Chapter 9
Harvest Time
Jiang Li glanced over the people of the Scorpion Gang and saw someone familiar. The Chief Elder of the Scorpion Gang, Wu Zong. He was around forty years old, had a square face, short hair and a scar on his left cheek.
At this moment. His legs were shaking and his eyes were full of fear and shock.
The thing was, the three leaders were all real Martial Artists that had already formed their internal force. Liu Yanbing had even killed many Martial Artists once. And now they were all murdered.
How horrible!
Everyone there was frightened. Their courage was gone. They weren’t as fierce as they were when they came to the assembly hall anymore and their legs were even like jelly. How could they continue to fight? They would be sending themselves to die if they rushed ahead.
Clang! Clang! The twenty members behind Wu Zong threw their weapons on the floor one after another.
“Haha.” Jiang Li sized up Wu Zong with a smile. He dropped a hint to Wang Long to ask him to cover his broken arm and wound, so that nobody would find out anything weird.
“I… I…” Wu Zong said with a smile, “Master… Master Jiang, no, no, Chief Jiang, you…”
“Wu Zong, cut the crap.” Jiang Li interrupted Wu Zong and said, “Liu Yanbing has died, so from now on, the Scorpion Gang and Scorpion Street will be under the Sirius Gang and will be called ‘Scorpion Hall.’ Wu Zong, since you’re the Chief Elder here, you’ll be the Hall Master temporarily.”
“Well… Thank you, thank you.” Wu Zong wasn’t scared anymore and was even a bit excited. He knelt before Jiang Li and yelled, “I’ll take good care of ‘Scorpion Hall’ for you, Chief Jiang. I won’t let you down and I’ll do anything for you.”
Liu Yanbing died and Wu Zong became the Hall Master. This was a good thing for Wu Zong. As for loyalty? It wasn’t worth much.
“Hm.” Jiang Li nodded.
Although the meches were powerful, they didn’t know how to manage the gangs and take care of the businesses. It would be a waste if he killed Wu Zong.
Keeping them alive to take care of the gang and businesses could make himself more money for buying medicines and pills, so that he could convert them into energy points to make more meches and gradually enhance himself.
As long as he had a powerful mech army, he wouldn’t be afraid of Wu Zong and the others. Of course, there were things he must be careful of. Otherwise, he could be in danger.
“Here’s my official greetings to you as the Hall Master of Scorpion Hall,” Wu Zong knelt on his knees and said.
“Greetings, Chief.” Then the people behind Wu Zong all knelt at the same time.
“Haha.” Jiang Li cracked a smile. “Take me to the vault of the gang first. Wu Zong, you’re the Chief Elder of the Scorpion Gang. You should know where Liu Yanbing stores his treasures, right?”
“Yes, Chief,” Wu Zong replied.
“Lead the way.” Jiang Li waved his hand.
“Yes.” Wu Zong got up.
It was “harvest” time. However, before leaving the assembly hall, Jiang Li turned around and saw the sexy woman in the corner. She saw everything that happened just then. Which meant. She saw Wang Long’s strange wound after Lu Daoke cut off his arm.
The thing was, if people knew that Wang Long wasn’t a real person, Jiang Li might be in trouble. In fact Jiang Li knew that he couldn’t keep this secret for long. As the number of his meches increased and his enemies grew stronger, it would be exposed after all.
However, before it did, he had to hide the secret for as long as he could and make more meches to build a stronger army as fast as possible. Then, even if the secret was exposed, he wouldn’t have to worry about anything.
I can only kill her.
Jiang Li thought.
“Please… Please don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me…” The sexy woman realized that her life was at risk. She immediately crawled to Jiang Li with the upper part of her dress falling off slightly, exposing her fair skin. Her long legs were extremely sexy as well.
“I knew it was you, Yan Jiao. You deserve to die.”
Suddenly, a ray of light flashed. Wu Zong stabbed the sexy woman in her chest with a shiny sword. He then pulled the sword out and blood spouted.
“…”
The sexy woman fell on the floor and died with her mouth opened.
“Please forgive me, Chief.” Wu Zong immediately knelt and said furiously, “This woman used to be Lu Daoke’s mistress. She took care of ‘Yichun Brothel’ on Axe Street. Before I joined the Scorpion Gang, my only daughter was kidnapped and sold to that brothel by this woman, and she had no choice but to kill herself in the end. I’ve been trying to take revenge for my daughter, but I didn’t succeed. That’s why I couldn’t help myself.”
“…”
Jiang Li looked at the body of the sexy woman and shook his head. He didn’t say anything when he saw Wu Zong’s expression. “I’ll spare you, since you did this for your daughter, but not next time.”
“Thank you, Chief.” Wu Zong was thrilled.
“Sure,” Jiang Li said. “Since you made a mistake, you must be punished. I’ll take all the money and medicines you’ve gotten over the years.”
“Huh?” Wu Zong looked up in shock.
“Do you have a problem with that?” Jiang Li asked with an unfriendly look.
“No, definitely not.” Wu Zong shook his head quickly.
…
Liu Yanbing’s place was at the center of the Scorpion Gang’s compound.
With Wu Zong there to lead the way, Jiang Li soon arrived at the secret chamber where Liu Yanbing stored his treasures.
Creak! The door of the chamber, which was a bookshelf, opened automatically after they pressed the hidden button.
“Chief, this is it,” Wu Zong said. “I found it accidentally.”
“Let’s go in.” Jiang Li walked into the secret chamber.
“Master, let us go in first,” Wang Gang said.
“Sure.” Jiang Li nodded.
Then Wang Gang walked in the front and entered the secret chamber.
Swish! Swish!
Once he got inside, he triggered the traps in the chamber and dozens of small arrows were shot out of the walls on both sides.
Clang, clang! Those arrows pierced through Wang Gang’s camouflage outfit and caused about 5% of damage.
“There are really traps inside,” Jiang Li mumbled.
“I… I didn’t know.” Wu Zong turned pale. He was worried that Jiang Li would think he did this on purpose and then kill him.
“…”
Wang Long and Wang Yan glanced at Wu Zong coldly. Wu Zong felt a chill down his spine and he started trembling. It was terrifying.
After a while.
In the secret chamber, tons of scorpions and vipers crawled out from the corners and rushed towards Wang Gang quickly. And although Wang Gang killed plenty of scorpions and vipers, there were still a lot on his body.
“Wang Long, Wang Yan, go and help him,” Jiang Li said.
“Yes, Master.” Wang Long and Wang Yan entered the secret chamber with their alloy daggers and immediately killed the scorpions and vipers.
A few minutes later, all the scorpions and vipers in the secret chamber were finally killed.
Wang Gang’s clothes were corroded by the venom and they reached 40% of damage. Wang Long broke one arm and he was even 60% damaged.
“Master, we’ve already dealt with all the traps in here,” Wang Gang said.
“Good.” Jiang Li was relieved and entered the secret chamber, stepping on the dead bodies of the scorpions and vipers. There was a disgusting smell in the air.
Inside the chamber, there were two black wooden boxes.
“Wu Zong, open it,” Jiang Li said.