"Section Chief Lin is joking." Wang Zhenkun's expression was a little stiff, but he still forced a smile: "The guest brought his own, what does it have to do with me..."
A man who looked like an assistant beside him stopped the policeman who was about to enter the inner room: "Hey, hey, this is our confidential room. Do you have a search warrant? I'm going to file a complaint against you!"
Lin Wuyang's phone also rang, it seemed someone was going to interfere.
Hearing the ringing, Wang Zhenkun sighed and began to sneer. Lin Wuyang didn't answer the phone, and suddenly asked: "Your assistant is quite good, very capable, and loyal. You trust him a lot, right?"
A strange force surged through his soul. Wang Zhenkun, who thought he had breathed a sigh of relief, was caught off guard and couldn't help but shout: "What ability does he have? If it weren't for keeping an eye on his wife, I would have fired him long ago! We had agreed to have my wife come for drinks tonight, but it was you, you stinking cop, who caused trouble!"
The air was silent.
Wang Zhenkun's face gradually turned a deep shade of liver. His assistant stared at him blankly, his eyes turning icy cold. The other subordinates around him instinctively backed away.
Chu Ge, who was being secretly led by Qiu Wuji to watch the spectacle, almost rolled on the floor laughing. Lin Wuyang's ability, if used well, was quite entertaining.
The assistant shouted, "Not only is there drug trafficking here, but there's also a black market casino!" Everything was no longer in doubt.
Lin Wuyang sighed deeply, "Other people's Qixi Festival, our Qixi Festival."
The assistant acted as a guide, leading Lin Wuyang to the casino. Qiu Wuji transmitted his voice to Chu Ge: "There's a secret door in the casino downstairs. Someone escaped with documents… oh, and a whole box of what they say are drugs."
"A whole box…" Chu Ge's expression also turned serious.
This is drugs!
Although Lin Wuyang and his men rushed down efficiently, if there was a secret door, it was obviously impossible to catch them without being ambushed outside beforehand. What about the drugs and other important documents and evidence?
But getting involved in these things…
Seeing his hesitation, Qiu Wuji asked, "What are drugs?"
Chu Ge whispered, "Things that harm people, like the addictive pills I wrote about that control and enslave others… The country has paid a heavy price with the blood of many soldiers to eradicate them."
Qiu Wuji knew what he was thinking from his tone and nodded slightly, saying, "No wonder your classmate's tone was so stern and cold… Let's help him."
Seeing her matter-of-fact manner, Chu Ge's initial hesitation vanished, and he chuckled, "Sect Leader Qiu is truly a beacon of righteousness."
Qiu Wuji smiled slightly: "You wrote it."
She placed her hand on Chu Ge's shoulder, and the two disappeared in a flash.
Suddenly, a door opened in the alley behind the nightclub, and several burly men carrying boxes and bags fled in panic.
As long as these things weren't confiscated by the police, things could still be salvaged. Even if they were caught trafficking drugs, the quantity was completely irrelevant.
Theoretically, burning these things would be the simplest solution, but who could bear to do that?
That's all money!
Atop a distant wall, Zhang Qiren and several men hid in the shadows, coldly watching the commotion in the alley. Seeing someone emerge, Zhang Qiren patted a skinny man beside him: "Your time to redeem yourself has come..."
The man was none other than the one who had tried to assassinate him earlier. Hearing this, he could only smile bitterly: "Even if the Second Young Master hadn't ordered it, I'd have done it."
Zhang Qiren sneered: "Is that so? Why haven't I seen you do this all these years? But you're quick and ruthless when it comes to assassinating me."
The man remained silent, stepping forward to carry out his mission, when suddenly he exclaimed "Huh!" and stopped.
Zhang Qiren also exclaimed "Huh!", looking at the figure that had suddenly appeared in the alley, his expression twitching: "Why is he here too? Has our fate reached this point? I couldn't tell when we were living together... Sigh, what a pity he's a man."
Those around him: "..." Not only is he a man, but he also has a girlfriend, and that terrifying girlfriend can lift the skinny guy with one hand and fly! Second Young Master, wake up! Maybe you should dress as a woman?
Wait, where's that woman?
Chu Ge didn't let Qiu Wuji appear; he was just keeping watch from the sidelines. Both of them felt it was better for Qiu Wuji not to display his abilities too much in front of outsiders. If he absolutely had to, it should be Chu Ge, since Qiu Wuji didn't even have a proper identity. If it was just to hold them off for a while, Chu Ge, now trained in movement techniques and possessing the Golden Bell Shield, should be able to block the alleyway entrance for a minute or two without much trouble.
The burly man in the alley also saw someone blocking the entrance and, both anxious and angry, shouted, "Get out of the way!"
He charged directly at Chu Ge.
A faint golden light emanated from Chu Ge. Despite the impact, he remained unmoved, while the burly man seemed to have run into a wall, groaning in pain and staggering back several steps before regaining his footing.
"Huh, his stance's getting more stable now. The durian-balancing act really works!" The thought of going back to balance the durian flashed through Chu Ge's mind when he saw two burly men pounce on him, their expressions ferocious: "So you're here to cause trouble, you're asking for it!"
Ferocious expressions, fists the size of vinegar jars, gangsters like mad tigers. Chu Ge had never imagined facing such a scene in his life, but in this moment, he felt no tension whatsoever.
His steps moved aside instinctively, as if in a leisurely stroll despite the narrow alley and the imminent clash. The two men brushed past him without even touching his clothes, while Chu Ge, using the wrong force, stumbled forward.
Zhang Qiren and his group stared in astonishment from afar.
"That roommate of the Second Young Master is fucking handsome! Is this the legendary 'Lingbo Weibu' (a martial arts technique)?"
The next moment, the true form of the handsome Chu Ge was revealed.
He had never practiced any offensive techniques. Since his opponent was wide open, he simply punched the burly man on the left in the face, feeling the satisfying impact of each blow. Just then, a sharp pain shot through his ribs.
It was another burly man who had somehow pulled out a dagger and, in his staggering movements, stabbed it into his ribs without him noticing.
"Clang!" A golden light flashed, the dagger piercing half an inch into flesh, but not quite penetrating deeper.
The burly man's eyes nearly popped out of his head in astonishment. What was happening?
Chu Ge roared in pain, slamming another fist into the man's face. The golden fist distorted his features, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood, crashing heavily against the wall.
"Hiss… Damn it…" Chu Ge clutched his ribs in pain, bending over and looking up. The others had already put down their boxes and all pulled out their daggers.
Chu Ge: "..."
"Where did this greenhorn come from..." The other party was clearly also enraged by the bloodshed: "Want to be a righteous hero? Go be a mother!"
The dagger lunged straight at him.
"Damn..." Chu Ge tried to back away.
The next moment, everything blurred, and Qiu Wuji was already in front of him, her slender, jade-like fingers gently pinching the dagger.
The burly man: "?" With a flick of her slender hand, all the daggers were somehow taken from Qiu Wuji's hand. Before the onlookers' astonished eyes, several daggers were crushed into a lump of scrap metal.
The ever-smiling expression she had maintained these past few days was now icy cold: "You think you can hurt him?"
"Bang!" Several muffled thuds sounded like a single blow. All the burly men were crushed by an invisible force, tumbling backward for more than ten meters, crashing back to the doorway they had just exited.
The police burst out of the door at that moment.
Qiu Wuji had already disappeared with Chu Ge.
A skinny, hunched-over man leaped down from the distant wall, cackling maliciously, "Young Master Zhang told me to give my regards to Young Master Wang!" Lin Wuyang glanced down at the credit he'd gained for nothing, then looked up at the night sky where the skinny man had disappeared, his brow furrowing. "Has Zhang Xiaoren changed his ways? Does what he did violate any taboos in their underworld?"