Chapter 115: 101: Killers Arise from All Directions

Chapter 115: Chapter 101: Killers Arise from All Directions

Standing on the top floor of the Bell Tower, Li Fei looked into the distance and clearly saw several cars suddenly start up and drive toward Qingyuan District.

In this era, especially in a place like Xing City, cars were a rare commodity.

If cars were heading towards Qingyuan District at this time, it definitely indicated that reinforcements from the Tiger Saber Gang had been dispatched.

Seeing this, Li Fei immediately had Xu Si send two new messages.

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On the convoy’s end, shortly after Zhang Mingze had just ordered a reserve unit to head to Qingyuan District, a subordinate came with another message:

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“Master, we’ve received word, a group of about a hundred people have burst out of Kaiping District!”

“Kaiping District? From the Chen Family?”

Zhang Mingze was somewhat surprised.

Since the Big Leader of Qingyuan Fist Village had made his move, this proved that the Green-faced Ghost was indeed the other party’s person, which meant the Chen Family could be ruled out as suspects.

Then why would the Chen Family join in the fray at this time?

“Did any spies arranged at the Chen Family report back?”

Zhang Mingze asked.

He had had his people watch the Chen Family’s experts several days prior. In the morning before he set out, the spies reported that all the spectable Chen Family experts were within Kaiping District, with no unusual movements.

Thus, those who came out of Kaiping District at this time could only be from the Chen Family.

“No updates yet, but gunshots have been heard in the direction of Kaiping District, and our men have definitely noticed the commotion.”

Zhang Mingze narrowed his eyes, “Immediately send a unit to the Bell Tower area to see if there’s a problem there.”

“Yes.”

“Forget it, no need!”

However, Zhang Mingze suddenly retracted this order.

“Master?”

“…Send another reserve unit to Kaiping District, if it turns out the information is false, immediately rush to my location.”

Zhang Mingze issued a new order.

At this time, the only ones who could possibly threaten him were just a few houses. If it was really the Chen Family coming for him, the forces he arranged on the outskirts must move out early to block them, otherwise, it might be too late.

“Yes!”

After the messenger left, Zhang Mingze turned his head to look out another window.

Through it, he could faintly see the distant Bell Tower, standing tall.

“Quite interesting.”

Zhang Mingze’s mouth curved into a smirk.

His right eye had been slashed by Li Fei, leaving him with only one eye.

Having one less eye to view the world made Zhang Mingze feel quite unaccustomed.

Less than a minute later, the messenger ran back to the vehicle:

“Master, a message from the Bell Tower says a large force of at least two hundred is attacking from Jin’an District!”

Hearing this news, Zhang Mingze’s expression finally changed.

Jin’an District was the direction of the Martial Arts Hall, where he had arranged people from the Gu line to guard.

Considering Hao Yi’s relationship with the Big Leader of Qingyuan Fist Village, it was also possible that they could take action today, so Zhang Mingze and Gu Zhenhui had discussed that the Tiger Saber Gang would take on one Tao Foundation Stage expert, and the remaining Tao Foundation Stage would be handled by the Chief’s faction.

The Chief’s faction had the righteousness and support of the government on their side, which would be more effective against people like Hao Yi compared to the Tiger Saber Gang. This was also part of Zhang Mingze’s calculation.

But now there was trouble on the Martial Arts Hall’s end as well?

The Chief’s faction was also ready to move against him?

But if both Qingyuan Fist Village and the Chen Family had motives, how could the Chief’s faction not?

Could he naively believe that just because they were currently working together, they were truly brothers in arms?

“Ha!”

Zhang Mingze suddenly burst out laughing.

“Master?”

Yang Xuan, sitting in the passenger seat, turned to look at him.

A murderous light shone in the only eye Zhang Mingze had left, “I really underestimated this Green-faced Ghost!”

Hearing this, Yang Xuan was taken aback, “Could he have managed to unite the Chen Family and the Chief’s faction at the same time, both moving against us?”

“How could that be?!”

Zhang Mingze scoffed.

But he still turned to the people outside the car and said, “Dispatch all the remaining reserve units in the direction of Jin’an District to take a look. Again, if the information is incorrect, immediately rush to my location.”

“Yes!”

The messenger accepted the order and left.

“Master?”

Yang Xuan looked at Zhang Mingze, puzzled.

If he believed that Qingyuan Fist Village, the Chen Family, and the Chief’s faction were unlikely to join hands against the Tiger Saber Gang, why send all the reserves to guard against these three parties?

“Qingyuan Fist Village wouldn’t possibly be able to unite the Chen Family and the Chief’s faction to jointly take action against the Tiger Saber Gang without the gang noticing in advance, and compared to waging a full-scale war with the Tiger Saber Gang, it’s a much better choice to join forces against Qingyuan Fist Village first,” Zhang Mingze said. “But both the Chen Family and the Chief’s faction indeed have motives to strike at the Tiger Saber Gang. I have to be on guard; this is a scheme in plain sight.”

The messages from the bell tower weren’t really important; what mattered was the “motives.”

Zhang Mingze hadn’t stationed a heavy force at the Bell Tower for two reasons: first, he really didn’t have more men to spare guarding that point.

Second, it wasn’t all that meaningful.

Even if the Bell Tower reported that everything was normal and nobody was coming from any direction, but noise arose in several places, could Zhang Mingze dare not to be cautious?

If the Chen Family and the Chief’s faction really entered the game and sent people to attack him, wouldn’t it mean that he would just have a bunch of “chess pieces” not utilized at his disposal, letting the enemy “checkmate” him?

So Zhang Mingze declared it an open strategy.

“The most likely scenario is that Qingyuan Fist Village had arranged some ordinary people with firearms to wait in those directions, ready to make a big fuss as soon as the time was right to mislead me. I know it’s a bluff, and they know that I know, but I have to play this chess move.”

Zhang Mingze’s sole remaining eye stared intently at the distant Bell Tower, “But what’s the point of all this? All the pieces on the chessboard are guarded by me; you can’t produce any more new pieces. Now there’s only your single pawn crossing the river, do you really think you can still ‘checkmate’ me?”