Others reacted the same as Jane Sampson and Coco Edwards, starting their cars and preparing to escape from the hotelâs troubled area. The majority of people headed towards the filming location to hide; that had been Coco Edwardsâs initial thought, too, but Jane Sampson had a different idea.
"Letâs head to the village entrance and see whatâs happening; we donât know how itâs blocked, or how long it will be before the police can get in," Jane said.
"Okay," Coco agreed without hesitation, turning the car around and heading towards the village entrance.
However, what Jane and Coco hadnât anticipated was that there were people guarding the direction of the village entrance.
Halfway to the village entrance, someone from a higher point suddenly threw a stone down. With a loud crash, the windshield shattered.
Unable to control the steering wheel in time due to the immense force, Cocoâs car crashed with a loud bang into a tree next to her, jolting violently as the front airbags deployed, leaving Coco unconscious.
In the rear seat, Jane fared little better, the shock leaving her seeing stars.
But being in the rear seat, her condition was much better than Cocoâs in the front.
Clambering out of the wreckage in a sorry state, Jane called out to Coco but heard no reply. On closer inspection, she realized Coco was bleeding from the forehead, unsure of the severity of the injury.
"Coco, Coco, wake up," Jane called, not daring to move Cocoâs body.
After a few seconds, Coco groggily came to, cursing, "Damn, it hurts! These villagers are as vicious as bandits!"
No sooner had she spoken than several strong young men leaped out of the roadside bushes, approaching the car.
"I knew there would be someone thinking of running to get reinforcements! These city people just know how to bully us uneducated rural folks! Thinking about locking up our moms and dads! Weâve got to show these city dwellers a lesson, or theyâll think we rural people are easy to trample on!" one of the dark-skinned men ranted. "Flip this car over! Weâll show them whatâs what! See if they dare to bully people again!"
With those words, the group of young men quickly surrounded the car, uncaring that those inside were bleeding or might be badly injured, and immediately started working together to overturn the car.
The movement of the car caused Coco, pinned by her leg, to scream out in pain.
Jane was terrified, "Donât touch the car! Please donât touch the car! Her leg is pinned! Whatever you want, we can agree to it, just please donât move the car!"
But the people outside acted as if they were deaf, not one of them hearing Janeâs pleas.
They continued to apply force recklessly, and in just over a minute, they had flipped the damaged car upside down.
Coco fainted again. Jane lay there in a wretched state, not daring to move, continuing to call out to Coco.
Had she not experienced it herself, Jane would never have believed that, in this world, there were people capable of such cruelty.
Nor could she have imagined that there were corners of this world so utterly violent and evil.
In these peopleâs hearts, there were no kind thoughts, no lawâonly their own interests and whims.