2024-07-31
Great Thief
"What?" Lu Gang froze, not understanding what Song Changming meant.
In the deserted alley, the man stopped halfway through and looked ahead.
At the corner on the other end of the alley, amid a flurry of footsteps, Lu Gang emerged with several patrol guards and blocked his path.
"Who are you? State your name." As Lu Gang approached, he asked in a low voice.
"Courting death!" A vicious expression appeared beneath the man's bamboo hat. Without another word, he shot toward Lu Gang.
Lu Gang was startled by the man's ruthlessness, and even more so by the speed he unleashed. It was incredibly fast.
In the blink of an eye, the other man had pounced before him.
Lu Gang decisively drew his saber and slashed, but the man stopped abruptly and leaped up, easily evading the long blade in Lu Gang's hand.
With a flick of his hand, two long, pointed iron claws emerged from his sleeves and raked viciously at Lu Gang's head.
Lu Gang blocked the pair of Iron Claws with his saber, but the man struck with both feet, kicking him squarely in the chest and sending him stumbling back several steps.
Looking at the nimble, monkey-like fellow before him and those iron claw weapons, Lu Gang recalled something.
There were not many people in the martial world who used iron claws as their weapon of choice.
"Night Haunter, Sun Meng!" Lu Gang identified him.
This fellow was a notorious thief on the government's wanted list. If Lu Gang remembered correctly, the bounty on him was as high as three thousand silver!
That was no small sum.
The man had acted with utter abandon. Theft was only one of his crimes; rape, kidnapping, and plunder—he had done it all.
He was a thoroughly vile