"Let go of my friend." Xu Yang glared fiercely at the thugs, although he was faint of heart.
"Huh? Three kids, trying to act like heroes and rescue the damsel in distress. Have you even reached puberty? Fuck off! Don't you dare to poke your nose into my business, or I'll make your life a living hell," the bald man sneered.
His sidekicks laughed along with him.
Xu Yang clenched both hands tightened into fists, spread his legs slightly to lower his center of gravity. He got into a Taekwondo stance.
"Let go of her—quick! Our brother, Xu Yang, here has got a black belt in Taekwondo," a boy standing behind Xu Yang immediately worked up his courage and shouted.
When Su Mo and her classmates saw Xu Yang's stance, hope lit their eyes.
"Taekwondo, huh?"
The bald man rubbed his head with a vile smirk on his face and waved at the others, "Go on, teach these three ignorant kids a lesson!"
After getting the order, the thugs clenched their fists and walked toward Xu Yang and the two boys, smiling coldly.
Xu Yang had started learning Taekwondo when he was little; he did know a move or two.
He raised his legs and took down the thug, who led the way with a front kick. Next, he attacked another with a sidekick, causing that guy to stumble two steps back. He then spun around dashingly, taking one more down with a roundhouse kick.
[Taekwondo proficiency +2]
[Taekwondo proficiency +2]
Su Chen watched ardently as the familiar notifications rang in his mind.
Xu Yang's moves were as bold as those of a tiger. They completely petrified the other two thugs, who did not get hit.
But…!
Xu Yang did not inflict enough pain.
The three men stood up shortly afterward and gawked furiously at Xu Yang.
"What are you scared of? Take him down, together!" the bald man roared and kicked one of his sidekicks' asses.
Taekwondo was the kind of martial art that focused mainly on performance. If one did not really put effort and strength in it, honestly, working out in the gym to become fitter was more practical.
A popular clip on a short video social media not long ago was indeed about a gang fight between some Taekwondo apprentices and some gym-goers. After a few minutes had gone by, the burly gym-goers, who were unscathed, had knocked the Taekwondo apprentices to the floor.
The gangsters were startled by Xu Yang's moves, which was why Xu Yang had the upper hand. Now, all of them came at Xu Yang at the same time. They took him down in split seconds. Two men held him down and hit him in the face.
They also beat the other two boys, who cried in pain.
The girls turned pale when they saw this. Su Mo took her phone out to call the police.
"Grab her phone!" ordered the bald guy while pointing at Su Mo. He looked at her with fire in his eyes.
This girl is much prettier, the bald guy thought.
One of the thugs rushed toward Su Mo instantly. The girls were terrified.
Su Chen stepped forward and stood in front of his sister. He clenched his fist and punched the guy in the face.
If this played out in slow motion like a scene in a movie, it would be clear that the guy's face distorted as soon as it came in contact with Su Chen's fist. Su Chen knocked out two of his teeth. The bloody teeth flew out of his mouth, and his body was hurled onto the wall like an old, torn sack. He passed out on the floor.
[Boxing proficiency +100]
Su Chen looked at his fist, amazed. He had not expected that he could punch with such enormous strength.
His strength had been upgraded by the passive function Super Strength, which was kind of horrific.
On top of that, the system was really generous with the points awarded to the boxing proficiency. He remembered that only two points were given when he was practicing with the punching bag in the gym.
More points for proficiency if I punched a person, is that it? he thought.
Everyone was dumbfounded at that sudden plot twist.
"Let go of them." Su Chen looked at the bald man calmly when he regained his composure.
"Shit! Who do you think you are? Let's fuck him up!" The baldie pointed at Su Chen and barked.
The sidekicks immediately let go of the boys they were beating and sprinted in Su Chen's direction. The bald guy looked to his left and right and walked into the room.
Su Chen clenched his fists and walked up to them. He took those "kids" down one by one, each with a single punch; he didn't need any special technique.
[Boxing proficiency +100]
[Boxing proficiency +100]
In the blink of an eye, all the thugs were knocked to the floor. They howled in pain, holding the parts that Su Chen had hit.
"Damn! You think you're so great if you know Kung Fu. I'm gonna show you…"
The baldie came out of the room with an empty beer bottle in each hand. When he saw that all his footmen were lying on the floor, he stopped talking instantly, petrified.
Su Chen walked slowly toward him with a straight face.
"It was a misunderstanding, brother. It was all a misunderstanding—my fault, my fault!" Realizing that he had woken the dragon, the baldie decisively put up a white flag.
"I hate the way you looked at my sister just now," said Su Chen, expressionless.
"Your sister?" The baldie glanced blankly at Su Mo and frowned. "What are you gonna do?"
Su Chen looked at the beer bottle in his hand and gave him a you-know-what look.
The baldie ground his teeth, raised his right hand, and smashed the beer bottle right on his hairless head. The bottle shattered with a crash.
To people like them, hitting a beer bottle on the head was very usual, nothing compared to Su Chen's horrifying blows.
"This is considered my apology. What do you think?" the bald guy said, enduring the pain.
Su Chen was astounded when he saw that there were only some bruises on his shiny bald head but no wounds at all.
Could shaving one's head make one stronger?
Su Chen looked at the other beer bottle in his left hand.
The baldie clenched his teeth and gave himself another blow.
Su Mo and the girls were so terrified that they closed their eyes. They did not dare to watch.
"Are you satisfied now?" the baldie put on a fake smile. There was now a severe cut on his glossy bald head. Blood dripped down his forehead.
"You can go now. If you want revenge, come and find me. Don't ever show up in front of my sister or her friends," Su Chen said coldly.
"You're kidding," the baldie smiled awkwardly and went away immediately.
The other thugs helped each other up, lifted the guy who passed out, and followed the baldie frenetically.
"Xu Yang, are you okay?"
"Do you need to go to the hospital?"
The girls quickly surrounded the three boys and helped them up. Their faces were black and blue, Xu Yang's eyes were swollen, and they all looked like drowned mice.
"If you are so good at fighting, why didn't you make the first move?" Enraged, Xu Yang questioned Su Chen.
"I was gonna do that, but you beat me to it. Plus, your first few kicks did kill it, so I thought you could have taken them down," said Su Chen with a hollow laugh.
"You did it on purpose!" Xu Yang's eyes flashed with rage.
"If you say so." Su Chen shrugged. He did not really care.
He had not let the three boys get beaten up on purpose. When Xu Yang knocked the thugs down with his kicks, he seemed to have the situation under control, so Su Chen did not take action immediately. Who knew the thugs would overpower Xu Yang so easily when they attacked together?
When he was about to make a move, the bald man had given the order to his footman to grab Su Mo's phone.
However, if Xu Yang blamed him for his own failure to show off and got beaten up instead, Su Chen wouldn't trouble himself with explanations.
"Su Chen, you're fabulous! Whoosh whoosh whoosh...You kicked their asses one by one, each with only a single punch. So cool!" Su Mo's BFF, Meng Sisi, waved her little fists, imitating Su Chen's movements, her face red with excitement.
The other girls also stared at Su Chen admiringly.
"Brother, since when were you able to fight like that?" Su Mo gazed at her brother. Astonishment crept up her face.
"Don't you know that I've started working out recently?" Su Chen smiled. He flexed his arms and showed his biceps.
The girls squealed, completely infatuated with Su Chen.