Chapter 56: Pursuit
The streets outside the Ghost Market were empty.
Streetlamps shone on the three people, casting three patches of shadow across the ground.
Ni San and his companion wiped the smiles off their faces.
Ni San said, "Don't try to scare us with the Force-Generating Stage. Our boss, Tian Wenhu, has crippled plenty of Force-Generating Stage opponents. I'll give you a choice: either explain where those ox bones came from, or make up the difference. Something worth forty thousand, and you sold it for fifty-eight thousand. Just give me eighteen thousand to cover it. I've always been fair in my dealings."
"That price difference is indeed fair. I transferred the money to my eldest uncle. Come on, go find him with me and have him give you eighteen thousand. Twenty-eight thousand would work too. And if you think my eldest uncle isn't enough, my third uncle works at the Martial Guard Bureau. You can meet him too," Zhou Leng said.
Ni San shot Zhou Leng a sidelong glance and said, "Kid, you're pretty good at putting on an act, huh? On Bada Pioneer Corporation's turf, you think you can use your uncles as shields? Cut the crap. Hand over eighteen thousand and get lost. Refuse, and lie down!"
Zhou Leng frowned. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "The Devil Sirens are watching us like tigers eyeing their prey outside. We're all Humans—why harm our own people over such trifling gains?"
"What the hell does that have to do with me?" Ni San said with a laugh.
"I understand now," Zhou Leng said.
Ni San's companion laughed. "No need to put on a bluff. We saw you clearly just now. You're only around twenty, at most newly entered the Blood-Qi Stage. I'm already at Qi-Nourishing Great Accomplishment, and