Lu Chengwen grabbed a big handful. "Hey, hey, hey, stop stabbing! Stop twisting! Oh, for fuck's sake..."
Cang Hai and Cang Yue knelt facing each other, glaring.
Each held a dagger in a reverse grip, driving it into the other's chest like hammering a nail with a fist, then twisting it! Gritting their teeth as they twisted!
They were competing!
Fire burned in both their eyes!
They glared at each other, seeing who would back down first!
Cang Hai gripped his dagger and gave it a vicious twist. Cang Yue trembled all over from the pain.
Cang Hai sneered:
"Junior Brother, what I endured last night was the pain of every bone in my body being shattered. What you're doing is nothing compared to yesterday!"
Cang Yue gripped his dagger and gouged hard. Cang Hai sucked in a breath, but the pain left him unable to let it out again.
Cang Yue gritted his teeth. "I've endured this kind of pain twice! Twice! That's more than you!"
The two were still competing when Lu Chengwen shouted, "Come take a look! Look first, then keep stabbing."
They turned their heads together. Lu Chengwen displayed it. "Newspapers. They're all newspapers."
Both froze, and their grips instantly slackened.
When they looked at each other again, both wore baffled expressions.
"Let go."
"You let go!"
"You first."
"You first!"
"Then together."
"I don't trust you!"
Lu Chengwen said, "Come take a look first!"
Still holding their daggers in reverse grips, with the blades lodged in each other's chests, the two stared each other down as they shuffled sideways toward Lu Chengwen.
Hua Xuening held back a laugh. "So stupid."
The two arrived and looked down.
The case had burst open from the fall, spilling newspapers everywhere.
Maintaining their posture, they slowly crouched down, each