Chapter 950: Chapter 955: A Promising Future Awaits!
If we don’t fight, don’t stir up trouble, don’t strut around acting all high and mighty, then what future is there in following Lin Feng?
Pretty much every Hong Sect brother was thinking along those lines. Some of the more restless guys had already started secretly wondering whether they should leave Lin Feng and go to another branch to hustle for a while. Who knows, maybe they could make a name for themselves one day, become some big-shot boss in the underworld...
Looking at the complicated expressions on the Hong Sect brothers’ faces, Lin Feng actually felt pretty lucky. Good thing he laid everything out today, or he wouldn’t have realized there were so many idiots who really thought they could hack and slash their way to the top...
So damn young and na??ve. If you really want to fight your way up, drunk on beauty by night and holding the power of life and death when you wake up, why don’t you go to some foreign country that’s still stuck in the middle of a war and "build your career" there?
If you had two paths in front of you: one where you claw your way up by hacking people up every time, scraping by with a thousand hardships and nine deaths for every life... and another where you just make money, make a ton of money, don’t need to risk your neck, and use cash to solve your problems— which would you choose?
Lin Feng really wanted to ask this in front of everyone. But he didn’t, because the people in front of him weren’t just the brothers from Longfeng Martial Hall; there were also people from the Hong Sect headquarters, under Bai Yuanshan the sect leader. Lin Feng felt he’d already said enough for today.
No matter how unwilling Li Yi was to accept it, no matter how much he felt he’d lost face, Lin Feng still had Dachen lead the security guards and escort every last guy from the Xinyi Gang safely out the front gate.
The Hong Sect brothers all looked somewhat unsatisfied. After watching the Xinyi Gang guys leave, Li Yi especially shot Lin Feng a disgruntled look, like he wanted to talk to Lin Feng alone but didn’t have the guts to go up.
Lin Feng didn’t give Li Yi a chance to speak. He was getting ready to find Zhu Xiuyue and have her say a few words to the reporters on-site so they wouldn’t make up crap about what happened today.
"Heh... Boss, this is so not your style... Since when did you get so nice?!"
Just as Lin Feng was about to move, Zhou Yang’s voice suddenly came from within the crowd. Lin Feng turned around and saw Zhou Yang carrying two huge metal cases, one in each hand, walking out of the crowd together with Fatty Xiang Wang, both of them grinning at him.
"What took you guys so long? We already finished lunch..." Lin Feng chuckled as well, stuck out a hand, took one of the cases from Zhou Yang, and casually asked.
Earlier, Lin Feng had felt the surveillance cameras he’d had installed at Longfeng Martial Hall weren’t enough, so he’d told Xiang Wang to upgrade the monitoring system as he saw fit. But this kid Xiang Wang, if he doesn’t do something, fine, but once he does, he has to do it perfectly. He just had all the existing cameras torn down, drew up a whole new plan, and then dragged Zhou Yang off shopping...
Same as when he was with the White Wolf Squad, whenever Xiang Wang called Zhou Yang out, it was always to be his bodyguard and pack mule. No choice— from Xiang Wang’s perspective, for security reasons, a lot of things couldn’t be known by anyone outside the core members. There were some things he couldn’t do alone, though, and he had to get help...
Among the core members, Lin Feng was the team captain, and Xiang Wang didn’t dare randomly ask him to do grunt work. Xue Qingyi was a woman, and Xiang Wang felt bad about making her do heavy lifting. As for Ling Yun, Xiang Wang was very wary of that mysterious, smart, and powerful guy. After weighing it all, the only one he felt safe asking for help was Zhou Yang, this thick-skinned, carefree, never-gets-angry dude...
"All because of this bastard Xiang Wang..." Zhou Yang shot Xiang Wang a sideways look and muttered, "He says for secrecy, the surveillance data has to be stored on some kind of array storage, that he needs to buy a bunch of hardware and set up some LAN... Basically, he dragged me around several electronics malls just to get everything. I’m beat."
Lin Feng knew exactly why Zhou Yang said he was tired... You had to know, each of those metal cases Xiang Wang had Zhou Yang carry weighed over a hundred jin. Hauling two of those around, how could he not be exhausted...
"Brother Zhou, didn’t I tell you to talk less..." Xiang Wang complained unhappily when he heard Zhou Yang speak. "Just those few throwaway lines you said—if some expert heard them, they could probably figure out my whole setup. That’d be very bad for me!"
Zhou Yang’s face froze at that. He didn’t know anything about computers, so he had no idea whether Xiang Wang was bullshitting or not. Either way, he wasn’t happy; he glared at Xiang Wang and practically roared, "Xiang Wang... fuck your grandpa’s... I ran around with you all morning, didn’t even get lunch, I’m about to pass out from hunger, and you still complain when I say one thing? If you keep acting cocky, I’ll beat the crap out of you..."
Seeing Zhou Yang blow up, Xiang Wang’s face went pale. He instinctively ducked behind Lin Feng, let out a little snort, and carefully muttered, "This guy really is all brawn and no brains. Just now he was ’fuck your grandpa,’ and the next second he’s calling himself grandpa. So aren’t you fucking yourself now? If you’re that capable, why don’t you show us how that works..."
Lin Feng couldn’t help laughing. This Xiang Wang really was a clown.
"Hmph..." Zhou Yang glared viciously at Xiang Wang peeking out from behind Lin Feng and said coldly, "Xiang Wang, you think I can’t hear you just because you’re whispering?"
This time, Xiang Wang really didn’t dare say another word.
After cursing Xiang Wang out a bit more, Zhou Yang finally turned to Lin Feng, lowered his voice, and asked, confused, "Boss, why did you order those troublemakers to be let go just now? Don’t tell me you’ve really changed your ways? Or are you planning to deal with them in the dark?"
"Deal with them my ass..." Lin Feng shook his head and said with a smile, "Those idiots don’t even have basic common sense. They don’t even qualify as street punks. You think I’d take them seriously? After I kicked them back out, they’re probably scared enough to disband already. Why would I bother with them..."
"But it’s our opening day and people are already making trouble. If we don’t lay down some rules, won’t a lot of people think our Longfeng Martial Hall is easy to push around?" Zhou Yang voiced the doubt in his heart directly.
"This isn’t the time to lay down rules..." Lin Feng shot Zhou Yang a look and subtly pointed at the young reporter not far away with a press badge, snapping photos, then lowered his voice. "Right now, keeping up appearances is more important..."
Xiang Wang finally understood what Lin Feng was worried about and smirked. "Boss, you’re sharp as ever..."
"I’m not sharp..." Lin Feng shook his head. "They’re just so damn brainless I don’t even feel like teaching them a lesson... Anyway, let’s leave it at that. Once you’re done helping Xiang Wang get things set up, don’t leave the Martial Hall today. I’ll need your help tonight..."
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