Everyone Has Invisible Hidden Cards

Song Kai took Jiang Yujing into the car.

Jiang Yujing was no longer wearing leather pants; she had casually slipped into a casual outfit, grabbed a watermelon cleaver, and headed out.

Song Kai drove toward Yellow Ox Village.

On the way, Jiang Yujing asked him, "Song Kai, since you're so formidable, why haven't I ever heard you mention it before? With skills like yours, if you joined our Jinhe Gang, we'd conquer all of Tengyun City in a matter of minutes. You'd be rolling in money before you know it."

Song Kai was speechless. "I learned martial arts, not for fighting. Besides, I haven't been able to show my true strength because someone is trying to kill me. If they find out about my current cards and strength, I'll probably be completely finished by tomorrow night."

"Huh? Are they really that strong?" Jiang Yujing asked in surprise.

Song Kai nodded. "Much stronger than you think. That's why I can't join the Jinhe Gang. If I did, not only would it fail to help the gang grow, but it would likely drag all of you down to your graves with me."

"Well... alright, I understand," Jiang Yujing said.

Song Kai chuckled. As he drove, he reached out to stroke Jiang Yujing's hair and said, "Look, when you don't keep calling yourself 'old lord', you actually have quite a bit of feminine charm. Stop cursing all the time, or how are you ever going to get married?"

Jiang Yujing snapped irritably, "Get lost! Don't bring that up, it pisses me off! Even if I've become pretty now and can find a boyfriend, I feel like a man wouldn't even be able to break through my damn womanly membrane! Damn it, my skin is impervious to blades and guns now, I bet that place is just like that too."

Song Kai was speechless for a moment, then burst out laughing as he drove.

Jiang Yujing reached over and slapped his shoulder, making it sting fiercely.

"Alright, alright, I know I was wrong, stop hitting me," Song Kai begged for mercy, genuinely hurting from her blow.

Jiang Yujing laughed heartily.

Arriving outside the villa, Song Kai parked the car and said, "Wait here. I'll sneak in and find Big Brother Bi."

"Why sneak in?" Jiang Yujing looked at him strangely. "How many people could possibly be in there? They're no match for the two of us anyway."

"I told you, I can't expose my strength," Song Kai said speechlessly, then got out of the car and walked toward the villa.

Three interconnected villas stood there, with dedicated security guards patrolling the grounds outside.

Even from the outside, one could see that there were quite a few people inside.

Song Kai had already reached the Vaulting Realm.

The Vaulting Realm allowed one to scale walls and leap across roofs like a bird in flight, moving swiftly with the aid of internal qi.

It was truly not easy for these ordinary guards to spot Song Kai, even in broad daylight.

Song Kai circled around to the back of the villa and surveyed the area.

A guard was lying under a parasol at the rear, drinking tea and chatting. Song Kai quietly stepped forward and knocked him out cold with a single strike.

His cell phone dropped onto the table, displaying a woman on the screen who was striking coquettish poses, stripped down to nothing but a tiny pair of string panties.

"Darling, when on earth are you going to take me to live in your big villa?" the woman on the screen blinked her large eyes, thrust out her ample bosom, and cooed coquettishly. Aside from her heavily caked-on makeup, her figure was actually quite decent.

Song Kai was rendered utterly speechless. Even a minor security guard could hook up with an escort—city folk really knew how to live.

He tossed the phone into a teacup, then shimmied up a drainpipe to the second floor of the villa.

The interior was deserted.

Leaping five or six meters across from one villa to another, Song Kai conducted a swift search.

There were about twenty people staying across the three villas, but Big Brother Bi was nowhere to be found.

"Huh? He's not here? Did he escape?" Song Kai wondered.

Just as he was thinking this, a fellow with his head wrapped in thick gauze came shuffling up the stairs, walking sluggishly down the second-floor corridor. Saliva drooped from the corner of his mouth, and his face wore a silly yet deeply eerie smile.

Seeing this guy, Song Kai chuckled. It was truly an old acquaintance—Heishan.

Heishan's brain was clearly not functioning well anymore. He smiled foolishly, muttering to himself, "I am Brother Mountain, I am Brother Mountain, I'm not afraid of bricks, I'm not afraid of bricks."

After a moment's thought, Song Kai grabbed Heishan and dragged him into a room.

Heishan looked at Song Kai, smiled foolishly, and asked, "Who are you?"

"I am a brick!" Song Kai said.

Heishan's pupils suddenly focused, and he said in terror, "I'm not afraid of bricks, I'm not afraid of bricks."

Song Kai grabbed Heishan by the ear. "I'm asking you, where did Big Brother Bi go? Tell me honestly, and I won't smash you."

Drooling profusely, Heishan stammered, "I'll tell, I'll tell! Big Brother Bi went visiting relatives. He left early this morning before dawn to visit relatives! Please don't smash me, don't smash me."

"Went to visit relatives?" Song Kai found it strange. "Could it be that Big Brother Bi went out to hide? Ah, that must be it. Knowing that his subordinates failed their mission, he surely anticipated that I would come looking for revenge."

Seizing the opportunity, Heishan bolted out and ran toward the stairs.

He ran far too fast, tumbling clumsily all the way down the staircase in a flurry of limbs.

The men downstairs burst into laughter.

"Aiyo, Brother Mountain, take it slow."

"Haha, if you fall on your head a couple more times, Brother Mountain, you won't even know how to screw women anymore."

"Do you guys think Brother Mountain even knows how to mount a woman anymore?"

A group of people roared with laughter.

Meanwhile, Heishan fled outward, babbling as he ran, "Brick! Brick, don't smash me, I told you everything, don't smash me... Brick, don't smash me..."

Song Kai quietly withdrew from the villa.

Getting back into the car, he reversed and drove away.

"Did you kill Big Brother Bi?" Jiang Yujing asked. "You're fast."

"He fled," Song Kai replied. "He ran off early this morning. He probably realized the elite fighters he sent out were dead and guessed I'd come after him, so he cleared out in advance."

"Oh? That's even better!" Jiang Yujing grinned, immediately asking, "Who were the ones that died at your hands yesterday?"

"No idea. There were five of them, and their combat skills were quite decent. Oh, one of them had an elongated face; he should have already reached the Bone-Strength Realm. Anyway, they were pretty tough." Song Kai recounted.

In reality, Zhui Feng, who had carried out the mission last night, was undoubtedly Big Brother Bi's premier general—a standard Bone-Strength Realm practitioner and a long-reigning champion in the underground boxing rings!

However, it was unfortunate that he ran into Song Kai.

Song Kai was already a Vaulting Realm martial artist, and his understanding of martial arts and fist techniques was infinitely thorough!

Therefore, whether it was an ordinary person or a minor Bone-Strength warrior like Zhui Feng, to Song Kai, there was simply no difference. With a single kick yesterday, he had directly shattered Zhui Feng's ribs, leaving him entirely unable to crawl back up.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Jiang Yujing's eyes lit up upon hearing this. "According to what you said, that must have been Zhui Feng, Big Brother Bi's top fierce warrior! Zhui Feng is ruthless, and whether it's marksmanship or martial arts, he's a beast. Since even he is dead—along with the other four you mentioned, Zhui Feng killed, Heishan crippled, and a few other key commanders dead, with Big Brother Bi himself on the run... Haha, Song Kai, Heaven is helping me! Tonight, I'm taking my men to seize Big Brother Bi's headquarters, the Ascendant Club!"

Song Kai didn't get involved. Given Jiang Yujing's current strength, leading the Jinhe Gang meant she shouldn't have to worry about losing. Moreover, with Big Brother Bi gone, his followers were like dragons without a head and were bound to be no match for the Jinhe Gang.

After dropping Jiang Yujing off, Song Kai had nothing particular to do, so he went to check on his pharmaceutical factory.

Billowing black smoke rose from the factory, where numerous workers surrounded a massive iron vat, brewing black medicinal plasters using the most ancient methods.

Song Kai walked inside and found Jia Dongming.

Seeing Song Kai, Jia Dongming grinned broadly and said, "Director Song, I was just looking for you. Here is your card; all future revenues and expenditures of the factory will go through this account. Please keep it safe. You can also find a trusted accountant for me here, and with three-way reconciliation in the future, we won't have to worry about anyone embezzling funds."

Song Kai patted Jia Dongming's shoulder. "I trust you. You can find the accountant yourself. You're the one managing the traditional Chinese medicine factory now, and I don't have the time to meddle... Oh right, can you advance me a few tens of thousands of yuan? I'm out of cash. Also, help me gather some medicinal ingredients."

"Will do," Jia Dongming nodded.

Song Kai took fifty thousand yuan and the gathered medicinal herbs back home, where he set the herbs to boil. This was the antidote to neutralize the Fire Dragon Powder inside Hua Ruyue's body.

Meanwhile, Big Brother Bi was driving a modified off-road vehicle deep into the Yimeng Mountain range near Tengyun City. Gritting his teeth, he knew that this time, unless he played his trump card, he would never be able to return to Tengyun City...