But after a dozen seconds of agonizing, he said heavily, “Okay, let them go.”
I whispered, “Thank you, Master, for trusting me.”
“Zhang Chao, you had better not have failed the trust of all of us in the Thousand Sect.”
He called me by my name and looked like he was already at the limit of his patience with me, if I had any other requests he would have disagreed, luckily this was my last request.
A dumbfounded Zheng Peng and his mother were let go and pushed back to Guan Yunyu and the others.
Zheng Peng cowered in the crowd like a dog whose guts had been broken, and Zheng Peng’s mother was confused.
The situation was now reversed as if Guan Yunyu, who had come with them, didn’t care if they lived or died, but I advocated letting them go.
Even if Zheng Peng’s mother was calmer than Zheng Peng, emotionally speaking, she was still angry with Guan Yunyu at this time, and had some good feelings towards us at Qianmen.
Guan Yunyu’s sweat was pouring down and he didn’t care what was happening, he was just heading for the door.
But it wasn’t that he wasn’t scared, the short ten or so metres of road was walked by him like a 3,000 metre athletics race.
When he finally reached the door, Guan Yunyu, like an athlete who has finally reached the end of the race, let out a long sigh and lifted his foot to kick the door.
“Wait.” I called out to him again at just the right time.
“What are you waiting for? Zhang Chao, no matter what tricks you play, I won’t be trusting you anymore, you’re a liar!”
Guan Yunyu decided that I was lying to him and twisted his head to look at his brothers, who returned a smile.
In their minds, this was probably my last struggle.
Guan Yunyu kicked open the door to the living room.
Then, he froze.
I said, “Please.”
Guan Yunyu, and everyone else, didn’t move.
Because of the angle, no one standing next to me could see what was happening, they could only see Guan Yunyu and the others frozen there, as if they had been under a fixation spell.
“What’s going on?” Master Hu asked me, and the people around him were whispering in low voices.
I walked up on my crutches and Old Wu at the door gave me a salute.
I smiled at the frozen Guan Yunyu, “Look, am I telling you the truth. I told you, you won’t be able to walk out today, am I a man of my word?”
Outside the door, Captain Wu had been waiting with armed police officers for a long time, and just now Meng Meng had told me on the phone to help me apply to call for police support from Ningcheng. Because Guan Yunyu and the others were dangerous, the police officers were all loaded and armed, with their blackened guns pointed at Guan Yunyu and the others.
“Don’t, don’t ……”
Amidst the silence, Zheng Peng screamed miserably and collapsed on the ground, too scared to stand up.
Mrs. Zheng wanted to help Zheng Peng up, but Zheng Peng was rotting like mud, paralyzed on the ground, not to mention standing up, he couldn’t even sit up straight.
“You ……” Guan Yunyu looked at me like I was a monster, and from his eyes, I could see how scared he was.
I’ve long said that fists and feet can’t solve all problems, and sometimes you have to rely on a gun.
I’m really tired of jianghu people telling me all those hypocritical truths, wearing the mask of morality, but all they do is conspiracy, the most unethical group of people.
If a person is willing to reason properly, I am also willing to talk to them about the law and reason.
But when it comes to people like Guan Yunyu, people who are outside the law, then I am willing to talk to them about the “truth”.
Within the range of a bullet is the truth.
“Team Zhang, I’ve received a report from the public that someone here is holding innocent people hostage with state-controlled knives.”
After Team Wu gave me a salute, he immediately pointed his gun at Guan Yunyu.
“Drop your weapons immediately!”
Only then did Guan Yunyu react, as if he had lost his wits, his eyes empty and blank, staring at my face and shaking his head.
“Zhang Chao you lied to me, you lied to me!”
“Calm down!”
When he got excited, the dagger dug deeper into his neck, and the man from the Thousand Gate’s face was instantly pale, but the man was good, gritting his teeth and holding on strongly.
I said to the hijacked Thousand Doors disciple, “You hold on a little longer.”
“Okay, I, I trust you, senior brother ……”
Actually, I was not his senior brother, but he should have been terrified, that’s why he called me wrong, but his name of senior brother made the responsibility on my shoulders heavier, after all, he was a disciple of the Thousand Doors, although we were not related by blood, we were still brothers.
I said, “Guan Yunyu, turn back, put the knife down quickly. If you really kill someone, no one can save you, you’ll just have to eat the gun.”
Guan Yunyu was so frightened that he was in an over-excited state. He was dragging the hostage with his back against the wall and his eyes were so wide that they were about to pop out of their sockets.
“Stand back guys, Zhang Chao you don’t fool me, I won’t fall for your tricks again. No one is in a position to arrest me, I’m from the Guan family, I’m from the Jianghu, you officials don’t care about the Jianghu!”
I said sternly, “That’s enough from you! It doesn’t matter if you are a Jianghu or an ordinary person, in front of the law, murder pays for life! The agreement between the official family and the Jianghu back then had a bottom line, no wrongdoing, you are now killing people, if you kill someone, no matter what you are, you will be punished by the law!”
Guan Yunyu laughed loudly, he had lost some mental control at this point.
“Zhang Chao, you don’t understand, I’m a jianghu man, no one can do anything to me. Don’t think that just because you got a bunch of policemen over here that you can back you up, if you upset the balance between the Jianghu and the officials, you’ll be the first to be arrested by the officials, you’re the one who’s guilty of ten evils! Don’t come over!”
A few police officers tried to sneak closer, but Guan Yunyu was very alert and immediately grabbed the hostage and shouted.
He let out a wild laugh, which then turned into a bitter one, laughing and crying out.
“Zhang Chao, you’re a liar, you deliberately scared me so that I would take someone as a hostage and then your men could take advantage of the opportunity to capture me right? Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao!”
Guan Yunyu hissed, his voice hoarse, his eyes turning bloodshot, that look like a trapped beast.
I don’t know what happened, but a question popped into my head.
If he wasn’t a journeyman, what would he do tomorrow? And what would he do the day after.
There are no ifs, he is the journeyman, and if he wasn’t shot at random today, he’d be in jail tomorrow and ruined all over.
This brief moment of mournful emotion was short-lived as I said, “You were the one who wanted to take the hostages, you were the one who wanted to come to the trouble today, you were the one who wanted to bring the sword. You were the one who wanted to hold the Martial Arts Conference, you were the one who wanted to stay at first, and you were the one who wanted to leave later. You were the one who wanted to stay, and then you were the one who wanted to leave. Nothing was forced on you, everything was just following your script! In the end it was just a little bit out of script and you arrested people and held us hostage. Do you think life is a drama where you are the main actor and we are just your actors? Guan Yunyu, I didn’t do you any harm, it was hubris that did you in. Put down your knife! Get lost and don’t make a bigger mistake!”
“Hahahaha, you fart! Low-life c*nt! Any of you who dare shoot me today, even before I die, I’ll drag one of you away.”
I shook my head, expecting to convince him, but he couldn’t hear a word of it.
It looked like it wasn’t him who was arrogant, it was me who was arrogant.
The great atmosphere of the jungle had brainwashed him into this.
“Go ahead, shoot! This is a matter within the Jianghu, if you dare to meddle today, you will see what kind of counterattack the Jianghu will have.” Guan Yunyu gritted his teeth, wanting to eat me alive, “You have guns, but don’t try to bully us Jianghu men, we’d rather die than give in.”
Team Wu was torn and asked for my advice.
