It's better to conquer them than to command the steel torrent

Chapter 25｜Full of Bad Intentions
Unlike the monotonous clanging white noise, there seems to be a bit more noise and shouting tonight?

Shang Ke was woken up. He frowned and muttered a few words. After listening for a moment, he realized something was wrong.

"Wake up!"

"Um...what's wrong?"

Jian Keqiu was awakened by Shang from her deep sleep and looked confused and unaware.

The lights in the car were not on, and the pure white moonlight was blocked by the frost on the window glass, so weak that it could be ignored.

"We are very unlucky. It seems we have encountered robbers." Shang Ke, with a vigilant look, took advantage of the partition of the compartment and looked towards the corridor of the carriage.

"Ah? How did they get up here?" Jian Keqiu's confusion suddenly disappeared.

Doesn't your focus seem strange? Is now the time to explore the reasons and logic?

Shang Ke noticed that the robbers had rushed into the first-class carriage in front, and screams and threats were intertwined.

At this time, several robbers who were at the rear felt that the second-class carriage had too many people and too little money, and would be more difficult to deal with, so they also walked towards the rear carriage.

They closed the corridor door between the second-class carriage and the dining car, and sealed the door by inserting an iron pipe across the door handle.

The three train police officers who arrived one after another were blocked and could not get through. The only train police officer left was outnumbered and only had time to fire two shots before he was stabbed in the lower abdomen by a sharpened iron pipe and fell in a pool of blood.

Blood stained the carpet and his revolver was picked up.

Gao Dayu fiercely shouted at the panicked flight attendants, "Where's your money?! Do you want to live? If you want to live, give it up!"

At the same time, several other accomplices were robbing the first-class carriage one by one.

They robbed everything, including banknotes, gold bracelets, gold necklaces, watches, and pocket watches!

The dim moonlight shone on the sharp iron pipe, giving off a cold glow.

A woman was trembling as she took off her gold earrings, but the impatient robber just pulled them off forcefully!
The woman was afraid of crying loudly and angering these guys, so she could only cover her bloody ears and sob softly.

Shang Ke felt speechless. When he was chatting with Jian Keqiu at night, he was still talking about the deeds of the famous thieves Bonnie and Clyde on the other side of the ocean. As a result, he encountered robbers in the middle of the night.

In stark contrast to Shang's nervousness, Jian Keqiu was unusually calm.

"How many people are there?" she whispered. "Can you handle it?"

"Shh!" Shang Ke didn't have time to respond and whispered, "Don't talk!"

He had no idea how many people and guns were on the other side, and he only had six bullets in his pistol!

Although the magazine can hold seven rounds, one or two fewer rounds are usually loaded to extend spring life and reduce malfunction rates.

He soon determined that there were only seven or eight of them and that they had only a single scavenged revolver.

If Shang was thinking about how to take action, then Jian Keqiu was thinking about how to shoot legally - as if soldiers cannot easily interfere in civil affairs?

Shang Ke just felt very annoyed. He would definitely not have a peaceful New Year after beating these guys to death, but he had to do it.

Jian Keqiu suggested in a low voice: "Why don't you just say they want to steal your bag..."

Huh? Bag grabbing?

The two looked at each other. Jian Keqiu rolled her eyes and raised her voice deliberately, "Hurry and put the gold bars and checks in your bag!"

Shang Ke was a little surprised when he heard this, but immediately changed his expression to "Oh, that's it".

Are you okay? Oh... I see! You have such a bad mind!

The robbers who had already arrived in this carriage had obviously heard it as well, and rushed straight over without thinking.

One of them was so arrogant because he had successfully snatched the briefcase that he went straight for it. As a result, Shang Ke put his head against the briefcase and shot him in the head. "Bang!"

This 10×19mm high-powered pistol bullet came out from the back of his head. The muzzle energy of this thing is two-fifths greater than that of the 9mm Parabellum pistol bullet!

Broken bones mixed with red and white objects flew onto the car window, and a biting cold wind whistled into the car through the holes in the glass.

Statistically speaking, the probability of the other party surviving is infinitely close to zero.

In a flash, the other person following closely behind was obviously stunned. Before he could react, he was hit in the chest as if he had been punched hard, and he staggered backwards.

Shang Ke's attention was focused on the only guy with a gun.

The Weaver-style and triangle-style gun-holding methods that became common in later generations were far from being invented, and military and police forces around the world were still using the sideways posture with one hand on the waist holding the pistol.

In his previous life, Shang sometimes participated in real-life shooting confrontations and practiced several gun-holding techniques. However, he found that his muscle memory in this life was obviously more familiar with one-handed gun-holding.

He fired three shots at a guy holding a revolver more than ten meters away. The latter screamed and was knocked to the ground by the bullet after only one shot.

Gao Dayu and several others were shocked by the sudden situation. After they came to their senses, they immediately ran away.

"Don't run! Stop!"

Shang Ke shouted loudly and rushed forward in two steps.

"boom!"

Seeing that the man lying on the ground was still struggling, he gave the last bullet in the chamber to him for free, and then picked up the revolver that had changed hands twice.

The remaining four people fled, and the corridor door of the front carriage looked like it was about to be pushed open by the train attendants.

Gao Dayu, in a panic, even wanted to jump out of the car by prying open the window, but as soon as he stepped with his left foot, he heard two gunshots!

The bullet hit his neck, and blood spurted out of his carotid artery like a red fountain.

In this situation, Shang's tone became extremely calm. He instructed in a cold voice: "Drop what you are holding and lie on the ground."

The biggest and strongest man among the three was the first to throw away the sharp iron pipe. With him taking the lead, the two people next to him also gave up wisely.

The train police finally broke down the door and arrived. What they saw was a mess on the ground and a strong smell of blood...

Jian Keqiu was only slightly frightened and quickly recovered. However, after turning on the lights, she couldn't resist glancing at the car window out of curiosity, and her expression changed instantly...

A quarter of an hour later, the train slowed down and entered Haozhou Station.

The truck that had been waiting for a long time was ready to pick up its accomplices, but no one jumped out of the car. When it was about to leave, two three-wheeled sidecar motorcycles roared over and captured the two people on the truck on the spot.

It was certainly satisfying to go on a killing spree in a reasonable and justified manner, but Shang Ke hated the trouble that followed.

He and Jian Keqiu were both invited to the Haozhou Police Bureau, where they stayed from the late night until noon.

However, compared with the last experience in Chang'an County, this time was completely different.

For the Haozhou Police Bureau, Shang's behavior can be said to have been of great help - if it weren't for him, the train robbery would have definitely been successful, and the entire police department would have been in trouble.

The director rushed over from home in his pajamas, and sighed that everyone was lucky to have met a noble person to help them this time.

Shang Ke just wanted to leave, so he said seriously that he was on a mission, and thus he was able to escape smoothly.

As for Jian Keqiu, since Haozhou was not far from Tuzhong, the director simply sent a special car to take her home.

Before parting, Shang Ke breathed a sigh of relief and said to her, "We can keep in touch through letters in the future. So, Miss Jian, goodbye!"

(End of this chapter)