Chapter 180: For Justice
“This…”
The lady boss watched as the lizardman leader merely gestured, and the dozen-odd lizardmen behind him blocked the main entrance, not allowing anyone else to come in at all.
The customers waiting outside, seeing the door blocked by more than ten lizardmen, could only helplessly disperse and head to other restaurants.
In the suburbs of the City of Light Chasing, although gangs and factions are not allowed to make a move against official residents and the shops truly owned by residents, the authorities only guarantee the bare minimum of safety.
When these gang members are desperate enough, teaching them a lesson only costs some Bit as compensation. But the residents all have jobs; if they get hurt, even if they receive some compensation, during the time they are recovering, they might very well lose their jobs. So they avoid trouble as much as they can, staying as far away as possible.
To gain real safety, they can only live in the city proper. There, battle is absolutely forbidden, and the city guard patrols frequently, so no one dares to cause trouble.
“Lord, this is ultimately the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Territory. If you do this, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will not just let it go.” The security captain of the restaurant, an advanced apprentice, led two intermediate apprentice guards forward, trying to scare off these lizardmen.
Public order within each gang’s territory is usually managed by each gang. The more stable and safe the territory is, the more people will naturally come to open shops and do business.
All the major suburban gangs and factions, considering their own profit, will step in to deal with people who come to cause trouble.
“What about the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall? You think our Two-Headed Gang needs to be afraid of them?” A lizardman whose strength had reached limit apprentice pointed at the Two-Headed Gang emblem on his clothes and said dismissively, “And do you even know who you are talking to? This is our Two-Headed Gang’s Young Master Eugene, a genius who will be able to enter the Genius Training Camp in the future. Our Young Master has taken a liking to your restaurant’s food and wants you to move to Nanxing Street. That is your good fortune. Do you really think just anyone can open a restaurant on Nanxing Street?”
Inside the restaurant, the lady boss and the three security guards saw the Two-Headed Gang emblem the lizardmen displayed and heard that the lizardman in B2-grade battle armor before them was actually the Two-Headed Gang’s Young Master. Their faces all turned pale.
Although the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall now had quite a reputation in the suburbs and had even wiped out the Iron Heart Gang in one go, securing its position in the suburbs,
the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was currently in conflict with the Four Major Powers and could barely handle its own affairs. How could it possibly care about minor frictions involving shops not directly under its name within its territory, especially when the other faction was the Two-Headed Gang?
The Two-Headed Gang had seized the Iron Heart Gang’s territory before. After developing for so long, its strength now far surpassed the already declining Iron Heart Gang.
With the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall facing the Four Major Powers, it was hard to imagine the hall would be willing to provoke the Two-Headed Gang again. It was just like when the Iron Heart Gang used to fight other gangs: even when the Two-Headed Gang took Nanxing Street, the Iron Heart Gang could only endure it.
For a small restaurant like theirs, it was even less likely the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would intervene.
“I will give you three days to think about it. If you still have not moved to Nanxing Street after three days, then you can forget about running a restaurant here!” Eugene looked at the frightened lady boss and the three others and issued the final ultimatum without any room for negotiation.
The lady boss could only nod in despair.
If the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall did not step in, the restaurant definitely could not go on. All it would take was the Two-Headed Gang blocking the entrance, and who would dare come in? She had a large loan to repay every month and had no leeway to stall.
Just as Eugene was about to turn and leave, a voice suddenly spread throughout the entire first floor lobby.
“Hold it! Who allowed you people from the Two-Headed Gang to come here and cause trouble!”
As the voice fell, everyone in the restaurant turned to look, and saw the six in silver-gray clothing of Da Ye Ying Xiong’s group stand up at once, all with displeased faces.
“Who are they? How dare they even offend the Two-Headed Gang?”
“From those clothes, they should be from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.”
“No way, does the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall actually want to get involved in this? Aren’t they at war with the Four Major Powers?”
The customers eating in the restaurant looked at Da Ye Ying Xiong and the others who had stood up, and for a moment they were curious, surprised, and confused.
The name of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was now known to almost everyone in the suburbs. After all, a faction that dared oppose four major suburban powers at once was something the City of Light Chasing had not seen in twenty or thirty years.
And the strength of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall spoke for itself; otherwise, it would not have been able to keep fighting back and forth with the Four Major Powers.
Now that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was already battling the Four Major Powers, it was difficult to imagine they still had spare energy to go against the Two-Headed Gang.
“People from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?” Eugene glanced at Da Ye Ying Xiong and the five others, and said carelessly, “You had better not meddle too much. I came today simply because I fancy this restaurant’s cooking and want them to move to Nanxing Street. Just go back and inform your senior officials about this. They will naturally understand.”
He did not take Da Ye Ying Xiong’s group of six seriously at all. The strongest among them was only a quasi-martial artist, and none even had a full set of A6-grade battle armor. Still, considering the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had some strength, he did not want to blow things up too much.
It was just taking a restaurant on Qianxing Street. As long as the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s senior officials were not idiots, they would know what to do.
“Boss Da Ye, should we step in?” a newcomer who had just joined Heavenly Might and become a beginner apprentice asked in a low voice. “This hidden plot doesn’t look simple. It involves another major power.”
“Of course we should step in, what a dumb question!” Da Ye Ying Xiong shot the newcomer a glare. “This is a hidden plot. You think it is that easy to come across? And do you not want to eat Hundred Delicacies Restaurant’s food anymore? Did you not hear they want to move this restaurant?”
The other five, hearing this, all became anxious.
These past few days after they returned to the martial arts hall, they had been fed up with the hall’s synthetic food. But aside from those who accepted energy ore transport escort tasks, no one else was allowed to go to Crimson Moon Mountain to eat wild game.
Now they had finally found this restaurant and tasted such delicious food. How could they go back to eating that awful synthetic food?
“Right! Let’s do it! Anyone who dares touch my food, I’ll go for their head!”
“It’s not for the food, it’s for justice!”
“Draw your swords! Justice will prevail!”
After their quick discussion, Da Ye Ying Xiong and his group of six did not say another word. They drew their weapons and charged straight at Eugene and his men.
This scene stunned the members of the Two-Headed Gang who had been about to leave.
They wondered if these people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had gone mad.
Leaving aside how vast the strength gap between the two sides was, if they started fighting like this, it would definitely turn their factions into enemies.
Did the people of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall really have no idea what situation their own hall was in now?
And what was with those slogans?
Instead of shouting for their gang, they shouted for justice, making the Two-Headed Gang members seriously suspect that these six were undercover agents from some other gang lurking inside the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
At this moment it was not only the Two-Headed Gang members who were dumbfounded; the lady boss of the Hundred Delicacies Restaurant and her three staff were also stupefied.
“Boss, what is your relationship with these people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?”
The security captain stared blankly at Da Ye Ying Xiong and the others, who charged at Eugene without hesitation. He had not expected the six from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to start fighting the moment they spoke.
Obviously, the relationship between the six and the boss should not be ordinary.
“I do not know them,” the lady boss said, watching the six charging in, shaking her head with the same bewildered look.
“You don’t know them?” The security captain stared at the lady boss in astonishment, thinking she must be joking with him.
All gangs would still manage their own territories. Facing the Two-Headed Gang’s Young Master Eugene, it was already good if their members dared say a couple of words. With such a huge difference in strength, their own lives came first.
For people to go all out at the slightest disagreement like this, if the lady boss claimed she had no connection to the six, even ghosts would not believe it.
“I really don’t know them,” the lady boss said with a bitter smile. “If I had some connection to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, do you think the Two-Headed Gang would have come looking for trouble?”
Hearing this, the security captain felt that made sense.
The strength of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was not ordinary. Take Luo Qi, the lady boss of the Obsidian Shop who had close ties with the hall, as a typical example. Though the Obsidian Shop was not in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Territory, not a single gang member managing that area dared show her disrespect.
Even now that the Four Major Powers and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were fighting, none of the major suburban factions’ members dared to cause trouble for her.
“Then are these people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall really fighting the Two-Headed Gang to the death just for our one restaurant?” The security captain looked at the already fierce battle between Da Ye Ying Xiong’s group of six and the others, his heart full of shock.
In the past, when Qianxing Street was under the Iron Heart Gang’s management, if members of other gangs came to cause trouble in a shop, the Iron Heart Gang would at most drive them away if they had more people. If they had fewer, they would just turn a blind eye.
Other gang factions were basically the same. After all, if an incident did not involve the gang’s core profit, which gang member would bother with such thankless tasks? If they lost their life, it would not be worth it at all.
For the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to start such a big fight just to keep a single shop safe was probably unheard of in the entire City of Light Chasing.
In less than a few minutes of battle, Da Ye Ying Xiong’s group of six was completely wiped out, while the more than ten members of the Two-Headed Gang lost two men and had six wounded.
This result made everyone present tremble inwardly.
They had not expected the six from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to truly fight to the last man for the safety of a shop in their territory.
There was likely no second gang or faction like this in the entire City of Light Chasing.
Seeing how the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall risked their lives like this for the safety of a shop, many of the diners even felt an urge to come do business on Qianxing Street.
“What kind of lunatics are these!” Eugene looked at the six dead men, his expression ugly.
This time, killing six people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall within its own territory was no small matter. Though the Two-Headed Gang did not fear the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, they did not want to inexplicably start a war with it, and he, as Young Master, could not shoulder such responsibility.
“Young Master, you do not need to worry too much.” A trusted subordinate beside him, a quasi-martial artist, had seen through Eugene’s concern and said with a smile, “We killed them on the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Territory, but those six struck first. We only counterattacked. I recorded the whole thing on video. Once we hand this video to the gang leader, he will understand. If the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall wants an explanation, we just show them the video. If their senior officials do not want to make an enemy of us, they will know what choice to make.”
“You recorded it?” Eugene’s expression relaxed a little. “Good. Let’s go.”
Just as the trusted subordinate said, he was the Two-Headed Gang’s Young Master. The people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had attacked without a word; that itself was a provocation against the Two-Headed Gang.
As long as he reported this to his father, his father would support him. If the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall demanded accountability, this video would be explanation enough.
And things went just as Eugene thought. After the Two-Headed Gang’s gang leader, Nison Walker, briefly watched the footage brought to him, he calmly closed the video of Eugene’s battle.
“Gang leader, should we send this video to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall as well?” the quasi-martial artist in B1-grade battle armor asked respectfully in a low voice.
“No need. It is just a small matter,” Nison Walker said, waving his hand dismissively. “If the senior officials of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall come to ask, then show them this video. It will serve as an explanation.”
“Yes!” The quasi-martial artist in B1-grade battle armor immediately bowed and left.
