Chapter 453: Hunted By Mercenaries (1/2)

”I don't, but I know that the people you offended must hate you very much! Injustice has its perpetrator, and debt its creditor so don’t blame us for this!”

His underling threw a small bag containing a pill. Pointing to the pill, Big Baldy said, ”After taking this, you won't feel any pain. I, the Wolf King, am a decent guy, eh?”

”The Wolf King?” Song Shichao looked astonished. ”You’re the wanted criminal who killed more than a dozen policemen?”

”Haha,” laughed the Wolf King. “I never expected to be recognized in a small town like this! Ah, but heroes don’t rehash their past glories! That was all in the past.”

It turned out that this man was a notorious wanted criminal throughout Fujian which explained why I had never heard of him.

”Let me see the hostages!” I said.

The Wolf King snapped his fingers, and his underlings immediately stepped aside, exposing a middle-aged couple in the cellar who both had a knife to their necks.

”Dad! Mom!” shouted the waitress.

Judging from the waiter's expression, she wasn’t in cahoots with these people. The hostage situation was real.

After showing us their faces, the hostages were taken back down. What a complicated situation indeed! There was no way we could save them even with Song Xingchen’s abilities.

Upon further contemplation, I turned to Song Xingchen, ”Your knifework is impeccable. Remove my radius and send me to the hospital immediately. We can still save my arm!”

The forearm had two long bones, namely the ulna and radius. If the radius was removed, the hand could no longer exert strength which was essentially a disability.

”No!” protested Song Xingchen. “I won't allow you to do this.”

“Should we watch them kill the hostages then?” I argued.

Song Xingchen replied indifferently, ”I don't care about some stranger’s life. It is my duty to protect you.”

Raising his sword, Song Xingchen shouted at the gang, ”Listen up, let us go now, or I’ll kill all of you!”

A sinister smile rose to the Wolf King’s lips, ”Cut off an ear!”

A woman's scream sounded from below, then a bloody ear was thrown up and landed on the floor.

“Mom!” The waitress shouted at the top of her voice.

As I had expected, the Wolf King was a ruthless one. The woman's ceaseless wailing worried me but I knew Song Xingchen couldn’t watch me get hurt.

The Wolf King arrogantly held out five fingers, ”You two seem to disagree. I'll give you five minutes to discuss this. When the time is up, I'll cut off a tongue.”

When Song Xingchen pulled out his sword, the gang reciprocated by flashing their weapons. Two of them had homemade guns.

“Look, it’ll only take me a second to kill you but I’ve been very polite!” said the Wolf King.

Did the madman specifically ask for my bone and not my life?