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Chapter 415 - 390: A Tian, Let Me Smash This Store

Chapter 415: Chapter 390: A Tian, Let Me Smash This Store

After spending a total of twelve days, five hours, three minutes, and forty-nine seconds in the hospital, Li Chen was finally discharged.

Having rested during these days, Li Chen felt much better, and the scab on his chest had disappeared along with the scars, leaving no trace of injury.

His heart was extremely strong, and he faced no major issues, but the key issue was the wild energy within his body, which proved quite troublesome for Li Chen.

Whenever he tried to circulate his True Qi, the wild energy inside him would go crazy, not only devouring his True Qi but also wreaking havoc inside his body.

Initially, this energy was gentle, but as soon as Li Chen stimulated it with True Qi, it would become violently active.

Li Chen sighed. This energy was truly mysterious; he didn’t even know how it had appeared inside him, and although it was terrifying, he couldn’t control it.

Previously, he had eaten fish from the pool water in the Cliff Cave, which allowed him to absorb a small part of the Mysterious Energy, but it was still too little to completely control this energy.

Li Chen walked out of the hospital and saw the bright sunlight outside, which put him in a rather good mood.

Li Yang was currently abroad, and the Palace of the Nether King had already deployed people, ensuring there was no threat.

Slowly walking along the street, Li Chen felt almost driven crazy during these days in the hospital, it was too boring, although his beautiful wife, sister-in-law, Qianqian, and others, would visit whenever they had time, he was really bored.

Moreover, the nurse who took care of him had a temper as fiery as if she had eaten chili peppers, completely subduing him without any room to retaliate.

Now that he was finally discharged, breathing this different air felt truly refreshing.

Li Chen walked forward, simply enjoying his walk, but when he reached ahead, he found a crowd surrounding a shop, making it impenetrable.

Was there excitement?

Watching the moving crowd, and seeing people outside trying to squeeze in, Li Chen sighed in disappointment, "Huaxia people love spectacles. This mentality of just watching others is really unacceptable," a certain literary giant once described it as the numbing of human nature through the ages.

How can this mere spectator mentality be okay?

After reflecting on this, Li Chen dove into the crowd like a fish, muttering, "Excuse me, excuse me, please, make way, make way."

After all, it would be foolish not to catch a spectacle when there’s one.

In the middle of the crowd, complaints erupted: ’Hey, don’t push, this space is so small, can’t you avoid pushing?’

"Who the **** just pushed me from the back?" one person turned around angrily. The person right behind him, who was tiptoeing to get a better view, faced the angry glare and couldn’t help but retort, "What are you looking at?"

"What if I am looking at you?" the first person snapped back.

"Try looking again and see what happens!" the other retorted.

"Let’s try and see!" the first replied.

Then, a fierce fight broke out in the crowd, while the instigator slipped to the front.

Reaching the front of the crowd, Li Chen saw an extremely fat man standing there, surrounded by the shop owner and a group of burly men holding weapons, staring menacingly at the fat man.

On the shoulder of the fat man, there was a baby dressed in cloth, smaller than a normal baby but seemingly cuter.

Li Chen stared at this pair and froze, thinking, "Why does this person look so familiar?"

After another glance, Li Chen confirmed, "That’s Zhong Tian and Ginseng Doll."

However, Li Chen had just sent both back, so why were they out again?

Li Chen was puzzled while the surrounding onlookers discussed,

"That fat man is going to be unlucky; the owner has the backing of the Green Dragon Gang."

"I had no idea, it seems I should never enter this shop again."

"Yes, the Green Dragon Gang is truly terrifying, I heard their boss single-handedly took down more than a dozen men in his gang days."

"No way, that scary?"

"Heh, try and see for yourself, I accidentally found out about a conflict between the Green Dragon Gang and another gang, and the next day, that gang was gone."

"Damn, that’s really terrifying, aren’t the police involved?"

"With so many gangs in Linchuan, how can the police manage? Moreover, the fights between gangs are just dog-eat-dog, a good thing for the police as long as it doesn’t disturb the social order."

Listening eagerly to the sidelines, Li Chen was still confused, so he asked someone nearby, "Brother, what’s actually going on here?"

The person scoffed, "It’s all about taking advantage of him. Look at that fat man’s naive appearance; he’s definitely easy to trick. Who else would they target but him?"

"What’s going on here?" Li Chen glanced at the scene and couldn’t help but sneer internally, "Damn, dare to cheat me? Better close your shop."

At this moment, Zhong Tian, sounding all gruff, said in the middle of the scene, "I don’t have any money."

The Ginseng Doll on his shoulder also made a series of "awoos" and cutely nodded along: Yeah yeah, we don’t have money.

Up to now, the Ginseng Doll could emit a series of sounds and seemed even smarter, as if it could comprehend some simple meanings.

"No money? You think you’re off the hook just by saying you have no money?" The shop owner sneered and casually held a broken vase fragment in his hand. "Do you even know how much this vase costs? This is an antique from a thousand years ago, worth at least tens of millions at auction; can you afford that?"

Zhong Tian said naively, "Why should I pay? I only lightly touched that vase, and it broke—it’s not my fault."

"If not you who broke it, then who did? You broke it, don’t you think you should compensate?" The shop owner’s voice rose slightly.

Zhong Tian thought for a moment, "Need to compensate."

"Then, shouldn’t you compensate for this vase?" the shop owner continued.

"Then I’ll buy you a new one later," Zhong Tian naively said.

"You won’t be able to find one, I’m telling you, your best option now is to pay up!" the shop owner said angrily.

Zhong Tian was still the same, "But I don’t have any money."

A flicker of a sneer crossed the shop owner’s mind, then he said, "No money works too, you can use what you have on you for compensation."

"On me?" Zhong Tian looked down at his plump belly and then looked up, "I don’t have anything on me either."

"How do you not have anything? Isn’t that thing on your shoulder something?" the shop owner pointed at the Ginseng Doll, which he had been eyeing covetously in the store, absolutely clever, and it could probably bring a lot of benefits if offered to his boss.

"You want A Shen?" Zhong Tian suddenly became alert and even assumed a protective stance over the Ginseng Doll, "This won’t do, A Shen is my friend, you can’t take it."

"That’s not for you to decide." The shop owner signaled to some of his thugs nearby, one of whom, holding a club as thick as an arm, smashed it down on Zhong Tian.

"Smack"

The man looked at Zhong Tian, who was unscathed, and then at the stick that had snapped into two in his hand, completely dumbfounded.

Damn, what’s happening?

Seeing that one person didn’t do the job, the shop owner gestured aggressively to a few others around him and immediately a few more stepped forward.

"I’m telling you, if you don’t hand over that thing on your shoulder today, you’re not leaving." The shop owner arrogantly said, "And don’t think anyone will come to save you. Who on this street doesn’t know of my name, Mantis?"

Zhong Tian was just defending himself and muttered, "If it wasn’t for my senior brother telling me not to start a fight, I’d have hit you already."

Watching from behind, Li Chen was infuriated seeing Zhong Tian just defending. He stepped forward, "A Tian, hit him!"

Hearing this, Zhong Tian was startled, turned around, and upon seeing Li Chen, a naive smile appeared on his face: "Senior Brother!"

At the same moment, "smack"—another person’s stick broke behind Zhong Tian.

"Oh? Another one? Take care of him too," the shop owner coldly said.

Immediately, a few men attempted to rush at Li Chen.

"Don’t you dare hurt my senior brother!" Zhong Tian suddenly yelled, his arms swinging energetically, his entire being like a Titan Giant awakening, directly slapping an approaching thug into unconsciousness, so fragile as if he were mere paper, who then crashed into a glass door behind.

"Hit him!" the shop owner shouted, but he himself took a step back.

The surrounding thugs charged at him, but Zhong Tian also started to attack, grabbing one man’s club with his left hand, which caused the man to freeze, and then swinging him into the air, both man and club crashing down together.

Meanwhile, the Ginseng Doll on Zhong Tian’s shoulder let out giggles and hopped directly onto the face of an approaching thug, its little hands furiously scratching, leaving the thug blinded and reaching for his face while the doll easily dodged his attempts.

By the time the man regained his vision, he only saw Zhong Tian’s fist coming towards him, and then he flew off.

The surrounding crowd was dumbfounded; this chubby guy really could fight, his strength was terrifying indeed, easily thrashing the thugs, the two sides completely unmatched.

"I feel sorry for the shop owner," a spectator laughed. He had always disliked those who took advantage of guests, and seeing the shop owner being taught a lesson now naturally made him happy.

"Feel sorry? The one to feel sorry for is that chubby guy. He could have just handed over the stuff and it would have been over, but now he’s beaten someone up. Do you think the Green Dragon Gang behind will let him go?" another person immediately countered.

Regardless of the discussing crowd, Zhong Tian quickly ended the fight, and the ground was a mess of the shop owner’s men sprawled all over, leaving only the bewildered shop owner.

The shop owner was grappling with the scenario, when Li Chen said indifferently, "A Tian, this shop no longer needs to exist, smash it."