Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 19: Dangerous City
Pucheng, in the courtyard of the security corps.

Members of the security team were comforting the county residents gathered outside the yard, while in the yard, Wang Yi was sitting there, drinking tea and chatting with Yang Kenan, the head of the security team, who looked like an ordinary citizen, Mr. Liu.

"When I became his disciple, my master told me that there are only two kinds of extraordinary people in the world. One kind is those who practice external martial arts like me and that brother Ma Feng, and the other kind is those who focus on the art of martial arts like Brother Wang. I have seen people who can do the Eight Directions Reversal, but this is the first time I have seen someone who can do it like Brother Wang does to catch a bullet."

Yang Kenan's words were full of regret. After all, since the rise and development of hot weapons, the status of the aliens of the external martial arts system in the war has dropped sharply. After all, your twenty years of hard training cannot stop the bullets fired by an ordinary person, and the aliens who practice magic are not much better.

No matter how advanced the magic is, it is still a mortal body that can be taken away by a bullet. It is just that compared with the aliens of the external martial arts, the aliens of the magic system have to pay a higher price to deal with.

This price is really insignificant for an army composed of ordinary people.

It's not like he had never seen some accomplished magicians or seniors of external martial arts catch bullets. But it was the first time he had seen someone as young as Wang Yi catch bullets using the method of reversing the eight directions.

Because in the circle of extraordinary people, the method of reversing the eight directions is not considered to be very sophisticated. It is more of a method of using hidden weapons. Unlike Wang Yi in front of him, he can intercept bullets and play with the bullets as if they were toys.

"I just figured out some experience through my own practice. There's no need to be so surprised, Captain Yang." Wang Yi said politely. Yang Kenan didn't care, but there were more than just Wang Yi and Yang Kenan in the living room.

"Brother, if you talk like that, I'll look like an idiot."

A slightly teasing voice sounded from the third person in the living room. Wang Yi also knew this person. He was the strange man who stood up for justice in the Guandao Restaurant.

The man's name is Ma Feng. He used to be a bodyguard. Now, like Wang Yi, he travels around the world and will take action to deal with any injustice he encounters.

He settled in Pucheng earlier than Wang Yi. After Wang Yi subdued Cao Shaolin, Ma Feng, who came back from fishing, also saw Wang Yi, a guy he had met once. After all, as an extraordinary person, his memory is still very reliable.

Listening to the security team members and the noodle shop owner, the female teacher Bai Ling, Ma Feng knew that this guy, who had met him once, was also a hidden master. Thinking of this, when he was teaching those robbers a lesson in the restaurant, those tables, chairs and benches that escaped the disaster by various coincidences, Ma Feng understood the reason.

It turns out that I am still a clown, but others have been taking care of my face and not pointing it out.

But he was not the kind of shameless person, and he also pointed out that he and Wang Yi had met by chance in that restaurant.

"Hey, Brother Ma is also doing a brave job, I can't take over the show, so I can only help Brother Ma clean up the mess."

"Okay, don't say that to me. I'm a useless martial artist and I can't handle these tricks. Let's get back to the point. How are you and Captain Yang going to deal with Cao Shaolin?"

Ma Feng's quick words stumped Yang Kenan, the head of the local security group and the host.

As an extraordinary person, and as the head of a county security corps in this world full of warlord separatism, chaos, surrounding powers, and internal and external difficulties, Yang Kenan naturally has his own way of dealing with people.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to protect the safety of the county, to get along with all the warlords, and to make this small county called Pucheng peaceful.

As a strange man who started out as a martial artist, he naturally has justice in his heart, but as a man with a family and the responsibility of protecting the peace of the county, he has to consider the lives of tens of thousands of people in this county.

Warlord Cao Ying and his son Cao Shaolin used killing to establish their authority. Even though they were far away in Pucheng, Yang Kenan, the head of the Yang regiment, had heard of them. Not to mention, Shitoucheng, which was dozens of miles away from Pucheng, had just suffered a disaster, and Pucheng had just taken in a large number of refugees who had escaped from Shitoucheng.

But you can't ask too much of the common people these days. As long as they have something to eat, they really don't care who is in charge of the sky above their heads. They just want to survive and live a less hard life.

Therefore, even though they took in refugees from Stone City, the people of Pucheng were still hoping for the best, thinking that Cao's army had already had enough food and drink in Stone City and would not cause trouble for Pucheng.

But this lucky mentality was shattered when what happened in the noodle shop this morning, when the noodle shop owner Tie Niu beat up Cao Shaolin, the son of a warlord, and he could not bear the humiliation and revealed his identity.

At this moment, all the residents of Pucheng County gathered outside the courtyard of the Security Corps, just to know how their head of the Security Corps would deal with this disaster caused by Cao Shaolin.

The county residents gathered outside the security group's yard also made suggestions. Some suggested that everyone pool their money together to avoid disaster; some suggested that they just kill the warlord's son, because he was not a good person, so everyone didn't have to worry too much about killing him, after all, he was only one person; some suggested that whoever caused the disaster should be the one to deal with it, targeting Tie Niu, the owner of Tie Niu Noodle House, and his cousin who had taken him in.

Yang Kenan just listened to these words. He was a man who had seen the world and knew very well that since Cao Shaolin, the son of a warlord, appeared in Pucheng, it meant that their small county was also on the list of plunder and killing by Cao Ying, the dog warlord. As for Cao Shaolin being just one person, could they just kill him without anyone noticing and pretend nothing happened?
Haha, Yang Kenan couldn't guarantee the lives of his entire family. There was a troop of Cao Ying stationed ten miles away from Pucheng.

The current situation is only because Wang Yi took action to expose Cao Jun and Cao Shaolin's sinister intentions in advance. It's just that he, who is used to seeing warlords burning, killing and looting, knows this truth, Ma Feng knows it, and even the young man named Wang Yi in front of him knows it, but there is no way to tell these truths directly to the county residents.

Because even if they said it, they would deceive themselves and think that they were exaggerating. Perhaps only when the troops of Cao Ying, the dog warlord, rushed into the county, robbed their property, and insulted their wives, daughters, and children, would they realize that compromising with these dog warlords would not bring them a peaceful life.

But now the matter is stuck here. If he releases Cao Shaolin, people will still take revenge on him later. But if he doesn't release Cao Shaolin, he won't be able to explain to the county residents in Pucheng alone.

Wang Yi glanced at the expression on Yang Kenan's face, and Ma Feng next to him was also waiting for Yang Kenan's answer.

Therefore, Wang Yi spoke first.

"Captain Yang, forgive me for saying one more thing. Although Pucheng is doing well under your care and is safe, you and I both know that these days, a county town must have a backer who can protect it from the wind and rain. As for protection money, it doesn't matter who you pay it to, as long as you can get things done. Isn't there any protection money in Pucheng? This is in the south, and there is a government there too."

The government that Wang Yi mentioned naturally refers to the military government established by Dr. Sun Yat-sen during his lifetime in Guangdong Province. Although it lacks the strength of the Beiyang warlord government that currently occupies the central government, Wang Yi remembers that starting from this year, in accordance with Dr. Sun Yat-sen's will, they began their first cooperation and established a military academy of their own in June this year to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Those who studied in the first four classes of this military academy later became famous generals. It can be said that this academy was a gathering of generals.

Although it is only May now, Wang Yi believes that the preparatory work is already underway. It is not logical for Yang Kenan, who is in Pucheng and the head of a security group, to just leave the giant Buddha right in front of him as a decoration.

"It seems that Brother Wang has traveled to many places. I know what you said, but how can I put it? The government here does not collect our protection fees, and their purpose is not in line with that of Boss Liu in our county..."

Yang Kenan answered cryptically, and Wang Yi understood.

In the final analysis, it was because the filter of warlord separatism, chaos, burning, killing and looting was too deep, which made Captain Yang feel unfamiliar with the fact that the military government in the south did not collect protection fees, and he did not dare to trust the army here. In addition, now is the honeymoon period of the first cooperation, and the local gentry in Pucheng will not show a good face to the government in the honeymoon period.

What? You guys come and divide my land? I might as well give all my property to Cao Ying, that dog warlord!
This is probably the true inner thoughts of the local gentry in Pucheng.

"I see. It seems that my recklessness caused Pucheng to be burned in the fire."

"Brother Wang, don't say that. You asked me that question just now, so you must understand that whether you stopped Cao Shaolin or not, it would not change the fact that he and his father, the warlord, were going to attack Pucheng. You just saved Tie Niu and his cousin and prevented a tragedy from happening.

In the final analysis, the world is too chaotic now. The emergence of guns has made us no longer as prosperous as we were in ancient times. Even if it was a different era, even during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, let alone Cao Ying's army of a thousand or even ten thousand, I could still go straight to his camp and have a good chat with him!"

Speaking of the era of hot weapons, Yang Kenan couldn't help but sigh. Wang Yi could understand the loneliness in his words.

Indeed, I have practiced martial arts for so many years, but now you tell me, sir, times have changed. Who still competes in martial arts now? They compete with guns! Guns!
One day, he beat the foreigner to the point of doubting his life, and learned literary and martial arts. The saying that goods are from the imperial family becomes ridiculous.

"Captain Yang, I caused this trouble, so naturally I should solve it. If you don't mind, can you let me meet this imprisoned Cao Shaolin? This so-called young marshal?"

When mentioning the words "Young Marshal", Wang Yi couldn't help laughing out loud.

There was no other reason. Although he looked down on all the warlords of this era, he had to admit that in this era, there were very few people who could be called young marshals.

Cao Shaolin, the son of a warlord who enjoys killing people, really does not deserve this title.

But it’s better this way. If he is really a genuine young marshal, Wang Yi would not even have time to hide now, so how could he choose to play a good game with him?

(End of this chapter)