Chapter 107: License to Kill

At noon, the sun was high in the sky. The two men parked their car in the shade of the trees by the street.

“This damn weather!” Huang Dazhuang wiped the sweat from his forehead, twisted open a bottle of mineral water, and downed the whole bottle in a few gulps. Then, with a slight exertion of force, the empty bottle flew several meters and landed precisely in the trash can. “You wait here, I’ll go buy something to eat.”

Zhou Liming seemed to remember something: “Do we get a salary?”

Huang Dazhuang was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said: “Soldiers get paid, how can you say there’s no salary? Like me, my salary is thirteen thousand.” But then he sighed and said: “You saw it too, thirteen thousand, that only buys a hundred bottles of mineral water. What can you do with over ten thousand now?” A trace of confusion appeared on his honest face.

Although the prices in Xiang A City weren’t as exaggerated as when they fled Zhe B City, they had still risen dozens of times in just two short months.

A salary of over ten thousand used to be enough for a comfortable life, but now? Being able to fill your stomach was already considered good. Since they didn’t want to return to Huanghua Town, both of them solved lunch on the street. An ordinary lunchbox cost over two hundred, and it only had a few slices of meat. Supplies were scarce now; the biggest selling point of the lunchbox was that it had some oil, otherwise who would spend money to buy it? Wouldn’t it be better to get a free portion at the government relief station?

Squatting by the street to finish their lunch, they threw away the lunchboxes and continued forward along the street.

After leaving the city center, the pedestrians on the street became sparse, and many people stayed at home. The scene under the overpass was somewhat spectacular; there was a whole row of tents, with a large number of people living there. On the main roads, almost no cars could be seen; they were empty.

With a “screech”, Zhou Liming suddenly stopped the car and said: “Brother Huang, did you hear anything?”

Huang Dazhuang tilted his ear and listened, then shook his head and asked: “What’s wrong?” Zhou Liming pointed to a somewhat complex residential area nearby and said: “I think I heard someone shouting for help.” Huang Dazhuang was bored out of his mind and let out a cold “heh” laugh: “Let’s go take a look.”

Turning the front of the car, they roared into this residential area with a rumbling sound.

Compared to the high-rise buildings on the outer streets, many parts of this residential area were urban villages with low houses. The streets were incredibly dirty, and a lot of sewage gave off a strong stench. Even so, a large number of people still lived here. As the motorcycle roared, some curtains were secretly pulled open. People poked their heads out, and then, as if frightened, shrank back in.

With Zhou Liming’s hearing, it only took a moment to arrive at a small alley.

“Ah, let me go, let me go, help, help…”

With a “slap”, a voice cursed viciously: “I’ll let you scream, I’ll let you scream. Even if you scream your throat out, it’s useless. No one can control you. Just cooperate with me properly, or I’ll beat you to death.” Under this shout, the previous voice only paused for a moment before struggling again.

The sound of clothes being torn came out, along with the unscrupulous laughter of several men: “Damn it, women are just cheap. They don’t feel good unless they get beaten.”

The roar of the motorcycle seemed to startle them, and their movements stopped. A voice said: “Big Brother, someone seems to be coming, what do we do?” The vicious voice from before sounded again: “Who gives a damn? So what if they come? If they dare to interfere with our good business, fuck it, we’ll just kill him.”

Zhou Liming parked the car, then got off and walked toward the small alley. He didn’t expect that in broad daylight, someone would be so “interested” in playing this kind of rape game.

Huang Dazhuang didn’t follow up immediately. Instead, after stopping, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, pulled one out, lit it, and started smoking happily. He exhaled a smoke ring, narrowed his eyes, and murmured: “People these days… has the city’s security really rotted to this extent?”

After Zhou Liming’s cells had divided and reorganized, he was no longer as thin and weak as before. He stood at the entrance of the alley, causing the light inside to dim.

In the alley, six men were surrounding two women. Their clothes were torn, revealing their white skin. Left in only their underwear, they had many red marks on their bodies, which should have been left by the rough treatment of these men. At this moment, they had been pushed to the ground and were curled up in a ball. Two of the men had already taken out their penises and were playing with them.

“Kid, stop meddling. Maybe when we’re done having fun, you can come up and have a turn,” a tall, burly man from the northeast issued a warning.

Zhou Liming sighed, then lifted his foot and walked in, saying calmly: “Wearing this outfit, shouldn’t I intervene when I see something like this?”

The leader was very tall, nearly 1.9 meters, and looked very fierce. He laughed: “Yo, still a soldier boy. Gouzi, you guys go test him and see if his training is complete. Don’t let some new recruit come out playing the hero.” Then he seemed to recall something: “Just a few days ago, there were two other soldier boys full of justice, but their bodies are still rotting in the stinking ditch. If two people go missing, their officers probably won’t notice, right?”

All six people here were strong men. Two of them walked silently toward Zhou Liming. In their eyes, so what if Zhou Liming was well-built? They could finish him off in a single round. In today’s society, bored out of their minds, they had started living this kind of thrilling life.

Isn’t there a saying: To die under a peony flower is to be a ghostly lover?

Once they tasted the flavor of rape, who could control themselves? The whole world had gone mad now; where would the government find the time to manage these things? In a month, they had tasted dozens of different women, at the very least. Just thinking that these women, whom they would never have had a chance to touch in their entire lives before, were now moaning beneath them, made their blood boil.

Now that someone had come to interfere with their fun, they didn’t mind turning him into a missing person. Anyway, in Xiang A City, people died every day.

These six were all vicious and ruthless people, so Gouzi and another man surrounded Zhou Liming from left and right, directly swinging their fists to smash into him.

Zhou Liming stretched out his hand, raising only one finger, and tapped their fists, one on the left and one on the right. In their astonished eyes, he blocked the storm-like punches. It was hard to imagine that a single finger could stop punches with such great force in mid-air.

The strength of a Fierce Beast Warrior, even in the state of an ordinary person, reached several thousand kilograms with a single punch. Otherwise, how could they smash an armored vehicle into scrap iron? This kind of power was simply beyond their understanding. After all, the Fierce Beast Warrior still belonged to a state secret and had not been announced to the public yet.

Zhou Liming smiled, then retracted his hand, suddenly swung his fist, and smashed it out.

With two “cracks”, the two men only felt the bones in their chests breaking. Then they realized their chests had been hit, and a piercing pain rushed to their brains, directly causing their brains to crash. After a subconscious scream, their entire bodies flew into the air, flew over ten meters away, and fell, passing out immediately.

Seeing blood coming from their mouths, Zhou Liming shook his head and sighed: “Still didn’t control the strength well.”

The remaining four hadn’t reacted yet. They couldn’t understand it. Gouzi and the others weighed nearly two hundred catties, so how were they sent flying over ten meters away like toys? If Gouzi and the others weren’t toys, then… suddenly, their hair stood on end. How terrifying of a strength did this require?

The two curled-up women seemed to see hope and opened their mouths to cry for help again.

But their mouths just opened wide; no sound came out. The reason was simple: the leader of the men was holding a pistol, pointing it right at Zhou Liming. A sense of despair surged into their hearts again. They knew the background of these people; after being played with, they would be brutally killed.

In chaotic times, women were the vulnerable group. If it was just rape, they would treat it like finding a one-night stand in a bar, and they might not resist. This was the portrayal of women nowadays.

“Kid, you think you’re tough? Come on, hit me!” The man said viciously, grinning ferociously: “Go, play these two women to death right in front of him. Doesn’t he have a sense of justice? I want to see what kind of expression he has when evil happens right before his eyes.”

The two men who had been playing with themselves laughed loudly and pounced on the screaming women.

A flash of killing intent crossed Zhou Liming’s face. He suddenly turned his head and asked: “Brother Huang, what kind of license does our X Squadron have?”

Huang Dazhuang flicked the cigarette butt away and said indifferently: “License to kill!”

Then Zhou Liming moved, a smile on his face as he stepped forward.

A ferocious look appeared on the big man’s face, and he roared: “You’re fucking looking for death.” He pulled the trigger without any hesitation. With a loud “bang”, the bullet left the chamber.

Zhou Liming’s hand didn’t seem to move at all, but when it stopped, it was seen stretched out, forming a fist, as if it had caught something. Then Zhou Liming slowly opened his fist. In his palm lay a bullet head, clearly the one fired by the big man just now.

“This… this… this is impossible…” The big man, scared to the point of breaking out in cold sweat, pulled the trigger again.

But this time he didn’t have the chance to fire. In the next second, Zhou Liming had already snatched the gun from his hand. Then, amidst their horror, he rubbed the pistol with both hands, turning it into a ball of metal scrap. Then Zhou Liming seemed to disappear. Screams filled the entire alley, and after half a minute, it became completely silent.

By the time Zhou Liming walked out and got on the motorcycle, the two women, disregarding their half-naked state, stumbled out, shouting: “Murder! Murder…”