Chapter 186: 186 Xu Fan Arrives_1
“Dammit! You don’t get a say in this! Tonight, I’ll make sure you know just how tough Brother Stone is!” Brother Stone twisted his chubby face and reached out with his hand, which resembled a pig’s trotter, to grab Chen Lele’s wrist.
Just as Chen Lele watched Brother Stone’s hand reach toward her, filled with terror, a nearly inaudible whistling sound suddenly pierced through the air.
A small pebble flew from a distance and instantly hit Brother Stone’s wrist.
With a “crack” sound, Brother Stone let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered and quickly clutched his hand.
The power behind that peanut-sized stone was so immense that it snapped Brother Stone’s wrist clean.
Sweat instantly broke out on Brother Stone’s forehead, and as waves of intense pain hit from his wrist, it hurt so badly Brother Stone nearly cried for his mother.
“Which damn dog hid and ambushed me? Come out, I’ll kill you!” Brother Stone, clutching his injured hand, kept shouting towards the door.
At that moment, Xu Fan slowly walked in from the entrance, step by step.
He had initially gotten out of his car to buy some clothes for Mo Luo Dan, never expecting to come across a disturbance where several men were bullying two defenseless women.
Although Xu Fan was neither a model of virtue nor a great philanthropist, he felt compelled to intervene upon witnessing such a scene.
As soon as Xu Fan walked into the clothing shop, Chen Lele’s eyes immediately brightened.
“Mr. Xu, it’s me, I’m Chen Lele.” Chen Lele stood up and waved at Xu Fan.
Upon closer inspection, Xu Fan recognized one of the two harassed women as Chen Lele, the part-time saleswoman he had met earlier that day in the Lu Family Port auto town. He remembered the somewhat naïve girl quite well.
“What’s going on?” Xu Fan asked with concern.
“This is my family’s clothing shop. These guys came to extort money, and even said they would take me away…” Seeing Xu Fan appeared to give Chen Lele a sense of support, and she could no longer hold back her tears, which started flowing freely.
“Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, no one will hurt you,” Xu Fan said calmly.
“Mhm!” Chen Lele sniffled, her nose tingling with sourness, and she nodded vigorously.
“Dammit, where did this asshole come from, sneaking attacks on me? Boys, waste him for me!” Brother Stone, upon seeing Xu Fan enter, also got angry. His wrist had broken out of nowhere, and he was certain that this young man who had come in was behind it.
“Boss, let us take him down!” Several of his followers also stopped beating up Zhao Dong on the ground, and charged toward Xu Fan with fierce aggression.
Brother Stone’s group consisted of seven men, each tall and muscular, while Xu Fan was slim and lean. Seeing the gangsters rush towards Xu Fan, Chen Lele bit her lip in fear.
From the looks of it, Xu Fan seemed to have no chance against these thugs.
In the clothing store, there were seven consecutive thuds, “Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!” The seven underlings that Brother Stone had brought with him charged at Xu Fan one by one, but each time one rushed forward, one less returned.
The last underling to charge suddenly realized that the previous six had been flung out of the store’s entrance the moment they came into contact with Xu Fan, and had fallen directly onto the hard concrete outside.
This last underling had just thought about retreating when, as if Xu Fan’s hand was a venomous snake, it instantly grabbed his shoulder. A punch landed with a thud that nearly made him vomit out his lungs, and then he felt as if flying through the clouds, followed by the clattering sound of a close and personal embrace with the concrete outside.
Outside, the seven underlings moaned and groaned in pain, none able to stand up.
On the ground, Zhao Dong and Li Ancheng, who had been beaten up, almost popped their eyes out when they saw Xu Fan’s skills. They too had been mixing it up in Yulou Ancient Town for some time and had fought countless fights, but they too fell at the first contact with the Hu Family’s underlings.
Although the Hu Family was notorious for their misconduct, the strength of their underlings was genuinely formidable, with each possessing impressive individual combat ability.
Yet, these seven had been thrown out the door by the slim young Xu Fan in the blink of an eye, which left Zhao Dong licking his lips in amazement.
“How much strength must be in his arms to toss a 200-pound strong man seven or eight meters away with a flick of his wrist? Even a professional boxer couldn’t achieve such a terrifying speed and explosive power,” he wondered.
“You two, are you also people from this store?” Xu Fan asked Zhao Dong with a hint of curiosity.
“Big brother, we came to protect this store, but we were not strong enough and got surrounded by the Hu Family’s underlings…” Zhao Dong immediately got up, patted the dust off himself, and spoke to Xu Fan with full respect.
“Is that so?” Xu Fan turned his head towards Chen Lele.
“Yes, they are from the management company of Yu Lou Town. They collect a management fee and then are responsible for dealing with any troubles the merchants on the street encounter,” Chen Lele said to Xu Fan softly, feeling as if she had narrowly escaped disaster.
She had actually disliked Zhao Dong’s so-called management company for collecting protection money, but seeing them stand up to the pressure today to help her, her impression of the company changed. Unfortunately, their strength was too weak, not only failing to protect their store but also getting badly beaten up by the underlings who claimed to be led by Brother Stone.
Had it not been for Mr. Xu’s timely arrival, it was likely that her fate would have been grim.
“Hey, kid, I warn you not to meddle in affairs that don’t concern you. I am Stone Bro, number four in the Hu Family. If you mess with the Hu Family, do you believe I can leave your corpse lying in the streets of the south city?” Stone Bro saw that Xu Fan was ignoring him, so he crossed his arms and warned Xu Fan.
“The Hu Family, huh.” Xu Fan nodded, then in an instant, he appeared in front of Stone Bro, flipping him over with a kick and then forcefully stepping on him.
Stone Bro was already fat, and Xu Fan, standing on his fleshy body, felt his feet sink softly before he twisted them hard with the soles of his feet.
A cry of agony erupted from Stone Bro as if he were crying to heaven and earth.
Xu Fan’s foot had nearly burst his corpulent belly.
“I originally came to buy a couple of clothes, but it seems I’ll have to stay a bit longer,” Xu Fan said to Chen Lele with a smile.
“Buy clothes? Whatever clothes our store has, feel free to choose,” Chen Lele said to Xu Fan after settling the slightly shocked Chen Lixin to one side.
“Just grab any two pieces, the largest size,” Xu Fan casually pointed to the clothes on the rack.