Who Would Dare Step Up?

After obtaining Beginner Combat Skill, Su Yang's physique had risen to 85 points.

All aspects of his physical abilities had also improved greatly without him realizing it.

An ordinary person's physique was generally around 70, with 100 being the maximum, though that represented the ideal state.

Even the world's top athletes could not reach that number. Getting close to 90 was practically the limit.

But after obtaining the system, Su Yang's physique no longer fell within the category of ordinary people. The maximum number of physique points he could have was limitless.

However, Su Yang did not know this yet.

He charged toward the man in black. The man looked a whole lot thinner than him, and he was not particularly tall either.

Even without Beginner Combat Skill, Su Yang was confident he could easily take him down.

In the blink of an eye, before the man could reach the door, Su Yang had already caught up with him.

He reached out and grabbed the man's back.

The man was abruptly yanked to a halt by Su Yang and immediately panicked.

He turned around and shouted, "Get lost!!" After shouting, he hugged the four or five bags and desperately ran toward the door again.

Su Yang got fired up as well. With a hard pull, he sent the man crashing to the floor.

He quickly knelt down and pressed his knee against the man's lower abdomen. Then he pinned the man's head with one hand and yanked apart the hands clutching the bags with the other.

The moment his hands were pulled apart, the bags fell to the floor.

"Stealing in broad daylight? You've got some nerve!" Su Yang shouted.

The man desperately tried to break free, but Su Yang was a whole size larger than him. Their weight and strength were on entirely different levels, so he could not break free at all.

The man clenched his fists and punched at Su Yang's face, but Su Yang easily dodged by turning his head.

"If you've got the guts, let me go. I'll fight you one-on-one."

Su Yang grinned when he heard that. He had been wanting to properly test the power of Beginner Combat Skill anyway.

"Sure." As he spoke, he released the man and let him stand up.

Free of Su Yang's restraint, the man quickly got to his feet.

He glared viciously at Su Yang and roared, "I'll fucking kill you!"

The moment the words left his mouth, he leaped forward and kicked at Su Yang's lower abdomen.

Su Yang turned sideways, and his right fist slammed solidly into the man's face.

Bright red blood instantly sprayed from the man's nostrils.

The man cried out and covered his nose as he staggered back several steps.

"Come on. I'll fight you with one hand." Su Yang smiled and tucked his left hand behind his back, then extended his right hand and beckoned for the man to attack again.

The man swallowed hard, steeled his resolve, and charged at Su Yang once more.

The instant he rushed over, he grabbed a chair beside him and swung it at Su Yang.

Seeing this, Su Yang did not dare to be careless. After all, he had not been in many fights, and his experience was limited. If he got hit, he did not even know whether his current physique could withstand it.

The man swung the chair at Su Yang's head.

Several sales clerks nearby and Lu Yun screamed at the same time.

"Su Yang, look out!" Lu Yun shouted nervously from nearby.

Before the chair could smash into his forehead, in that split second, all kinds of combat techniques suddenly appeared in Su Yang's mind.

With no time to think, he shot forward, lowered his body, wrapped both arms around the man's waist, and used his momentum to drive the man to the ground.

With a bang, the chair fell from the man's hands and landed nearby.

Su Yang suddenly exerted force with his arms around the man's body and rolled him over, instantly flipping the man onto himself.

Then he kicked off with both feet and shifted his body upward. As he released the man's waist, he quickly locked his arms around the man's neck.

Once he had secured the position, a smile appeared at the corner of Su Yang's mouth.

He suddenly tightened his hold. The man's eyes widened instantly, and his face flushed red.

He grabbed Su Yang's arms with both hands and tried to pull them apart.

But once a rear-naked choke was locked in, it was practically impossible to escape. Moreover, Su Yang and the man were not even in the same weight class. The difference in strength was simply too great.

Su Yang gradually increased the pressure. The man's face changed from red to white, his eyes rolled upward, and the hands gripping Su Yang suddenly went limp.

Seeing this, Su Yang quickly released him, shoved the man away, and stood up.

"Done."

"This, this, this!!"

"Is he dead?" Several customers nearby cried out in fright.

"He's not dead. He just passed out. It's nothing serious. Don't you have security here?"

"Coming, coming!"

Just then, two tall security guards finally came running in from outside the shop.

"I've got to say, your security system isn't very good. You only showed up after I finished beating him."

"No, we rushed over the moment we got the report. Who would've thought you'd already finished him off by the time we got here?"

Indeed, the whole process looked like it had taken a long time, but in reality, it had only lasted about a minute.

When Su Yang had choked the man just now, he had not used his full strength. He had used only about twenty percent.

Otherwise, he could have knocked the man unconscious instantly. There was no way the man would have had the chance to reach out and grab him.

And the reason he had not dealt with the man using his fists was that he was afraid his punches might be too powerful. If he failed to control himself and punched the man to death, he would suffer a huge loss.

That was why he had chosen to choke the man unconscious. He also often watched UFC mixed martial arts and particularly liked the rear-naked choke.

The two security guards quickly crouched down and shook the man awake. By then, the man had already lost the ability to move.

As soon as he woke up, he covered his neck and coughed nonstop. After taking several minutes to recover, he was escorted out of the shop by the two security guards.

Naturally, what awaited him next was police questioning.

Su Yang clapped his hands and looked toward the crowd. "Nothing to see here, nothing to see here. Break it up and get back to what you were doing."

Lu Yun, Xiao Zhao, Sister Li, and the others nearby had long since been left speechless by what they had witnessed.

Sister Li in particular stared at Su Yang with shining eyes. That little string of moves had completely dazzled her.

For a woman around thirty, something bursting with this kind of masculine charm was practically irresistible.

Lu Yun walked over with a flushed face and asked worriedly, "Are you all right?"

"Do I look like something's wrong?" Su Yang spread his arms and turned around once.

"It's good that you're fine. You scared me to death just now."

"It was nothing. More importantly, what about you? Did he hurt you just now?"

"No, no."

"That's good."

Sister Li smiled and said, "All right, everyone, hurry up and clean up. Let's get back to normal business."

Lu Yun glanced at Su Yang. "I'll go get busy first. Wait for me a little longer."

"Okay." Su Yang returned to the lounge and sat down, acting as though nothing had happened.

Ding, detected that the host used Beginner Combat Skill for the first time and successfully subdued the target. The host is excited. Reward: 500,000 yuan and 1 physique point.

On the other side, Sister Li pulled Lu Yun aside and asked in a low voice, "Xiaoyun, what's your relationship with that boy named Su Yang?"

"Uh, he's my high school classmate."

"High school classmate? Isn't he your boyfriend?"

"Huh? No, no." Lu Yun's face reddened as she hurriedly explained.

"Not your boyfriend? Then I'll make my move." Sister Li deliberately smiled.

"Huh?" Lu Yun abruptly lifted her head and looked at Sister Li.

Sister Li giggled. "I'm just teasing you. Look how anxious you got. I won't steal him from you. Oh my, though, that man really is sexy."

As she spoke, she glanced at Su Yang and continued, "Xiaoyun, you have to seize the opportunity. Men like that are rare these days. In a situation like that just now, who would dare step up?"

"If he hadn't stepped in, we would've lost at least eighty or ninety thousand yuan. He's handsome, rich, skilled, and so righteous. Sigh, if I were five or six years younger, I would definitely compete with you for him."

Sister Li's words made Lu Yun's face flush and her heart race. Indeed, Su Yang's actions had made her look at him in a whole new light.

She had not noticed Su Yang arriving at the time, but the instant she saw him step forward to catch the thief, her heart began to pound and her face flushed.

Ding, detected that Lu Yun's favorability toward the host has risen to 78 (trust). Reward: 3,000,000 yuan in cash and one McLaren Senna fragment (2/5).

Hearing the system's voice, Su Yang glanced discreetly at Lu Yun in the distance, then lowered his head and continued playing with his phone.

Time quickly reached five-thirty. Lu Yun changed into her own clothes in the dressing room and walked out.

Su Yang turned to look. Lu Yun was dressed very refreshingly today, her long hair draped over her shoulders and a small black leather purse hanging from one shoulder.

She wore a simple gray round-neck T-shirt on top, a slightly frayed pair of denim hot pants below, and a pair of white canvas shoes.

She looked both sexy and cute. In particular, her two long, snow-white legs were extremely eye-catching—longer than Su Yang's life itself.

Su Yang smiled and stood up. "Can we get off work?"

"Mhm~ We can."

"Then let's go. We're having hot pot~"

"Okay~" Lu Yun answered obediently.

The two walked side by side toward the shop entrance.

Sister Li and Xiao Zhao stood behind the cashier and looked at them enviously.

"I'm so jealous. One of these days, I have to ask Xiaoyun where she found a guy like that."

"I already asked. She said he's her high school classmate." Sister Li leaned against the counter as she spoke.

"High school classmate? All right, then we'll ask Xiaoyun later whether he has any friends to introduce to us. A handsome man of his caliber shouldn't have bad friends around him either."

"You have a point. We'll ask her another day~"