When the police saw what was happening, they hurriedly secured the warehouse, while their radios crackled with calls for backup.
The officers who had been at the entrance to the village heard the news and immediately reported the emergency, then headed toward the northern end of the village.
A battle erupted throughout the village. On one side were the police, trying to protect the evidence; on the other were the villagers who sold the drugs. And then there were the gangsters who had come to make the deal.
The police had better firepower, but they didn't dare shoot indiscriminately. They could only return fire when someone shot at them.
So, by comparison, the two sides making the deal were the ones laying down the heavier fire.
The buyers were slightly weaker. The villagers had the worst firepower, of course, but they had numbers on their side, which gave them some advantage.
But the police were focused on protecting the evidence, and they were also restricting the villagers' movements. That made the buyers' firepower seem especially overwhelming.
Most of the villagers were near the warehouse, where the ground was open and there was nowhere to hide. Caught off guard, more than a hundred of them were killed in no time.
Still, they had the advantage in numbers, and soon organized a counterattack. Quite a few even charged into the woods, where the two sides exchanged fire.
Only then was the situation in the village brought more or less under control. With reinforcements arriving from outside, the police rounded up everyone in the village.
Meanwhile, the two sides fighting in the woods had gone berserk. Perhaps Wang Yue's bad luck had rubbed off on them; before long, most of them had been killed in the firefight.
By the time the police had