Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 1021: Lightning Tiger

Chapter 1021: Lightning Tiger

Clang, clang, clang!

The sound of metal pipes colliding against the concrete walls of the dark, unfinished building echoed incessantly. Gao Zhiming's bruised and battered figure trembled upon hearing the noises.

The muffled cursing and heavy footsteps from downstairs made Gao Zhiming's heart pound erratically against his chest. He was panicking, as the loud footsteps told him that many people had come.

He would have to deal with many adults, not just one or two.

However, Gao Zhiming was not worried about himself. He was worried about his sister! He was worried that they would do something bad to her!

Gao Zhiming gnashed his teeth and held back his tears as he desperately dragged Anna toward the upper floors. At this point, he couldn't care less about whether his actions were futile. He just wanted to get his sister as far away from those people as possible.

However, the young Gao Zhiming was too weak, and the approaching figures were too fast. Just as he reached the sixth floor, someone kicked him to the ground.

"Brother Lightning, it's this little brat! The chick is in the sack next to him!" The familiar voice of the chubby young man from earlier echoed from the stairwell.

Gao Zhiming face-planted on the floor, and the sweat on his face mixed with the dust on the ground, making him appear very filthy.

He crawled up with great difficulty and turned around, but he was forced to close his eyes under the built-in flashlight of a phone. However, Gao Zhiming caught a glimpse of more than a dozen shadowy figures with threatening demeanors standing behind the beam of light.

"You're really embarrassing. Don't tell people that you roll with me, all right? You can't even handle a little beggar." A brawny middle-aged man stepped in front of the flashlight. Clearly, he was the so-called "Brother Lightning."

He tried to poke the checkered plastic sack next to Gao Zhiming with the iron pipe in his hand, but the latter pounced over and used his tiny frame to block the pipe.

"Oh, he's actually so desperate about protecting that woman?" A mocking voice immediately rang out from the crowd. "I think he already had a taste of her, but I wonder if he's even got hair down there."

Everyone, including Lightning Tiger, burst out into a peal of laughter.

Eventually, Lightning Tiger's smile faded, and he tapped Gao Zhiming's face with the iron pipe in his hand. "Hey, hurry up and scram. Let me see what your wife looks like. I want to see whether she's a world-class beauty like what Big Dragon told me."

Gao Zhiming acted as if he couldn't hear him. He spread his arms and embraced the checkered plastic sack with both hands.

"Come on, hurry up. We've come from really far away," Lightning Tiger said patiently.

He waited for a few seconds, but Gao Zhiming remained unmoving. The grin on his lips vanished. Then, he raised the iron pipe in his hand and swung it down, smashing it into Gao Zhiming's back.

Gao Zhiming's eyes turned bloodshot, and he let out a hoarse scream, but his screams did nothing to stop them.

Smack, smack, smack!

Lightning Tiger slapped Gao Zhiming's face with his calloused palm. "You better not say that I'm bullying a child here. You started this by injuring one of my brothers."

Just then, Gao Zhiming's gaze slid off Lightning Tiger's brutish face and locked onto his bobbing Adam's apple. He was reminded of something his sister had done before. She once looked at Li Long's back and drew a line across her throat with her finger.

With no time to think, Gao Zhiming mustered the last bit of his strength to pull out a juggling knife. Then, he imitated Anna's sister's action at the time and slashed the Adam's apple before him with all his might.

The juggling knife that the clown had left behind for Gao Zhiming had no special abilities and could only be used for self-defense, but it was sharp—exceptionally sharp.

Lightning Tiger's face stiffened upon sensing a slight chill on his neck.

The hefty iron pipe fell from his shoulder and clattered on the concrete floor.

Everyone turned toward him.

"Brother Lightning, how's it going?" one of the men asked as they lifted Anna out of the sack.

Lightning Tiger raised his trembling arms as gurgling noises reverberated from his throat. He reached out for his neck in an effort to cover the line of blood that had appeared across it.

It would have been better if he hadn't touched it. When his hand gripped the line of blood, it expanded into a gash, and scalding hot blood gushed out from the severed artery as if it were a broken faucet.

The crimson blood splattered on Gao Zhiming, dyeing him a red hue from head to toe.

Having lost so much blood, Lightning Tiger couldn't possibly remain standing for long, and he collapsed in a pool of his own blood amidst the extreme terror that had overtaken his mind.

Silence instantly reigned over the corridor thick with the stench of blood.

The others stared at the unimaginable scene before them in disbelief.

Meanwhile, Gao Zhiming began moving once again. He gnashed his teeth and crawled toward his sister with a bloody juggling knife in his hand.