The silence inside the factory was now ready to swallow the hero like a hungry predator.
Iqbal, Noora, and Sadik had surrounded him from three different directions, forming a sort of triangle.
The hero gripped his axe firmly, but the beads of sweat on his forehead were mixing with the diesel.
Suddenly, a whooshing sound from Noora’s slingshot came from above, and a shard of glass pierced through the hero's shoulder.
At that very moment, Sadik’s heavy chain crawled across the floor, advancing toward his feet like an iron snake.
The hero leaped, but Iqbal threw a small petrol bomb near his feet, creating a wall of fire.
"The law doesn't work here; here, only our law breathes," Iqbal’s voice echoed.
The soot and grease on the brothers' faces made them look like the true deities of this hell.
The hero realized that he was not fighting a human, but a three-headed monster.
The rusty pillars of the factory trembled with the brothers' laughter, as if they too were celebrating this destruction.
Sadik’s Strike
Sadik swung his heavy chain in the air, its echo sounding like a crack of lightning.
He threw the hook of the chain toward the hero, which struck an iron crane directly and ripped it off its mounts.
The heavy part of the crane crashed right next to the hero, shaking the entire floor of the factory.
There was not a single drop of mercy in Sadik’s eyes; every breath of his held only the noise of devastation.
He swung the chain again, and this time he managed to ensnare the hero’s axe.
A horrific contest of strength began between the two—on one side was a human, and on the other, a beast.
Sadik’s muscles strained, and he hurled the hero into the air, smashing him against an iron wall.
A fountain of blood erupted from the hero's mouth, but Sadik did not stop; he began raining his chain down like a whip.
With every strike, rusty iron and dust fell from the factory ceiling like rain.
Sadik’s inhuman strength had transformed that place into a slaughterhouse where death stood close by.
Noora’s Attack
While the hero was trying to recover from Sadik’s strikes, Noora materialized amidst the shadows.
He narrowed his one eye and fitted three toxic shards of glass into his slingshot simultaneously.
Noora’s strike was always precise; those shards were targeting the pupils of the hero's eyes directly.
The hero ducked his head at the final moment, but one shard passed through, cutting his cheek deeply.
The poison on the glass slowly began to numb the hero’s body, causing his speed to decrease.
Noora blew another whistle in the darkness and changed his position with the speed of lightning so he wouldn't become a target.
"The darkness sees you, but you cannot see the darkness," Noora’s whisper pierced the ears.
He fired several small stones one after the other, which riddled the hero’s body like machine-gun bullets.
Noora’s game now was not just to hunt; he was enjoying torturing his prey bit by bit.
Noora’s terrifying shadow was dancing in every corner of the factory, making the hero's escape almost impossible.
Iqbal’s Final Move
Seeing that the hero was still not ready to concede defeat, Iqbal pulled the largest lever in the factory.
Suddenly, the valves of the massive tanks installed above opened, and boiling chemicals and diesel began pouring down.
The entire factory had now become a gas chamber where a single spark could reduce everything to ashes.
Iqbal took out an old lighter from his pocket and slowly rotated it within his burnt fingers.
"If we die, this entire city will burn with us," there was a strange madness in Iqbal’s voice.
The stench of the chemical was so strong that breathing now felt like filling the lungs with acid.
The hero tried to advance toward Iqbal, but Sadik and Noora blocked his path once again.
Iqbal struck the lighter, its tiny flame signaling a massive destruction in that darkness.
He knew that this factory was not a graveyard for them, but the altar for their new avatar.
He brought the lighter down toward the flowing stream of oil, and a cruel smile floated across his face.
The Gateway to Hell
The moment the flame of the lighter touched the diesel, a sky-high explosion occurred, blasting the entire factory into the air.
The explosion was so powerful that the glass windows of houses miles away shattered into pieces, and the sky turned red.
Everything was buried under the debris—the hero’s axe, Sadik’s chain, and Noora’s shards of glass.
The government felt that this time the game was truly over and no one could escape this fire alive.
But when the dust settled and the fire cooled down, an iron hand emerged from the debris once again.
Iqbal pulled his brothers out from that secure basement which he had already prepared beforehand.
There was no sign of the hero, but the new wounds on the brothers' bodies were proof of them becoming even more ferocious.
They were now stepping out of that dilapidated factory and moving toward their new empire in the dead center of the city.
The womb of the Iron Corridor had safely delivered its monsters once again.
Now their next target was not just the mercenaries, but the entire power and law of that city.
The Phantom of the Debris
Beneath the burning debris of the factory, a charred finger made a movement.
The handle of the hero's axe now looked like a buried bone amidst the heap of ashes.
Iqbal looked at that debris from a distance and drew a deep, cold breath.
He knew that those who are born from fire are not swallowed by fire so easily.
Sadik lifted a heavy beam of debris and threw it away as if it were a straw.
Noora narrowed his one eye and began searching for something amidst the ash floating in the air.
Just then, a hand emerged from beneath the debris and clenched its fist tightly.
The three brothers did not stop; they left him there to writhe in pain and vanished into the darkness.
They knew that the real fun would begin when the prey stood up again and walked into their trap.
The night of the Iron Corridor was now going to witness a new and horrific war.
Iqbal’s New Lab
The morgue of the city's old government hospital was now Iqbal's new and secret hideout.
The air here held a strange combination of phenyl, old corpses, and fresh petrol.
Iqbal had turned the cold stretcher of the morgue into his work-table, where glass vials were placed.
He was preparing an acid that would melt iron and turn it into wax.
Noora sat right there in a corner, cleaning his slingshot with the white shroud used to cover corpses.
"No one will come looking for us here, because only the dead and we live here," Iqbal laughed.
Sadik had twisted the heavy freezer door of the morgue with his bare hands to turn it into a shield.
Iqbal poured a blue liquid into a test tube, from which a purple, toxic smoke began to emit.
This was his new army—an invisible gas that was going to turn the lungs of the entire city into stone.
The brothers had turned that house of death into their most dangerous and brutal laboratory.
Noora's Night Curfew
Noora had laid his 'wires of death' between the electricity poles on the main road of the city.
Whichever soldier or police vehicle sped past, that wire would slice through it like a sharp saw.
Noora sat on high walls, loading heavy bearings into his slingshot, which were now faster than bullets.
The city's electricity was gone, and the terror of Noora's whistle hovered in every alley.
He had made a rule: "Whoever is seen outside after the sun sets will not see the sun again."
A patrol team dared to advance in the darkness, and in a mere moment, the silence turned into screams.
Noora rained shards of glass in such a way that the soldiers did not even get a chance to fire their guns.
He would attack from amidst the shadows and dissolve back into the reflections like a phantom.
People crouched inside with their windows shut, but Noora's laughter pierced even through their walls.
Now, it wasn't the police's curfew enforced in the city, but Noora Bhai's bloody curfew.
Sadik's Revenge
The main camp of the mercenaries was now the next and biggest target of Sadik's rage.
Sadik tied a heavy crane hook to his iron chain and wrapped it around his body.
He advanced straight toward the main gate of the camp without any shield, unyielding even amidst the hail of bullets.
The soldiers threw grenades, but Sadik swung his chain to deflect those blasts from reaching him.
He ensnared the hook of the chain into the camp's watchtower and demolished it with his inhuman strength.
The tower crashed down like debris, and beneath it, dozens of soldiers were crushed like insects.
The wounds inflicted on Sadik's body were making him even more violent and frenzied.
He lifted the heaviest machine in the camp and hurled it onto the gunpowder warehouse.
A horrific explosion occurred, turning half of the camp's security into a heap of ashes in a mere moment.
Sadik stood amidst that fire, roaring as if he were the sole heir to this destruction.
The Anointing of Diesel
The main water-pumping station of the city had been captured by Iqbal and his brothers.
Iqbal mixed his specially prepared diesel sludge into millions of liters of drinking water.
This was not just oil; it was a slow death that was now going to run through the veins of the city.
"Now this city will drink our blood," Iqbal said, opening the valve completely.
When people turned on their taps, a black, toxic liquid began pouring out instead of water.
Panic spread across the entire city; thirst and disease had now become the greatest enemies.
The brothers had turned the very lifeline of the city into a pipe of death, which was the pinnacle of their cruelty.
Sadik hung the corpses of the station's guards on the main gate so that no one would dare to come near.
Noora took aim at a helicopter approaching from a distance and stopped it from coming near the station.
This anointing of diesel was proof that the fate of the city was now held between Iqbal's fingers.
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