Danya remembered the previous question she had and asked again, "What is a dick?"
Bojing - "..."
Jia - "..."
"Mingshen!"
Mingshen pouted. "What? Curiosity is human nature."
Jia felt like a headache coming.
He smiled at Danya, whose hands were tied at her back. "Well, Danya. A dick is a man's precious tool located between his inner thighs."
"Why is it precious?"
"Because it signifies a man's ego. The bigger it is, the bigger the ego is. The smaller it is, the bigger the lack of self-esteem is. But whether big or small, a dick makes some men live in unnecessary delusions. They think all the women in the world only revolve around satisfying their precious tools."
"It's not like that?"
"It's far from like that," he chuckled.
Danya half-understood his words and half-didn't. She made a mental note of something and bobbed her head.
Jia couldn't help but agree more on his choice of words.
"Spicy, spicy~ Praise me. Look how I explained dick to Danya while keeping her mind's purity and innocence and also telling the reality of the world."
Her mouth twitched. "If you had spoken such intelligent words to Hao Rongjun or better keep your lips zipped altogether or perhaps didn't show your face in the first place, I would have already rescued Danya into safety."
Jia glanced at the window above and knew Huojin would be waiting for her. Once Danya was out, handling Hao Rongjun and his thugs was a piece of cake.
Bojing asked, "W-what should we do now?"
Mingshen sneered. "Which is a question you wouldn't have had to ask had you dealt with these pesky bugs already and took the girl out."
"I-I am sorry that I am useless!" Bojing shrank.
Jia sneered back at Mingshen. "Well at least he had good motives unlike you who came in between my plans like a bone in chicken."
"I am glad you feel that way about me, Spicy since that is the kind of existence I want to be for you~"
"Well then good luck," she smirked as she freed her hands from the ropes and got up on her feet.
Mingshen glanced at her hand and saw a shiny metallic blade between her fingers which she had hidden in her back pocket.
Bojing beamed. "Sis!"
"Sshh," she signaled them to be quiet.
Jia walked to the other side and quickly cut the ropes that were tied to Bojing and Danya's hands as well.
"Bojing. Help Danya escape through the window. Huojin is outside. He will take her to a safe place. You stay behind me. I will deal with the thugs and Hao Rongjun and arrest them."
He nodded and picked Danya in his arms. "You don't have to w-worry anymore o-okay? You will be safe with us."
Danya bobbed her head and clung to his neck.
Bojing got reminded of little Limei and Weiyun and his face brightened.
Mingshen said as he grinned, "Spicy, I think you forgot to cut my ropes~"
Jia had only cut her part of the rope tied to her wrists.
She smiled. "Since you got the bright idea to mess with my mission, I am sure you will get another one to free yourself from this predicament as well. It should be a piece of cake for the man who claims to be the devil doctor, right?"
Mingshen raised his brow. "Spicy, you look hotter when you challenge me like that~"
The door banged open and Hao Rongjun barged in, his face livid with anger. No matter how much he tried to calm himself, Mingshen's taunts was too lethal to bear.
He sinisterly laughed. "So where were we?"
Mingshen yawned. "The point where I said about how small your dick is."
"You…" his face was distorted with fury and disbelief that Jia, Bojing and Danya were standing free.
"You three…how did you get free?"
Just who the hell is this woman!? Wasn't she some lost chick?
"Now, now, don't look like that," Mingshen smiled, still being the prisoner he was. "You already have an ugly face and dick. Just how much uglier do you want your existence to be?"
Danya couldn't help but giggle.
When Hao Rongjun pointed his gun at them, Jia narrowed her eyes. "Lower your gun. You are already looking at a long jail sentence. Don't turn it into a death sentence by spilling anybody's blood here."
He faintly twitched by Jia's cold but firm stance.
"Shut it! I will let you know what it means to offend me! I will enjoy my time with you and will prove if my dick is really so small or not," he sneered.
Mingshen yawned once more. "People chasing after attaining worthless validations never go too far in their life. Tsk. Tsk."
"Get lost!" He glowered at Bojing. "Hand me Danya over! This child is the ticket to marry her mother, Wenqian! Hah! If she wants her daughter's safety, she has to marry me!"
Jia warned. "Struggling is useless. This place is already surrounded. There is no way for you to escape."
He sneered. "Nobody can stop me today."
The thugs quickly came in, ready with the stance to fight. They surrounded them, blocking all their way to escape.
Mingshen clicked his tongue in disdain. "Not even worthy of becoming my research subjects, tch."
Jia looked at Bojing. "Take Danya away."
Bojing was already fiercely holding onto little Danya.
"The hell you are not going anywhere! Stay where you are or I will blow your brains-"
A gust of wind passed and Hao Rongjun's gun was on the floor as Jia knocked it off. She ducked and dodged the first thug who came after her throat. Immediately jumping on her feet, she tripped the first man to fall on the floor and jabbed a back elbow at the second man's nose.
Mingshen whistled in praise. "That's more like my Spicy~"
"I will take care of this, Bojing. You leave."
Bojing didn't waste time and quickly sped off with Danya.
A fourth thug charged at Mingshen, albeit discreetly from the back to throw off Jia's rhythm.
Isn't this man with her? Is she crazy that she left him tied up as a liability?
What a foolish woman!
As the fourth thug was just about to land a blow on Mingshen, he froze on the spot as a sharp pain shot in his stomach.
He tremblingly looked down and saw blood spilling out of his abdomen. A tiny hole had formed in his flesh with a scalpel deep inside.
As the goon raised his gaze and looked into a pair of a certain devil's black eyes eyes, he felt hell freeze over.
A sinister laughter rang in the air.
"Did you perhaps think that I was a liability?"
The goon stared at the cut ropes in the floor in disbelief.
When did he…
"Sorry to disappoint you but I make others more of a liability, not myself."
Mingshen leaned and whispered in his ear, twisting the scalpel in his stomach. "So farewell."
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Outside, Bojing ran as fast as could to hand Danya over to Huojin and complete the rescue mission.
I will save Danya! This child won't suffer what I did, he promised to himself as he shut his eyes.
Danya felt Bojing hugging her firmly. But it wasn't suffocating. Rather, she felt more at ease and safety.
Suddenly, Bojing came to a sudden halt as a trio of thugs blocked his path.
"Stop right there! Be quiet and hand the kid to us. Then nobody has to die," the thug in the middle warned Bojing.
Bojing trembled and spoke, "U-um sorry b-but I am in a hurry…Can you please not block my way? This c-child is already afraid. I-I just want to safely take her out…"
The thugs were speechless. "You are telling that to us, who kidnapped her in the first place?"
"I hope t-that my sincere request changes your mi-minds…"
The men suddenly broke into laughter.
"This man is fucking crazy."
"He is actually 'asking' us to leave his way?"
"Shouldn't there be a limit to his idiocy?"
They laughed heartily as if they heard the funniest joke ever.
"But what can we expect from this man? Look how dainty he is!"
"Honestly, I almost mistook him as a woman. Hey, that's not a bad idea~ You have a pretty face. Why not become my woman?"
They laughed some more.
Bojing hiccuped with tears choking his throat. "I-I already have a girlfriend a-and I will never betray her. S-so can you please let us go…?"
Danya clutched Bojing tighter. She kept glancing back in hopes that Jia or Mingshen would arrive in time and help Bojing out.
Pretty brother cannot fight. What will we do now?
She anxiously peeked at him because she didn't want the thugs to beat up Bojing and hurt him.
Bojing said a little louder this time, "U-um…my way…"
"Shut the fuck up!"
He jolted back and mumbled to himself. "H-He shouts so much…"
"Stop wasting our time and give the child to us!"
"It will be too harsh for you if your delicate bones break," the third man sneered.
Tears pooled in his eyes. "I-I am telling you for your own g-good. I don't want to fight so…"
The three men were stunned. "You said you will fight us?"
"O-of course not! I hate fighting!" He wiped his eyes, "B-but if you are too stubborn, I-I will be left with no choice…" he hiccuped, "Taking Danya to safety is the most i-important after all…It's for the best if there is no bloodshed…"
The three men exchanged glances.
Is this guy mental?
"Where the fuck you get the confidence that a man like YOU can win even against one person let alone three?"
"I think he is into drugs."
"Must be. Poor guy is hallucinating."
Bojing tilted his head, confused and cheeks wet with tears. "Huh? B-But I can though…not just you three but e-even if there are more of you," he shrank back, "Please don't get off-offended though!"
"..."
Danya was also confused.
Pretty brother, I think you should really stop talking if you don't want to end up like the bad villain in the movie does!
The leader cracked his knuckles. "Hoo~ Somehow I feel insulted that you are taking shit like this. Let me grab the child right in front of you so that you see the difference in our strengths yourself."
Bojing paled. "D-don't come closer! I am telling you d-don't even think of touching Danya!"
The thug ignored his cries.
Bojing burst into tears again. "Please listen to me…It-It will be really bad…"
The thug came closer and Bojing asked Danya to close her eyes.
"Why?" She asked, scrunching her brows.
"It won't be a good s-sight for a child to see…"
Danya was dissatisfied but closed her eyes as told anyway. Her heart beat faster in fear as Bojing begged more and more, but his pleas fell into deaf ears.
But all of a sudden, the laughter vanished, and the air became silent. The only sounds she heard was of bones cracking followed by a painful groan. That happened two more times.
At times Bojing moved and so did she as he held onto her. But she didn't understand what was happening at all.
Bojing sniffled, and she heard him whisper to himself, "Wh-why don't people listen to me…? I seriously don't like this. B-Boss is right. I am so useless…!"
Danya frowned.
Huh, huh, what happened to the bad people?
Eventually, she couldn't contain her curiosity as she felt Bojing walking away freely without a care in the world.
She opened her eyes just a tiny bit and felt as if lightning struck her the next moment, seeing the three bad villains lying on the ground. She saw a blurry vision of something crimson flowing out of their bodies too, but she didn't dare open her eyes further.
"Pretty brother?"
"Yes?"
"You said before that you don't like fighting."
Bojing nodded and meekly replied. "I don't! I don't l-like v-violence…"
"You said that it's painful."
"Y-Yes…?"
"For who?"
Bojing blinked at her confused expression. "For the people I will be f-fighting with of course?"
"..."
"Not you?"
"Why would it be painful for me?"
Danya looked at his dainty physique from head to toe as if the answer was obvious.
Bojing still didn't understand the source of her bewilderment. "I am pretty s-strong…That's what Boss says about me at least."
"The other big brother who was inside with us?"
"Yes."
"What does he say about you?" She curiously asked.
"That it's not wise to f-fight me because there is no way anybody can w-win…He calls me a killing machine," he sniffled, "I don't like the nickname though…"
Danya kept staring at him.
It was then that she got her answer as to why the seemingly helpless Bojing thought of walking into the enemy's den to save her.
Bojing did possess the strength.
Not just defeating the three bad villains just now but Hao Rongjun's whole gang if he needed to.