Chapter 393 - Demonstration of Power (1/2)

When the four officers stepped into the home, they immediately saw Xiao Luo, who appeared to be practicing acupuncture on an old woman in her room. The chubby man walked in, then gestured his hand toward Xiao Luo and asked, “Sir, please show me your Medical Practitioner’s Qualification Certificate.”

Xiao Luo was nonchalantly packing his acupuncture kit, and without looking up, he replied, “I don’t have such a document.”

“Then, I’m sorry, you’ll have to come with us,” the chubby man responded.

After the chubby man spoke, two uniformed policemen approached Xiao Luo in a brusque manner, and one of them was even pulling out his handcuffs.

Only then did Xiao Luo look at the chubby man. He grinned in a way that looked more like a grimace and said, “Is saving a life deemed illegal?”

“Practicing medicine without a license is prohibited by law. So, you have to come with us. Please cooperate, we are only doing our jobs,” the chubby man retorted.

“Yes, yes, he mentioned to us before that he didn’t have a medical license. So that means he’s actually practicing medicine illegally. You should arrest him quickly,” Mrs. Tan chimed.

When Tan Jianbai heard this, he was enraged, and pointing at his wife, he reprimanded her, “Are you crazy? Mr. Xiao just saved my mother. How can you wrong him like this?”

“Who’s wronging him? He said earlier that he doesn’t work in the medical field, and it means that he is practicing medicine without a license, am I wrong?” Mrs. Tan countered.

“Why am I married to such an ignorant, rotten person like you!” Tan Jianbai cried.

“Mum, how could you do this…!”

Tan Ningfu was grieved and indignant at her mother’s actions. She had called Xiao Luo, and he had come all the way to treat her grandmother with kind intentions. It was bad enough that her mother didn’t thank him, she was now even testifying against him to the Public Health Bureau people. How different were her actions to the phrase, “returning kindness with ingratitude”?

“So, it’s Mr. Xiao, is it? Okay, come with us now!”

The chubby man raised his voice several decibels higher and put on an air of authority.

Even a clay idol would have been driven to anger, let alone a living person…

Xiao Luo always believed he had an even temperament, but regardless of how good it was, Tan Ningfu’s mother had poked and goaded him to the extent that his temperance was now frayed. He had come to their home only to treat their elderly mother without expecting anything in return. The irony of it was that not only did he not receive any thanks, but he was even reported for practicing medicine without a license and was now being apprehended the Public Health Bureau for further investigation.

Glaring at the chubby man with cold eyes, he said, “And, what if I refuse?”

The four officers were stunned, and they suddenly felt a strange, disturbing sensation—just like a frog being in the gaze of a poisonous snake about to strike; it was an alarming sense of danger as if they would die at any moment.

“Tsk! Just look at how arrogant he is, behaving so cockily even without a medical practitioner’s license,” Mrs. Tan taunted, “You are from the Public Health Bureau, right? Please hurry up and take this awful man away. It’ll best if you keep him locked up for a year or two to change his bad attitude!”

Hearing that, the chubby man became encouraged by her words and was convinced that such an arrogant man should be taught how to behave. He bellowed out the orders, “Seize h… huh?”

His voice halted abruptly because Xiao Luo had suddenly appeared in front of him and stomped on the toes of his right foot.

Despite wearing a pair of leather shoes, the force exerted was so immense that it came down like a guillotine. There was a gruesome sound of bones cracking as all five of the chubby man’s toes were immediately crushed. The excruciating pain instantly rushed to his brain, and after a momentary silence from the shock, he screamed like a pig being slaughtered, and those who heard it had their hairs standing on ends.

The other three officers from the Public Health Bureau and police department could not even react. Xiao Luo flashed past them like a phantom, and before they knew it, all the toes on their right feet were smashed. It was done with ferocious strength, flattening their toes into paper-thin tissues of flesh clinging inside the surface of their shoe uppers as blood seeped out from the torn seams of the soles.

“Aargh! My toes, my toes…”