Chapter 2435 — Highway Robbery
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The masked man at the head of the group bellowed, "Nobody move! Get back inside — this is a robbery!"
With that, the masked man pulled a sleek black pistol from his waist, raised it above his head, and leveled it at the students who had been about to get off the bus.
"Ah!" The students at the door froze in terror and stumbled backward. One dropped straight to the floor; another, desperate to relieve himself, wet his pants on the spot.
The students on the bus were stunned. None of them had expected to run into highway robbers — and during a traffic jam, of all times! Such a thing was truly rare. But now, staring at the gleaming black pistol in the masked man's hand, they all fell silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to make a sound...
As for the students who had screamed a moment earlier, the ones about to get off, their faces had gone deathly pale — because they could see that the men who had boarded the bus were armed with clubs or daggers, each one more savage than the last!
"Listen up, you sons of bitches! If you don't want to die, hand over everything valuable and all your cash — otherwise I won't mind sending you all to the Western Paradise!" the lead man shouted, gripping his pistol.
"Ah..." The classmates were all startled by the masked man's vicious words.
"You want to rob us, is that it? I'll have the students hand over their valuables and cash. Just don't hurt anyone on this bus!" The team leader surnamed Bai was remarkably calm at this moment. He glanced at the lead man and spoke to him.
"Oh? You catch on fast." The lead man nodded in satisfaction, then turned to the three men behind him. "Second, Third, Fourth — go collect their things one by one. Anyone who refuses gets made an example of!"
"Yes, boss!" the three men behind him answered at once. They produced a woven sack from somewhere and said directly to the team leader surnamed Bai, "We'll start with you. Hand over everything valuable!"
The team leader surnamed Bai nodded without hesitation. He pulled out his wallet and drew all the cash from it, tossing it into the three men's sack. Then he fished out a phone. "Want this too? It's a knockoff — you won't get much selling it."
"Forget it." One of the men glanced at the cheap dual-SIM phone in the team leader's hand and shook his head. Brand new, it was worth maybe a hundred or two hundred yuan; the secondhand market might not even take it. When they robbed people of phones, they only took the pricier smartphones worth over a thousand yuan. This knockoff was so worthless it wasn't even worth the space it took up.
The team leader surnamed Bai nodded and put the phone away. In doing this, he was setting an example for the students. In his former prime, he might not have feared anything, but now, with all his meridians severed, he had no choice but to concede first — for the sake of keeping the students from being hurt.
Of course, although the team leader knew Wei Zhao was quite skilled, he didn't want to stir up trouble. The space inside the bus was simply too cramped. If Wei Zhao took down one of them, another could fire a casual shot, and the students on the bus would be in danger.
Wei Zhao would be doing well just to protect himself and a few friends like Wang Xinyan. The other students could only become cannon fodder. So what the team leader did was also a hint to Wei Zhao not to act rashly! He was a teacher, and he did not want any of his students to come to harm!
Money was nothing but an external thing, and the team leader had no shortage of it. Nor would these students on an outing be likely to carry much cash. The robbers only wanted cash and valuables and turned a blind eye to bank cards — which showed that these men were after money alone and would not risk demanding bank cards and passwords.