The leader of the Crocodile Gang met a miserable death, and the members of the Crocodile Gang were leaderless. High and low ranking members were all accounted for within three days, and the remaining members of the Crocodile Gang directly joined the Axe Gang, helping the Axe Gang to receive all of the Crocodile Gang's property and making the Axe Gang's power rapidly and greatly increase, truly achieving dominance.
The rest of the big and small gangs in Shanghai had to lower their head and make a living by sharing the leftovers from the Axe Gang.
The members of the Axe Gang even dared to kill people in broad daylight on the street, and then bragged about it, and in the end, it was a done deal. Even the police dared not provoke them, they were arrogant and fierce to the extreme!
The entire Shanghai area was covered in the shadow of the Axe Gang.
On the streets, whenever people see someone in black clothes and black pants with something hanging at their waist, no matter who they are, they will get a chill in their hearts and hide their faces in fear and walk away.
This has directly led to more and more people in gangs turning to the Axe Gang, and also to a sudden influx of people pretending to be members of the Axe Gang, using the gang's reputation to engage in theft and extortion.
Even during this chaotic and dark period, there is a place in Shanghai that is unaffected by this, the Pigsty Alley, which is located in a remote, poor and harsh place, and as such, even the general gangs do not bother it, and it is rarely troubled.
But as with everything, there are exceptions, there is a pair of small gangsters without much courage or ability who has set their sights on this place, thinking that although there is less money and oil here, there is almost no risk of facing the real Axe Gang, and it is easy to scare people into giving them money quickly.
In a corner of the Pigsty Alley, there is a cylindrical building like an ancient Roman arena. In the middle is a spacious courtyard like a large square, surrounded by five-story gray houses on most sides. Inside the courtyard, there are various shops, such as a clothing store, a breakfast shop, and a rice shop.
Inside one of the barber shops, extortion is taking place. A fat and kind-faced fat man sits in the barber chair, staring at himself in the mirror and thinking. Next to him, a young thug claiming to be his younger brother is extorting the barber.
"Who told you to cut so nicely? Why did you cut so nicely? Look for trouble!"
Hearing the signal, the fat man shakes open the black clothes he was wearing, two chubby arms slap on the chair, revealing his wide and strong chest with two axes painted on it. He also looks at the barber with a pretended fierce look.
"Hey, big brother, don't be angry. The young guy probably didn't know any better. Let me talk to him."
The thug with unkempt hair pretended to be scared, like he was begging for the barber, and pulled the barber who was showing half his butt to one side.
"Hey, you saw it too, right? That's Axe Gang's big brother! He's a bad person who kills people every day! If you cut his hair so nicely, it will affect big brother's ability to go out and kill people. He'll come after you!"
Seeing that this person still wasn't aware of the situation, the thug with unkempt hair pretended to be regretful and said: "Hey, you're still young and you have a lot of things in life that you haven't enjoyed yet. How about this, you give me some money for medical expenses, and I'll try to talk and settle this for you, okay?"
The barber shook his head, and said in a slow, childish tone: "No."
"Hmm?"
Hearing that the barber still didn't understand, the fat man shook the two axes painted on his chest again. But the first time was still a bit fierce, the second time was already somewhat comical.
"Hey, big brother, don't use the axe first, let me talk to him again."
The thug with unkempt hair pulled the barber to the other side and talked to him, finally, the barber with a dazed expression had some reaction. He stared with lifeless eyes and said slowly, as if he had suddenly realized.
"Oh, you're extorting me."
"What does it matter, big brother! Big brother?"
Seeing that the situation had been exposed, the thug with unkempt hair wanted to steal, but when he turned around, he found that the fat man, who was leaning on the barber chair, had already fallen asleep and was snoring.
"Oh, you're done, my big brother likes to cut people when he wakes up from sleep! Look at him, he's about to wake up, you're done!"
The thug with unkempt hair had no choice but to continue and the scene was somewhat awkward.
The barber, indifferent, said to himself, "You extort me, I am not afraid!"
"If I fall down, there are hundreds and thousands of people behind me."
The barber pointed to the side with dazed eyes and saw that dozens of people who also lived in the pigsty alley had surrounded them.
They were poor, but all of them were kind-hearted people, understanding that life was not easy and that they should help each other with kindness.
Seeing the situation taking a turn for the worse, the thug with unkempt hair tried to intimidate and regain control.
"The axe gang big brother is taking a nap inside, and when he wakes up he'll cut people, who's not afraid of death, step forward!"
But the result was that everyone stepped forward together, with a terrifying momentum.
"Well, well, well, there's no discussion left? Alright, then we'll follow the rules of the martial arts community, we'll fight one-on-one, no one is allowed to chicken out!"
Several dozen seconds later, after the thug with unkempt hair proposed a one-on-one fight and carefully selected his opponents, he was successfully beaten until he was spitting blood, looking very embarrassed. He refused to admit defeat and said stubbornly:
"None of you are worthy opponents, it's because you're not ambitious. Today's fight is canceled."
After he said that, Sing wanted to leave the alley and call his obese sidekick to leave, but when he turned around, he met the landlady that the barber had called over.
Seeing that she was overweight and looked easy to bully, he had another idea.
"Hey, the person in charge here is you, fat landlady!"
The landlady looked contemptuous as she smoked, pulled off her slippers from her feet, and kicked it towards Sing's face and sneered.
"Slap!" "Fat landlady?"
"Big brother!" "Slap!" "Big brother?"
"You will pay for the medical expenses!" "Slap!" "Medical expenses?"
"It's one of our own." "Slap!" "One of our own?"
"Okay!"
Being dragged and beaten by slippers in front of so many people, finally, Sing could not bear the humiliation and shouted out loud.
But the landlady was merciless, chasing up and hitting him with two more slippers: "Damn! Damn!"
"Come on! I'll call someone!"
Sing was completely angry, regardless of the consequences, calling out loudly to save face.
The landlady saw through Sing's two-person tricks, slowly put on her slippers, and sneered in her mouth.
"Carrying a dead rat in your waist and pretending to be a hunter, I'll see who you call!"
Sing pulled out a small firecracker and lit it, still muttering threateningly in his mouth.
"One arrow piercing through the clouds, meeting with thousands of troops and horses."
Then he carelessly threw it behind him, after the firecracker fired, he continued to threaten with a straight face, but slowly moved his body away, it seemed that he wanted to escape.
"Don't go, wait for your coffin!"
But just as he turned the corner, a group of hundreds of black-clad people with fierce momentum came in.
The hat of the person in front was blown up, his hair was disheveled and charred, his eyes were flashing fiercely and he asked coldly, "Who threw the firecracker?"
Without getting an answer, Liang Hsiao also didn't dare to act tough and quickly made way.
A man with an unpredictable expression stepped forward, he was staring at Sing as if he had something to say.