bestfiction Chapter 340 Clearing the clouds and revealing the sun
Chapter 340 Clearing the clouds and revealing the sun
At this moment, while enjoying the service of his concubine, Wang Heihu was thinking about how to find more respectable women.
To avoid attracting Xu Zhiwen's attention, the Black Tiger Gang kept its trafficking of respectable women very secret, which indirectly increased the difficulty for the gang in finding them.
The bandits outside the city have an insatiable need for women. As long as they can gather enough women, they can make a fortune. He is currently planning to intensify his search for respectable women.
"boom!"
Just then, a loud bang came from outside the door. Startled, Wang Heihu quickly got up and went outside.
Meanwhile, Chen Cheng and his entourage, who had kicked open the door to Wang Heihu's house, filed in and surrounded the living room.
"Who are you?"
A henchman from the Black Tiger Gang, blustering but cowardly, demanded.
At this moment, Wang Heihu also walked out of the hall and saw Chen Cheng and the others with grim expressions.
Of course, he was mainly looking at Zhang He, because Zhang He was wearing the uniform of a government constable.
"Brother Zhang He".
Upon seeing Zhang He, Wang Heihu quickly suppressed his anger and asked obsequiously, "Brother Zhang He, what brings you here?"
"Wang Heihu, you've been caught!"
Zhang He presented the arrest warrant signed by Xu Zhiwen and said sternly, "You trafficked innocent women and colluded with bandits outside the city. Why don't you surrender immediately?"
Wang Heihu was shocked. He had always kept his trafficking of respectable women very secret. How could the authorities have found out?
Of course, now is not the time to consider this. Wang Heihu knew very well that Xu Zhiwen was a county magistrate who could not tolerate any wrongdoing. If Xu Zhiwen found out what he had done, he would only face death.
Therefore, without thinking, Wang Heihu shouted, "Brothers, kill them!"
At Wang Heihu's command, the Black Tiger Gang henchmen in the courtyard immediately drew their knives and attacked Chen Cheng and his group.
Wang Heihu turned and ran, attempting to escape through the back door of the house.
"Want to escape?"
Chen Cheng took a step forward and slashed at Wang Heihu with his sword.
The sword strikes were swift and steady, like the wind.
Wang Heihu's expression changed, and he rolled away to dodge Chen Cheng's attack.
However, Chen Cheng, whose first strike missed, reacted extremely quickly and slashed at Wang Heihu, who was rolling on the ground, with another strike.
"Pfft."
Unable to dodge in time, Wang Heihu was instantly left with a gruesome wound on his arm. Fortunately, he shifted his body slightly at the crucial moment, otherwise the knife would have disemboweled him.
"Damn it."
Seeing that he could not escape, a fierce glint flashed in Wang Heihu's eyes. He picked up the knife that his subordinate had dropped and slashed at Chen Cheng with a vicious expression.
"Well done!"
Chen Cheng was not afraid at all and raised his blade to parry.
"clang!"
As the blades clashed, Chen Cheng remained unmoved, while Wang Heihu staggered backward, his expression drastically changing.
"How can this person be so strong?"
Wang Heihu felt a sense of foreboding, while Chen Cheng swung his knife out with a backhand motion.
With his old strength gone and new strength yet to arise, Wang Heihu's pupils widened, and he could only watch helplessly as the blade sliced across his neck.
"Pfft!"
A head flew into the air, then crashed heavily to the ground, rolling all the way to the feet of a Black Tiger Gang henchman.
"Boss Tiger".
Looking at Wang Heihu's wide-open, seemingly lifeless eyes, the henchman lost all will to fight and knelt down with a thud.
"I surrender, please don't kill me."
Those who could join the Black Tiger Gang were clearly not brave fighters. Upon seeing Wang Heihu's death, the henchmen completely lost their will to resist, kneeling on the ground one by one, begging for a way to live.
"Sir, I surrender, don't kill me."
"I surrender, I surrender! I have an elderly mother at home, please don't kill me."
"I surrender too."
"..."
Soon, the Black Tiger Gang's henchmen were all kneeling down in the courtyard.
Looking at these cowardly lackeys, a hint of disdain flashed in Zhang He's eyes. The greatest ability of these Black Tiger Gang lackeys was to oppress the people. When faced with a powerful enemy, they didn't even have the courage to pick up a knife and fight to the death.
"Tie them all up and lock them in a cell."
Soon after, the Black Tiger Gang henchmen, all bound up, were escorted out of Wang Heihu's mansion. What awaited them was a life of imprisonment without hope.
"Is that Officer Zhang?"
"Has Officer Zhang wiped out the Black Tiger Gang?"
"It must be!"
"Great! We won't have to be bullied by the Black Tiger Gang anymore."
"Great! From now on, I won't have to pay protection money to those thugs from the Black Tiger Gang when I do business!"
"..."
Outside Wang Heihu's mansion, many people who witnessed this scene were overjoyed. Who in the county town hadn't been bullied by the Black Tiger Gang?
They were naturally excited to see the Black Tiger Gang wiped out.
The news spread like wildfire among the people, and soon the news of the Black Tiger Gang's demise reached the entire city. The people who learned of the Black Tiger Gang's destruction were all overjoyed.
Meanwhile, Zhang He sent out Skinny Monkey and others to capture the scattered members of the Black Tiger Gang.
Within two days, all the escaped members of the Black Tiger Gang were captured, and the security situation in the entire county was restored. The people no longer had to suffer oppression from the Black Tiger Gang, and respectable women no longer had to worry about being abducted by the Black Tiger Gang when they went out. The sky over Taiping County seemed to have cleared away the clouds and was no longer as dark as before.
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Chenjiacun.
Chen Dao walked out of his house, came to a tree, and gently pressed his palm on the bark.
The bark remained unmoved, but Chen Dao was not surprised. With two fingers, he peeled off the bark, revealing that the trunk covered by the bark had already suffered some damage, which was caused by the internal energy that Chen Dao had just practiced.
After returning from the county town, Chen Dao began practicing the Cloud Shadow Palm. After several days of hard work, he made some progress and developed some internal strength.
"This internal energy is truly amazing."
Chen Dao stared thoughtfully at the damaged tree trunk.
Lower-rank martial artists typically rely on pure physical strength and blood energy in combat, while middle-rank martial artists develop internal energy.
The wonder of internal energy lies in its ability to ignore an enemy's external defenses and strike directly into their body. Just like the tree that Chen Dao attacked earlier, it appeared unharmed on the surface, but the trunk inside had already been destroyed by internal energy!
"No wonder so many people want to become mid-grade martial artists. This internal energy is truly impossible to defend against, and its destructive power is far more terrifying than that of a seventh-grade martial artist."
Chen Dao murmured, "If a seventh, eighth, or ninth-grade martial artist wants to defeat an opponent, he must first break through the opponent's physical defenses before he can injure or even kill them."
In contrast, a sixth-rank martial artist only needs to attack an opponent to silently penetrate their body and cause damage. In terms of both lethality and stealth, they are far superior to martial artists of the lower three ranks.