Night Raid on the Black Pole Gang

"Who goes there?!"

"Catch him!"

Lu Chen jumped onto a courtyard wall and stood in the shadows, watching Li Feng in the courtyard. Lu Chen had thrown him in, breaking his leg in the fall, and he was now screaming in pain.

Several members of the Black Pole Gang came out with their clothes in disarray, knives in their hands and uncertainty written all over their faces.

What the fuck was this thing?

Had he come to the Black Pole Gang to air his bird?

"Have... bee... have... bee!"

Tears streamed from Li Feng's eyes as he struggled to crawl across the ground toward one of the men, his face deathly pale. He kept shouting a slurred "Save me."

The man's expression grew somewhat grave.

What the...

"Pfft!"

A pebble passed precisely through the man's eye socket and made its first intimate contact with his brain.

His head snapped back, and he fell flat on his back.

"Old Wang! Old Wang! Fuck, he's dead?"

The people beside him scattered in terror.

"It's him! It's him! Kill him!"

The man beside Old Wang was furious.

Li Feng had just been crawling toward Old Wang.

Then Old Wang had died.

They hadn't even seen what had killed him!

A chill ran through them all.

In the courtyard, the blood-covered thing making strange noises froze when he saw Old Wang fall. He turned to look behind him, but couldn't see anything. Even more terrified, he looked at another man.

He hurriedly crawled toward the burly man holding a knife. With his palms cut and one foot broken, his movements were rather strange.

"Have... bee... bye bladder is Bee Biren!" (Save me, my father is Li Ziren!)

The burly man's face was trembling.

"Don't fucking come over here! Get lost!"

"Bang!"

Though the burly man had already hidden behind a pillar, it still couldn't completely cover his body.

Lu Chen's first pebble struck his arm, making him stagger and exposing his head.

The second pebble smashed his throat.

They couldn't see who was attacking at all. In the dead of night, with such a bizarre thing in front of them, spitting blood as he spoke and moving in a strange, frightening way, who wouldn't be afraid?

The remaining three were filled with terror and anger, their adrenaline surging.

"Fuck, kill him! He's playing tricks!"

One of them forced down his fear and let out a roar. With a resolute expression, he swung his steel saber straight at Li Feng.

Li Feng's pupils abruptly contracted, and he flew into a rage.

"Boo bare bill bee!" (You dare kill me!)

"Pfft!"

What the hell was he babbling about?!

Die, damn you!

Playing ghost and scaring people!

The saber struck Li Feng's neck, slicing halfway through it.

Blood sprayed high into the air.

Behind them, Lu Chen smiled with satisfaction.

"Good, that's how the script should go!"

He stopped attacking and looked at his panel instead.

[With the host's intervention, the fates of Wang Niu and Chen Zhuang have changed]

[Fate Value +170, Luck Value +2]

[Total: 1052]

Once Li Feng died, the courtyard fell silent.

Zhou Tiezhu, the man who had killed Li Feng, waited a long time. When nothing else happened, he cautiously came out and looked around.

Nothing really had happened.

Anger immediately welled up in him.

Fuck, that bastard really had been playing ghost and scaring people, and he'd killed two of my brothers!

"Could he have come looking for a child? We've run into quite a few people like that before!"

Seeing that Zhou Tiezhu was fine, the other two came out as well. They looked at Li Feng's fallen body and speculated.

"Let's see what kind of thing he is, coming here to court death!"

They fetched a basin of water from a room and splashed it over his face, washing away the blood and dirt stuck to it and revealing his features.

The three frowned as they looked, then their expressions changed drastically.

"Th-this... this is Young Master Li?"

"Young Master Li?!"

"Impossible! How could it be him?" Zhou Tiezhu's world came crashing down. He hurriedly turned Li Feng's head to face him and took a closer look.

His eyes went wide, and his face turned deathly pale.

I'm finished!

I actually killed Li Feng, Li Ziren's son?

His hands trembled as he swallowed, at a loss for what to do.

The other two exchanged a glance and quietly backed away.

They couldn't shoulder the blame for this.

Zhou Tiezhu's expression suddenly turned vicious.

He took his saber and tried to stop the two from going to report it. But they had already been on guard against him, so how could they let him have his way? One blocked his descending saber, while the other sent him flying with a kick.

"Quick, go down and tell the boss something's happened!"

Seeing that his plan had failed and reckoning that he couldn't escape, Zhou Tiezhu immediately picked up his saber and tried to kill himself.

He was a member of the Black Pole Gang himself and had seen the boss's methods. If he fell into the boss's hands, he truly wouldn't be able to live even if he wanted to, or die even if he wished to.

He might as well end it all with death.

Lu Chen saw this. That wouldn't do!

If he died, wouldn't that Luck Value go to waste?

He immediately flicked out a pebble, striking the nerve in Zhou Tiezhu's arm.

Zhou Tiezhu's hand went slack, and the steel saber fell to the ground.

Seeing that Zhou Tiezhu still wanted to kill himself, the man beside him sneered, though he didn't know why Zhou Tiezhu had thrown his saber away again. He kicked the saber aside. "You can't die now. If you die, we're done for! Sorry, brother!"

He brought his saber hilt down on Zhou Tiezhu's head, knocking him to the ground.

Zhou Tiezhu didn't dodge. Instead, he pointed at the darkness behind the man and cried out in agitation, "Brother, there's someone behind you! Someone hit me with a stone! It was him, him!"

"Quiet down. Where is anyone? How come I can't see them? Don't think you can fool me!"

Before long, several people came out of a room, their faces full of alarm.

At their head was a short, lean middle-aged man.

"Boss, it was him!"

The man who had just gone to fetch them came over to Zhou Tiezhu and pointed at Li Feng's corpse.

The man they called boss was richly dressed, with an archer's ring on his hand and a smile on his face. Anyone who didn't know him might have taken him for a businessman.

He came before Li Feng, and the corner of his eye twitched at the sight of his miserable state.

Fucking hell, what a mess!

In the dead of night, even he might not have recognized this as Li Feng, Young Master Li, who was always so well dressed!

The smile on his face remained, though the corners of his mouth dipped slightly.

This is a bit troublesome!

"Did you kill him?"

He looked at Zhou Tiezhu and asked in a gentle voice.

"It wasn't me. There was someone else! Someone just hit me with a stone!"

Zhou Tiezhu shouted in agitation, pointing behind him.

By then, Lu Chen had long since slipped away and hidden in another direction.

Fire a shot and change positions—even a three-year-old understood that.

"Someone?" Kang Mao looked in the direction Zhou Tiezhu was pointing. "Where?"

Zhou Tiezhu was about to say more, but Kang Mao waved a hand, and the men following him took out ropes and tied Zhou Tiezhu up.

Several others ran out at once, while some jumped onto the surrounding wall and swept their gazes back and forth from above, looking for the person Zhou Tiezhu had mentioned.

Zhou Tiezhu continued struggling and shouting, "There really was someone, Boss Kang, really! He hit my arm with a pebble. Right, Old Wang! Old Wang suddenly died, so he must have been killed by a stone too. You'll know if you take a look!"

Kang Mao looked at the panic-stricken Zhou Tiezhu and shook his head. "Whether there was someone else or not, that's no longer your concern! Take him away!"

"Yes, boss!"

Kang Mao went over to Old Wang and the other man who had been killed. He examined them with his hands, a grave look appearing in his eyes.

"The force went straight into the skull. This person's strength is not to be underestimated. To dare provoke my Black Pole Gang at a time like this, and bring Li Feng here—was he trying to pin the blame on us?"

He straightened up and looked into the darkness in the distance.

"Who in Sand Lake County Town is skilled with hidden weapons? Or was it a river-crossing dragon from outside?"

He had no idea.

Today was supposed to have been a grand show of carving up the Green Bamboo Gang. Who would have thought something would go wrong? The Black Pole Gang had suffered heavy losses.

No one knew who had killed Li Mantun, and the enforcers he had taken with him had all died too, alongside the Green Bamboo Gang's men.

Judging by their wounds, they all bore traces of hidden weapons.

Could it have been this person?

Somewhat worried, he said, "Quick, go fetch the Gang Leader. I have something important to discuss with him!"

"Yes!"

Lu Chen had just dealt with several Black Pole Gang members who had run out looking for him. He quietly came to the outside of the wall, just in time to hear those words.

Zhao Defu wasn't here?

Then didn't that mean...