.

“You said there were two hostages with them?” w.a.n.g Zhaoping took a deep breath and asked the sobbing Qian Wen. “How are the rest of the hostages?”

At this moment, there were more and more police cars arriving at the scene. The Black Hawk team also noticed that from time to time a badly mutilated person would be brought out in a stretcher and sent off in an ambulance.

“They have a man and a woman as hostages.” Qian Wen said as he continuously punched the mangled police car, after a few counts, his fist was already bleeding profusely with lacerations all over. However, he didn’t seem to feel any pain at all and continued. “The rest of them are inside, you can go take a look.”

The strong metal door of 7th Street was bent from the shockwave of the blasts from earlier and the Black Hawk team entered to take a look inside.

After taking a step into 7th Street, they stopped in their tracks, doubting their very eyes.

From the entrance of 7th Street to the shopfronts, there was a trail of blackish red decaying blood. It was like a grand dark red carpet laid out for the famous to walk on. At the end of the trail, there were four female corpses who were discarded in a heap that looked just like tattered gunnysacks.

But what made the men from Black Hawk tremble to the depths of their hearts were not the corpses, but the lifeless people crying and screaming in vomit and excreta.

Over ten men were tied at the legs by a belt, their bodies covered in filth; with mouths stuffed with underwear and pants pooled around ankles, leaving lower bodies naked. Their b.u.t.ts raised and atop ten or so women who were lying on their backs with their limbs raised in the air. The men were in the same situation, but instead of on a ‘seat’, were instead rolling in the filth close to those ‘sitting’. It seemed like they were trying to dismount those atop the women and mount one themselves.

Be it those atop the women or those rolling around in the filth, or even the women who were lying on the floor unmoving, like they had been shocked into idiocy; their eyes dull and lifeless, and only knew how to cry and shout.

Even when the policemen went to their sides to help them, they didn’t even dare to stand up, and only cried and screamed, “Don’t kill me! I’m already on a ‘seat’.”

“I want to kill them.” Li Yaosheng said emotionlessly and had already turned and walked off.