1 Month To Doomsday But I Awakened Before That - Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Another Scene of Extortion

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Su Chen opened his eyes.

It was the man wearing a black shirt from the back row.

Currently, he was pointing a gun at the driver’s head while holding the big black bag in his other hand.

The bag was open. One could see there were wires and detonators inside.

“Keep driving to the north-south airport. Don’t make any stops!”

The man demanded.

Obviously, the driver was terrified and he dared not oppose the man.

They continued to head in the direction of the north-south airport.

Since his plan was not disrupted, Su Chen calmly turned his head and looked at the scenery outside.

Meanwhile, all the passengers were in a frenzy.

They did not know what to do.

An old man almost had a heart attack. He hurriedly took out his medicine.

However, because he was panicking, he lost grip of the medicine and they fell all over the floor.

Two middle-aged women were crying and hugging each other. They dared not even look at the man in black.

A woman was so emotional that she began crying and begging.

“Please, don’t kill me. If you want money, I’ll give it to you. I’ll give you whatever you want! Here, take everything I have on me!”

As she spoke, she opened her bag.

The man just glanced at her and said, “Shut up! Don’t make a sound!”

He added coldly, “You’re not even worth robbing!”

Then, the man instructed the old man sitting in the front row to call the authorities.

“Call the authorities right now!”

Su Chen glanced at the man.

‘He wanted to contact the authorities?

‘What kind of operation is this?’

The person on the other end of the line answered with a clear voice. 

“Hello, how may I help you?”

“Put it on speaker!”

The man in black shouted.

This scared the old man so much that he almost collapsed.

His hand trembled as he pressed a button on the phone.

The man shouted at the phone, “I’ve hijacked this bus and I have a bomb in my hand. There are about a dozen people here. If you want to save them, prepare one million dollars in cash immediately!”

Su Chen thought to himself, ‘One million dollars in cash? This robber is so greedy.’

“Put the money in a bag. Leave it next to the second and third garbage cans in the parking lot of the airport! You’d better not play tricks with me. If I don’t see the cash by the time I get there, I’ll blow up this bus!”

The man actually sounded excited.

“You have 20 minutes to prepare everything!”

So, this man had hijacked the bus to extort one million dollars from the authorities.

People were really willing to do anything for money.

How lawless.

“Don’t get agitated. We agree to your request.”

The authorities replied to the man calmly.

Once he heard that, the man hung up the call.

Su Chen glared at him coldly.

‘Why are robbers so arrogant nowadays? He even personally called the authorities.’

It seemed like the danger in this world had increased by another level.

However, Su Chen was confident that the robber did not have the courage to die with the people on this bus.

He was just boasting.

After all, his goal was to get money.

The people on this bus should be safe for the time being.

They were still on their way to the north-south airport.

Su Chen continued to observe the performance.

He would come up with a solution once they reached their destination.

Besides, Su Chen was curious

‘What reward will the system give me for this?’

The person who answered the robber’s call immediately found the location of the bus in question.

“It’s the No. 355 bus heading to the north-south airport.”

Furthermore, while the robber was talking to the authorities, a brave man had recorded a video of the situation without anyone realizing it. 

He posted it on the internet and pleaded for help.

Unsurprisingly, it caused an uproar.

“D*mn, look at the bomb. It’ll be able to blow up more than ten buses into pieces!”

“How many people are on the bus? Save them!”

“The robber is demanding one million dollars! Will the authorities really pay?!”

“If they did and the robber escaped, our country would become the biggest joke in the world!”

“Even the robbers from a previous case had yet to be caught.”

“One robbery after another. There’s no end to this!”

The public wanted to see how the authorities would deal with this.

Without a doubt, this was a serious incident. 

Many police cars were already following the bus from afar.

However, they could not get close. Innocent people would get hurt if the criminal was enraged.

Shortly after, the bus arrived at the airport.

Su Chen could see the planes on the airport runway.

At the same time, this place was surrounded by police forces.

Dozens of police cars blocked the intersections around the airport.

Su Chen even spotted a few snipers on nearby buildings.

‘I don’t think the robber is an ordinary human.

‘He must have awakened some kind of ability.

‘Why else would he put himself into such a dangerous situation.’

The other two awakened humans that Su Chen encountered before had super strength and speed. 

That was pretty easy to handle.

In fact, Su Chen defeated them in minutes.

On the other hand, he had no idea what power this man possessed.

Su Chen wanted to see what he was capable of.

In the meantime, the bus had entered the airport’s parking lot.

This airport was very small and so were most of the planes.

There were not many vehicles in the parking lot either.

From a distance, one could see a big black bag next to a few garbage cans.

“Park near those garbage cans!”

The man shouted at the driver.

So far, everything was going his way.

The bus stopped beside the garbage cans and the robber looked through one of the windows.

He had a satisfied expression on his face.

Despite that, he did not get off the bus immediately. 

Instead, he looked around and walked towards Su Chen.

He pointed his gun at Su Chen’s head and said contemptuously, “You, get off the bus with me!”

Su Chen smiled helplessly.

He thought to himself, ‘This bus is full of old, weak, and disabled people. Why did you pick me as a hostage? It’s not my problem if you end up crying later.’

The bus stopped and the man was about to get off.

All the other passengers felt a little more relieved.

Still, they were terrified at the sight of his gun.

However, Su Chen was acting as if nothing had happened.

His behavior confused everyone.

They were afraid that Su Chen would provoke the robber and implicate them.

Supposedly, the robber wanted to kidnap a man and force him to be his designated driver. 

Once he shook off the authorities, he would leave him by the roadside.

The bus driver was his best choice.

Unfortunately, he was way too nervous and had passed out once they stopped at the airport’s parking lot.

The robber did not have much choice.

This bus was full of elderlies.

Su Chen seemed like the only person who could drive.

Thus, he took him as a hostage.

“Stop wasting time. Hurry up! Get off the bus!”

The robber yelled at Su Chen again.

Su Chen remained calm.

‘You can keep being haughty for now.

‘I’ll kill you once we get off this bus..’