Chapter 780 — Bring Someone Down With Us

The instant their fists struck his body, Wei Zhao channeled the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to compress the energy within him into a localized point, then injected it into those big men's fists—and the effect was immediate. Their fists were ruined on the spot.

Of course, Wei Zhao had only been experimenting; he had compressed just a tiny amount of energy. Otherwise, never mind a single fist—their entire arms, even their whole bodies, could have blown apart!

These men were all ordinary people who had never cultivated a day in their lives, utterly incapable of withstanding the damage of energy released in an instant.

"Oh… so can you teach me?" Yu Xiaoke was envious. If she had a trick like that, she would never have to live in constant fear again.

"No," Wei Zhao said, shaking his head.

"Tch, what a cheapskate!" Yu Xiaoke pouted like a child.

"You know qinggong, so you've probably heard of Yellow-Rank experts?" Wei Zhao asked, looking at Yu Xiaoke.

"Of course I have. When my master was young, he was a Yellow-Rank expert—he just got wounded by his enemies…" Yu Xiaoke suddenly realized she had let something slip; she had said a bit too much! How could she reveal such secrets to someone she had only just met? What if he turned out to be her master's enemy? She clamped her mouth shut at once and looked at Wei Zhao warily.

"Ha, then wait until you've become a Yellow-Rank expert before you come to learn it. Maybe you'll be able to pick it up then," Wei Zhao said with a smile. Naturally, he paid little attention to Yu Xiaoke's background—she was the one being oversensitive.

"No way? You're a Yellow-Rank expert?" Yu Xiaoke was taken aback, staring at Wei Zhao in sudden astonishment.

"No," Wei Zhao said, shaking his head.

"Tch, I knew it!" Yu Xiaoke looked disappointed. "How could you just run into a Yellow-Rank expert by chance?"

"Hey, when's that Sect Master Senior Sister of yours getting here? Our Big Boss, Giant Deer Bro, has already arrived!" Black Bird Bro was brimming with confidence now. With Giant Deer Bro backing him up, he was utterly unafraid of anything Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke might dare to do.

"Should be any minute now…" Wei Zhao said cautiously. "Why are there so many of you? Don't tell me you all came?"

"Damn right! Your Flying Swallow Sect wants a fight to the death, so naturally we give you the courtesy of bringing everyone!" Black Bird Bro laughed heartily. "Don't tell me you're scared now?"

"Of course not…" Wei Zhao suddenly smiled faintly. "Our people are here!"

"Here? Where?" Giant Deer Bro was startled, and his expression immediately turned rather ugly!

In an instant, shrill police sirens blared from both ends of the alley at once, and countless police officers swarmed in from both sides, encircling them!

"Everyone inside, listen up! You're surrounded! Put down your weapons—surrender, and your charges will be reduced!" As the police rushed in, a loudspeaker began broadcasting the demand.

"What the hell! What's going on here?" Giant Deer Bro glared at Black Bird Bro. "Why are the cops here?"

"I don't know either! Who knows how the police got wind of it…" Black Bird Bro trailed off, then suddenly fixed his glare on Wei Zhao. "It was you—you're the one who called the cops!"

"Oh, so you're not that stupid after all?" Wei Zhao looked at Black Bird Bro's furious, flustered face and couldn't help laughing. "But it's too late now. Figuring it out won't do you any good."

"Damn it! Giant Deer Bro, this brat's the one who called the police! If we're going down, we're taking someone with us!" Black Bird Bro was seething with rage. He had never imagined Wei Zhao would pull a stunt like this and bring the police down on them!

He had thought Wei Zhao really was summoning the Flying Swallow Sect for a fight to the death—how could he have guessed it was nothing of the sort!

"Brothers, get him—hack him to death!" Giant Deer Bro ordered his men.

But by now, how would any of these pickpockets dare to go chop Wei Zhao? They were surrounded front and back by police; escape was utterly impossible. Sooner or later they would all be hauled back to the station. To start stabbing people at a moment like this would only be piling more charges onto themselves. Who would do something that stupid?

So when Giant Deer Bro's order came down, his underlings only exchanged glances; not one of them was willing to step forward and hack at Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke.

"Didn't you hear what I said? Cut them down!" Giant Deer Bro was frantic. "Whoever kills them gets a hundred thousand yuan each!"

A hefty reward makes for bold men — that was Giant Deer Bro's thinking. If he didn't dangle some profit now, who would lift a hand? So he didn't say ten or twenty thousand; he went straight to a hundred thousand!

Of course, on any ordinary day, if he had offered a hundred thousand as a reward, these lackeys would have been itching to accept the order and hack away. But now the police were about to arrest them all; Giant Deer Bro and Black Bird Bro could hardly escape that fate either. Where would they even get a hundred thousand? So never mind whether the money could actually be collected — even if it could, there'd be a life to take it and no life to spend it. Cutting someone up was far worse than plain theft. Once in prison, what use was money?

So never mind a hundred thousand — even if Giant Deer Bro had named an astronomical million at that moment, no one would have been foolish enough to do the chopping! The alley was sealed off by police front and back; nobody was getting away.

Giant Deer Bro had clearly seen this too. He snatched a cleaver from one of his men's hands, preparing to finish off Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke himself!

Other people might fear added charges, but Giant Deer Bro did not!

He was the head of the pickpocket gang; the stolen cash and goods that had passed through his hands were worth over a hundred million, and he also had several home-invasion robbery killings to his name. He knew perfectly well that once he entered a police station, it was a dead end — he would certainly never come out.

So he was afraid no longer. If he was going to die, he would drag someone down with him. He simply took up the cleaver and went straight for Wei Zhao.

"You little brat, you set me up — well, if I'm going down today, I'm not letting you off easy!" Giant Deer Bro was a ruthless character; otherwise he couldn't have had several lives on his hands! He swung the blade straight at Wei Zhao's skull. "Whatever iron-armor protective kung fu you've got is useless. No matter how high your martial arts, you still fear a cleaver — ever heard that?"

"Heard it!" Wei Zhao nodded, then lifted his leg and kicked.

In an instant Giant Deer Bro was like a kite with its string cut, whooshing off along the straight line of Wei Zhao's kick. He bowled over the underling behind him and showed no sign of stopping, smashing his way back through the whole row until he hit the very last man at the rear, and only then did he come down hard.

But as luck would have it, he landed squarely on the cleaver in that last underling's hand. Giant Deer Bro let out a howl and passed out. RO