Chapter 4.25 Fight (Extra)

Chen Pi’s eyes kept rolling into the back of his head, and he felt like he might faint at any moment. He relied on his willpower and the severe pain to remain conscious.

He dug his fingernails into his wound, pulled out the needle that had penetrated deep into his body, and threw it on the ground. Seeing that the pile of no-contribution flags on the table had been left by the fleeing group of people, he stuffed them into his pocket. He then turned back to the person whom he had thrown the kitchen knife at.

The man wasn’t dead, but the kitchen knife was deeply embedded in his spine. Chen Pi pulled the twitching body towards him and found that the man was completely limp and couldn’t even support his head. Chen Pi grabbed his head and asked “Where’s the hitmen’s leader?”

The man couldn’t move or speak, but lifted his eyes in a certain direction. Chen Pi looked around, and found that everyone had already run away. He pulled out his pineapple knife, cut off all the heads of the people he had just killed, and then strung them together on his belt, even including Qinhuai Murderer’s body. Once that was done, he headed in the direction the man’s eyes had pointed to.

After taking a few steps, he suddenly remembered something, and turned to pick up the two steel needles.

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Meanwhile, the white fat man and his people quickly gathered at Baiping Building. Each gang had brought out all their guns, and the rest of them took out their knives and short axes. They had set up an impenetrable wall of people by Huang Kui’s gangplank, but no one dared make a move.

The gangplank had been removed from the shore, so if they wanted to get on the ship, they’d have to get into the water. This obviously wasn’t the three gangs and five factions’ specialty.

Huang Kui’s boss gave the gathered people an inexplicable look, and immediately knew that something was wrong. He opened the dark cabin, helped the blind old woman out, let her sit by the edge of the gangplank, and then shouted to the shore, “What are you doing?”

The white fat man lifted Changshan’s head up, “Huang Kui, your advisor is dead. Do you still want to talk?”

After he spoke, he looked at a man in a straw hat behind him, who was carrying two baskets of bamboo hats on a pole. There was an old man hiding behind the bamboo hats, who had a burn scar on his face. He was an old hunter from the mountains. He quietly lifted a gun up from behind the bamboo hats and aimed it at the boss.

“Hit him right in the head and do it right.” The white fat man said softly in a different dialect.

The old hunter nodded, “Do you want his brains to fly to the left or to the right?”

The short boss watched this all from a distance, and suddenly turned to the old woman and said something in an incomprehensible dialect. Something in the old woman’s arms stirred, and her jacket suddenly burst open. A mass of brown and yellow-looking things suddenly plunged into the water.

When the white fat man saw it, he immediately dropped Changsha’s head and retreated. Before the head could even land on the shore, a thin long arm popped out of the water. The nails were as long as a cigarette, and all an ashy yellow. It grabbed Changshan’s head and dragged it into the water.

After a moment, that thing returned to the blind old woman’s arms and curled up again. The head had been thrown out of the water and rolled until it stopped at the short boss’ feet.

The short boss looked down. Although Chen Pi had cut him into a meaty pulp, the boss still recognized his brother after so many years. He immediately sat on the ground, and the white fat man continued to shout, “Huang Kui, the advisor is dead. Those drum crawlers you raised don’t scare us. A little beggar could kill your advisor, yet we have so many people. We’ll give you a chance to live if you kill those drum crawlers and leave the Yangtze River.”

When the short boss looked at the white fat man, the madam shouted from nearby, “Where did you put my girls? Give me back my girls.”

The short boss held Changshan’s head and turned his face away. No one saw that the corners of his mouth had lifted up into a large grin. Surprisingly enough, he wasn’t sad. Instead, he was experiencing unbearable ecstasy.

Changshan’s dead. My God, Changshan is actually dead.

This was really an unexpected result. For so many years, Mr. Advisor had been forcing him to be a water locust. Yes, he had brought these brothers from Hunan, but it wasn’t like he could always be a water locust. Staying on the river every day was scary, but their power kept growing. The advisor had created a good plan to realize Huang Kui’s ambition step by step, but whose ambition was it?

At first, he thought it was his own. If he wanted someone to die, the advisor would make it happen. Even if it took eight months or a year, no one could escape. The three gangs and five factions weren’t afraid of Huang Kui’s ferocity, but the advisor’s. They were afraid of whatever scheme the advisor would come up with.

But later, he gradually found that he couldn’t do what he wanted, and these weren’t his ambitions, but the advisor’s.

He didn’t want these things at all. He wanted to go to the city, buy a batch of shops, forget the people he had killed and harmed, and be a normal person. But the advisor wouldn’t let him. He always told him that he had brought his brothers into the water locust lifestyle, so he should keep doing it for their sake. He had no way to resist. He knew that the advisor had set him up as a figurehead, but the people below were extremely afraid of him. They were afraid of those drum crawlers they had raised. He couldn’t get out of it. If he did, he’d have to die first.

But now it was different. The advisor was dead. He didn’t expect that a beggar like Chen Pi could kill the advisor.

The short boss stood up, trying not to look too happy. He put Changshan’s head on the dining table, found a bamboo stick, and started writing on it, completely ignoring the people on the shore.

The madam grabbed the white fat man and pointed to the water, “Look carefully.” He looked under the ship, and could faintly make out a bunch of iron cages. He didn’t know what was inside, but he didn’t care. He sneered and said to the old hunter, “Left side.”

The old hunter instantly fired a shot. The short boss had only started writing down the first word when his head was blown away. All the brain and skull fragments splashed on the left side of the table and landed on Changshan’s face.

All the people in the three groups and five factions instantly rushed into the water and swam towards the ship. The short boss’ body stood there without falling down for a long time. He only had half of his head left and one remaining eye, which seemed to be looking at the river coldly. Then, the short boss with only half his head left suddenly took a step forward and smiled.

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Zombie pirate boss… that… was not what I was expecting lol