Chapter 7: Bloody Streets

  Ye Ming jumped out of the window and aimed at the two scoundrels who were chopping towards Li Runji with their knives. In mid-air, he adjusted his posture and kicked both legs, hitting the two scoundrels right on their temples.

  His two legs were carrying a downward momentum, with great force and sinking power, strong and fierce without elegance. The two thugs who were kicked, although they had also practiced martial arts, still couldn't withstand it, feeling a buzzing in their heads, involuntarily retreating several steps, almost falling to the ground.

  Ye Ming kicked out two legs and forced back two scoundrels, then took advantage of the momentum to land steadily on the ground. Seeing that the remaining scoundrel was still swinging his knife at Li Runji, he grasped the small stool in his hand, aimed at the back of his head, and ruthlessly smashed it down.

  At this time, he had already seen that the three villains were all professional killers, so they couldn't show mercy anymore. When throwing out the small stool, he used a great deal of force in his hands.

  All of a sudden, the small stool smashed heavily onto the villain's head with a loud "crack", just like hitting a watermelon with a hammer. The villain's head split open on impact, and blood gushed out from the wound in surges. Then, the villain fell backwards to the ground, his body twitching like a dying frog before finally lying still.

  At the same time, the other two scoundrels had come to their senses and took advantage of Ye Ming's distraction as he used a stool to hit his accomplices. They rushed over from behind Ye Ming, with two knives simultaneously aimed at his head.

  Ye Ming heard the movement behind him and instinctively twisted his body, dodging the knife that was swung at his head, but his shoulder was still slashed by another thug, and blood immediately spurted out of the wound.

  Two thugs may have received a kill order, after hacking Ye Ming, immediately shifted their target, and the two knives were aimed at Li Runji who was lying on the ground - apparently, they had gambled with their lives and were determined to put Li Runji to death.

  Ye Ming, despite being wounded on the shoulder, relied on his martial arts training since childhood to withstand the pain and fight back. Seeing the two thugs hacking at the middle-aged man on the ground again, he suddenly pounced like a tiger and landed on Li Runji's body, pinning him firmly underneath himself.

  All that was heard were two "pu pu" sounds, the two knives wielded by the thug towards Li Run-qi's head landed squarely on Ye Ming's back.

  Ye Ming knew he was now at a critical juncture, so he gritted his teeth and endured the piercing pain in his back and shoulders. He hugged Li Runji and rolled several times to avoid the few knives that the two scoundrels had swung over. Then, he pushed Li Runji towards the entrance of "He Ji Steamed Restaurant", letting him get as far away from the two scoundrels as possible. He himself sprang up like a carp, blocking the way of the two scoundrels head-on.

  A scoundrel swung his knife towards Ye Ming's face.

  Ye Ming tilted his head, his body "dripping" with a quick and unbelievable "displacement" movement, like a ghostly figure flashing to the side of the villain.

  Then, he took advantage of the villain's momentary distraction as he swung his knife wildly and suddenly flashed out his right hand, snatching the knife from the villain's grasp and aiming it at his neck artery for a fatal blow.

  The bandit didn't expect Ye Ming's hands to be so fast, and before he could react, he felt a chill on his neck. Then, a stream of blood shot out from his throat like an arrow, splashing onto the wall of the steamed bun restaurant across from him, instantly dyeing that snow-white wall a deep red...

  Another scoundrel saw his partner being killed by Ye Ming with one knife, and he was so frightened that he suddenly turned around and ran away with a knife.

  Ye Ming saw the fugitive escaping, suddenly raised the knife in his hand, and aimed at the fugitive who was running wildly a few meters away, throwing it with force. The knife seemed to have eyes, straight into the right calf of the fugitive.

  The bandit let out a miserable cry, his body lurched forward, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

  Ye Ming, disregarding his own blood-soaked body, hastily walked to the entrance of "Heji Steamed Dish Restaurant", embracing Li Runqi in his arms. While checking Li's wounds, he yelled at the surrounding onlookers: "Quickly call 120 and let them send an ambulance over as soon as possible."

  Li Runji was young and had served in the army for over 20 years, so he was in good physical condition. Therefore, although his legs, back, and shoulders were stabbed several times and bled a lot, he was still conscious.

  At the moment he was knocked to the ground by those three scoundrels, he thought he would definitely die today. Especially when his hands were too weak to protect his head and neck, he had given up hope of survival, waiting for those flashing blades to chop towards his head...

  Just when he thought all was lost, a savior suddenly descended from the sky: he clearly heard a loud shout coming from above his head. Next, a figure jumped down from upstairs, kicked out two legs in mid-air, and kicked away two thugs who were attacking him. Then, another thug was also knocked to the ground by him with a single stick.

  Then, he saw with his own eyes that the young man, after being stabbed once, still rushed to himself without hesitation and took two more stabs for him. Following that, he hugged himself and rolled on the ground several times, dodging a few vicious slashes from the two thugs...

  When he saw the young man rise up in a majestic manner, stab to death one of the thugs and pin another thug who tried to escape to the ground with flying knives, his heart which had been tense all along suddenly relaxed, gazing at the young man running towards him with grateful eyes, unable to hold back tears...

  "Thanks a lot, young man! If it weren't for you today, I'd be meeting King Yama!"

  Lying in Ye Ming's arms, Li Runji saw Ye Ming start to tear off his underclothes to bandage his wound and said in a weak voice.

  "Don't talk, or you'll lose more blood. Let me bandage you first, and then the ambulance will arrive soon."

  At this moment, the street suddenly sounded a long whistle, several blue and white police cars flashed their lights, whizzing from the west and stopped near "Heji Steamed Restaurant".

  A dozen fully armed riot police jumped out of the police car and immediately surrounded everyone, including Ye Ming and Li Runkei.

  The first police officer scanned the scene with his eyes, saw two bodies lying on the pedestrian path, one burst open and the other had a large gash on the neck, bright red blood flowed all over the ground. His face showed a look of astonishment, he glared at Li Runji, Ye Ming and the thug who was wailing on the ground with a fierce gaze, then suddenly ordered his subordinates: "Cuff these three people, wait for the ambulance to arrive, first send them to the hospital for treatment."

  It turned out that the boss of "Heji Steamed Restaurant" had just reported to the police, saying that there was a fight at the door of the store and someone died. So the captain of this patrol squadron took Li Runqi and others as suspects of fighting and prepared to control them first.

  Several patrolmen responded and walked to the entrance of the steamed dish restaurant to prepare handcuffs for Li Runqi and Ye Ming.

  Li Runji struggled to lift his body and shouted at the police: "I am Li Runji, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission. Let your leaders come over, I have extremely important things to entrust them with."

  Those police officers holding handcuffs were shocked by the words. One of them quickly ran to the leader and whispered a few sentences in his ear.

  That chief was stunned for a moment, and immediately ran over with a smile all over his face: "Secretary Li, sorry, I am Qin Wei, the captain of the Patrol Police Brigade of Dongcheng District Public Security Sub-Bureau in M City. I will call my superior leader right now!"

  As he spoke, he pulled out his phone and shouted at the several patrolling police officers who were standing by: "What are you still standing there for? Quickly carry Secretary Li and this young brother to the police car, we will personally send them to the hospital."

  A few minutes later, Li Runji and Ye Ming were escorted into a police car by several policemen, with sirens blaring all the way to the Provincial People's Hospital.

  When they arrived at the hospital entrance, the head of the Dongcheng Branch and the political commissar who had received the call from the patrol police chief were already waiting at the hospital entrance.