"Boss, boss, please, let's talk it over! Don't mess with me! Don't... don't misfire!"

Old Pi's tongue was so scared that it straightened out, and his accent disappeared.

Fatty, Rui, Dodge, and Jennifer were shocked by my actions. Fatty thought I just wanted to teach him a lesson, but he didn't expect that I would pull out a gun, point it at Old Pi's head, and want to execute him.

Dodge was afraid that I really wanted to kill him, so he came up to stop me. He was about to speak, but I silenced him with a "don't speak" gesture. I also gave Fatty a look, telling him that I knew what I was doing and that he shouldn't interfere, and to keep an eye on Rui and Jennifer.

Fatty nodded.

After taking care of everyone else's emotions, I freed up my hands to deal with Old Pi.

"Come on, hand over that roll of dollars."

I grabbed Old Pi's hair with one hand and used the gun to hit the back of his head hard with the other.

Old Pi was a little reluctant.

"Boss, this isn't fair. Besides, the money is in the car, not on me."

"Liar!"

Only a fool would believe that a money-grubber like Old Pi would put the money in the car.

I fired a shot next to his ear at lightning speed. The gunshot was deafening, and I felt him shudder in fright.

A big hole was blown out of the dirt not far from his head, and smoke was still rising from it.

No one thought I would actually fire. I didn't need to look back at Fatty and the others to know that they must have looked shocked.

Old Pi was completely dumbfounded. He probably needed a moment to recover from the shock of the gunshot.

"Hand over the money, or the next shot will blow your head off."

Old Pi was stunned for a moment, and then tremblingly took out the roll of bills he had received from Dodge from a very hidden pocket inside his clothes and handed it to me.

"Old man, listen up, from now on, we'll do things my way."

I grabbed his hair, pinched his ear, and said to him—

"First, the payment rules have changed. We'll give you the money when we reach our destination."

"Second, if you try to make extra money again, delay us, or have any other ideas, I might not kill you before we reach our destination, but I will definitely break your legs."

"Third, I don't know what Huang Jie told you, and I don't know how you cooperated before, but from now on, if you have any crooked thoughts or call the police, I'll kill you first, and then slaughter your whole family. You should know what we're capable of, right?"

"Do you understand?"

I poked the back of his head with the gun.

Old Pi was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he nodded repeatedly. I didn't know if he heard me clearly, but I felt that I had achieved my goal.

I pushed Old Pi away, told him to get up, and then put the pistol back in the small bag.

Old Pi's calves were trembling as he walked out of the cornfield, and Fatty, Rui, Dodge, and Jennifer looked at me strangely, with a feeling that I couldn't describe. Especially Fatty, who walked beside me and said meaningfully, "Young Master, you're quite skilled with a gun now..."

I didn't respond to him.

The few of us returned to the van and got back on the road.

After being frightened by me, Old Pi was indeed much more obedient. He didn't smoke as much, and he didn't dare to say a word.

The atmosphere in the car was very oppressive. No one had the desire to communicate, probably because they were stunned by what I had just done.

During this time, I privately explained to them where the gun came from (a Glock g8 unregistered black gun I bought from the black market after arriving in the United States) and the reason for the change in my personality (being constantly hunted down easily hones this decisive and ruthless temperament).

After hearing my explanation.

Dodge's emotional fluctuations weren't that big. After all, he had also been a ruthless person before, so he could understand my actions. But what surprised him about this incident was that he never thought I was this kind of person.

Fatty and Jennifer understood me to some extent, after all, they had also come from a cruel battlefield.

But Rui wasn't so easy to accept it. A trace of fear and panic was revealed in her eyes, and she began to avoid my gaze. It seemed that Rui felt a bit of unfamiliarity with me again.

After Rui and I reunited, she sometimes felt familiar with me and sometimes felt unfamiliar. After experiencing these things, I could understand Rui's thoughts.

Rui's love for me was based on the helpless, kind, and gentle Zhao Chenguang at the beginning of our relationship. The current me has many qualities that Rui had never seen before, such as being ruthless and heartless...

Perhaps Rui needs some time to understand the whole me.

As dusk approached, the rural dirt road began to disappear, and the broken van drove onto the asphalt road. This meant that we were on a normal road, and the rest of the journey would be much faster.

However, this feeling of ease didn't last long. After driving for more than an hour, the broken van suddenly encountered traffic police checking vehicles.

Police lights flashed, and several people wearing reflective vests with the word "POLICE" on them were waving light sticks with alternating red and blue lights, signaling passing cars to pull over and accept inspection.

I instantly became alert, grabbed Old Pi's collar, stared into his eyes, and roared, "You're tired of living, aren't you? Are you doing this on purpose?"