Chapter 184: Swords Drawn and Bows Bent

"Ah!"

Having her unsightly sleeping face seen by her crush, Tang Ying let out a startled cry, her face flushing red as she hurriedly wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth and tidied her hair and expression.

Taking a deep breath, she picked up the intercom on the console and replied, "I know, I'm coming right now."

After doing this, Tang Ying took another deep breath, opened the door, and got out of the car. Facing Chen Che, she smiled and said, "Why are you here? Are you here to watch the excitement too?"

Chen Che smiled, looking at her without speaking.

Tang Ying felt a bit embarrassed under his gaze. Putting on a brave front, she said, "Fine, since you've seen such an unsightly side of me, then you should just marry me."

"Uh..."

Chen Che was taken aback, thinking to himself, what kind of thought process do women have? She really is desperate to get married!

"Why are you here?"

Chen Che restrained his smile and asked.

Seeing that this way of speaking worked, Tang Ying curled her lips slightly and replied, "There's a Gambling Battle today, and I'm here to supervise the work. As for you, arriving only now, I'm afraid there aren't any good seats left."

"I'm not here to watch the excitement; I'm here to participate in the Gambling Battle."

Chen Che shook his head and said.

"Huh?"

Tang Ying was stunned and asked, "You're participating in the Gambling Battle? Which side's hired muscle are you, the Scorpion Society's or the Qibao Association's?"

Chen Che smiled and said, "I'm not hired muscle; the Qibao Association is my business."

Tang Ying was stunned again. She circled around Chen Che, looking him over carefully, and said, "So you're involved in the underworld; no wonder you told me you didn't have a job!"

"I wouldn't exactly say I'm involved in the underworld... forget it, think whatever you want."

Chen Che didn't know how to explain it for a moment, so he simply gave up and let it be.

At this moment, Tang Ying patted Chen Che on the shoulder as if to comfort him and said, "It's okay, it's not shameful for a man to be in the underworld. Although you are the man who is going to be my boyfriend, as long as you don't break the law, especially the rules of the Patrol Bureau, I will still like you and pursue you just the same."

Tang Ying had the expression of "a man of my sister doesn't need to feel inferior," and the look in her eyes as she watched Chen Che was very firm.

Chen Che felt he couldn't chat too much with this woman, so he removed her hand and walked inside: "Let's just go in first."

"Wait!"

Tang Ying grabbed him, a trace of worry appearing on her face, and asked, "Since you are the boss of the Qibao Association, will you be going up to fight later?"

Chen Che nodded: "I will."

"Don't go up. Let the people below go for you. It's just a Gambling Battle; if you lose, you lose, it's not shameful. I won't look down on you just because of one failed Gambling Battle."

Tang Ying advised.

Chen Che took a deep breath, unable to help but complain inwardly: "Big sister, your self-confidence is truly impressive! And 'won't look down on me'? You're making it sound like I'm the one chasing you!"

"It's okay, I won't have any trouble."

Chen Che replied and continued walking inside.

Tang Ying grabbed him again, her expression serious, and said, "I'm not joking with you! Although this Gambling Battle is supervised by our Patrol Bureau, it's not uncommon for people to play dirty.

I believe in your strength as a Martial Artist, but it's easy to dodge a spear in the open, but hard to guard against an arrow in the dark. The Scorpion Society's previous Gambling Battles were mostly won through underhanded tactics, but we just can't catch them, at most we can only catch a few scapegoats."

Chen Che nodded thoughtfully and said, "Thank you for the reminder, I will be careful. You can rest assured, the Scorpion Society can't do anything to me."

Chen Che gave Tang Ying a bright smile and strode into the Colosseum.

Tang Ying stood frozen in place, her eyes filled with Chen Che's smile from just a moment ago.

She shuddered violently, came back to her senses, shook her head vigorously, and patted her flushed cheeks, muttering, "Beauty makes one lose their mind, beauty makes one lose their mind! Why does this stinky man have to be so good-looking for no reason, causing me to almost fall for it!

Forget it, for the sake of you being so good-looking, I'll personally keep an eye on the whole venue today. If the Scorpion Society dares to play dirty, I will definitely deal with them!"

Tang Ying calmed down for a while longer before walking into the Colosseum with a serious face, standing on one side of the central arena.

On the other side, Bai Fengye saw Chen Che arrive at the scene and immediately signaled to his lackeys in the spectator stands.

The lackeys received the signal, stopped their verbal abuse with Shen Qi and the others, and shifted their target to Chen Che.

"Chen Che, have you even grown your hair out yet, you dare to provoke Bai Shao?! I think you're tired of living!"

"Chen Che, stop embarrassing yourself here! Bai Shao could beat you so hard your own mother wouldn't recognize you with just one finger!"

"Chen Che, you bumpkin from Shanghai, kneel down and beg for mercy! Maybe Bai Shao will be merciful and reward you with a dog cage to live in, hahahaha..."

If the previous verbal abuse by these lackeys toward Shen Qi and the others was a conflict between the Scorpion Society and the Qibao Association.

Then now that they were insulting Chen Che by name, the insult became specific and extremely intense.

Before Chen Che could respond, Shen Qi couldn't hold back anymore!

"Damn it, try cursing at me one more time?! Do you believe I'll tear your mouths apart?!"

Shen Qi was furious, the True Qi in his body surging abnormally.

He could take people to curse back and forth with the other side, and even endure Bai Fengye's people insulting him by name, but he could not accept Chen Che receiving the slightest insult.

"If you're so tough, come and get me!"

"Shen Qi, are you getting anxious because I'm cursing your master? I'm going to curse him, what can you do about it?!"

The lackeys continued to clamor arrogantly, even standing up from their chairs, tilting their heads and twisting their bodies to provoke him.

"I'll kill you, damn it!"

Shen Qi roared, kicked off the ground with force, and blasted toward the spectator stands.

Chen Che didn't notice, and by the time he reached for him, it was too late.

"Whoosh!"

The Patrol Bureau Warriors guarding both sides of the aisle stood in a cross formation and fired at the same time.

The stun guns hit Shen Qi, and the electric current containing True Qi instantly rushed into Shen Qi's body, cutting off the circulation of his True Qi.

Shen Qi's face was full of pain as he plunged into the spectator stands.

Fan Hao waved his hand, and two other Patrol Bureau members lifted Shen Qi up and dragged him to a corner to be kept under guard.

"He's become a dead dog!"

"Shen Qi, why aren't you barking anymore!"

"Hahahaha..."

The lackeys in the spectator stands laughed wantonly.

The other members of the Qibao Association were all pale with rage, glaring at the lackeys in the spectator stands and at Bai Fengye and the others, who wore expressions of triumph and schadenfreude.

At the very back of the spectator stands, Ma Menghan saw what was happening on the field via the big screen; her expression was extremely angry, and she asked, "Why arrest Shen Qi? Those people are the ones who need a good lesson!"

Ma Zijun smiled and comforted her, "I know you're angry because Chen Che was insulted, and you're also indignant that Shen Qi was arrested, but there's no help for it. Even if those people are arrogant, since they are sitting in the spectator stands, their status today is that of spectators.

The duty of the Justice Patrol is to protect the safety of the spectators; even if Shen Qi and the others are furious, they cannot lay hands on the spectators."

"This is the rule of the Gambling Battle; Bai Fengye is familiar with the Gambling Battle and will also use the rules to disgust Chen Che."

Lin Su added, though her pretty face was also filled with anger because Chen Che had been insulted.

"Keep your cool; when Chen Che beats the people from the Scorpion Society to the ground, they will all shut up."

Ma Zijun offered another word of comfort and looked toward the big screen.

The lackeys in the spectator stands were still clamoring and laughing because Shen Qi had been dragged to the corner.

Yet at this moment, Tang Ying turned and walked up to the spectator stands.

With a gloomy face, she strode up to the few lackeys who were laughing the loudest, grabbed one of them, and swung her hand around to slap him.

"Smack!"

"Smack, smack, smack..."

Without another word, Tang Ying slapped him a dozen times in one breath, causing the man to bleed from the corner of his mouth and pass out.

This sudden scene left everyone present stunned.

The laughter of the remaining lackeys also came to an abrupt halt, and they stared at Tang Ying in confusion and terror.

"Officer, you... why are you hitting people?"

One of them gathered the courage to ask.

Tang Ying was expressionless; she put her hands on her hips and said in an icy voice, "You were disturbing me; is that reason enough?"

The few lackeys were startled by Tang Ying's cold, piercing gaze and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, we won't laugh anymore, we won't laugh!"

"Not laughing anymore? Too late!"

Tang Ying shouted, "Someone, throw them out! Make them laugh until the Gambling Battle ends; if they don't laugh, execute them on the spot!"

Hearing this, the few lackeys shivered in fright and looked at Tang Ying with terror-stricken faces.

They couldn't understand it; they had done things like this many times before, so why wasn't it allowed this time?

Did they disturb this grandaunt?

This reason was even more unreasonable than the Scorpion Society!

Before the lackeys could figure out how they had offended this grandaunt, Tang Ying, the people from the Justice Patrol had already walked over and tossed them outside the Colosseum as if they were little chicks.

Under the supervision of gun barrels, the few of them began to laugh with expressions even uglier than crying.

Bai Fengye watched this scene, frowning, his eyes full of confusion.

Fan Hao, Huang Feng, and Ma Ziai understood in their hearts, but they hadn't expected that Tang Ying would openly violate the rules for the sake of Chen Che!

Ma Zijun, Ma Menghan, and Lin Su were also puzzled, but they felt more than anything that it was satisfying!

Since their mouths were dirty, then their mouths should be slapped!

Tang Ying walked slowly down from the spectator stands, casting a glance at Chen Che without leaving a trace.

Chen Che also cast a grateful look in her direction, then looked at Bai Fengye and snorted coldly, "Using your mouth to disgust others—your methods are as base as you are."

Bai Fengye laughed instead of getting angry, saying, "Base or not, as long as it's useful."

The two stared at each other with cold smiles, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

The spectator stands also quieted down, and everyone was looking forward to the battle about to begin!