The words had barely left his mouth.
A towering, powerfully built man, radiating a terrifying aura, slowly emerged from the rear of the bodyguard ranks.
He stood nearly two meters tall, his bronze skin crisscrossed with scars, each one like a savage medal.
He merely stood there, doing nothing, yet a heavy stench of blood and a ruthless killing aura washed over everyone, sending chills down their spines.
This was a man who had truly clawed his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
"Boss."
The burly man approached Li Taishan and spoke in a deep, booming voice that rang like a great bell.
Li Taishan nodded in satisfaction, that smug smile of absolute control returning to his face.
He pointed at the burly man named Tu Gang and introduced him to Yue Xiaofei in a boastful tone:
"Young man, let me introduce you. This is Tu Gang, formerly the deputy commander of the elite Reconnaissance Company of the Northern Frontier's renowned Ironblood Division!"
"He's fought in dozens of border clashes, large and small. He's killed at least eighty enemies with his own hands, if not a hundred! Those fists of his can kill a wild bull bare-handed!"
"I paid a fortune to bring him here as my personal bodyguard."
Li Taishan looked at Yue Xiaofei, his eyes full of the taunting amusement of a cat toying with a mouse.
"You're pretty good, taking down those useless men of mine outside. But in front of Tu Gang, your amateur tricks are no different from a child's games."
"Now, I'll give you a chance."
Li Taishan held up two fingers.
"First, get on your knees and kowtow three times, hard enough for me to hear it, to apologize for your recklessness."
"Second, break one of your own arms