Chapter 158: First Step into Madness
March 20th, 10:12 PM — Longwan Mall, Service Wing
John Wang POV
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The silence was almost perfect.
Tang Wei had fallen asleep forty minutes ago, bundled beneath her jacket and half-zipped into her sleeping bag, one hand still resting near her shotgun. The others were out cold—snoring lightly, breathing slow, no movement beyond the occasional twitch of a leg or turn of a head.
I sat cross-legged beside the ammo case, sliding rounds into magazines by feel.
The rhythm was simple. Calming. Click. Slide. Tap. Stack.
Nine-millimetre rounds for Chen and Deng Hua. Buckshot for Tang Wei and Liang Mei. The motion kept my hands busy and my mind still, one mag at a time.
My system pinged softly with restock notices. I ignored them.
Then—
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