Inside the Yi'an District detention center, which stood right next to the police station, there were a great many detainees. These days, the influence of martial artists was so strong that fights and brawls were extremely common, so a great many people were locked up here.
After leaving the interrogation room, Zhang Junbao had been escorted here. Every district had a place like this to hold people like him who had broken the law through violence.
As a result, the people held here were also somewhat stronger in combat than ordinary prisoners.
At the detention center, thanks to the special care of certain people, Zhang Junbao had been placed in a large cell for ten.
"298, this is the one. Get in!" The guard shoved Zhang Junbao inside and locked the cell door.
The detention center held all sorts of people from every walk of life: thieves, brawlers, and even robbers. Several men in Zhang Junbao's cell had been locked up for violent incidents, which counted as special treatment for him.
"I'm going to relieve myself. Don't cause any trouble. One-Eyed Dragon, explain the rules here to the new guy. Stop playing dumb all damn day!"
With that, the guard left.
Zhang Junbao noticed that the cell was in a surveillance blind spot, and after the guard left, the other guards would not pay attention to this corner either.
"Tsk, tsk, the new guy's got such delicate skin. That pretty little face reminds me of that high school pretty boy I used to take such good care of. Hehe!"
A burly, one-eyed man covered in beast tattoos lay on a lower bunk. Beside him, a young man was obediently giving him a massage, though he shifted his buttocks from time to time and looked somewhat uncomfortable.
"Those little hands look pretty strong. Come over here and pound my legs. Do a good job, and I'll open the door to a whole new world for you tonight. I guarantee you'll experience a different kind of pleasure!"
One-Eyed Dragon looked at Zhang Junbao with a grin that made him look very much like a hungry wolf eyeing a beauty.
After One-Eyed Dragon spoke, the others in the cell also stood up and slowly gathered around, seemingly in response to his words. Clearly, One-Eyed Dragon was in charge of the cell, and the others were all his underlings.
Zhang Junbao looked at One-Eyed Dragon curiously. Clearly, losing an eye had not taught him a lesson; instead, he treated it as something to brag about.
Zhang Junbao really could not understand his logic. Did having someone blind him make him look impressive?
Although bullying the weak was a serious problem in prison cells, this was Zhang Junbao's first time seeing it, and he still found it quite novel. But turning their attention on him was a bit much.
"Give you a massage? Sure. I have an ancestral massage technique for loosening the muscles and bones, and I just happen to be looking for someone to try it on. Since you've volunteered, that couldn't be better.
"What's so fun about just massaging your legs? Let me help you relax your whole body!"
With that, Zhang Junbao walked right up to One-Eyed Dragon and waved the young man behind him aside.
One-Eyed Dragon was dumbfounded by Zhang Junbao's obedience. Hadn't he been told the kid was a tough one and needed a good lesson? Turned out he was a coward. Then again, with ten or so burly men surrounding him, anyone with a working brain would know better than to oppose them.
I'll just find an excuse to say his massage was no good and beat him up later.
"Brother Dragon, right? Relax, relax. That's the only way to get the ultimate experience." Zhang Junbao went behind One-Eyed Dragon, gently rested both hands on his back, and began lightly working on it.
"Mmm!!!"
Sure enough, the kid had skills. In just an instant, One-Eyed Dragon was won over by Zhang Junbao's technique and let out a howl of pleasure.
Wait, I'm supposed to be making trouble for him!
At that thought, One-Eyed Dragon was just about to fly into a rage when he found that his shoulder blades felt as though they were clamped in iron hoops, leaving him unable to move.
Zhang Junbao hooked his hands into claws and, like iron pincers, forcefully pulled One-Eyed Dragon's shoulder blades apart.
With a crack, Zhang Junbao dislocated both of One-Eyed Dragon's shoulders, making him howl in pain!
"Are you fuckers blind? This kid's trying to hurt me! Beat him to death!"
The others, who had thought One-Eyed Dragon was enjoying himself, finally realized what was happening and lunged at Zhang Junbao.
But Zhang Junbao did not panic in the slightest. He reached forward with one hand, caught One-Eyed Dragon by the chin, and gave it a gentle twist, dislocating his jaw.
One-Eyed Dragon's eyes filled with panic. He knew he had run into a tough opponent this time and was about to flee, but Zhang Junbao had caught both his feet too. Even with all the strength in his legs, he was completely unable to break free of Zhang Junbao's hands.
"Crack..."
The two crisp sounds rang out with unusual clarity in the noisy cell.
"Why run? Didn't you want me to give you a massage? How was that Muscle-Separating and Bone-Dislocating Hand? Did it feel so good you can't even speak?
"Once it's mastered to the utmost, I can take every bone in the human body apart and put them back together one by one. The ultimate pleasure, guaranteed."
Zhang Junbao smiled as he looked at One-Eyed Dragon, slumped on the floor like a toy that had been broken through rough play. He swept his gaze around the room, and the others were actually frightened into backing away.
Is this guy a demon? One-Eyed Dragon wanted to speak, but Zhang Junbao had already dislocated his jaw, leaving him able only to babble.
Zhang Junbao's swift defeat of One-Eyed Dragon had indeed made the others in the cell deeply wary, but when they thought of the generous reward for completing their task, some of them still could not hold back.
One-Eyed Dragon's just a piece of trash. He was so careless that he got taken by surprise, and that's why he was subdued so easily. There are still eight of us here, all with combat strength close to that of advanced trainees at a martial arts school, and plenty of us have drawn blood before. Otherwise, we wouldn't be locked up here.
Could this pretty boy really take on eight at once?
The two most vicious-looking men exchanged a glance and nodded. Perfect. One-Eyed Dragon had failed, so his share of the money should naturally be divided among them.
With profit clouding their minds, Zhang Junbao no longer seemed quite so frightening. The two men summoned their usual fierce bearing and roared, "Get him! There are so many of us, we can crush him just by piling on! Cripple this kid's arms and legs!
"We'll all split One-Eyed Dragon's share!"
They were all people who risked their lives for profit, so they naturally knew that only profit could truly move the others.
Stirred up by the two men, even the young man who had been massaging One-Eyed Dragon pulled a toothbrush sharpened to a fine point from his bedding and stabbed it at Zhang Junbao.
"Ah, why bother?"
Zhang Junbao sighed. Why were there always people who didn't know death when they saw it? Even crippling One-Eyed Dragon in an instant had not been enough to deter these people blinded by profit.
Then don't blame me!
Zhang Junbao leaped into the crowd. His feet traced intricate steps, his left foot grinding to the left while his right stepped straight forward, forming the posture of a roaming dragon. He kept weaving through the crowd, and though several men attacked him at once, not one could touch him.
"Roaming Dragon Startled Swan Steps!"
Like a carefree flood dragon, Zhang Junbao rolled and surged through the sea, at ease as he rode the wind and waves. His hands kept brushing over every prisoner's body.
Cracking sounds rang out again and again, as though someone were stretching their muscles and bones.
When Zhang Junbao finally stopped, the sounds of bodies hitting the floor came from behind him.
In less than thirty seconds, all the other prisoners in the cell had ended up just like One-Eyed Dragon, every joint in their bodies dislocated, jaws included.
"Keep it down. Don't make a racket. There might be children next door studying hard for their exams. If you're so noisy that they fail, will you take the blame?"
Zhang Junbao scolded them.
The people on the floor were full of terror, but unable to speak, they could only lie there obediently and grumble to themselves. This is a detention center! Where would there be children preparing for exams?
Zhang Junbao came up to One-Eyed Dragon, put his jaw back in place, and asked, "Talk. Who sent you?"
One-Eyed Dragon had already been scared out of his wits. What was more, the joints in his body had not been put back, and the pain nearly made him faint only to jolt him awake again. Utterly unable to resist, he did not dare lie and confessed everything in full.
"It was Zhou Huayang. He promised that as long as we crippled your arms and legs, he'd give each of us 100,000 and find a way to get us out..."
Half an hour later, the guard who had gone to the toilet finally returned. It seemed he had fought a thoroughly satisfying battle.
"One-Eyed Dragon, I'm telling you lot, watch yourselves. If you break him, I'll have a hard time explaining it!
"Ah! What happened here... One man beat nine hardened criminals? That's way too freakish!"
The guard, who had been about to check whether Zhang Junbao was still alive, froze. The cell floor was covered with men who had been beaten down, and some were still drooling uncontrollably. What kind of move was this?
At that moment, Zhang Junbao greeted him through the cell door.
"Thanks for your concern, but I'm fine. They wanted me to give them a massage just now, so I used my ancestral massage technique, the Muscle-Separating and Bone-Dislocating Hand. I guess it felt so good they don't want to get up.
"No need to thank me. We're all cellmates, so it's only right!"
Zhang Junbao spoke with a smile, but to the others, it was nothing less than a demon's smile.
At that moment, Li Bin brought Jiang Nian and Luo Wenchong to the detention center. Since Zhang Haobai had already confessed the facts, Li Bin had no reason to keep holding Zhang Junbao.
If he hurried and released him, he might still be able to improve the impression he had made. Li Bin could not gauge the strength of the man who had come with Jiang Nian at all, but the way he had made Zhang Haobai confess honestly was enough for Li Bin to guess his identity-a spirit reader!