A Flower Nightclub, Lu Fan had never been to a place like this before. As soon as he arrived at the entrance, he was stunned by the clamor inside. Hundreds of people were packed into the nightclub. On stage, several dancers performed with extreme sensuality, while the audience below roared in ecstasy.
Damn it! Was this a product of modern music? It looked nothing like the scenes in those Shanghai Bund television dramas. The air was thick with smoke and dust, and he really wasn't used to it! Was this modern civilization?
Lu Fan frowned and looked towards the stairs leading upstairs. Two burly men in suits stood at the entrance to the staircase.
He opened his phone to confirm the message and then listened intently amidst the noise... Lu Fan's expression suddenly turned grave.
Lu Fan walked towards the stairwell.
"Excuse me, sir, please show your membership card!" a husky man in a suit said, glancing at Lu Fan with disdain.
"I don't have one!" Lu Fan shrugged.
"Then get lost!" The man's face contorted into a snarl, and he roughly extended a hand to push Lu Fan away.
"Alright! Get lost!" Lu Fan smiled faintly. Without any discernible movement, the man in the suit suddenly tumbled to the ground.
"You... want... to die..." The other man in the suit was instantly enraged. However, before he could even finish shouting, he too was sent rolling away like his companion.
Lu Fan strode towards the upper floor.
On the second floor, more than twenty men in suits stood in two rows at the top of the stairs, glaring at Lu Fan as he ascended. They looked as if they wanted to tear him apart. A timid person would likely have wet themselves in fear.
Lu Fan sneered coldly and walked directly onto the second floor, striding past the twenty-odd men in suits. Ahead was a central hall with its doors ajar. Standing at the entrance, he could see a robust, well-built man with an arrogant expression sitting opposite. It was indeed Lei Liming!
"Lu Fan! I knew you'd come! You're a real man! Got some guts."
Clap, clap, clap... Seeing Lu Fan appear at the doorway, Lei Liming immediately sneered and began to clap.
"Tch! It's just a snake's nest, an ant's hole. What's there to be afraid of? Hand over my people," Lu Fan said, glancing at Lei Liming with disdain.
"Your people? Hahaha! It seems there are no people of yours here! Everyone here is my person! You've come, and you won't be leaving!" Lei Liming roared with laughter.
Whoosh... As soon as Lei Liming finished speaking, with a whoosh, more than twenty people completely blocked the doorway.
"I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you." Lu Fan glanced dismissively at a three-door cabinet placed against the wall inside the room and instantly lunged towards it.
Seeing Lu Fan's sudden movement, Lei Liming's expression changed abruptly. But before he could even shout, he heard two cracking sounds. The side doors of the cabinet were smashed open, and two people, hunched over, fell out from inside.
Puff... Puff... The two men spat out a mouthful of blood and lay on the ground motionless!
At the doorway, the more than twenty burly men who had formed a human wall couldn't help but take half a step back upon witnessing this scene.
Crash... Lu Fan yanked open the middle cabinet door. Inside stood a person. It was none other than Mo Xiong, the butler of the Lin family.
However, he was clearly under duress, and though his eyes showed surprise upon seeing Lu Fan, he couldn't move at all.
Lu Fan stepped forward, patted Mo Xiong a few times, and then placed a small pill into Mo Xiong's mouth.
"Young Master Fan! Hurry and leave, there's an ambush here," Mo Xiong said urgently as soon as he could speak.
"I know! But these few insignificant pests won't scare me." Lu Fan said, taking out his golden silk whip and tossing it to Mo Xiong. "Take this and find a place to hide once you're out!"
"Thank you, Young Master Fan!" Mo Xiong's heart filled with joy as he took the golden silk whip. This was his family heirloom, and it had finally returned to his hands.
"Damn it! You think this is your house? You can come and go as you please? Hmph!" Lei Liming, watching the two converse as if no one else was there, exploded in anger and pulled out a pistol.
"I've already killed you several times over if I wanted to. Why don't you have your old man behind you come out!" Lu Fan said, looking at Lei Liming with contempt.
"Arrogant fool, today I'll make you die by my gun." A ferocious look flashed across Lei Liming's face as he raised his hand and fired.
Bang... With the gunshot, Lei Liming found that Lu Fan had vanished.
"Bang..." Suddenly, a muffled thud came from the wall beside him.
Ah... Immediately followed by a scream of agony. A figure suddenly appeared on the wall, which had been empty moments before, bent over like a shrimp, clutching his stomach.
Hearing the sound, Lei Liming turned around in shock. But before he could shout, he felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, making him double over as if his insides were churning, the pain so intense he couldn't even catch his breath.
"Bastard! You think bringing a Japanese devil here gives you prestige? You trust the Japanese devils so much, why don't you let him kill you himself!" Lu Fan said coldly, looking at Lei Liming with disdain.
With that, Lu Fan walked up to the figure that had suddenly appeared on the wall. This guy had used ninjutsu to hide along the wall, preparing for a surprise attack. He hadn't expected that his stealth would be useless against Lu Fan's clairvoyance. Lu Fan had seen the guy standing motionless the moment he entered.
Ninjutsu. Lu Fan had experienced it when fighting the Ma family. How could he not know? He just didn't expect this guy to be so foolish. Lu Fan's clairvoyance had penetrated the wooden cabinet to find Mo Xiong, rescue him, and cause such a commotion, yet the man had remained motionless, giving Lu Fan the opportunity to punch him.
Thwack... Lu Fan grabbed the man from the ground and dragged him directly in front of Lei Liming.
"Kill him, and I'll give you a quick death. Otherwise, I have a hundred ways to torture you to death," Lu Fan said to the Japanese devil hunched over like a shrimp.
Puff... Without even lifting his head, the Japanese devil suddenly raised his hand and plunged a dagger into Lei Liming's chest.
Lei Liming's eyes widened in disbelief as he slowly collapsed to the ground.
"See? A dog like you, when you're useful, you're like a dog. When you're not, you're not even fit to be a dog," Lu Fan said dismissively, looking at Lei Liming lying in a pool of blood.
"Save... save me, I'm not Lei... Lei Liming..." Lei Liming gasped weakly from the ground.
"Of course, I know you're fake, because I already killed the real one! When you sent me a WeChat message using Mo Xiong's phone, I knew you were setting a trap for me. Because I never asked Mo Xiong to keep an eye on the Lei family!" Lu Fan said disdainfully.
"Young Master Fan! If you knew it was a trap, why did you come? It was so dangerous," Mo Xiong said, his face trembling slightly.
"It's because I used your golden silk whip that they suspected you were my person, and that put you in danger. So I had to save you. The golden silk whip has been returned to you, you can leave now."
As Lu Fan spoke, he suddenly turned his hand, and a dagger sliced across the Japanese devil's throat. The Japanese devil immediately fell to the ground with a thud. Then, without looking back, Lu Fan walked towards the exit.
Whoosh... The twenty-odd men in suits who had been blocking the doorway involuntarily retreated.
"Young Master Fan! Let me follow you!" Mo Xiong suddenly said through gritted teeth.