The old man sat in front of a monitor. In the monitor there are security footages of different rooms, on the top left, there is a chubby guy that laid on the floor, his mouth foaming and the ground his body laid on is bloody.
Below that is a thin and frail old man, his bones visible underneath the clothing he is wearing.
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To satiate his boredom, Apollo would go for a walk every night at exactly 12:00 am, it became a weird habit for him to walk in a quiet neighborhood and whistle a song he got from Li Feng's memories.
The neighborhood isn't exactly what you would call a 'safe' neighborhood, it's filled with thugs and criminals, some are even killers and mercenaries.
It's far from his restaurant, but location isn't really a problem for him, given how sensitive his hearing is, going to a quiet neighborhood is a change of pace.
Walking down the side of the road, his arms tucked in his pockets and whistling the tune of a song he has listened to, he felt gazes lock on to him like a predator watching its prey from afar.
They tried to hide their killing intent but it still leaked out. Dollar signs appeared in their eyes as they looked at Apollo, even though they are criminals, they knew how much clothes are worth, and looking at the clothes Apollo is wearing, just the material alone could fetch them a hefty ten grand, if they are right with their assumptions.
They held their daggers tight and immediately pounced on Apollo from all sides, it's clear that they have been practicing this formation for a long time and have been successful on using it seeing how coordinated they are.
The speed they showed isn't just fast, they got close to Apollo real fast, as if they were only a few meters away from him. Gripping his harder tight, he instantly went for Apollo's throat.
Expecting that he would hear the usual sharp object penetrating bare skin and the loud cry of agony from his victim, he waited, until a loud clang echoed throughout the neighborhood, like a metal object hitting another metal object.
Without hesitation, he signalled his allies to retreat. Hearing a loud clang when ambushing a target isn't really him missing his target and hitting his allie's weapon, it could also be the target being skilled and defended fast enough.
Looking at the five guys trying to ambush him, Apollo couldn't help but chuckled. Their ambush formation isn't really perfect, so that's why they had already got that covered up.
They ran from all directions thinking that they could still escape, but with a snap of Apollo's fingers, they went back to the roadside of where Apollo is standing.
Letting out a sliver of his aura, the brittle ground beneath Apollo started to crack and the five guys that tried to ambush him instantly dropped to the ground.
'An inner martial artist!' a drop of cold sweat formed in his back while he laid on the ground.
Apollo crouched on the ground and removed the mask of the guy who signalled for retreat a while ago.
Ever since he got back to earth, Apollo hadn't offended someone capable enough to hire these five guys, so he's curious as to what they were aiming for.
Opening black clothing that covered the guy's face, what greeted him isn't even a guy, it was instead, a woman.
She tried to resist by biting Apollo's arm, but it was all for naught, Apollo's arm is so hard that her teeth almost cracked.
Her delicate face touched the gravel on the ground, her eyes reflected the moon the shone brightly in the quiet night. Apollo furrowed his eyebrows, "What's your motive?"
Seeing that they got a hard time to even breath, Apollo lowered the pressure. Even after regaining her ability to breath, their acting leader still didn't speak, so, Apollo put a miniscule amount of pressure to her again.
The ground beneath her cracked and made a spider web pattern, it would not be long before she could exhale her last breath and be dead for good, "Ok-okay! I-I'll talk!"
In this dangerous neighborhood, one would need to have a back up plan just in case, so she purposely made her voice louder to notify other people.
One thing she didn't know is that Apollo had already teleported them to a space only accessible by him. In the outside it would look like a normal, empty sidewalk; but in his space, he could do whatever he wants with no one noticing.
After waiting for nearly five minutes, no one came, she looked at the empty street, shouting as loud as she can but to no avail, she turned her gaze towards Apollo. Anger, confusion, and fear written all over her face.
Their group is quite famous in the neighborhood. Even though it's called a neighborhood, it's more appropriate to call it a ghost town, the people that live in this ghost town are either fugitives or serial killers.
A command from her could round up everyone in the neighborhood and would obediently do her bidding, so it's strange for her to shout for help and nobody came.
"Are you gonna talk or are you just gonna wait for your so-called slaves to come to you for help?" Apollo has already read her thoughts about escaping, so he asked.
A hint of fear slowly crept up to her, the feeling of hopelessness, feeling powerless as she laid down on the ground while a monster in human's skin interrogated her.
While waiting in the shadows, she thought that she could slaughter the guy in front of her, however, the opposite happened and she could be at death's door at any moment if she made the slightest mistake in offending the monster in front of her.
Apollo slowly raised his hands, further instilling the fear that is slowly growing in the woman's heart.
Her heartbeat slowly grew faster as she saw the man in front of her raised his hands, the people behind her that also laid on the ground fainted long ago, "I'll talk!"
When she looked up again, instead of fear, she has a confused expression on her face. She thought that the man raised his hand to kill them instantly, but instead, he raised his hand to pick his nose!
The two stared at each other, the woman that laid on the ground tried so hard to not laugh but a small chuckled got out. Done picking his nose, Apollo said, "Oh, go on. Talk."
The woman sighed, "Each of us here has problems, financial problems, so we resort to robbery, or worse, killing people."
Apollo nodded in satisfaction, if the woman were to lie however, he would have no problems killing all of them to get it over with.
"Do you guys want a job?"
"Wha-" her vision turned black before she could even finish.