Chapter 136

Chapter 136

The bandit leader reacted swiftly. Knowing full well that the best defense is offense, he didn’t bolt for the door but instead fired a shot toward Bai Xingshu’s position.

This move worked like a charm against many pursuers.

When lunging through the air into a space, your instincts are all about maintaining balance, leaving pursuers wide open at that moment.

But Bai Xingshu was no ordinary man.

Bai Xingshu didn’t dodge at all. The moment he landed, he sensed the bandit leader’s move and, without a second’s pause, sent a flying kick to the falling window frame.

The window frame instantly shot toward the bandit leader.

Watching it eat up his shot, the bandit leader couldn’t help but curse aloud.

"Holy shit!"

This outburst wasn’t just because his attack had missed.

In all his years as a bandit, the leader had faced plenty of failed attempts. To rise to his position, he had nerves of steel.

Yet, no amount of mental fortitude could withstand the sight of his several-hundred-pound window frame being sent flying like it weighed nothing.

What the hell?!

Now, the bandit leader stared at Bai Xingshu like he was some kind of monster.

At this point, any thought of engaging with Bai Xingshu vanished. Without a backward glance, he kicked the door open and ran for his life.

Hearing the window frame crash heavily against the doorframe behind him, the bandit leader had never resented more the fact that his safehouse was so goddamn huge.

Beyond this room’s door wasn’t a hallway—it was his 1,000+ square foot living room!

Over a thousand square feet!

The thirty-foot gap to the front door might as well have been a mile in his perception.

And in reality, it was.

Especially with Bai Xingshu in pursuit.

The bandit leader had barely covered three meters when Bai Xingshu, before he could blink, crossed through the warped door he had kicked in.

Stepping into the living room, Bai Xingshu leveled his gun.

Bai Xingshu was neither merciful nor soft-hearted—and he wasn’t the only one who could shoot.

A bullet whizzed directly in front of the bandit leader, stopping him dead in his tracks.

One step faster, and he would have been dead!

Cold sweat broke out on the bandit leader’s forehead.

He could almost feel Bai Xingshu’s breath on his neck.

His heart hammered against his ribs.

The door, just fifteen feet away, might as well have been on the moon.

"I surrender." Holding no delusions, the bandit leader quickly made his decision and raised his hands.

From that earlier gunshot, the bandit leader could tell Bai Xingshu fully intended to kill him.

His initial escape was to stage a comeback later.

Now, his surrender was also to keep his life so he could stage that comeback.

Bai Xingshu quirked an eyebrow.

These top criminals, notorious for heinous crimes, had committed countless atrocities. This smuggling bandit leader loved nothing more than money and power, with no moral compass—engaging in every illegal trade imaginable, leaving a trail of ruined lives behind him.

In Bai Xingshu’s view, such people belonged in the Mutants' jaws.

But this world ran on order, rules, and procedures to follow.

And Bai Xingshu had fully adapted to this world’s survival rules.

So...

*Wham!* Bai Xingshu, now right in front of the bandit leader, drove his fist into the bandit’s face.

*Bang!* The bandit leader’s entire body flew several meters back, crashing into the very door he had been desperate to reach.

Ears ringing, he gaped at Bai Xingshu, disbelieving.

At this moment, the bandit leader assumed he’d blurted his surrender too fast for Bai Xingshu to hear.

"I surrendered!" he bellowed at Bai Xingshu.

Bai Xingshu approached him with deliberate slowness. "Sorry, when I jumped down from upstairs to catch you, I accidentally dropped my body cam."

"What a shame," Bai Xingshu said, mock-apologetic, though his grin blatantly exposed his true intentions.

The bandit leader stared at the empty spot on Bai’s shoulder—where the camera should have been.

As Luo Yu barreled downstairs, he felt his speed was much slower than he’d expected.

His once-proud, near-flawless fitness records now seemed utterly inadequate when actually needed.

Without hesitation, he abandoned the normal descent and leapt between railings instead.

Yet even so, it still took Luo Yu a full minute to reach the bandit leader’s floor.

By then, the bandit leader could have already fled the room entirely.

Luo Yu seethed at his helplessness.

But before his gloom could deepen, he heard an enraged shout from inside the room.

Instantly, Luo Yu realized Bai Xingshu had cut off the bandit.

—He knew the only one following him was Shen Geng.

Recalling Bai Xingshu’s spotless no-escape record, Luo Yu's face split into a grin.

He wasn’t too late!

Without delay, Luo Yu slammed the door open with a kick.

...The kick didn’t budge it.

Of course, the bandit leader had reinforced even the windows with special materials, let alone the front door.

Shen Geng followed closely behind Luo Yu and, upon seeing his action, barked: "Move aside!"

Luo Yu quickly made a tactical retreat, clearing the space in front of the door.

Bang!

The fired bullet struck the door lock precisely, completely destroying its core.

The door flew open.

Luo Yu rushed in immediately.

He couldn’t let anything happen to Bai Xingshu!

Bai Xingshu was probably the crown prince of the royal family at present!!

Heart pounding, Luo Yu entered the room and instantly noticed the bandit leader, who was fighting Bai Xingshu with a kill-or-be-killed intensity.

Even if it meant taking a thousand hits, the bandit leader would make sure Bai Xingshu paid with eighty.

His reckless, vicious moves sent a chill down the spine of anyone watching.

Luo Yu was stunned.

In his understanding, bandit leaders—greedy for wealth and power—were usually cowardly about dying. He never expected such a man to choose an all-or-nothing approach.

Of course, that wasn’t what shocked Luo Yu the most.

What made Luo Yu unable to even blink was how effortlessly Bai Xingshu handled the bandit leader’s deadly attacks. Every counter was managed so casually, like a lion swatting at a kitten.

Even Bai Xingshu’s movements as a whole looked... downright elegant, like some deadly ballet.

Luo Yu’s eyes widened.

He had been schooled by Bai Xingshu before and knew he was out of his league.

But he never realized that, to an outsider, his own fight with Bai Xingshu must have looked like this.

This was...

Holy shit, that was badass!!

Luo Yu’s gaze at Bai Xingshu was filled with awe and hero-worship. He felt he was beginning to understand why his grandfather, after meeting the current emperor, had thrown his lot in with the royal family!

Meanwhile, the stubborn bandit leader, still struggling in Bai Xingshu’s grip, suddenly noticed Luo Yu—and his eyes welled up with religious fervor.

This rookie cop who had burst through the door was wearing a body camera on his shoulder!!

Any cop who actually used a body camera was a fucking miracle!!

Half-dead already from Bai Xingshu’s beating, the bandit leader blacked out gratefully.