novelhk Chapter 20 Inescapable Fate
Chapter 20 Inescapable Fate
"So many people have died, why shouldn't you?"
Zheng Xinjian's eyes were red. He grabbed Qi Te, who hadn't had time to get up, lifted him up, spread his right arm, and punched him again.
Qi Te immediately coughed up blood, saw stars, and his ears rang.
Zhang Xiaodao was completely bewildered.
What's going on? Is society really that chaotic now?
No, that burly young man clearly used superpowers.
"stop!"
Zhang Xiaodao instinctively wanted to let go and save Qi Te, but then he remembered the other party's instructions not to let go of the old man.
In that instant of hesitation, he suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet tremble slightly.
"I'm useless, I'm useless, stop talking, stop talking!"
"I have no money. All the money went to the old man's medical treatment. I have no money, no money, no money..."
The man roared and struggled, and the ground shook more and more violently.
Jiang Luo's prediction during his live broadcast on [Science Hot] had some effect, and the subway station took corresponding measures.
However, since Jiang Luo did not specify which route it was, and Qingjiang Road Station is a large station with eight platforms, it was impossible to clear the entire station in just over twenty minutes.
The platform where Line 3 stopped wasn't crowded, only with passengers who had just gotten off. Feeling a sudden tremor underfoot, the crowd immediately panicked.
"The prophecy has come true! We're doomed! Run!"
"Earthquake! It's going to collapse! Help!"
Passengers frantically rushed towards the escalators and stairs, while station staff shouted, "Calm down, don't run around!"
"Please do not run around, push, or trample..."
However, such warnings had no effect.
The increasingly violent shaking of the ground caused most of the passengers to lose their composure.
Fear spread through the crowd instantly, like drops of ink falling into water.
A power user rushed up the stairs without regard for anything else, instinctively using his ability to push aside the people in front of him.
A petite girl twisted her ankle while running in a panic. She paused for a moment in pain, and was then pushed away by that person with a single palm strike.
"ah!!"
The girl screamed and crashed into the elevator next to her.
The passengers in the elevator fell backward like dominoes.
Seeing that an accident was about to occur, two figures flashed to the bottom of the elevator and managed to catch the falling passenger. Three more figures rushed to the left side of the elevator and quickly caught the person who fell out.
The five men were wearing Investigation Bureau uniforms and were all members of the action team.
Although Jiang Luo's predictions are highly accurate, her previous predictions never specified a very specific time or place, only a general time range and area.
For example, the armed riots that occurred in the western fifth district at the end of last year, and the tsunami on an island in the eastern ninth district in June of this year, etc.
With such a large passenger base, ordinary people tend to have a sense of complacency and prefer to avoid Qingjiang Road Station, which is a very small minority.
As a federal law enforcement agency, the Bureau of Investigation naturally cannot think like an ordinary person. Even if it is ultimately proven that Jiang Luo's prediction was wrong, it still has to make preparations for it.
After all, the hostage situation at the old campus in Haicheng had just occurred not long ago. If another large-scale incident involving casualties were to happen, public opinion would definitely escalate rapidly.
The kidnapping happened suddenly, so it was somewhat understandable. But this time, the prophetic goddess had warned us in advance; if it came true, the investigation bureau wouldn't be able to withstand such immense pressure.
Twelve members of the action team and railway police were deployed across eight platforms to prepare for any potential disasters. At this moment, the five people responsible for patrolling this platform each used their abilities to rush to various locations to provide rescue.
Everything happened very suddenly, in just a few seconds.
Zhang Xiaodao is numb.
He never expected that he would encounter such a scene so soon after returning to Haicheng from military service.
"If I lose the house, you'll divorce me and take our son with you."
"I've worked hard for most of my life, and now they want to fire me? On what grounds? On what grounds?!"
"Don't leave! Not a single one of you is allowed to leave! Don't leave..."
The middle-aged man, who was pinned to the ground, roared and struggled desperately.
Zhang Xiaodao finally realized that this guy had lost his mind.
Even more frightening, streaks of red lightning bolts appeared on the man's flushed face. The veins in his neck bulged, with a faint red glow flowing within them.
Zhang Xiaodao was startled by this bizarre scene. In that moment of stunned silence, the uncle roared, and the ground shattered in response.
A piece of gravel flew towards Zhang Xiaodao.
As a C-level speed-type ability user and a well-trained soldier, Zhang Xiaodao reacted very quickly, dodging the falling rocks just before they hit his forehead.
"Die! Die, you son of a bitch! Go to hell!"
Zheng Xinjian roared furiously as he swung his fist at Qi Te's forehead.
After Qi Te tackled the uncle out of the carriage, he was caught off guard and attacked by Zheng Xinjian.
That kick broke several of his ribs. He endured the excruciating pain and tried his best to protect his head, but the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, and he had no chance against it.
Just as the fourth punch was about to land, a member of the action team flashed forward and saved Zit.
The team member quickly raised his wrist and shouted into the communicator, "Platform 3, requesting backup..."
Before he could finish speaking, a burly young man roared and charged forward.
The team member, along with Qi Te, was instantly struck by Zheng Xinjian, who punched the pillar.
The sturdy concrete pillar cracked open with a loud snap.
"Go to hell!"
Zheng Xinjian glared with bloodshot eyes, pushed off with his feet, roared, and charged forward again.
The team members were astonished to see that the ground where Zheng Xinjian had stomped so hard earlier had cracked.
A C-level strength-based ability user?!
D and C may seem to differ by only one level, but they are qualitatively different.
The proportion of physical enhancement sequences that can reach level D is the highest among all sequences, but the proportion of level C is only one in a thousand.
Most of them are in the military, or work in the combat units of the Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, or in the field teams of professional security companies, unless they have intellectual disabilities.
The team members were filled with suspicion and had no time to think too much. They immediately took the blood-covered Qi Te and teleported away again.
Seeing that Qi Te had been rescued, Zhang Xiaodao moved swiftly, rushed forward, grabbed the uncle's waist, and subdued him once again.
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The elevators and staircases were filled with passengers running around in panic, their heads in their hands, creating an extremely chaotic scene.
To outsiders, Zheng Xinjian was clearly attacking Qi Te, and the fight between Zhang Xiaodao and the uncle was completely incomprehensible.
After rescuing several pedestrians who were pushed off the stairs, a railway policeman rushed over to separate Zhang Xiaodao and the uncle.
"Yu Zhongliang?!"
The railway police officer recognized the man as the maintenance worker in charge of the tracks between Qingjiang Road and the next station. Just as he was about to say something, Zhang Xiaodao shouted, "Watch out!"
The railway police seemed to sense the danger, but it was too late. The pillar that Zheng Xinjian had shattered with his punch burst open, and huge rocks rained down on the railway police.
The middle-aged man named Yu Zhongliang was pinned to the ground by Zhang Xiaodao, but this time he stopped struggling. He pressed his hands to the ground and began to talk nonsense as if in a dream.
"I won't leave, I won't leave, and you won't leave either. None of you are allowed to leave!"
"Don't go, don't go..."
Upon receiving the call, the action team members rushed to Platform 3, each using their abilities to either run rapidly by stepping on walls or flash their figures on the escalator handrails.
Just as the team members arrived, a gust of wind howled in.
Cao Yingchong, who possesses dual-sequence superpowers, leaped straight down from above the platform and clapped his hands before even landing properly.
The air was rapidly compressed and then exploded under Zheng Xinjian's feet.
Immediately afterwards, countless wind blades slashed across the big guy's wrists and ankles.
Blood splattered everywhere, but Zheng Xinjian seemed to feel no pain at all as he struggled to stand up.
Cao Yingchong was also shocked by his own almost instinctive actions.
Logically, he wouldn't unleash his ultimate move right away. But for some reason, he had a vague intuition that if he didn't decisively subdue Zheng Xinjian, something terrible would happen.
"Zite!"
Cao Yingchong rushed forward and took Qi Te, whose face was covered in blood, from the team member's hands.
"Something's wrong with him, with them."
After being kicked and punched three times by Zheng Xinjian, Qi Te suffered several broken ribs, severe skull fracture leading to concussion, and a serious neck fracture.
An F-level self-healing ability cannot recover quickly in a short period of time; it's already quite good that they didn't die on the spot.
Cao Yingchong's eyes immediately reddened, filled with remorse. He was the one who made that suggestion, but he never expected Zheng Xinjian to be so ruthless.
"Intracranial abnormality... erythema... level increased," Zite said, coughing up blood.
"Don't speak, I'll take you to the hospital."
Cao Yingchong carried Qi Te on his back and rushed towards the stairs.
"Don't leave!"
"None of you are allowed to leave!"
Yu Zhongliang's shouts echoed across the platform, accompanied by a constant series of clicking sounds from all directions.
The ground suddenly collapsed, and as Zhang Xiaodao fell, he reacted quickly by leaping upwards and hooking his hand onto a nearby display screen that was showing the Meiling Tunnel explosion.
However, before he could use the momentum to swing away, the display screen fell first.
The staircase collapsed, the ceiling cracked, and the walls and pillars shattered instantly, as if struck by an invisible giant hand slamming down Lego bricks...