Special District 9 Chapter 145: The Broad Shoulders of a Young Man

Xiangxiang had already lost her rationality to her rage. When she saw how Old Zhang was beating up her mother once more, she had already forgotten all about the consequences. All she wanted to do in this moment was to kill this darned gangster with the beer bottle in her hands.

But no matter how drunk Old Zhang might be, he was still a grown man who lived on the streets. Violence was his trade, and he had plenty of combat experience fighting on the streets. When he saw Xiangxiang charging toward him, he immediately backed two steps away before kicking with his right foot.

Gudong!

Xiangxiang was knocked down to the ground whereas a deep gash was inflicted on Old Zhang’s right foot.

“Xiangxiang!” Hua-jie cried as she struggled out of Old Zhang’s grasp to help Xiangxiang.

“You bitch! You fucking dare to stab me? Do you know who I am? I am your father!” Old Zhang flew into a rage. He raised his foot and stomped down on Xiangxiang furiously. “I’ll kill you, you useless money wasting thing!”

Bam!

Hua-jie quickly protected her daughter from the stomping as she glared at Old Zhang and shouted furiously, “You beast! You even dare to hit a child!”

“Get the money right now!” Old Zhang bellowed as he sent punch after punch on Hua-jie’s face. “Are you still trying to test my patience?!”

“I don’t have the money! You can search around if you want, I’ll give you anything that you find!” Hua-jie had already utterly given up by now. She hugged her daughter as she cried, “Stop hitting her, stop hitting her!”

While panting for air, Old Zhang grabbed Hua-jie and glared at her furiously for a moment before saying, “No money, huh? Fine! Get your daughter to go out for one night, I’ll find a man for her. You should be able to get 3000 out of that. I’ll take 2000, and we’ll be equals.”

“Impossible!”

“What are you putting on that chastity act for? What else can she do after she grows up? She’ll just take over your trade! Hah, you should be thanking me instead! You can get a higher price from the clients I find!” Old Zhang spat into Hua-jie’s face. “Don’t try to test me, you hear me?”

“Dream on! I won’t allow it to happen even if you kill me!” Hua-jie screamed as she hugged Xiangxiang tightly. “No one will touch my daughter!”

“Why does nothing get through your head at all?!” Old Zhang roared. “I’ll tell you one last time…”

“Let go.”

It was at this moment that a skinny Bucktooth walked into the room and shouted at Old Zhang coldly.

Old Zhang turned around and asked menacingly, “What did you say?”

“I’m telling you to let go!” Even though Bucktooth was shorter than a grown man, he was currently standing whereas Old Zhang was in a squatting position, creating a slightly imposing impression due to the difference in height.

“Get lost, you brat!” Old Zhang stretched his hand forth and pushed Bucktooth aside coldly. Then, he turned back to Hua-jie and said, “You better…”

A cold glint flashed across the room. With a big chopper in hand, Bucktooth raised his arm and hacked it down without hesitation.

Puchi!

Old Zhang was completely caught off guard, and he was struck right in his face. With a pained cry, he grabbed his face and shouted, “Fuck! You hacked me?”

Puchi!

Bucktooth was vicious with his attacks. He immediately followed up with a second hack directed straight toward Old Zhang’s wrist.

“You son of a bitch, vicious brat!” Old Zhang also reacted quickly. He rose from the ground and placed his right arm before him while charging forth, intending to grab Bucktooth’s arm to stop the chopper.

Bucktooth’s eyes were firmly locked on Old Zhang. He retreated three steps back to create some distance between the two of them before abruptly tilting his chopper sideway and slashing it toward Old Zhang’s stomach.

Puchi!

The chopper landed on its target. Old Zhang’s shirt ripped, and blood seeped out from his stomach.

Bucktooth agilely sidestepped to Old Zhang’s left before raising his arm to hack down once more.

Puchi!

Puchi!

…

In just three seconds, Old Zhang’s left arm, rib, and face had suffered four to five cuts. Trembling with rage, Old Zhang bucked up his courage and leaped forward, only for the agile Bucktooth to back several steps away before raising his chopper high.

With eyes widened in frenzy, Bucktooth hollered, “Come here, you bastard!”

Old Zhang gritted his teeth, but he dared not to approach easily. He had no weapon on hand, and the small brat in front of him was quite a despicable fighter.

Noticing Old Zhang’s hesitation, Bucktooth immediately hacked down on him once more.

Old Zhang tried to grab the chopper, but he simply wasn’t fast enough. Instead, he ended up getting hacked a few more times. In the end, he had no choice but to turn tail and flee.

Bucktooth continued to chase him with the chopper, getting a few good hacks on his back.

Guangdang!

The drunk Old Zhang staggered into the door of the store and tumbled down the entrance stairs. He grabbed his face in pain as he frantically got to his feet and ran away.

Bucktooth chased him out to the entrance while gasping for breath, shouting with all his breath, “You fucker! If you dare come again, I’ll turn you into minced meat!”

Old Zhang turned around and bellowed, “You brat, I dare you stay there!”

“Hah, what can you do even if I were to stay here? There’s no one on the streets who is as useless as you!” Bucktooth might be young, but he bellowed at the other party with disdain. “I’ll be waiting right here for you! Let’s see what you can do!”

After saying those words, Bucktooth returned back to the store and said, “Auntie, Xiangxiang, are you two alright?”

Still lying on the ground, Xiangxiang’s mind was still flashing with the image of the instant the young man stood forward with a chopper in hand. She glanced at his thin figure, and unknowingly, this sight was imprinted into the depths of her mind.

“He’s gone?” It was then that Hua-jie finally snapped out of her daze, and she quickly got up and asked.

“He’s gone,” Bucktooth replied with a nod.

“Shut the doors. Do it now. He’ll surely be back!” Hua-jie quickly urged the crowd.

Bucktooth was still in the midst of an adrenaline rush from having successfully chased Old Zhang away, and he said, “So what if he returns? He’s a mere ruffian on the streets. If he dares come again, I’ll hack him down again! There’s no need to be afraid of him!”

Hua-jie could still remember the instant that Bucktooth sent Old Zhang scrambling for his life, and there was a moment there that she felt that this child seemed to be even more reliable than any other men out there. However, when she heard the words he was saying now, she understood that he was still a child after all.

“Listen to me and close the doors. We’ll seek refuge and Xia-er’s place for the time being,” Hua-jie said, taking charge of the situation.

The sisters in the store were all actually quite afraid that Old Zhang would bring his brothers over for vengeance, so they quickly packed up the interiors before locking the doors and escaping with the two children.

What the group didn’t expect was that the downright despicable Old Zhang didn’t bring other gangsters over to exact vengeance on them, but instead, he chose to call the police.

In less than an hour’s time, a few policemen from the Black Street Sector Police Bureau charged into Xia-er’s house, pointed Bucktooth out, and questioned, “Are you the one who hacked Old Zhang?”

Bucktooth blinked his eyes before he stiffened up his neck and said, “It was self-defense.”

“Come with me!” A police officer grabbed Bucktooth’s collar before gesturing to the others. “Pack up. You’re all coming to the Police Bureau with me!”

…

Residence 88.

Qin Yu looked at Lin Nianlei and teased, “Bro, looks like you have gained some weight.”

“Hey, watch your mouth!” Lin Nianlei was shuddering coldly, to the point that her fair neck had turned a little red. She stomped her feet in frustration as she cursed, “Darn it, for there to actually be actually a hole in my room… I just slept for a night, and the next day, there was snow all over my eyelashes. I nearly turned into a frozen popsicle!”

“You’re just lacking a man in your room to warm you up,” Qin Yu replied casually.

Lin Nianlei shot Qin Yu a glare before a slight smile crept on her lips, and she asked, “Confess! Who did you buy that scarf for?”

Qin Yu was dazed for a moment, but at that moment, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

“Wait a moment.” Qin Yu said with a wave of his hand as he picked up the call. “Hello. What’s wrong, Brother Wei?”

“Your son has been captured,” Zhu Wei said.

“Huh?” Qin Yu was stunned.