120 seconds before the explosion
Bang!
After hearing a gun shot coming right in front of him---the young man stopped thinking and just stood from where he is----without moving an inch, as if he became frozen, yet something hot originating from his right hand flowing down to his arm and dripped on the floor, but he, did not even dare touch or just look at it.
The reason for that is----the buffed man is still right in front of him. So any wrong moves will lead to his death.
Tap tap tap
He could see the other man slowly approaching the buffed man from behind and seemed to be arguing with him.
"hehe", the young man tittered.
Out of fear, a laugh escaped from the young man's throat. When the buffed man stopped speaking with the other, the young man almost felt like dying from the suffocating bloodlust coming from the buffed man.
"Pathetic", the buffed man bellowed before taking the bags that the young man filled with money himself situated over the counter and after taking it the buffed man spit at him.
The young man lowered his head and looked at his toes, trembling.
He never believe in any kind of religions because for him those so called religious people were just disgusting clowns who likes to sugarcoat things using their bible verses and holy church activities, but at that brief moment he prayed to all the gods he knows including those on the other side to protect and save him.
He closed his eyes shut and clenched his chin anticipating an incoming wave of attack from the buffed man's wrath.
Soon, the young man could hear heavy footsteps slowly getting farther from where the two robbers was standing at.
THUD! CRASH! CRACK CRACK...
The convience's store glass door shattered to a million pieces when kicked by the buffed man.
Deep inside the young man's thought; " fuck fuck fuck fuck!, my heart's beating crazily! those bastards are they done?! please go away! please..please...please.... after this i will quit my job and live my whole life as a neet using my savings!"
----After a few seconds the place became oddly quiet-----
"mn? i don't hear them anymore..", he slowly looked outside the glass wall using his right peripheral vision when something flew inside the store coming from the outside it was so fast that he couldn't really identify it.
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tchktchktchktchk
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broooom broooom
Creak Thud!
Screech
Hearing the roaring sound of the robber's car engine slowly getting weaker, his tensed shoulders loosen up and he finally got the chance to see the wound on his right hand after putting it down on the desk in front of him. The young man let out a relieved sigh, but he is still trembling with fear.
BOOM!
---Present time---
After the young man's 3 seconds of peace before the grenade exploded without any warning.
The defeaning sound of the grenade's detonation can be heared miles away from where it started.
People present around the area where thrown into panic.
The blast was akin to a phenomenon when an electric transformer blew.
A few seconds after that alarming situation most of the people witnessed a smoke coming out from the neighborhood's convenience store.
---4 seconds before the smoke spread----
Inside the stablishment was a young man coughing off blood
"-ough! ough! ngnnn aaah!", he was covered with food aisle displays including the metal layers where you arange new products for the customer's amusement.
He managed to miraculously survive the explosion because the grenade was thrown a little harder and landed a bit farther from the counter where he was standing at.
He crawled under because the whole place was a complete mess, the young man was groaning in every move because there are shattered pieces of glass and other thorny little fragments that came from the parts of the store's equipments and products.
A smoke started to spread inside so he hurriedly made his way out despite the obstacles in front and below him. "Argh- fu- shit! haah haah.. A little more and i'm out! -ough!", With his determination he managed to successfully get out of the area. All things considered, him surviving an explosion with only that much damage and left with enough energy to crawl out---was a miracle.
BOOM!
-----Present time-----
Another explosion happened just after he went outside.
It made him fall down on the ground at the parking lot area.
"Ah! haah haah.. fuck!", He cried out loud.
He took a quick glance behind him and then stand up quickly to ask for help...
The young man is covered with blood and wounds all around his body.
Every step he take strike him with excruciating pain, but he still moved until he reach the intersection. "It hurts.. it hurts..", saying those words while panting and groaning, he saw a man standing just right on the other side of the crossroad. His eyes started to get blurry, specially on his right eye, where all he could see was red. He scratched it once using his right hand, as if removing a dust that's blocking his vision. He regreted it and stopped touching it soon after. The reason for that was because he felt micro pieces of shattered glass inside of his right eye.
He made a huge mess on the sidewalk as he continue to go forward not noticing what he was leaving behind----the ground of the sidewalk looks like someone dragged a dead body making a trace full of blood---- and circle around like a psycho. Ignorance is really a bliss for him at this point. The question right now is, "where does the young man planning to take his body and how far is he gonna last while losing blood every second?", Here is the answer for that question.
The young man was focused moving towards the silhouette of a man that he saw on the other side of the road, just approx 20 feet away from him and getting closer as he walk.
After a few seconds----the young man finally made it and he is now outside of the sidewalk. The pain and exhaustion that he is feeling are making him gasp for air and tear up, neverminding all of that once more---- he pushed himself forward with all of his remaining strength he run towards the image that he saw....
As he was sprinting through the pedestrian lane---- a faint light eluminated from his right side----that light instantly got brighter, but because of the current condition of his right eye. He can't see a damn thing clearly as it was covered with blood, making the young man fail to notice the incoming collision. And given the speed that both of them are going, even if does see things clearly. Evading is impossible.
1.5 seconds after that light touched his body, a loud horn can be heared.
HONK! HONK!
SCREEEEEECH- THUD!
He got hit by a 16 wheeler truck while trying to cross the road.
-5 seconds earlier-
The sleepy driver's head was going up and down out of tiredness after a long day of work, he got complacent while passing through the road he is now driving on, because around this time, there's almost no people and other cars present.
The stop light is still red, the driver knew and ignored it. He was in a rush and confidence get the best of him and set aside the road rules. That's when he saw a man running at the pedestrian lane, So immdiately before making contact the driver hit the brake,
TAP SCREEEEEECH
and shouted, "HEY! GET OUT OF THE WA-" THUD!
The force of impact multplied by the speed, velocity and weight of the truck caused the young man's body to fly a few feet away from where he was orignally standing.
The young man suffered bleeding, rib fractures, punctured lung, brain bleeds, ruptured spleen, damage to organs. It is unfortunate, but he will soon die with all the injuries he took with 0% of survival.
He can't move a single muscle, but his sense of sight is still somewhat functioning, everything is hazzy and all he can see was a blur image of people surrounding him, all of them were panicking. He blinked slowly and shifted his vision to the sky. Deep inside this young man's thought were; "What just happened... i feel weak all around... my wounds...it doesn't hurt anymore...instead---it feels nice and warm... it felt like a hug from mom... haah... am i dying...? no... please... i still have to play after my shift was over and slurp my favorite spicy cup noodles...."
There are some witnesses, those were the people who went to the area where the earlier explosion.
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Meanwhile, Inside the convinience store...
Fire can be seen everywhere it was like hell on earth
be that as it may, the inside is not fully engulfed in flames
specially at the middle area of the store.
Under the pile of broken things
laying was an anlog clock
The small arm of it was pointing at 9th
while the big arm pointed at 8th
It already stopped working.
9:40Pm
The young man died.