Chapter 680 - 419: I Insulted You and I Was Rude, So What Are You Going to Do About It?

Chapter 680: Chapter 419: I Insulted You and I Was Rude, So What Are You Going to Do About It?

The Night was hazy.

The Red Blood Gang members on guard duty in front of the warehouse were chatting lazily.

Suddenly, the two guards saw three figures approaching in the distance. They immediately grew alert. After all, an attack had occurred just a few days prior.

As the three figures drew closer, the guards recognized them, relaxed, and greeted in unison.

"Gang Leader!!!"

Fang Jingtang nodded at his men and motioned for them to open the warehouse. He wanted to inspect the contents.

CLICK.

The guard took a key from his waist, unlocked the heavy lock, and pushed open the massive warehouse doors.

CLICK.

A switch was mounted on the wall just inside the door. He flicked it, and a faint Spiritual Energy Wave emanated from the fixtures on the ceiling. Then, one by one, the lamps blinked to life.

White light poured down from the fixtures overhead, illuminating the entire one-thousand-square-meter warehouse.

The warehouse before them was filled with wooden crates, neatly stacked together.

All of this cargo had arrived at the docks today. Tomorrow morning, a dedicated transport team would take it to the location specified by the client.

"Liu Qizhi, there can be no mistakes with this shipment. You will personally lead the transport team tomorrow morning." After inspecting the large warehouse and finding no issues, Fang Jingtang turned to Liu Qizhi, who was at his side.

The words had barely left his mouth when Lu Tao, a loyal servant of the Wu Family standing nearby, cut in.

"The client for this shipment only gave you this contract out of respect for my master. If you mess this up, you’ll be disgracing him."

Hearing Lu Tao’s words, Liu Qizhi’s expression grew solemn. He thumped his chest and vowed, "Gang Leader, Lu, rest assured! I’ll be in charge. This shipment will go off without a hitch..."

"Mm." Fang Jingtang nodded, pleased with Liu Qizhi’s attitude. Lu Tao, however, spoke with blatant arrogance.

"Let’s hope so. Otherwise, if my master finds out you can’t even handle a simple task like this, who knows what the consequences might be..."

Fang Jingtang and Liu Qizhi fell silent. If it weren’t for Lu Tao’s status, they would have loved nothing more than to slam the arrogant bastard to the ground, beat him senseless, stuff him in a sack, and dump him in the river.

"Alright, tonight’s inspection is pretty much over. Let’s head back," Lu Tao said to Fang Jingtang and Liu Qizhi.

The way he gave orders with such a superior air made it seem as if he were the real Gang Leader of the Red Blood Gang.

Liu Qizhi glanced at Fang Jingtang, saw the veins bulging on his forehead, and quickly looked away.

Suppressing his rage, Fang Jingtang forced an unnatural smile. "Lu," he said, his voice stiff, "thank you for accompanying me on my rounds tonight..."

"If you weren’t all so useless, I wouldn’t have to put in the effort." Lu Tao met Fang Jingtang’s strained pleasantries with yet another dose of arrogant humiliation.

Faced with Lu Tao’s repeated disrespect, Fang Jingtang felt his rage was about to boil over.

’It’s one thing for him to disrespect me when we’re alone,’ he thought, ’but to do it in front of my own men... this is going too far.’

"Ahem..." Sensing that Fang Jingtang’s anger was about to erupt, Liu Qizhi, the bystander, quickly feigned a sore throat. He cleared his throat and said something to defuse the tension.

"Gang Leader, Lu, everyone’s been working hard lately. How about we all go to the brothel tomorrow to unwind?"

At Liu Qizhi’s words, the furious Fang Jingtang calmed down slightly. Lu Tao, for his part, mulled over the thought of enjoying himself at the brothel tomorrow and stopped taunting Fang Jingtang.

"Alright. Go and inform everyone. We’ll all head to the brothel tomorrow evening."

Fang Jingtang figured that a trip to the brothel might help improve relations with Lu Tao and the men from the Wu Family, hopefully putting an end to their constant humiliation.

After finishing their inspection, the three men left the warehouse. Just as they stepped outside and the guards began to close the doors, a strange noise came from overhead.

WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH...

"Hm? What’s that sound?"

The three men looked up at the sky. When they saw more than a dozen orange-red fireballs, each a meter in diameter, streaking toward them from the distance, their expressions first went blank with shock, then twisted into horror.

"Ambush!!!" Liu Qizhi was the first to react, letting out a roar.

"Is it him?!!!" Panic flashed in Fang Jingtang’s eyes, his face a mask of horror as a terrifying figure surfaced in his mind.

"Someone actually dares to attack us head-on!" Upon seeing the more than a dozen fireballs in the sky, the arrogant Lu Tao was terrified. All of his prior condescension vanished.

After all, his strength was only at Tier One Peak. He might seem strong to an ordinary person, but in a battle between true Cultivators, his power was nothing to speak of.

When it came time for a real fight, it was clear that he was nothing more than a spineless lackey who bullied people by flaunting his connections.

The dozens of fireballs stood out starkly against the night sky. Their target, however, was not Fang Jingtang and the other two men.