Chapter 1109 1108: Wait and See
The sound wasn't loud, but without the bottle's obstruction, it could at least travel a few meters.
Unfortunately, Zhang Dagang had no pity whatsoever.
His gaze was cold and sinister.
After all, his target was Lin Lu.
Everyone else was just expendable.
If he killed them, so be it.
In fact, he didn't even know if the last person was still in the jewelry store.
Whether that person would care about the saleswoman's life.
He was just testing the waters.
Although Zhang Dagang was just testing, Su Chen didn't dare gamble.
As a soldier,
even a former soldier,
protecting the lives and safety of the people was his most basic duty.
However, he didn't want to expose himself.
If he fell into Zhang Dagang's hands,
these people would truly be doomed.
"One!"
"Two!"
"..."
Zhang Dagang had started counting.
Zhang Dagang's voice was like a muffled thunder to the saleswoman, shaking her eardrums painfully.
Simultaneously, it was also her life-saving talisman.
"Seven!"
"Eight!"
"Nine!"
When she heard Zhang Dagang count to nine, the saleswoman closed her eyes in pain.
She knew she was doomed.
Unless that person was a fool, they wouldn't come forward.
"Ten!" Zhang Dagang counted to ten.
Then, he was going to kill the saleswoman directly.
"Hey, I'm here, let her go!"
At that moment, a voice rang out.
Zhang Dagang's mouth curled into a smile.
He was merely betting on a chance.
If the person didn't appear,
he would immediately kill the saleswoman and leave.
Although he feared being discovered,
he wasn't very afraid.
After all, he had shrunk the person to such a small size.
There was a possibility that the person could get stepped on as soon as they left.
Within the jewelry store, their voices could still be heard.
But outside, with the sounds of cars and crowds,
all sorts of noises were deafening.
A sound of a few decibels wouldn't be heard by anyone.
But unexpectedly,
the last person really stepped forward.
There was no helping it; Su Chen didn't want to step forward.
But he couldn't just watch the saleswoman die.
He had no choice but to step forward.
Though it was impossible to defeat Zhang Dagang at the moment,
there was still a glimmer of hope for escape.
Zhang Dagang put the saleswoman back in the bottle.
He said with a full smile, "Oh, I've heard there are many do-gooders in this world, never thought I'd actually meet one."
Zhang Dagang directly pinched Su Chen with his fingers.
He even deliberately pinched a few more times.
Su Chen instantly felt like he was being crushed by a car back and forth.
If any more force was applied, he might be squashed to death.
However, Zhang Dagang didn't seem intent on killing him.
After toying with him a bit, he placed him into the mineral water bottle too.
With that, the eight of them were reunited.
"Thank you, thank you," the saleswoman was still in shock.
But she knew, if Su Chen hadn't stepped forward at the last moment,
she would surely have died.
Su Chen could have easily escaped,
yet he was caught by Zhang Dagang for her sake.
Outside the jewelry store.
"How's it going? Can we force it open?" a commanding-looking policeman asked.
"No, that's a genuine tank. Preliminary estimates suggest it weighs sixty to seventy tons."
"How did they get such a heavy tank inside?"
The officers outside looked bewildered at the tank blocking the entrance.
The tank not only blocked the door, it was inside the store.
"Did you check the nearby surveillance?"
"Checked, all of it was destroyed in advance."
There was no surveillance, and no witnesses.
No one knew what was going on.
"This jewelry store only has one exit. Notify the fire department to find a way to cut that tank. I refuse to believe they can fly out!"
The police thought as long as they secured this exit, and slowly cut the tank open, they would surely catch the people inside.
However, they didn't know what Zhang Dagang's superpower was.
Once everyone assembled, Zhang Dagang shrank the mineral water bottle again.
Su Chen's heart pounded, it was just as he suspected.
Being shrunk to five centimeters wasn't the limit of Zhang's superpower.
It seemed the entire mineral water bottle was now less than a centimeter tall.
Then they noticed, Zhang Dagang had shrunk himself too.
He shrank himself.
In front of them sat a toy helicopter!
Zhang Dagang sat on the landing gear of the toy helicopter, then operated the remote-controlled helicopter to fly away.
He flew out through a vent window.
The police outside were still naively cutting that tank model.
The mineral water bottle was put into Zhang Dagang's pocket as well.
Suddenly, it turned pitch black.
Out of the darkness appeared a bright light.
A saleswoman had turned on the flash of her phone's camera.
Seeing the phone, a look of joy appeared on everyone's face.
"Quick, call the police," Yan Ling quickly told the saleswoman.
The saleswoman immediately dialed the phone.
Unfortunately, she couldn't get through at all.
"What's going on? There's obviously a signal, why can't I get through?" the saleswoman was extremely anxious.
"Is the phone broken? Who else has a phone?"
"I have a phone."
Others also took out their phones and started dialing.
But they all found they couldn't get through.
"Don't waste your effort. We've all shrunk over ten thousand times. The phone can receive the signal from the base station, so it shows a signal, but the phone's power is also reduced by ten thousand times. The signal it sends out is insufficient for the base station to receive, it can't even penetrate this mineral water bottle," Su Chen explained.
He wasn't an expert in physics.
But during his time with Reverse Dragon, he had studied some information transmission topics.
Everyone tried several more times.
Still, they couldn't get through.
"What should we do now?" Worry was written on everyone's faces.
Of all the people here, it seemed only Su Chen remained the most calm.
Everyone's eyes looked towards him.
"Why are you all looking at me? I don't have a solution either," Su Chen said helplessly.
Now, the mineral water bottle was less than a centimeter tall.
In proportion,
each of them was about one or two millimeters.
At this size,
they were really no different from ants.
Even larger ants were more than a millimeter or two.
With this size,
they could do nothing at all.
Perhaps if Su Chen used Fighting Sword, and then Yellow Sword or the Moon Slash Sword Technique, he could pierce through the bottle.
But it would be meaningless.
Even if they escaped,
if they couldn't return to their normal size,
they could do nothing.
At the very least, he needed to have Zhang Dagang restore him to a few centimeters in size, so he could communicate with others and seek help.
In their current form,
a gust of wind could scatter them in any direction.
So it was best to wait and see how things unfolded.