"Can you give me back my ID card?" the man pleaded softly.
"Hmph." The robber opened the wallet, took all the money and several bank cards, then instantly asked, "What’s the PIN?"
"Ah?" The man beside Li Chen was also clearly not expecting this.
"I’m asking you what the f***ing PIN is, hesitate again and I’ll blow your brains out!" the robber threatened fiercely.
"947251," the man quickly replied.
"That’s more like it." Muttering a curse, he then threw the empty wallet back at the man.
"Hey, your turn," the robber said, looking at Li Chen, who had his eyes closed. He reached out and pushed him.
Li Chen acted as if he had just woken up, murmuring vaguely, "What’s going on?"
"Hand over the money," the robber bellowed.
Li Chen was startled and hurried to check his pockets, but after a long search, he only found a train ticket. Finally, he looked up with an embarrassed face and said, "Look, I spent my last bit of money on this ticket. I don’t have a penny left on me."
The robber snatched the ticket with a doubting gaze, glanced at it, and couldn’t help but mutter, "Jingyang County? Damn, what a pauper."
Li Chen couldn’t help but laugh and cry inside; it seemed Jingyang County’s reputation was well-known in the underworld.
Too lazy to bother with Li Chen anymore, the robber continued to rob the other people.
At that moment, another robber approached the girls: "Give me the money!"
The girls were petrified and had no choice but to hand over all the cash from their bags, even though they didn’t want to.
"Wang Yang, didn’t you say you were a national sanda champion?" one of the girls whispered to the bragging man from before.
Wang Yang felt bitter inside, thinking, "Damn it, they’ve got weapons, okay? If there were no weapons, I might be able to take them on. But they’ve all got guns, how can I face them unarmed?"
"What did you say?" the robber glared at him, pointing the gun barrel his way.
Wang Yang jumped in fright, thinking, don’t point that gun at me.
However, at that moment, the girl beside him gathered her courage to say: "He is the national sanda champion!"
Wang Yang’s heart sank, thinking that now he had to back up the big talk he’d spouted before, even if through tears.
"Oh?" The robber turned his eyes to Wang Yang, and all the girls’ gazes followed suit, looking at him expectantly.
"National sanda champion?" The robber scoffed, "Well, get up then, come here."
At this point, Wang Yang couldn’t care about anything else and quickly said, "Ha ha, it’s a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. I’m certainly not any national sanda champion; I’m just responsible for being a punching bag."
As soon as he said this, Wang Yang’s image plummeted in the eyes of the girls, who looked at him with scorn.
"I don’t give a damn who you are," the robber pointed the gun at Wang Yang, "Get up now."
Having no choice, Wang Yang raised his hands and slowly stood up.
"Sanda champion? Come on, dance for me. I’ve never seen a sanda champion dance," the robber jeered.
Wang Yang was stunned while the robber immediately said menacingly, "You gonna dance or not? Don’t dance and I’ll put a hole in you!"
Wang Yang immediately began to hop, his legs moving back and forth like a jumping frog, as ridiculous as could be.
"That’s f***ing ugly," the robber said, kicking Wang Yang and sending him flying back to his seat, causing the girls to scream in fright.
"Hand over the money, or else for every missing cent, you’ll get an extra hole in you," the robber demanded.
Wang Yang hurriedly took out the money, "All the money I have on me is right here."
The thug, upon seeing this, couldn’t help but smirk at the corners of his mouth, "You do carry quite a bit of cash, don’t you."
Wang Yang had given him over three thousand yuan, which the thug hadn’t expected.
At that moment, another thug came over, his eyes fixated on the few girls. The girls, upon encountering his gaze, could not help but panic, the undisguised lust in his eyes making them feel unease.
"Brother Three, don’t you think these girls look fresh?" The latter thug’s gaze locked onto Wenwen, "We brothers haven’t touched a woman in a long time, there are five right here, one for each of us, how about that?"
The thug called Brother Three, upon hearing this, scanned the five girls once more, also quite tempted.
He turned his head, looked towards the thug watching the driver, gestured at the girls, and the other nodded.
"Good, we’ll take these five girls too."
"No!" Wenwen was immediately seized by the thugs, and she burst out screaming in terror, her eyes brimming with tears. She knew all too well what awaited her if she was taken by these men and that she might never make it back.
The other men on the bus also dared not speak, some full of anger yet silenced by the menacing barrel of the gun.
The other four thugs also came over to grab people, and the five girls were pulled up, crying, but no matter how much they struggled, they couldn’t overpower the thugs.
However, at that moment, a languid voice rang out: "Alright, guys, take the money and go. But grabbing these girls, that’s a bit too much. Even in this line of work, there should be some rules."
All at once, the thugs’ actions halted, and they turned to look at Li Chen. The girls also turned their gazes to Li Chen, startled to see that it was the same person they had just been mocking who was now speaking up?
At once they all felt guilty in their hearts.
"Mind your own business," one of the thugs said menacingly, "It’s not your place to tell me how to operate. You’re looking to play the hero? I’ll blow you away first."
"Hardheaded," Li Chen shook his head, "You’re really forcing my hand here."
The previously furious thug raised his handgun in response, and the five girls were horrified!
But all of a sudden, Li Chen’s figure appeared in front of the man in the blink of an eye, grasping his wrist. With a pinch, the thug winced in pain, his grip loosened, and Li Chen took hold of the gun.
After seizing the handgun and giving a shove with his left foot, he sent that thug and a few behind him reeling back. Li Chen calmly lifted the handgun and aimed it at the thug watching the driver from a distance, pulling the trigger.
Li Chen was taken aback, damn, it was a fake gun?
But at that moment, the thug who seemed to be the leader raised his handgun, aimed at Li Chen, and "bang"—a bullet flew out, shooting straight at him!
Li Chen twisted his body to dodge the bullet, his right hand flinging the fake gun directly at his assailant’s hand. The impact knocked the real gun out of the thug’s hand. Li Chen then lunged at him, and before the man could react, Li Chen’s right hand, formed like a blade, chopped his neck, knocking him out cold.
The remaining four thugs were just turning around when they saw Li Chen standing there, calm and collected, with a dark handgun pointed at them.
"Out of the five, only this one is the real gun, right?" Li Chen said indifferently, admiring the cleverness of the robbery gang.
One of the thugs, sensing trouble, immediately reached out to grab someone beside him, trying to take a hostage, but Li Chen took an accurate shot right at his wrist.
A scream like that of a slaughtered pig rose, and the remaining three didn’t dare to make another move.
Li Chen walked slowly towards them and knocked them out cold.
"Tie them up and take them to the police station," Li Chen said coolly, then returned to his seat and closed his eyes to rest.
Everyone on the bus was stunned, and Wang Yang stared at Li Chen, dumbfounded. How could this person be so formidable? Remembering his own words from earlier, Wang Yang felt incredibly embarrassed; he had talked about taking on a dozen or more, but Li Chen could probably wipe him out with just one finger.
The girls also gazed at Li Chen with grateful eyes. If not for Li Chen’s intervention, their lives would likely have been in danger today.
Despite their earlier mockery, it was still Li Chen who generously helped them, allowing them to escape their predicament.
Wenwen fixed her gaze on Li Chen, and couldn’t help but speak up, "Thank you, what’s your name?"
"No need to thank me," Li Chen said with his eyes closed, "My surname is Lei, with a single name: Feng."