The Chief should have paid attention to Criminal X's words but what was done couldn't be reversed so he focused on the present.
The Judge, on the other hand, heaved a sigh of relief.
"Don't lose your focus. His one hand is still free." The Chief was focused. "I need more army men to take these four guys away. Let a doctor treat them."
Four army men came forward and went towards the four soldiers.
They held the four soldiers and made them stand up.
The soldiers were able to walk but they refused to move away from the scene.
"We will stand behind you, Chief. We want to see him die."
The Chief nodded. He didn't argue. He knew what the soldiers were feeling.
The four soldiers stood quietly behind the Chief along with the other Judges and Presidents.
The Chief then wasted no time and went on to pin the other hand of Pablo.
He put the chisel on Pablo's left palm and slammed the hammer again. Now Pablo's left hand was pinned to the cross too.
The Chief made sure to slam the chisel hard enough so that it didn't come off even if Pablo used all his strength.
Surprisingly, after that earlier attack, Pablo didn't retaliate again. He became as quiet as he was before.
Still, the Chief didn't take any risks and proceeded to pin Pablo's legs too.
"Use one Chisel for both of his legs." The Judge said.
"I know." The Chief would have done the same anyway.
Nevertheless, the Chief called for more army men.
Ten more army men came and the Chief finally opened the handcuffs on Pablo's legs.
Five men held Pablo's left leg and placed it on the lower part of the cross.
Then the other five men placed his right leg on top of his left leg.
His feet were now above each other and the Chief placed the chisel on Pablo's top feet.
Then, just like two times before, he slammed the hammer.
TUNN!
People quivered their brows at the scene but all of them exhaled air of relief.
Criminal X was finally held in one place. He was finally pinned on the cross.
All this happened as fast as possible. The Chief was scared of Pablo and he wasn't ashamed to admit that. He knew full well what Criminal X was capable of. Therefore, he tried to pin Pablo the fastest.
"Make this cross stand up on the ground again. Let people see him." The Judge spoke.
The Chief stood up and with the help of army men, made the big cross stand up.
It was already placed firmly on the ground so when they erected the cross, it easily remained standing vertically.
Cameras clicked photos of Pablo and the sun shining behind the cross made Pablo appear no less than a God.
"Long ago, Jesus died for the sins of humanity and today, this man is dying for his sins alone." Richard, the lawyer, commented.
The Chief went back and stood with his four soldiers.
Behind them, the judges and the Presidents were standing.
And around them more Presidents and common people were present.
"May God have mercy on him." King Charles the third said as he joined his palms.
But the Chief shook his head.
"I don't think God would do that, King." He said, without looking at Charles.
"Why?" The King asked. "God can do anything. They can have mercy on even Pablo as well."
"I never said God 'can't' do that. I said, God 'won't' do that. There is a difference. Because you see, Your Grace…"
The Chief turned his head behind, looked at Charles and removed his helmet.
He then peered at King with his blue eyes and continued saying..
"Pablo Castillo is a man so evil that even the kindest of Gods couldn't find pity for him."
Charles went silent and the Chief turned his head in the front again.
"People!" The Judge shouted. "Throw stones at him. He won't die like this!"
The people were already ready with stones on their hands and at the command, every one launched stones at Criminal X.
Be it Presidents, Prime Ministers, their bodyguards, common people, all of them threw stones at Pablo. They were throwing stones at the worst criminal as if they were pure souls themselves. But no one was there to point it out.
The stones kept coming and Pablo spilled more blood. His whole body was now covered with blood and the cross was dyed red as well. He would bleed to death.
The cameras recorded all of that and people watched it with serene expressions.
Only the 21 Men and the five soldiers threw no stones at Pablo and the Chief kept a close eye at Pablo's face.
'Will he die just like that?' He thought. 'The Devil dying without causing any problem? Hmm? What's that?'
The Chief saw something.
"Stop!" He shouted.
His shout was loud enough to be heard by everyone and they stopped throwing stones.
"What is the matter, soldier?" The Judge asked.
The Chief didn't turn around. He kept his eyes on Pablo.
"Look at him. He is opening his mouth." He said.
Everyone looked at Pablo and indeed, Pablo had his mouth open.
"So? It's not like he will throw bombs out of his mouth." The Judge said.
The Chief didn't reply and kept his eyes on Pablo.
The Judge wanted to say something again but…
"HahahahahahhHAHHA!" Pablo's hysterical laughter resounded in the area.
They all flinched and looked at Criminal X in horror.
The Chief became vigilant. 'Of course.' He knew something would happen but he didn't know what.
But soon, he got to know.
Pablo closed his mouth again and moved it from the inside.
The Chief squinted his eyes and Pablo opened his mouth again.
'Shit.' The Chief understood something.
"Move Back!" He shouted and Pablo with a last laugh, spit something from his mouth.
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
TIN!
Twelve sounds rang and everyone looked at the ground.
And as soon as they saw what Pablo spat on the ground, their eyes went wide.
"Pins? This Bastard." The Chief cursed as on the ground, just in front of him, twelve safety pins existed.
These safety pins were well known by everyone. Especially by the five soldiers.
They were the pins of grenades.
"He took our pins when he attacked us. This guy." The four soldiers who were bitten by Pablo earlier understood.
Pablo had taken out the pins of the four soldiers and hid them inside his mouth.
Each soldier had three grenades and Pablo had taken out the pins of all grenades the four soldiers had. In short, they were fucked.
And one more realization hit the Chief. His eyes were wide open.
'I was wrong. This is what he meant by his warning. His fucking teeths. His intention wasn't to bite my soldiers. He wanted the grenades. He hid the pins around his teeths. Sly freaking fox.'
The Chief gritted his teeths, bit his lip. But there was no time to worry about that.
He instantly bent his knees and shouted, "Soldiers! Cover!"
He then jumped towards the soldiers whose grenades were about to explode.
The four soldiers whose pins got taken, coincidentally, were standing closest to the Judges and Presidents.
The four soldiers jumped far away from the Judges, and the Chief jumped on them as well. They all made a group.
The Judges and the Presidents, and everyone around the garbage dumpster were already running far from the soldiers and finally…
BOOOMMMM!!
A huge explosion occurred and blood, meat, hands, legs flew everywhere.
The area got covered with smoke and silence reigned supreme.
The only sound that rang in the area was the erratic laughter of Criminal X. He couldn't speak, he couldn't see, he couldn't hear but he knew full well what he had done.
He continued his laughter in full power. He laughed and laughed and laughed.
But soon, his laughter became lower, his voice became distant, sounds of coughs came, his laughter finally died down and after having the last laugh, Criminal X, the Biggest Criminal in the history of Humanity, died down as well.
Pablo Castillo was no more.
After thirty minutes, the smoke cleared up and countless dead bodies appeared scattered around Pablo's cross.
The cameras from the helicopters captured everything and seeing the situation, the helicopters came closer to the ground.
There were ten helicopters but from only one helicopter, did someone dare to come out and land on the ground.
A reporter and a cameraman landed on the ground and covered the entire scene.
"Hel..p"
"He-Here."
Groans of pain came and the reporter helped the injured people.
He called people from other helicopters as well and they came down as well.
They all searched for the survivors and after one hour, all the survivors were rescued and partially healed.
They were all still present on the dumpster and Pablo was still on the cross in front of them.
There were beds placed and the injured were lying on them.
On one such bed, an old man was in a condition to speak and the reporter was sitting on his bed.
"Ho-How many survived, young man?" The old man asked.
"Don't speak, your honor. It's great you are alive." The reporter replied. The old man in front of him was the Judge who was giving orders.
"How many survived? Tell… me." The Judge asked again.
"Out of millions of people present today…" The reporter sighed and in a solemn tone, he revealed :
"Only five thousand survived."