"Do you know who the hell I am?!"
Liu Chuang jumped to his feet and barked at Su Bai.
"I'm Liu Chuang—the boss around here! You mess with my little brother? You've got some nerve, kid!"
Without even looking back, he waved a hand at the men behind him.
"Beat him to a pulp! Just leave him breathing!"
"Wait."
"Hm? You want to beg for mercy now?" Liu Chuang sneered, not even bothering to listen. "Too late!"
Su Bai simply shook his head.
He wasn't trying to beg for mercy. He'd just remembered the terrified look on the restaurant owner's face.
A fight was one thing, but wrecking the man's little shop really wouldn't be right.
Something like "Let's take this outside" probably wouldn't work on them, either.
...Sister Qilin said I could use my abilities as long as I didn't destroy her home, right?
Having made up his mind, Su Bai didn't hesitate any longer.
He raised his right hand, palm facing down, and murmured:
"Space Contract: Exchange."
—He wasn't exchanging places with anyone. Instead, he was directly swapping the "target" with the "coordinates."
The next second, Liu Chuang and the gang of lackeys behind him, along with Su Bai, Angel Yan, Azhui, and Rui Mengmeng, who still hadn't recovered from the shock—everyone, along with the space they stood in—vanished from the restaurant in an instant.
The world blurred before their eyes, and wind swept past their ears.
They were now standing in an empty space at a street corner. Scattered pedestrians and vehicles surrounded them as the bright afternoon sunlight poured down.
Liu Chuang's lackeys stared at one another. One of them even rubbed his eyes hard.
Hadn't they just been inside the restaurant?
How had they ended up on the street in the blink of an eye?!
The utterly unbelievable sight left several of the more timid men weak in the knees.
Liu Chuang was stunned, too. He stared at Su Bai, his Adam's apple bobbing several times before he managed to force out a trembling question:
"Y-you... are you human or a ghost?!"
Su Bai clearly had no interest in answering them.
He simply chose to attack.
Against ordinary people like these, he didn't even need to use any special abilities. The most basic combat techniques were more than enough.
Su Bai stepped sideways with his right foot, kicking up a faint trace of dust as he shot forward like an arrow loosed from its string.
Liu Chuang was still reeling from the "teleportation" and hadn't come to his senses when a figure flashed before him like a ghost.
Su Bai clenched his right fist and leaned slightly to the right, channeling the power from his heel through his waist and abdomen before gathering it in his knuckles—
The light before Liu Chuang's eyes suddenly dimmed. His years of street-fighting instinct made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end, and he instinctively raised his hands to block without a second thought.
Too slow.
His arms had barely reached his chest when Su Bai's fist slammed into his left cheek with a heavy whoosh.
"Thud!"
The muffled sound was like a heavy object crashing into a punching bag.
Liu Chuang's left cheek visibly caved in. The force lifted him off his feet, sending him flipping halfway through the air before he crashed to the ground four or five meters away.
Several bloodstained teeth flew out with him and rolled through the dust.
It had all happened too fast.
Before the thud of Liu Chuang hitting the ground had even faded, his gang of lackeys erupted into chaos.
"Boss!"
Several men yelled and started forward, but the moment they took a step, they froze in place.
Su Bai had turned around.
He didn't say a word, and his expression barely changed. He simply swept his gaze over them, calm and composed. Yet that very calmness sent chills down their spines.
That punch, along with the inexplicable "people vanishing and reappearing" trick, had already shattered what little courage they'd mustered.
Su Bai didn't look at them again.
He walked over to Liu Chuang, who was still sprawled on the ground. His footsteps weren't particularly loud, but they felt as though they were landing on everyone's hearts.
One side of Liu Chuang's face was swollen high, blood and spittle trickling from the corner of his mouth. His eyes were unfocused; he clearly still hadn't recovered from that punch.
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Su Bai crouched in front of him.
"Still want to fight?"
The lackeys around them couldn't help swallowing nervously.
They'd already thought Liu Chuang was incredible for being so good at fighting.
They hadn't expected to meet a real expert today.
The force behind that punch didn't even seem human.
No—wait. Getting them from the restaurant to here without warning was already beyond what an ordinary person could do, wasn't it?
Could it be that cultivators really existed in this world? Or people with superpowers?
Liu Chuang's mind was still a little foggy, but he gritted his teeth and staggered to his feet.
"Ptooey."
Liu Chuang spat the blood in his mouth, along with the teeth that had been knocked loose but hadn't flown out, onto the ground.
The pain cleared his head a little.
"Again... Come on..."
On the ground, Liu Chuang struggled to push himself upright, forcing the words through clenched teeth.
The lackeys around him looked at their boss with something close to reverence.
He'd been beaten this badly and still refused to give in. It was hard not to admire that kind of grit.
Meanwhile—
In Juxia City, at Super Seminary.
"General, we have a situation."
Lian Feng stared at the bruised and battered face on the surveillance screen and immediately contacted Dukao.
Dukao arrived at the monitoring room soon after.
"What happened?"
When he saw Liu Chuang's disheveled appearance on the screen, his brows immediately furrowed.
After all, Liu Chuang was the carrier of the Nuo Star God of War genes. Even though his genes hadn't been activated yet, his physical abilities were still far beyond those of an ordinary person.
To injure him this badly...
Lian Feng quickly briefed him on what had happened.
Dukao's brow furrowed even more as he listened.
"Liu Dang didn't actually lay a hand on Rui Mengmeng. This kid Su Bai went a bit too far."
"Besides, Rui Mengmeng and he don't even know each other. He was sticking his nose where it didn't belong."
Dukao's face darkened, his voice carrying unmistakable displeasure.
Lian Feng said nothing, but a trace of helplessness passed through her mind.
This "war maniac" really did think differently from ordinary people.
She didn't say anything, though. Super Seminary was the only place she had to go at the moment.
Dukao turned to her. "Did anyone at the scene call the police?"
Lian Feng nodded and quickly worked the controls.
The screen split in two. The right side still showed the surveillance footage of Liu Chuang's group, while the left displayed a police car drawing closer.
"Liu Chuang had only just arrived when a bystander quietly called the police. The police car is now less than a kilometer from the scene. It'll be there soon."
Dukao nodded, then gave an order:
"Contact the head of the Police Station. Have the officers bring everyone involved in the incident back with them."
Lian Feng was taken aback. "Everyone?"
Dukao seemed not to notice her hesitation. He nodded calmly.
"Yes, everyone. Liu Chuang and his men, the kid who threw the punch, and the companions who were with him."
After a brief pause, he added:
"Keep Rui Mengmeng in custody for two days, too."
With that, he turned and walked out, leaving Lian Feng with a conflicted expression.
Lian Feng had wanted to point out that the boy named Su Bai and the two blond women beside him seemed rather unusual...
But after thinking it over, she decided against it.
She was just a "worker," after all. If her superior had given an order, she would carry it out.
Besides, she wouldn't be the one making enemies.
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