Chapter 293 Ah, What a Loud and Resonant Cry! (1/2)

Whoosh!

Golden Hair brandished his arm and hit out a fist at Ning Tao’s face.

But Ning Tao remained motionless. He did not even duck. That same bizarre smile was still upon his lips.

“Damn you, go on and smile!” Crew Cut kneed Ning Tao’s groin heavily again.

Thump!

In the deserted lane, another sound resounded which could make a man contract his bladder.

But Ning Tao still remained there motionless, a smile on his lips.

“Idiot! Go on smiling!” Golden Hair cursed. He struck with both fists, pummeling Ning Tao’s face like pattering raindrops.

Crew Cut also joined him. He aimed a kick on Ning Tao’s lower abdomen.

Thump, thump, thump…

Fists and feet striking flesh. The dull thumps resounded like a drum in this lane rhythmically.

Since the first strike, Ning Tao had not moved. Nor did he retaliate. He allowed Crew Cut and Golden Hair to hit him with their fists and legs, a bizarre smile still hovering on his lips. He gave one the impression of a life-size inflatable doll, or the Beast in the movie Kung Fu Hustle.

A man smiling as he was attacked, not feeling the least bit of pain. But his assailants had tired. After some time, both Golden Hair and Crew Cut stopped, panting. One of them had swollen fists, while the other had stung feet.

Only now did Ning Tao speak. He said blandly, “Have you hit enough?”

Golden Hair stood with his arms akimbo, panting strenuously. “Damn you, you sure can take blows, you idiot. I will…”

Ning Tao suddenly stretched out his hands, pinning down his neck. He raised his right knee, bringing it up to Golden Hair’s nose with a loud thud.

A noise cracked. Golden Hair’s nose bridge had been shattered. Excruciating pain and reverberations gushed into his brain. He did not have even the chance to groan, collapsing to the ground and passing out.

Crew Cut was stunned. “How dare you retaliate!”

Ning Tao nodded. “Yes, I do have the courage.”

“Damn you, you’re looking for death!” Crew Cut grabbed that knife which had been stabbed into the crevice between the bricks. He conveniently stabbed at Ning Tao’s lower abdomen.

One second later, his hand holding to the knife could not advance even a millimeter. Ning Tao had grabbed his wrist, with a grip as strong and unyielding as a steel pincer. He even felt that his wrist would be crushed!

“Release me! My boss won’t let you off!” Crew Cut screeched.

Ning Tao smiled. “You’d better try overcoming this calamity first.”

As his voice died away, his fist struck down.

Crew Cut’s head and ears also flopped down. His body slumped like slime onto the ground.

Ning Tao took out from his small medicine chest an ordinary prescription with a blood lock. He unlocked it and grabbed Crew Cut and Golden Hair by their ankles. He dragged them directly into the convenient door.

The ordinary prescription drifted down in the air, landing on the garbage dump, totally inconspicuous.

In Sky Clinic, the human face on the good-evil tripod showed an angry face.

Ning Tao threw Crew Cut and Golden Hair conveniently on the floor. Then he took out his ledger of bamboo slips and placed it on Golden Hair’s head.

A diagnosis of Golden Hair appeared on the ledger: Chen Bin, born 1991, the fifth day of the sixth lunar month. A total scum. His first sin: unfilial to his parents, 10 demerit points for this sin of evil intention. His second sin: a loan shark with 107 cases; 427 demerit points for this sin of evil intention. His third sin: Bullying the weak, 105 cases, 300 demerit points for this sin of evil intention. His fourth sin: Womanizing and insulting women… In total, 767 demerit points for all his sins of evil intentions. Prescribe a sin prescription and hack off his hands and feet as punishment.

A total scum?

It was the first time Ning Tao had seen such a definition for a patient on his ledger of bamboo slips. But it was not difficult to understand what it meant at all. Although both men had not murdered or attempted arson, they had relentless minor sins, like bullying the kindhearted and the weak. They were ruffians who might clobber anyone they found on the street not to their liking. They were total scums.

Being a loan shark meant that they must collect debts and do evil. The loan sharks nowadays would not lend to anyone who could pay. They would deliberately provide loans to college students and small traders. They might even come up with a scheme to entice people to borrow. These two debt collectors would of course coerce college students, small traders or minor employees. They would expose female college students’ nude photos, harass small traders from doing proper business, and splash farces at the elders’ houses, pouring red paint on their doors. They would even strike the elderly. They often did such things and therefore accumulated an astonishingly large number of demerit points.

As the saying went, “Don’t perform evil even if it is a minor sin. Perform good even if it is a minor good.”

Those who did good might perform minor good like helping the elderly cross the road. If they performed them consistently, they would also reap rewards. Those who did wicked deeds might only be snatching away sweets from young children. But such misdeeds, when performed routinely, would accumulate terrifying sins of evil intentions. They would reap retributions.

Ning Tao also used the ledger of bamboo slips to give Crew Cut a diagnosis.

Crew Cut’s name was Zhou Qiang. Like Golden Hair, he was a total scum. He had accumulated over 700 demerit points for his sins of evil intention. The final treatment was the same: chopping off his hands and feet to atone for his sins.

Ning Tao kept the ledger of bamboo slips and went to his study table to write out two sin of evil intention prescriptions.

After writing the prescriptions, Ning Tao took out the Blade of the Solar Eclipse from his small medicine chest. He grabbed a foot of Golden Hair and sliced through his ankle deftly.

Blood spurted out. His foot tendons were severed.

“Ah—” Golden Hair awoke in great pain, shrieking mournfully.

Ning Tao flung away his foot and went to Crew Cut. He lifted Crew Cut’s foot and sliced off his foot tendons in one stroke.

“Ah!” Crew Cut also awoke in the pain. He saw Ning Tao grabbing his foot and holding a surgical knife. Blood was gushing out from his ankle. He was so horrified that his face turned bloodlessly pale. “You, you… are a murderer! Murder!”

His cries, like pigs squealing before slaughter, reverberated in Sky Clinic.