Chapter 57 - One Punch Does It (1/2)

Chapter 57: One Punch Does It

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Everyone looked at Chen Fan.

“Are you crazy? Sit down!” Xiao w.a.n.g growled at Chen Fan.

“Haven’t you seen that none of the tyc.o.o.ns of the Jiang Bei dare to speak a word, you are courting death!”

Xiao w.a.n.g was convinced that if Chen Fan ticked off Lin Hu, not only would Chen Fan be in trouble, but people around him would also suffer collateral damage.

So thinking, Xiao w.a.n.g glared at Chen Fan and wished that he could make the boy disappear.

Yang Li and the other girl’s faces paled. As they wondered if it was too late to pull Chen Fan back to his seat, they saw Lin Hu looking toward their direction.

Xiao w.a.n.g and his friends felt a chill down their spines after being glared at by Lin Hu’s murderous gaze. They looked down and didn’t even dare move a finger. Meanwhile, they hoped that Lin Hu would not drag them into his conflict with Chen Fan.

Suddenly, people around Chen Fan took a step away from him, as none of them wanted to appear to be related to him.

Brother Zhang was the first to distance himself from Chen Fan and stood the furthest away from him.

Song Tao’s performance had robbed him of his confidence, while the arrival of Lin Hu had shattered whatever ambition he still harbored to become the victor of the event.

Chen Fan was surrounded by onlookers and had become the center of the event.

Only A’Xiu stood beside him. Despite the girl’s dest.i.tute life, she was kind and had a heart of gold.

A’Xiu tugged at Chen Fan’s s.h.i.+rt and pleaded, “Brother Chen, sit down, I beg of you. That guy on the stage is too terrifying.”

“Fear not, I can handle him.” Chen Fan gave the girl a rea.s.suring smile.

And then, he rubbed the top of A’Xiu head and said:

“Thank you for standing with me. You have my promise that I will give you an opportunity in the future, as long as you can catch that opportunity first.”

Without offering any explanation to his words, he brushed away A’Xiu’s finger on his s.h.i.+rt and walked toward the stage with his hands linked behind his back.

A’Xiu was left among the crowd. The image of Chen Fan’s caring and warm smile stayed in her mind and would not go away.

Out of the blue, she felt a sense of unnamed regret and sorrow as tears welled in her eyes.

Chen Fan sauntered toward the stage, and the audience quickly made way for him.

Most people glared at him as if he was a nut job. Some who still had a conscience urged the boy concernedly, “Hey, little guy. He is looking for Master Chen, not you. Stop!”

Everyone thought Master Chen was a middle age man in his forties, like Master Wu. However, this boy was only seventeen, and people found it hard to believe that he was Master Chen.

Chen Fan cracked a smile and kept his silence as he sauntered on.

When he arrived at the foot of the stage, he looked up at the deck of the stage above his head and started clambering onto the stage. His entrance was the least flattering compared to previous fighters who had leapt onto the stage heroically.

When Xu Ao saw the boy clambering onto the stage, he felt the boy looked very familiar, and therefore he narrowed his eyes and looked carefully. When he realized that it indeed was Chen Fan, he was seized by a fit of unease.

Although he was not pleased by the boy’s arrogance, his girl was infatuated with him, and as Xu Rongfei’s father, he couldn’t just sit around and watch the boy perish. Lin Hu’s nickname was Alaskan Tiger, and little did the boy know that the nickname carried countless unfortunate souls who once made the same mistake as he did.

“What the h.e.l.l are you doing here? Get off the stage!”

Xu Ao shouted at Chen Fan.

Chen Fan said sarcastically, “He is looking for me.”

Xu Ao wished he could walk to the stage and slap the boy’s face. Instead, he shouted hotly, “He is looking for MASTER Chen, not you!

“Do you think anyone who has the last name Chen is a Master?”

Like most of the audience, Xu Ao couldn’t make the connection between the young boy and the image he had of Master Chen.

Chen Fan blinked dumbfoundedly and said, “Yes, I am Master Chen.”

Xu Ao’s mind reeled. He felt that he was barking at a tree stump.

By then, Master Gu had clambered onto the stage and walked over to Chen Fan and scolded him hotly, “Get lost, young boy. You can’t even defeat me, much less Lin Hu.

“Get back now! Lin Hu is an honorable fighter; he wouldn’t hold a grudge against an arrogant child.”

So saying, he squeezed his face at Chen Fan, willing him to get off the stage and save himself.

Lin Hu crossed his arms in front of his chest and regarded the boy perplexedly.

Based on his experience, he could tell that this boy had never undergone a full day of martial arts training.

He couldn’t even defeat any of the bodyguards, much less Linbao. In addition, it took a long time to cultivate Inner Force and therefore an Inner Force user would have to be at least as old as Master Gu.

However, the boy in front of him did match Xin Zhong’s description of Master Chen.

“Regardless, since he had the audacity of challenging me, I should make an example out of him and show everyone what will happen is they rise against me.”

Lin Hu thought to himself as his eyes darkened.

The other businessmen on the platform looked at Chen Fan with equal measures of lament and admiration.

They admired his mettle for rising against Lin Hu. However, they also lamented his short-sightedness due to his young age.

Miss Lu said under her breath:

“Fourth Uncle, can you save him? We can’t just sit around and watch a boy being killed.”

The Fourth Uncle shook his head helplessly.