Chapter 37 Just Borrowing a Lighter
Seeing Fang Shao handling business, the manager nodded and lowered his head before backing out. But before long, he returned, much to Fang Hua's annoyance.
"Damn, can't you see that this young master is busy? What are you doing coming back here?"
"Fang Shao, it's like this..." The manager shook his head repeatedly as he explained, "There's a little chubby guy outside the bar's parking lot acting suspiciously, asking around about you."
"Damn, where did this little fat guy come from..." Fang Shao was getting frustrated, and his speech was accompanied by a panting noise, "This little matter also has to come to me. What are you doing for a living? ... comfortable..."
"I understand, Fang Shao, I know what to do now."
The manager slowly backed out, closing the door carefully behind him. Once out of the private room, his face, which had been full of smiles earlier, immediately turned cold. He beckoned, and two young henchmen scurried over.
"Li, is there something going on?" One of the henchmen handed him a cigarette, which Li put in his mouth.
The other henchman quickly stepped forward and held up a lighter to light the cigarette for Li.
"Beat up that guy outside and throw him onto the street. Keep it clean, don't cause any trouble for Fang Shao."
"Don't worry, Li, we've got it covered."
The two henchmen nodded repeatedly, a hint of viciousness flickering in their eyes. They've done this kind of thing countless times.
Meanwhile, outside the bar's parking lot, a little chubby guy not very tall in stature carried a black leather backpack and looked around stealthily.
He even went to ask the two door-gods-like hotel security guards stationed at the entrance.
"Excuse me, I'd like to ask if Fang Hua is inside."
The two burly security guards merely crossed their arms and looked at the chubby guy coldly, their gaze as if they were looking at a dead man.
Ignoring the guards, Liu Chuan leaned against a car and tried to wait for Fang Hua to come out here.
He tightly hugged the black leather backpack that held the seven-holed knife he had bought from a Tibetan vendor. The knife had a cruel design, with seven circular holes on its back that, when plunged into a person's body, could suck in air, making it a lethal weapon.
Liu Chuan had no time to spare for anything but revenge. He didn't realize that his hand, holding onto the backpack, was trembling.
At that moment, four thugs approached him from different directions, humming tunes and smoking cigarettes as if they were unconcerned. Liu Chuan's eyes were fixed on the door of the bar, afraid that he might miss Fang Hua's appearance. He didn't even notice that the four thugs had surrounded him.
When one of them flicked his cigarette onto Liu Chuan, he snapped back to reality. "What do you want?" Liu Chuan jumped in surprise and saw that four thugs with hair dyed various colors had appeared beside him. They all grinned evilly, making him shiver.
"What do we want?" one of the thugs reached out and patted Liu Chuan's face. "Kid, do you know whose turf this is? You want to cause trouble here, but you haven't weighed your own strength yet."
Then, with a slap, he hit Liu Chuan hard in the face. Liu Chuan was just an ordinary college student who had not yet been properly trained physically. The slap made his eyes see stars, and a trickle of blood ran from the corner of his mouth.
"Beat him up! Teach this brat a lesson!" The thugs immediately began to punch and kick Liu Chuan, who tried to dodge their blows. But he remained stubborn, holding onto his black backpack and refusing to make a sound.
"There must be a lot of money in his bag!" one of the thugs saw Liu Chuan clutching the backpack and guessed.
"Damn it, give me the bag!" The leader of the gang immediately reached out to snatch the backpack from Liu Chuan.
"No way!" Liu Chuan was like an enraged wild animal, his eyes turning red. He began to struggle fiercely against the thugs, using his bulk and some strength to knock one of them down.
"Damn it, he dares to resist!"
"He must have a lot of money! Get it quickly!"
The thugs were excited and grabbed at Liu Chuan's backpack. Finally, Liu Chuan's anger got the best of him. Without waiting for Fang Hua to appear, he pulled out the seven-holed knife from his backpack and swung it, the white blade reflecting the light in the darkness, striking the faces of the thugs.
"Oh my god, he's got a knife!" Several small gangsters were taken aback. Liu Chuan's eyes had turned red as he swung his seven-hole knife towards one of the gangsters, hacking away mercilessly.
"Ah!" The small gangster was so scared that he sat down on the ground, wetting his pants. Liu Chuan's knife came down, but was blocked by the front of a car behind the gangster.
"Bang!" The Toyota SUV immediately sparked and a shallow knife mark appeared on the hood.
"Oh my god, this guy's crazy!" Liu Chuan was indeed crazy, waving his seven-hole knife, screaming, and chasing after the small gangsters to hack them up. The two door guards, who were like gods of war, also stopped watching and pulled out their ASP batons from their clothes, slowly walking towards Liu Chuan.
Unlike the small gangsters, these two guards were considered top-level thugs. They were also used to such situations. Although Liu Chuan had a seven-hole knife in his hand, in their eyes, it was no different from a child playing with a toy knife.
"Bang!" The guard in front dodged the knife that Liu Chuan swung at him and then his ASP baton hit Liu Chuan's abdomen hard.
At that moment, Liu Chuan felt as if his stomach had been hit head-on by a car, causing him to gasp for air. He crouched on the ground and the seven-hole knife in his hand clattered to the ground.
"Oh my god, he dared to scare me with a knife. I'll beat him to death!" Several small gangsters immediately became arrogant and walked over to Liu Chuan, hitting him mercilessly.
"Be clean, don't make a mess of blood here." The guard who had just beaten Liu Chuan lit a cigarette and said calmly.
"Scar brother, don't worry, we're quick and efficient." Because the guard had a scar on his face, the gangsters called him "Scar Brother."
"Good." Scar nodded indifferently and stood on the side, watching Liu Chuan being beaten.
"Hey, buddy, can I borrow a lighter?" At this moment, a cold voice came from behind him.
Scar was startled and quickly turned around, but was horrified to see a strange man in a black leather jacket, with a face covered in black scales and a pair of green pupils.
"Who are you!" He was shocked and at the same time, he swung his baton towards the man's face.
With a loud "smack," the ASP baton struck the man's face, but his head only tilted slightly and he seemed unharmed. In fact, he looked at Scar with a mocking gaze.
Scar was stunned. A hit like that could easily have caused a person's head to burst with blood. Yet this mysterious man on the opposite side appeared to be completely unscathed.
"It's just a light," the man sneered, extending his black beast claw to grab Scar by the collar and effortlessly lift him into the air.
Another security guard, who was not to be underestimated, picked up Liu Chuan's seven-hole knife from the ground and swung it towards the black-clothed man's waist.
But the man merely stretched out his left hand, or left claw, and grabbed the sharp blade of the seven-hole knife.
"Get ready for a nightmare!" He murmured and smashed Scar's head onto the other security guard's head. The two fierce guards immediately passed out.
The thugs were terrified. These two security guards were famous fighters in the area, yet they were easily taken out.
"Run! Go find Fang Shao!" The leader of the thugs immediately shouted.
The four thugs were smart enough to split up and run in different directions.
Qin Chao, the man in black, just sneered. He stood there without chasing after them, and instead took his Soul Lock out of his Bag of Holding and threw it at the fleeing thugs.
After the Soul Lock had reached the third level of a Human Artifact, its extra ability was the ability to extend. The chain flew out and wrapped around the four thugs, trapping them together and pulling them back to Qin Chao.
"You guys take a nap too," Qin Chao said as he swung the lock chain and slammed them into the SUV that had been cut by Liu Chuan.
The thugs screamed in agony as they all passed out.
Only the leader of the thugs was trapped on the outside of the chain and wasn't knocked out, but he was also in pain.
Qin Chao walked over and grabbed the thug by his hair, asking him in a low voice, "Where's Fang Hua's car?"
"That one, that one!" The small gangster was so frightened that his soul was scattered as he pointed to a black Audi A6L parked next to them.
The black license plate on the Audi A6L indicated that it was owned by a foreign enterprise with its own car plates, symbolizing the company's strength. Generally, traffic police did not dare to intervene with cars bearing such plates.
"Good." Qin Chao nodded, then slammed the gangster's head against the door of his SUV, knocking him out cold.
"Who are you?" Liu Chuan was a bit confused after being beaten, looking at the tall figure of the black-clad man in front of him, feeling that the voice was very familiar.
Qin Chao looked at Liu Chuan lying on the ground, but didn't say anything. He simply pointed outside to the road with his hand. The meaning was clear: leave immediately.
"I'm not leaving. I want to help Yu Qian get revenge!" Liu Chuan said, trying to grab the seven-hole knife lying on the ground.
Qin Chao frowned and kicked the seven-hole knife under a car. Then he bent down, patted Liu Chuan on the shoulder, and stuffed a lit Red River cigarette into his mouth.
"No need for you to kill him, he's mine..." Qin Chao only spoke these few words in a rough voice.
Fang Hua was unaware of the battle outside, as he was being taken care of by the girl that Manager Li had brought. Although he could get things done anywhere, he still preferred to find a high-end hotel and play in the presidential suite's bathtub with a beautiful woman.
So he drank a lot of alcohol and stumbled outside with the girl in his arms.
"Fang Shao, let me drive you!" Manager Li quickly followed.
"No need! This young master... can walk by himself!" Fang Hua pushed Manager Li away, grabbed the girl's pert buttocks, and walked outside the bar.
Fang Hua couldn't drive, so as usual, the security guard at the door would drive his car and take him wherever he wanted to go.
This time was no exception. The security guard in the bar uniform had already started Fang Hua's car and opened the car door for him.
Chapter 38 I've come to collect your life
Fang Shao's car was never locked, and no one on the road dared to touch the car of the young master of the Fang family. Once, a petty thief from out of town stole Fang Hua's Audi A6L. Afterwards, the thief had his hands cut off and knelt in front of Fang Hua to apologize.
Ignoring the fact that Fang Hua was the young master of Fang Corporation and had the protection of the Secretary Yang of the Su Nan City Committee, his godfather was Chen Si, the adopted son of Long Tianzheng of the Tian Long Corporation, and also a fourth-ranked figure revered by everyone in the underworld.
If this Chen Si stamped his foot, not only would Su Nan City shake, but the entire northern region would tremble three times. Whoever dared to provoke his godson would be as insignificant as a flicker of light in the bathroom looking for excrement.
"Go to the Anthony Grand Hotel!" Fang Hua's tongue was a bit swollen from drinking, but his enthusiasm remained undiminished. He leaned to one side as soon as he got into the car and held the beautiful woman who was supporting herself on his legs, humming and ha-ing while letting the woman ride him.
The security guard didn't seem to mind and started the Audi A6L, driving out of the bar's parking lot. Not long after they left, Manager Li realized that something was wrong. He had been waiting in the office for a long time, but the several small hoodlums he had sent out earlier hadn't returned.
"These wastes are getting more and more sluggish in getting things done." Manager Li frowned and walked out of the bar. But as soon as he came out, he knew something was amiss. Why were the two bouncer-level security guards gone?
"Something's wrong..." Cold sweat dripped from Manager Li's forehead. He had been in the business for many years and knew instinctively that these two security guards had been taken down by someone. He immediately gathered a few lackeys and searched the parking lot. Soon, someone found the two security guards and the four small hoodlums. They were lying on the ground, one of the security guard's clothes had been stripped off.
"We're done for..." Manager Li sat down on the ground, obviously, this was aimed at Fang Shao.
If anything happened to Fang Shao in his territory, the fourth-ranked person in the city would definitely not spare him.
"Quick, call the police! Fang Shao is in danger! And contact our brothers on the road. Whoever can take down Scarface is definitely not simple. Maybe it's a gang! Let our brothers on the road be alert. If they see an Audi A6L, stop it immediately!"
Manager Li thought Fang Shao had been kidnapped and was being held for ransom. But how could he know that the kidnapper wasn't after money, but Fang Hua's life.
This night, both the underworld and the white roads were alarmed. Why was Fang Shao kidnapped? It was as if someone had deliberately punched a hole in the sky. Who was so daring?
In Sunan City, if Chen Si was a big bully, then Fang Hua was a small one. Perhaps this was a bandit from another province, trying to extort a huge ransom from Fang Shao?
The police immediately launched a manhunt and found that Fang Hua's Audi had already left the outskirts. There were no traffic cameras there, but it seemed to be heading towards Songjiang.
Secretary Yang had expressed Yang's interest in the kidnapping case through a phone call. Fang Group was a large corporation with foreign investment. Now even their young master had been kidnapped. Such an adverse investment environment could not allow Fang Group's people to rest assured.
Therefore, Yang meant that the case must be solved within 24 hours.
"It's just a spoiled brat being kidnapped. Is it necessary to make such a fuss?" Trainee policewoman Ai Xiaoxue put her newly issued Type 92 pistol into its holster and rolled her eyes.
"We do what we're told from above." Her superior, Captain Xie Jun, was checking his pistol and said indifferently, "Our task is to cooperate with the first team's operation. The kidnappers have gone to Songjiang, and we must ensure Fang Hua's safety."
"Hmph, that kind of beast is better off dead." Ai Xiaoxue didn't care, with a trace of disdain on her lips. Captain Xie looked at the young policewoman and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
This Ai Xiaoxue might be a trainee policewoman, but she has a strong background. How could she know the pain of being a small police officer? When he put on his police badge years ago, he was also full of passion. However, his long police career had made him increasingly experienced and indifferent.
How can one get the attention from above? To put it this way, killing a thousand Yu Qian's is not as effective as kidnapping one Fang Hua. But there are some things he cannot reveal to Ai Xiaoxue, hoping that this stubborn female police officer will slowly understand.
"Alright, stop talking nonsense and act immediately." Team Leader Xie put away his gun and led the Criminal Investigation Team 2 out of the door, boarding a four-wheel drive off-road police car.
Not knowing how much attention he has attracted, Qin Chao calmly drove his Audi A6L towards Songjiang under the night sky. Qin Chao does not have a driver's license, but his uncle is a taxi driver who taught him how to drive.
Moreover, he found that driving this Audi A6L is much easier than driving his uncle's old Xiali.
Fang Hua should have taken some drugs and had been fooling around in the car for who knows how long. The beautiful woman was already drenched in sweat, unable to even catch her breath, and had long since passed out. Yet, he was still excitedly having his way with her, placing her on the front seat while continuing his battle.
"Damn it, why is it so slow today? We haven't even reached the Anthony Hotel yet?" This young man continued to curse and grumble while exercising.
At this point, the car had already reached the edge of Songjiang. Qin Chao turned off the car and gazed at the glimmering river under the moonlight, lighting up a cigarette.
"F*ck, where did you stop! Hurry up and drive, if you delay my business, you won't need those two hands of yours to drive anymore!"
"We've arrived, Young Master Fang." Qin Chao leisurely smoked his cigarette and said indifferently.
"I want to go to the Anthony Hotel, where did you take me!" Fang Hua shook the car violently, roaring in a low voice. It was clear that he was exerting a lot of strength.
"To the Yellow Springs Road."
After speaking, Qin Chao jumped out of the car, opened the back door, and dragged Fang Hua, whose lower half was still entwined with the woman, out of the car and threw him onto the icy riverbank.
The autumn wind by the Songjiang river was as sharp as a knife. Especially for Fang Hua, whose pants had been pulled down, he shivered so much that all of his drunkenness disappeared.
When he saw the face of the security guard, he immediately understood what was going on.
"Are you the security guard?" Fang Hua was a well-traveled person and calmly put on his pants before standing across from Qin Chao. "Speak up, how much money do you want?"
"I'm sorry, my dear Master Fang, I'm not here for money," Qin Chao sneered, glancing at the beautiful woman who had passed out in the car. "I'm here to take a life!"
"Hahaha!" Fang Hua burst into laughter. "Take a life? Just you?"
Leaning against the car door, he sneered, "You're just a small-time security guard. Being able to eat is your good fortune. Do you know who I am? I'm Fang Hua, the young master of the Fang Group and the godson of Fourth Master Chen! None of them are people you can afford to provoke."
"That's right, I can't afford to provoke them," Qin Chao also laughed coldly. He quickly transformed, his face covered in black scales. "But killing you is easy!"
"What...what is this?" Fang Hua was startled by Qin Chao's appearance. He instinctively opened the car door, as if he wanted to escape into the car.
This Audi A6L was special, with bulletproof glass. Even if Qin Chao was a thug, he couldn't break into the car. Fang Hua was smart. He knew that news of his disappearance had already been discovered, and as long as he held on a little longer, someone would come to rescue him.
"Bang!" He jumped into the car, closed the door, and quickly locked all the car latches.
Qin Chao didn't stop him, but held his arms and coldly watched him finish all of this.
"Hahaha, you fool! Now I want to see how you'll kill me! When my people arrive, not only will you die, but your whole family will be buried with you."
Qin Chao shook his head. This man was already crazy. There's a saying that goes, "When God wants to kill a person, He first makes them mad."
He knocked on the Audi's window, making a dull sound.
Inside, Fang Hua burst into laughter, eagerly pulling the beautiful woman who had fainted, and continued to have sex. It seemed like a sign of contempt for Qin Chao.
Qin Chao laughed too, a cold smile that surpassed the wind in the Songjiang River.
He raised his fist, covered in black scales, and slammed it hard against the car door of the Audi.
"Bang!" Fang Hua was startled, the car shook heavily as if it was hit by a thousand-pound hammer. Even his sturdy body almost fractured from the impact.
The car door was dented and through the glass, Fang Hua, who was sweating profusely, saw the disdainful smile on Qin Chao's face.
"Bang!" Qin Chao punched the car door again, causing the body to shake violently. Fang Hua lost his arrogant demeanor and his eyes widened with fear.
Qin Chao's fists kept hitting the car body, and with each pounding sound, Fang Hua's mouth opened wide but he couldn't say a word. It was like the knocking of the god of death, and fear had filled his entire soul.
"Crash!" Finally, the bulletproof glass shattered into pieces. Qin Chao actually smashed the car door in and threw the scrap metal aside.
"No, don't come over!" Fang Hua, like a frightened mouse, scurried around the small space in the car. He blocked the almost-naked, sweaty beauty in front of him and shouted loudly.
"Don't come near me, you devil!"
"Devil? That's a good name." Qin Chao sneered, and he grabbed Fang Hua's leg and dragged him outside the car.
The ground was full of dirt. When has Fang Hua, the young master of the Fang family, ever suffered such a humiliation? He was dragged by his legs, his head scraping on the ground, and forcibly dragged to the riverbank.
Fang Hua's face was covered in dirt, his eyes filled with panic, and he stuttered when he spoke.
"No, don't kill me. I'll give you however much money you want. One million, ten million, as long as you say it!"
"Money?" Qin Chao held his arms and admired Fang Hua's ugly state. "I'm afraid even the wealth of young master Fang can't save your life."
With that, he suddenly kicked Fang Hua's chin. The young master's body flipped over and he fell to the ground again.
"Can your money buy back Yu Qian's life?"