Darkness Travel Tactics

Now things were looking bad. The fake gun had been exposed, and Zhang Junwei had a knife pressed to his neck. He knew he had no room to bargain.

Huang Ji was simply too composed, as though everything was under his control and nothing could possibly surprise him.

The moment he picked up the gun, he tossed it away. Clearly, he had known it was fake the instant he weighed it in his hand. Just how familiar with guns did he have to be? This was a highly realistic replica.

"Everyone, put down your weapons!" Zhang Junwei shot a fierce glare at the underling who had fired.

Everyone lowered their weapons. Xiao Zha even punched the shooter in the face, knocking him to the ground as he cursed, "You dared to shoot at the boss?"

"It was a fake gun..." the man said, clutching his head.

"Shut up. I'll deal with you later!"

After saying that, Xiao Zha turned to Zhang Junwei. "Boss, how about we don't do this job?"

Zhang Junwei gave no answer. After considering the situation, he spoke to Huang Ji calmly.

"Brother, may I ask who you are?"

Huang Ji flipped through the phone as he said, "The person looking for us was willing to call and hire you."

"You could say that. I already took the deposit. Even if I hadn't found you, I would've still gotten fifty thousand. I admit it—I got greedy when I captured you," Zhang Junwei said.

Huang Ji smiled and waved the phone. "It was this number saved as '666' that hired you, right?"

"Yeah."

Huang Ji continued, "The moment you dare call him and tell him you found us, you're dead. Not because I want to kill you, but because he does."

"Huh? Why?" Zhang Junwei did not understand.

Huang Ji said, "You should have honestly found Lao Wang, reported our whereabouts to this '666,' and let him send his own people to capture us. Then nothing would have happened, and you could have earned five hundred thousand."

"If you hadn't called or involved yourself in this, then the fifty-thousand deposit would already be yours. You'd still have made a profit."

"But you went against his instructions, acted on your own, and alerted us."

"We could run away and disappear, but he would definitely retaliate against you. Not only because he'd vent his anger on you, but also because he'd fear that you learned something from us."

Zhang Junwei frowned. "Learned what?"

"What you learned isn't the point. The point is that he'll think you know. Especially since we took something from him—he'll do everything possible to get it back. Since you coveted that thing, you'll inevitably be implicated," Huang Ji said.

Zhang Junwei curled his lip. "You think I'm afraid of him?"

"You're still too low-level. You weren't qualified to be hired directly by him in the first place. I think... this '666' must have contacted you through some connection, right?" Huang Ji asked.

Zhang Junwei nodded. "Through Ma Ye."

Huang Ji smiled. "Can you afford to provoke Ma Ye?"

Zhang Junwei fell silent. Of course he could not. Ma Ye's business had spread overseas, and thousands of people made their living under him.

"In the eyes of this '666,' Ma Ye is just a chicken," Huang Ji said.

"What?" Zhang Junwei was stunned.

He quickly recalled that after accepting '666's commission, Ma Ye had personally called him and told him to give it his all, not to slack off after collecting the fifty-thousand deposit.

However, he had merely assumed that '666' was Ma Ye's friend. Ma Ye did not want to lose face and wanted him to handle the matter well.

"You're exaggerating. Why would someone that powerful come to me for a job?" Zhang Junwei said skeptically.

Huang Ji said, "Who said he only hired you? Within three weeks, he contacted..."

"What? ...Wouldn't that mean the deposits alone cost two hundred and fifty million?" Zhang Junwei felt that Huang Ji was talking nonsense.

What could the people he was willing to spend that much money searching for possibly have stolen? Huang Ji was probably just making things up.

Huang Ji knew Zhang Junwei would not believe him. He was merely giving the man an idea of the scale involved.

He directly deleted the number from Zhang Junwei's contacts, then erased the call records as well.

Zhang Junwei did not remember the client's number. He could not possibly memorize every number, so once Huang Ji deleted the records, Zhang Junwei could no longer contact the client directly...

Of course, he could still ask Ma Ye or find others in nearby areas who had received the same commission and ask them for the number.

So Huang Ji said, "If you think my enemy sounds too unbelievable, you don't have to believe me."

"But you'd better listen to me. Don't think about calling that number back. No matter who asks, tell them you didn't find us."

With that, Huang Ji released the dagger.

"Fine, I promise you... but my brothers won't agree." As Zhang Junwei spoke, his body suddenly slid off the chair. Clutching the dagger beside his collarbone, he rolled far away.

At the same time, the underlings grabbed their weapons and rushed forward together. Clearly, they had all understood Zhang Junwei's signal.

As the fight suddenly broke out, Lao Wang gritted his teeth and shouted at Huang Ji, "One half each!"

Lin Li, beside him, also picked up a chair and charged in.

A chaotic brawl erupted. Several men surrounded the three of them and attacked.

This should have been a hard fight. These men were not weak, and they had weapons. Meanwhile, Huang Ji had yet to master the Inner Canon. Although he had sorted out various martial arts forms, he had not begun practicing them.

With weak-point strikes alone, he was confident he could deal with these people, but it would take time.

And that would have been enough time for Lin Li and Lao Wang to be beaten bloody.

However, Huang Ji had already prepared for this. Otherwise, he would not have deliberately allowed Zhang Junwei to break free from his grasp.

He swiftly rushed into the crowd, moving as silently as a cat.

He had already crouched slightly in preparation to evade. With that one motion alone, he dodged the attacks of three people around him at once!

Then he ran diagonally, avoiding two people's kicks, while casually brushing one man's elbow in front of him as though plucking a string.

That brush seemed casual, but it drained the strength from the man's arm and sent soreness through his back muscles. No one knew which numb nerve Huang Ji had touched.

Having done all that, Huang Ji did not waste a second. Without even looking at the people around him, he immediately turned back and traced a Z-shaped path.

Without question, he once again avoided a pincer attack from two people.

In just five seconds, everyone discovered in shock that Huang Ji had passed through all of them, easily crossed the crowd, and reached the warehouse entrance.

What the hell kind of footwork was that?

Their formation was not especially tight, but neither was it loose. Huang Ji had dodged and blocked the attacks of eight people in succession, pierced straight through their entire line, and moved as though no one was there!

"He's running!" someone shouted.

"It's fine! I locked the door!" someone said smugly.

They immediately turned around and gave chase. The door was locked, and without the key, there was no way to open it.

But Huang Ji had not gone to the warehouse entrance to escape.

He reached out and pressed the light switch...

Click!

The warehouse was instantly plunged into darkness!

When bright light suddenly vanished, human eyes could not adapt to the darkness immediately. For a short while, they could not even see their own fingers, as though they had gone blind.

That was true for everyone... except Huang Ji.

Bang! Thud! Smack! Aah!

"Turn on the lights! Ugh..."

"Fuck, fuck, fuck..."

"Who hit me?"

"Argh! Hiss..."

The darkness descended into utter chaos. Slapping and crashing sounds rang without end, while everyone cried out in pain.

But the sounds grew fewer and softer, until only groans remained.

Seventeen seconds later, the lights came back on.

Lao Wang and Lin Li squinted and looked around, then froze in horror. Every one of the men had been beaten down and lay sprawled across the floor.

They groaned and whimpered. Some were too cramped up to rise, while others had half their bodies numb and unable to exert strength.

Huang Ji had merely employed a little tactics, yet he had effortlessly taken down several men.

Including the time it took to turn off the lights, it had only taken a little over twenty seconds!

In darkness, Huang Ji's advantage was simply too great. With his Information Sense, he had no need for vision at all.

He possessed synesthesia. Fighting with his eyes closed was hardly any different from fighting with them open.

This was vastly superior to merely locating enemies by sound. To him, hearing was as good as seeing with his own eyes!

But the others could not do that. In the darkness, Huang Ji beat them so badly that they had no ability to fight back.

Using this advantage and employing Darkness Travel Tactics, let alone a few people, Huang Ji could fight even a hundred people.