You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

"The...Blue...Wolf...Gang?"

He uttered those three words slowly and deliberately, grinding them out between his teeth, each one carrying a hint of blood.

He slowly turned around, his bloodshot eyes sweeping over his brothers behind him, who were equally enraged by the scene before them, wounded yet fiercely determined, before finally settling on Chen Yang, who was leaning against the Hummer door, his breath slightly weak from his injuries, but his eyes growing calmer and sharper.

Chen Yang remained silent, simply gazing at the chaotic ruins and the enraged Wang Shengxiong.

Zhao Cheng also got out of another car, clutching his chest. The scene before him made the murderous aura that had just subsided on his face surge back up.

"Heh...hehehe..." Wang Shengxiong chuckled, his laughter growing louder and wilder, filled with a kind of hysterical tyranny.

"The Green Wolf Gang? Lei Zhenyue? Bald Mad Tiger? Gao Wei?! Good! Good, good, good!"

The laughter stopped abruptly!

His face was contorted with extreme rage. He ripped off his tattered, blood-stained windbreaker and slammed it to the ground, revealing his muscular, scarred, bronze-like upper body and his pair of exaggerated alloy mechanical arms!
"Fuck you! Just because I don't roar doesn't mean I'm a sick dog! What day is it today? What kind of cats and dogs... dare to jump on my head, pee and shit, and stomp on me?!"

His roar shook the dust off the dilapidated bar roof.

"Brothers of the Wild Dog Gang! If you're still breathing, grab your weapons!!"

Wang Shengxiong pointed at the ruins, his voice echoing across the surrounding area.

"The Green Wolf Gang dared to bomb my convoy and smash my hideout!"

"Then don't blame me for tearing down his wolf den today and chopping off that old wolf Lei Zhenyue's head to use as a chamber pot!!"

"Awoooooo—!!"

The dozens of men who remained behind him were ruthless thugs who had always lived on the edge and were still full of blood and guts. Now, they were completely ignited by the humiliation of their own headquarters being smashed and by their boss’s rage. Like a pack of wolves with their fur standing on end, they roared a deafening battle cry!

The crisp click of the trigger puller's hammer, the screeching sound of a cleaver being pulled out, and the ear-piercing scraping of a heavy steel pipe dragging on the ground instantly formed a dangerous concerto!
The massive engine roared to life! Wang Shengxiong jumped onto the almost intact armored Hummer and slammed his fist on the steering wheel.

"Chen Yang! Get in the car! My warhammer is broken, but I still have this 'Thunderclap'! Come with me to the suburbs today. I want to see for myself just how sturdy 'Wolf Head Manor' really is, those beasts in human skin from the Green Wolf Gang!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Yang opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat with swift movements. Jiang He's eyes flashed with a scrutinizing gaze, but he did not stop him, disappearing into the shadows of the corner.

Zhao Cheng was helped back to his car by his men.

"Keep up! I want to see just how many hungry wolves are lurking beneath the waters of this coastal city!"

The convoy roared to life, carrying dozens of "wild dogs" ignited with the flames of revenge. It smashed through the wreckage of bars along the road, like a pack of raging steel beasts, tearing through the darkness of dawn and roaring as it charged toward the deep mountains on the outskirts of the city where the Green Wolf Gang was entrenched!

Destination—the headquarters of the Green Wolf Gang, Wolf Head Manor!
The Wolf Head Manor, the stronghold of the Green Wolf Gang, is nestled deep within a vast, rolling hilly area west of Binhai City. The roads leading to the manor have long been privatized.

The sign that read "No Entry Without Permission" looked like sharp teeth in the darkness.

Rumble!
The armored Humvee "Thunderbolt," like a steel bison covered in thorns, brutally smashed and twisted the rising barricades blocking its path! Vehicles following closely behind roared like thunder, kicking up clouds of dust. A piercing siren shattered the silence of the forest.

The manor's massive, dark silhouette loomed faintly at the edge of the woods ahead.

The towering wall stretches for almost half a hill, topped with a dense array of barbed wire that gleams coldly.

The two incredibly heavy doors, seemingly made of a single piece of ebony and studded with huge bronze wolf-head nails, were tightly shut.

Behind the gate, on a towering watchtower, a blinding searchlight, like the cold, vertical pupils of a giant wolf, suddenly shone down, shrouding the "Thunderbolt" that had brazenly forced the ship to a stop at the forefront!
Whoosh!

With the screeching of metal scraping and the sound of synchronized footsteps, the wide platform inside the gate was already filled with the glint of swords! More than a hundred elite members of the Green Wolf Gang, dressed in uniform black outfits with ferocious wolf head emblems on their chests, formed an extremely imposing formation.

The front row consisted entirely of men wearing half-face metal headbands and gripping sturdy shields made of thick wood covered with iron, from which gleaming long-handled axes or thick-backed machetes protruded. The two rear rows each carried an armor-piercing crossbow or a short-barreled shotgun, its dark muzzle raised in unison, aiming at the intruding convoy!
The intense killing intent, like a tangible cold current, instantly enveloped the entire intersection!

"Hey! Where did this scoundrel come from! You've eaten the Heavenly Wolf Pill and you still have the guts of a leopard! Daring to ram the gatepost of Wolf Head Manor?!"

An extremely arrogant voice boomed from the high watchtower through the loudspeaker, loud and piercing, carrying undisguised contempt.

The sound was still echoing in the night sky when Wang Shengxiong pushed open the heavy armored door of the Hummer.

His towering figure was fully exposed under the blinding spotlight, like a bronze colossus scarred by war. The bloodstains splattered on his face, already congealed into dark black, looked particularly gruesome under the intense light.

Dozens of Wild Dog Gang members, their faces also covered in blood and their eyes fierce like wounded lone wolves, got out of the car.

The clanging of guns being cocked and blades being drawn created a chilling wave of killing intent!
Wang Shengxiong slowly raised his head, his huge eyes, narrowed in the bright light, bloodshot yet burning with flames, suddenly staring at the watchtower, completely ignoring the more than one hundred guns and crossbows aimed at him below.

He opened his mouth, but instead of roaring or howling, the deep sound waves, filled with his anger and ferocity, were like the horn of an ancient war god, overwhelming the previous loudspeaker and engine roar, and crashing down on the entire manor like rolling thunder.

"Lei Zhenyue—!!!"

The three words were like three invisible hammers, slamming into the tense hearts of everyone in the Green Wolf Gang! The solemn and orderly ranks on the platform seemed to experience a momentary, almost imperceptible commotion.

"I, Wang Shengxiong—am here!!!"

Wang Shengxiong stepped forward, each step making a dull thud on the gravel, each step carrying the momentum to shatter the earth.

"Smash my nest, hurt my brothers!"

He pointed to the group of men behind him, covered in blood and dust.

"Today is the day I'm here to collect my debt! You're a real man, a wolf cub who stands up and pisssssss, not a cowardly turtle! I'll make sure the leader of your Green Wolf Gang comes out and meets me in person! Don't be a spineless coward hiding in your dog hole and wolf den and stinking!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a tsunami of angry curses erupted from the elite ranks of the Green Wolf Gang on the other side.

"You bastard, you're asking for it!"

"Those scum from the Wild Dog Gang are tired of living!"

"How dare he insult the gang leader! Kill him! Chop him up and feed him to the dogs!"

"Fire arrows! Shoot this rotten dog to death!"

The shouts and curses surged into a raging torrent, the murderous aura on the platform intensified, the muzzles of crossbows and guns remained motionless, and countless eyes fiercely locked onto Wang Shengxiong's vital points.

At that very moment, when tensions were running high and an explosion was imminent!

"Buzz—Squeak—Crack—!"

The two heavy, tightly closed ebony doors of the manor surprisingly creaked open with a dull, ancient sound! The doors didn't open completely, but rather, with a teeth-grinding scraping sound, they slowly opened a crack. A figure stepped out through that narrow gap.

On the brightly lit platform, the elite members of the Green Wolf Gang, as imposing as a forest of menace, fell into an instant deathly silence upon seeing this person appear! It was as if an invisible giant hand had gripped their throats! The anger and contempt in the hundreds of eyes quickly transformed into deep awe and fanaticism! The shield wall at the forefront parted like a tide, respectfully making way for him.

The man who came out was a man in his forties or fifties.

He wasn't particularly tall, but his frame was extremely broad. He wore a well-tailored dark silver-gray Zhongshan suit and layered black cloth shoes. His face was ordinary, except for a thin, old scar on his left cheek that ran diagonally from the corner of his eye to his jawline, adding an indescribable sharpness to his features.

What was most striking were his hands—large, prominent finger bones, unusually broad palms, and skin with a solid, almost ivory-like sheen. His fingernails were trimmed extremely short, gleaming with a cold, jade-like quality. He wore no rings.

He simply stood there calmly, his gaze sweeping over the menacing crowd and the wrecked roadblocks outside the door before finally settling on Wang Shengxiong, who stood at the very front like an angry Vajra.

The pressure of the entire space seemed to converge on him all at once.

The hot-blooded men of the Wild Dog Gang behind Wang Shengxiong instinctively avoided his gaze, feeling a sudden, inexplicable tightening in their hearts.

The man spoke. His voice was not loud, his pace was even, and there was hardly any inflection, yet it reached the ears of everyone present with crystal clarity, carrying an unquestionable, cold sense of order.

"Mr. Wang, you are a guest from afar."

He didn't even address him as "Old Master Wang" or "Wang Shengxiong," as if he were just calling an ordinary resident.

"However, the headquarters of the Green Wolf Gang has its own rules."

The door was ajar; it was for respectable people to pass through.

His gaze swept indifferently over the dozens of men behind Wang Shengxiong, who were menacing and carrying weapons, his eyes calm and unwavering.

"You may bring two people in."

Those hands, with their jade-like coldness, hung casually at her sides, palms facing inward, as if they were not holding anything.

He slightly raised his eyes, his gaze passing over Wang Shengxiong and landing on the armored Humvee, his tone remaining calm.

"As for the others?"

He uttered a few cold words without any emotion.

"Stay outside and wait."

The area inside the doorway isn't a place where just anything... can step inside.

These words were like pouring a ladle of ice water into boiling oil!
Fuck your mother!

A man with a hideous scar across his face behind Wang Shengxiong couldn't help but curse loudly.

"I'm looking at you..."

Before the words were even finished!

puff!
A faint, almost invisible beam of dark light suddenly shot out from a corner of the platform behind the man who opened the door!
The scarred man's wrist, which was gripping the knife, was severed cleanly at the root! The severed hand and the machete fell to the ground together!
He didn't even have time to react until the hot blood spurted from his wrist splashed all over his face before he let out a shrill scream!

All the elite members of the Green Wolf Gang stood motionless on the platform, as if nothing had happened. The man who opened the door didn't even lift his eyelids.

"Noisy."

The man who opened the door said something indifferently, then looked back at Wang Shengxiong, whose eyebrows were twitching violently and whose temple veins were almost bursting.

"Mr. Wang, are you still bringing the person? The gang leader is waiting in the inner courtyard."

Wang Shengxiong stared intently at his subordinate, who was curled up on the ground in excruciating pain, his wrist held down by his comrades to stop the bleeding. His teeth were grinding together, and his bloodshot eyes were almost spitting out real flames. He stared at the man whose eyes were as unfathomable as an ancient well, whose attitude was insulting yet impossible to refute.

"Good! Good manners! I... I've learned my lesson!"

In just a few seconds, Wang Shengxiong's anger seemed to be forcibly suppressed into a deeper brew, his voice became hoarse and low, revealing an even more dangerous chill.

He turned around abruptly, his gaze sweeping over Chen Yang.

Without a word, Chen Yang stepped forward and calmly stood beside Wang Shengxiong. The trail of dark light he'd seen just moments before was extremely subtle, yet he'd caught it. A hidden weapon? Or some kind of compressed energy beam? This Green Wolf Gang… truly a den of dragons and tigers, their methods unpredictable and ruthless.

"Just him!"

Wang Shengxiong pointed at Chen Yang, his voice like the scraping of metal.

"lead the way!"

He wanted to see what kind of battle they could wage in this wolf den!
The man who opened the door then turned slightly to Wang Shengxiong and Chen Yang, making a simple yet subtly distant and scrutinizing "please" gesture.

Then, he turned around first and walked unhurriedly back towards the pitch-black door that was only slightly ajar, like a gaping maw.

Heavy footsteps pounded on the cold, black stone pavement.

Wang Shengxiong suppressed his breathing, which sounded like muffled thunder.

Chen Yang's steps were as steady as those of someone from an abyss.

Behind him were dozens of eyes burning with humiliation and anger, yet forced to stop at the door.

Before him was a heavy, oppressive darkness that slowly swallowed the faint light from outside the door, drawing ever closer.

Chen Yang slightly raised his eyes, his pupils adjusting to the increasingly intense light inside… He finally saw clearly what lay behind that door: the mysterious, blood-soaked headquarters of the Green Wolf Gang—

What kind of manor is this?!
……

The heavy ebony door slowly closed behind them, shutting out the burning gazes of the Wild Dog Gang men outside and the chilly night wind of the mountains.

The door slammed shut with a clang, followed by the dull hum of a complex mechanical lock cylinder, as if a giant beast had snapped its last teeth together.

Beyond the door lies another world.

Contrary to expectations of luxurious decay, the initial stench was replaced by a somber, metallic smell of gunpowder, sweat, engine oil, and steel. The lighting was dim, primarily from tubular spotlights with a cold, icy blue glow embedded high in the walls lining the passageway. Visibility cleared after a brief interplay of light and shadow.

Before them lay a vast passage, six or seven meters wide, stretching into the unknown darkness. The ground was rough, solid, dark gray concrete, polished exceptionally smooth, bearing deep tire tracks and marks from the dragging and scraping of some heavy object. (End of Chapter)