Chapter 452: Gold For Bones (2/2)

Watch out while eating? Her words seemed to hide a deeper meaning. Perhaps someone or something was preventing her from speaking. Song Shichao picked up his chopsticks, ready to eat when I interrupted, ”Hold on.”

I picked up the noodles, placed them under my nose and sniffed. There was only the smell of chopped green onion and sesame oil. However, when I turned over the bowl of noodles with my chopsticks, I finally discovered a melting pill at the bottom.

Upon noticing the pill, Song Shichao slammed his chopsticks on the table and snapped, ”What the fuck is this! Let's go get even with the boss!”

Song Xingchen shook his head, ”This restaurant is strange. We should leave.”

”Wait a minute,” I interjected. “It looks like the waitress is being held hostage. Let's go in and have a look.”

”Young Master, we shouldn’t get involved,” disagreed Song Xingchen.

”But we can’t just leave her to die!” I protested.

Sighing, Song Xingchen entered the restaurant with me. It was dimly lit without a soul in sight, not even the waitress. I noticed a figure in the kitchen hidden in the corner so I gestured to Song Xingchen who nodded.

Drawing out his sword, Song Xingchen slowly made his way to the kitchen. The people lying in ambush suddenly yelled and aimed at Song Xingchen’s head with a rolling pin. The latter deftly evaded the attack, slamming the end of the scabbard into the man's throat. Clang, thud! The man hit the dirt, overturning the table during his fall.

As soon as I entered the kitchen, I found a large, muscular man in the corner, clutching his throat in pain. Behind him, the waitress shrank in the corner, trembling with fear, ”Don’t kill me! I am not with them!”

”What happened?” I gently asked.

”I don't know. A group of people suddenly broke in an hour ago and kidnapped my parents. They told me to bring you a bowl of noodles with sleeping pills,” explained the waitress.

”So you did it on purpose?” I continued.

The waitress nodded, ”They threatened to kill my parents if I said anything. Please save them!”

As soon as the words fell from her lips, there came a flurry of footsteps behind us. It turned out there was an imperceptible hidden door in the restaurant leading to the cellar. Several men quietly climbed out, cutting off our exit from the back. The man leading them looked ferocious, with a grey wolf tattooed on half of his shiny bald head. He wore a tan leather jacket and a thick gold chain around his neck.

Big Baldy bowed with both hands stretched out, his left hand wrapped around his right and his pinky raised. I watched enough mafia films to know that this was their form of a greeting.

Big Baldy began, ”Now that you’re part of the Jianghu, there are certain things you can’t control. Someone has spent a lot of money to buy one of your bones. We’ve encountered some problems lately and urgently need the money. Do us a favor, won’t you!”

”So you're here for this as well,” I frowned. “Who ordered it?”

Big Baldy smiled, ”I don't know the person’s identity. All I know is that someone has issued ‘gold for bones' open to the entire underworld! I’ll be honest with you, we’re not the only ones eyeing you within a hundred kilometers. You’ll have to hand over this bone sooner or later, so you might as well give it to us.”

Gold for bones?

What sort of madman would spend ten million to buy one of my bones?

One of the gangsters next to Big Baldy interrupted, ”My boss is rather reasonable to even discuss this with you. If it were someone else, you wouldn’t be this lucky!”

”Why should I give it to you?” I coldly retorted.