Return of the Soldier King Chapter 140 The Invisible Throwing Knife

Ye Fei leaned weakly against the wall.

Fire Dragon strode forward and put his foot on Ye Fei's chest with a victorious grin. "Boy, are not you as slippery as a loach? Run! Try again!"

"Did Liu Manman try to kill herself because of you?" Ye Fei asked him.

Fire Dragon blinked in surprise. He didn't that even on the verge of death Ye Fei's brain would be occupied with other people's problems. Did he have some kind of hero complex?

After three long seconds of silence, Fire Dragon laughed, "Liu Manman? I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Yes, you do." A strange gleam shone in Ye Fei's eyes, "I would never have come to this alley to be ambushed by you if it weren't for her hospitalization. So forgive me if I think you're full of shit!"

Ye Fei didn't think Fire Dragon would ever tell him the truth, but from his astonished expression, Ye Fei knew he definitely had something to do with Liu Manman trying to kill herself.

Knowing this was enough!

"It's raining, I'm soaking wet, and I want to go home and take a warm shower. Enough chit-chat. Time to die!" Fire Dragon lifted up his foot to kick Ye Fei's ribs in.

Then-

Determination flashed in Ye Fei's eyes.

No one saw the throwing knife appear in Fire Dragon's throat. On the hilt - a small engraving of the character 'Li'.

Fire Dragon stared at Ye Fei in utter shock. He completely failed to see how this knife ended up stabbed into his throat. He only felt a sharp, cold, stinging pain out of nowhere.

In the next moment, his burly form collapsed to the ground.

Fire Dragon was dead.

Before his goons could recover from their shock, Ye Fei jumped up, bright-eyed and refreshed in spirit, and sprinted off down the alley.

Eventually, a few of the hitmen tried to give chase, but they could not catch up to Ye Fei.

Had they been more fortitudinous and blocked Ye Fei's escape with their bodies, they could still have killed him. However, these men were clearly simple mercenaries, only in it for the coin and still afraid of death.

As soon as Ye Fei made it out of the alley, the killers stopped in their tracks. After all, there were security cameras here and there on the main streets, and these were all wanted criminals.

Even Ye Fei didn't have time to get his throwing knife back. He stormed out of the alley straight to the parking lot and threw himself into the car. Only then did he allow himself a brief sigh of relief and realized that his limbs were numb, shaking with exhaustion. With the adrenalin rush fading away, he could barely lift his arms. His clothes were red with blood, which he smeared all over the wheel and driver's seat.

Seeing no one chase after him, Ye Fei allowed himself two minutes to catch his breath before starting the engine and driving off.

A black car with tinted windows was parked on a back street not far from the alley.

Seeing Ye Fei make his escape, two men got out of the car, opened black umbrellas, and went into the alley to see what had happened.　

When Su Zongheng and Yamamoto Xiongcai saw Fire Dragon's corpse, they couldn't believe their eyes.

Su Zongheng squatted down and tested his pulse. "He's dead." he declared after a few seconds.

Yamamoto Xiongcai was silent for a long while, then slowly said, "Dealing with Ye Fei won't be easy..."

Now he knew why his son could not defeat Ye Fei.

Someone who could wreak such havoc despite being completely outnumbered and outgunned… Takeshi was lucky all he got was a pair of broken hands.

Ye Fei had shown his mercy.

"Even so, we still must. I suspected Fire Dragon might not make it, but... I just didn't expect it to be this gruesome. On the bright side, we now have a good estimate of Ye Fei's abilities and can better plan for the future."

Su Zongheng pulled the throwing knife out from Fire Dragon's throat. A small stream of blood poured out.

He examined the small weapon in his fingers, and really couldn't figure out how Ye Fei had managed to use it in time. How did no one see it happen?

It was too dark to see it clearly, so he took out a handkerchief and carefully wrapped it before shoving it into his coat pocket.

"Mr. Yamamoto, in the future, we will fight side by side."

Su Zongheng saw Yamamoto Xiongcai's astonished and scared face and immediately knew he already wanted out.

"Ahem. Of course." The Japanese karate master knew he couldn't abandon the plot now.

Suddenly, a loud siren tore through the quiet of the night.

Someone had called the police!

"It's the cops!" Yamamoto Xiongcai gasped. "What should we do? We've got to get out of here!"

"Calm down, this is my territory! I am in control here." Su Zongheng laughed, and ordered his subordinates to clean up the mess. Within minutes, the dead bodies were carried and the blood-spattered alley splashed all over with water.

By the time the residents showed the police to the site of the disturbance, there was nothing to be found.

…..

At the gates of the Shanghai University campus.

Zhong Mei was standing under the eaves of the gatehouse, watching the sparse pedestrians going up and down the street with an anxious face.

Eventually, she stuck her head through the window of the guardroom and said, "Mr. Li, did Ye Fei really want me here to wait out here for him? It's been 20 minutes and he's not here yet! You're not messing with me, are you?"

Li Tiejun looked at his watch and frowned. "I'm surprised too. He's usually punctual."

The sound of screeching tires alerted them to a car tearing down the street through rain. The vehicle ground to half in front of the gates.

Ye Fei rolled down the passenger window.

Zhong Mei happily trotted over and pulled open the passenger door of the car, but seeing Ye Fei covered in blood, she gasped in alarm.

"Oh no! What happened to you?"

Chapter end