Chapter 521
What the hell is going on here?
Xu Lords heart could not help but panic, kept looking in the direction of the staircase corner, he really desperately wanted to see, at this moment dozens of lean and sturdy young men, wind and fire rushed up.
Only at this moment, he couldn't even hear a single footstep.
He couldn't help but look at Shen Haoting in confusion, and at this point it seemed that his brain had calmed down quite a bit, and only then did he think about it. Why had Shen Haoting remained calm and collected for so long? He knew that there were hundreds of people below him, but why wasn't he the least bit nervous?
And he also found that normally, if Shen Haoting knew that he had hundreds of men downstairs who could come up and take his life at any time, what Shen Haoting should do most at this time should be to let Ye Yunjie hold himself hostage. Then he and Jiang Hao and Ye Yunjie, using themselves as hostages, would be able to get out safely.
Moreover, judging from Ye Yunjie's skill just now, seven or eight strong men could not help her. If she wanted to control herself, it would not be an easy task for her?
However, from the beginning to the end, Shen Haoting did not do so, let alone instruct Ye Yunjie to do so.
And it seemed that Ye Yunjie had never even thought about it.
This all seemed too perverse, what were they thinking?
Were they really not afraid of death? Or were they simply prepared for it?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt the cold air rising from his back!
Could it be that they had really come prepared? Xu thought to himself.
But soon, he dismissed the idea, this one was a bit impossible.
Xu was a local snake in Chujiang, and he was certainly well aware of the composition of the small amount of power in Chujiang.
If you look at Chu Jiang, who else could assemble this vast team of 500 people like himself.
Even for the former Liu Guohao and the current Qiao San, although they were both local lords in Chujiang, the number of men they could mobilise was only a few dozen at best, or even over a hundred.
And their men of that calibre were not worth mentioning compared to those under their own command.
And even if they got all their men here. Even if they got all their men here, they wouldn't necessarily be able to stop their own 500 men, would they?
Where did Shen Haoting get the courage to be so calm and unhurried?
"Cut the crap!" Xu lord suddenly burst out foul, "I see if you can still be proud of yourself now, you can still be proud of yourself later, they ...... may have encountered some minor problem, but they will come up soon, I will see what else you have to say later!"
The words of Lord Xu once again drew a loud and unrestrained laugh from Shen Haoting: "Hahahahaha ...... you and dream on, I said, if your people can't get up, none of them will come up at all. You haven't found out yet, since I dare to sit here as steady as a mountain, would I be the least bit prepared? You can go downstairs now and see if any of your five hundred men are still standing at this moment!"
After Shen Haoting finished his words, Xu Lords nervously wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.
To this day, he still did not believe in Shen Haoting's words, for Lord Xu simply did not believe that Shen Haoting had any power that was capable of taking out all five hundred of his own men!
And just as Lord Xu was pondering. However, he heard a rush of footsteps not far away, and not long after, he saw Feng Ze rolling and crawling over from that side, looking panicked, almost as if he had seen a ghost.
"It's over ...... It's over, Mr. Xu, it's all over ......" Feng Ze was simply scared shitless, his whole body was in a panic, he fell down with one step and finally almost crawled to the front of Lord Xu, saying desperately, "Mr. Xu, you ...... your men, in the ground floor hall, all of them were killed, injured and disabled, none of them were in one piece ......"
"What?" Hearing these words of Feng Ze. Xu lord is simply like being hit by a bolt from the blue, he rounded his eyes, reached out and pulled Feng Ze up from the ground with one hand and said loudly." Say it again? Are you f*cking kidding me? That's five hundred people!"
Feng Ze was shivering with fear, as if the scene he had just witnessed had dealt him a huge blow, and he shuddered, "It's true, it's true indeed. It's unbearable!"
Hearing this, Lord Xu froze for a moment, and when he let go of his hand, Feng Ze landed heavily on the ground, falling in pain, grimacing and shouting.
But Xu lord could not care less, pointing at Feng Ze and continued to ask: "Is ...... what did it, see clearly?"
Feng Ze smiled. A horrified face looked at Shen Haoting, so nervous that he could not say anything.
But at this moment, Xu lord also until, the answer is no longer important, because at this moment, their own last can rely on a bottom card, but also completely disappeared.
He was at a loss as to what he should do. He was in a dilemma, not knowing how he should face the next situation.
And at that moment, Shen Haoting stood up from his chair, smiled lightly and walked towards him: "Mr Xu, where are your men? Oh, don't you have five hundred people? Don't you want to make my life worse than death?"
By now Shen Haoting had already walked up to Lord Xu, looking at him as if he were a pitiful and ridiculous worm.
Xu Lords heart was filled with grief and anger. But he knew that there was nothing more he could do.
He had wanted to avenge his son's death, but in the end, it turned out that he had nothing left to lose.
Surprisingly, he let out a bitter laugh. Looking up at Shen Haoting, he said indifferently, "You have won, Shen Haoting!"
Shen Haoting did not say a word, and even the gaze he regarded Xu Liao did not change much. He just looked at his opponent with contempt, then turned his head and prepared to leave.
It was true that for an opponent like Xu Liao. Shen Haoting simply did not even have the heart to win against him.
But the moment Shen Haoting had just turned around, Xu Lords gaze abruptly turned fierce, then he reached for his waist with one hand and pulled out a brightly shining dagger almost instantly.
"You've won! But I don't have the others yet!" Xu Lords suddenly shouted, and then he was caught off guard as he swung his dagger and charged at Shen Haoting.
Xu Lords knew very well that this was his only chance left.
His son was gone, his career was gone, and the five hundred men under him had been completely killed off.
All he could rely on now was himself and the dagger he had kept hidden on his body.
Originally, Shen Haoting had prepared this dagger to be used to torture Jiang Hao, but it seemed that he would not be able to use it this time.
So simply, let's use it on Shen Haoting's body!
Chapter 522
At such a close distance, and with Ye Yunjie and Jiang Hao still a few meters away from Shen Haoting, even if they saw themselves swinging their knives at Shen Haoting, they probably wouldn't even have time to react.
After all, Xu Liao was once a great lord of Chu River who had fought his way out by his own strength, and although he had long since stopped fighting himself over the years, he had never left behind his physical exercise.
So in his opinion. With his current physical quality, at such a close distance, even if this Shen Haoting had great skills and divine reflexes, he would definitely not be able to dodge his fatal blow.
Since he was already at the end of his rope, he could take Shen Haoting as his back. That was enough for him.
When he thought of this, he could not help but have a touch of smugness and fierceness in his eyes.
This sudden action of his really scared Jiang Hao and Ye Yunjie at the side.
Both of them were dumbfounded. Jiang Hao's eyes were wide as he watched the dagger, so sharp that it glinted with a cold, cold light, stabbing at his father.
But there was nothing he could do, not even enough time to shout the word "careful" at that moment.
Jiang Hao's heart was impatient ......
The moment she saw him pull out his dagger, her entire body subconsciously rushed forward.
But Xu was too close to Shen Haoting, less than thirty centimetres between them, while she was five metres away from them.
Even though Ye Yunjie was fast, even though she had received rigorous training since she was a child, even though she made a move the moment Xu Lords pulled out his dagger ......
But at the time the dagger, with its flashing cold light, was infinitely close to Shen Haoting, Ye Yunjie was still more than two meters away from the two.
She could only watch as the dagger stabbed at Shen Haoting's black jacket ......
It's over! Ye Yunjie's heart couldn't help but sink, although she knew that Shen Haoting was incredibly strong. But at such a close distance, she knew very well that Shen Haoting had no time to react, not even enough time to turn around ......
It seemed that everything was already a foregone conclusion!
But at that moment, a scene that left the crowd dumbfounded appeared.
It was almost an instant before a wave of Qi visible to the naked eye burst out from Shen Haoting's body.
The wave of Qi seemed to be wrapped with great force, creating a huge impact within a two-metre radius with Shen Haoting's body as the centre of the circle.
Before the dagger that Xu had stabbed at Shen Haoting could even touch his body, it was pushed away by the wave of Qi, and Xu had no time to react at all.
It was as if a small explosion had occurred, sending people and objects within two metres of Shen Haoting's body flying out instantly. Even Ye Yunjie, who was two meters away, also received the ripple effect, and her whole body was blown by the wave of air and shook ......
After the wave of air dispersed, everyone on the scene was stunned.
The reason is that within two meters of Shen Haoting, whether it be the murals on the walls, the wallpaper, or even the food carts parked against the walls, it almost seemed like they had all been torn apart by some terrible force, either completely unrecognizable or completely destroyed.
Xu and Feng were the closest to Shen Haoting, but they were both pushed away by the wave of air, and they both hit the wall not far away. The two of them hit the wall not far away, grimacing from the fall.
But what surprised them more than the physical pain was Shen Haoting's "ability" that had just burst out.
Indeed. They couldn't find a more accurate word to describe the energy they had just experienced than ability.
Superpower? Indeed, what Shen Haoting had just exploded out was indeed more akin to superpowers.
It was incomparably terrifying power, a power that they, mere mortals, had never seen in their entire lives.
Xu Lords were stunned as he stared at Shen Haoting with his jaw dropped. Murmuring and sighing, he said, "What the ...... hell are you?"
In Lord Xu's eyes, Shen Haoting, at this point, was simply not the same type of person as himself anymore.
Shen Haoting smiled faintly, his gaze still full of disdain: "Me? I'm someone you can't afford to mess with, huh, and you're worthy of coming to attack me? Don't you think you're too naive?"
Indeed. If Shen Haoting had said that he was naive, Xu Liao would have thought that it was because Shen Haoting was exaggerating, but now it seemed that from the beginning, he really had never put himself in his eyes.
This was something that Shen Haoting had known from the very beginning, but he was still in the dark, as naive as a three-year-old child. He thought he could easily kill his opponent with just a dagger.
Shen Haoting did not rest his gaze on Lord Xu too much, but turned to look at Jiang Hao and Ye Yunjie.
At this moment, Ye Yunjie was fine. She had always known that Shen Haoting was not an ordinary person, but she just did not expect that she had not been around Shen Haoting for such a long time. His abilities had actually improved so rapidly, even to the point of exaggeration.
"Is this ...... true qi outflow?" Ye Yunjie muttered.
Shen Haoting only smiled faintly at her and did not reply. But the smile was full of confidence, it was obvious that Shen Haoting was acquiescing to Ye Yunjie's question.
In this way, Ye Yunjie was even more surprised, to the extent that she was so excited that she did not know what to say.
Ye Yunjie still remembered clearly that there was a time when Shen Haoting had told her that she was a martial arts genius, and that it would not be long before she would be stronger than Shen Haoting.
At that time, Ye Yunjie was naive like a child and thought that this was really the case, so she began to work harder and harder to sharpen herself, hoping that the day that Shen Haoting said would come sooner.
Ye Yunjie has had a dream since she was a child that she would one day be able to truly become Shen Haoting's arm and be able to protect him, rather than having him protect her at every turn ......
It is only the scene just now that seems to have completely awakened Ye Yunjie from her fantasy.
It's ridiculous, I thought that in three or two years' time, I would really be able to surpass Shen Haoting.
But now it seemed that it was all just a distant dream, too far away.
Shen Haoting was already so strong that he could release his true qi, and she was still a hundred thousand miles away from this step.
How could she not be shocked, how could she not be chagrined, how could she not sigh.
Chapter 523
The one who was most surprised at this moment was also Jiang Hao.
Because in his common sense, it was impossible for such a thing to happen, and he understood even less what it was that his own father had just used.
It was as if something completely unfamiliar to him was placed in front of him. Jiang Hao was not at all surprised and curious, and did not have any other throwaway thoughts.
Jiang Hao suddenly realised that he still didn't seem to know enough about his father, so much so that he was surprisingly strong, and that he didn't know anything about what kind of strong man he really was.
Jiang Hao stared dumbfounded at what was in front of him. He was completely dumbfounded.
It took him a long time to come back to his senses.
And it was only when Jiang Hao came back to his senses that he was stunned to realise. Shen Haoting had, at some point, walked up to him, his face filled with a warm smile as he looked at himself.
"Dad ...... this ...... just now that was ...... exactly"
Jiang Hao was somewhat incoherent, and Shen Haoting did not answer him, but only smiled lightly, patted Jiang Hao's shoulder with one hand, and said lightly, "Let's go, I'll explain it to you myself when we get back."
Jiang Hao nodded woodenly and then followed Shen Haoting outside without consciousness.
Only just as Shen Haoting went outside, Ye Yunjie called out to him.
"Mr. Shen, aren't these people going to be disposed of?" Ye Yunjie asked, pointing at Xu Liao and Feng Ze on the ground.
In Ye Yunjie's opinion, just now this Xu Lords, who had the audacity to lay hands on Shen Haoting, such a crime was enough to make him die ten times in his own hands.
And as she spoke. Ye Yunjie had already taken out the delicate butterfly knife and walked towards Xu Lords and the others.
The action of Ye Yunjie really frightened Xu and Feng Ze, but Xu was more or less a man who had seen the world, and although his heart was in a state of panic, his face still pretended to be calm and composed.
The two secretaries, Feng Ze and Luo, had already gone limp and pissed themselves in fear.
Just now, Ye Yunjie had taken care of those seven or eight strong men with a casual move, compared to them, they were nothing.
The two of them were trembling as they retreated towards the corner behind them, looking at Ye Yunjie as if they had seen the god of death.
It was just at this moment. Shen Haoting, however, suddenly spoke up.
"Forget it." Shen Haoting said softly, "There is no need to deal with them personally, these people will have someone to deal with them sooner or later, and they will not end up in a good place after all!"
Shen Haoting's words caused Ye Yunjie to freeze, but then she put away her Butterfly Knife, looked at Xu Lords and Feng Ze and the others with abhorrence, and turned around to follow Shen Haoting and Jiang Hao's footsteps.
In fact, Ye Yunjie still wanted to finish these people off herself, after all, they were too hateful.
But since Shen Haoting had already said so, he could not go against Shen Haoting's wishes.
Besides, since Shen Haoting had already said that these people would not end up well, they were not destined to end up well, after all, Shen Haoting was not a good man or woman with a Bodhisattva's heart.
Those who have offended Shen Haoting. None of them have ever had a good end.
Even if you don't deal with them, someone will come to clean them up sooner or later.
The three of them kept walking towards the downstairs.
When they reached the lobby on the ground floor, Jiang Hao was stunned. This was because he was somewhat taken aback by the formation in front of him.
Only to see that at this moment in the hall on the ground floor of this restaurant, all of the several hundred people were all sprawled out on the ground, almost all of them moaning in pain.
Each and every one of these people had obviously been badly injured, with flesh and skin splitting open and arms and legs broken, and some of them were even spurting blood out of their mouths. It was clear that their internal organs had been bruised.
The entire hall was filled with wailing and howling, so much so that the guests eating in the entire restaurant had all been scared away by 80% to 90% at this time, and those who were still left were just scared silly and did not dare to move.
And at that moment. On both sides of the front door of the hotel, there were two rows of people, no less than a hundred in number, all dressed in uniform black suits.
These people, both male and female, held their heads high and formed two neat rows.
At the moment Shen Haoting appeared, only a loud voice could be heard from these two teams in unison.
"Greetings, Mr. Shen!"
The voice was deafening, like a flood of bells ringing in one's ears.
Jiang Hao couldn't help but be slightly startled and stopped to look at those people, and then at his father.
Looking at Jiang Hao's appearance, Shen Haoting also smiled lightly and explained, "Haha. No need to be nervous, these are my people, what happened down there just now. They were the ones who set things right."
As Shen Haoting finished speaking, he looked over at those people and nodded in satisfaction. Smiling, he said, "Not bad, it seems that this year, handing you all over to Little Ye. You guys have grown up again!"
These people were none other than the Lei group, those men that Shen Haoting had adopted and nurtured since childhood.
Shen Haoting looked at these people and could not help but be a little moved, although there were over a hundred of these people straight, he could call out each and every one of them by name, right down to each one's past and life.
In the past ten years or so, although these people were the men that Shen Haoting had raised to one day work for him, day by day they had grown to love each other, and at this moment, Shen Haoting treated them all as his own sons and daughters.
For each and every one of them, Shen would feel the loss, and it was because of his sincere treatment that these men would willingly work for him.
Shen Haoting briefly told Jiang Hao about the Thunder Group, and only then did Jiang Hao realise that everyone here was just like himself, or even had an even more tragic and miserable life than himself.
"Go!" Shen Haoting waved his hand, and the hundred or so people instantly sniffed and left the tavern.
In the next two days, it was as if a vast and boundless hurricane was blowing throughout Chu River.
The Xu family, which was once like a giant dragon in Chu River, was completely uprooted by Shen Haoting in just two days' time.
But Shen Haoting did not kill Xu Liao, but let him live in despair, letting him watch as he dismantled his huge family business step by step.
There was also that Chu family, which had completely collapsed in the storm.
Once they were able to tide themselves over with the financial support they received from Xu Tianlin, the Chu family still felt that this time they could watch Jiang Hao play out and see the project in the south of the city collapse.
But the result was that Shen Haoting had broken the Chu family with a single move of his finger.
The Chu family was finished, Chu Yuan's parents died of depression, and only one Chu Yuan was left, living as if he was a dog in distress.
For such a person, Shen Haoting did not even have the heart to dispose of him.
As for the upper echelon of the Chu River, Zheng Lao, who was once a barrier for Xu Liao and others and was expected to take over the top chair soon, was also not spared in this storm.
The storm lasted for half a month, and half a month later, it was as if Chu Jiang had changed the sky!