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“Kazuha,” he asked without turning his head, “who is this Ichihashi Ran?”
Kazuha Toyama hurriedly explained, "She's the new leader of the Young Women's Group. During Yamamoto Akuji's military service, she led feminists to seize power..." Before she could finish speaking, the pole dancer suddenly sprang up, pulled out a knife with her other hand, and stabbed Kazuha in the throat!
"Watch out!" Bai Minhua exclaimed.
A cold glint flashed in Chen Xiao's eyes. He activated the Chrono Emperor, and time seemed to slow down suddenly. He stepped to the side, blocking Kazuha's path, and precisely grabbed the other's wrist with his right hand.
With a crisp "crack," the steel pipe woman's wrist bent at an odd angle, and the knife clattered to the ground.
"I hate it the most," Chen Xiao kicked the wailing pole girl away, "How could you lay a hand on He Ye?"
The remaining four men pounced at the same time. Chen Xiao picked up Bai Minhua with one hand and spun him around to avoid the kitchen knife, her snow-white thighs brushing against his waist from the slit of her cheongsam.
With her other hand, she pulled down the chopstick holder hanging on the wall, and more than twenty bamboo chopsticks shot out like a shower of flowers.
"Ahhh!" Amidst screams, the hands of four women were pierced by bamboo chopsticks, and blood splattered onto the ink painting on the wall.
Bai Minhua gripped Chen Xiao's collar tightly, her almond-shaped eyes brimming with tears: "Are you...are you alright?"
"That's what I should be asking you." Chen Xiao gently put her down, his fingers brushing against her slightly trembling lips. "Were you scared?"
Suddenly, the roar of engines filled the air outside. Ten motorcycles surrounded the shop, and girls dressed identically in crop tops jumped off, wielding spiked clubs. The purple-haired girl at the head of the group chewed gum and kicked her wailing companion away.
"Useless! Can't even handle a man!"
She squinted at Chen Xiao, then suddenly whistled: "Hey, isn't this Chiba, that 'public enemy of women'? Ichihashi-neechan was just thinking of meeting you."
Chen Xiao toyed with the vinegar bottle on the table, then suddenly laughed: "Perfect, I'd like to see it for myself..."
Before he could finish speaking, the vinegar bottle flew out with a whoosh and hit the purple-haired woman squarely between the eyebrows.
The instant she fell backward, Chen Xiao had already pounced into the crowd like a ghost. He snatched the spiked club and snapped it in two, the sharp iron nails reflecting a blood-red light in the setting sun.
"He Ye, take Miss Bai out the back door." He kicked away two girls who pounced on him, turned around and smiled gently at the terrified woman in the cheongsam, "After I've dealt with this trash, I'll come back for your braised pork ribs."
Bai Minhua suddenly grabbed his wrist: "You...you must be careful!" she said.
In the instant Chen Xiao was stunned, the three delinquent girls' machetes were already slashing down on his head!
Amidst Toyama Kazuha's scream, he swung his hand back without turning his head.
"Shh!"
The three machetes were severed at the hilt. The women stared blankly at the bare hilts in their hands, and before they could react, Chen Xiao swept them all away with a powerful kick.
The setting sun stained the shattered storefronts blood red as Chen Xiao turned and walked toward the two still-shaken girls.
Bai Minhua's fair skin was faintly visible as he breathed rapidly.
"It's alright now." Chen Xiao reached out and brushed away the shards of glass from He Ye's hair, his fingertips inadvertently brushing against her burning earlobe.
The girl instinctively tried to dodge, but her body honestly moved half a step closer to him.
Bai Minhua suddenly threw herself into Chen Xiao's arms, her thighs, exposed by the slit of her cheongsam, pressed tightly against him: "Mr. Chen... I'm scared..." When she looked up, her red lips were only inches away from Chen Xiao's chin.
"Baka! What are you doing?!"
A thunderous roar came from the street corner.
Yamamoto Akatsuki rushed over with a dozen or so members of the Serving Youth Corps. When he saw the way Chen Xiao was holding Bai Minhua, veins bulged on his forehead: "Let go of Minhua!"
Chen Xiao not only didn't let go, but also pulled He Ye to his side: "And who is this gentleman?"
"I am Yamamoto Akatsuki, the leader of the Serving Youth Corps!" He viciously kicked away the groaning young woman on the ground. "That bitch Ichihashi Ran dares to... run wild on my turf!" His voice stopped abruptly when his gaze met Bai Minhua's disgusted expression.
Kazuha hurriedly explained, "Mr. Akuji, it was Chen Xiaojun who saved him..."
"Shut up!" Yamamoto Akatsuki suddenly sprang to his feet, the cold glint of his drawn military sword piercing the twilight. "Kid, do you know that Min-hwa is my fiancée?"
Chen Xiao chuckled, golden light emanating from his palm, the golden halo of the Twilight Holy Lance swirling within: "Now you know."
He deliberately leaned close to Bai Minhua's ear and said, "However, it seems that Miss Bai doesn't quite accept this identity?"
"I never agreed to that!" Bai Minhua gripped Chen Xiao's hand tightly. "Evil Si, how could I possibly agree to that with you in the state you are now! I don't want to be with gangsters!"
"Damn it!! You were seduced by this man, weren't you!"
Yamamoto Asaji's military sword suddenly slashed down!
A red light flashed in Chen Xiao's eyes, and the spatial barrier of the Primordial Herrscher instantly unfolded.
The blade solidified ten centimeters away from the three people, and then "crackled" into metal powder.
"Is that all you've got?" Chen Xiao snapped his fingers.
Yamamoto Akatsuki suddenly knelt down, as if an invisible weight was pressing down on his shoulders.
The bluestone pavement cracked below his knees, and blood quickly soaked through his trousers.
"Damn it... what kind of sorcery is this..." He looked up ferociously, only to see Chen Xiao stroking He Ye's nape with his left hand and fastening Bai Minhua's knot with his right.
The blushing cheeks of the two girls drove him even crazier than the excruciating pain in his knees.
Bai Minhua suddenly grabbed Chen Xiao's wrist: "Forget it... let's go back to the shop." She glanced at the disheveled Yamamoto Asahi, "Anyway, he never understands human speech."
Chen Xiao raised an eyebrow, deliberately tightening his grip on their slender waists as he walked past Yamamoto Akuji. Kazuha struggled symbolically for a moment, but when Chen Xiao's breath brushed against her ear, her resistance immediately turned into a soft push.
"Stop right there!" Yamamoto Akatsuki roared, pulling out his pistol. "I'll kill you, you pretty boy!"
The instant the trigger was pulled, the blue patterns of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception appeared in Chen Xiao's pupils. The "death line" drawn by the bullet in the air was clearly visible; he casually flicked it away with a chopstick—
"boom!"
Yamamoto Akashi's right ear suddenly started bleeding profusely.
The bullet strangely veered back, grazing his head and embedding itself in a telephone pole behind him. Only then did the belated sonic boom shatter the last intact pane of glass in the shop.
“If there’s a next time,” Chen Xiao pulled the terrified He Ye closer to his chest, “it won’t just be an ear that gets punched through.”
Back in the shop, Bai Minhua's hands were still trembling as he brewed tea.
When she handed the teacup to Chen Xiao, she was practically pressed against his back: "Um... there's a small kitchen in the back, shall I make you a bowl of noodles?"
He Ye suddenly grabbed Chen Xiao's sleeve: "I...I can help too!"
She was stunned after saying that, not understanding why she would act coquettishly with this man she had just met.
Chen Xiao smiled and pressed the two girls into their seats: "Sit still." As he walked toward the kitchen, the afterglow of the setting sun cast a long shadow of his back. "Tonight, I'll let you try some authentic braised pork rib noodles."
Outside the shop window, Yamamoto Akashi's venomous gaze pierced through the glass.
He didn't notice that a faint blue line had appeared on his temple—it was the "death point" mark left by the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
The kitchen was filled with the rich aroma of bone broth, and Chen Xiao's slender fingers deftly kneaded the dough.
Bai Minhua quietly approached, her slender fingers helping him tie the apron straps, her fingertips inadvertently brushing against his waist.
"Let me help knead the dough." Her voice was so soft it was almost inaudible, and the tips of her ears were flushed a lovely pink.
Chen Xiao didn't stop what he was doing: "You seem to have had a crush on Yamamoto Asahi before?"
Bai Minhua's hands suddenly froze, flour slipping through her fingers: "That was a long time ago..." She lowered her head to knead the dough, a section of her snow-white nape peeking out from the collar of her cheongsam, "He was quite upright before he joined the army, but after he came back, he was like a completely different person..."
Chen Xiao suddenly turned around, his flour-covered hands lifting her chin: "So now? What do you think of me?"
Bai Minhua's eyelashes trembled violently, his lips barely touching Chen Xiao's: "If Chen Xiao had appeared a few years earlier..."
Chen Xiao suddenly kissed Bai Minhua, "Why wait a few years! I want it now!"
Her words were interrupted by a sudden kiss, and the flour sack fell to the ground at their feet with a "thud," raising a cloud of white mist.
A sharp sound of a teacup shattering came from outside the door.
Kazuha hurriedly squatted down to pick up the broken pieces, but cut her finger in the process.
As she watched the blood seep out, a bitter feeling welled up inside her that was even more painful than the wound itself—she had only known each other for less than a day, so why did seeing that scene make her feel so bad?
"Idiot..." She wiped away the tears that had appeared out of nowhere, unaware that Chen Xiao was watching her through the crack in the door.
A hint of amusement flashed in his eyes.
Late at night, after Chen Xiao personally saw He Ye off, Bai Minhua found Chen Xiao standing alone in the back alley smoking while closing up shop.
His profile, bathed in moonlight, was so handsome it seemed otherworldly; the red glow of his cigarette butt illuminated his thoughtful expression.
"Aren't you going back to rest?" She mustered her courage and approached, the hem of her cheongsam fluttering slightly in the night breeze.
Chen Xiao suddenly stubbed out his cigarette and pressed her against the wall: "Take me to see Yamamoto Akatsuki tomorrow." His breath carried a faint smell of tobacco. "I'll show you his true colors."
Bai Minhua was startled by his sudden assertiveness, but found herself actually anticipating even more excessive contact: "Why... are you doing this?"
“Because…” Chen Xiao stroked Bai Minhua’s stunningly beautiful face, “I am very interested in you.”
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the Serving Youth Corps, Yamamoto Asaji was bandaging his ear in front of a mirror. Suddenly, his eyes in the mirror turned into vertical pupils like a reptile, and two rips appeared on the back of his military uniform.
The muscle definition in his body is becoming increasingly pronounced.
"I never expected that you, Akatsuki, would awaken the power of the Tyrannosaurus Rex after you returned!!" In the underground training ground of the Servants' Youth Corps headquarters, Yamamoto Akatsuki's bare upper body was covered with strange red patterns. He lifted a 200-kilogram barbell with one hand, and his muscle fibers writhed like living things.
"Incredible!" Onion pushed up his glasses, the lenses reflecting a cold light. "After the Tyrant Dragon bloodline awakened, your power increased by 300%."
Yamamoto Akatsuki suddenly slammed the barbell onto the ground, cracking the concrete instantly. He stared at his bulging veins on his arm: "That bastard Chen Xiao... he actually triggered my bloodline awakening just because Minhua was close to him..."
Onion opened the yellowed ancient book: "According to the Yamamoto family's ancestral precepts, the power of the Tyrant Dragon can only be fully awakened through 'abstinence and tempering of the heart'." He smiled meaningfully, "It seems that your obsession with Miss Bai happens to meet the requirements."
"Ridiculous!" Yamamoto Akatsuki punched through a steel wall. "So all these years I've had no interest in women because of my bloodline!" He suddenly grabbed a woman by the neck. "Starting tomorrow, change the rules of the troupe! All the women in the troupe must be sent to prostitution to supplement the troupe's funds!"
"You're really greedy, even towards your teacher, Yuko Kanbara? You know, she was very worried about you when she saw you come back injured."
"Especially her!" Yamamoto Akatsuki's vertical pupils contracted. "I want to train by watching them being toyed with! The more important they are, the more my power will awaken!"
Meanwhile, in the attic of the Chinese restaurant, Bai Minhua was making a bed for Chen Xiao.
When she bent over, a large expanse of snow-white skin was revealed at the slit of her cheongsam, but she didn't notice that Chen Xiao's gaze was fixed on her cheongsam.
"Chen Xiaojun..." Bai Minhua suddenly turned around, almost bumping into him, "What are you looking at?"
Chen Xiao's fingers brushed over Bai Minhua's delicate body, and the ability of the Void Genome suddenly activated automatically. Bai Minhua's legs went weak, and she collapsed into his arms.
"Ah!" she gasped, grabbing Chen Xiao's collar. Countless data streamed through Chen Xiao's vision as he pulled a weapon from Bai Minhua's body.
[Match detected: Bai Minhua]
[Void Weapon Type: Emerald Strings (SS-Rank)]
[Synchronization rate: 91%]