69novels Chapter 105 Escape from Prison
Chapter 105 Escape from Prison
Chapter 105 Escape from Prison
Someone yelled, "The guards killed someone! Anyone who doesn't want to die, rush out and fight them!!"
"Let's give it our all!"
"Charge out!"
The crowd erupted into a full-blown riot. The prisoners, like a flood bursting its banks, rushed towards the guards with their bare hands or by grabbing shovels and pieces of coal. The scene instantly spiraled out of control, with shouts, screams, the whooshing sound of batons being swung, and the dull thuds of coal hitting bodies all mixed together.
In the chaos, Ah Bao slipped like an eel to Song Zhaowen's side and pointed to the steep coal transport road above the mine leading to the outside highway. "See that road? There's an empty truck at the end. Protect me and rush up it."
Without the slightest hesitation, Song Zhaowen kicked away a rioting prisoner who tried to pounce on him, grabbed a blood-stained shovel from the ground, and growled, "Stay close to me!"
Ah Bao followed closely behind, and the two of them went against the flow of the chaotic crowd, like two sharks cutting through the turbulent waves. Song Zhaowen's shovel became a powerful tool for clearing a path; he slashed left and right, his movements ruthless and decisive, carving a bloody trail through the crowded and riotous throng.
"Stop them! Don't let them get away!" A sharp-eyed guard spotted the two trying to break through and shouted hoarsely, raising his baton as he lunged at them.
Without even looking, Song Zhaowen dodged the baton that came hurtling towards him, then swept his shovel across, striking the guard hard in the ribs! The guard groaned and tumbled into the chaotic crowd. Another guard tried to grab Ah Bao from the side, but Ah Bao's eyes flashed with ferocity, and a sharpened toothbrush handle slid from his sleeve. He swung it back and stabbed it viciously into the guard's arm. With a scream, the guard broke free.
Fortunately, Song Zhaowen stopped him in time, otherwise Ah Bao, who had been driven to ferocity, would have tried to finish him off.
"Don't linger, get out of here!" Song Zhaowen shoved Ah Bao.
The two men used both hands and feet to struggle up the steep slope, coal dust sliding down their backs. The beam of the searchlight, like the eye of death, clung tightly to their figures.
"Stop! Run again or I'll shoot!" A stern warning came from the loudspeaker on the guard tower, accompanied by the clear "click" of a gun being pulled back.
With several guns pointed at him, Ah Bao's heart was in his throat, and his adrenaline was surging.
At this critical moment, an old truck loaded with coal that was parked at the end of the passage seemed to have gone out of control and crashed violently into the side of the two men. Almost simultaneously, the muzzle of the "August 1st" rifle pointed at them from the guard tower was naturally blocked by the truck.
"Heaven is on my side, charge!" Ah Bao's eyes blazed with wild joy as he roared with all his might.
The two scrambled to their feet and landed next to the broken-down truck.
"Get in the car." Song Zhaowen opened the passenger door, grabbed the driver who was still cursing and looking around at the front of the car, and threw him aside. Ah Bao then nimbly flipped into the driver's seat like a monkey.
"The key, where's the key?" Ah Bao roared anxiously, fumbling for the key under the steering wheel with both hands.
"Catch!" Song Zhaowen reacted quickly, snatching a bunch of keys from the driver's waist and tossing them over.
Ah Bao caught it, precisely inserted it into the keyhole, and gave it a sharp twist.
"Boom~ Crack crack crack~" The old engine roared a few times, and a large plume of thick smoke spewed out of the exhaust pipe!
"Hold on tight!" Ah Bao laughed wildly, slammed on the gas pedal, and the tires spun wildly on the cinder ground, kicking up clouds of black dust. Then, like a wild horse, it sped along the coal transport tunnel toward the exit leading to the outside highway, disregarding everything else.
Beams of light swept wildly behind the vehicle, and a few sporadic gunshots pierced the chaotic air, striking the truck bed and sending sparks flying.
The truck roared like a wounded steel behemoth, smashing through the makeshift wooden fence at the mine exit and speeding onto the bumpy dirt road, leaving behind the chaos, flames, and sirens.
The dilapidated truck bounced wildly on the bumpy dirt road, each violent jolt seeming to tear the metal box apart completely.
Although Ah Bao was jolted and disoriented, he was still very pleased with himself.
"Damn it, I still managed to escape. Hahaha, Brother Zhaowen, you're really something."
Compared to Ah Bao's arrogance, Song Zhaowen had a serious expression.
"Hey, don't get too excited yet, look behind you."
Reminded, Ah Bao turned his head and saw a series of dump motorcycles following behind the coal truck.
"Damn it, these mainland police are really hot on our heels." Ah Bao swerved the truck, sending it plunging off the dirt road and into a more rugged hillside covered in gravel and low shrubs, trying to use the terrain to shake off the pursuers. But the old truck was clearly struggling, and its speed dropped sharply.
"Bang! Bang!" Bullets struck the tailgate of the truck bed, sending up blinding sparks.
"Damn, they opened fire!" Ah Bao was so frightened that he shrank back, almost slipped out of his hands from the steering wheel, and the truck veered sharply, nearly plunging into the deep ditch beside him. The police in the mainland really dared to shoot and kill fugitives.
"Brother Zhaowen, hurry up and think of a solution! I don't want to die here!"
"Damn it, you don't want to die here, but do you think I want to die here? Shut your mouth and let me see."
Through the cracked and soot-covered car windows, to the left were rolling, sparsely vegetated barren mountains, and to the right, a bottomless abyss...
A huge open-pit mine.
High up at the edge of the mine, several steel-framed towers used for transporting ore stood out abruptly.
Song Zhaowen's gaze instantly locked onto one of the towers—between its rusty steel beams, a thick steel cable stretched across the mine pit and led to the opposite mountain, with a simple pulley hoist hanging from the cable for maintenance or emergency transport.
The scene was strikingly similar to a movie clip from his hazy memory.
"Ah Bao, abandon the vehicle!" Song Zhaowen roared, his voice drowning out the engine's hiss and the whistling of bullets.
"Abandon the car?! Are you crazy?! Two legs can outrun four wheels?!" Ah Bao could hardly believe his ears, and he was even more reluctant to part with his only means of transportation.
"Listen to me! If you don't want to be riddled with bullets, do as I say. See that steel cable above the mine pit on the left? Slide across it and get to the other side of the mountain. That's the only way to shake off the police behind us."
Following the direction Song Zhaowen pointed, Ah Bao's pupils dilated instantly when he saw the steel cable hanging over the hundred-meter-deep pit and the rudimentary pulley. His face turned ashen: "Slide—slide across?! Are you fucking kidding me? That thing has no seatbelt, and below is a mine pit. If you fall in, you won't even be able to retrieve your bones."
"There's no time, trust me!" Song Zhaowen stopped wasting words with Ah Bao, abruptly opened the car door, aimed at a relatively gentle gravel slope ahead, and shouted at Ah Bao, "What the hell are you standing there for? Don't want to die, jump with me!"