Chapter 175: The Young Boss of a Criminal Syndicate (1/2)

Chapter 175: The Young Boss of a Criminal Syndicate

Crash! The doors had immediately broke apart as several young but brash looking men flew in and surrounded Huo Ling’er. The unfortunate guy who had been hit in the face by Huo Ling’er had even made a single sound from where he was and remained motionless on the ground. Whether he was alive or dead, no one knew.

“Fucker, how dare you attack our brother? Let’s take this bitch!”

“Don’t let anyone in the room get off scot free either, beat them!”

“The boss is currently negotiating in the other room. Have some of our men tie them all up and see who they are. Don’t delay the matter.”

There had been forty to fifty people within this cramped aisleway. And with the servants seeing this sight, each and every single one of them were so frightened out of their minds that they couldn’t even find which where to go to hide.

From a dozen of them, some of them had carried some barstools, some held an empty bottle, and some had even carried a fruit knife. From the looks of things, they were all gangsters.

“This place is a fancy establishment with good food. So why are there so many hoodlums here? What kind of hoodlums should even show up here? In Hong Kong, only the food stalls would have these problems.”

The very first young gangster that came in had teeth that had yellowed from bad care. With a cuss at Huo Ling’er, he threw out a slap with one hand and a hand to grab at her hair.

Needless to say, this young man wasn’t a practitioner of martial arts. But he understood how to fight to some degree and was quick with his movements. From the looks of things, he was quite practiced at this too.

Bringing up her left hand, Huo Ling’er had deflected the slap while forming a U-shaped grab with her right arm like a hook. As her muscles bulged outwards, it had instantaneously grabbed at the hand coming for her hair yanked at it hard as if pulling at the tail of a cow.

Crack! A loud cracking sound could be heard from the gangster’s arm as he tumbled to the ground. With a cry, the man grabbed at his arm in pain and fought no more.

These two movements were from the monkey stance of Xingyiquan. The “Single-hand Rope Tug” and the “Yank the Cow Tail”. With these two and the combined force of inertia, the joints would not be able to endure it. Grab and tug and then pull back even more to break them. From the way Huo Ling’er fought, she looked like the textbook example of self defense.

At the same time she had pulled back, she managed to evade the other people who came at her. In a single moment, she had dodged three bottles, two kicks, and a barstool.

Be flexible in the face of danger and forego style in favor of nimbleness. That was the secret to fighting.

Even Wang Chao was full of praise for her at her choice of counters. There were plenty of counters to the course of action the gangster had chosen, like using the monkey stance to squat down and deliver an uppercut.

There was also spreading your arms wide and using the “Bear Strikes Tree”.

There was also the “Seafloor Leg” where one would kick at the opponent’s abdomen swiftly to send them flying, and so on.

This specific method on the other hand was only useful against a single person, but it allowed for the user to avoid being surrounded.

In this act of evading and injuring, she had broken free of the potential trap. In the current situation, this was the best choice to make.

In a one on one match, there was no need for this improvisation. As long as one used complicated but speedy movements that obscured the true motive within the false actions, then they would be able to win over their opponent without much harm.

This was the difference between the two fights.

As soon as she had disposed of one person, she flashed on over to the next closest person and sent them flying with a kick. Then arching her back so that it fell to the floor, her feet began to sweep out and slam into the waists of those around her. From the outside looked as if they had slipped on the banana, and in the next moment, the ones who had been hit head had swapped places with his feet as his body spun in the air along with another five people that had fell prey to Huo Ling’er’s attack.

This particular move was known as the “Black Dragon Spiralling Up Pillar”. Classified as a drop, spin, roll and leaping move, it was considered inapplicable to use in an actual fight.

This was a move that was meant to attack those around the user. But its strength wasn’t even enough to harm anyone, especially another practitioner. An attack from the legs like this would be like the sting of a mosquito.

But in a fight against many where the opponents were weak, it showed its true strength there.

The gangsters who had rushed at her were not that tolerant to pain and had been struck in the face or cheeks by her feet. With such a searing amount of pain, some of them had spat out blood, some had spat out their teeth. After being struck in the mouth, their gums had been jolted loose.

Springing back up from the ground like a carp, Huo Ling’er had watched the four people on the ground and the six people who had been struck by her feet run back to the door. With blood dripping from their mouths and teeth falling from their gums, they might have had the strength to continue fighting, but they didn’t dare to continue, so Huo Ling’er dusted off her hands in accomplishment.

“A fighting style like that is quite efficient. If it were us, we wouldn’t be able of accomplishing the task at hand half as fast.” Liu Qing, Gao Jun, Zhang Kai, and Fang Wei had been amazed to see just how fast Huo Ling’er had finished up the battle.

They might have been experts in killing and warfare to a degree where these gangsters wouldn’t be a problem, but they wouldn’t have been able to be as decisive as Huo Ling’er had been should it have been them.

It wasn’t that Huo Ling’er was better than them in martial arts. It was just that the way she had decided to fight was one of the most effective measures in that scenario.

For example, using the palm to kill a mosquito would be more cost-effective than using an anti-tank missile. Needless to say, the anti-tank missile was stronger than the palm.

“I’ve picked up a gem.” Wang Chao thought to himself.

“But what’s going on for this to even happen? I am sure I heard a gun in the next room over, are two criminal gangs negotiating on something? Is the law and order here that bad?” Wang Chao didn’t bother to eye the spectacle in front of him and instead twitched his ears so that they listened closely to the sounds coming from the next room over.

Liu Qing and the others followed suit.

The rooms in this place were separated by the walls with a decent level of soundproofing. But because the people were talking quite loudly and because Wang Chao’s ability to hear was better than most, he was able to hear more than what he should have been.

“Just five hundred kilometers southwest from here is the border to Myanmar, so it’s only natural that the security here wouldn’t be too good. But to openly negotiate in this restaurant with so many gangsters gathered around? That’s a rare sight.” Liu Qing explained.