Empire of Shadows

“... You guys definitely don't know what Jennifer and I did last night!”

A young man with freckles all over his face and golden-brown hair sat under a roadside parasol, holding an iced orange juice with alcohol, chatting with two good friends about what happened between him and a girl named Jennifer last night.

“I have to say, this was the most enjoyable and coolest night I've ever had. You'll never know how gentle she is, and...”

“I know.”

The freckled face was stunned for a moment. The three of them were sitting around the table. The two people were his good buddies, and Jennifer was his girlfriend.

He looked at his friend's sincere expression, and then put some bad thoughts behind him. He thought his good brother's so-called "I know" meant that he had also experienced a very amazing girl.

But the freckled face believed that no matter how amazing a girl his brother had experienced, she would not be as good as his girlfriend Jennifer, so he shook his head to defend his girlfriend.

“No, you don't know.”

His good brother seemed to have some problems, mental problems, and was still refuting him, “No, I'm sure I know!”

This made the freckled face a little annoyed, “What do you know?” he asked.

His good brother said some special moves with a smile, which made the freckled face dumbfounded, because this was what he experienced last night, and he hadn't even experienced two of the moves!

Because he didn't wash his butt last night, there must be two moves he didn't try.

He looked at his good brother in disbelief, “How do you know this?”

At this time, his other good brother couldn't help laughing and said, “Of course it's from Jennifer!”

The freckled face's expression became a little serious, even a little embarrassed, “This is not funny. Although we are brothers, Jennifer is my girlfriend. I hope you respect her and don't joke about her. This is also a sign of respect for me!”

The guy who spoke before waved his arms, “Forget it, I told you, she's just a bitch. I've been with her, he's been with her, and many people I know have been with her.”

“I told you about this, but you didn't believe it.”

The freckled face stood up abruptly, his expression becoming ferocious, first flushed, then pale, and then cyan.

Just as he was about to say something harsh, a car suddenly stopped less than five meters away from them. Elvin got out of the car with a travel bag on his back, which was full of heavy baseball bats.

It's just that at this time, the three of them were attracted by the topic of "Is Jennifer a bitch?" and didn't notice this.

Immediately afterwards, a dozen young people ran over from across the road. They took the baseball bats from Elvin and rushed towards this side.

At this time, the three of them noticed this strange scene.

The leader, they seemed to have seen him somewhere, because this guy was tall and strong, and it was rare to see people who were tall and strong these days.

Just as they were thinking about where they had seen these people, it was too late.

The distance between the two sides was only four or five meters, and running would only take two steps, less than two seconds.

When the freckled face realized that they were here to find the three of them, Ethan, who had rushed to the front, waved his fist as big as a sandbag and slammed it on his face, “Kiss my ass, bitch!”

The flames of battle were ignited in an instant!

The two of them didn't care that their good brother was "lost" in the battlefield, so they directly overturned the table and ran away, but there were tables and chairs everywhere nearby, and they couldn't run fast.

Elvin didn't know where he got the strength, grabbed an iron chair and threw it over, directly knocking one person over.

Another person ran a few steps and crashed into the table, and was pinned down as soon as he got up.

Next, there was a beating, sticks, shoes of various sizes, falling like raindrops.

Lance walked into the cafe, looked at the cafe operator, slowly took out a stack of banknotes, counted out four five-yuan bills from it, and put them on the counter, “A little problem, you and your employees haven't seen us, right?”

Lance's behavior made the cafe operator unsure of his background. Seeing that the outside was full of iron chairs and iron tables that would not be damaged, he took the money and said obsequiously, “We have indeed not seen you and your friends, sir.”

Lance nodded in satisfaction and turned to leave the cafe.

At this time, outside, three young people had been pressed together by more than a dozen people and hammered hard. Although Ethan didn't have a weapon, his fists were his weapons.

Every punch made a dull thud!

At first, they would scream twice, but soon they stopped screaming.

After beating for two or three minutes, everyone was tired. Lance's cigarette was almost finished. He walked to the three people, “Raise your heads.”

Everyone else stopped, but the three people who had been beaten hard couldn't raise their heads at all.

Ethan squatted halfway on the ground, grabbed the freckled face's hair and lifted his head, letting him look at Lance.

The freckled face was indeed stunned at first, but now he was awake. He looked at Lance with hatred in his eyes.

His face was bruised and swollen, and he had also been punched with a nosebleed, and his lips were cracked in two places.

“You are not convinced.”

He didn't speak.

Lance continued, “Last month in the port area, you led the protesters and beat our people. Do you remember now?”

The freckled face still didn't speak, but his eyes told Lance that he had completely remembered. He often bragged about this matter to others during this time.

In fact, someone was pushing hard behind the scenes. They all belonged to the unemployed vagrants in the port area. They occasionally did odd jobs. Usually, they either stole money from their families or stole and cheated, anyway, they were willing to do anything as long as they could get money.

When the parade broke out last month, someone found them, gave them two hundred yuan, and asked them to attack the workers on the dock in the port area.

To be honest, this kind of good thing can't be encountered a few times in a lifetime. They agreed, and then coincidentally, they ran into Elvin and the others.

Under the impetus of the atmosphere and environment at that time, they almost didn't need to heat their brains, so they waved their sticks and rushed over, and Elvin and these people were beaten black and blue.

The only thing to be thankful for is that they didn't have any fractures, but everyone was hit with several sticks. It can only be said that it was their good luck that they didn't have any fractures, but it doesn't mean that this group of people showed mercy.

Lance threw the cigarette on the ground, licked his lips, and stretched out his hand. Elvin's eyelids were the quickest, and he immediately turned the baseball bat around, placing the handle in Lance's hand.

Lance weighed the heavy baseball bat, looked at the freckled face, “I'll teach you a lesson today.”

“No matter what you did yesterday, you have to pay for it today. Even if it's not today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, it will always be your turn.”

Lance gestured, Ethan grabbed one of the freckled face's arms and pulled it up. Lance held the baseball bat tightly in both hands, raised it high, and smashed it down hard.

A dull thud accompanied by a miserable scream, the freckled face couldn't think about whether his girlfriend Jennifer was a bitch at this time, the pain made him unable to think!

He hugged his arm and curled up on the ground, the other two people were terrified and begged for mercy.

“Tommy made us do it, it's all his fault!”

“Who is Tommy?”

The two of them looked at the freckled face who was about to faint from the pain. Sure enough, they were good brothers.

But Lance didn't let them go, “But you did it.”

Lance handed the baseball bat to Elvin. Elvin's breathing was a little rapid. This was the first time he had really taken a hard shot. It took psychological construction to do this.

Attacking, hurting, and even killing one's own kind is not an easy thing. There will be psychological obstacles and psychological burdens. Except for natural bad seeds, no one can take a hard shot without any emotional fluctuations.

He took a few quick breaths, recalled the way he was beaten by this group of people, and a burst of anger arose in his heart. He took a deep breath and swelled his chest. He raised the club high and smashed it down hard. The whole person seemed to be in this moment, He became relaxed, and even his breathing became much smoother!

Then came another one.

This person was the most unlucky, because Ethan did it. His strength was so great that he directly broke his arm into a “V” shape. The doctor would definitely be very happy, because this meant a lot of medical expenses.

Seeing that some people were already watching around, the matter was almost over, and the people disappeared in the blink of an eye.

A dozen minutes later, a police car arrived here, and two police officers got out of the police car.

One of them walked to the three people and used the toe of his shiny leather shoe to hook the freckled face's cheek.

Seeing that he opened his eyes and confirming that no one was dead, the police officer walked to the parasol aside, “Call an ambulance.”, this was to his partner, and then looked at the cafe operator, “Do you know who did it?”

Most operators know very well which forces are on this street, because they have all been extorted. The cafe operator touched the twenty yuan in his pocket and chose to tell the truth, “I haven't seen them.”

“Outsiders?”, the police officer shook his head slightly, and took out his notebook and pen, “Do you remember what they looked like?”

He still shook his head, “I don't remember, but they were all young people.”

This is nonsense. The outdoor tables and chairs outside the cafe were in a mess, but the operator refused to provide clues. It is only possible that there must be something tricky between the two parties.

The police officer put away his notebook. He believed that these people knew who did it. These were all small cases!

The ambulance arrived quickly. Besides the guy whose arm was broken by Ethan and was already unconscious being loaded into the ambulance, Freckles and his good brother refused to go.

Having an arm broken was bad enough; if they were slapped with a bill of a few hundred or even a thousand dollars, it would be better to have those guys just finish them off!

In the alleyway in the distance, the young men who had run a bit breathlessly exchanged glances, and then burst out laughing.

These people weren't as scary as they thought. When they were held down and beaten, they seemed no different from pathetic worms!

It was all just as Lance had said: if you are strong, they are weak!