Chapter Thirty-One: Going to China

  The big bodyguard didn't move anymore, but I still held the rope tightly in my hand, not daring to relax even a little bit. Jason threw away the pillow and probed his nose with his hand: "Let go, mudfish, this guy is dead." I let go of the rope and panted heavily, saying: "This guy, he's really stronger than an ox, come on, Jason, help us drag him into the closet." "Okay!" After dragging the bodyguard into the changing room, Jason asked: "Mudfish, shouldn't we take care of the one outside now?" "Uh-huh, let's go." I nodded and followed Jason out of the changing room.

  At this time, Krute was still soaking in the water, completely unaware of the big net that was slowly closing in on him to capture him. I walked up to Krute's side and gently patted his shoulder: "Old man, it's time to get up." "Huh, who are you?" Krute slowly opened his eyes, looking at me with a face full of anger from being disturbed while taking a leisurely bath. I coldly said to him: "Mr. Krute, your bodyguard has just been taken out by us. If you want to ensure your own safety, then obediently follow my orders!" Krute asked in terror: "What do you guys want to do? If it's about money, name a price."

  Jason slowly pulled out a dagger from the towel and placed it on Krute's neck, saying: "Do we look like people who want money from you? Don't make us waste any more words, get up, put on your clothes, and come with us. Remember, no tricks, or I'll send you to meet God."

  "Don't get any ideas, I'm just going with you guys." Kroot stood up obediently and then 'escorted' Jason and me to the locker room.

  I ordered Krute to stand in the corner of the locker room with his hands on his head, naked, and then quickly put on my own clothes. Once everything was ready, I told Jason to scan Krute's body to see if he had any tracking devices on him.

  Jaison ran a quick diagnostic on the pre-prepared scanning equipment and then performed a full-body scan of Krute's body. "Yes, the locator has been implanted 10mm to the right of his cervical spine, 5.3mm under the skin." I told Jaison: "Get in touch with Monkey, have him find a tech to remove the locator from his body as soon as possible and get him out of France ASAP." Jaison said: "That's not good, we can't count on the techs, the old man's got something on him that needs to come off right now or it's too dangerous." I thought for a moment then said: "You're right, but have you considered that the locator might be connected to his nervous system? If we remove it carelessly, who knows, he could end up a vegetable."

  "Can't be helped, just have to rely on his luck; Mr. Krute, bear the pain and don't make a sound, I'm going to perform a small operation," Jason said, one hand grabbing a towel to cover Krute's mouth, the other hand holding a dagger, aiming at the implant location, stabbing in fiercely, then digging out a black bean-sized device. Krute was sweating profusely from pain but still obediently kept his mouth shut without making any sound.

  After the locator was ripped out, Krute's half-body lost consciousness. Jason and I helped him put on his clothes and supported him on either side as we walked out of the locker room.

  After smoothly leaving the club, we threw Klute into the monkey's car that had been waiting outside and then quickly escaped from the scene ourselves.

  The capture operation went surprisingly smoothly, Jason drove the car and laughed loudly: "Muddy, our action today is too cool, how about finding a place to celebrate?" I smiled and said: "Celebrate... okay, you choose a place." Jason said: "Okay, let's go to 'Dream Paris'." Jason stepped on the accelerator, shifted gears quickly, and drove straight to the street area with bright lights and wine.

  Just as we were about to arrive in Paris, I suddenly noticed a stray dog rummaging through the trash can at the street corner. I hastily called out to Jason, "Stop the car." Jason slammed on the brakes and the car screeched to a halt. "What's going on?" Jason asked, puzzled. I countered with a question of my own, "Do you see that stray dog by the trash can?" Jason looked in the direction of the trash can and said, "Yeah, what about it?" I pulled out the satellite positioning device from Krute's body and flashed it in front of Jason's eyes, saying, "Plant this thing inside the dog's body." Jason chuckled and said, "This is a great idea, we can really mess with those crazy dogs at the Gurital organization."

  I opened a can of beef and approached the stray dog. The stray dog saw me, tucked its tail in fear and hid under the shadow of the street. I put the can on the ground and beckoned it to come and eat. The stray dog looked at the food placed on the ground, wagged its tail, and walked over with a limp. I gently stroked its head and whispered to it: "Life as a stray must have been tough for you, eat up, finish the can."

  The stray dog wagged its tail nonstop after eating the canned food, expressing its gratitude towards me. I smiled faintly and said, "Little dog, sorry to make you suffer a bit more, but don't worry, I guarantee that I won't harm your body." As I spoke, I took out an anesthetic needle from my pocket and injected it into the stray dog. At this time, Jason, who was sitting in the car, became impatient and pressed down on the window, shouting loudly, "Is it done yet? Do you need to be so gentle with a dog?" I waved my hand at Jason, signaling him to shut up. I used a dagger to cut open a small incision on the stray dog's back and implanted a positioning device inside; afterwards, I applied some hemostatic medicine to the wound. I said to it, "I didn't mean to hurt you, hope you won't blame me." Finally, in order to prevent the stray dog from being crushed by passing vehicles before it woke up, I dragged it onto a trash can.

  "Hurry up, Muddy! What's taking you so long?" Jason urged impatiently. "Okay..." I replied, glancing at the stray dog before jogging back to the car. As Jason drove, he asked me, "Muddy, you seem a bit off. Why were you so gentle with that dog?" I said calmly, "Because I'm also a stray dog myself." Jason said, "Don't be ridiculous, you're an eagle far from home." I smiled and said, "Eagle... maybe I am an eagle, but I'm not alone, because after all, you're here with me, right?" Jason smiled and said, "You've finally decided to include me in your world." I smiled back and said, "I included you in my world a long time ago."

  We arrived at the bar and Jason and I found a relatively quiet seat to sit down. Around us, men and women of all colors were laughing and joking, dancing wildly. The waitress came over with a tray after we sat down: "What can I get you two gentlemen?" Jason looked at the waitress who was gentle and pretty, and joked: "Miss, you're really beautiful, would you like to join us for a drink?" The waitress smiled and said: "Sorry sir, I'm just an ordinary server, I don't drink with customers." I saw that the waitress had an extraordinary demeanor, different from other heavily made-up waitresses, so I politely said to her: "Don't mind him, miss, he's just joking. Can we have four bottles of beer?"

  The waitress smiled slightly and immediately turned around to bring four bottles of beer from the counter.

  "Come on, Muddy! Let's drink to our victory!" Jason said, raising his bottle. "Cheers!" I raised my bottle and clinked it against Jason's before downing half of it in one gulp. But just as we were still working on our first beer, my peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of my eye. However, when I turned to look again, the figure was gone.

  "Hey, what's wrong?" Jason asked. "Nothing," I said, "I just thought I saw a suspicious person." "Where?" Jason asked. I took a sip of my drink and said, "Gone now, maybe it was just my nerves playing tricks on me." Jason said, "Forget about it, our main task right now is to drink, come on, bottoms up!" "Cheers!" I said, downing the rest of the bottle in one gulp.

  Unbeknownst to me, I had already downed four bottles of beer. Afterwards, Jason and I each drank three more bottles. Jason wanted to drink a few more, but I was worried about getting drunk and causing trouble, so I didn't order any more. I called the waiter over and paid the bill. Just as we were about to leave the bar, that familiar figure suddenly appeared in my line of sight again. This time I got a clear look at him - it was indeed the thug who had extorted money from us earlier that day. At this moment, they were sitting not far away from us in a corner booth.

  "Jason, enemies meet on a narrow road!" I said to Jason. Jason asked: "What's the narrow road?" I told him: "Look over there, who is in that card package." Jason took a closer look: "Ah! It really is enemies meeting on a narrow road! Come on, let's go teach them a lesson." At this time, I was already slightly drunk, thinking about those rascals' arrogant faces from earlier in the day, and a surge of anger rose up from my heart. "Alright, let's teach them a lesson!"

  We walked shoulder to shoulder in front of the thugs. Our sudden appearance made them very surprised. The big guy stood up with a drunken swagger and said to us with arrogance: "Oh, it's you two again, coming to give grandpa some money?" Jason looked at the big guy, smiled, didn't say anything, but suddenly threw a punch, knocking the big guy flat on his back. The other thugs saw Jason take action, and they all stood up together, pulling out their knives. I pointed at them with my finger, warning loudly: "All of you, behave yourselves, or else I'll make you useless." The thugs looked at my cold gaze, hesitated for a moment, but finally worked up the courage to approach us.

  I exchanged a look with Jason, and we both assumed fighting stances. The other patrons of the bar, realizing a fight was about to break out, quickly retreated from the scene. At this point, both sides were glaring at each other, their faces tense with anger. "Ah..." I suddenly shouted loudly, and with one swift kick, I sent one of the thugs who had been standing off to the side crashing to the ground; then, in quick succession, I flung the beer bottle in my hand at the thug standing opposite me, hitting him squarely on the head and sending him tumbling down. At the same time, Jason also clashed with the thugs. With his powerful build, he fought back against the three thugs who had attacked him, quickly sending them crashing to the ground.

  The thugs struggled to get up from the ground, begging for mercy. Jason said: "Do you know the power of Jason now? Be honest with me in the future and roll away!" The thugs ran out of the bar in a hurry, the big man looked at us fiercely and shouted: "You two have the guts not to leave, wait here for me." I picked up a beer bottle and threw it hard at the big man's head: "Grandpa is waiting for you here!" The big man dodged the beer bottle "Good, you wait!" He said, leading a group of thugs, running away like crazy.

  After the punk left, Jason pulled out a wad of dollars and threw it on the bar: "This is compensation for your loss, give us two more beers." The waiter opened the beer and placed it in front of us. Jason raised his glass to me and said: "Muddy, come on, let's keep drinking." I laughed and said: "Refreshing, never had such a refreshing fight before, cheers!" At this time, the waitress walked up to my side and whispered to me: "Sir, you'd better leave quickly, the person who fought with you just now is not someone to be trifled with!" I smiled and said lightly: "Thank you, miss, don't worry, we're not afraid of them." "But..." The waitress was about to say something when Jason took over with a smile: "Don't worry, dear, we're superheroes, they're no match for us!"

  But soon, the sound of motorcycle engines came from outside the bar, and through the window, a group of menacing thugs with iron bars and machetes were seen blocking the entrance. The leader, a burly man, was yelling wildly: "Black ghost and that yellow-skinned clown who doesn't know how to die, get out here..."

  Jason pulled out his gun and cursed angrily, "Damn it, dare to look for trouble with me, I must get rid of him today." I pulled Jason's arm and said, "Forget it, Jason, come on, don't be impulsive, let's hide." "Yes!" The waitress said, "You'd better leave from the back door!" Jason thought for a moment and said, "Okay, where is the back door?" The waitress said, "Follow me." I asked the waitress, "But if we leave, what if they cause trouble for you?" The waitress said, "Don't worry about that, our boss has a lot of power, they don't dare to do anything." I nodded and said, "Okay, let's go!"

  The waitress led us to the back door of the bar and said, "Just go out this way." I thanked her and said, "Thanks, miss. We're leaving then." Jason suddenly hugged the waitress and kissed her lips, laughing and saying, "Darling, thanks so much! Next time we have a chance in America, I'll buy you a drink!" The waitress pushed Jason away, looked at me shyly, and angrily laughed at Jason, saying, "Who needs to be treated? We've got plenty of wine at home!" Jason sneered and said, "Oh, plenty of wine, so your boyfriend is the bar owner?" "Don't talk nonsense!" the waitress angrily said: "The bar owner is my dad!"

  Jason wrapped his arm around the waitress's shoulder again and said, "Darling, you're actually a rich girl!" The waitress twisted her body to get out of Jason's embrace: "Okay, stop teasing me, let's go quickly, or else we'll be in trouble if they find out." At this time, the bar was noisy, I knew that those thugs wouldn't give up easily, so the sooner we left this place, the safer we'd be. I glanced at the waitress and then said to Jason, "We're no match for them, let's hurry up and leave." Jason seemed reluctant to leave, he smiled at the waitress and said, "Darling, leave me your phone number, so we can keep in touch later!" The waitress smiled coyly, took out a pen, and surprisingly grabbed my hand, then wrote a string of numbers on my palm.

  She said to me, "This is my phone number, call me back later!" After that, she hugged my neck and kissed my lips deeply, while also giving Jason a flirtatious glance. Jason saw the waitress kiss me and laughed slyly, saying, "Oh, baby, so you've fallen in love with my brother?" The waitress smiled but ignored Jason and continued to gaze at me affectionately. At this time, the hooligans' shouting grew louder, I held the waitress's shoulder and pulled her aside, saying, "Miss, don't do that, we Chinese aren't used to it, okay? Let's go, we'll meet again." After I finished speaking, I grabbed Jason and ran towards the depths of the street. Jason didn't forget to turn back and say to her, "Dear, contact me by phone..."

  The next day, near noon, Jason and I finally got out of bed. The monkey sent us a message telling us that Krute had been successfully escorted to the United States. Jason said excitedly: "Muddy, our first battle was a success, it's great!" I said: "Yes, we didn't disappoint our mission!" Jason said: "Anyway, there's nothing else to do, let's call that girl and ask her out for some fun!" I asked: "Which girl?" Jason said: "Stupid, the gentle and sentimental French girl we met at the bar last night!" "Forget it! Don't make any more trouble, let's just hurry back."

  Jason said: "What's the hurry? Anyway, I've already talked to Auntie and we can stay in Paris for a few days after completing our task."

  I said: "Let's forget it. We're not on the same wavelength as her, don't want to trouble her."

  Jason said: "You think too much, just playing around, no need to be so serious."

  I said: "Since you put it that way, then go ahead, don't drag me along."

  Hearing me say this, Jason spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, saying helplessly: "If you're not going, I won't either. It's you she likes, not me."

  I looked at Jason, smiled, and didn't say anything else.

  Jiason looked at me and suddenly asked: "Mudskipper, want to go back to China?"

  "China..." I said faintly: "Think? Of course I have!" Jason said: "Then let's book our tickets now and take a plane to China!"

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