The police woman dashed and pulled Peter behind a tree to take cover because at this point, bullets began flying around as some of the armed men began shooting around instinctively due to their shock and fear.
"What the hell is going on?!"
"Help!"
"Ahh!"
~Blam!~
~Blam!~
The sounds of screams and gunshots shattered the silence of the forest as a chaotic atmosphere enveloped the area.
The police woman was utterly dumbfounded by the mind-blowing spectacle that was taking place before her.
'What the hell was going on?!!'
Her thoughts were in disarray as she heard the pitiful screams of shock and terror from the armed men.
Subconsciously glancing at the kid beside her, she couldn't help but imagine how terrified he would be right now.
But when her eyes rested on him....
Eh??
'Is he smiling?'
Damn right he was.
Peter couldn't begin to explain how he felt right now, especially when he kept hearing the cries and screams of the armed men — from behind the tree.
It was like music to his ears!
Before his eyes, groups of words kept appearing as the ethereal voice read out those words.
_{One hostile temporarily neutralized}_
_{One hostile permanently neutralized....you have received one soul resent essence}_
_{One hostile temporarily neutralized}_
_{One hostile permanently neutralized....you have received one soul resent essence}_
This continued as his ears tingled and his eyes became a bit dizzy from the stream of words appearing before him.
But he couldn't help but feel great excitement from the fact that he now possessed a weapon that could easily take out fifteen guys without fail!
Unknown to him though, his excited state and expression only helped to cast great suspicion on him.
The police woman couldn't believe that a kid whom had probably never killed a chicken before was showing such excitement in such a dangerous and scary moment.
At this moment, her calculative mind recalled the scene earlier when she first saw Ted and his crew who were mysteriously tied up.
There was no one else there who could have captured Ted and his crew — except her and...
Her almond shaped eyes widened as a certain mystifying thought came to her mind.
The kid!
He was the only one there with her!
As he is here with her now!
Is he the one doing this? — If he is then how?
As her thoughts were about going out of context, something strange happened that snapped her out of her reverie.
Silence.
Complete silence.
The commotion from earlier was gone.
Coming out from behind the tree, the police woman couldn't help but gasp in pure shock.
"Oh my God.."
The scene before her was just too unbelievable and horrifying.
The dead or unconscious bodies of the former armed men were scattered across the forest floor.
It was quite a sight to behold!
Meanwhile Peter was also shocked at what he was witnessing.
'This....' Peter thought as his eyes quaked.
'...is just too wicked!'
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Master Ye Chang and Mocheda walked down the stairs as they came to the first floor — which was already crowded with two groups of Chinese boys and girls.
The first group was dressed in red martial arts attires with the insignia of their martial school — which was the image of a dragon — displayed on their chests and backs.
The second group was dressed in white martial arts attires with the insignia of their martial school — which was the image of a black and white circle — displayed on their backs alone.
The white group were obviously master Chang's students as they all crowded around him as soon he appeared.
"Master they broke brother Yaozu's arms and legs!!"
"They also called us unworthy of the martial school title!!"
"Master please give us your permission — so we would teach these demons the meaning of despair!!"
Several of these voices erupted among his students as they all hungered for revenge.
Master Chang's eyes glanced past his wrathful students and rested on a certain aged man — around the same age as he — whom was seated and treated with reverence by the students in red.
Frowning deeply, master Chang felt anger well up inside him.
After calming down his boiling students, he gave orders to the nurses on standby to tend to his wounded student as he walked towards the students in red and addressed the man whom was seated;
"Master Feng what's the meaning of this?!"
The aged man — referred to as master Feng — slowly turned his expressionless gaze towards master Chang as a sneer appeared on his face;
"This? — this means you're no more worthy to wield the title of a martial arts tutor — and should therefore hand it all over to those who are!"
"If it's the martial arts tutor award you want then you can have it — am not interested — just leave my school and students alone"
"Hahaha!!" Master Feng guffawed in derision as he glared at master Chang.
"Leave you alone?! — it's your school I want! — the dragon fist dojo is expanding and many inferior schools have already submitted and sold out to us — your school is the only one left!"
Master Chang sighed as he knew for a long time that it would come to this.
The dragon fist dojo had earlier developed a powerful combat technique which they used to defeat and annex each and every martial school in the Chinatown southern district.
And he knew that soon enough they would come knocking on his door.
Mocheda had already begun to understand and speak Chinese — due to that, she was able to listen in on their conversation and get the main gist of the whole argument.
She could already understand what dragon fist dojo was asking for.
They were asking for a tournament — a battle of winner-takes-all — and the objects of the bet were both martial schools.
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Peter was quite dumbfounded as to what he was seeing before him.
When he earlier used the staff to beat up Ted and his crew, they were only just knocked unconscious without sustaining any injuries.
But with the spectacle before him — it was like the battle scene of an all out war — with some of the dead bodies exposing shattered brains due to gunshot wounds.
He never knew the golden staff would be so cruel on it's victims!
"Hey kid"
Peter turned to see the police woman staring at him with a strange expression on her face.
"Tell me something — what is a teenager like you doing in the forest?"
Huh?
Peter stared at the searching eyes of the police woman as he came to an understanding.
'She suspicious of me — but what is she banking her suspicions on? — I mean is it that obvious that I have the power to kill fifteen men without even touching them?!'
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Geoffrey kept running towards the commotion of screams and gunfire while holding his gun tight and keeping his head low.
He began to make speculations about what was going on.
It seemed to him that two rival gangs were having a showdown in the woods — and the four guys he saw earlier who were tied up — were probably victims of conquest.
As he ran forward — being led on by the commotion — he suddenly paused in his tracks as he frowned in confusion.
The gunfire and screams had stopped.
Which was quite strange as he crouched down to listen for any other sound of chatter or movement.
None — no sound or movement was heard — which made him very cautious as he slowly moved forward — ready to counter any attack that might come at him.
And as he came closer, he began to hear voices — but these were not the voices of men.
As he stopped to listen closely — he was able to pick out only two voices — and his eyes widened in surprise as he discovered that the voices belonged to a woman and a kid!
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In a room which was clouded by a form of gas or smoke — a middle aged man was seen in what looked like a medium sized swimming pool which was emitting steams.
Two beautiful women were on either side of his arms as they both caressed his chest while taking turns to give him tongue sucking kisses.
The ladies were in their bikinis — while the middle aged man was in his shorts as he chuckled in pleasure.
"Boss!"
Someone barged into the room — which startled the man and ladies.
"What the f**k! — can't you see am busy?!"
The middle aged man roared as he glared at the intruder.
"S-sorry boss — it's j-just that–"
"It's just what?! — speak up before I soil this room with your blood!!"
"All our units that were sent out have been killed!"
"What?!" The middle aged man stared at his lackey with wide eyes.
"What sort of bullshit are you saying?!"
"It's the lady and teenager that I told you about earlier!"
The lackey reported with eyes that showed his own unbelief to what he was about to say.
"They killed all fifteen of our men!"