Chapter 780 — Dragging Someone Down With Me

The instant their fists struck his body, Wei Zhao circulated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, compressed a localized portion of the energy inside him, and injected it into those thugs' fists — and the effect came out at once: their fists were ruined on the spot.

Of course, he had only been conducting an experiment, compressing but a tiny trace of energy. Otherwise, never mind a single fist — an entire arm, or even the whole man, might well have blown apart.

These men were ordinary folk who had never cultivated a day in their lives; they had no way to withstand the damage of energy released in an instant.

"Oh... then could you teach me?" Yu Xiaoke was full of envy. With this trick of Wei Zhao's in hand, she would never again have to live in constant fear.

"No." Wei Zhao shook his head.

"Tch, what a cheapskate!" Yu Xiaoke pouted like a child.

"You know lightness skill, so you've probably heard of a Yellow-rank expert?" Wei Zhao looked at Yu Xiaoke and asked.

"Of course I've heard of them. When my master was young, he was a Yellow-rank expert — it's just that enemies wounded him..." Yu Xiaoke suddenly realized she had let her tongue slip; she had said far too much! How could she tell secrets like these to a stranger she had only just met? What if he turned out to be her master's enemy? She shut her mouth at once and looked at Wei Zhao warily.

"Heh. Then wait until you become a Yellow-rank expert yourself before you come to learn it — by then, you might be able to." Wei Zhao smiled. As for Yu Xiaoke's background, Wei Zhao naturally paid it little mind; it was Yu Xiaoke who was being oversuspicious.

"No way? You're a Yellow-rank expert?" Yu Xiaoke was stunned, and suddenly stared at Wei Zhao in surprise.

"No." Wei Zhao shook his head.

"Tch, I knew it!" Yu Xiaoke was rather disappointed. "How could you just casually run into a Yellow-rank expert?"

"Hey, when is that whatever Sect Senior Sister of yours going to get here? Our Big Boss, Giant Deer Bro, has arrived!" Black Bird Bro now brimmed with confidence — with Giant Deer Bro backing him up, he no longer feared a thing Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke might dare to do.

"Any minute now..." Wei Zhao said cautiously. "Why are there so many of you? Don't tell me you've all come?"

"Damn right. Your Flying Swallow Sect wants a fight to the death, so of course we give you face and bring everyone!" Black Bird Bro laughed heartily. "You're not scared, are you?"

"Of course not..." But Wei Zhao suddenly smiled faintly. "Our people are here!"

"Here? Where?" Giant Deer Bro was startled, and then his expression abruptly turned ugly.

All at once, shrill police sirens blared from both ends of the alley, and countless police officers closed in from both sides at once!

"People inside, listen up! You're surrounded. Put down your weapons — surrender is the only way to lighten your crimes!" As the police charged in, a loudspeaker began to shout.

"Fuck! What's going on?" Giant Deer Bro glared at Black Bird Bro. "Why are the cops here?"

"I don't know either! Who knows how the cops got wind of it..." Black Bird Bro stopped mid-sentence and glared at Wei Zhao. "It's you — you're the one who called the police!"

"Oh, so you're not as dumb as you look?" Wei Zhao looked at Black Bird Bro's apoplectic face and could not help but laugh. "But it's too late. Figuring it out now does you no good."

"Damn it! Giant Deer Bro, this little bastard called the cops! If we're going down, we're dragging him down with us!" Black Bird Bro was choking with rage; he had never imagined that Wei Zhao would pull a stunt like this and bring the police down on them!

He had thought Wei Zhao really was summoning the Flying Swallow Sect for a fight to the death — who would have guessed it was nothing of the sort!

"Brothers, at them! Hack him to death!" Giant Deer Bro ordered his men.

But by now, how would any of these thieves dare to go chop Wei Zhao? They were surrounded front and back by police; escape was absolutely impossible. Sooner or later they would be hauled off by the cops — and to start slashing people with knives now would only pile more crimes onto their own heads. Who would do anything that stupid?

And so, though Giant Deer Bro gave the order, his men only looked at one another; not one was willing to be the first to cut down Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke.

"Didn't you hear me? Hack them to death!" Giant Deer Bro grew frantic. "Whoever kills them gets a hundred thousand each!"

Where there is a rich reward, there are sure to be brave men — so Giant Deer Bro reasoned. If he did not dangle some profit now, who would make a move? So instead of saying ten or twenty thousand, he put up a full hundred thousand.

Of course, at any other time, had he offered a hundred thousand, these underlings would have been itching to step up and claim the bounty. But now they were about to be arrested; Giant Deer Bro and Black Bird Bro could not escape that fate either. Where would they even get a hundred thousand? So never mind whether the money could be collected — even if it could, they would have to be alive to spend it. Killing a man was far graver a crime than plain theft; once in prison, what use was money?

So never mind a hundred thousand — even if Giant Deer Bro had named an astronomical million, no one would be foolish enough to go cut anyone down. Police stood at both ends of the alley; no one was getting away.

Giant Deer Bro clearly saw this too. He snatched a cleaver from one of his men's hands, preparing to finish Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke himself!

Others feared adding to their crimes — but Giant Deer Bro did not.

Giant Deer Bro was the head of the thief gang; the stolen money and goods that had passed through his hands were worth over a hundred million, and he had several lives on his hands from home invasions and robberies. He knew perfectly well that walking into a police station meant a dead end — he would never come out again.

So he had no more fear. If he was going down, he would drag someone down with him. He took up the cleaver and went straight for Wei Zhao.

"You little bastard! You set me up — if I'm going in today, I'm not letting you off easy either!" Giant Deer Bro was a ruthless character; otherwise he could not have several lives on his hands. He swung the blade straight at Wei Zhao's head. "Whatever Iron Armor kung fu you've got, it's useless! However high your martial arts, you still fear a cleaver — ever heard that?"

"I've heard it!" Wei Zhao nodded, then lifted his leg and kicked.

Giant Deer Bro shot through the air like a kite with its string cut, whooshing off in a straight line along the path of Wei Zhao's kick. He bowled over the underling behind him without the slightest sign of stopping, plowing backward through the whole row until he smashed into the last man at the very end and finally came crashing heavily down.

As luck would have it, he landed right on the cleaver in that last underling's hand. Giant Deer Bro let out a howl and passed out.

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