Manager Zhao looked at Ma Xiangrong, who was kneeling on the ground in pain, and shivered himself. The Ma Xiangrong he knew was a vicious man, yet now he was crying and snivelling in pain, tears and snot dripping onto the floor.
Being bullied so miserably on his own turf, what could be more tragic? Manager Zhao trembled as he addressed Lin Tian, stammeringly saying, "You... you’d better let go of Captain Ma, or when his brothers come charging in, I won’t be able to stop them."
"Come on, let his underlings come more fiercely, or you’ll never get another chance," Lin Tian said, looking at him nonchalantly.
Manager Zhao’s legs went weak from Lin Tian’s gaze, and he nearly lost his balance and fell. He steadied himself on the conference table and shouted loudly, "By the power vested in me as the bar manager, I command you supervisors and shift managers to go save Captain Ma. Whoever doesn’t go will lose this month’s bonus. And you, Hu Ying, as the deputy head of security, if you ignore the trouble caused by an outsider, do you still want to work in this bar!"
This was the epitome of the most incompetent leader, who only threatened with deductions from wages and dismissals, but this time the supervisors didn’t move. What a joke, the fierce Ma Xiangrong was subdued by this young man with a single move and tortured so miserably, only a fool would recklessly charge forward.
"Fine, remember this, you’ll pay for it once this matter is resolved," Manager Zhao, not daring to lash out at Lin Tian, could only vent his anger on the supervisors.
No sooner had his words fallen than a horde of people burst in from outside the door. Lin Tian quickly estimated there were about twenty people. Each was dressed in a security uniform, but their faces bore ferocious expressions, and they carried shiny cleavers, steel pipes, and some even had stun batons.
They filled the entire conference room as soon as they came in, blocking any exit, and even surrounded the bar’s supervisors, not allowing anyone to leave. Seeing his backup had arrived, Manager Zhao regained his courage.
He waved his hand imposingly and then shouted at Lin Tian, "That’s him, take him down!"
Actually, without being told, the thugs who rushed in saw their boss kneeling on the ground, and two underlings wielding cleavers charged at Lin Tian, their knives chopping down at his arms simultaneously.
"Ah, stop it!" Su Qingqing suddenly screamed, shouting for them to stop.
The high-pitched female soprano startled everyone, even the two thugs who had charged out stopped in their tracks, and everyone looked at her.
The little girl had become brave this time, not intimidated by everyone’s gaze, and she loudly said, "Do you know who he is? He is the new owner of the bar, you can’t hurt him!"
She had suddenly become bold, and Lin Tian also turned to look at the blushing little girl. At that moment, her eyebrows were furrowed, and her cheeks were taut, but her eyes were determined. Such an adorable little girl, courageously standing up to save someone, Lin Tian inwardly admired her.
But Ma Xiangrong, kneeling on the ground, began to laugh sinisterly, saying in a low voice, "If he’s the boss, then I’m the boss’s father. What are you waiting for, come on up and finish him."
True to form, the former bully was ferocious, not caring that he was still in Lin Tian’s grasp, he directly ordered them to take down Lin Tian. Receiving the command, the two thugs howled and charged again, their cleavers slashing more fiercely.
The supervisors had already written off Lin Tian, thinking he was done for, and the female supervisors and shift managers were even more pale with fright. They had seen bar fights before, but never someone wielding a knife to chop at people.
Hmph, truly courting death, Lin Tian snorted coldly, releasing Ma Xiangrong and simultaneously reaching for the incoming cleavers. Several female supervisors screamed yet again at Lin Tian’s action, as if they already saw Lin Tian’s palms being chopped off.
But the expected bloodshed did not occur, as Lin Tian easily caught the two machetes. He turned his head slightly to Xiao Manxuan behind him and said, "Second Miss, turn around and don’t look. What’s coming up is a bit bloody and terrifying."
"How terrifying? As terrifying as vampires?" the little girl defiantly said, chin held high, causing Rossi beside her to feel embarrassed.
"If you’re not afraid, that’s fine," Lin Tian said.
Before the horrified gazes of the two hoodlums, Lin Tian applied a bit of force and bent the machetes with two crisp "bang bang" sounds; the blades were now broken.
Flesh and blood versus a blade’s edge, and breaking stainless steel knives at that, the hoodlums were stunned and forgot to retreat. Lin Tian let out a sinister smile, grabbed the broken blades, and forcefully stabbed them into the backs of their hands; both men immediately let out pained screams.
And that wasn’t all; Lin Tian grabbed the handles, dragged both men to the conference table, and forcefully nailed their palms to the table. Throughout the process, the two hoodlums kept on wailing miserably, and they even started crying in the end, continuously begging for mercy.
In the conference room, apart from their screams, nobody dared make a sound. Some hoodlums even dropped their weapons on the floor without realizing it. Manager Zhao, who had been extremely arrogant before and shouted about disposing of Lin Tian, had now collapsed on the ground, too frightened to stand up.
Ma Xiangrong, looking at the blood dripping non-stop onto the table, had his eyes wide open, blood vessels filling the whites of his eyes. He suddenly roared, picked up a broken blade from the ground with his uninjured hand, and lunged directly at Lin Tian. His anger fueled by the crimson blood was fully provoked, completely ignoring Lin Tian’s intimidation, aiming for a sudden sneak attack to bring Lin Tian down.
Lin Tian turned around calmly and slapped his face with the backhand, "smack!", reaching him first after reacting later, and sent him sprawling to the ground.
"Cough cough..." Ma Xiangrong rolled on the ground a few times, then struggled to his knees, coughing up a mouthful of bloody spittle that mixed with a few teeth.
His followers shouted, wanting to rush over, but Lin Tian simply glanced at them, and everyone stepped back in unison, not daring to approach.
"Captain Ma, do you still think you can act recklessly because you have Bai Yufeng backing you up? You were very loud just now, how does it feel now?" Lin Tian looked down at him, sneering.
By now, Ma Xiangrong’s face was swollen on one side, and his already fierce expression became even more terrifying as he said through gritted teeth, "Don’t get smug. The big boss won’t let you off. It’s still not too late to beg for mercy, and give us that little girl behind you..."
"Smack smack smack..." Lin Tian interrupted his words with several consecutive slaps, shaking out all his teeth with the force of his slaps.
"Heh, just because of what you just said, now even if you want to die, it’s going to be difficult," Lin Tian chuckled coldly, indifferently saying, "Next, you will know that death is a happier fate than living!"
Lin Tian grabbed Ma Xiangrong’s hand, and regardless of how he struggled, seized one of his fingers and bent it backwards. At the sound of "crack," the sound of the finger bone breaking resounded throughout the entire conference room.
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