Chapter Thirty-Four: Night Battle with the Black Gang

  Just as Ma Fei and Li Guoting were hiding under a deserted street lamp, counting the copper coins they had earned from selling fake rat medicine. Suddenly, three men in black clothes with gift hats appeared behind them, surrounding the two of them in the middle. The leader was a middle-aged man with scars on his face, who glared at Ma Fei with his beady eyes and shouted: "Where did you little brat come from? You dare to do business on Master Ma's turf? Hand over the money in your hands quickly, or I'll take your lives!"

  Ma Fei and Li Guoting knew at a glance that they had encountered local gangsters, so the two of them stood back to back, tightly packed together.

  Those three people stepped closer and closer, surrounding the two of them.

  Ma Fei's eyes were fixed on the man with a knife scar opposite him, his right hand quietly reaching into his own waistband and grasping the dagger Li Guoting had given him. His face slightly tilted back, he whispered to Li Guoting behind him: "Big brother, what should we do? We've run into the underworld."

  Li Guoting stood with his back against Ma Fei, his two eyes staring tightly at the other two people who were closing in on him. His two fists were clenched tightly, ready to defend himself at any moment.

  Just as he was highly tense in response to the two local gangs that suddenly surrounded him, he heard Ma Fei whispering in his ear. He glanced around and found that this place was very remote, with no passersby. It seemed that if they didn't put up a fight, not only would they lose the money they had cheated and coaxed out of people all day, but also their lives might be lost here. The three men in front of him were absolutely not good people.

  Li Guoting's eyes rolled around and he said to Ma Fei: "Brother, we have no way out, let's fight. Are you okay with that?"

  Ma Fei's mouth curled up in a slight disdainful smile, and he said softly: "Big brother, no problem, I've been with my father in the gang since I was young, dealing with these few is no problem. How about you?"

  "I'm fine too."

  "Is it over between us, big brother?"

  Hit.

  Slow in speech, quick in action. As soon as Li Guoting's "hit" word came out, he saw Ma Fei crouching down, his body twisting like an arrow, and suddenly pouncing under the knife-scarred face's crotch. With a cold expression, he stretched his head out from under the knife-scarred face's crotch, wrapped his arms around Mount Tai, hugged the knife-scarred face's legs with both hands, and with a burst of strength, "slapped" the oncoming knife-scarred face to the ground.

  That scar-faced man was just a half-grown kid when he first came, and didn't take Ma Fei to heart, so he carelessly walked in front of Ma Fei. Unexpectedly, Ma Fei's hands moved so fast that by the time he realized it, his legs had already been grabbed by Ma Fei and violently slammed backwards. His feet lost their balance, and he fell to the ground with a thud, his head hitting the pavement heavily. "Ah" was all he could say before lying motionless on the ground.

  Li Guoting, riding his horse, suddenly flew down with one hand and in a flash, kicked the man in front of him with his right foot. The guy, like Knife Scarface, underestimated Li Guoting and was caught off guard, getting kicked in the abdomen by Li's flying foot. In pain, he clutched his belly and retreated ten or so steps to the back, "Teng teng teng——".

  Another one hadn't even approached when he saw Scarface being knocked to the ground by Ma Fei. Turning his head, he saw that the person beside him had also been kicked in the abdomen by Li Guoting and was retreating while holding his belly, hastily pulling out a dagger from behind his back and brandishing it at Ma Fei.

  Ma Fei had been wandering the jianghu with his father since he was young, and his father had also taught him martial arts. He had even specifically sought out a martial artist from the Green Gang to train under for several years. Therefore, facing these few street thugs, Ma Fei still had confidence in dealing with them.

  Another rascal waved a shiny dagger and stabbed it straight at his chest. Ma Fei's eyes were fixed tightly on the dagger that was stabbing towards his chest. He didn't panic like ordinary people, but instead stood firmly with his feet shoulder-width apart. His eyes focused intently on the opponent's hand holding the dagger, just as the dagger was about to stab him in the chest, Ma Fei seized the opportunity and quickly dodged to the side, tilting his head back to avoid the incoming dagger. With his right foot raised, a whirlwind kick flew out, and with the power of his right foot, his left foot chopped towards the face of the man holding the dagger.

  That guy saw the dagger in his hand stab into thin air, and because he used too much force, his body couldn't stop, leaning forward, almost falling to the ground. He hastily stabilized his body, just about to turn around, when suddenly Ma Fei's right foot flew up, kicking towards him. He dodged Ma Fei's right foot with a swift movement of his face, but didn't expect that Ma Fei's right foot would spin around and before it even landed, his left foot would fly up again, aiming for his face. At this moment, he wouldn't have time to dodge anymore, Ma Fei's left foot made a loud "thud" sound as it hit him on the right side of his face, the toe scratching his eye. He hastily covered his right cheek with his hand and retreated several steps back.

  The one who was kicked in the abdomen by Li Guoting rubbed his belly and pulled out a dagger from his waist. He became furious and swung the dagger in his hand, pouncing on Li Guoting.

  "Damn it, you little rabbit. You dare to fight back against me? Today I'll take your life." The man who was kicked in the face by Ma Fei also wielded a dagger, gritting his teeth and cursing at Ma Fei as he charged again.

  Four people gathered around the dim street lamp on the side of the road and started fighting.

  The scar-faced man who was lying on the ground just now also crawled up from the ground. He rubbed his own occipital bone with his hand, staring at Ma Fei with a pair of eyes full of blood and anger, and pounced over.

  "You little punk, you're really asking for it. You want to mess with me? I've been hanging out on this street for over a decade and no one has ever dared to cross me. Today, I'm going to take your life."

  Scarface cursed as he stabbed his dagger towards Ma Fei.

  Li Guoting saw the situation and quickly dodged to the side, avoiding the person who was pouncing on him. He swiftly removed his jacket and twisted it into a thick rope in his hands. Just as the scar-faced man's dagger was about to stab Ma Fei in the back, Li Guoting swung the rope with a cold wind, "whooshing" towards the scar-faced man's wrist that held the dagger. The rope wrapped around his wrist, and Li Guoting pulled it towards himself with force. This time, the scar-faced man didn't notice again. He was too focused on killing Ma Fei to pay attention to Li Guoting beside him. As he was pulled by Li Guoting, his body leaned forward. At this moment, Ma Fei had just dodged the dagger that was swung towards his face by the person in front of him. He turned his head and saw that the scar-faced man's wrist, which held the dagger, was tied up by the rope swung by Li Guoting, and Li Guoting pulled the rope into his arms. The scar-faced man stumbled and his body leaned towards Ma Fei.

  Ma Fei was secretly delighted, damn it, isn't this an opportunity given to me by the heavens? Scarface, you dare to rob Ma Fei, don't you even ask around about what kind of family I was born into. If we were in my hometown, not skinning you alive would be strange. As he thought, he suddenly pulled out the dagger Li Guoting had given him from his waist and made a fake falling motion, using the momentum to stab the dagger towards Scarface's abdomen.

  "Pffft", a gush of fresh blood with a pungent smell suddenly spurted out from the wound on Knife Scar's belly, the one that was stabbed by Ma Fei.

  Scarface let out a loud yell, threw away the dagger in his hand, and covered his stomach tightly with both hands as blood spurted out. He turned around and ran forward.

  Ma Fei's face and body were splattered with blood from the knife wound on his belly. He didn't care about anything else anymore. Because at this moment, he saw that person who had just dodged his dagger coming towards him again.

  Li Guoting still wanted to help Ma Fei, but saw that the person in front of him was stabbing at him with his knife again.

  Li Guoting didn't dare think too much, he waved the cloth in his hand to resist that guy's impact, while retreating towards the roadside behind him.

  Ma Fei suddenly remembered that it was too late, the dagger in the hand of the person rushing towards him had already stabbed his chest. Ma Fei hit upon a clever idea and hastily lay down on the ground, pulling up the collar of his dirty suit to block the dagger stabbing at his chest.

  This move really worked, and the dagger was stabbed into the collar of Xi's suit jacket, with the tip of the knife just a little distance from Ma Fei's chest.

  Ma flew into a cold sweat. He exerted himself and wrapped the dagger that was stabbing towards him into his suit collar. A donkey rolled over, bringing the guy's feet with it, and stretched out its hand to stab the blood-stained dagger that had just stabbed the scar-faced man in the belly again at this guy's belly.

  "Whoosh." The dagger stabbed into the guy's belly. Ma Fei, since he had already started, went all out and thrust the entire hilt of the dagger into his stomach as well.

  He let out a groan, clutched his belly and fell onto the street.

  The man who was fighting Zhang and Li Guoting face to face saw that one of his companions was clutching his stomach and running away, while the other had fallen to the ground and wasn't moving. He felt a chill run down his spine. He turned around and glanced at the companion on the ground, not daring to continue fighting. He threw a left punch at Li Guoting's face. Li Guoting dodged it, and he flung the dagger in his hand towards Li Guoting. Li Guoting saw a flash of light in front of him as the dagger flew towards him, and he quickly crouched down to avoid it. Just as he was about to charge forward with the cloth rope made from his jacket, he found that the man had spread his legs apart and was running away.

  "Halt! Thinking of running? No way." Behind Li Guoting came Ma Fei's voice.

  Li Guoting turned around and saw Ma Fei pulling out a dagger from the stomach of the person who had fallen to the ground. He quickly ran over and stretched out his hand to block Ma Fei: "Brother, forget it, let him go. We should hurry up and leave this place."

  Ma Fei spat at the back of the man with a scowl, cursing in his mouth: "Damn it, you want to kill me? I still want to kill people. You ran fast enough. Otherwise, I'll also send your damn mother to the Western Heaven. This is really damn annoying."

  Ma Fei cursed, wiping the blood from his face with his hand. He didn't dare to wipe it again. If he wiped it once more, that face would be completely red with blood.

  "Second brother, let's hurry up." Li Guoting glanced at the man who had fallen to the ground and said to Ma Fei with some unease.

  "En. Da ge. Wo men zou ——."

  Translation: "Yeah. Big brother. Let's go——."

  Ma Fei had not finished speaking when he heard a series of urgent whistles coming from the street, followed by a sudden burst of rapid footsteps on the previously quiet street. Judging from the sound of the footsteps, Li Guoting and Ma Fei felt that someone was running towards them.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, on the street over there, under the illumination of the streetlights, a group of police officers wearing black uniforms and holding guns came running.

  "Halt. Halt, don't move. Move and I'll shoot you dead." The policeman running in the front discovered Li Guoting and Ma Fei, raised the muzzle of his gun slightly, and shouted loudly at them.