Chapter 99: Blash (3)
Adam knew this was his chance. He could use their panic to create even more chaos more confusion. He could turn them all against each other. It was the perfect storm and he was the one directing it.
"Look more people are dying!" someone screamed from the panicked crowd on the ground floor. "Hurry do something!"
The men on the walkway above fired another long burst of warning shots into the factory’s high ceiling. "Stay where you are!" one of their leaders shouted his voice amplified by the cavernous space. "No one moves until Johnny bro gives the order!"
But their attempts to restore order only fueled the flames of paranoia. They continued to argue shouting threats and accusations back and forth.
The men on the ground believed they were being set up. The men on the balcony saw a mutiny brewing.
In the midst of this escalating chaos Adam raised his silenced pistol. He took aim at a random mercenary in the crowd a man who was shouting louder than anyone else. He fired a single shot. The bullet struck the man in the head and he fell to the floor instantly his words cut off mid-sentence.
Adam used the ensuing confusion to fire six more shots in quick succession.
He was a phantom a ghost in the machine. Six more men fell their bodies hitting the floor with a series of dull thuds. The sight of their comrades dropping dead for no apparent reason pushed the remaining men over the edge.
That was the final straw. The dam of their fragile discipline broke. The men on the ground floor raised their own automatic rifles and aimed them at the men on the balcony.
The fragile alliance had shattered completely. They were no longer a unified force. They were just a mob a collection of scared and angry men all pointing guns at each other.