Chapter Seventeen: The Eve of Parting

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  "What is this? I was shocked and blurted out: 'Chicken blood tattoo!'"

  "Ahah, kid, you know a thing or two, but this isn't chicken blood tattooing. Chicken blood tattooing isn't suitable for just any skin type. This is a special tattoo ink developed by our mercenary group, with the same effect as chicken blood tattooing. However, it's adaptable to any skin type. As long as you're excited or engaging in intense exercise, including... ahem... love-making, heh heh..., this reddish hue will appear, and then return to normal afterwards. Every member of our Wolf Mercenary Group has this tattoo, and when you officially join us in the future, you'll have it too."

  The black bear also rolled up his sleeves, and on his dark skin was a wolf head tattoo that looked exactly the same as a kitchen knife. He patted it twice, and it seemed even more ferocious on his dark skin, making me envious to the point of stuttering, wondering when I could get such a cool tattoo myself!

  Two people ate and drank as if they were fighting a war, and after showing off for a while, the kitchen knife pulled out several new clothes from his bag and threw them onto the table in front of me. Then they both lay down on the bed to rest. I carefully changed into the clothes that the kitchen knife had bought for me, trying not to move my left shoulder and back where I was injured. The clothes fit pretty well.

  Having eaten and drunk enough, wearing new clothes, I sat satisfactorily on a chair playing with a computer shaped like a vegetable knife.

  The next day, I dressed up and walked out of the room with the 100,000 cash that Black Bear gave me. Until I walked out of the room, I confirmed my thoughts from yesterday - this was indeed a basement, but the exit was actually the toilet of an apartment! After turning around in the room for a while, I finally realized that this apartment was located in a residential area. It turned out that they had renovated the basement into a secret underground space! I secretly admired their skills and picked up the keys at the door to leave.

  As I stepped out of the building and stood in the compound, I suddenly remembered what Caidao said yesterday - that we were already being watched by the National Security Bureau. I couldn't help but shrink my neck and feel a pang of guilt. Not knowing where the people from the security bureau were hiding, I looked around for half a day but didn't find anything unusual, so I walked out of the compound and hailed a taxi to head straight to the hospital.

  I got off the taxi and thought for a moment before walking to the supermarket to buy several large bags of stuff, including supplements, food, fruit, and drinks. Then, I ran to a nearby newsstand to buy some newspapers and magazines to pass the time. As soon as I picked up the newspaper, a headline caught my attention - the entire front page was dedicated to one report with a red title that stood out: "Emperor Entertainment City Gang Fight, Over 30 People Killed or Injured". Below it was a photo of Emperor Entertainment City with a seal on it. I quickly scanned through it and understood that the police received a tip about a gang fight at Emperor Entertainment City, but when they arrived, the fight had already ended, leaving over 30 gang members dead, including the boss of Emperor Entertainment City, and confiscating dozens of firearms and knives.

  After reading the newspaper, I suddenly had an idea. Just now, I was still worried about what kind of excuse to make up for them, but now I have a way!

  I picked up a few more magazines, paid the bill, and came to Ah Kun's ward. San Jin and Lao Niu were helping the nurse change their dressings, and the faces of several people on the bed looked better than before, each squatting on the bed in a daze. I opened the door and walked in, and when everyone heard the sound and saw me, they were stunned for a moment, then smiled happily and beckoned me over.

  Looking at their faces and bodies covered in wounds, my eyes became moist again. I put down the things in my hands, walked over, took the things from San Jin and Lao Niu's hands, and helped the nurse change their dressings. Everyone was silent.

  Before long, the nurse finished her work and pushed the cart out. Everyone's eyes turned to me. San Jin closed the door and walked over to ask: "Where have you been running for the past two days? We were really worried that you'd do something stupid, we were just about to call the police!"

  I hastily brought the newspaper over and read it briefly to everyone, saying: "Fortunately, I was lucky that night. I went to their headquarters alone, thinking of fighting them to the death. Who knew that just as we started fighting, another group of people rushed in? I thought I was done for when I saw so many more people coming. But then those people suddenly charged forward and cut down everyone around me. It took me a while to come back to my senses - it was a gang fight! Without thinking, I took advantage of the chaos and ran out, barely saving my life. They were all wiped out, haha, our matter is now settled!"

  Everyone heard my legendary experience and sighed, and the ward finally had a warm atmosphere. On this side, Old Cow asked with a concerned face: "You didn't get hurt, did you? You're just a student, going to fight against the underworld..."

  The implication was that I was asking for trouble, so I smiled and said, "I got stabbed in the back, fortunately it's not too serious. And I also took a bullet to the shoulder!" After finishing speaking, I pulled down my left shoulder's clothing, tore open the gauze I was holding, and showed everyone the wound.

  The impact of the gunshot wound was undoubtedly huge, and when everyone saw that round wound, they were all shocked with their eyes wide open and speechless.

  The old cow came over and helped me re-bandage the wound, shaking his head and sighing: "Day, you little scamp, you've really been through the wringer, what a bull!"

  I smiled and didn't say anything, distributing the things I bought to each person, helping them tear open the packaging, and asked: "Has someone from school come?"

  The birch by the side put down what he was holding, sighed and said: "School has come to ask about the situation several times, we all say we don't know. I heard from classmates who came to visit that the school is going to give us a demerit, and soon graduate, encountering this matter, it's really... Ah, what do you plan to do?

  I looked up at Old Cow and asked, "Old Cow, do you still remember that foreigner who talked to you the other day?"

  "Foreigner? Oh, right, I remember, what's up?"

  Those two foreigners were here to invest in China and they were also at Dee Zong that day. When the shootout started, I took advantage of the chaos to escape and saw them getting into trouble, so I rushed over and rescued them, and got hit by a stray bullet while doing so. To thank me, they invited me to work for their company in the US, and these days I've been recovering from my injuries in their room, I guess you could say it's a blessing in disguise!

  "Really?" Everyone's face was shocked, and they rushed to congratulate me, their eyes filled with envy and excitement. These days, going abroad is the fashion! It seems that going abroad is linked to being impressive.

  I took a glance at the crowd who were all happy for me, and I felt a little moved. Brothers, forgive my deception!

  "Calm down, I continued: 'I told them about your situation, they said to help us go to school to settle this matter, with their skills, it should be no problem.'"

  That's great! Everyone cheered and threw the food in their hands everywhere. Suddenly, Huazi stopped cheering and said cautiously: "Ahui, can there be such a good thing? They won't be scammers, will they?"

  "It shouldn't be." I smiled and took out the 100,000 yuan in cash from my bag and placed it on the table. Looking at everyone's eyes widening in surprise again, I laughed and said, "I think a scammer wouldn't use 100,000 yuan to cheat a poor student like me!"

  "My goodness!" Ah Kun exclaimed in surprise, staring at Qian and shouting: "How could they give you so much money? It's over a hundred thousand yuan!"

  "One hundred thousand yuan!" I said: "This is the salary I prepaid from them, you are because of my injury, take this one hundred thousand to make up for your body, and the remaining money can be used as a venture capital to do some small business. You several people work together, will definitely achieve something!"

  "No way!" everyone exclaimed in unison, startling me.

  "We've been brothers for so many years, and now that you're doing well, we're all happy for you. We got hurt but not one of us blames you! We'd be more than happy to help you out in any way we can. I know what you're thinking, injuries are just injuries, but how could we ask you for so much money?" Huāi zǐ shook his head and said: "This isn't a small amount, we can't accept it."

  "Exactly, exactly." Ah Kun chimed in, "We understand your intention, but between brothers, this isn't the way to go about it. Are you looking down on us?"

  San Jin chimed in, "Don't you still consider us brothers? There are many places to spend money abroad! You'd better take the money back, we won't want it."

  Everyone took over the conversation in a flurry of chatter, and I tried to interject several times but couldn't get a word in edgewise. Finally, after they finished talking, I said: "If you weren't my brothers, would I be able to give you this money? Isn't what's mine yours too? Now that I've found such a good job, am I still worried about going hungry? Consider the money as a loan from me, how about it?"