Steel Nail's real name was Ding Gang. He came from Wushan County in Jiangnan Province, had served in the militia, and was a crack shot.
He and his accomplice, Zou Qunbiao, were a notorious hitman duo in the business, specializing in "life buyout services." They had committed numerous crimes yet remained at large. Two years earlier, Tong Wei, then the Public Security Director of Yangcheng City, had died in a "car accident" orchestrated by the pair.
Their reputation and proven reliability were why Xie Bingyi had found them through his connections this time and placed high hopes in them.
For desperadoes like Ding Gang and Zou Qunbiao, as long as the money was right, there was nothing they would not do and no one they would not kill!
Especially after Xie Bingyi raised the payment to six hundred thousand, the two immediately decided they would kill any god or Buddha who stood in their way. Not even Jesus could save Zhou.
Using their old trick, they threatened the driver, Zhao Guosheng, obtained information about Zhou Yi's movements, and devised a plan to kill him in the outskirts.
Yet just when they thought success was within their grasp, an unremarkable-looking young man raised his gun and fired twice. The shots struck their wrists with unerring accuracy and mercilessly shattered their dream of shooting Zhou Yi dead.
A whipping kick whistled through the air and slammed into Zou Qunbiao's head, while Ding Gang himself took a knife-hand strike to the side of his neck and collapsed unconscious.
In the instant before he blacked out, Ding Gang understood two things: first, the other side had been prepared; second, they wanted them alive!
"Director, are you all right?"
Li Linsen, Shao Mingbao, and Cai Xiaobo, all in plain clothes, ran over from the gas