"Captain Qin Chuan, could you please do us a favor? We just want to buy some electricity from you. You have the mining rights now, so if you could just accommodate us, no one would give us any trouble."
The man offered a fawning smile, presenting various rare foods, seldom seen, towards Qin Chuan with both hands.
Qin Chuan didn't even spare him a glance, walking forward with a thoroughly displeased expression.
Just then, Zhou Zhe completed the preliminary exploration work. Holding his protective suit, he jogged towards Qin Chuan.
Upon reaching Qin Chuan, he noticed Qin Chuan's dark expression, his face looking quite unpleasant.
"Captain, what's wrong?"
Qin Chuan's towering physique completely blocked the man behind him who wanted to cut in line. Thus, Zhou Zhe couldn't see the man shielded by Qin Chuan.
It wasn't until the man spoke again that Zhou Zhe, with a dark line across his forehead, saw the speaker.
He truly admired the man before him, feeling inclined to grab him by the collar and demand to know how he dared to openly approach Qin Chuan and try to bypass the rules.
He really didn't know whether to praise the man for his audacity.
However, Zhou Zhe didn't have much time. The moment the man spoke.
Before he could utter a word, Qin Chuan interrupted him.
"Zhou Zhe, why are you letting any kind of rubbish in?"
His gaze was one of naked contempt, without any pretense.
It was as if he were looking at something dirty, as he looked at the man.
As soon as the words fell, before Zhou Zhe could react, the man who had been following behind, acting obsequiously, suddenly changed his demeanor.
"Damn it, what are you being so arrogant for? I'm showing your grandfather some respect, which is why I'm giving you a little face. How dare you speak to me like this? Don't you know who I am? Damn it, do you believe I'll ruin you!"
For a moment, even Zhou Zhe froze, silently pitying the somewhat obese man before him.
In Zhou Zhe's eyes, anyone who could openly curse Qin Chuan in front of him was either not yet born or already dead beyond recognition.
Yet, this man, with his face flushed and neck bulging, directly pointed at Qin Chuan's nose and swore.
Zhou Zhe couldn't even imagine how tragic the man's fate would be.
After all, even the Qin Chuan's grandfather, whom the man mentioned, wouldn't dare point at Qin Chuan's nose and curse like this!
Before the man could finish speaking, a peculiar smile appeared on Qin Chuan's usually stern face.
The moment Zhou Zhe saw Qin Chuan smile, he instinctively took three steps back, moving out of Qin Chuan's attack range.
He silently lit a candle for the man before him. May he rest in peace.
The man cursed for a long time in place. Seeing Zhou Zhe retreat, he felt a hint of hesitation. However, looking at Qin Chuan and then at the surrounding crowd.
He suddenly remembered that Qin Chuan was part of the enforcement team. Would he dare to physically assault him here?
The man was brimming with confidence, believing he had Qin Chuan under control, and thus became increasingly audacious in his words.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and get things done for me..."
The last two words were never spoken by the man.
Because Qin Chuan, with an annoyed expression, delivered a blow to the man.
Though he didn't say it aloud, his eyes clearly conveyed:
"What kind of idiot is this, getting in the way?"
"Zhou Zhe, get a couple of people to handle this thing and then follow me into the cave."
Zhou Zhe suppressed a smile, watching the man who was knocked to the ground with a single punch by Qin Chuan, still squawking incessantly.
He couldn't help but sigh.
After three months, Qin Chuan seemed to have grown even stronger.
Although Zhou Zhe wasn't right next to him, he could clearly see the powerful gust of wind generated by that punch.
"Yes, Captain."
After Qin Chuan gave his instructions, he took the protective suit handed to him by Zhou Zhe and put it on.
Zhou Zhe, meanwhile, found two men and had them drag away the man who had been continuously cursing.
He then quietly instructed the two soldiers,
"Take this person and make a few extra rounds around the area. Let everyone who wants to cut in line see."
The two soldiers immediately understood Zhou Zhe's intention and left, dragging the man along.
The man's right cheek was noticeably swollen and red, clearly the result of a beating.
During the third round of their procession, a woman suddenly rushed out from a corner. With a sprint, she ran to the man's side.
"Honey, how did you get beaten up like this?"
The woman rushed out, embracing the man tightly and shoving aside the two soldiers escorting him.
"Who beat my husband like this? Don't you have any respect for the law?"
"How can you hit people like this? I'm going to report you! You just wait, we won't just tolerate this, I will definitely report you!"
The two soldiers listened to the woman's incessant scolding with no change in their expression. They coldly dropped the man.
As they left, one of them said to the woman, "By the way, our Captain beat him. If you're looking for someone, make sure you don't get the wrong person."
With that, they left without looking back, amidst gasps of shock.
Only the man and his wife were left, speechless and stunned.
After the soldiers' backs had disappeared from view.
The man clutched his swollen half of his face.
"Wife, didn't you say your uncle is a high-ranking official in the Lighthouse? Help me take down Qin Chuan. I can't swallow this!"
The man's gaze was filled with hatred. He leaned into his wife's embrace, thus not seeing the change in her eyes.
"You've provoked Qin Chuan?" her voice seemed to carry shards of ice, no longer her previous robust tone, sounding rather nervous.
"Yes," the man finally noticed the abnormality in his wife's tone. He turned his head, still clutching his face, to look at her.
He found that her eyes had instantly become cold, unlike the look of concern when she had first seen him.
It was then that the man belatedly sensed something was amiss.
"Wife, what's wrong with you?"
The man's speech was slightly slurred. Qin Chuan's punch had filled his entire mouth with blood, and his mouth was swollen.
His pronunciation was unclear.
Yet, his wife, who had always taken good care of him, now seemed like a stranger. She suddenly stood up.
Before the man could react, a slap landed directly on his face.
"Wang Tianming! Are you out of your mind? If you have nothing better to do, why would you provoke Qin Chuan?"
"The Qin family is not someone you can afford to offend. If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!"
The formerly doting wife had instantly turned into a shrew.
Wang Tianming, clutching his face, was stunned, forgetting to even get up from the ground.
"Wife, isn't Qin Chuan just some minor captain in the enforcement team? Why are you so nervous? Isn't he backed by his grandfather? But wasn't it said that Old Master Qin and Qin Chuan don't have a good relationship?"
Wang Tianming was still earnestly explaining, completely unaware of how ridiculous his words sounded.
And how ignorant he was of the world.
"Wang Tianming, if you really don't want that pig brain of yours, you can donate it. What do you mean Old Master Qin and Qin Chuan don't have a good relationship? Even if their relationship is bad, they are still grandfather and grandson. Who do you think you are, daring to challenge Qin Chuan!"
Wang Tianming, unyielding, pushed himself up from the ground.
"Wife, aren't you here? Let's beg your uncle. You were the one who asked me to handle this in the first place, right? If we can really bring Qin Chuan down, then we'll be able to cut in line for water and electricity later!"
The woman's eyes were rolling to the heavens. She felt that the slap she had just delivered wasn't hard enough to truly make this trash-brained, useless man wake up.