Strange Fist

Strange Fist

Lü Zongmin was extremely unwilling to accept this. He had never imagined that Liang Yuan knew nothing at all!

Back then, Liang Yuan had worked with that husband-and-wife pair, yet she had received none of the money and did not even know where the Buddha statue was.

What he did not know was that Liang Yuan's only goal at the time had been to escape that gang. She had never done it for the money.

"Damn it! A miscalculation..." Lü Zongmin knew that the couple had surely fled long ago.

If he wanted to find out where the golden Buddha was, he could only track down those two again.

As for Liang Yuan, she knew the three of them existed. To prevent her from giving the police any leads, they could only get rid of her.

"Send her on her way. Then we leave," Lü Zongmin said with a sigh. Though he wore a mask, he still wanted to play it safe.

Little did he know that if he had not intended to kill her, Huang Ji might have simply watched them leave.

But he wanted to kill Liang Yuan, and that was something Huang Ji could not allow.

"Mmm..." Huang Ji took out the small speaker he had removed earlier and triggered the alarm.

"Beep beep beep beep beep!"

In an instant, the blaring alarm pierced the night.

Preoccupied with his worries, Lü Zongmin suddenly heard the ringing outside and thought of the trap he had set.

"Someone's coming up the mountain?"

"Do it now, then get down the mountain immediately!" Lü Zongmin growled in a low voice.

Hearing that, Huang Ji felt helpless.

He had triggered the alarm early. They still had time to run.

Yet even as they were leaving, they still refused to forget about silencing her.

Left with no choice, Huang Ji stepped out.

"One-two-three-four... two-two-three-four..."

Not only did Huang Ji step out, he even muttered under his breath as he did morning exercises, running out of hiding like an idiot.

Lü Zongmin was still wondering who could be coming up the mountain when he saw a country boy running over stupidly while doing radio calisthenics.

"Huh?" The three men under the moon stared in bewilderment.

"Who's this?"

"Looks like he's from one of the villages down the mountain. Was he the one who triggered the alarm?"

Lü Zongmin said impatiently, "You're asking for death. Xiao Liang, he can keep you company!"

With a wave of his hand, Hu Feng stepped forward in two strides and reached for Huang Ji.

Liang Yuan saw Huang Ji from inside the house and cried anxiously, "Don't hurt him! He's just an idiot! He doesn't know anything!"

"An idiot?" Lü Zongmin froze.

Huang Ji really did look like one—out in the wild in the middle of the night, not sleeping, talking to thin air and running around like a fool.

Hu Feng was close enough to hear her. Looking at Huang Ji again, he immediately realized. "Oh! I saw him when I was scouting the place!"

"That's right, he's the famous village idiot from all the nearby villages! A retard!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Huang Ji by the collar with one hand and dragged him into the house.

"Hey... let go of me... let go... Doctor Liang! You're bleeding!" Huang Ji struggled, his tone truly sounding mentally impaired.

To Hu Feng, an idiot was nothing more than someone he could hold by the collar with a contemptuous look. He was not particularly wary.

That was precisely Huang Ji's advantage.

Everyone knew he was mentally impaired. It was a natural disguise.

Still, he could not expect these people to show mercy to an idiot.

Lü Zongmin said coldly, "Idiot, your timing is unfortunate."

"Don't touch him! He's just an idiot. He won't know what you're doing, so let him go!" Liang Yuan knew she was bound to die. She only wanted to save Huang Ji, so she deliberately made him sound even more foolish...

But Lü Zongmin might have looked scholarly, yet he was ruthless at heart.

He did not act personally. He simply patted Hu Feng and told him to do it.

Hu Feng nodded. Holding Huang Ji up with one hand and gripping a knife in the other, he said, "Idiot, make sure you're born into a better life next time!"

Liang Yuan screamed, "No!"

"Don't hit me!" Huang Ji struggled desperately, flailing his limbs. Somehow, the tip of his palm jabbed Hu Feng beneath the ribs.

Hu Feng was exerting force when that jab suddenly knocked the wind out of him!

"Cough... urgh..." Hu Feng's mouth hung open as his hand went limp. He bent over, making strangled sounds in his throat, unable to catch his breath.

Huang Ji shrank backward and slipped free from Hu Feng's grip.

"Feng, what are you doing?" Lü Zongmin shouted in surprise, smacking Hu Feng between the shoulder blades.

Hu Feng's mouth was open, drool spilling out.

That smack made him choke on another breath, but he finally recovered. Sniffling back his drool, he said, "Ow... fuck... I got the wind knocked out of me bad!"

Wang Zhen burst out laughing. "Useless trash! What, calcium deficiency?"

"I'll do it!"

With that, he picked up the knife and stabbed straight at Huang Ji's chest.

Even now, they still underestimated the idiot. Seeing this, Liang Yuan shouted, "Run! Huang Ji, run!"

Huang Ji did not run. Instead, he crouched with his hands over his head and dodged the strike. It did not look like a deliberate dodge, because he moved before Wang Zhen did. Wang Zhen had barely attacked before Huang Ji ducked away, making it look more like sheer luck.

Then Huang Ji sprang up and rammed the top of his head into Wang Zhen's chest.

Wang Zhen flew into a rage, but his chest suddenly tightened. His vision went dark, stars bursting before his eyes, and he stood there frozen.

Seeing this, Huang Ji performed a radio calisthenics stretching exercise. Amid his wild movements, his palm randomly chopped into a spot three inches below and diagonally behind Wang Zhen's armpit.

"I... ooh, ooh, ooh..." Wang Zhen tried to raise his knife, only to feel his arm go numb. Half his body had no strength at all!

"Kill him already!" Lü Zongmin cursed, unable to understand what Wang Zhen was doing.

Wang Zhen also thought to himself, How could I possibly lose to an idiot?

He transferred the knife from his right hand to his left, stepped forward, and tried to slash Huang Ji to death.

But Huang Ji did another chest-expanding exercise, his hand landing right on the nerve in Wang Zhen's other arm. The knife clattered to the floor.

Then, in one smooth motion, he did a leg-kicking exercise. As he kicked wildly, one foot happened to strike a spot on Wang Zhen's calf.

Wang Zhen dropped to his knees before Huang Ji with a thud, unable to stand again.

"What the fuck are you kneeling for?" Lü Zongmin was dumbfounded.

"C-C-Cramp!" Wang Zhen was a big, burly man, but cramps hurt all the same.

Kneeling was not enough—he collapsed onto the floor, writhing in pain, utterly at a loss.

"Useless trash!" Lü Zongmin shoved Hu Feng and roared, "Quit fucking dragging your feet and kill him!"

They were not dragging their feet. This idiot was simply too strange. He had flailed and kicked around at random, yet somehow made one of them lose his breath and the other cramp up!

Of course, Hu Feng had merely had the wind knocked out of him. By now, he had recovered and lunged viciously at Huang Ji.

Huang Ji was still doing radio calisthenics, saying in a guileless tone, "Doctor Liang, Wang Meng Ge said you were kidnapped! Was it them?"

"Leave!" Liang Yuan cried anxiously.

Huang Ji stood there blankly, as though still trying to process it.

Hu Feng did not care about any of that nonsense. He threw a brutal punch and slammed Huang Ji into the wall.

Huang Ji clutched his stomach but still said foolishly, "That hurts!"

Then he did a torso-twisting exercise, turning half a circle left and half a circle right. His elbow suddenly shot out and drove hard into a spot on Hu Feng's waist.

Hu Feng cried out and fell to the ground as if electrocuted. His mouth would not even close, and his whole body stiffened. Half his body had gone numb, and he could no longer control his expression!

"What are you doing? What are you doing?" Lü Zongmin stamped his feet in fury!

What was wrong with these two? They were big, strong men—how could they collapse after getting hit twice at random?

Wang Zhen knelt on the ground and shouted, "This kid's weird! Some kind of Strange Fist! Hiss... I'm still cramping!"

"What Strange Fist? That idiot's doing radio calisthenics!" Lü Zongmin roared.

Lü Zongmin was so furious he nearly laughed!

A bunch of useless trash! Two men had actually been taken down by an idiot doing radio calisthenics?

Lü Zongmin had initially wondered whether this really was an idiot, but after seeing Huang Ji randomly knock down two men, and seeing that he was not running now but had instead gone to Liang Yuan's side, he felt that Huang Ji was obviously an idiot after all.

Liang Yuan was frantic. Though she had no idea how Huang Ji had accidentally taken down two criminals, now was the perfect chance to escape.

"Run! Call the police! Huang Ji! Go!"

Liang Yuan shouted, but Huang Ji untied her ropes and said guilelessly, "Doctor Liang is hurt. I'll carry Doctor Liang down the mountain."

Once the ropes were untied, Liang Yuan gritted her teeth, endured the intense pain, and staggered to her feet. She grabbed Huang Ji and ran outside.

Seeing this, Lü Zongmin lunged forward, preparing to kill them himself.

Though he looked scholarly and had not fought much, he thought he could handle a badly injured woman and a foolish boy.

"Don't think about leaving!" Lü Zongmin blocked the only doorway and approached with his knife raised.

Liang Yuan let go of Huang Ji's hand and said, "I'll stop him. You run... hey! Don't!"

She had wanted to hold Lü Zongmin back so Huang Ji could escape, but Huang Ji moved faster than she did and charged forward first.

"Ahhh!" Huang Ji yelled, crossing his arms and swinging them like windmills. It was the classic turtle fist!

Hu Feng and Wang Zhen were strong and sturdy, but Lü Zongmin was only average.

Huang Ji was a sixteen-year-old country boy, and his intelligence was actually normal. He did not need any special methods to fight Lü Zongmin.

After that barrage of wild punches, Lü Zongmin's face was bruised and swollen. But because he had a knife, he was still able to trade blows with the seemingly crazed Huang Ji.

The two grappled together, red-faced and straining, seemingly deadlocked for the moment.

Lü Zongmin was furious. I can trade blows with this idiot just fine. He doesn't feel impressive at all.

How had those two useless fools failed to beat him? How had they been taken down so quickly?

The commotion here was loud, and Huang Ji had deliberately triggered the alarm before revealing himself.

So when the police at the foot of the mountain heard the noise, they rushed up. They had now arrived at the scene.

"Stop!"

Team Leader Chen shouted as he burst in through the door and immediately tackled the two men to the ground.

Then the other detectives rushed in and subdued everyone at the scene except Liang Yuan.

Huang Ji did not resist. Lying on the ground, he even smiled and said, "Wang Meng Ge, Doctor Liang has been found!"

"Hey, hey, hey, Team Leader Chen, he's from our village!" Wang Meng hurriedly said when he saw Huang Ji.

Liang Yuan then said, "Huang Ji stumbled up here by chance. Those people wanted to silence me, and he saved me!"

Team Leader Chen released Huang Ji. Huang Ji happily got to his feet, then stood there blankly.

He had often stared blankly since childhood, and the villagers were used to it.

Liang Yuan quickly explained what had just happened.

Huang Ji stood there in a daze without saying a word. Others naturally explained everything clearly for him.

The moment Lü Zongmin and the others saw the police arrive, their faces turned ashen.

Looking at Huang Ji's vacant, idiotic expression, they felt a burning fury in their guts, utterly unwilling to accept it.

That kid had used nothing but turtle fist. Lü Zongmin had fought him for quite a while and felt they were evenly matched!

How had Wang Zhen and Hu Feng, those two useless fools, ended up losing?

But there was no point thinking about it now. In the hands of the police, all he could think about was how to defend himself and which defense lawyer he should hire.