The Almighty Martial Arts System - Chapter 312

Ye Yuanyuan’s explanation hit the nail on the head. Using ‘Dragon Group’ to describe the organization the man and woman belonged to made Jiang Fei understand instantly.

Such a special organization within special organizations—no wonder they could act so brazenly, disregarding even the face of the Beijing Police Chief, and instead earning a respectful salute from him.

It seemed the impact of this ‘Skynet’ intrusion was truly significant, enough to alarm people like them. Du Ziliang had schemed and plotted tirelessly, killing his own brother, eliminating his subordinates, and painstakingly bringing his entire Du family to the capital. Unfortunately, it was all for nothing, crushed utterly and completely by overwhelming force.

The happiest person present was undoubtedly Jiang Fei.

“From their footsteps and breathing, you can tell they’re definitely trained fighters with high combat prowess. But they probably don’t have superpowers like in the novels, right? I just wonder if they’ve cultivated internal energy,” Jiang Fei pondered to himself.

Portrayals of the Dragon Group in many novels were fantastical, with each member possessing superpowers. In Jiang Fei’s view, now that he was a martial arts master himself, that seemed unlikely.

Even if someone could perform feats that seemed sci-fi to ordinary people, it wasn’t superpowers—it was just the result of being incredibly powerful after cultivating internal energy.

Like him, like Miyamoto Kazuma, and like his nominal master, Xuanji Zi…

The woman looked quite delicate, but her hand gripping Du Ziliang was remarkably strong. Without another word, she prepared to take him away.

Hearing Du Ziliang’s angry and pitiful cries, Du Chengde and the Du family Patriarch were practically burning with rage. They could roughly guess that the Seven Kill organization was extraordinary, but they were still unwilling, still wanting to save Du Ziliang.

But how could they possibly stop the two Seven Kill members? With Chief Xiao no longer helping them, and the other influential figures sitting in the hall too afraid to move, they were like toothless tigers, left helpless and frantic.

But just then, perhaps Du Ziliang finally understood his predicament. He knew that if he were taken away by this man and woman just like that, it would be like walking the road to the Yellow Springs—only death awaited him.

So his face twisted completely, his eyes widened with rage, his pupils contracting violently. The shoulder grabbed by the woman suddenly jerked outward, his elbow thrusting back with fierce speed and power, catching the cold woman somewhat off guard, forcing her to release his shoulder to block.

Thud!

The woman’s slender arm collided with Du Ziliang’s elbow joint, producing the dull sound of flesh impacting flesh. It was a draw, but Du Ziliang used the momentum to escape her grasp.

“Oh? Quite skilled,” the woman sneered, her figure darting forward towards Du Ziliang as fast as lightning.

The tall, stern man who had come with her watched the scene without any intention of stepping in to help. It seemed he had full confidence in his teammate and didn’t think Du Ziliang stood a chance against her.

“Nobody move!”

Du Ziliang suddenly roared. He now held a black pistol in his hand and had successfully taken a hostage.

“Anyone moves, and I’ll shoot him!” At this moment, Du Ziliang was like a desperate criminal, no different from a robber taking hostages on TV, his body completely shielded behind the hostage, his eyes fixed fiercely on everyone.

And the hostage, quite comically, turned out to be the portly, well-fed Chief Xiao!

The very Chief of the Beijing Police Department who had been dragged here in the middle of the night as backup because he owed the Du family Patriarch a favor!

This time, the entire room was truly in an uproar.

The plot twists were simply relentless, rising and falling, leaving everyone struggling to keep up.

The moment Chief Xiao was taken hostage by Du Ziliang, with a gun pressed to his head, he nearly wet himself, his face turning green. He stammered, “This… damn it… you… what are you doing!”

Chief Xiao’s heart was currently trampled by ten thousand mythical grass-mud horses.

Wasn’t I here today to help your Du family? And now I’m taken hostage by one of your own, with a gun to my head? What kind of sense does that make? Do you have no integrity or common decency left?

You can’t play like this!

“Don’t move! Stay still!” Du Ziliang pressed the gun hard against Chief Xiao’s head, shouting an angry warning.

Chief Xiao didn’t dare move. He quickly raised his hands slightly, his face crestfallen as he said, “Okay… okay, I won’t move. Be careful, please don’t let it go off accidentally!”

Everyone else was completely stunned. Even the previously furious Du Chengde and the Du family Patriarch stared wide-eyed, dumbfounded, their expressions frozen solid.

Even if we’re angry, even if we’re unwilling, you can resist, but you can’t pull out a gun and take a hostage! And of all people, Chief Xiao! Where does that leave the Du family’s dignity?

“Ziliang! Put the gun down now, let Chief Xiao go!” Du Chengde, forgetting his anger towards Jiang Fei or the Seven Kill members for the moment, urgently tried to persuade Du Ziliang to release him first.

The Du family Patriarch, leaning on his cane, also said with a drastically changed expression, “Yes! Ziliang, don’t worry, we will save you. I don’t care if it’s Seven Kill or Eight Kill, as long as you’ve done nothing wrong, they can’t frame a member of our Du family! Don’t worry, even if they take you, Grandfather will definitely get you out!”

The Patriarch had been confident that if Du Ziliang hadn’t committed any crime, even if arrested, nothing much would happen. But now, taking Chief Xiao hostage at gunpoint wasn’t just smearing the Du family’s name; it was also leaving clear evidence of his own crime!

Unfortunately, the Patriarch had been mistaken from the start. Du Ziliang wasn’t innocent.

So, faced with their pleas, Du Ziliang shook his head, a bitter smile on his face, and said, “It’s too late! It’s already too late for that!”

Hearing this, Du Chengde and the Patriarch’s faces changed dramatically, and they stared at Du Ziliang, their son and grandson, in disbelief.

“You…” They stared, unable to speak.

They weren’t fools; they were smart people. From Du Ziliang’s words, they could guess what he meant.

Du Ziliang, however, seemed ready to smash the jar since it was already cracked, having no more reservations. “You guessed right. Yes, Jiang Fei wasn’t framing me from the beginning! I did all of it!”

Gasp!

When these words came directly from Du Ziliang’s mouth, the Du family Patriarch’s aged but spirited body seemed to deflate, and he almost collapsed to the floor.

“How is this possible? How is this possible?” the Patriarch stared at Du Ziliang, muttering to himself in disbelief.

Even when Jiang Fei had accused Du Ziliang earlier, he had never truly believed it was real, never thought that all of this could really be Du Ziliang’s doing!

Using underhanded methods to frame the Chinese Medicine Association, kidnapping someone’s wife and daughter.

Even killing his own brother, Du Zikang!

“Why! Why did you do this!” Du Chengde slammed his fist on the table, like an enraged lion, glaring fiercely at his eldest son.

“Why? You’re asking me why?” In that instant, Du Ziliang seemed to go mad, letting out a hysterical laugh, his eyes filled with a twisted ferocity as he stared at his father.

After laughing for a long moment, he suddenly stopped. Hiding behind Chief Xiao’s broad back, he roared, “I ended up here, everything I did today, is because of you! Because of you, my mother died with regrets! Because of you, I suffered humiliation since I was a child! Did you ever show me an ounce of affection when I was young? You gave all your fatherly love to that bastard Du Zikang, while you casually beat and scolded me, never caring about me at all!”

“Do you know! From the moment I returned to the Du family at six years old, I was determined to kill Du Zikang. Enduring until now to act was already pushing my limits, do you know that?!”

“So for all these years, I have been hiding and working hard. I made myself outstanding, and made Du Zikang become a waste step by step under my arrangement. This was all done deliberately!”

“What’s wrong? Hearing this, are you angry? Are you shocked? Haha… Du Chengde, even if I don’t survive today, even if I die! Seeing the look on your face, you heartless man, suddenly makes it feel somewhat worth it!”

Apart from Du Ziliang’s hysterical roars, the entire hall fell silent. Everyone looked at Du Chengde with pity.

This guy… what a tragedy!

But the most tragic was still Chief Xiao, held hostage by Du Ziliang, unable to move a muscle. His heart was on the verge of collapse. Why am I so damn unlucky today? If you want to act out your family soap opera, just act it out properly! Why drag me into it?

I’m innocent, damn it!

Meanwhile, Jiang Fei, who had been quietly being a pretty boy on the side for quite a while, had his eyes shining, his hands trembling slightly with excitement.

“Really didn’t expect this, really didn’t! It would turn out like this. It’s just too full of twists and turns, utterly unpredictable! If only I had some cola and popcorn to sit back and enjoy the show quietly, it would be perfect. Even better than an eight o’clock soap opera!” Jiang Fei rubbed his hands together like a gossip-loving housewife.

“Fight already, shoot already!”

Jiang Fei wasn’t worried in the slightest.

As far as he was concerned, he had no fondness for this hostage Chief Xiao. Whatever Du Ziliang did to him was irrelevant, as long as Du Ziliang didn’t escape today!

Ye Yuanyuan shot Jiang Fei an exasperated glance and sighed. “A hateful man must have his pitiable aspects…”