Chapter 483: Just a Lesson Today
BANG BANG BANG!
One by one, they collapsed to the ground.
In the blink of an eye, everyone around Xiao Ye, save for the woman and her father, lay on the ground, wailing in agony.
He was so fast that some people didn't even see him strike!
The woman in red gaped in surprise, but then her heart began to beat even faster!
'This was exactly the kind of powerful man she liked!'
'So many of her father's men, and none of them were a match for him!'
In that moment, she could clearly hear her own heartbeat.
"I—"
Before she could finish, a hand with sharp, defined knuckles was already wrapped around her throat.
"I didn't want to do this to you."
"But just as my master taught me about reading people—you can't just judge by appearances."
"On the outside, you look innocent, kind, and unworldly. In reality, that is your greatest evil!"
"Since your hands aren't yet stained with blood, I'll just teach you a lesson today. I hope you learn from it and never do something like this again."
Xiao Ye released his grip.
The woman's throat burned with a fiery pain as she collapsed weakly to the ground.
The next second, Xiao Ye kicked her over, his foot landing on her legs.
CRACK!
The sound of bone snapping!
The woman burst into tears, letting out a shrill scream of agony.
Never in her life had she experienced such pain.
She felt like she could pass out at any moment.
"You..."
Xiao Ye looked down at her, his eyes cold. "I broke your legs. If you dare pull something like this again, it won't be something as simple as broken legs."
With that, he turned and walked away.
After a stunned moment, her father finally snapped out of it and immediately pulled out a pistol.
'How dare he hurt my daughter? He's courting death!'
Without even turning his head, Xiao Ye fired a shot.
BANG!
A direct hit to the chest.
The man slowly collapsed, blood pouring from the wound.
"No, Daddy!"
"You killed my daddy! I'll never forgive you!"
Xiao Ye walked out to the courtyard, found his car, and grabbed a drum of fuel and three guns before setting off again.
「Inside the room.」
The woman was sobbing uncontrollably. 'I never imagined that simply falling for a man would end up costing my daddy his life!'
"Why? Why did this happen?"
'What did I do wrong? Is it a crime to like someone?'
Even now, she didn't see anything wrong with her actions. 'It was all Xiao Ye's fault!'
'It's all his fault!'
'Why did he have to be so vicious!'
The woman shakily pulled out her phone and summoned all of her father's men, her eyes completely bloodshot. "Get the murderer who killed my daddy!"
"I want... I want him dead!"
Xiao Ye got back in his car and hit the road.
He had been driving for less than an hour when his path was blocked.
A roadblock had been set up on the road ahead.
First, there was the barricade, followed by stretches of spike strips on the ground. They were clearly terrified of him getting away.
Xiao Ye got out of the car, frowning slightly. 'Who's blocking the road?'
Several men appeared, carrying the woman.
She hadn't gone to the hospital; instead, she had endured the pain to come and capture Xiao Ye.
"You killed my daddy! I'll never let you get away with this!"
"I love you, and you killed the most important person in my life!"
"Get him! I'm going to make him pay for what he did to my daddy!"
'The nerve of this thing, spouting such nonsense.'
Xiao Ye's suppressed frustration reached its peak. 'Is this woman out of her mind?'
'She loves me, so I'm supposed to do whatever she says?'
'Her father died because of her!'
Xiao Ye stretched his arms. He had only wanted to get back on the road and deliver the key as quickly as possible.
'Looks like I was wrong about that.'
'If I want to be fast, I have to wipe them all out in one go.'
The woman stared at him, her eyes a mixture of love and hate.
'She had brought a full forty or fifty men this time. There's no way they couldn't take him down!'
"Be careful! I want him alive!"
Xiao Ye stood by his car, waiting quietly.
'The moment they finish surrounding me, I'll strike!'
「Five minutes later.」
Only the woman remained, sitting in a wheelchair.
She stared at the scene before her in disbelief. "How could this be..."
Before, she had been captivated by Xiao Ye's power. Now, she was filled with boundless terror.
"You can't kill me! I love you!"
"What you feel isn't love."
True love means knowing someone completely—their strengths and their flaws—and loving them all the same.
What this woman felt was, at best, lust at first sight.
Xiao Ye didn't give her the chance to say another word. He fired a single shot and ended it.
The car sped off, leaving behind a cloud of exhaust fumes.
「Half an hour later.」
A group of people arrived on the scene.
Seeing the bodies on the ground, they exchanged a look, their eyes filled with horror.
"It seems... this Dragon Country is really something. The expert they found is incredibly strong."
"This gang was involved in a lot of nasty business anyway. He basically did us a favor by purging this cancer."
"Let's clean this up quick and go raid their hideout."
If they went to raid it before the main reinforcements arrived, they could stash away plenty for themselves.
Soon, the bodies on the ground had vanished.
Only the bloodstains remained, soaked into the asphalt, unlikely to draw any attention.
The woman in red, her eyes wide in death, was finally consumed by a great fire until nothing but ash remained.
Finally, after leaving the desolate wilderness, he arrived in the urban center of the next city.
He was still about four or five cities away from his destination.
Xiao Ye first grabbed a meal, then looked for a place to rest.
He found a chain hotel that looked decent enough.
He booked the best room and had food sent up.
KNOCK KNOCK.
"Hello, sir. Your dinner has arrived. Please open the door."
The moment the door opened, a cold glint of light flashed through the air.
Xiao Ye struck out with his palm.
The waiter, food and all, slammed into the wall.
This time, Xiao Ye didn't kill him outright. He dragged the man into the room.
To prevent the man from committing suicide, he also dislocated his jaw.
As the door slowly swung shut, screams of agony began to ring out from within.
「A moment later.」
The waiter knelt on the floor, his face covered in blood, begging relentlessly for mercy. "I'm just a low-level assassin! I was wrong, please, don't kill me!"
If he had known he was dealing with such a hard target, he never would have taken the mission. But there were no do-overs in this world.
Xiao Ye sat on the sofa, his icy gaze fixed on the top of the man's head. "Then tell me everything you know."
"I'll talk, I'll tell you everything!"
"I'm just a low-level grunt. I don't know anything! I've only seen your photo. The mission was to kill you and take something from your body."
"Where did you get the job?"
"In Anaba. There's a bar there. That's the place to pick up jobs."
Once he had gotten all the information he could, Xiao Ye finished the man with a single kick, then changed rooms and ordered dinner again.
After eating, he rested for a bit.
「Nine o'clock at night.」
Xiao Ye arrived in Anaba.