episode_0572
by admin
‘Damn, why did it have to be today…!’
Professor Lao checked outside the window and hurriedly grabbed his trunk and got up from his seat, but by the time he discovered the train robbers, it was too late to escape.
Knock knock!
“Everyone, don’t move!”
“If you move, your balls will be cut off!”
“There! Are you trying to run away now? Sit back down quickly!”
The robbers boarded the train, opened the passenger compartment door, and forced their way in.
Professor Lao, who had gotten up awkwardly, had no choice but to sit back down on his seat.
“Give me all the expensive stuff you have!”
“Open the bag! Why don’t you open it quickly?!”
They began their work with familiar and calm expressions, as if they were train crew members.
He gives orders while threatening passengers with the dagger and hatchet he holds in his hand.
As he passed by, as if checking tickets, he swept all the valuables he saw into bags and sacks he brought with him.
They didn’t even prioritize recovering smartphones like criminals who commit bank robberies or hostage-taking.
Rather, they did not even bring their own smartphones, which could later be used as a pretext for tracking.
The train continues to run without stopping even after the robbers boarded, and the crew is nowhere to be seen. Even if passengers report it on their smartphones, which were not stolen, there is no sign of the police until the train reaches the next station.
For the robbers in the middle of a looting spree, it was an easy task; all they had to do was get away in time before the train arrived at the next station and their crime would be complete.
This is possible because the speed of ordinary passenger trains in India is slow, around 60 km/h.
Although some passengers who were robbed frowned at their bad luck, none of them showed signs of panic.
Although full-scale robberies like this are rare, pickpockets and other thugs who steal small amounts of money are a common sight throughout India.
Of course, there were some who did not follow instructions obediently.
“What the heck! Do you know who I am? Cough!”
Phew!
“There must be a kid who wants to be a hero like this.”
A knife was stuck in the stomach of a female warrior who was trying to show off her bravery while standing up to a robber, but then came out.
“Ugh… !”
Thud-
A woman sitting down, pressing the stabbed area with her hand.
I could see the red-stained fabric between my fingers.
Although he did not lose his life immediately, it was an injury that would have made it difficult to guarantee survival without first aid and going straight to the hospital at the next station.
“Heeek!!”
“Gyaaaah!!!”
Only after the blood flowed did the passengers’ belated screams erupt.
The same group of robbers who had been shaking the room approached Professor Lao.
“Hey, mister. Take out everything you have.”
“Here you are.”
Professor Lao emptied his pockets of everything with trembling hands.
A smartphone, a wallet, change left over from buying a drink at the station, a key ring, and a Mumbai University professor’s ID all fell onto the seat.
“Oh, this guy is a professor? This is my first time seeing a male professor. Men can be professors too.”
“How did you do it? Did you have someone higher up do it for you? You don’t look that good for someone like that.”
“Well, it could be a unique taste. But isn’t it too much of a dog for a professor? Sir, you should take off the watch on your hand too.”
“Oh, I see.”
Professor Lao was so frightened that he didn’t even feel insulted by the robbers’ words. He just did as he was told and obediently took off his wristwatch and handed it over.
The robbers, who had been giggling among themselves as they looked through his belongings, lit up when they saw the trunk next to him.
“What’s that bag? Open it quickly.”
“This is…!”
Professor Lao was about to say that this was absolutely not allowed, but then he saw a knife that had already been in someone else’s stomach and the blade had turned red.
Gulp –
He swallowed and looked at the robbers with trembling eyes.
There was no way I could say no here.
Even if he resisted, it was nothing more than a whining to the robbers. An irritating whining, at that.
Then there was no way to prevent him from ending up like the passenger who was stabbed in the front.
‘Surely they won’t take the meteorite away? It’s no use resisting anyway, so I think it’d be better to just show it to them. I don’t think these robbers would know anything if they saw the meteorite. Unless they have superpowers, a meteorite is just an ordinary rock.’
Finally, Professor Lao opened the trunk with trembling hands.
“Huh? What is this? It’s just a rock?”
“Why are you carrying this in your trunk?”
As expected, the robbers frowned and questioned him after seeing the meteorite in his trunk.
‘It seems like the government knows how to refine this meteorite… If they had just used that method to refine Starlight, it would have been a disaster.’
Then, wouldn’t it be possible to steal it, saying that it looks like there’s some metal there?
Professor Lao was secretly relieved when he saw that the robbers didn’t seem interested in the meteorite.
“Ha, haha… That… I thought it would be nice to put it as a decoration in my friend’s garden, so I was going to give it as a gift… But it’s a hassle to buy it yourself.”
“Really? Tsk, I’m giving you special treatment because you said it was a gift. Let’s leave this one alone.”
Anyway, I didn’t know the value of the rock and it was heavy, so I didn’t even think about taking it, but they spat it out as if they were doing me a favor and turned their gaze away from the trunk.
“, thank you… ”
At that moment, Professor Lao was about to close the trunk again.
“Wait a minute. What’s that over there?”
‘… … !’
Someone was approaching him from beyond the robbers.
“Oh, Captain. It’s nothing. It’s just a boulder… ”
“Shut up.”
The woman called Captain silenced her whining subordinate and looked at the trunk Professor Lao was holding.
“Open it again.”
“This is just a stone… ”
“Don’t tell me twice.”
Ssss…
As the captain muttered and glared at Professor Lao, her eyes turned bright red.
‘Villain?!’
I don’t know what kind of superpower he has that allows his eyes to change color, but there’s no way a normal human could do that, so the leader of the train robbers must be a villain.
‘Damn it! These days, every bad guy has a villain or two in them! How are normal people supposed to live?! Are there any heroes traveling nearby?’
I blamed the heavens, but most of India’s heroes lived comfortable lives as protectors of those in power.
The higher-ups establish their authority by hiring escorts with special powers, and the heroes follow them obediently, occasionally performing tricks with their superpowers and making a lot of money.
Those heroes fight villains on ordinary passenger trains, not even express trains?
Indian heroes don’t live so fiercely.
“Hey, I’ll open it… ”
It is absurd that Professor Lao, who could not even resist his subordinates, would ignore the orders of a villain with superpowers.
Professor Lao, who eventually opened the half-closed trunk again, could only watch the villain’s fingertips pointing at the meteorite.
Swish-
The moment the villain touched the meteorite, her eyebrows twitched significantly.
“Hey, Captain? Is there a problem?”
Suddenly, when their leader touched a rock and made a blank expression as if he had lost his mind, the subordinates asked with anxious faces.
Some people wondered what Professor Lao had done.
“Hey, old man! What is this! Wasn’t it just a rock? Why is the captain acting like that all of a sudden?! Are you trying to do something crazy right now?!”
“I don’t know about that…!”
At that moment, Professor Lao was about to be beaten up by the robbers.
Flash!
A much brighter light than before emanated from the villain’s eyes.
The amount of light is almost like having a lantern stuck in your eye.
“Ugh… !”
Professor Lao took a deep breath.
‘The villain’s superpower has interacted with Starlight!’
I never expected there would be a villain mixed in with the robbery, but who could have guessed that things would turn out this way.
Since it had come to this, it was a foregone conclusion that the meteorite would be stolen.
As expected, the villain, whose face was filled with greed, looked at Professor Lao and asked.
“… This stone. What is this? What is it that makes my superpower react?”
“That, that’s… ”
“When I touch this, I feel like it’s easier to handle my superpowers. It’s definitely not an ordinary rock.”
‘What on earth is this villain’s superpower?’
But that doesn’t mean I can just reveal the truth.
“I don’t know either. I was just asked to transport it… ”
The villain’s eyes filled with murder at the sight of Professor Lao hesitating and reluctantly answering.
“Oh, really? Then you’re useless.”
‘Should I blow it now?’
Professor Lao thought to himself, but the villain seemed to have already made up his mind. She reached out to Professor Lao.
“Ah… ”
At the end, he let out a soft sigh as he tried to admire the lantern.
“Whew, the air conditioning is really strong here. Why is that old man sweating so much in this cool room? Does he feel sick?”
Everyone’s attention was drawn to the man’s voice that was suddenly heard.
A man appears at the end of the room.
He must have seen the robbers with knives, but he entered the room as if nothing had happened and raised his voice confidently.
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