Chapter 42: A Ruthless Guy, Knocking Everyone Down

The Audi A6 sped along the highway. At this moment, Lin Jian no longer cared about the consequences of drunk driving; he was completely sober. The phone call just now had instructed him to go to Xishan Reservoir.

He had been to Xishan Reservoir once before for an outing. It was a mountain reservoir about thirty kilometers away from the Jiangcheng City District, boasting beautiful scenery. However, Lin Jian still didn’t know who had kidnapped his mother because he didn’t recognize the caller’s voice!

Thinking about it carefully, the people he had offended recently were none other than Xu Hang from the boxing gym, Old Cat the tomb raider, and Long from Ruyi Business Consulting Company. Of course, there was also Su Zhiwei, so it wasn’t out of the question that he had hired someone. Therefore, he couldn’t be certain exactly who was targeting him.

But no matter who it was, they had crossed his bottom line. Although he had just graduated from school, martial artists considered themselves part of the pugilistic world, and the cardinal rule of the pugilistic world was to never involve a man’s family. Now that the other party had targeted his, they had broken the rules.

His expression was incredibly dark, and the bulging veins on his forehead showed he was pushed to the absolute limits of his rage.

After exiting the highway, he entered the winding mountain roads. It was pitch black, with no passing vehicles in sight. A moment later, Lin Jian turned the car onto a small trail, quickly turned off the headlights and engine, and stepped out!

This location was about a kilometer away from the reservoir’s floodgates. Due to the winding terrain, he couldn’t see the gates from here, nor could anyone at the gates spot his vehicle. He would need to round a large bend ahead before the gates came into view. Taking a deep breath, Lin Jian immediately broke into a sprint.

His Speed was like an arrow released from a bowstring. Once he reached a full sprint, a single stride covered six to eight meters. He bounded like a galloping Giant, or a spirit ape Jumping! A kilometer was nothing; he quickly closed in on the floodgates!

Six or seven large SUVs were parked by the gates, their headlights illuminating a small courtyard. This was where the reservoir’s fish farmers lived. The courtyard wasn’t large, only about a hundred square meters, with a bonfire burning in the middle. People were gathered in twos and threes—some drinking beer, others sitting on the car hoods stargazing, or getting handsy with the women they had brought along.

Because Lin Jian had run over on foot, no one noticed his arrival. The night was pitch black. Apart from the stars, there was no Moon. Coupled with the blindingly bright headlights in the courtyard, it was impossible for anyone inside to see a figure in the distance without a light source.

Lin Jian easily snuck to the side of the courtyard and cast his Thought outward!

He thought, "Huh? Not here!"

Whether in the courtyard or inside the cars, there was no sign of Lin Jing. However, he did spot a few familiar faces. Huang Mao from Ruyi Business Consulting Company and a few other thugs he had previously beaten up were right here! But Long was nowhere to be seen.

Lin Jian’s expression darkened further. They had lured him here, but his mother wasn’t around? Could it be that she had already been killed? At the thought that his mother might be dead, Lin Jian’s blood boiled, rushing straight to his head!

SWOOSH.

With a loud BAM, he leaped from the shadows to the side of a car and viciously smashed his elbow into the window!

CRASH.

The sound of shattering glass finally jolted everyone alert. All eyes turned toward Lin Jian as he walked step by step out of the darkness and into the light.

"Fuck, who the hell are you? My car window..."

"It’s him! He’s Lin Jian."

"What? He’s here? How did he get here?"

Everyone was a little dazed. There was only one mountain road leading up here, and they hadn’t seen any cars approaching.

"Heh, it doesn’t matter how he got here. What matters is that he’s here!"

Suddenly, a guy who had been lying on the roof of a car, holding a beautiful woman and stargazing, sat up. Everyone, including Huang Mao, naturally gathered around his vehicle. It was a young man in his twenties. Dressed in a dress shirt, suit pants, and black leather shoes, he looked quite handsome. He stood up and stepped down from the roof one step at a time. Then, the entire group of about seventeen or eighteen people followed closely behind him.

Lin Jian only shot the young man a brief glance before staring at Huang Mao. "Long was the one who kidnapped my mother, right? Where is he? You guys play dirty. This is completely out of line!"

Huang Mao sneered, "Heh, kid, the one thing you should never have done was take the company’s money. Now that the company knows, it’s still up in the air whether you’ll live long enough to spend it!"

"I’ll ask one more time. Where is my mother?" Lin Jian demanded in a deep voice. "I’m only asking once!"

"Heh heh!"

The young man dug at his ear. "I didn’t hear that. Did any of you hear it?"

"Haha, we didn’t hear a thing!" the crowd burst into laughter.

The young man dug at his ear again. "How about you say it one more time?" He was doing it on purpose. Lin Jian had claimed he would only say it once, so he insisted on making him repeat it!

Taking a deep breath, Lin Jian placed his phone, car keys, and other belongings on the hood of the car next to him.

"Alright, pretending you didn’t hear me, huh? Fine then..."

SWOOSH.

The moment his voice fell, he suddenly took a step forward. This single step broke past all physical limits, covering a distance of ten meters! With that one stride, he closed in on the young man and threw a punch!

BAM.

The punch was impossible to guard against. In an instant, half the teeth in the young man’s mouth were knocked out, and his body slammed into the ground! One punch, and he was knocked out cold!

"You’re asking for death!"

At that very second, a dark silhouette darted out from behind the young man. Filled with extraordinary rage, the figure slashed a gleaming blade toward Lin Jian’s chest. The opponent was using a knife!

Lin Jian turned sideways, raising one hand while lowering the other. It was as if the opponent’s rapid blade had suddenly slowed down by eighty times! His hands moved up and down before swiftly clamping together. With a loud CRACK, the knife-wielder’s arm was broken.

THUD.

The moment the arm snapped, Lin Jian followed up with an Iron Mountain Lean, sending the man flying backward!

He continued his advance. Amidst a blood-curdling scream, Huang Mao’s arm was forcefully snapped. Lin Jian didn’t stop there, throwing punches and smashing limbs. Right now, he was like a fierce tiger descending from the mountain and charging into a flock of sheep. The sheep panicked, desperately trying to escape, but the tiger’s Speed was too fast, and its strikes were clean and decisive!

Wails and screams filled the air incessantly.

In less than three minutes, all seventeen men and two women were lying on the ground! Aside from the two women who had simply been knocked unconscious, the rest suffered either broken arms or broken legs. Lin Jian was truly infuriated, so he struck with extreme ruthlessness. A few even had both arms broken, and several thighs were kicked until they bent at a ninety-degree angle!

This was a brutal beatdown. Although he used to get into fights, he had never been this merciless. Out of the nineteen people, more than half had completely blacked out!

Lin Jian crouched down beside Huang Mao. Huang Mao had wet himself; his pants were completely soaked from sheer terror. It was absolutely horrifying. This Lin Jian was like a machine. Huang Mao had watched helplessly as nearly twenty people were taken down in a few simple moves. He wondered if the guy was even human.

"Do I need to say it a second time?" Lin Jian asked in a low voice.

Huang Mao trembled. "Your—mom..."

SMACK.

Lin Jian delivered a vicious slap to his face. With a wail, Huang Mao spat out several teeth!

"Your mom!" Lin Jian cursed.

Huang Mao actually started crying this time, sobbing, "It’s your... It’s Auntie. She’s with Long, and Long is at the company."

Hearing that Lin Jing was at the company, Lin Jian breathed a sigh of relief. He then pointed at the unconscious young man on the ground and asked, "Who’s this bastard?"

"The boss’s son, Young Master Chen."

"And the one with the knife?" Lin Jian asked.

"The one with the knife is his bodyguard. We call him Dao."

In his heart, Huang Mao felt a lot of disdain for Dao at this moment. Wasn’t he supposed to be some huge badass before? Yet he had his arm broken by Lin Jian in a single move. Total garbage!

"Understood!"

Lin Jian grabbed the young man by his hair and dragged him out of the pile of bodies.