Several minutes later, Lin Zhanbei stared at the more than one hundred people standing in neat rows behind Lin Xiu, stunned.
“I remember sending only several dozen students to Sin City, in batches, right?” Lin Zhanbei asked.
“That’s right. There were sixty in total. Two of them encountered accidents, and I brought back the remaining fifty-eight.”
“Then where did more than a hundred people come from? Don’t tell me they’re all your friends.” Lin Zhanbei’s face fell. He had already guessed what was going on.
Seeing his father’s expression, Lin Xiu knew things were going badly. He hurriedly changed the subject. “By the way, Uncle Wang is injured.”
“What!” Lin Zhanbei froze. Then he grabbed Lin Xiu’s wrist, his expression solemn. “How serious are his injuries? Where is he now?!”
“He’s in the car behind us.” Lin Xiu pointed to a commercial vehicle behind them. They had driven it out of Sin City. Lin Xiu had originally prepared it for himself, but after Wang Zhanwu was injured, he put him inside.
“How serious are his injuries?” Lin Zhanbei did not go over at once. Instead, he asked again.
“He lost an arm.”
Hearing this, Lin Zhanbei’s expression grew complicated. He seemed sorrowful over the lost arm, yet relieved that the injury was limited to that. For a moment, even he did not know how he felt.
After a long silence, Lin Zhanbei finally spoke, his voice heavy. “I reserved food and wine at Yun Shui Jian. Take your people there.”
“What about you?” Lin Xiu asked.
“With Old Wang suffering such serious injuries, quite a few brothers from the Night Watch Division must have fallen as well.” A trace of sorrow crossed Lin Zhanbei’s eyes.
“I need to make arrangements for their funerals.”
“Understood.” Lin Xiu nodded. Then he took the gang members into the vehicles and headed for Biluo City’s largest hotel, Shuiyun Jian!
As for Yun Shui Jian, Lin Xiu had been sent to Sin City because of that very hotel.
Yun Shui Jian was the largest hotel in Biluo City and an industry owned by the City Lord's Mansion. At the time, several of Lin Xiu’s Underlings recklessly came to Yun Shui Jian to collect Protection Fees, but the staff beat them and threw them out.
Lin Xiu did not know about Yun Shui Jian’s background then, so he brought people over to stand up for his Underlings. The result was predictable: the staff beat them and threw them out again…
Later, Lin Xiu even called in people from the Night Watch Division. If Lin Zhanbei had not arrived in time, the City Lord's Mansion and the Night Watch Division would nearly have fought a massive battle!
Returning to Yun Shui Jian, Lin Xiu could not help feeling conflicted.
After several days of travel, Lin Xiu and the others looked dusty and exhausted. When they reached the entrance of Shuiyun Jian, the security guard stopped them.
“Who are you people?”
“A table reserved here by the Night Watch Division.” Lin Xiu waved casually and started inside, but the security guard reached out to stop him again.
“Which one of you is from the Night Watch Division?”
Lin Xiu looked around. His father was preoccupied with Wang Zhanwu’s injury and had not sent anyone with him. As a result, every person who had come here was a gang member.
“You can contact the Director of the Night Watch Division.” Lin Xiu thought for a moment, then added, “Though she may not have time to deal with you right now.”
“Then please wait until someone from the Night Watch Division arrives. You can go in together then.” Although the security guard spoke politely, his tone was filled with deep disdain.
The other party could hardly be blamed. Yun Shui Jian had never turned away guests before, but demonic beasts had recently run rampant, and every city had begun imposing martial law. As an industry of the City Lord's Mansion, Yun Shui Jian had also begun enforcing a policy that admitted only familiar customers. Even if it meant earning less, they could not allow Demonic Beasts capable of taking on a Humanoid form to infiltrate the hotel.
Everyone who could afford to spend money at Yun Shui Jian was an important figure in Biluo City. If anyone were harmed there, even the City Lord's Mansion would have difficulty explaining itself.
However, Lin Xiu knew nothing about this. He had never seen anyone open their doors for business and then refuse to let customers enter, so he grew angry.
“What if I insist on going inside?”
Seeing Lin Xiu’s hostile tone and the more than one hundred men in Black Clothes behind him, the security guard sensed trouble. He did not answer Lin Xiu. Instead, he quickly pulled out his walkie-talkie and said in a low voice,
“Someone is causing trouble at the entrance.”
Lin Xiu stepped forward, grabbed the other party’s walkie-talkie, and smashed it onto the ground!
“What are you trying to do!” The security guard stepped back and looked at Lin Xiu warily.
Lin Xiu ignored the other party. He waved his hand and said coldly, “Come in with me. Whoever dares to block the way, beat them!”
He walked through Shuiyun Jian’s Gate, with Kadir and the others following close behind. The security guard opened his mouth to speak, but when he saw Hu Shanyue’s fierce Gaze, he swallowed his words.
However, just as Lin Xiu entered Shuiyun Jian, a group of Strong men wielding batons charged out.
“Who are you people?” One of the Strong men pointed at Lin Xiu, his tone hostile.
Lin Xiu glanced at him and ignored the other party. Instead, he turned to Hu Shanyue. “Break the finger he used to point at me.”
After saying this, he walked over to a nearby sofa and sat down.
Hu Shanyue and the others let out strange laughs, then charged at the group of Strong men facing them!
After the disturbance Lin Xiu caused three years ago, everyone in Biluo City knew that Yun Shui Jian was backed by the City Lord's Mansion. No one dared cause trouble there. Without the recent Demonic Beast incidents, Yun Shui Jian would not even have needed security guards.
Even so, the security guards at Yun Shui Jian were all physically strong Ordinary people. After all, Martial Artists were still relatively rare in a small place like Biluo City. Even a Level 1 Martial Artist would not choose to guard an Entrance.
More than one hundred Level 1 Martial Artists already represented a force that could not be ignored in Biluo City. A group like that could deal with several dozen Ordinary security guards as easily as using a butcher’s cleaver to kill a chicken. In less than five minutes, the security guards lay sprawled on the ground, groaning in pain.
That was with the Gang members showing restraint, of course. After all, everyone knew these people were not their mortal enemies.
Hu Shanyue grabbed the security guard who had pointed at Lin Xiu and lifted him in front of Lin Xiu like a chick. Then he asked with a grin, “Tell me, which finger did you use to point at my Boss just now!”
“I…” The security guard was sweating profusely, his body trembling slightly. This was his first time fighting a Martial Artist—and there were more than one hundred of them. He swallowed and said, feigning composure, “Don’t you know that Shuiyun Jian is an industry of the City Lord's Mansion?”
“You dare cause trouble here? The City Lord's Mansion won’t let you off.”
“Oh?” Hearing this, Lin Xiu raised an eyebrow and said with a smile, “Are you trying to threaten me?”
“I…” The security guard opened his mouth, but ultimately fell silent.
“I hate being threatened more than anything.” Lin Xiu pondered for Several seconds. Then, as if he had thought of something amusing, he turned to Hu Shanyue and said, “Third Brother, arrange a few Three Knives Six Holes for this brother.”
“Boss, with him looking this cowardly, it’d be good if he could withstand one Three Knives Six Holes. If we give him several… he’ll probably die, right?”
Three Knives Six Holes was a form of atonement in gangs. Many people called it a self-inflicted punishment second only to suicide. Ordinarily, a sharp blade was thrust vertically through the thigh three times, creating six holes.
An Ordinary person who suffered one Three Knives Six Holes without timely treatment could die from blood loss. That was why Hu Shanyue said the other party would die.
However, Lin Xiu shook his head and pointed at Kadir behind him. “Can’t she heal?”
“Have her heal him afterward, then Continue.”
Hu Shanyue: “???”
Kadir: “???”
Security guard: “!!!!”