CHAPTER 5: WHAT I HATE THE MOST
“Yang Chen, the money you were told to prepare, is it ready? We need some cash for breakfast and drinks.” – Chen Feng smirks while turning the silver chain on his wrist.
Old man Lee anxiously steps in front of Yang Chen and says: “Chen Feng, don’t bully people too much! Even if your father, Boss Chen, is the boss of the area, what qualifications do you have to collect protection money? Boss Chen already said that as long as a shop is not open, it doesn’t have to pay the protection fee! Do you think we don’t know that?”
Chen Feng’s father, Chen Dehai, is one of the infamous underworld gang leaders in the Western zone. If not for that, Chen Feng wouldn’t be brazenly collecting protection money everywhere like this. When he hears old man Lee threatening him with his father’s name, Chen Feng gazes back coldly: “Old geezer, who the hell do you think you are? Do you think I’ll be scared if you mention my dad? He’s my dad, not your grandson! I’m nice enough to go and personally collect your money! Instead of the easy way, you want it the hard way eh?”
“You…” As he finishes his sentence, old man Lee realizes he almost offended Boss Chen. After all, they are still father and son while he’s only an outsider. However he can’t back down from the argument he started. But before he’s able to continue, Yang Chen from behind pulls him backward.
Yang Chen frowns and massages his head as if he has a headache. As he is pulling old Lee backward, he nonchalantly says to Chen Feng: “You’re called… Chen Feng, right? I’ll call you Big Brother Feng this time, please don’t make a mountain out of a molehill, I don’t want any trouble either. However, I don’t have money today, but rest assured I’ll give it to you in a few days, so you should go back first.”
One goon starts laughing: “Ayyyy… Big Bro Feng, does this brat think he’s the Boss? Does he expect us to actually go when he tells us to?”
The other delinquents also start laughing, some even want to “teach this brat a lesson.”
Chen Feng looks like he’s watching funniest joke in the world, but he is currently enraged by Yang Chen’s line. He then smiles maliciously: “Yang Chen, wanna repeat what you just said again? Wanna get you tongue cut off?”
His eyes show a glimpse of ruthlessness as he finishes his sentence.
Yang Chen then starts to lose his cool and says while looking at Chen Feng:
– Do you know what type of people I hate the most?
– What…
Chen Feng is unable to finish his sentence as he finds his body in mid-air and his stomach in pain. Then, with a “pomf” (TN: heh :3) he lands on a pile of garbage on the side of the road is clothes get soaked with rancid water and covered with musty leftover food.
– The type of people I hate the most are people who threaten me……
Yang Chen only made one simple push. He pulls back his arm as he walks toward the spot where Chen Feng was previously standing.
Chen Feng is furious from being pushed, his nose and mouth are filled with fresh blood, accompanied with the stench of the garbage. He starts puking when he notices the stench of fresh blood in his nose and mouth accompanied by the stench of garbage.
– You brat, you dare to beat our brother Feng, do you want to die already?
– Let’s beat him to death!
The bunch of delinquents don’t understand what happened, nor how Yang Chen achieved that feat, but since they see that their leader got beaten up and they are the majority, the goons start flocking in and fighting chaotically.
Yang Chen didn’t bother looking as he uses only his hands and pushes them all toward the roadside, ignoring their punches and kicks.
The delinquents can only feel their hands or feet get hit by a strong force as their bodies fly backward and hit the cemented road. Unable to tolerate the pain, they start screaming loudly.
The gang looks at the uninjured, untouched Yang Chen and realizes they picked the wrong target. Even Chen Feng, who is crawling out of the garbage dump, starts sweating as he sees that his gang of retired soldiers were useless against Yang Chen even though those men were his dad’s trump card. Each of them on their own can take on ten people easily, yet this man in front of them can stay relaxed while rapidly throwing all of them around as if they were cats and dogs (TN: No animals were harmed in the translation process). Even if these goons never studied martial arts, they have been fighting since they were young and went through military training, how does one “normal” person can fight them to this extent?
– Let’s go!
Chen Feng’s face is itching with anger, but he is unable to hold onto his dignity when he sees Yang Chen’s calm face. As if he seeing a demon, he hurriedly grabs his goons and runs.