It was already late when Xiao Bing returned to Minhang Road. College students were all hanging out for nightlife at this hour.
In the street, there were full of young lovers holding hand in hand, and brotherhoods or sisterhoods showing up. Those barbecue restaurants, hot pot restaurants, and even stalls around the road were all full.
Now, a taxi stopped in front of one of the largest nightclubs in Minhang Road.
Xiao Bing got off the taxi, lowered his head and lit a cigarette before walking into the nightclub.
Heavy Metal music was resounding through in the disco, half-naked men and women were shaking their bodies crazily on the dancing floor. Xiao Bing sat down at the bar counter and ordered a beer. Right after, two ugly-looking men walked to him and asked in a cryptical way, “Bro, would you like some Ketamine? 10% off for you, it’s the lowest price in the whole city.”
While one of them was talking, the other took out a knife and stared at Xiao Bing with a threat in his eyes.
Coercive trade?
“Our boss is Finger-breaker!”
They didn’t seem to stop threatening. However, Xiao Bing felt funny after hearing that. He intended to find this Finger-breaker in a place where good and bad people mixed up. It didn’t occur to him that Finger-breaker not only collected protection money but also ran a business of drugs. Now he didn’t even have to try because these minions found him.
Xiao Bing took a look at the beer on the table, asked, “Do you want a drink?”
They froze, couldn’t capture the meaning of his word. The man who asked Xiao Bing to buy ketamine at the beginning asked, “What? What do you mean?”
Xiao Bing laughed and said, “I’ll buy you a drink!”
“What the hell. Pay for the ketamine first. We don’t need your damn drink!”
Before he could even close his mouth after he said that, Xiao Bing grabbed the beer that was still with its lid on and put it right into his mouth. Taken by surprise and Xiao Bing’s extraordinary strength, he lost two of his front teeth at once and started to bleed.
Before he could even realize, Xiao Bing grasped his hair and hit it against the bar counter with a bumping sound. The other men around who had witnessed this all got shocked by Xiao Bing’s ruthlessness as if they were also feeling the pain in the head.
After being bumped for four or five times, he got blood spilling out of his forehead and his twisted nose. A few more of his teeth dropped out, tears, snot, and blood all came out, which blurred his face.
In the end, Xiao Bing took a bottle and knocked it strongly on his head. With a bump, he fell and passed out. It only took Xiao Bing a while to end the fight.
At this moment the other man with a knife in his hand saw Xiao Bing turning eyes on him. He got so frightened that his legs trembled and he barely could talk, “Don’t……don’t……don’t do this to me……I am with Finger-breaker……”.
His hands kept shaking, and the knife fell on the floor with a clank.
Xiao Bing sighed, patted the man’s face slightly and said with emotion, “The world has certainly changed. How could a scumbag like you walking around with proud? Society and age are developing. Shouldn’t you gangs learn well before getting to work? Let alone improving your overall abilities like moral, intellectual, physical, and labor, you should at least learn something like Sanda or Jeet Kune Do……”
This ugly-looking man felt like weeping but had no tears. He didn’t dare to talk back but could only nod his head.
Xiao Bing began to look serious, “Take me to your boss. Collecting protection money under the day of light, daring to sell drugs in nightclubs. I’d like to see what a man like him would be!”
Looking hesitated, the man swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Xiao Bing grabbed his hair and said with coldness, “If you don’t take me, that’s fine, but I would kill you.”
“Finger-breaker is here……I will bring you…… To him……..”
When Xiao Bing found Finger-breaker, he was harassing a twenty-year-old girl who dressed fashionably. While trying to kiss her, he said to her with a dirty smile, “Beauty, let’s have some fun together. People in this area all follow me. And from now on, they will follow you too.”
The girl got very angry and pushed him back with all her muscles. She yelled, “Dirty motherfu*ker, let go of me, or I will call for help!”
Finger-breaker laughed smugly and said, “Go ahead, no one will come for you even if you break your throat.”
Finger-breaker was wearing a floral shirt. The thumb of his left hand was gone. Some minions were making a fuss around him. After Xiao Bing identified for sure, he released the man who led him.
Bump! Finger-breaker got thrown away at speed like across the sky. He fell on a distant table with a loud crash. The table broke into several pieces, fruit plates and wine on it all scattered on him. The customers who were drinking ran away screaming. His minions hurriedly ran to him and helped him up, asking, “Boss, are you all right?”
“Which motherfu*ker did this to Finger-breaker?”
“That guy over there!”
“Fu*k, let’s tear him apart!”
“Right, let’s kill him!”
Xiao Bing kicked off Finger-breaker at one move, brushed his clothes slightly and said with a cold voice, “What did you mean when you said ‘no one will come for you even if you break your throat’?” “Son of a bitch, I am sick of such kind of lines without meaning well. Are you ok, beautiful?”
The last word was said to the girl harassed. She raised her head and answered, “I am okay.”
After Xiao Bing took a better look at the girl, he got a bit stunned.
Her eyebrows were curved, her nose was small and lightly-upturned, and her face was fair as white jade. A piece of white jade was on her neck and gave out a subtle halo, which made her look like she was someone who came out of a painting. Moreover, when she smiled, she looked even more fascinating. It wasn’t just her ruby lips that smiled, her crescent-moon eyes even those small dimples on her cheeks smiled too. Even just a casual smile of her could make people fall for her. No wonder Finger-breaker would harass her.
Her psychological quality seemed to be quite good. There wasn’t a sign of scare on her face. She sized Xiao Bing up with her head tilted, which looked very cute, “I am Yezi, and you are?”
Xiao Bing blurted out without thinking, “I am Xiao Bing, people call me Brother Bing.”
Xiao Bing didn’t know why he had a feeling he had never felt before. He couldn’t control his thinking.
“You seem to be good at fighting. Can you do me a favor?”
“A favor?” Xiao Bing smiled and said, “What favor? Tell me about it.”
“Hold him down for me. I want to kick his ass!”
Without hesitation, Xiao Bing replied, “Sure, I will do it!”
Right after, Xiao Bing started to walk to Finger-breaker. Then more than ten people rushed down the floor. Those minions around Finger-breaker also started to come surrounding him. Other people around all got scared and scattered away. They watched from a distance, afraid of getting unnecessary hurt.
Xiao Bing turned around and took a look at Yezi. She seemed quite confident about him. She blinked her eyes and said, “No need to worry about me. Beat their ass off for me.”
“No problem!” Yezi started to step back and leaned against the wall. “No problem!” Yezi started to step back and leaned against the wall. Xiao Bing stood in front of all his enemies as if he were God of War.
After Yezi moved to a safe distance, Xiao Bing started to undress the buttons on his shirt one by one. Then he stripped off his shirt and revealed his body which was strong and copper-colored. After he removed his shirt, lots of screams came out on the first floor. Eventually, it became silent as death.
There was a golden dragon tattoo twining around on Xiao Bing’s body. Its head was on his chest, opening its mouth as if it were roaring to the sky. Every squama of the dragon was clear. Its eyes were imperial as if the sovereign descended the world. This dragon seemed like it already walked out of the wood, diving for its enemies. These people took two steps back with their hearts beating fast.
Finger-breaker also felt shocked by Xiao Bing’s tattoo. However, after he experienced the great pain in the chest caused by Xiao Bing’s kicking, he immediately shouted with a fierce look, “Bloody hell, Kill him!”
Those men made a roar and came at Xiao Bing altogether.
When the first stick almost hit Xiao Bing’s head, he reached out his hand and took it with ease. Then after a few bangs, these men were all defeated by Xiao Bing and fell on the floor. Equally, each of them got a bang on their head and passed out right away.
“Oh fu*k, this isn’t true!” Screams arose all around, then whistles which no one knew who started it.
With shiny blinks in her eyes, Yezi pointed at Finger-breaker and said with happy cheers, “Hold him down for me!”
Xiao Bing replied with a sound and walked to Finger-breaker. Finger-breaker took out a knife, showed an aggressive look on his face, bellowed, and made an attempt to stab Xiao Bing on the chest mercilessly.
Finger-breaker was once in a fight that his thumb got chopped off. Although he was in great pain, he still managed to defeat the other men from another party. After that, he got this nickname and became known. It was obvious that Finger-breaker was also a man without mercy.
However, sometimes aggressive instincts were not enough to make up the gap between power. Xiao Bing grabbed hold of his wrist and twisted his whole arm backward. Even the watching crowd could hear the creak of his arm fractured clearly. It was so painful that even for a fierce man like Finger-breaker couldn’t help screeching like a pig getting killed.
Yezi walked to Finger-breaker and looked at him with anger. Then she gave a swift kick on between his legs. Finger-breaker made a screech again, foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes in great pain. He passed out immediately.
Xiao Bing felt a chill down there. This girl was so tough.
Although Yezi kicked hard, her smile was sweet. “Brother Bing, thank you for saving me. Let’s go for a drink, it’s on me!”
After throwing Finger-breaker who was as unconscious as a dead dog on the floor, Xiao Bing felt much better. He agreed right away with a smile, “Since this is a thank-you drink, it would be disrespectful for me to decline.”
The crowd separated a path automatically. Everyone looked to Xiao Bing with awe in their eyes. Then they finally released a sign when Xiao Bing and Yezi got out of sight.
It didn’t come to Xiao Bing’s mind that Yezi’s treat was to order takeout of barbecue and beer. Then they took a taxi and went to the riverside.
They sat on the dam by the river and gazed at the surging water. Yezi opened a can of beer, and said, ” Cheers!”
Xiao Bing also raised a beer with a smile, cheered, and took two big mouthfuls along.
“Thank you for helping me back there. If it weren’t you, I might have been bullied tonight.” Yezi said angrily. “I didn’t know there was such a bully around the university town. He must have bullied many students. No wonder my classmate told me not to walk alone on Minhang Road at night.”
Xiao Bing smiled and said, “Where there are people, there are gangs. Actually, you don’t need to thank me. Even if I didn’t reach out. You wouldn’t get bullied, would you?”
