Blood Neon

Chapter 51

Chapter 51

Battle Record

“As a rule, I don’t like lowering myself to the level of idiots.”

He looked at Zhang Qiming and let out a scornful laugh.

“What a coincidence, neither do we.”

The Two Mings looked at each other, shrugged, and laughed as well.

“Yeah, the dog had been beaten, so it was time to go, time to go.”

Da Ming echoed from the side.

However, just as he looked at the two people who were about to leave, Wang Ze suddenly called out to stop Zhang Qiming.

“Oh right, Zhang Qiming.”

He called out as if he had suddenly remembered something, but the other party acted as though he hadn’t heard a thing. He did not even turn his head once, apparently completely uninterested in whatever Wang Ze wanted to say.

The moment Wang Ze saw he would not have time to finish, he hurriedly shortened the chant and directly asked the key question.

“How had your little sister been doing lately?”

Only after hearing that sentence did Zhang Qiming hesitate and stop. He turned around and looked at him.

.

There’s a chance.

Seeing this, Wang Ze thought to himself, then revealed a lecherous smile and said with a grin,

“Who would’ve thought, who would’ve thought,”

His small eyes shifted as he sized Zhang Qiming up from top to bottom.

“I really never would’ve thought that a rough-looking guy like you would have such a delicate and pretty little sister.”

Little sister?

Zhou Tianming looked at his good brother beside him with a baffled expression. How did he remember this guy being a 24K only child?

Still, baffled or not, since this was obviously the verbal sparring segment now, he had no intention of butting in anymore.

Anyway, there was no way Zhang Qiming would come out on the losing end, so it was better for him to keep his mouth shut and watch from the sidelines.

As for Zhang Qiming, after hearing the words little sister, he took a second or two to react before remembering that Lin Ying did seem to have a “younger sister” setting.

It could not be helped. After all, that setting seemed to have appeared only a few times in total, and there had been far too many things happening these past few days, so he had almost forgotten about it.

So then, what was this guy suddenly bringing that up for?

He could not help raising an eyebrow.

In any case, he definitely had no good intentions.

“What the hell did it have to do with you?”

He did not deny it, only asked back in a hostile tone.

“Nothing much~”

Wang Ze put on a strange yin-yang, mocking sort of expression.

But after saying that, he suddenly frowned and put on a very troubled look.

“I was just worried about her health, that’s all. After all, she’s such a young girl.”

It seemed the lackeys beside him were not all clear on what he was talking about. Seeing Wang Ze standing there with a calm and composed look while speaking in that mocking, insinuating tone,

they could only stay quiet and listen to the boss speak.

And after Zhang Qiming realized the other party was implying something else, he also felt a bit torn between laughter and tears.

Ah, well, fine then.

Go on, keep going. I’m not even leaving today, not even buying grilled sausage. I’ll just stand here and watch your performance.

He thought to himself.

.

“She probably didn’t even go home the night before last, right? Tsk, it’s not that I should be saying this—”

Wang Ze wore an expression as though he really had no idea what to do with him.

“You, as her older brother, were really failing at your job. Did you even know where your little sister had gone?”

Mm...

Uh, well, fine then.

Actually, I do know where she went to have fun. Didn’t she just go to the bar at night for the buffet? Why would it be my turn to worry?

And you, a little underling like you, should spend less time worrying about this and more time worrying about your newly found big brother. He’s already dead.

Zhang Qiming cursed inwardly.

But knowing was one thing...

Standing here and listening to the other party speak in that mocking, insinuating way, he still could not help getting angrier the more he heard.

A trace of anger appeared on his face. He slowly walked toward the other party and interrupted his act.

“...So, what exactly were you trying to say?”

he asked in a low voice.

“Nothing much.”

Wang Ze shrugged, wearing an innocent expression like a good person being misunderstood.

“I was just kindly reminding you for the sake of us having been classmates, wasn’t I?”

he said.

“After one whole night, who knew how many people had already had their turn with her. Just for the sake of her future, don’t forget to have her take medicine after you get home.”

He put on a very concerned look.

“As her older brother, don’t forget to make sure she takes her medicine. She’s that pretty, after all. I wouldn’t want her belly to start showing too early.”

“After all, maybe someday, I’d get a chance to play with her too.”

。

It was hard to describe the feeling. Even though he knew the other party was only speaking in that mocking, insinuating way, Zhang Qiming still grew angrier the more he listened.

He walked straight up, but this time, the moment the other side’s two lackeys saw that he meant trouble, they stepped forward and blocked him.

Two fists still could not beat four hands. This time, he really had no way to charge over directly.

The moment Wang Ze saw that, he became even more energized and grinned.

“Ha, after a whole night of that, who knew whether her little body could even take it? She probably can’t even walk anymore, right?”

“Heh, what a rotten crotch~”

Facing the other party’s provocation, Zhang Qiming could not help thinking,

No, were you not even there? Why were you describing it like you witnessed the whole thing? If you really had been there, did you know your boss was already dead by now?

But why was that?

He clearly knew Lin Ying was completely fine, and had even killed everyone on the other side instead, yet after hearing Wang Ze’s duck-like hoarse clamor, an inexplicable burst of anger still rose in his heart.

…It was probably because this guy was simply ugly and had an awful voice.

And then suddenly,

before the two lackeys had even reacted, he made his move.

The scene gave off an odd sense of déjà vu, like history repeating itself. He rammed one of them aside with all his strength and charged forward.

And Zhou Tianming, who had been observing the situation from the side, also rushed up in three quick steps and swiftly restrained the other one.

But even though Zhang Qiming moved fast, that was still enough time for Wang Ze to get into position.

He took up a stance to receive the attack, as though he were ready to block him, as if that would somehow turn the fight into some evenly matched exchange.

Would it?

Zhang Qiming acted as though he did not take him seriously at all. Just when he was close enough, he suddenly quickened his pace, put his whole body into it, and slammed straight into him.

In an instant, Wang Ze’s stance, which had looked somewhat decent just a moment ago, completely fell apart.

And then came—

a crisp “smack.”

Zhang Qiming did not choose to throw a punch, nor did he choose to kick. He grabbed Wang Ze by the collar and directly fed him a huge slap across the face.

—And from start to finish, that whole sequence had taken less than ten seconds.

And that slap carried even more force than the strike Tianming had used earlier, so much so that Wang Ze’s head buzzed in an instant.

“No need to thank me, and don’t take it too seriously.”

He shoved the other party away and said with a smile,

“After all, we were classmates. Seeing that there seemed to be something wrong with both your head and your mouth, I kindly helped treat your illness.”

Before the lackeys behind him could recover, he struck his pose and immediately ran, quickly leaving the position where he could easily be surrounded.

That attack had not dealt that much damage, but the humiliation value was definitely strong enough.

So it had been a little too much. If he had stayed within attack range, it probably would have made the other party completely tear off all pretense and start fighting him desperately on the spot, which would have been putting the cart before the horse.

Still, thanks to successfully swinging that slap, that nameless anger from just now vanished completely. He was now in high spirits, refreshed, and felt thoroughly vindicated.

He understood the logic anyway.

Right now, Wang Ze was only mouthing off. Zhang Qiming did not believe that if he had really been present and stayed until the very end that night, he would still be alive today to trade words with him.

So let an ignorant fool bark all he wanted. After taking that slap, it was nothing more than the wail of a defeated dog.

“Zhang Qiming, you bastard, are you seriously refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit?”

After Wang Ze recovered, he did not forget to keep cursing.

“Pah!”

He even spat in the direction Zhang Qiming was leaving.

“No matter what you do, your little sister is still just a rotten crotch,”

He said that bitterly,

“You can act arrogant now all you want, but in a few days, I’ll make her photos, nudes, or videos spread across the entire school!”

The dashing Zhang Qiming, who had been walking away in style, seemed to suddenly remember something after hearing his rabid barking.

“Oh right,” he stopped and turned back to say.

“Although I’m sorry to interrupt you while you’re so worked up, I have to tell you this: I’ve actually always been an only child. I’ve never had any younger sister, not even a cousin.”

His expression was extremely calm, as though he were merely stating an utterly ordinary fact.

Of course, that really was the case.

Looking at the gang of four thugs, all wearing baffled expressions and completely failing to grasp the point, he continued to add,

“The one you saw before was just a passerby I happened to run into. I didn’t know her before that either.”

Since the other side knew that someone claiming to be his “younger sister” had appeared before, this still needed a bit of explanation.

It also counted as something done for Lin Ying’s sake.

“I actually had no idea at all what you were yapping about just now,” he said, pulling his hand out of his pocket and waving it to show helplessness. “I also don’t know what exactly happened when you ran into her.”

“Then why were you so ang—?” Wang Ze blurted out.

The sudden information left him utterly confused.

Ang… ry?

Haha, sure enough, after hearing that statement, the other party wore a completely baffled expression.

“Oh, you meant just now?” Zhang Qiming smiled and said, “I wasn’t angry. Didn’t I say so already? I simply wanted to help treat your illness, that’s all. Don’t you lot usually like helping people that way too?”

Laughing at them, The Two Mings left.

Only the four people remained where they were, still trying to process the information.

When they learned that their boss had gone missing, their expressions would probably be quite a sight, wouldn’t they?

Zhang Qiming laughed inwardly.

.

And so, the stage play that had seemed like a one-man show performed by several people finally came to an end. Even though throughout the whole process there had actually been many students watching from around them,

strangely enough, not a single person came forward to intervene in that brief conflict.

As for denying Lin Ying’s claim that she was his younger sister, although that might perhaps also cause some problems, for now it felt like this was the only thing he could do first.

Zhang Qiming could not think of any other better plan. After giving it some thought, he felt it was still better to publicly distance himself from her.

After all, at present, he also did not know whether anyone would report those missing gangsters to the police. If, when the time came, there were witnesses saying something like, “In the end, they were drinking together with Zhang Qiming’s younger sister,” then that might lead to even more trouble.

So the only option was to make their relationship clear here. At the very least, if the police came to question him later, everything would be easier to explain, and the classmates could also serve as witnesses.

For an ordinary high school student, it really was not an easy thing to sort out all these lines of logic while fighting at the same time.

Now that it was finally dealt with, he could not help letting out a long breath. He patted the big guy beside him.

“What next?”

Zhou Tianming made a √ sign under his chin and thought for a few seconds.

“Back?”

“You’re not buying bread anymore?”

Zhang Qiming asked.

“Oh right!”

Only then did the other party seem to wake from a dream, slapping his fist into his palm, then pulling him toward the school shop.

“Come on, come on, there’s almost no time left. We got so busy beating dogs that I almost forgot the real business.”

“As expected of you.”

Zhang Qiming gave him a thumbs-up, then after hesitating for a moment, still spoke again.

“…Thanks.”

“? Thanks for what.”

“For just now.”

he said helplessly.

Honestly, this guy was good in every way except that sometimes he was missing a screw, just like himself.

“Heh↘,” Zhou Tianming only responded dismissively,

“For something like that, you still had to say it out loud? That’s too formal, too formal.”

“Just treat it as compensation for Comrade Xiao Ming getting hammered in solo queue the night before last.”

When Zhang Qiming heard that, he laughed and cursed,

“Oh, give it a rest. If it were you, you’d have gotten smashed too.”

“Even then, I’d definitely be stronger than you~”

……

……

“Oh right.”

After returning to the classroom, just before the last class of the morning was about to begin, Zhang Qiming remembered that there was something he had almost forgotten to say.

“This matter definitely won’t just end like this. We still have to be careful these next few days in case they come back for revenge.”

“Mhm. They suffered such a huge loss here today, so I figure they’ll definitely think of some way to get revenge.”

Hearing that, Da Ming nodded.

As the saying went, when it came to petty villains, their pass was the gold edition bought by the season.

“So don’t let your guard down.”

“Yare yare, getting this fired up right after coming back to school?”

Zhang Qiming stretched lazily.

He turned his head and looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window.

The weather today was very good.

The autumn air was crisp and refreshing.

…He wondered what she was doing right now?

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(ps. Slapping someone hard across the face was a dangerous move. If a boy did this and failed to control his strength properly, he could directly rupture the other person’s eardrum.

So children should not imitate this move when fighting.

If you did not want to make things too serious.

After all, a ruptured eardrum would count at the very least as a minor injury, and an administrative detention would still be entirely possible.)