Chapter 179: A Man’s Name and a Tree’s Shadow (1/2)

Chapter 179: A Man’s Name and a Tree’s Shadow

“Eh? Hey Li, did you see that? Could’ve sworn that a gust of wind blew in just now, and a person came walking past us. Or am I going blind?” One of the two bodyguards to the KTV building suddenly asked the other.

“You sure you’re not going blind? What person was there?”

In the time that the two bodyguards were talking, Wang Chao had already entered the KTV building and into the karaoke hall Tan Wendong had reserved for his girlfriend. Even with a precursory glance around, Wang Chao had to admit that Tan Wendong was great at planning things.

For the sake of celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday, he had thrown a great party and hired some people to act as the stereotypical bodyguards for the VIP gang leader and guests. While these bodyguards could stop the police, they couldn’t possibly stop Wang Chao.

He had taken advantage of when the two bodyguards had laxed their attention span before moving past the doors with the movements of the “Snake Scuttling Rat Scattering” technique. A single swish of his feet and a shake of his body had been all that was needed for him to blow past them without even a shadow to be seen. With how Wang Chao had scuttled past them, there was no way the two of them would have seen him.

For a person who practiced martial arts, they could move their bodies to extreme speeds. Moving a dozen meters in an instant and with such speed that even the human eye couldn’t register them was not an exaggeration.

The hero Du Xinwu had once put on a display like this before for the military junta. There had been an instance within a small room where two people were drinking tea and chatting to one another. Just as the junta had raised the cup of tea up to drink, Du Xinwu had already disappeared from the room without a trace. Even the doors didn’t look like it had been touched even.

And straight from the room on the other side, Du Xinwu had walked out. The junta had been surprised to no end and thought that Du Xinwu had learned the art of invisibility and wall phasing.

What had actually happened was when the junta had taken that moment to drink his tea, Du Xinwu had used the “Leopard climbing tree” to leap out from the window.

The paws of a cat had a pad that would allow for graceful and silent leaping and landing. For a martial artist, their arms and legs would be trained to a degree where they could replicate the muscles of a cat. With a leap of the body, they could land and roll in the way a cat would in an instant and trick the senses of even a human.

Under the eyes of many, Xue Dian had been able to fly from one side of a eight seater table to the other side in the time it took to slam the table. He had repeated this achievement many times, but not a single one of the observers were able tell how he managed to do it and had thought it was magic. Even a practitioner with the well-trained eye could see the brief moment of movement if he focused all of his attention on Xue Dian.

Wang Chao was a person whose martial arts has reached a stage of silence. This was comparable in level to the masters of Guoshu of the past. So in a single moment, he would definitely be able to cross over into the KTV building without much difficulty.

Upon entering the KTV building and walking up the third floor, Wang Chao was able to hear the slightest sounds of singing along with the happy sounds of a woman. Straining his ears, Wang Chao was able to discern the voice of Tan Wendong from inside. Following the voice, Wang Chao walked to the largest room and pushed open the door.

It had only taken five seconds before all sound from within the room came to a complete stop.

At a glance, Wang Chao could see Tan Wendong sitting at the sofa in the center. By his side was a picturesque-looking girl that wore black clothes and had a delicate figure–this was clearly his girlfriend.

Aside from Tan Wendong and his girlfriend, there was also Wind, Cloud, Thunder, and Fire. On the other side, a plain cloth wearing police woman could be seen with a visor on her hand and another male police officer by her side.

“Tan Wendong, I’ve heard that you’ve gotten rid of one of boss Hong’s hands?” The policewoman asked. “You might have been lenient and helped us greatly this time to help put a stop to the drug trade from Vietnam, but what you’re doing is still illegal nonetheless. As long as I find some sort of proof, I’ll definitely be the one to personally escort you to prison in handcuffs.”

“Yea yea, you’ve said that plenty of times.” Tan Wendong spoke lazily from where he laid on the sofa; he hadn’t wished to move even a single finger due to his position even. “Today’s the birthday of my girl, so let’s stop and forget about all this talk. We’re friends, so we should be happy today.”

“Hmph!” The officer forced a small smile. Catching movement from the corner of her eye, she turned to look at Wang Chao who had just opened the door, “Who might this be, a friend of yours, Wendong?”

When Tan Wendong saw Wang Chao, his entire body flew up as straight as an arrow while remaining seated to glare at Wang Chao like a hungry wolf staring down his prey.

“You! What are you doing here, you trying to cause trouble for brother Dong?” Wind and Cloud had both leapt up to their feet nervously. “How did you come in here anyways?” That memory from when Wang Chao had cut apart Tan Wendong’s weapon with two fingers had been fresh in their minds.

“No reason at all, I’m just here to talk.” Wang Chao waved his hand in a gesture of goodwill. Slowly walking into the room, he sat down onto the empty sofa to the side of Tan Wendong.

“Ah, today is the birthday of your girlfriend.” It was almost as if Wang Chao was a lifelong friend of Tan Wendong. At the same time he was talking, he had already fished out a pricy looking box. “This is a birthday present.”

“Eh?” Tan Wendong’s girlfriend hesitated to take it from him at first, but when she saw the nod her boyfriend gave her, she took the box and gingerly opened the box. Upon the unboxing, she saw a platinum sapphire ring twinkling in the light back to her embedded in the box–it was clearly from an expensive brand.

This ring was merely something that Wang Chao had bought with his credit card at a jewelry store on the way to the building.

“Isn’t an expensive gift like this a little too much for the occasion?” Tan Wendong’s keen eyes had immediately realized that this ring had to be considerably expensive and was perhaps several ten thousand RMB in price.

“Too much? No no, how could it be anything but fitting?” Wang Chao’s eyes had twinkled as he observed Tan Wendong.

When Wang Chao had gifted the extremely expensive platinum sapphire ring as a birthday present, the male and female police officers had looked to each other in shock.

Tan Wendong had instead stared at Wang Chao a little longer before shifting to an even more comfortable position on the sofa once more, “Don’t expect a reward for something that doesn’t deserve one. Did you have something you want from me?”