I Become The Richest Man With A monthly Salary of Twenty Thousand Yuan-Chapter 727 - 500: Dealing with Matters

He no longer needed to build up the suspense. What he had to do now was perform the magic trick everyone thought impossible: making the massive mall behind him disappear.

Since it was magic, there needed to be a veil. If Xia Liang actually made the mall vanish right before their very eyes, it wouldn't be magic—it would be terrifying. Of course, Xia Liang didn't have a physical veil, but he had something even better.

"3"

"2"

"1"

Amidst everyone's countdown, a small wand appeared in Xia Liang's hand. With a swipe, a dazzling curtain of light erupted, turning night into day.

The blinding light made everyone instinctively close their eyes for a moment. When they opened them again, the curtain of light was gradually dissipating.

At the same time, people were already screaming.

"My God, the mall is really gone! Am I dreaming?"

"Ah! How is this possible? He actually did it!"

"It's truly gone! Is this an illusion?"

On the livestream screen, countless virtual rockets and spaceships flew across.

Of course, not everyone was frozen in shock. Some of the more curious audience members rushed toward where the mall had disappeared, wanting to see for themselves if Wanda Mall was truly gone. But Xia Liang wouldn't let them have their way. With a wave of his wand, a barrier of rainbow-colored Spiritual Energy instantly blocked their path.

It wasn't that Xia Liang was afraid of his trick being exposed. Rather, he had discovered that after placing the mall into his System Inventory, a massive pit had been left behind. Needless to say, he knew it was the building's foundation. It wouldn't do to have people running over and falling in.

The audience on the scene wasn't the only one in an uproar. The viewers in the livestream were also boiling over. All kinds of amazed comments flooded the livestream's screen. Before long, the screen was completely obscured by layers of text. Many computers and phones with lower specs crashed. Of course, most people simply turned off the bullet screen.

Twenty seconds later, Xia Liang restored the mall.

Around him, the audience members who had witnessed the mall disappear and reappear with their own eyes had mostly not recovered from the shock. They ran toward the newly returned mall to see if anything had changed.

Having accomplished all this, Xia Liang quietly slipped away from the mall, his great deed done and his name remaining unknown.

「Meanwhile, on another pedestrian street in Qingyun City.」

BANG!

An abrupt gunshot shattered the peace.

The next second, the crowd began to scatter chaotically like headless flies. Some people screamed in terror.

"Someone's been killed! Everybody, run!"

"That man has a gun! Someone's down!"

"It's a robbery!"

"Call the police!"

...

Yun Bing, who was on duty maintaining order on the commercial street, received a call and her face turned pale. She immediately directed the crowd to evacuate.

Minutes later, sirens wailed from outside the pedestrian area. A group of uniformed officers rushed in, evacuating the crowd while surrounding the entrance of a mall.

"Make way! It's dangerous here! Don't gather around!"

"Don't rubberneck! There's a robber, and he has a gun! Aren't you afraid?"

"With the Protectors here, we're not afraid."

Things might have been fine if the officers hadn't arrived. But now that they had set up a cordon and trapped the robber in a corner near the mall entrance, the crowd that had previously fled had gathered again to watch the commotion. Although the crowd was not dispersed, they kept a significant distance from the robber. In their minds, as long as the officers were present, they were safe.

Seeing this, Yun Bing, the police captain in charge of security for the pedestrian street, said to her subordinates, "Forget the crowd for now. Let's figure out how to subdue the robber!"

A subordinate started to object but was silenced by a stern look from Yun Bing.

"Have you contacted headquarters?" she asked, turning her head.

"Yes, Captain. They're dispatching support, but it will take at least twenty minutes for them to arrive," one of the subordinates hastily reported. "It's rush hour. Even with traffic police clearing the way, it won't be much faster."

"Understood. Our job right now is to stabilize the robber's emotional state. We can't let him harm the hostage. We must avoid doing anything to provoke him. If the hostage is endangered, we will all be held responsible."

The others quickly nodded in agreement.

Five minutes later, Xia Liang was passing by the pedestrian street and noticed a large crowd gathered ahead.

Peering through the crowd, Xia Liang saw a disheveled man in his forties squatting in the left corner of the mall entrance. The man clutched a seven or eight-year-old girl in his left arm, using her as a shield. In his right hand, he held a black pistol pressed against the little girl's head. He looked both tense and agitated. At his feet lay a bulging canvas bag of unknown contents.

Xia Liang tapped the shoulder of a man in front of him. "Buddy, what happened here?"

The man glanced at Xia Liang. "Can't you see? It's a robbery. That man just cleaned out the jewelry store in the mall. He was cornered by the Protectors on his way out, so he grabbed a little girl as a hostage."

"That robber is extremely volatile. He already shot and wounded a bystander."

Xia Liang nodded slightly. "That's certainly dangerous."

The man quickly added, "Isn't it? The guy is so bold—robbing a store in broad daylight in such a crowded place! But he has a gun. He must have cased the joint well!"