northernbook Chapter 1049 Showing to the Public
Chapter 1049 Showing to the Public
The underlings were stunned and dared not move.
Zhang Yunhe brandished his gun and said to the crowd, "Come on, everyone stand facing the wall, with your hands raised above your heads and straight against the wall!"
The leader fell to his knees with a thud, tears streaming down his face as he begged, "Good sir, good sir, spare our lives! I was blind and didn't recognize your greatness. I'm a scoundrel. Please, be magnanimous and forgive us as if we were nothing!"
"Sorry, my stomach is always in good condition, I don't have any farts to release. Stand against the wall, or I'll punch a bloody hole in each of your heads!" Zhang Yunhe threatened.
Faced with the threat of a pistol, the leader and his underlings had no choice but to walk to the wall one by one and stand with their arms raised.
Zhang Yunhe walked over, picked up the Mauser pistol from the ground, pointed at the skinny man, and shouted, "You, you skinny monkey, take off their belts and tie them all up. If you don't tie them up, or if you don't tie them up tightly, I'll shoot your head open. Hurry up!"
Skinny Monkey turned around with a mournful face, walked behind the leader, and said, "Boss, I'm so sorry, I'm really so sorry, I had no choice, please forgive me!"
The leader gritted his teeth, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace; it was unclear whether he was so angry or in pain that his face was distorted.
Under Zhang Yunhe's coercion, the skinny monkeys used their belts to tie all the men up tightly, so that they could only walk and could do nothing else.
"Tie them all together again!" Zhang Yunhe said to the skinny monkey, throwing out another bundle of rope.
The skinny monkey had no choice but to comply.
“Come on, all of you line up in a row. Skinny Monkey, you hold the rope behind you. I’ll be right behind you. If you let go of the rope and let them run away, I’ll shoot you in the head. Got it?” Zhang Yunhe threatened.
The skinny monkey nodded quickly.
"Go outside, go downstairs, let's go!"
Urged on by Zhang Yunhe, the leader walked in front, followed by his two henchmen, all of whom were tied up with ropes. Skinny Monkey led the way at the very back, with Zhang Yunhe pointing a gun at him from behind. The group of five walked down the stairs in a single file.
Downstairs, the hotel owner, who was hiding behind the counter, slowly peeked out when he heard the noise. When he saw Zhang Yunhe pointing a gun at several thugs, he stood up and asked, "Sir, what are you doing...?"
Zhang Yunhe pointed at the group of thugs and said, "Look at them, so young and not learning good things, they're learning to rob like bandits. I'll teach them a lesson! They're all big and strong, looking tough but not doing anything worthwhile. If they were sent to the front lines to fight the Japanese, they would all be excellent fighters. Don't you think so?"
"Uh, this..." The shopkeeper dared not speak carelessly, for fear of future retaliation.
As I walked outside the hotel, I saw many nearby residents, shop owners, managers, shop assistants, and pedestrians who had heard the gunshots standing not far away, craning their necks to look. Even many of the guests staying there came out of their rooms to see what was happening.
"Line up in a row facing the street, all of you kneel down, kneel down!"
At Zhang Yunhe's shout, several thugs, including Skinny Monkey, knelt down. The leader, though his wrist was injured, still had some backbone. His face flushed red, he shouted, "I'm a man with blood in my veins! Kill me or torture me, do whatever you want, but you think I'll kneel down? No way!"
"Hey, you're pretty tough, huh!" Zhang Yunhe walked over and kicked the gang leader in the back of the knee, causing the gang leader to involuntarily kneel down.
He tried to stand up again, but Zhang Yunhe pressed one hand on his shoulder, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stand up. His face turned bluish-purple, but he still couldn't stand up.
"If you struggle, I'll sever your tendons in your hands and feet, so you can't die if you want to, and you can't live if you want to!" Zhang Yunhe threatened.
"This is outrageous! You've gone too far!" the gang leader shouted.
"Slap!" Zhang Yunhe slapped him across the face and cursed, "When you led people to rob others, weren't you going too far? What goes around comes around, understand?"
After subduing the ringleader, Zhang Yunhe walked behind Skinny Monkey and tied him up with rope, along with several other thugs.
He then took out a round iron ball, waved it in front of the skinny monkey, and asked, "Do you recognize it?"
However, someone in the crowd watching nearby exclaimed in surprise: "Ah—!"
Zhang Yunhe said, "This is called a hand grenade. People who have fought in wars also call it a hand grenade. Look, pull out this iron pin, and in just a few breaths, 'boom!' everything within a two-zhang radius will be blown to pieces!"
Zhang Yunhe pressed down on the shrapnel, pulled the safety pin, and stuffed the grenade into the skinny monkey's hand, which was tied behind his back. He made the monkey hold the shrapnel with his thumb and said, "Hold it down, hold it tight. If you let go, there will be a bang, and all of you will be blown to pieces, understand?"
The skinny monkey had never seen anything like this before, and he was so frightened that he soiled himself on the spot: "Sir, sir, spare me, spare me! I won't do it again, I'll never do it again!"
"Don't be afraid. Where did your arrogance go when you were robbing people with a knife? Right, if you bring out that arrogance, you won't be afraid!" Zhang Yunhe said with a smile, lighting a cigarette. As he spoke, he tied the rope used to bind the people to a pillar under the eaves of the hotel. As long as no one untied the rope, these thugs wouldn't be able to escape.
The skinny monkey looked like he had lost his parents, his face covered in a mixture of snot and tears.
Zhang Yunhe, puffing on his cigarette, waved to the onlookers: "Stop looking, stop looking, there's nothing to see. Everyone go home, go back to your mothers, go home!"
After saying that, he turned around and walked back to the hotel. The crowd of onlookers outside did not leave, and their numbers were increasing. They pointed and whispered about the leader and his companion.
"Finally, someone has taught Xu Tian and his gang a lesson. They deserve it!"
"Yes, these people do nothing but bully their neighbors, extort money, kidnap women, steal and rob, they do all sorts of evil. Now they've finally met their match, karma is coming on!"
The leader, Xu Tian, turned his head and saw Zhang Yunhe go inside. He quickly shouted to the crowd, "Brothers and sisters, as long as you untie us, I, Xu Tian, will be eternally grateful and will repay you handsomely!"
Upon hearing this, the onlookers involuntarily took a step back, and the murmurs grew louder, but no one dared to step forward to untie them.
Seeing that sweet talk was useless, Xu Tian immediately threatened, "You still won't untie me, huh? Fine, very well. I've memorized all your faces. Once I'm free, I'll see how I deal with you!"