Chapter 53 — A Sensational Fight, Part One: Begging for Recommendations, Begging for Collections! Fourth Update Today!

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"Damn it! You have got some nerve!" Brother Black Panther flew into a rage when he heard Wei Zhao dare to speak to him in that tone, and he reached out to grab Wei Zhao by the collar.

Wei Zhao suddenly shot out his left hand and seized Brother Black Panther's right wrist, then stretched out his right hand and pinched Brother Black Panther's cheeks, and with a flick of his fingers he flipped the half cigarette from his lips straight into his mouth.

"Ow!" Brother Black Panther let out a howl as the burning butt dropped into his throat and instantly scalded a big blister there.

With a pull and a shove of his left hand, Wei Zhao sent the rattled Brother Black Panther stumbling off to one side.

Brother Black Panther stood with his mouth hanging open, fanning frantically with his hand and panting hard, like a little dog sticking out its tongue to cool off.

Zou Ruoming had lain in the school infirmary for half the day, getting rubbed and massaged until he finally came around. With a band-aid stuck on his nose, he was helped out by his men, and his head was still buzzing.

"Damn it, which class is that kid from?" Zou Ruoming said bitterly. "Find him for me. I will beat him until even his mother cannot recognize him."

"We do not know either..." Zou Ruoming's men had no idea which class Wei Zhao belonged to. There were far too many ordinary students in school uniforms, and none of them ever drew anyone's attention.

"Damn it, there is no doubt he is from our school. You go find him. After class, search room by room. Once you find him, beat him to death!" Zou Ruoming said viciously.

"Do not worry, Brother Ming!" his men answered hurriedly. Although Wei Zhao's skill had frightened them before, now they had numbers on their side, so why fear him alone?

When they came out of the school infirmary, they found the school in the middle of morning break exercises. One sharp-eyed follower of Zou Ruoming spotted Zhong Yongliang and Brother Black Panther and the others walking in through the gate, and he pointed at them at once. "Brother Ming, look, is that not Zhong Yongliang and his gang? The ones behind them do not look like students from our school!"

"Oh?" Zou Ruoming looked up toward where his man was pointing, and sure enough he saw Zhong Yongliang, Gao Xiaofu and Zhang Naipao strutting into the school, followed by three burly giants. Among the three, the leader with his bare chest covered in tattoos was someone Zou Ruoming recognized! He was the rather famous Brother Black Panther from the streets. Zou Ruoming's elder brother had drunk with him and had once brought Zou Ruoming along, so Zou Ruoming remembered him well. He said to his men, "That man is Brother Black Panther. He is very famous on the streets and known for being able to fight. I wonder how Zhong Yongliang managed to bring him here?"

"Could he be here to deal with a student in our school?" one of Zou Ruoming's men guessed.

"I do not know, but is this not making a mountain out of a molehill? To fix a student in our school, does he really need to call in Brother Black Panther?" Zou Ruoming shook his head, unable to figure out what Zhong Yongliang was really after.

With the mindset of watching a good show, Zou Ruoming sat down with his men on a bench on campus to watch how things developed. Zou Ruoming was also curious about just who could make Zhong Yongliang mobilize on such a scale.

Suddenly Zou Ruoming remembered seeing Zhong Yongliang and his crew last night, all beaten black and blue. He had asked Zhong Yongliang what had happened at the time, but Zhong Yongliang would not say. Could it be that someone had beaten them up, and today they had come for revenge?

The more Zou Ruoming thought about it, the more likely it seemed, and he could not help finding it funny. This Zhong Yongliang was getting more and more useless, to actually get fixed by a student in school and have to borrow muscle from the outside to settle it. What was even funnier was that the guy had claimed they were just fooling around and had hit each other for fun.

"Huh? Brother Ming, why does that kid look so familiar?" one of Zou Ruoming's men cried out in surprise, pointing toward Brother Black Panther.

"Holy shit! Is that not the kid who smashed Brother Ming with the basketball?" another man recognized Wei Zhao at once.

Zou Ruoming quickly fixed his eyes on him, and sure enough, it really was the same kid who had smashed him with the basketball that morning!

"Brother Ming, what do we do now?" Zou Ruoming's men were instantly itching to move, ready to win credit.

"Do not move yet. This kid seems to have crossed Zhong Yongliang. Since that is the case, let Brother Black Panther fix him up just the same. We are in no hurry to go up!" Zou Ruoming said calmly.

Although Zou Ruoming's expression was very calm, stormy waves were surging in his heart! Zhong Yongliang might not fight as well as he did, but his two men Zhang Naipao and Gao Xiaofu were no pushovers. If they could suffer a loss at Wei Zhao's hands and even call in people from the outside, then this Wei Zhao was truly no simple character!

When he had been hit by the basketball before, he had thought it was an accident, but looking at it now, it was not that at all. If Wei Zhao did not have some real skill, he could never have alarmed Brother Black Panther.

So Zou Ruoming was in no hurry to go looking for trouble with Wei Zhao. With Brother Black Panther stepping forward anyway, he would let Brother Black Panther give the kid a beating first.

But what happened next left Zou Ruoming and the others completely stunned! Before they could even see what had happened, they saw Brother Black Panther clutching his mouth, howling and hopping up and down on the spot...

When had Brother Black Panther ever suffered such a humiliation? To actually fall into a student's trap made him so furious his lungs nearly burst. Ignoring the pain in his throat, his eyes red, he swung his fist and smashed it straight toward Wei Zhao.

Wei Zhao could see it too. Brother Black Panther was the kind of tough-trained man with enormous strength. Although Wei Zhao was not afraid of him at all, let alone his fists, since Old Man Wei used to hit him with an iron rod and nothing ever happened. But Wei Zhao did not want to show off too much in school. After all, to take a punch like that and have nothing happen would inevitably draw other people's attention.

So Wei Zhao dodged swiftly to one side, and Brother Black Panther's fist hit empty air. Then Wei Zhao's body shifted at a very fast speed to get behind Brother Black Panther. Wei Zhao raised his foot and kicked hard right at Brother Black Panther's butt.

Of course, this was the same move Wei Zhao had used to kick Zhong Yongliang before school started. Wei Zhao wanted to beat the man in front of him with such a simple move, so he acted more like a street punk in a brawl, with no form at all.

Wei Zhao did not want to expose his real skill in public. After all, what Old Man Wei had taught him was mostly about assassination, so Wei Zhao did not want too many people to learn his background, and thus he used brute force instead.

Brother Black Panther was far bulkier than Zhong Yongliang, but with one kick from Wei Zhao, he could have kicked a hole through a car, let alone Brother Black Panther. Only Wei Zhao did not want to earn a charge of crippling someone in broad daylight. A lesson was enough. He did not want to make Brother Black Panther's pelvis explode here and leave him unable to walk for the rest of his life.

Without any doubt, Brother Black Panther gave a miserable scream and fell face-first onto the school's concrete playground, instantly splitting his head open and drawing blood...