"Ah, ah, ah, ah!" The young man could do nothing else but cross his two bare arms and let out meaningless screams.
"Do you know what your big brother's name is?" Zhang Lei looked at him expectantly.
Unfortunately, he disappointed Zhang Lei. Zhang Lei dislikes disappointment, because he believes it brings death—these are homophones, aren't they?
Zhang Lei had already guessed that the so-called big brother was Li Yang, but he still needed some corroborating evidence.
Zhang Lei's hand seemed to move, yet it seemed not to move. The young man's head suddenly fell off. However, this time Zhang Lei felt it was unnecessary to waste his inner energy to stop the bleeding. A surge of hot blood gushed out from his neck in the most explosive way.
Episode 4: An Eye for an Eye, a Knife for a Teeth - Chapter 73: Chicken and Monkey in the Same Cage (Part 1)
Lord Zhang Lei is very kind, at least that's what he thinks, and so does Old Ghost.
Zhang Lei felt a little embarrassed because he had made the young man die so easily.
But sometimes, in order to better scare the monkeys, the chicken must be killed cleanly and efficiently. You must not let people think that you are hesitant to kill, that you only dare to hit people but not kill them.
Therefore, sometimes it is necessary to give up some fun.
These monkeys must have learned some of the Monkey King's skills, otherwise how could they have turned into chickens? This world is truly mysterious.
"You don't know either?" Zhang Lei waved his hand, and another monkey turned into a chick. Nature is indeed amazing. It's so simple for birds and beasts to exchange places. Monkeys are also amazing. They can not only turn into humans, but also into chicks.
"Who should I ask next?" Zhang Lei slowly turned his body. The rain outside the window had lessened, and a gentle breeze was blowing in the fine rain through the window that Zhang Lei had kicked open, making people feel indescribably cool.
Following Zhang Lei's gaze, everyone shrank back, including Wu Chen. Although he understood that he would definitely be the last monkey, he still felt that he should shrink back a bit in the face of Zhang Lei's kind gaze.
Only when facing Zhang Lei will one realize just how terrifying he is; the six people remaining in the room have fully experienced this now.
Normally, someone would have grabbed a bottle of liquor and gone up there, but at this moment, it seemed that everyone's courage had been taken away. The biggest thing they dared to do was probably to secretly urinate on the ground, intending to attack Zhang Lei with air. What's even more despicable is that some guys even took out solid bombs. Even with a light breeze outside, the smell in the room was quite unpleasant.
Under pressure, many people break down, but the way they break down varies. Some people completely collapse, while others rush forward like crazy.
Two of them exhibit this kind of behavior, but this behavior won't bring them any benefits because Zhang Lei doesn't appreciate this kind of selfless spirit of sacrifice.
With a series of sharp cracking sounds, the two men who rushed up involuntarily knelt on the ground. They tried to support themselves with their hands, but then there were a few more sharp cracking sounds. Their elbows were smashed into pieces, just like their knees. Tiny bone fragments broke free from the skin and flesh and stubbornly poked their heads out.
As for the man, he could only lie on the ground like an insect, his buttocks sticking up high due to the angle. Unfortunately, for Zhang Lei, a man's buttocks held no appeal.
"I'll give you another chance. Who knows what your big brother's name is?" Zhang Lei's eyes were half-closed as if he hadn't woken up yet, but even so, they were more frightening than when others' eyes were wide open.
"Still don't know?" Zhang Lei's rope marker had two different things at each end: one end was a blade, and the other end was a steel ball.
Just now, I used a steel ball to shatter their joints because Zhang Lei realized that killing them directly might not be enough of a deterrent, and it would be too wasteful to use his internal energy to silence them.
"You really don't know?" Zhang Lei seemed to have no change in his speaking speed, but everyone trembled with his voice, because Zhang Lei was no longer satisfied with killing the chicken to scare the monkey; he was now torturing the chicken's own chicken.
"Uncle Zhang, please let us go! We really didn't know. He always comes with his face covered, but the way he speaks is the same as when you first came in, so I thought you were sent by him!" Wu Chen's face was covered with tears and snot. It was quite remarkable that he could still speak so fluently while wailing.
"For the sake of our classmates, I'll spare your life this time. Just tell me everything you know, and don't let me think you're hiding anything or lying. I don't have the patience to verify anything. If I believe it to be the truth, I'll randomly pick a souvenir from any of you. Do you understand?"
The most terrifying sound isn't a loud shout; being right doesn't depend on how loud you are. Similarly, scaring people isn't just about raising your voice. The squawking of a chicken is loud enough, but who can it scare? Only strength can truly intimidate. Of course, sometimes what others perceive as strength can also be intimidating, but that depends on the operator's skill.
However, Zhang Lei didn't need any tricks to hide his strength; he could subdue them with sheer power. Of course, a little violence was unavoidable, to let them know that Zhang Lei not only had the strength, but also the determination and ability to use that strength.
Wu Chen knew that while the amount wasn't huge, it wasn't insignificant either. He discovered a different kind of power within his body and, unable to suppress his desires, began raping young girls in the dead of night. However, not long after he started committing these crimes, the man they called their "big brother" found him. Instead of arresting him, the man taught him a lot, including the internal energy cultivation technique he was practicing. This technique was not only quick to learn but also had excellent potential for future development, far superior to the popular textbooks currently available on the streets.
That's why he was able to do it so well afterwards. However, Wu Chen was careful. He just knocked the victims unconscious, fed them some aphrodisiacs, and then had sex with them.
It can be said that although the incident caused a great uproar, at most only one or two out of ten girls actually reported it to the police. Most of the girls simply accepted their bad luck. Reporting the incident made them the center of attention, but in the context of China, it did not really benefit them much.
Until that person reappeared...
At this point, Zhang Lei interrupted him, "Tell me in detail, when did he reappear?"
At this point, Zhang Lei had basically figured things out, and Li Yang's timing was perfectly aligned.
He went to Japan later than Zhang Lei and the others, which coincided with the time of his first appearance. And at that time, this guy probably didn't know how noticeable activating supernatural energy fluctuations were for superhumans.
He returned seven or eight days earlier than Zhang Lei, so I believe his investigation period was much shorter than Zhang Lei's. That period seems to coincide with the time when several girls were raped and murdered.
"Was Kong Liang also done by that guy?" Zhang Lei asked.
"Yes, I told him that rabbits don't eat the grass near their burrows, but he doesn't care at all, because even if this is the grass near his burrow, it's just the grass near my burrow!" Wu Chen tried his best to put himself and Zhang Lei in the same position of hatred, but he didn't know if it would work.
Episode 4: An Eye for an Eye, a Knife for a Teeth - Chapter 73: Chicken and Monkey in the Same Cage (Part 2)
“I told you, I won’t kill you because we’re classmates, but Kong Liang is also my classmate, and she left a much better impression on me than you!” Zhang Lei paused slightly. “You may not know, but I’ve always had a crush on Kong Liang. What do you think I should do with you?”
Wu Chen's expression shifted, and Zhang Lei knew he was also making a decision: whether to bravely resist and die a heroic death, or to fabricate excuses and beg for his life, even if it didn't guarantee survival, at least there was a chance of success. If it was the first option, then there was absolutely no chance of success.
"Zhang Lei, Brother Zhang, Uncle Zhang, Ancestor Zhang, I beg you, I beg you, spare my life! Kong Liang's matter really has nothing to do with me! It was all that bastard's fault for being so stubborn. He said Kong Liang's abilities would be very helpful to him and that he couldn't let her go. I tried to persuade him, I tried to persuade him, but it was no use..."
Wu Chen tried to cling to Zhang Lei's leg and beg for mercy, just like in TV shows, but Zhang Lei didn't give him that chance. Zhang Lei kicked him far away. At such close range, no one could say for sure whether it would leave an opportunity for the opponent to ambush him.
"Stop howling. I don't intend to kill you, but you should at least make amends, shouldn't you?" Zhang Lei's face revealed a sinister smile. "As long as you notify me immediately when he appears, I will let you go. I'm very satisfied with your choice just now. If you had chosen to fight me to the death, then I guarantee you would have lost your life!"
"Yes, yes, I will definitely do my best. I will notify you as soon as he appears!" Wu Chen readily agreed, but what he was really thinking was another matter.
"Well said!" Zhang Lei rubbed his body. "But I can't just trust you so easily, can I?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he had already scooped out a small gray pill in his hand. Zhang Lei rubbed it back and forth between his fingers, trying to make it look shinier and rounder. But no matter how shiny or round it was, it probably wouldn't be able to whet anyone's appetite.
"Eat it!" Zhang Lei tossed the gray ball to Wu Chen. "If you back out later, I'll make sure you die from the poison anytime, and I guarantee you'll envy your companion who died so quickly!"
Wu Chen could only obediently swallow the gray ball. Feeling it spread in his mouth upon contact with his saliva, he felt a strong wave of nausea rise from his stomach. But he knew that vomiting it out would only lead to worse consequences. He hoped that Zhang Lei had truly gone mad from practicing his martial arts, thinking everyone else was so stupid they couldn't see through his act of using ash from his body to impersonate poison.
The fact that Zhang Lei had gone mad from practicing martial arts was no secret, whether within the National Bureau of Investigation or among his former classmates. In that state, how could Zhang Lei possibly hide it from his classmates whom he saw frequently?
"Hehe, you must be wondering why I would give you the gray ball as poison when it's so obvious, right?" Zhang Lei seemed to see right through him.