Break One of Your Arms, and We'll Get Thirty Thousand Yuan

"Anyway, watch yourself." After saying that, Pei Shuangshuang left with her pink coffee mug without waiting for Bai Jin to respond.

Bai Jin did not take Pei Shuangshuang's warning seriously. With Li Yue's meager skills, he was nowhere near capable of hurting him. Still, after finishing several sets of experimental data that afternoon, he left half an hour early.

Because he had received a message from Lu Chengze.

[Kid, are you free tonight? I'll treat you to a seafood feast by the beach.]

Though the question was phrased politely and tactfully, the location Lu Chengze sent showed that his car was already parked in the lot at the school gate.

He clearly had no intention of accepting a refusal.

Bai Jin could only leave early.

"Over here, Bai Jin."

The moment he stepped out of the school gates, he heard a cheerful, familiar voice.

Bai Jin looked up and saw Huo Hongbao and his older brother, Huo Jinnian, seated in the back of Lu Chengze's personal car.

"Get in already. We're having a seafood feast tonight," Huo Hongbao urged Bai Jin.

Bai Jin opened the front passenger door and got in. He greeted Huo Jinnian first before lowering his head to fasten his seat belt.

There was still a laptop on Huo Jinnian's lap. He appeared to be busy with work.

Huo Hongbao complained pitifully, "Bai Jin, do you know? I originally wanted to wait for you outside your lab building, but Fifth Master wouldn't let me. He said I was too noisy. How am I noisy?"

Their car had arrived an hour ago, but Lu Chengze would not let Huo Hongbao enter the school to find Bai Jin, and his brother would not let him wander around either.

And these two big shots were both busy people. Once they got in the car, one worked while the other made calls. No one talked to him at all, and he was practically suffocating from boredom.

Bai Jin smiled. "You could have messaged me."

Huo Hongbao pouted and covered half his face with one hand. "Fifth Master wouldn't let me. He said it would interfere with your experiments."

Tch~

He would not let Huo Hongbao message Bai Jin and disturb him, yet he himself messaged him with such enthusiasm.

Bai Jin said, "It's fine. The experiments we're doing now are all small projects. The management isn't that strict, so we can bring our phones inside."

Huo Hongbao shot Lu Chengze a smug look. "Fifth Master, did you hear that? Bai Jin said it's allowed."

Lu Chengze did not even spare him a glance.

Huo Hongbao only dared to mouth off that one sentence. He would not dare say another word.

The four of them chatted and laughed as they left Medical University.

For seafood to taste good, it had to be freshly caught and cooked. That was the only way it could be truly fresh.

So Lu Chengze and the others took a luxury yacht straight out to sea and had people catch and cook the seafood on the spot.

The feast did not end until nine that evening.

On the way back, since the Huo brothers were not headed in the same direction, Lu Jin drove a separate car to take them home.

Lu Chengze, meanwhile, drove Bai Jin back to Eight-Star Residential Community.

As they neared the residential community, Lu Chengze received a call from the police. They said there had been progress in tracking down the assassin and asked him to come over immediately.

Bai Jin said, "Then I'll get out here. I ate too much anyway, so I can walk it off."

Lu Chengze glanced at Eight-Star Residential Community, less than a hundred meters away. Thinking of the people he had secretly assigned to protect Bai Jin, he figured it should be fine and nodded. "All right. Walk back yourself, make sure the doors and windows are locked, and get some rest early."

He did not say whether he would be back that night.

At this hour, by the time he finished, it would probably be three or four in the morning. Lu Chengze did not want to disturb the kid's sleep.

The kid was still growing!

Bai Jin nodded and waved goodbye to Lu Chengze. "Got it."

Only after Lu Chengze's car was out of sight did Bai Jin turn and walk into the residential community.

The community security guard was also a resident of Eight-Star Residential Community. He was a retired old man with only four upper teeth and two lower teeth left. Though the old man did not have many teeth, his eyesight was excellent.

"Heading home, kid?" the old security guard asked with a smile.

Bai Jin smiled and nodded. "Good evening, Grandpa."

He walked away beneath the old security guard's kindly gaze.

Once he was sure the old security guard could no longer see what was happening on his side, Bai Jin stopped walking. His expression turned ice-cold. "Come out."

It was unclear who he was speaking to. For quite a while, the surroundings remained silent.

"If you don't come out now, I'm leaving." Bai Jin's patience ran out. He set his backpack on a stone polished smooth by all the elderly residents who sat on it.

At that moment, three people emerged from the bushes nearby.

Each of them held an iron rod as thick as an arm.

The leader casually tossed his iron rod in his hand as he laughed and cursed, "Kid, you're pretty alert, huh? Looking at those skinny arms and legs of yours, I doubt you can take a beating from the three of us..."

"How about this? I won't make things difficult for you. If you know what's good for you, kneel down, apologize to the three of us, and beg for mercy, we'll let you go. What do you say?"

The other two burst into laughter.

They were street thugs who hung around this area, and this residential community was one of their usual extortion grounds.

They were not afraid of anyone hearing them and calling the police.

Even if they got caught after someone called the police, they would at most get a verbal warning and be locked up for a day or two before getting released.

Bai Jin slowly unbuttoned his clothes. The sea breeze had been strong that night, so Lu Chengze's coat was still draped over him.

He did not want to get it dirty.

"No need. All three of you can come at once. I'm in a hurry to get home."

"Hey! You little brat, refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit, huh? Brothers, get him!" The leader grew angry when he saw Bai Jin being so uncooperative. With a wave of his hand, he had his two companions go teach him a lesson first.

"Ah—" Without another word, the two thugs charged forward with their iron rods raised.

Bai Jin did not take the two thugs seriously at all. His left foot did not even move. Using only his right leg, he kicked both of them flying three meters away.

Bang—

Bang—

After the two heavy impacts, the thugs did not even have time to scream before their heads lolled to one side and they passed out.

Bai Jin's emotionless gaze shifted to the leader. "You're next."

The leader swallowed with difficulty, then dropped to his knees before Bai Jin with a thud. "...Well, um, spare me, big brother! We were only doing this for money. I'll tell you his name, and you let the three of us go, okay?"

Seeing the miserable state of his two companions, the leader regretted it so badly his guts had turned green.

How had he let himself be blinded by a mere thirty thousand yuan?

The three of them were so poor they were nearly reduced to eating instant noodles for the month, but it was not like they absolutely had to earn this money.

Bai Jin crossed his arms and looked down at the leader. "Oh? Tell me."

"It was a student from your Medical University called Li Yue. He found us during the day and told us to wait on the road you take home tonight and beat you up. As long as we break one of your arms, he'll give us thirty thousand yuan."

The leader did not care about professional ethics. At most, they were just thugs from this street. How much fighting ability could they possibly have?

This young man named Bai Jin looked thin, weak, and harmless, but the leader had seen with his own eyes how Bai Jin had sent his two companions flying with just two kicks.

He could not beat him!

"Li Yue? Did you take the money?" Bai Jin raised an eyebrow, though he was not surprised in the slightest.

The leader nodded obediently. "Y-yes, we did."

"Very good. Then I'll have you do something for me too..." Bai Jin bent slightly and stared into the leader's eyes, enunciating every word. "I want one of Li Yue's arms broken too. Once it's done, I'll give you three thousand."

"Huh? Only... three thousand?"