Chapter 158: You think there are bullets in my gun?

The middle-aged woman was indeed very angry.

I thought it was a sure thing, but in the end there was a complete 180-degree turnaround.

As she left the stall, she didn't notice at all that someone had already set their sights on her.

The two men in the corner, seeing the middle-aged woman storm over in anger, probably also guessed the outcome.

Disappointment was inevitable, but even more so was doubt.

However, the middle-aged woman didn't walk straight toward them; instead, as she passed, she gave them a look.

The two understood, followed her for several dozen meters, and only stopped on the street when they could no longer see where Chen Sao was.

"Big sis, what's going on? Have we been seen through?" the older brother asked.

"Probably not."

The middle-aged woman wiped the anger from her face, frowned, and said, "If they had seen through my intention, they wouldn't have looked like that just now; I think someone in their household disagreed, so they refused me."

"Damn it, which blind bastard is this?" the younger brother cursed.

He had still thought he could spend the night of passion with that woman tonight.

"So we're just letting it go?"

The older brother said unwillingly.

Those two women are quite attractive; if we sent them to the club, we could make a good amount of money.

Of course, the lion's share was still taken by the middle-aged woman.

But they could still pocket a few tens of thousands, not much slower than other ways of making money.

"Of course we can't just let it go like that!"

The middle-aged woman narrowed her eyes, "In a couple days I'll go probe their tone, or find an excuse to bring them to my place; then you two hide first, and when they come in, we'll catch them in a jar."

"Good, good."

The younger brother happily clapped his hands.

"But what if they refuse to go?"

"If they won't go, won't go, then we'll find some help when the time comes."

The middle-aged woman's face showed a cold smile.

They won't listen to reason.

Then we'll have to use force.

In the Outer City District, so many people go missing each year; they're not important figures, so the Enforcement Squad can't be bothered to act.

"Alright, let's leave it here for today; I also need to go do some maintenance. I'll contact you when there's action."

After saying that, the middle-aged woman left straight away.

After she had walked a distance away, the two brothers began to mutter complaints.

"He looks like a fat pig, yet he's doing maintenance? Hmph, he's probably off to meet that pretty boy again."

"Exactly, damn it; every time we get money, she takes the lion's share, and we brothers can only scrape together some hard-earned cash."

"What can we do? Who made his son a club member? We can't afford to offend them."

The two cursed as they walked into a side alley off the street.

Jiang Cheng stood several meters away, thought for a moment, then followed them.

Those three had just been standing by the street; he didn't dare get too close, so naturally he couldn't hear what they were saying.

Approaching rashly also carried the risk of startling the snake.

Now that they've split up, it's actually a good opportunity.

That middle-aged woman aside, those two men look like no good at a glance; there's an eighty percent chance they're up to no good against Chen Sao.

If that's the case, we strike first—none of the three can be let go.

If not, we'll just give them a beating to warn them not to go down the wrong path.

Turning into the alley, the walls on both sides were covered with graffiti and all kinds of profanity, with trash strewn on the ground.

The Outer City District has many residential compounds, but it also has no shortage of places resembling urban villages, with sanitary conditions not much better than the Poor District.

The two up front were cursing away, completely unaware that someone was following them from behind.

Finally, they arrived in front of a house; one of them pulled out a key and opened the door.

The two entered, one after the other, and were about to close the door when a figure suddenly appeared, delivering a knife-hand strike to the neck of the one behind.

Before losing consciousness, he spat out a curse, his body went limp, and he collapsed. "!"

The person in front reacted, just turned around, and felt something icy cold pressed against his forehead.

A glance from the corner of his eye made the man instantly terrified out of his wits.

Mommy!

That turned out to be a gun!

"Grandpa, spare my life! Grandpa, spare my life!"

His legs kept shaking uncontrollably.

He had no idea where he and his brother had provoked such a formidable enemy.

Jiang Cheng at this moment had his face covered by a mask, only his eyes showing.

First he swept a glance inside the room; describing the scene as a pigsty would be generous.

He pulled the door shut with his hand and asked, "Tell me, what did you two say out on the street just now with that middle-aged woman in red?"

"Ah?"

The man's mouth gaped open.

"No, I didn't say anything."

My patience has its limits.

Jiang Cheng's voice turned cold: "I'll give you one last chance; if you don't tell the truth, you can guess whether there's a bullet in this gun."

Don't! Don't! Don't!

The man finally panicked.

He was very clear, if this person in front of him shot him.

No one would avenge him.

Everything would be as if nothing had happened.

I'll talk, I'll talk, can you let me go?

Cut the nonsense.

Jiang Cheng couldn't be bothered to respond: "I'll give you another reminder; after you finish speaking, I'll have the person on the ground repeat it, just in case you two say different things, hmph."

I'll talk, I'll talk.

The man's face was streaked with tears.

This whole thing has nothing to do with us; it's all that fat woman's doing!

Even if he were stupid, he could guess that this masked person in front of him was likely related to those two women.

Thus he cursed the eighteen generations of the middle-aged woman's ancestors in his heart.

Keep talking.

Yes, that's it: that fat woman took a fancy to the two women who mended clothes at a street stall, saying that if they were brought to the club, they could fetch a good price, so she first looked for an excuse to get close to those two women.

What excuse?

Find, find a job.

The man stammered: "Offer a high salary, lure them to a place, then knock them out and take them to the club; she wanted us to be muscle, but we refused—our conscience wouldn't let us do such a thing."

Bullshit.

Jiang Cheng spat out two words: "If you don't tell the truth, I'll first shoot you in the leg."

To be honest, when he came in earlier he also feared hurting innocents, so he only knocked out one person and held his gun to the other's head.

After all, if it were gangsters, it wouldn't be as simple as just knocking them out.

But now that he knows these three are going to attack Chen Sao and her companions, their fate is already sealed; he couldn't possibly show mercy.

I'll talk! I'll talk!

The man cried out in fear: "We had originally agreed, but we don't know what went wrong, the situation changed, those two women refused, so the fat woman told us to come back first while she thinks of a plan."

What plan?

She, she said she'd go again in two days to see if she could trick those two women into coming to her house; if that still didn't work, she'd just call more people to seize and abduct them. The man, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, told everything he knew.

(End of chapter)