The Card Adepts all had blackened faces, with thin wisps of smoke curling from their hair and clothes. Every one of them lay unconscious on the floor.
The hall fell silent. The other Card Adepts looked at this group very differently now. Those who had joined in the jeering moments earlier had gone deathly pale.
The boy swallowed hard and looked at Chen Mu with awe. So this young man, barely older than himself, was the leader of the group.
A flicker of surprise crossed Bagnell's eyes as well. In his experience, the boss had always kept an exceedingly low profile. Although he knew the boss had killed Zu Ning personally, he had not witnessed it himself. The ruthless side the boss suddenly revealed today came as quite a shock. Nor was he alone: Xi Ping, Su Liu Cherou, and Ru Qiu were all staring at Chen Mu in disbelief.
Lu Xiaoru, by contrast, thought nothing of it. She had suffered at Chen Mu's hands and knew that her boss simply preferred to keep a low profile.
These people really were no different from street thugs! Taking in the expressions of the surrounding Card Adepts, Chen Mu could not help reflecting on it.
Chen Mu had dealt with few high-ranking figures. He knew far more about the struggles at the bottom.
Back when he had wandered the streets as a child, he had already learned one lesson. If you went somewhere unfamiliar to beg for food, the more timid you were, the more people bullied you. But if you rolled up your sleeves and fought the local street children, things were different. As long as you showed enough backbone, even if your fists were not hard enough and you ultimately lost, everyone would be wary of you.
*Street children were