Hua Qiang put the guns he had seized into his Storage Bag. They would be useful for dad and mom to defend themselves with.
He turned and walked toward Jipi. At that moment, Jipi was scared out of his wits, trembling uncontrollably from head to toe.
"E-E-Eldest Brother, don't kill me! I-I-I can be your dog and risk my life for you!"
Those who had witnessed Hua Qiang's methods firsthand and survived by sheer luck desperately begged for mercy.
"Eldest Brother, spare us this once! We're willing to acknowledge you as our boss and risk our lives for you!"
"I have an eighty-year-old mother above me and a two-year-old child below me crying to be fed. I can't die!"
"I'm the pillar holding up my family. If I die, all four or five people in my family will starve to death!"
"Boss, I haven't even married a wife or tasted a woman yet. Please spare me!"
"If you spare my life this time, I'll turn over a new leaf and start anew! I'll never again become someone people hate and spit on!"
"..."
The person before them was too terrifying. He acted decisively, ruthless and mercilessly. He did not resemble a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old at all. He seemed more like a thug than they did—people who had spent all year lurking in gray areas and licking blood from the edge of a knife.
They could not understand how the Jackal Gang had provoked such a god of slaughter.
Hua Qiang stood before Jipi and said coldly, "This morning, you beat someone outside the slaughterhouse. Who ordered you to do it?"
"Who was the employer?"
"Speak!"
It felt as though Jipi's head had been struck hard by an iron hammer, leaving it buzzing.
So this was where the problem lay.
What a suicidal move!
They had beaten one person, only to bring down a god of slaughter who uprooted the entire Jackal Gang. Aside from those still standing here, everyone else was dead.
Where had that damned Second Boss taken on such a life-demanding job?
Jipi viciously cursed the already-dead Second Boss's ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart before answering shakily.
"E-E-Eldest Brother, it was a task assigned to us by the Second Boss. He told us to teach someone a lesson at the slaughterhouse and specifically ordered us to hit hard."
"Eldest Brother, we truly didn't know that person was someone close to you. Otherwise, even if you beat us to death, we wouldn't have dared do such a thing!"
"Where is your Second Boss?" Hua Qiang asked through gritted teeth.
A burly man pointed at a mangled, bloody figure beside him. "This is our Second Boss, Li Yong. Boss, you already killed him."
He had miscalculated. He had been killing so enjoyably just now that he had forgotten to leave the gang leader alive for questioning.
He was still too young and impulsive.
Hua Qiang frowned, then asked, "Do you know who the employer was?"
"I-I know. It was a man named Wu Gang. He owns a shipping company and is its chairman!"
To save his life, Jipi's mind raced wildly. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he said urgently, "E-E-Eldest Brother, I have some intelligence here. I wonder if you'd be interested?"
"Oh? Let's hear it." Hua Qiang was somewhat interested as well.
"If the intelligence is valuable, could Eldest Brother spare my life?" Jipi tried to bargain.
"I was only acting under orders. Some things were beyond our control and not what we wanted!"
"Yeah, yeah, Boss! We were all acting under orders. If we refused, we wouldn't get any good result. The gang would punish us severely!"
"Stop babbling and speak!"
"Yes, yes, Eldest Brother. I accidentally discovered that his shipping company has dealings with Sakura Country. Quite a few Sakura Country people have sneaked into China through their shipping routes."
"Our Modu Base also has Sakura Country people hiding within it. Those people specialize in assassinations."
"It seems their targets are outstanding talents from various schools, especially students who have advanced to become Martial Artists."
"Fuck!"
Hua Qiang blurted out a curse. This was outright collusion with the enemy and treason!
The information Jipi had provided was truly shocking!
This had to be reported to the Martial Arts Association immediately. They had to act as soon as possible, drag those rats out, and wipe them out completely.
Otherwise, no one knew how many people would fall victim to their dirty hands.
Hua Qiang could not help worrying about Ye Bingxue.
Among the newly certified Martial Artists, Ye Bingxue stood at the very top. The more dazzling she was, the more easily she would attract those rats' attention.
That made her all the more dangerous.
"Eldest Brother, I wonder whether my information is useful to you?"
Hua Qiang nodded. "Useful!"
"Then can Eldest Brother spare my life?"
"No!"
"Uh... how can you do this? My information concerns something of great importance, even the safety and future of China's people. How can it still not buy me one life?"
Heh heh!
Hua Qiang sneered twice.
"Information is information. Your intelligence can indeed earn great merit, but with me, it cannot exempt you from the path to death!"
"You should never have beaten my dad and seriously injured him. So I cannot spare any of you."
He stretched out a hand, and a greatsword appeared in it. Before those people could react, he chopped off all their heads.
The notification of Slaughter Points being credited sounded in his mind again:
Slaughter Points +1. Slaughter Points +1.
What a joke. They were all Slaughter Points—how could he possibly let them go?
What was more, they had injured his dad. If he did not kill every last one of them, he would never be able to get past this hurdle in his own heart.
How could enemies possibly be spared?
Hua Qiang searched the Jackal Gang's base and unexpectedly found more than two million in cash, along with gold bars, jadeite, agate, diamonds, and more.
He stuffed all that money and treasure into his Storage Bag in one go.
He would treat it as compensation from this pack of bastards for injuring his dad!
Refusing free loot would be a crime against himself!
After leaving this place, he felt utterly refreshed.
His great vengeance had been avenged, and he had gained nearly two hundred Slaughter Points. For him at present, that was no small income.
Not long after he left, the Martial Arts Association sent specialized personnel over to clean up the aftermath.
When Zhang Xiaofeng received the information Hua Qiang had told him, he was greatly shocked, while his heart also swelled with excitement.
Once this matter was reported, he would definitely earn merit!
This time, he had truly ridden Hua Qiang's wave of fortune.
He hurried to the chairman's office and reported the situation to Mo Wuqiong.
Mo Wuqiong was also greatly shocked, then became furious beyond measure.
That Wu Gang was too damn despicable! He had actually colluded with the enemy and committed treason. He absolutely could not be let off lightly!
Wu Gang had never expected that, merely to avenge his son, he would have Secretary Zhang arrange for someone to teach a lesson to that bastard who had left his son seriously injured and suffering the agony of hell on earth.
Not only had the people handling it failed to do the job properly and merely skirted the edge, they had also brought catastrophic disaster upon him.
When the Martial Arts Association's city defense squad appeared before him and took him away, he was still completely bewildered.
He had no idea what crime he had committed or which law he had violated.
When he was brought to a secret detention site and his interrogators revealed his connection to Sakura Country people, he completely crumpled.
The matter had been exposed. There was no room for him to argue.
To stay alive, to atone for his crimes with meritorious service, and to lessen his punishment, he poured everything out like beans spilling from a bamboo tube, confessing every hideout of the Sakura Country people that he knew.
What followed was a battle to root out traitors.
All the rats from Sakura Country who had infiltrated Modu Base were captured, then executed.
For this, Mo Wuqiong received commendations from China's upper leadership and the military.
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