Malicious Neighbors Surround

Evil Neighbors on Every Side

"I just heard you say in the shop—"

Zhang Sanxian "looked" at the burly man in the lead. "From now on, you'll be collecting Old Liu's protection fees. If he doesn't pay, you'll smash up his shop. Is that right?"

"Hea—"

The burly man stared blankly at that "pool" of corpses, at the blood smeared across the floor, at Zhang Sanxian, who was "looking" at him with hollow eye sockets. He swallowed and asked tremblingly, "Y-you, who are you?"

"Alas~" Zhang Sanxian sighed faintly. "That's not an answer to my question."

Whoosh—

A flash of silver sword-light vanished in an instant. One of the burly man's arms immediately flew into the air, while he himself let out a shriek, clutched his severed arm, and dropped to his knees.

"AAAAH!! Don't kill me, don't kill me! I'll talk, I'll talk! We—we're men from the Night Wolf Gang—ugh, ugh, ugh~"

The burly man twitched and spasmed from the agony as he said, "Our scouts said—said Iron Tiger had kicked the bucket—ugh, ugh, ugh! The gang leader sent us into town to take a look—ugh, ugh~ to sound things out!"

"Your noses are pretty sharp, like dogs'~"

Zhang Sanxian smiled. "I've heard of the Night Wolf Bandits' evil reputation before. Your lair is on Prison King Mountain, thirty li north of here, right?"

"Y-yes, yes, yes—"

The burly man nodded repeatedly. "It's there. Hero, hero, please spare this little one's life! This little one has important news to report!"

"Speak," Zhang Sanxian said coldly.

"With Iron Tiger dead, every gang and faction within dozens of li already knows."

The burly man said shakily, "Before, everyone feared Iron Tiger's might, so nobody dared come to Luoyang Town to scrape out any oil and water. But this time—this time, everyone