Chapter 35: Doing What A Boss Should Do
In a walled city underground fight arena, two people were fighting to the death with fists in an iron cage, while hundreds outside waved betting slips and shouted themselves hoarse.
In a room on the high platform at the edge, Elephant was overlooking the arena below and those frenzied gamblers.
A henchman answered a telephone call and looked stunned, then looked up and said, “Boss, Sha Jiu and Wen Long have gone to war!”
“What’s Sha Jiu going crazy for?” Elephant turned his head upon hearing this and grinned.
“It seems Sha Jiu took in a new henchman, and Wen Long sent over a dozen people to surround and kill him… then they went to war!” the henchman said.
“Wen Long…” Elephant had a look of utter contempt.
“Interesting, too interesting… hahahaha!” Elephant suddenly burst into laughter.
“What’s the fun in getting along peacefully? Chaos is what makes it interesting!”
Elephant laughed for a while, picked up the mobile phone on the table nearby, thought for a moment, and said, “What’s Sister Sha Jiu’s telephone number?”
After the henchman told him, Elephant dialed and called Sha Jiu, but no one answered.
“Useless when I need you, what good are you?” Elephant directly threw the mobile phone on the ground, then stomped on it with a face full of anger, grinding it a couple times.
Another henchman wearing a shirt nearby had twitching eyelids, a conflicted expression, wanting to speak but hesitating.
Boss, that mobile phone is mine!
But the words reached his mouth, and in the end he said, “Boss, should we gather some manpower?”
“Notify some people, have them prepare their weapons and wait!”
“Send more people to keep watch!”
Elephant’s expression was filled with a thirst for blood.
……
In a nightclub, Fire Dragon Ah Huo, one of Li Dong’s Five Dragons, dressed in a suit and wearing red glasses, was holding a seductive woman and dancing close to her, when a henchman hurried over and whispered in his ear:
“Brother Huo, Wen Long and Sha Jiu are fighting!”
“What’s that guy Wen Long going crazy for? Why provoke that crazy woman?” Ah Huo said, somewhat annoyed.
“Wen Long’s men are going to lose!”
“Ignore it! His war with Sha Jiu has nothing to do with me?” Ah Huo turned back to hold the woman and continue dancing, his hip constantly grinding against her buttocks, his hand also reaching into the woman’s clothes.
However, not five minutes later, the henchman came over again and said, “Brother Huo, something’s wrong, Wen Long’s men have been scattered, Sha Jiu’s people are chasing and killing them, I’m afraid they’ll take the chance to come at us!”
Ah Huo irritably pulled his hand out from the woman’s clothes, shoved the woman away, looking displeased:
“Call people, stay on high alert!”
……
In a hot pot restaurant, Ghost Dragon Ah Gui was eating hot pot with his subordinates.
“Brother Gui, Wen Long and Sha Jiu are fighting!”
“What happened?”
“It seems Wen Long sent people to surround and kill Sha Jiu’s new henchman, and the two sides directly went to war!”
“Keep an eye on the movements of He Tu and the others.” Ah Gui instructed in a low voice.
“Have our people raise their alert, prepare their weapons, then sit back and watch.”
……
At this time, the news of Sha Jiu and Wen Long going to war had already spread to the ears of all the prominent figures in the walled city.
He Tu, Li Dong, and some others… everyone was paying attention.
And at the center of this storm…
“Brother Jun! I’m Ah Fei!” A somewhat skinny youth with bright eyes walked over.
“I’m Curry!” Another young man, shorter than Chen Wujun, with a sturdy and solid build and two dimples, introduced himself.
Both were New Technique martial artists, with physical quality exceeding that of ordinary henchmen, and over a dozen people followed behind them.
Many had blood on their bodies and were panting heavily.
Everyone knew it like the back of their hand: Sha Jiu was going to push Chen Wujun into position.
Chen Wujun naturally knew it in his heart too.
Sha Jiu wants to push you, but you have to be able to carry it.
Before, by stepping forward himself and provoking Wen Long to act, Sha Jiu could use that opportunity to break the tacit understanding between the two sides and directly go to war.
This was merit, but it couldn’t be spoken of openly.
With his previous feat of counter-killing over a dozen in a surround attack to establish prestige, plus this merit of taking down the casino, she could “legitimately” push him into position.
As for whether he could sit steady after taking position, whether he could make others submit, that would depend on him.
“Which casino is Wen Long’s, does anyone know?” Chen Wujun picked up a knife from beside a severed hand on the ground.
“I know!” Curry immediately led the way.
The group charged aggressively along Long Jin Road straight to the casino, with Li Dong henchmen covered in blood, lying on the ground groaning, visible everywhere on the road.
The walled city residents on the street had long hidden away, peeking out cautiously.
Although gang fights generally didn’t involve these ordinary people, the scene was too chaotic.
Arriving at a casino, they saw the door shut; Chen Wujun kicked the door open, and immediately a chair flew out from inside.
“Kill!”
Chen Wujun directly charged in holding the knife, only to see four of Li Dong’s henchmen swinging steel pipes and knives at him; he turned his foot to dodge the falling blade, then with two consecutive slashes took down two men.
He had been in successive bloody battles tonight, with most of his stamina consumed, but his strikes were even more ruthless and crisp.
Ah Fei and Curry followed and rushed in; the remaining two Li Dong henchmen saw the situation was bad and tried to run, but were chased by Ah Fei and Curry who slashed their backs, sending them sprawling to the ground on the spot.
The gamblers in the casino all stood trembling to one side, afraid of being implicated.
After pulling out the knife, Chen Wujun’s gaze swept around, passing over the scattered pai gow, dice, and money on the table, landing on those gamblers.
He nodded toward the doorway: “Those not involved can leave, come back tomorrow to play!”
The gamblers still in the casino immediately fled quickly.
Two gamblers saw the money on the table and reached out to grab it, but looked up to see Chen Wujun glaring at them unkindly.
“It’s my money, I just placed my bet…” one of them forced a smile.
Chen Wujun twirled his wrist, spinning the knife in the air once, his gaze even more unkind.
“Now it’s mine!”
The knife tip pointed at the doorway.
Seeing the bloodstains on Chen Wujun’s body and his increasingly cold gaze, the two squeezed out smiles, then quickly fled from the doorway.
“Pah!” Chen Wujun spat on the ground.
He hated these rotten gamblers the most.
“Arrange for someone to stay here and tally the money properly, then guard it.” Chen Wujun said to Ah Fei and Curry.
There were three more gambling dens to hit; no matter who was left here, some money would surely go missing, and they might not appreciate it.
Might as well do the two a favor.
Ah Fei glanced at Chen Wujun, then turned to instruct a henchman:
“Ah Cai, you stay here and guard! If the money’s short, I won’t let you off!”
“Let’s go!” Chen Wujun immediately led the men straight to the next gambling den.
The next gambling den also had its door shut; Curry kicked the door open, and the people inside jumped out the window to escape; Chen Wujun watched them flee.
Still let the gamblers leave first, then left a henchman here.
Of Wen Long’s four gambling dens, only the largest one was on Long Jin Street; the others were on other streets.
In less than half an hour, Chen Wujun had led the men to seize four gambling dens.
“Tally the money.”
Chen Wujun took out his mobile phone and called Sister Sha Jiu: “Sister Sha Jiu, we’ve taken this side.”
“You all wait there first.”
After hanging up, Chen Wujun thought to himself:
‘Can’t rest in the gambling den; if Li Dong’s people come back to kill, there’d be nowhere to run.’
Then he said to the others, “We’ll wait outside! Send two people to watch the street corner, report back immediately if there’s news.”
Chen Wujun dragged out a chair and sat by the roadside, finally able to rest a bit.
Though tired at this point, his spirit was unusually exhilarated.
Not long after, the money from the several gambling dens was sent over.
“65 thousand…”
“40 thousand…”
“32 thousand…”
“18 thousand…”
“How much altogether?” Chen Wujun was too lazy to calculate and asked directly.
“Over 156 thousand!”
“And a few pieces of jewelry…”
Chen Wujun nodded, took the bag; this was the visible money, to be handed over to Sha Jiu later.
Nearby, Ah Fei and Curry were taking calls intermittently, inquiring about the situation.
After an hour, the situation had stabilized.
“Brother Jun, Wen Long’s men have been completely scattered; only a few areas mixed with Li Dong and others weren’t seized, the rest have all been taken.”
“Li Dong’s Fire Dragon, Poison Dragon, and them have all mobilized a lot of manpower in their own territories.”
“But Brother Xiang and them have also mobilized manpower.”
After hanging up the phone, Ah Fei reported the inquired news to Chen Wujun.
Chen Wujun nodded; now no one could gauge the situation clearly, so no one would act rashly.
Probably no big moves tonight.
Then he reflected on having Ah Fei and Curry arrange henchmen to stay and tally the money earlier, gaining some insight.
‘After arranging it this way, the two indeed respect me more and are even more enthusiastic.’
‘After all, they were just sent by Senior Sister to help me.’
‘To be a boss, it’s not about looking like one, but doing what a boss should do.’
‘Must have prestige. Outwardly, be fierce, ruthless, and prestigious, like Senior Sister; inwardly, know how to allocate benefits to others! That’s how others will respect and submit to you.’
Chen Wujun recalled Sha Jiu’s usual actions, and combining this small matter just now, vaguely understood a bit.
While pondering, his mobile phone rang.
Chen Wujun answered the call, said a few words, then hung up.
“Ah Fei, come back with me. The rest guard here; Wen Long’s people probably won’t come back.”
