Chapter 028 【Inside Story】

For a moment, the clash of blades and the sound of steel colliding were exceptionally clear in the quiet night, the air thick with the heavy scent of blood.

One minute later, all five burly men lay in pools of blood. Ling Wei, having been too careless, had his arm slashed by a knife, blood flowing incessantly, yet he merely frowned slightly.

"Nice moves!" At that moment, a middle-aged man in a black suit stepped out of the white van. He appeared to be around thirty, with a crew cut and a scar so deep it looked like it hit bone on his face. A sinister smile hung at the corner of his mouth, a smile that, paired with that deep scar, gave you the chills.

In his hand, he held a revolver, its muzzle pointed at Gu Feng.

Seeing the dark gun barrel, Gu Feng instinctively stopped, gripping his steel knife as he coldly stared at the middle-aged man before him. He understood that the gun in the man's hand was the real deal, and he wasn't afraid to use it.

Ling Wei, clutching the wound on his arm, recognized the man's face and couldn't help but exclaim, "Scarface?"

Scarface sneered as he glanced at Ling Wei. "Brat Ling, getting cut doesn't feel good, does it? Originally, I wasn't planning to deal with you today, but you're begging for it, so I'll just have to take your life!"

Hearing Scarface's words, Ling Wei's face paled, and his body trembled involuntarily. "Scarface, you know who I am. If you kill me, you're a dead man!"

"Don't worry, it won't be long before your father joins you in hell," Scarface said, his gaze fixed intently on Gu Feng. "You'd better not move. I know you're skilled, but no matter how good your kung fu is, you're no match for a kitchen knife, let alone the gun in my hand?"

"Drop the knife in your hand!" Scarface's expression suddenly turned grim as he snarled at Gu Feng.

Gu Feng threw down the blood-stained steel knife and calmly looked at Scarface. "Who sent you?"

Scarface didn't answer Gu Feng's question. Instead, he decisively squeezed the trigger.

Gu Feng seemed to have anticipated that Scarface would pull the trigger at that moment and swiftly leaped to the side.

"Bang!" The bullet tore through the air, grazing past Gu Feng.

After hitting the ground, Gu Feng rolled on the spot, dodging Scarface's second shot. At the same time, he quickly grabbed the steel knife from the ground and flung it with force. The gleaming steel knife shot like a beam of white light, striking Scarface's gun-holding wrist and severing his right hand in one clean cut.

Scarface let out a sharp cry of pain, immediately crouching down to pick up the gun with his left hand. However, Ling Wei didn't give him the chance. After Scarface fired, Ling Wei didn't cower and cover his head like an ordinary kid; instead, he charged straight at Scarface!

Just as Scarface was about to pick up the pistol from the ground with his left hand, Ling Wei delivered a swift side kick to Scarface's chin, sending him flying backward. Then, like a fierce wolf, Ling Wei rushed to Scarface's side and unleashed a flurry of violent kicks.

Ling Wei had been training in kung fu since childhood. Though not a master fighter, his combat skills were pretty damn good. After the barrage of kicks, Scarface lay on the ground like a dead pig, motionless.

At the same time, police sirens blared as several police cars roared onto the scene.

"Hands on your heads, squat down, don't move!" After the police cars stopped, several officers rushed out with guns drawn, aiming at Gu Feng and Ling Wei as they shouted.

Neither Gu Feng nor Ling Wei followed the police's instructions, simply standing where they were.

Then, a heavyset police officer stepped out, protected by several other officers. It was none other than Yan Zhengchun.

When Yan Zhengchun saw Gu Feng and Ling Wei, he was visibly shocked.

"Put your guns away. I know these two. I'll talk to them," Yan Zhengchun decided immediately. "You all, clean up the scene right away."

A few minutes later, Gu Feng and Ling Wei were taken into a police car. Unlike the last time he was taken to the police station, this time Gu Feng wasn't handcuffed, and the officers beside him didn't yell at him.

On the way to the police station, Ling Wei called his father. After hanging up, he told Gu Feng, relaxed, "Teacher Gu, my dad will bring a lawyer to see us soon. Don't worry."

Gu Feng wasn't the least bit worried about going to the police station. For one, Yan Zhengchun knew about his relationship with Qiao Gang and wouldn't give him a hard time. Moreover, today's incident was clearly justifiable self-defense; he hadn't committed any crime. His only confusion now was the identity of those men.

Remembering that Ling Wei had recognized Scarface earlier, Gu Feng asked, "Ling Wei, do you know who those people are?"

"They're from the Dong Xing Gang!" Ling Wei answered immediately, then added as if remembering something, "That bastard Scarface actually said he'd go after my dad. This time, I'm definitely going to make my dad wipe out Dong Xing."

The officers beside them couldn't help but change their expressions upon hearing Ling Wei's words. For them, a war between the Red Star Gang and Dong Xing was undoubtedly major news.

Gu Feng noticed the officers' reactions and signaled with his eyes for Ling Wei to say no more. Gu Feng understood that Ling Wei was just a seventeen-year-old kid. Though far more capable than his peers, he still had some youthful impulsiveness and didn't fully grasp the consequences of two major gangs going to war. As two of Hong Kong's most powerful local gangs, the Red Star Gang and Dong Xing had clashed countless times without destroying each other. This indicated that the leaders of both gangs knew the other was a tough nut to crack, and they were evenly matched. Unless absolutely necessary, two major gangs would never go to war without being confident of victory.

Seeing that Ling Wei had stopped talking, Gu Feng furrowed his brow and began pondering the cause and effect of the incident.

Those burly men had charged at him first after getting out of the van, not at Ling Wei. Moreover, Scarface later said he had intended to spare Ling Wei. This was enough for Gu Feng to determine that Scarface and his men were targeting him. The Dong Xing Gang was a major gang in Hong Kong with immense influence. Having been established for a long time, they practically had connections in both the underworld and legitimate society.

Gu Feng had only been in Hong Kong for a week and hadn't had any conflict with the Dong Xing Gang during that time. Thinking this through, Gu Feng was almost certain that the person who wanted him dead wasn't from Dong Xing, but someone using Dong Xing's people to eliminate him.

In Hong Kong, the only people Gu Feng had truly provoked were the Zhou family, so the mastermind behind this was naturally Zhou Jingming.

Having figured this out, Gu Feng relaxed his brow, though the murderous intent in his dark eyes sent shivers down the spines of the officers beside him.