9 Shots Fired - part 1 (2/2)
The young man moved forward, first giving the miner a very effective body shot to the liver with his elbow before grabbing his arm which held a shovel and hitting it with his knee. It seemed as effortless as if he was breaking a weak tree branch for a campfire. Everyone around them heard a loud crack of bones breaking. A loud forceful cry spread around the whole basic level. It would be strange if this time, the guards would not hear and react to this situation.
The miner dropped limply to the ground, hugging his arm which started to quickly swell. Fortunately for him, Wuxing had shown mercy on him and didn't use all of his strength in his attack, or else there would definitely be an open injury in his forearm.
”Holy shit.”
”Damn! How brutal!”
The prisoners cursed seeing Wuxing's savageness and most unintentionally backed away from the scene. They saw how this newcomer didn't even hesitate to break the miner's arm, seemingly unafraid of consequences.
”What is going on here?!”
After hearing the pitiful cries of the miner, two guards finally came to the scene. Coincidentally, it happened to be the same guards who took Wuxing's first victim—the rude man behind him— away from the queue not long ago.
Seeing the miner rolling on the ground from the pain with his arms full of blood and Wuxing standing next to him without any injury, they instantly visualized the situation that happened.
With such a position, who would not think that this young man was the culprit that had beat up the miner?
The guards didn't hesitate to get their weapons from their holsters and aim towards Wuxing while ordering loudly, ”It's you again! Get on the ground, now!”
The one with green eyes pulled out a short-wave radio and called out, ”Basic level, one prisoner is revolting! We need backup, over!”
The mine was quite hard to guard as the manpower wasn't enough. They couldn't build facilities like automatic artillery or cameras since the tunnels weren't stable. To stop the prisoners from revolting or fighting against each other, the authorities just made it up with a number of guards assigned to patrol per level instead. Each guard had the order to shoot first and report later if someone was clearly revolting which could ruin the mine work.
Each guard had a gun with live ammunition, but that was proven to be dangerous. There were cases where one was caught off guard and had his gun stolen but fortunately, another guard was close and he shot the prisoner in time to avoid a tragedy. From that day onwards, the patrolling guards always kept a distance from the prisoners and had someone partnered up with them.
”Hey, it was he who attacked me first. I was just defending myself. He tried to hit me with a shovel.”
Wuxing frowned and pointed at the miner's shovel on the ground in his defence.
The green-eyed guard glanced at the shovel next to the miner but still didn't believe Wuxing's words and continued to aim his gun at him before shouting again, ”Like I would believe you! You beat someone else earlier too! Lie down on the ground with your hands behind your head or I will shoot!”
Wuxing didn't listen to the guard and just stared at him fearlessly as he said calmly, ”Well, then shoot. I want to see what will the Chief Warden say when you shoot a Seven Stars Officer.”
When the guards heard Wuxing's words, their hands trembled. For them, those two words 'Seven Stars' were like a trigger for countless conversations and dreams. But then, something occurred to the green-eyed guard. His eyes brightened for a second as if he realised something.