Chapter 13

In the quiet alley, two battles were breaking out.

Glasses hurriedly tossed a pair of glasses and instantly changed places. The glasses he had switched places with were blasted to dust by the plasma cannon.

"Number Three! I won't let your sacrifice be in vain!" Glasses said sorrowfully, looking at the pair he had thrown.

"What are you doing, worrying about glasses at a time like this?" Xiao Zhan said, looking at the guy in front of them, who was holding two plasma cannons. "Aren't you on the same team as them? Do you know what this guy is?"

The Golden Triangle member across from them, who had remained silent until now, fired his plasma cannons at them again. After a burst of electric sparks and explosions, Xiao Zhan and Glasses vanished from sight.

"My Number Two glasses!" Glasses cried sadly from the rooftop.

"Will you ever let it go? They're just glasses," Xiao Zhan said.

"You can't possibly understand the bond between me and those two pairs of glasses," Glasses said. "They were both high-end glasses."

"Whatever. Tell me what that guy is," Xiao Zhan asked.

"He's the Golden Triangle's Third Brother. Half his body is machine, and he's the team's long-range firepower. The guy Lin Jie smashed into the wall with one blow was Second Brother. He has a body-enhancement ability, though it seems there's no need to worry about him anymore." Glasses said, "Come to think of it, who exactly is Lin Jie? Even a C-Class hero couldn't withstand a blow like that. The Winter Witch said he had two recorded fights where he killed B-Class opponents in one hit."

"Oh no, he's spotted us!" Xiao Zhan said.

As soon as the words left his mouth, the two of them dodged in opposite directions. Two plasma blasts shot past them. Before either of them could react, the Golden Triangle's Third Brother had flown straight up to the rooftop.

"They installed flight capabilities too?" Xiao Zhan said in shock.

"The important thing is figuring out how to deal with this bastard." As Glasses spoke, he tossed a pair of glasses at the Golden Triangle's Third Brother. In the next moment, his real body appeared in front of Third Brother, and he swung the two stun batons in his hands hard at the enemy.

Faced with Glasses appearing out of nowhere in front of him, the Golden Triangle's Third Brother didn't try to dodge. He raised his mechanical arm to meet him.

Glasses' stun batons collided with the mechanical arm. The batons had been crackling with electricity, but when they touched the mechanical arm, they didn't hurt Third Brother at all.

The next moment, the plasma gun in the Golden Triangle's Third Brother's hand, freshly charged, aimed at Glasses' stomach. A flash of light blazed.

"My Number Four glasses!" Glasses was back where he'd started.

"Damn, what an annoying flea." Third Brother clicked his tongue when his sure hit missed once again.

"Your weapon's no good. Use mine instead." Xiao Zhan pulled out a pixelated object that looked vaguely like a stick. For some reason, when Xiao Zhan pressed a button, it began to vibrate violently.

"What the hell is that? It even comes with its own censorship!" Glasses said, dodging the plasma blasts. "Why does this guy keep shooting at me?"

"This is my latest modified Plasma Decontamination Rod 3000. I added a brand-new optical effect. I found that it increases the intimidation factor by a full four percent. It also makes it impossible for enemies to tell what the weapon really is." Xiao Zhan explained proudly.

"Carrying that thing around already makes you a grade-A pervert." Glasses appeared beside Xiao Zhan. "You'd get censored for sure if you took that thing outside!"

"Really? I was thinking of mass-producing it and selling it," Xiao Zhan said.

"Instead of spending your time developing this kind of product, why don't you help me?" Glasses said to Xiao Zhan.

Glasses had already been grabbed around the neck by one of the man's mechanical hands, and the plasma gun on Third Brother's other mechanical hand was almost fully charged.

"Catch!" Xiao Zhan said, tossing the pixelated stick in his hand.

The first thing the Golden Triangle's Third Brother saw was a pixelated, stick-shaped object flying toward his face. For some inexplicable reason, he instinctively tried to turn his head and dodge. Only then did he realize something was wrong. After all, he'd heard the two of them talking.

He knew it was a weapon Xiao Zhan had thrown to Glasses, but anyone would have the same reaction when they saw something like that flying straight at their face.

Glasses seized the opportunity. He grabbed the Decontamination Stick and slammed it into Third Brother's unmodified shoulder.

"Ah! That feels so good!" A sultry cry rang across the rooftop.

Xiao Zhan activated the Anti-Gravity Shoes on his feet and skimmed toward Third Brother. When he reached him, he grabbed the mechanical leg of the Golden Triangle's Third Brother, who was still frozen in place, and swung around behind him, using the leg as a pivot.

"It's time to show you my power!" Xiao Zhan shouted his battle cry as he thrust the pixelated stick at the Golden Triangle's Third Brother's backside.

A moan rang through the sky, pained yet excited, excited yet shy, and shy yet tinged with longing.

Down in the alley.

"Third Brother's such a useless piece of trash. Those two actually took him down." The Golden Triangle's Boss danced back and forth like a ghost.

Lin Jie brought his Wolf Fang Club straight down toward his head, but it missed.

The Golden Triangle's Boss had somehow drifted behind Lin Jie.

"I can tell you're strong, but even the strongest force is useless if it can't hit its target." The Golden Triangle's Boss said arrogantly from behind Lin Jie. Lin Jie's Wolf Fang Club was already swinging toward him, but the Golden Triangle's Boss drifted past him all the same. "Let me tell you, a brute like you, who only knows how to use raw strength, can't even touch the hem of my clothes."

"You talk too much. Are you going to fight or not? You've been swaying around this whole time, and you haven't even attacked," Lin Jie said. "Is swaying around all you can do?"

"Are you looking down on me?" Two laser short swords appeared in the Golden Triangle's hands. "I only wanted to show you the difference in our strength. Now I'm going to attack for real."

"Oh, I get it. So all those moves just now, and all that stuff you said, were just you showing off?" Lin Jie said, suddenly enlightened.

"Five seconds is all I need to take you down," the Golden Triangle's Boss said.

With that, he drifted right up to Lin Jie and thrust the laser sword in his hand toward Lin Jie's waist.

Lin Jie shifted his waist to the side and dodged the Golden Triangle's Boss's attack. He swung the Wolf Fang Club at the Golden Triangle's Boss, but it crashed into the wall beside them.

"In an alley this narrow, how much room do you think you have to swing that weapon?" the Golden Triangle's Boss taunted. As he spoke, he thrust the other weapon in his hand at Lin Jie.

But just as he made his move, he clearly heard the sound of a wall crumbling nearby.

The next moment, smoke filled the entire alley. The Golden Triangle's Boss appeared outside the cloud.

When the smoke cleared, the Golden Triangle's Boss saw a deep groove carved into the wall by the swing of a Wolf Fang Club. The other side of the wall was clearly visible through it.

"Five seconds are up, right?" Lin Jie said.

"I didn't expect you to be this strong. The walls here are made of plastic material with a hardness comparable to steel," the Golden Triangle's Boss said in surprise. "But the stronger you are, the more the President will reward me after I beat you."

"Ahh!" Lin Jie yawned. "Come to think of it, Lin Wan and the others should be about done buying clothes."

"You should worry about what's going to happen to you," the Golden Triangle's Boss said. Black energy began to seep from his body. "I was saving this Ink Shadow Mode for when I tried to break into C-Class. You're unlucky enough to be its first victim."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Golden Triangle's Boss appeared beside Lin Jie. When Lin Jie turned around, the Golden Triangle's Boss vanished from his sight in an instant.

"This Ink Shadow Mode increases my speed tenfold. There's no way you can keep up with me now." The Golden Triangle's Boss's voice echoed through the alley.

"It's about time. I should get ready to head back," Lin Jie muttered to himself.

"Do you think you're going anywhere?" The Golden Triangle's Boss appeared behind Lin Jie, his laser sword poised to stab him. But the next moment, a finger pressed against his forehead.

"That's impossible!" The Golden Triangle's Boss realized he hadn't even noticed when Lin Jie had turned around.

"Time's almost run out," Lin Jie said.

The Golden Triangle's Boss felt a wave of danger and vanished from the spot at top speed. When he appeared again, someone was beside him. It was Lin Jie.

"Since when—" Before he could finish speaking, Lin Jie lightly punched him in the stomach. As he doubled over, he was shocked to discover that Lin Jie's Wolf Fang Club had somehow ended up between his legs.

"Let me show you what real ball pain feels like." Lin Jie said coolly. Then he swung the Wolf Fang Club in his hand sharply upward.

With a cracking sound, the Golden Triangle's Boss, foaming at the mouth, shot into the air.

Up on the rooftop, the Golden Triangle's Third Brother had been bound up like a dumpling.

"That takes care of him," Xiao Zhan said. "My weapon was effective, wasn't it? Now I want you to answer a few questions."

"Heh, you used to bully me. Now I finally have a chance to get even." Glasses looked at the Golden Triangle's Third Brother. "Today, I'm avenging all the glasses that sacrificed themselves."

"Heh heh heh." The usually quiet Golden Triangle's Third Brother let out a cold laugh. "You think beating me solves everything? Once my big brother takes down your friend, he'll come and make you pay."

With that, the Golden Triangle's Third Brother burst into arrogant laughter.

Just then, the Golden Triangle's Boss came flying into view, foaming at the mouth. He rocketed upward with his legs clamped together, his life or death unknown. Lin Jie jumped onto the rooftop too, carrying his Wolf Fang Club.

"Your big brother's gone flying into the sky with his legs clamped together." Xiao Zhan looked at the Golden Triangle's Boss soaring away, then turned his gaze back to the man in front of him.

"I've found you." Lin Jie spotted Xiao Zhan and the others on the neighboring building and immediately called out.

"I get it. Ask me whatever you want. Just please don't hurt my manhood. I don't have any kids yet."

"Why'd your tone change?"

"Nothing. I've got elderly parents and children to support. Making a living out here isn't easy. Please, let me go. Ask me whatever you want."

"Weren't you laughing like you were so smug just a moment ago? And what's with this sudden change in your whole vibe?"

"I was counting on my big brother, wasn't I? Now that he's done for, I'd be asking for trouble if I kept acting tough. Besides, I don't want to fly into the sky with my legs clamped together."

"You know what's good for you."

"Sorry, I won't act tough again. Please let me go."