Several security guards grinned maliciously and charged forward with their fists clenched!
"No!" the wife screamed shrilly.
Zhang Zhihe was furious and desperate. He suddenly hugged his wife tightly in his arms, closed his eyes, and prepared to endure the blows that were about to come.
At this critical moment!
"stop!"
Everyone was startled and looked in the direction of the sound.
A figure shot towards them from afar, its speed kicking up a trail of dust!
In a few breaths, the figure rushed forward and stopped steadily between Wang Chengxiang and Zhang Zhihe. It was none other than Xu Kuo, whose face was full of anger!
When Wang Chengxiang saw who it was, his pupils contracted sharply, and the sinister smile on his face froze instantly, turning into extreme anger and disdain.
"Oh, who do we have here? It's you, you little bastard who doesn't know your own limits!"
He looked Xu Kuo up and down, his expression full of contempt.
"You've got the path to heaven but you refuse to take it, you've barged into hell! I was just looking for you, and you've delivered yourself right to my doorstep! You idiot!"
Xu Kuo's gaze passed over Wang Chengxiang and landed on Zhang Zhihe and his wife, who were curled up on the ground behind him, their faces bruised and swollen.
The bloodstains on Zhang Zhihe's forehead and his wife's pale, helpless, and tear-streaked face filled Xu Kuo with immense guilt.
If it weren't for him, Wang Chengxiang wouldn't have treated Zhang Zhihe and his wife like that.
Xu Kuo took a deep breath and vowed to make Wang Chengxiang pay the price.
Xu Kuo turned to look at Wang Chengxiang, his eyes blazing with fury.
"What are you looking at?!" Wang Chengxiang felt a chill run down his spine from Xu Kuo's murderous gaze. Enraged, he waved his hand and shouted at his men.
"What the hell are you all standing there for?! Surround him! Nobody's getting away today!"
The seven or eight guards seemed to wake from a dream, and scattered in a flash, skillfully surrounding Xu Kuo and blocking all possible escape routes in all directions, their faces adorned with malicious grins.
"Brother Xu Kuo! Run! Don't worry about us!" Zhang Zhihe, who was on the ground, saw that Xu Kuo was also surrounded. He didn't care about the pain on his body anymore. He struggled to get up and shouted hoarsely at Xu Kuo.
"They outnumber us! And they have weapons! Run! Run! Go call the police!" He thought Xu Kuo was just a hot-blooded young man who knew a little about medicine and was unarmed. He thought he was no match for this group of ruthless thugs who had been committing evil for years!
What good could come of it falling into Wang Chengxiang's hands?
"run?"
Wang Chengxiang snorted disdainfully, spat a mouthful of phlegm on the ground, his eyes filled with mockery and cruelty.
"No one's getting away today! Once you're in my inescapable trap, don't even think about leaving unscathed!"
Xu Kuo seemed not to hear Zhang Zhihe's anxious shouts, nor did he pay attention to Wang Chengxiang's arrogance; his gaze remained fixed on Wang Chengxiang's face.
Xu Kuo's words were chilling: "Release them now, or I won't let you off the hook."
"Release them? Hahahaha!"
Wang Chengxiang burst into laughter, pointing at Xu Kuo as he shouted at the guards around him.
"Did you hear that? Did everyone hear that? This kid... this idiot actually asked me to release him! Haha! What a naive fool! Did a donkey kick his head?!"
Tired of laughing, Wang Chengxiang sighed, pointed arrogantly at Xu Kuo with his chin, and uttered each word slowly and deliberately.
"Kid, you want me to release them? Not impossible! Right now, immediately! Kneel down for me! Kneel three times and shout 'Grandpa, I was wrong' three times! Then give me back every single penny of the two thousand yuan Zhang Zhihe owes me! If I'm in a better mood, maybe... I can consider letting them get lost!"
"Two thousand yuan?" Xu Kuo frowned sharply, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.
Zhang Zhihe would never borrow money from someone like Wang Chengxiang, especially not two thousand yuan, which was a considerable sum at that time.
Before Xu Kuo could think it through, Zhang Zhihe, who was on the ground, disregarded his fear and hurriedly explained loudly to Xu Kuo.
“Brother Xu Kuo! Don’t listen to his nonsense! He’s just framing me and trying to extort money from me! He even… he even had people ruin my livelihood in town! He’s trying to drive us to our deaths!”
Zhang Zhihe's voice was choked with sobs, filled with despair.
"Damn it! Did I give you permission to speak?!"
When Wang Chengxiang saw that Zhang Zhihe dared to expose his shortcomings, he was furious. His face contorted with rage, and he raised his foot, which was clad in a suede shoe, and kicked Zhang Zhihe hard in the ribs, which was already injured!
"Ugh—!" Zhang Zhihe let out a sharp, painful groan, his body instantly curling up even tighter, the intense pain almost causing him to faint.
This kick, like the last straw, completely crushed the reason that Xu Kuo had been forcibly suppressing!
Seeing Zhang Zhihe convulsing in pain on the ground, a surge of guilt and overwhelming anger exploded in his chest!
He knew that if he didn't go to save Zhang Zhihe now, Zhang Zhihe might not make it.
His eyes flashed with a cold light, filled with murderous intent!
With knees slightly bent, push off the ground with a sudden burst of force!
"Whoosh—!"
Amidst the stunned gazes of everyone, Xu Kuo's figure rose from the ground as if defying the laws of physics!
He flew over the heads of the two security guards who were blocking his way, creating a blurry afterimage in the air!
This...this is a human?!
How did he jump up like that?!
How high would that jump?!
Not only were the security guards dumbfounded, but even Wang Chengxiang, who always thought highly of himself, was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
They didn't give anyone time to react at all!
In the blink of an eye!
The next moment, Xu Kuo's figure appeared silently in front of Wang Chengxiang, who was still in shock, like a ghost!
Before Wang Chengxiang could even react, he only felt a blur before his eyes!
*Smack!!!*
A crisp, loud, and earth-shattering slap landed hard and solidly on Wang Chengxiang's left cheek!
The immense force sent Wang Chengxiang, who weighed at least 160 or 170 pounds, spinning him around a full one and a half times before he crashed to the ground with a thud!
Half of his face swelled up rapidly, turning purplish-black, and a bloody gash appeared at the corner of his mouth, with blood and saliva flowing out!
"Awooo—!!"
Wang Chengxiang covered his face, which looked as if the bones had been shattered, and let out a bloodcurdling scream like a pig being slaughtered!
Everyone present could hear the pain in the screams, but no one dared to step forward, fearing that Xu Kuo would take his anger out on them.
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