sinovels Chapter 406: Huang Rong: Shanghai is too prosperous
Chapter 406: Huang Rong: Shanghai is too prosperous
Kuli Qiang left Pig Cage Alley carrying his own bundle; apart from that, he had nothing else!
A master like him would hide in this place doing hard labor, so he must have his own reasons. But he has offended the Axe Gang, so even if the landlady doesn't force them, he has to leave.
But if I leave, will the Axe Gang let these neighbors go?
How about we give the Axe Gang a good beating?
He didn't dare kill the Axe Gang before because he was afraid of their retaliation. Now that he's leaving, what is there to fear about retaliation...
Huh?
Coolie Qiang was stunned.
He saw an "old" house on this frequently traveled road, decorated with red lanterns, burning red candles, fluttering red cloth, and pasted with the character for "happiness".
Even though he had traveled all over the country and was very knowledgeable, he was still taken aback.
He gathered his strength and carefully examined the place!
Suddenly noticing something amiss on the ground, his expression grew increasingly grave as he looked at the marks left by the blade energy...
Such sharp blade energy.
Master!
A master of internal martial arts!
There must have been some top-level martial arts masters fighting here before.
Huh?
A car?
This is the Axe Gang's car, how did it get like this?
The guy inside looks like the leader of the Axe Gang?
Just then, two voices came from behind.
"Wow, were there some experts fighting here before!?"
"Coolie Strong, did you do this? Your Seventy-Two Styles Spring Kick is so sharp? You held back when you fought us before, didn't you?"
Kuli Qiang turned his head and saw A Gui with the Five-Stroke Eight Trigrams Staff and Sheng Ge with the Iron Wire Fist.
They had originally gone their separate ways, but now they had all gathered here. From the traces left behind, they could tell that some great masters had fought here.
They initially thought it was a skilled fighter hired by the Axe Gang, but the Axe Gang's leader was already dead...
Sheng Ge said, "A master actually stepped in and wiped out the Axe Gang? Does that mean we're safe now?"
Ah Gui was overjoyed: "That's right! The Axe Gang leader is dead, so what danger is there?"
Coolie insisted, "Then... shall we go back? I suppose the landlady won't have anything to say now!"
The three of them went home happily!
As for Li Ping's bridal chamber, they didn't even go to see it. How could seasoned veterans like them rashly go to such a strange place?
After the three of them left.
The landlord and landlady appeared here.
The landlady grumbled, "Those three jinxes, they actually want to go back again. Just seeing them makes me furious..."
As she spoke, her gaze fell on Li Ping's bridal chamber, and then on Brother Chen's car.
She made a downward pressing gesture with one hand, shook her head, and looked at the landlord.
The landlord shook his head in agreement: "If you can't do it, how could I?"
It's not that they lack the strength to crush a car, but rather that the strength and ease with which this person exerted it were far beyond their reach.
The landlady continued, "And this ground, so wet, with remnants of ice, it's obvious a powerful expert transformed their qi into ice. Have you ever seen such a technique before?"
The landlord shook his head again: "I've seen many cold-based martial arts techniques, but to achieve this level, with the cold energy still lingering... I don't know!"
Their gazes then fell upon Li Ping's bridal chamber.
Finally, the landlord said, "Since the Axe Gang leader is dead, even if there are ghosts, it's none of our business..."
The landlady thought for a moment and finally nodded.
Experienced individuals like them would naturally not venture into places that look suspiciously strange.
Now that the Axe Gang leader is dead, the stronghold is no longer a threat. Time to go back to living a carefree life...
Shortly after the two of them left.
A dirty-looking beggar also appeared here. His gaze, too, first fell on Brother Chen's car, then on the remaining ice on the ground and the knife marks...
He gestured, then shook his head.
Then, his gaze fell on the two holes in the ground, his expression instantly turned serious, and then he shrank back and actually crawled into the holes.
His mouth dropped open: "So it really is a case of being born with a disability?"
"Their martial arts skills are now virtually unmatched in the martial arts world..."
"They actually planted it directly in the ground?"
"Such superb technique, such refined internal energy! I can't believe there are such masters in this world..."
Then, he crawled out of the hole and looked at Li Ping's wedding room.
Seeing this strange occurrence, he decided to go inside and investigate.
After he went inside, he turned around seven or eight times and found that he couldn't tell which way was which.
"Qimen Dunjia? No, no, no, it's not just Qimen Dunjia, I don't understand it..."
He used his lightness skill to soar into the sky and finally broke through the simple formation set up by Huang Rong.
He landed outside the gate: "It seems the owner of this place just doesn't want to be disturbed and doesn't have any bad intentions."
"Where did this expert come from...?"
……
"Wow! It's a light bulb, it's a light bulb!"
"The streets are brightly lit late at night, it's so bustling!"
Li Ping got three sets of clothes for Huang Rong and the other two, all of them innocent student outfits, while he himself wore a Zhongshan suit and took his wives to stroll around Shanghai.
Huang Rong and Su Ying were extremely excited just to see an electric light, something they had studied but never seen before.
Yaoyue exclaimed, "It's so bustling! Even the Lantern Festival in the capital isn't this grand!"
"Was everything this prosperous in later generations?"
Li Ping neither confirmed nor denied the claim.
Huang Rong looked at Li Ping's expression and said, "So this isn't actually your era, is it?"
Li Ping smiled and said, "My era is still decades away."
Su Ying's mouth dropped open: "Decades later? What will it be like then? Will it be more prosperous than it is now?"
Li Ping laughed and said, "They're not even in the same league; they can't be compared."
"Back then, Shanghai was full of skyscrapers that were a hundred or two meters tall."
"There would be tens of thousands more cars on the road than there are now, and some of them would even be self-driving..."
"There's a cell phone, there's internet..."
The world that Li Ping described was something that Huang Rong and the other two could not even imagine.
Huang Rong said, "No wonder you don't like it here..."
Li Ping shook his head: "I don't like it here, not because it's not bustling enough..."
"I don't want to talk about these unhappy things today. Let's find a place to grab some snacks..."
Just then, a few whistles suddenly rang out from not far away.
Li Ping and his companions turned their heads and saw a group of drunk people.
They mostly had short hair and buzz cuts, with small mustaches in the middle of their noses, and were wiry and arrogant.
Most of them wore black stand-up collar uniforms with their chests exposed, tattoos on their bodies, rolled-up cuffs, or short haori (traditional Japanese jackets) over their clothes, narrow trousers, split-toe socks, and ankle boots, with short knives hanging at their waists.
The leader said in broken Chinese, "Oh, three pretty girls, you're really good-looking, really good-looking..."
Huang Rong scoffed; it had been a long time since she had encountered such a scoundrel.
Just as she was about to take some action to punish him, she suddenly sensed an astonishing killing intent emanating from Li Ping.
Huang Rong was startled; she had never seen Li Ping like this before.
Who are these people that could possibly provoke him so much?
Then the leader, reeking of alcohol, reached out to grab Yaoyue.
Li Ping's large hand pressed down on his head, burying it into his chest...
In an instant, the entire street fell silent.