In the dead of night, the streets of Qingyun Town were deserted, with only Manjing, the middle-aged man who attacked us on the side of the road.

As I applied pressure, a line of blood flowed down the blade.

The middle-aged man, wincing in pain, immediately begged for mercy: "Young man, it was just a joke. We're not going to fight to the death. If we end up in court, it won't be easy for either of us to leave this godforsaken place!"

I ignored the middle-aged man's question: "Where's the antidote?"

The middle-aged man didn't move, but gestured with his eyes: "I have a small porcelain bottle in my pocket. Just sniff it lightly and you'll be fine!"

Since I inhaled the middle-aged man's powder, I haven't felt any discomfort. Thinking back to what happened when I was tortured by Ox-Head and Horse-Face, I said coldly, "Actually, you didn't poison us. Because the terrain here is open, it's difficult for poisons to be effective when sprayed. In comparison, creating an illusion and letting us inhale the poison ourselves is the fastest way to achieve the desired effect, right?"

The middle-aged man looked at me with a hint of helplessness: "You asked me for the antidote, believe it or not."

When I heard him say that, I said to Manjing, "Find that porcelain bottle and put it under his nose."

"Oh well! Never mind!"

Seeing Manjing reach out, the middle-aged man smiled at me and said, "Young man, you're a master of poisons. I'm impressed!"

I stared into the middle-aged man's eyes and asked, "Don't play dumb with me. You deliberately let us capture you to trick us into being poisoned. What was your purpose?"

Seeing my serious expression, the middle-aged man sneered, "Actually, you shouldn't have seen through me. Just obediently inhaled the drug. This didn't have to be so complicated."

Seeing the middle-aged man's nonchalant demeanor, I angrily retorted, "Qingyun Town is in a remote location. After I kill you, I can just bury you in some deserted ditch. By the time your bones have rotted away, no one might even find your body. So you'd better not provoke me!"

"I doubt it. Do you think you can kill me and get away unscathed with so many witnesses present?"

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Why don't you turn around and look behind you?"

Upon hearing the middle-aged man's words, Manjing turned his head and glanced at him, then his voice became wary: "Who are you people?"

No one answered Manjing's question, but I heard a flurry of footsteps behind me.

Of course, I would never kill someone in Qingyun Town. Seeing the middle-aged man's arrogant appearance, I stabbed him in the leg with a knife, and then punched him to the ground.

Turning my head, I saw a dozen or so people wearing baseball caps rushing towards us, brandishing steel knives.

Seeing so many people attacking, I was slightly taken aback, then I took off running: "Manjing, let's go!"

At this point, we were only 300 meters away from the town government compound and 500 meters away from the police station.

During our previous conversation, Niu Degeng told us about the local situation. Qingyun Town has a small population, and the villages are far apart. The police station only has three police officers and four auxiliary police officers. Four of them live in the more remote villages year-round and work there. Only one police officer and two auxiliary police officers are responsible for maintaining order in the town.

Even if there is only one official police officer, he represents a law enforcement agency, and my official identity is that I am here to help alleviate poverty in this area. I don't believe that these people would dare to be so arrogant as to enter the police station and attack me.

Once I made up my mind, I sped up and ran towards the police station.

As I was running, several figures appeared again at an alleyway ahead, all wielding weapons and surrounding me.

With ambushed in front and pursued behind, I had nowhere to retreat. Seeing someone attacking me with a knife, I immediately dodged to the side, grabbed the man's wrist with one hand, and delivered an elbow strike to his face.

Seeing that I was being harassed, Manjing rushed up from behind, like a tiger among sheep, and began to fight with those people.

In the chaos of the fight, I took down one person and just bent down to grab his knife when someone suddenly rushed up from the side. With the force of the impact, he knocked me to the ground and then grabbed me tightly, shouting, "Got him! Cut him down!"

Another person who was about to attack Manjing heard his companion's shout and immediately turned his blade around, slashing at me.

I saw the man raise his knife and began to struggle violently, but the person holding me knew he was no match for me, so he used all his strength and refused to let go.

Seeing the blade approaching, with no way to dodge, I could only twist my body with all my might, using the person holding me as a shield.

His companion saw this and quickly stopped, and I seized the opportunity to kick him in the ankle, knocking him over, and then smashed the back of my head into another person's nose.

After I broke free from the attacks of the two men, Manjing, who was in the crowd, roared and used brute force to lift a person up and slam him into the crowd.

Taking advantage of the crowd's dodge, I quickly stood up, brandishing my knife and wildly waving it at them: "Manjing, get on the roof!"

Upon hearing my shout, Manjing kicked one of the people in front of him aside, ran to the side of the bungalow by the roadside, and crossed his hands on his knees: "Big brother, you go first!"

I took a few steps to run up, placed my feet on Manjing's palms, and he lifted me up with all his might, allowing me to grab the eaves and climb up.

I climbed onto the roof and was about to reach out and grab Manjing when the people behind me rushed up and swung several knives at him.

Faced with such a large attack, Manjing had no way to dodge and could only use his arm to take a few blows before fighting back against the attackers.

Seeing that Manjing was trapped, I was about to jump down to help when several figures suddenly ran out from the street: "Don't move, police!"

"Whoosh!"

The shouts rang out, and the crowd below immediately scattered.

I looked in the direction of the sound and found that it wasn't the police at all, but monkeys and sparrows.

After those people left, I jumped off the roof and looked at Manjing, who was covered in blood, and asked, "Where are you hurt?"

Manjing waved his hand dismissively: "They're just flesh wounds, nothing serious!"

"Get out of here, quick!"

Before those people could react, I grabbed Manjing and ran back, asking Monkey at the same time, "How did you find it?"

"I ran out of cigarettes and wanted to go to your place for a smoke, but I waited for ages and you didn't show up. I was worried something had happened to you, so I asked Lin Que to come out with me to check on you!"

The monkey looked around warily: "Young Master Duan, who are those people? The Black Robe Organization?"

"Doesn't look like it!"

I thought for a moment and shook my head: "I've fought against the Black Robe Organization a few times. The people they send out are all experts. But the people who attacked us today are all mediocre. More than a dozen of them couldn't subdue the two of us. Compared to the opponents we've encountered before, their strength is far inferior!"