Tiger-Wolf Gang Annihilated (Seeking Follow-ups)

At the courtyard entrance.

Zhang Hu stood with a nervous expression, raising his hand to knock twice on the door.

This was his first time coming to the inner courtyard. Even though he was here to see Zhou Yun, who had grown up with him since childhood, he couldn't help but feel a bit tense.

Before long, the door opened.

Zhou Yun pushed the gate wide, saw his old childhood friend, and smiled. "What's wrong, Tiger? Don't tell me you've already broken through to the Bright Strength realm after only a few days of not seeing each other?"

"It's not that, Brother Yun, but I have broken through to the Five Apertures... No, that's not the point."

Seeing Zhou Yun open the door, Zhang Hu felt a wave of relief.

Brother Yun was still the same familiar Brother Yun; he hadn't grown distant just because a gate now stood between them.

"I came to find you because of the Tiger-Wolf Gang!"

Zhang Hu clenched his fists. "While you were away, your cousin Zhou Ningyue came to find me. She said the Tiger-Wolf Gang recently increased their 'incense money'—they hiked it up by a full thirty copper coins!"

"It's not just the two streets back home; they're collecting money from all the surrounding streets too. Some people even got beaten to death on the spot just for refusing to pay."

As the words fell, Zhou Yun furrowed his brows.

Beaten to death on the spot? Even the old Sea Whale Gang hadn't been this detestable and heaven-defying. Did the local government not care at all?

However, he hadn't seen Lu Meng in a long time. He wondered where that Second Young Master of the Sea Whale Gang had run off to; he hadn't appeared in the inner courtyard for ages.

"Sister Ningyue yielded to their pressure and paid the money, but those people still wanted to humiliate her..."

Before Zhang Hu could finish, he suddenly noticed Zhou Yun's expression turn incredibly grim.

It was a look he had never seen before, one he had only occasionally glimpsed on the faces of vicious criminals wanted by the authorities.

"Tiger, I'm heading home immediately. I will handle this matter."

Zhou Yun suppressed the rage in his heart, even though his face was already as dark as water.

The Tiger-Wolf Gang? A petty gang of Bright Strength thugs—if they had just collected their incense money, he might have let it slide, but they dared to lay hands on the person closest to him?

Zhou Ningyue hadn't just helped him take care of his mother at home; she had even given him her father's burial money so he could practice martial arts. This was a debt of gratitude Zhou Yun didn't know how to repay.

Since the people of the Tiger-Wolf Gang didn't understand the rules, he, Zhou Yun, would teach them how to write the word "rules"!

Zhou Yun immediately dressed and rushed into the night toward his home.

"Brother Yun... he seems to have really changed."

Zhang Hu watched Zhou Yun's departing back, feeling that although the man was within arm's reach, he was now worlds away.

In the night, a dark figure wearing a bamboo hat moved rapidly.

Before long, Zhou Yun arrived from the martial arts hall to a place two or three miles from his home. This was the lair of the Tiger-Wolf Gang.

At this moment, two or three Tiger-Wolf Gang members were huddled in an alley, violating a woman in tattered clothes.

The woman's eyes were vacant, leaving her no choice but to endure them.

"Damn it, weren't you acting all chaste at the start? I love the chaste ones!"

A tall, thin Tiger-Wolf Gang member slapped the woman hard across the face, shuddered, and pulled up his trousers.

"Big Brother, ever since our gang leader started following that Shen Family, we've been able to get whatever we want here in Black Stone County."

A hunchbacked man with a wicked grin rubbed his hands together, staring at the woman and licking his lips.

"That's right, our Tiger-Wolf Gang is going to be the number one gang in Black Stone County. From now on, we'll have everything we desire!"

The tall, thin man seemed to be in high spirits and patted the woman's face.

"How about this? If you promise to come find me every day, maybe if I'm in a good mood, I'll grant you the status of a concubine..."

The hand that was waving suddenly went limp and stopped moving entirely.

The hunchbacked man leaned in, curious, and tapped the tall man's shoulder.

"Big Brother, what's wrong? Don't tell me you passed out from too much pleasure..."

The moment the hunchbacked man's hand touched him, the figure slumped over with a thud.

"Dead... he's dead..."

His pupils constricted violently. Suddenly, he felt a chill down his spine, and his head spun in the air.

Thud.

Two cold corpses lay on the ground. The violated woman froze, only catching a glimpse of a dark figure dropping a bag of copper coins.

"Go home."

Tiger-Wolf Hall.

Inside the main hall, dozens of Tiger-Wolf Gang members were drinking and playing finger-guessing games, with many women accompanying them. The scene was one of extreme decadence and debauchery.

In a dim, cramped room, Wang Tuozi, his body somewhat hunched, panted heavily as he held the waist of a beauty with exquisite features.

Only half of the incense stick had burned down, yet Wang Tuozi had already finished, lying on the bed while puffing on a long pipe.

"So satisfying. Ever since I became this so-called gang leader, I've truly been living like a god!"

Wang Tuozi exhaled a cloud of smoke, embracing the beauty in his arms.

"That Shen Family gave me so many resources, yet they only want me to consolidate all the gangs in Black Stone County. Tell me, little beauty, what exactly are they plotting?"

The naked beauty smiled charmingly, stroking Wang Tuozi's chest. "They must see how mighty and extraordinary you are, and want you to become one of the power brokers of Black Stone County."

"Haha, you always know how to make me happy."

Wang Tuozi was in high spirits, caressing the beauty's pretty face.

"If the Shen Family really lets me lead all the gangs in the future, I'll surely reward you with the best rouge in all of Black Stone County and make you the most beautiful woman!"

"Thank you, Master Gang Leader..."

The pretty beauty cast a flirtatious glance and lowered herself beneath Wang Tuozi.

"Hiss..."

Wang Tuozi sucked in a cold breath; she was truly the signature attraction of Emerald Cloud Pavilion, with skills in every part of her body!

Just as he closed his eyes to enjoy the pleasure, a figure suddenly appeared in the shadows.

He was silent and soundless, seemingly like a black ape merged into the night, quietly observing everything.

Not long after, that figure moved.

"Wang Tuozi, leader of the Tiger-Wolf Gang, minor accomplishment in Mingjin."

A voice devoid of emotion rang out before Wang Tuozi, causing him to tremble all over and snap his eyes open.

He saw a dark figure dressed in black clothes and boots, wearing a bamboo hat, standing before him. The figure held the beauty who had just been pleasuring him, tossing her aside like trash.

"My lord! My lord, spare my life! This lowly one is willing to offer a thousand taels of silver!"

Wang Tuozi immediately knelt on the ground. Anyone capable of approaching him silently without being detected had to be at least a master of Dark Jin!

Unless they had mastered multiple sensory-type martial arts to achieve the same effect, but he dared not gamble on that.

"One thousand taels of silver? Not bad at all."

The dark figure's emotions seemed to fluctuate, his tone dripping with mockery.

Hearing this, Wang Tuozi thought the other party was tempted and prepared to look up to say a few more words.

He suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and then, he lost his life completely.

"Tiger-Wolf Gang, Shen Family..."

Zhou Yun's expression shifted slightly; he had committed everything he just heard to memory.

He had assumed the Tiger-Wolf Gang was merely a civilian gang, yet the shadow of the Shen Family loomed behind it. However, the current Chief Escort Shen was stationed outside the county, so it could not be him.

In other words, it could only be the 'Shen' of the Sky Sea Martial Arts Hall.

"These waters are getting deeper and deeper."

Zhou Yun shook his head, turned, and vanished into the night.