You're all children of destiny

The three of them sat around a round table in the little bar.

Lu Chengwen set a glass in front of each of the other two.

"Want ice? It tastes amazing with ice."

After pouring two glasses of liquor, Lu Chengwen raised his own glass. "To everlasting friendship."

The other two wore quite the expressions.

At that moment, all three had bruised, swollen faces and injuries all over their bodies.

Lu Chengwen suddenly burst out laughing. "You two really should look in a mirror."

"You don't look much better!" Zhao Ritian said.

Long Aotian shot them both an irritated glance, drained his glass, then opened his eyes wide. "Holy shit! That was fucking good!"

Hearing that, Zhao Ritian hurriedly drank his liquor too, then let out a forceful breath. "Whew! That hit the spot! Hahaha!"

Lu Chengwen gave them a hollow smile. "Another glass?"

Both men eagerly held out their glasses.

As Lu Chengwen poured, he asked, "When you were smashing your fists into each other's faces, did it ever occur to you that something about all this was a little off?"

Lu Chengwen raised his eyes and looked at each of them in turn.

They stared at him, utterly bewildered.

Lu Chengwen set down the bottle.

"Why did Shanj i and Haonan dump us here? Old Man Wu isn't like that pair of lunatics, Tiangang and Earthly Fiend. Those two actually use their brains. So why?"

Zhao Ritian shook his head honestly. "Dunno!"

Long Aotian was utterly exhausted. "Everything happened too fast. I didn't have time to think."

"Then why did Sky Net send so many people this time?" Lu Chengwen asked. "And how did they pinpoint our location so accurately? It looked like they wanted to catch us all in one sweep."

Zhao Ritian gritted his teeth. "I