Chapter 4 The Origin of Tyrants
Chapter 4 The Origin of Tyrants
It turned out that it wasn't the sound of firecrackers at all, but rather bandits firing shots into the air.
Looking down through the central atrium of the mall, one can clearly see a large number of armed robbers on the first floor, rapidly taking control of the various exits and elevators.
There is only one robber firing now, standing on the escalator leading to the second floor.
He was wearing jeans, sneakers, a black short-sleeved shirt, a hood, and carrying a blue backpack. He was firing guns at the ceiling with both hands.
Bullets whizzed through the air, knocking away cement from the ceiling and leaving fist-sized craters.
Upon seeing this sudden and terrifying scene, everyone in the mall was stunned, including Ding Xiang, Xing Tian, and Chen Jun, who stood there at a loss for what to do.
Bullets whizzed past in front of them; those who have never been on the battlefield have never seen such a scene.
Even if Chen Jun was a time traveler, he was just an ordinary person in his previous life, not a legendary special forces soldier. He had never experienced the fear brought by firearms.
"Is this a movie shoot? Can movies ever be this realistic?" Xing Tian was terrified and muttered to himself.
"Ouch, it hurts so much! Help!"
A piercing scream echoed through the air, waking everyone on the sixth floor. They all turned to look, their faces turning pale with fright.
There was an unlucky guy who was hit by a stray bullet, and a large piece of his left cheek was torn off, with blood gushing out.
In just a few seconds.
The entire left side of his clothes was stained red with blood.
All the customers in the mall were suddenly shocked, realizing that what they were seeing was not a play or cosplay, but a real robbery.
Nobody wants to be the next one to be smashed; fear devours everyone's reason like a ferocious beast.
"Run!"
Suddenly someone shouted something, and everyone started running like crazy, not knowing where it was safe, like headless flies.
People were jostling and pushing each other...
Curses, shouts, cries...
The entire floor, from the first to the sixth, was in complete chaos!
Since the robbers first appeared on the first floor, and the gunshots also came from the first floor, everyone ran to higher floors out of instinct to get away from danger.
Suddenly, gunshots rang out from upstairs, and could still be clearly heard through the floorboards on the floors below.
"Are there bandits up there too??"
Those who were running upwards were dumbfounded. There was danger both above and below. So where should they run? Was there any place that was still safe?
People who are already panicked by fear completely lose their last shred of reason.
Some people continued running upwards, while others ran downwards.
The shopping mall was in complete chaos.
Chen Jun, Xing Tian, and Ding Xiang, who were originally together, were swept away by the crowd in the chaos and could not find each other. They could only try to save their own lives.
Chen Jun didn't know where Xing Tian and Ding Xiang had gone, or whether they would have been caught and killed by the bandits.
All he knew was that he had to survive.
Coming to his senses from the dazed panic, Chen Jun quickly surveyed his surroundings.
He was squeezed into the elevator by a group of people, and when the elevator doors opened again, he was squeezed out and found himself surrounded by the crowd all the way to the third floor.
Gunshots continued to ring out intermittently, and no one knew where the bullets would land.
Chen Jun could only lie down, recalling the low crawling posture he learned during military training, crawling out using both hands and feet, and looking down at the edge of the corridor.
Looking down, you can see the first floor below, where thugs are guarding the elevator doors.
When the elevator doors opened, the thugs rushed in like mad dogs, grabbed the butts of their guns and started smashing them. Screams and pleas for mercy echoed up to the roof.
People waiting in the elevator were beaten until their heads were bleeding before they were taken to the middle of the lobby, made to squat down with their heads covered, and collectively kept under guard.
"Are these people here to rob us? Or to kill us? How can they be so brutal?"
The ruthlessness of the thugs downstairs really frightened Chen Jun. His heart started racing and his ears began to burn.
"Oh no, something bad is going to happen."
Sensing the abnormality in his body, Chen Jun's face turned deathly pale.
Whenever Chen Jun experiences tension, anger, or other emotional states, his ears become hot, his heart rate increases briefly, and his body gradually begins to lose control.
If emotions are not stabilized in time, the situation will worsen further.
Once his head starts to feel hot and swollen, Chen Jun's consciousness will gradually become blurred, and he will eventually suffer a mental breakdown and lose his reason like a madman who has lost control of his anger.
What happens when someone completely loses their mind?
Chen Jun himself couldn't predict it, let alone control it.
He only remembered the last time he lost control was when he was fourteen years old. On his way home, he encountered a mad bull. Under extreme fear that threatened his life, his mind broke down and he completely lost consciousness.
When he regained consciousness, he found the cow, which weighed several hundred kilograms, dead beside him.
His head was almost smashed into a pulp. There was a rock next to him, weighing at least ten kilograms. There were also many bloody gashes on his neck, clearly caused by someone biting him hard with their mouth.
At the age of ten or so, he beat a cow to death and used the most bloody methods of tearing and gnawing at it.
This combat power can only be described as exaggerated.
This incident made Chen Jun realize that the side effects of his Superman Syndrome, such as irritability and anger, became even more ferocious when combined with the Giants Formation.
So in the years that followed, Chen Jun tried to control his emotions.
Killing a cow is not a big deal.
If it bites someone to death...
Chen Jun couldn't believe it!
Facing so many armed bandits, Chen Jun didn't want to have a mental breakdown, lose consciousness, or lose control of himself. Who knew if he went crazy and charged at them with his bare hands?
Although he had already developed internal strength and his physical strength was already astonishing, even a knife couldn't cut through him when he exerted force.
But Chen Jun didn't believe his body could stop a bullet.
To survive in such a dangerous situation, Chen Jun should trust his own intelligence more than his violent outburst.
Only through wisdom, composure, and skill can one survive in the hands of bandits.
"Calm down, calm down, I must calm down. I can't let myself break down from fear before I even encounter the bandits. I need to find a way to survive."
Chen Jun used psychological suggestion to brainwash himself by constantly muttering to himself.
At the same time, take deep breaths to calm your emotions.
The two-pronged approach was quite effective; not only did the signs of a mental breakdown gradually disappear, but the accelerated blood flow also made my mind clearer.
Under the influence of this accelerated thinking, I think about things much faster.
"They have guns, so going head-to-head with them would be suicide. I need to find a safe place to hide first, and I'll be safe once the hat-wearing uncles arrive."
It's a basic instinct for Chinese people to turn to their uncles when in danger, so Chen Jun made the decision quite naturally.
Where should we hide?
With this thought in mind, Chen Jun raised his head slightly again, wanting to observe the situation below and find an answer for himself based on the bandits' movements.
In the short time it took Chen Jun to compose himself, a very significant change occurred downstairs.
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