Chapter 107: Terrorists

Among the items found, there was chili water, a fruit knife, as well as some stolen wallets, cell phones, and others.

The police heaved a sigh of relief. Although they had not found any terrorists, they had at least eliminated some danger and saved some of the others’ financial losses.

Just as the police thought that the investigation was going to end smoothly, they saw a middle-aged man suddenly stand up from the crowd.

The man was wearing a thin T-shirt. He did not have a big coat that could hide anything, but he had a very large beer belly. When the police had checked him earlier, they had only patted him down casually and forgot about him.

At this moment, the man’s face was twisted as he lifted the hem of his clothes, revealing a ring of explosives wrapped around his waist. The man was clearly a little nervous. His hand, which was holding the lighter, trembled a few times before lighting up a flame.

The police officers quickly reacted and pulled up the crowd beside the man to hide far away. The team leader immediately picked up the loudspeaker and shouted, “There’s a bomb here! Everyone, disperse and retreat to a safe distance!”

The people who had been sitting quietly finally reacted after a long time. They screamed and quickly stood up, running far away.

After a while, there was only the middle-aged man with the bomb and a group of police officers surrounding him in the square outside the police station.

The police officers were also nervous. The team leader stared at the middle-aged man and softened his voice to comfort him. “I don’t know what you’ve been through in your life, but people have to look ahead. Don’t do anything stupid!”

The middle-aged man was trembling all over, and his teeth were chattering. He stared angrily at the team leader of the task force who was trying to talk to him.

“It’s all because of you! It’s all because of you that I ended up like this!”

The muscles on the middle-aged man’s face distorted as he said fiercely, “I lost so many times and finally made a comeback in the online casinos. As long as I can take out the money from that website, I can change my situation! Not only can I pay back my debts, but I can also get my old house back. My wife and son wouldn’t have left me!”

“My boss also wouldn’t have known about my gambling and thus fired me. It was all because of you. You caused the website administrators to be jittery. They directly closed the website. I couldn’t even get my capital back, so I lost everything and became like this!”

The team leader said in a low voice, “Gambling is against the law. The gambling website is only doing it to cheat people of their money. In the beginning, they let you win because they wanted you to invest more money. You are still young and have a chance to start afresh. Don’t do anything stupid and don’t joke with your life, okay?”

The middle-aged man seemed to have been reminded of something by these words. He seemed to have recalled something and muttered to himself, “That’s right. I still have a chance. I still have to enjoy the riches of the rest of my life…”

Just as the police thought that he was going to repent, the middle-aged man stared at them angrily again. “I didn’t have to risk my life! You guys ruined my plans again. If you hadn’t been nosy and come to investigate, I would have just quietly thrown the bomb into the crowd…”

A policeman could not suppress his anger. “Do you know how many people will be killed if a bomb is thrown into a crowd?”

“Of course I know! I did that to cause large-scale casualties!” The middle-aged man roared in rage. “Now that you’ve driven them away, if you won’t leave me a way out, then we’ll all die together!”

As the middle-aged man spoke, he reached out with his lighter to the detonator wire on himself.

The leader of the task force reacted the fastest. He stepped forward and grabbed the middle-aged man’s wrist. With a twist, he made the man lose his strength and let go of the lighter.

The team leader quickly kicked the lighter to the other side and pinned the middle-aged man to the ground.