Chapter 24: Sprouting Brutality

Sister Yao chuckled, not expecting Chen Fengshi to say that, but since it was all true, she decided not to make things difficult for him. “Okay, let’s chat tomorrow. I’ll make another trip myself. Liu Shuzhi, let’s go? What are you staring at? It’s been a while!”

“It’s fine, you go first.” Liu Shuzhi had indeed been standing there for a while, still holding an iron rod that was bent in the middle, which Chen Fengshi guessed had been twisted.

Sister Yao thought that since she had to drive back anyway to get the second car, she could just give Liu Shuzhi a ride then, so she got into the R8 she just won and told Liu Shuzhi to wait for her before driving off. “I’ll pick you up in a bit, don’t run around.”

Liu Shuzhi didn’t make a sound. He just held the rod, his eyes watching the people who had climbed up from the ground, whose legs were hurt but whose bones were actually fine, and who only stood up after Young Master Wang left.

Chen Fengshi felt Liu Shuzhi’s expression was a bit weird. In the way he looked at people, there seemed to be some kind of suppressed, eager emotion.

Yes, Liu Shuzhi had an idea. A urge to try it out was surging in his heart!

A person who had just pretended to have a broken leg and was now dragging his leg past him caught his eye.

In that moment, Chen Fengshi felt there was a fierce light hidden in his eyes!

Then, he saw Liu Shuzhi swing the iron rod that had been bent and then straightened by him, and smash it at that person’s leg—with a muffled thud of the hit, the person screamed and rolled onto the ground, holding his leg, crying and howling, making the people coming down from the industrial building in twos and threes stop and look over.

Chen Fengshi couldn’t help but freeze. He saw that after Liu Shuzhi smashed out with this rod, an excited emotion showed on his face, and he was still saying, “I can do it too, I can do it too, and I can use even less strength…”

Yes, Liu Shuzhi muttered to himself like this, and then holding the rod, he caught up with another person who was dragging his leg trying to stand up and leave, but was now standing there in a daze looking at the person who was just smashed down.

Liu Shuzhi held the rod with one hand, and smashed it at the leg of this dazed person with another strike!

This person also hugged his leg and howled in pain from the hit. Liu Shuzhi looked confused, hesitated for two seconds, and suddenly squatted down, questioning the person who was hugging his leg and howling: “Is your leg fractured? Is it fractured? Is it fractured or not?”

That person was screaming and seemed unable to hear, so Liu Shuzhi grabbed his collar and lifted his whole body up. The person pulled his injured leg and screamed in pain as he struggled. “Put me down, put me down!”

“I’m asking you if your leg is fractured!” Liu Shuzhi roared angrily.

The people coming down from the surrounding buildings in twos and threes, the injured lying on the ground waiting for Young Master Wang to send people to rescue them, and the three groups of people squatting by the wall, all showed fear in their eyes as they looked at Liu Shuzhi at this moment… So brutal, and his muscular body was already terrifying.

“He’s in so much pain, and lifting him up makes it hurt even more. It should be fractured.” Chen Fengshi saw that the person was in too much pain to answer at all, and couldn’t bear it, so he interrupted.

Liu Shuzhi put the person down, looked at Chen Fengshi, and said happily: “I just used one-third of my strength, and I could still break his leg. It seems I can use even less strength!”

“Your current strength against them is probably like bullying a toddler. There’s no need to test it anymore, right?” Chen Fengshi was a bit confused about Liu Shuzhi’s thoughts, but he understood what Liu Shuzhi was trying to do, so a sudden chill ran through him—for the cruelty of using people as experiments!

These words were exactly what Liu Shuzhi needed. He was very happy to hear them, dropped the iron rod, and walked towards the direction where Sister Yao had parked when she came. As he walked, he stared blankly at his own hands and muttered to himself. “I’m so powerful now, I’m so powerful now…”

Chen Fengshi watched Liu Shuzhi’s back disappear into the shadows of the alley speechlessly. He suddenly felt, should he also reflect on himself?

Did the abnormally powerful strength bring him and Liu Shuzhi luck?

Or misfortune?

This might not necessarily be something a person could completely decide, but it definitely could not be something a person could not influence at all.

Chen Fengshi then decided that something like tonight, once was enough, and he really couldn’t get addicted to it. Just based on today’s situation, he didn’t even dare to say what kind of side effects it would leave in the future. If it happened a few more times, his life would be inseparably tied to the people active at night, and that was not the future he wanted!

No matter how powerful he was now, he still had to be afraid of bullets, right?

The rescue vehicles arranged by Young Master Wang’s people arrived one after another, and the injured were transferred batch by batch and sent into the cars. The person in charge of this task counted the number of people and shouted at the top of his lungs: “There’s an extra person, make them give the secret signal!”

This was the first time Chen Fengshi had seen such a situation. Young Master Wang was covering the follow-up medical expenses for so many people, and it seemed he had experience early on, even having ways to prevent others from fishing in troubled waters to take advantage.

The extra person was of course the red-clothed car thief. He had originally been carried onto a stretcher, but because he couldn’t give the secret signal, he was thrown back onto the ground. He shouted anxiously: “I put in the effort! I got my leg broken fighting for Young Master Wang!”

The person in charge scolded impatiently: “Young Master Wang didn’t hire you. Whether you’re injured or dead, go find someone else!” After saying that, he ignored the red-clothed car thief, only urging them to quickly get everyone onto the stretchers, yelling to hurry up, afraid that someone might cause trouble and call the police.

However, actually, apart from the people watching the fun in the internet cafe and those who came from the surrounding buildings to watch the fun, there was no one else in this nearby area at all. The people watching the fun certainly wouldn’t cause trouble by calling the police either. Not to mention anything else, just making a record was a troublesome thing. It was the information age now; if they could let the person who reported the case record a video or something themselves to serve as the record, the number of enthusiastic people would definitely go up by a large margin.

The people watching the fun left one after another. Some took the initiative to ask for Chen Fengshi’s WeChat ID, and some stuffed their business cards into his hand. Quite a few were interested in making friends.

After Little An and her friend came down, they intentionally walked in the dimly lit areas, avoiding Chen Fengshi’s sight.

Out of this industrial area, Little An’s friend giggled and said: “So handsome, and can fight too, aren’t you going to get to know him? If you’re too embarrassed, I’ll add him for you?”

“If you like him, go for him yourself, don’t use me as a shield.” Little An said, her eyes once again pretending to casually sweep over a group of a dozen or so men and women. This group of people was also watching the fun from up there just now, and they didn’t look anything special, but her intuition told her that there was something wrong with this group of people.

And right now, this group of people had clearly left the empty space in front of the internet cafe where the incident happened, but they hadn’t actually left. Instead, they gathered in the darkness of the alley, and someone was constantly keeping an eye on Chen Fengshi’s movements.

When she was about to get in the car, Little An suddenly said to her friend: “You go back first, I have something to do.”

“Oho—suddenly you have something to do?” Her friend smiled meaningfully, the way she rubbed and played with the car keys in her hand was very wicked. Little An said in annoyance: “Yes, I’m planning to go back and find him.”

“At least you’re being honest!” Her friend was satisfied, got in the car, adjusted the seat and the rearview mirror, started the car, and said goodbye: “For the sake of you, my dear, getting a boyfriend, I’ll forgive your terrible behavior of leaving me all alone. But—later you have to invite him out for a meal. If you don’t succeed, call me quickly, this beauty will be in charge of the rescue!”

Little An wore a faint smile, waved goodbye to her best friend, and then immediately entered the alley, and then leaped up, directly jumping onto the roof of the six-story industrial building, looking down from above to observe the situation in the plaza, as well as that group of suspicious people hiding in the alley.

In front of the internet cafe, the injured had all been taken away by Young Master Wang’s people, leaving only the red-clothed car thief. The white-clothed car thief was actually loyal; seeing his miserable state, he begged Chen Fengshi: “Brother Chen, his injury needs to be treated! Can I take him to the hospital first? I promise, I promise to come back in a while, otherwise I’ll leave my phone here as collateral?”

Chen Fengshi didn’t want his collateral and directly let him go, even asking two people from the group that came with the red-clothed car thief to help out.

Originally, Chen Fengshi just wanted to solve his recent expense problems, but it pulled out a Young Master Wang, and in the end, he gained a windfall. He was not someone whose eyes were only on money. Now that his problem was solved, he felt he wouldn’t have to worry about money for a long time. Frankly speaking, he even felt that it didn’t matter whether these dozens of people paid compensation or not.

It was enough that Sister Yao was willing to go to the hospital. Probably because she was so happy about winning the new car, she drove off, completely forgetting the existence of this group of people.

Chen Fengshi thought about it carefully and felt he couldn’t just let this group of people go like this. Firstly, although he didn’t care anymore, the compensation that should be collected still had to be collected; secondly, after all, he used this group of people as the reason to call Sister Yao over. She came, and she also agreed to go to the hospital, so how could he ruin Sister Yao’s chance to earn a favor?

Chen Fengshi asked the internet cafe’s network administrator for the phone, had some Malatang delivered, and waited for Sister Yao to come back.

Among the people watching the fun, there were still some who hadn’t left. A few girls pestered him for a long time, inviting him to go drink with them. But Chen Fengshi was already tired of that kind of place, not to mention he still had things to do right now. After talking nicely to them for a while, those few girls finally gave up, agreed to make a date another day, and the group left.

On the roof of the industrial building, Little An stared silently. That group of people hiding in the alley still hadn’t made any moves, but they still hadn’t left either. The more abnormally they acted, the more she felt that this group of people was the kind of danger she had guessed! And what was worse, Chen Fengshi was obviously unguarded against this.

Chen Fengshi ate seven big bowls of Malatang in a row, and Sister Yao came back. She actually came back very quickly.

On the way, she remembered the existence of this group of people waiting for her salvation, including A Wa, but she still drove the car to a proper place and parked it well before coming back.

Sister Yao was in a very good mood. Seeing Chen Fengshi having eaten so many empty boxes, she couldn’t stop laughing and said: “You were never this able to eat before!”

Chen Fengshi was actually also curious about Sister Yao’s situation. Liu Shuzhi’s modified body was kept, and Sister Yao had clearly also gone through changes. Although her strength wasn’t exaggerated, she was definitely at the top level for her weight class. What left a deep impression on him was Sister Yao’s physical toughness; her flexibility and speed were definitely far above Liu Shuzhi’s.

But obviously, Sister Yao herself didn’t know any of this right now. So Chen Fengshi was very curious, did Sister Yao’s change have an impact on her appetite? It was a very simple basic principle: the stronger the body’s power, the greater the wear and tear, and the more energy replenishment was needed. People absorbed energy by eating, so their appetite should increase.

“You’ve also been possessed by a ghost before. Although your muscles haven’t changed too exaggeratedly, your body’s toughness is far above that of an ordinary person of the same weight class. Hasn’t your appetite abnormally increased?” Chen Fengshi’s puzzled inquiry made Sister Yao a bit stunned, and she was believing his words more and more.

Originally, she didn’t want to admit it, but she felt that was meaningless. If there really was nothing between them, of course they should face the facts. “Although I feel especially hungry, I have to endure it for my figure. I don’t feel any special power you’re talking about, anyway I always feel so hungry that I’m weak.”