Shadow Empire

Chapter 668 The Moment Before the Explosion [666+17]
Chief Blue was sitting in the passenger seat of the police car. As they were about to enter the old industrial area, he pulled out his pistol, checked whether the magazine was full, and then reloaded it.

It had been a long time since he had checked his weapon so carefully and meticulously. Of course, this was not the police station's service gun.

In the words of the police officers, a revolver for defense is not even needed by dogs.

There are six bullets in total, and the speed of replacing bullets is slow enough that an opponent rushing over from twenty meters away can stab you to death with one knife.

Except for those who have just joined the police force, basically all veteran police officers have many weapons.

After making sure there was no problem with the weapon and the safety was off, he put the pistol into the holster in his arms.

He opened the tool box on the passenger seat, which contained a magazine pouch and several loaded magazines.

He tied the magazine belt around his waist, inserted all the magazines, and let out a long breath.

He twisted his body, straightened his clothes, then sat back down, holding the handrail on the door frame with his right hand.

He had a feeling that today was going to be a bad day.

We could see some signs of unrest along the way, and the security in the area was deteriorating rapidly.

As the chief of the city police department, he knew how much trouble and workload this would bring to him and the entire city's police force.

Who doesn’t want to be able to sit in the office and read the newspaper until the end of the day?
These bastards!

There were some police cars parked on both sides of the street, and they were dealing with some roadside vandalism.

Some thugs who ran out of the crime center were smashing and looting roadside shops. Almost all roadside shops were the property of federal citizens. When police officers saw someone committing a crime, they had to respond to protect the safety and property of citizens.

Some rioters have raised their hands and lay on the cold ground to accept management and control, but some rioters are using their weapons to fight against the police.

The officers' tactics were still too conservative, as they were not dealing with immigrants with federal citizenship or federal citizens this time.

They were dealing with refugees who were not considered federal citizens, so they didn't need to be so careful.

"Stop," he suddenly shouted. The driver was stunned for a moment, but quickly pulled the car to the side and stopped.

Two vehicles in the convoy behind stopped, and the others continued to drive to the location where the police were called.

This is the New Port District. The business atmosphere here is definitely not as prosperous as in other districts. However, due to the large number of refugees stranded in the New Port District recently, the business environment here has undergone some good and positive changes.

Refugees’ money is also money.

As long as they can make money, businessmen don't care whether the person paying the money is a noble man from upper class society or a refugee who is not even a citizen.

However, they probably didn't expect that they would suffer a huge loss before they could make much money from these refugees.

In a roadside shop, several refugees were putting sundries from the shop into a woven bag in their hands.

Food, drinks, cigarettes, they seem to want everything!
The owner was lying on the ground at the door with blood on his head. It was unclear whether he was dead or not. He was motionless.

The police at the scene were confronting them, asking them to put down their weapons and come out and lie on the ground.

This is normal process.

When the four policemen saw Chief Blue coming in person, one of them turned around and walked over to report the situation at the scene.

"I saw them looting the store on my way here. We are currently unable to confirm the health status of the store owner. The situation is a bit tricky right now..."

"Troublesome?" Chief Blue strode over, glanced at the police officer, and shook his head.

Without waiting for the police officer to react, he walked closer to the store. Two refugees holding sticks at the door waved their weapons and shouted to stop the chief from approaching.

They didn't know how to distinguish between the chief and the police officers. They just knew that they couldn't let them get close. "Don't get close to me. My baseball bat is not as easy to talk to as me!"

He tried to intimidate Chief Blue by threatening to attack him with a baseball bat, but this time, he failed.

Director Blue pulled out the pistol in his hand, held it with both hands and stretched his arms straight. The man's eyes suddenly widened, and with a look of panic on his face, he pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang, bang bang!

Three bullets accurately hit the refugee who was standing there dazedly, waving a baseball bat.

He looked down at the three small dents on his coat in disbelief and even touched them with his hand.

He couldn't believe that he was about to die. Just as he was about to call for help, he suddenly fell to the ground and his body began to twitch.

His companions who were looting goods in the store heard the gunshots and ran out. They looked at their companion lying in a pool of blood in horror, and then looked at Chief Blue who was standing outside the kitchen window with a gun in his hand.

One of them pushed his hair up along his temples with both hands, "What the hell did you do?!"

But what answered him were bullets, flying bullets.

Bullets flew everywhere, and Chief Blue continued to shoot calmly. Several people fell to the ground one after another until the pistol in his hand was empty, making a "clicking" sound. He exhaled a breath of hot air, quickly replaced the magazine, put it back into the holster, and turned around.

"Still tricky?"

He shook his head and walked towards his car. "Do the same with the others. We don't have that much time to reason with them!"

"When you write the report, remember to write that they resisted arrest violently!"

He said as he got back into the car, "Drive."

A few minutes later, the convoy entered the scene. After seeing the actual scene of the demolition site, Director Blue couldn't help but take a breath.

All the construction machinery that could be overturned was overturned - they drove forklifts to overturn other construction machinery.

And those that cannot be overthrown are burning fiercely at this moment.

These people have gone completely crazy. Under the leadership of a few people, they began to release the anger, fear, uneasiness and all the negative emotions that had been accumulating since they came to the Federation. At this moment, they were completely released like a bomb!

All the pain they had faced, hunger, cold, humiliated dignity, and the need for their wives to sell their bodies in order for them to survive, suddenly erupted!
In their collective consciousness, no matter whether they really hated the Federals as much as they appeared to, at this moment, they all behaved in the same way, hating the Federals immensely!
There were already some police cars at the scene. The police officers were looking at the rioters in shock. The rioters had also discovered the police. They were in the initial stages of a confrontation.

Chief Blue got out of the car, straightened his police hat, glanced at the officer in the driver's seat, and whispered, "Go get the rifle."

Then he took out a microphone from the car.

The chief and the "command car" had loudspeakers. He turned on the loudspeaker and said, "We are Blue, the chief of the Jingang City Police Department. Now I demand that you immediately stop your violence, lay down your weapons, and accept our management."

"Your actions have seriously affected, threatened, and harmed the public security of Jingang City, and threatened the safety of people's lives and property."

"Stop your violence and accept management immediately, otherwise we will take necessary measures!"

"Repeat it again..."

Director Blue's warning worked. Some refugees who were causing chaos began to gather together. Only by gathering together could they feel safe.

Led by a few people, they gathered together silently and stood directly opposite the police team, and the two sides entered a state of confrontation.

But this confrontation was an unstable one. Some refugees, already blood-thirsty, were holding crowbars and steel pipes in their hands, with blood stains on their faces, looking at the police officers eagerly!

They even wanted to beat up the policemen!

For the first time, they felt an... indescribable sense of relief!

War, escape, and unhappiness, the overseers were like the slave owners in the slave era, whipping them with the whip of "survival" until they were covered with wounds.

If you don't work and don't listen to them, you will lose your job and lose everything.

This is a riot, more like a rebellion against the exploitation and oppression of the federal society!
At this moment, they did not think of themselves as thugs or evil people who caused the unrest, but as warriors!

They have the courage to resist all the inequalities imposed on them, so they are not so afraid even when facing the police.

They believed that together they were invincible.

The silent standoff lasted for several minutes. Director Blue turned on the microphone again and said, "You have five minutes to drop your weapons, leave the group and go over there to be managed."

"In five minutes, we will take coercive measures!"

Strong dialogue, simple and powerful.

Some refugees were already a little panicked, but most of them still stood together.

When collective consciousness dominates individual consciousness, they will give up thinking and focus on the "leader" like those social animals.

There are leading sheep, leading horses, leading wolves, and naturally there are also leading humans.

In this case, the people who take the lead will decide the direction of events.

They were actually quite nervous because there had been some gunshots around them and there was no doubt that the police had started using their weapons.

The leading few people looked at Chief Blue and other police officers from afar, and they didn't seem to have any intention of surrendering.

They actually knew very well that as long as they chose to surrender, they would definitely be in trouble.

Neither side took any further action and both seemed to be restraining themselves. However, the more they restrained themselves, the more obviously the atmosphere became heavier and more depressing!

Just like the moment before a volcano erupts, no one can predict how it will change in the next second.

But once it breaks out, it will destroy the world!

(End of this chapter)