Espionage: You're tasked with spying, but you'll blow up the Special Higher Police?

175. Lack of martial ethics

Full of confidence and with a sinister grin on his face, Kawasaki leaped out of the window and blocked the way for the fleeing man.

But an accident happened quickly. The moment Kawasaki's feet touched the ground, he felt his body go empty, and he was plummeting downwards. With a loud "thud," he crashed, seeing stars, and it seemed one of his legs was broken. Who dug such a big hole outside the window?

Kawasaki is very confident and capable, but his ability and confidence are precisely what Zhou Hongyi exploits.

Sure enough, as if to perform a play, he jumped out of the window and fell into the large pit that had been dug in advance, breaking his leg and unable to get up.

After him, karate expert Yasuda, being quite agile, grabbed the edge of the pit with both hands, and with a light touch of his toes, flipped and jumped onto the ground.

"Kawasaki-kun, how are you?"

Yasuda shouted, and heard Kawasaki's wail, saying that he seemed to have broken his leg. Yasuda's anger surged, and he shouted, "Wait a moment, let me take down the murderer, and then I'll get you up."

At this moment, standing in front of Yasuda was a person who was about 168 cm tall, wearing a gray suit that was obviously too big, and a baseball cap with the front of the cap covering half of his face.

"Why are you running? Did you dig this trap beforehand? Kid, come back to the Special Higher Police with me. If you resist, I'll break your arms and legs and take you back with me!"

The boy wearing a baseball cap slowly raised his head, revealing a pair of bright eyes. His features were soft and well-proportioned, and his face was round. At first glance, he seemed to be perfectly handsome, but upon closer inspection, he was unremarkable and lacked any distinctive features.

Yasuda frowned slightly because the young man in the oversized suit opposite him ignored his warning and strode towards him.

"You're asking for death! Since that's how it is, I'll break your arms and legs and take you back to prison!"

Yasuda was very confident in his skills. Although he had heard that the legendary man had fought against Master Sasaki and hadn't been captured, he had also heard that the man had used a grenade to escape from Master Sasaki. If he were to encounter him, he would be wary of the man's underhanded tricks and would not give him any chance.

Yasuda assumed a karate stance and delivered a chop to the boy opposite him.

As the boy approached him, he suddenly extended his left fist. Yasuda scoffed inwardly, knowing that with the boy's height and reach, a punch from that position wouldn't hit him at all; instead, he'd likely be chopped in the next step. It seemed this boy lacked practical combat experience and couldn't even grasp the most basic attack distance.

But the thought had barely formed when Yasuda's pupils contracted. He thought it was his imagination, but soon the other person's fist loomed large before his eyes. A "bang!"—the fist struck his face.

"Nani?"

Yasuda took a step back, utterly horrified. He flipped to the side, crossing his arms to block the boy's kick. Then, he focused all his attention on the boy's hands. This time, the boy threw a right punch at him, still an attack from too short a distance.

This time, Yasuda stared intently at his opponent's fist, but just as he was about to retaliate, something strange happened again. The fist seemed to have traveled a distance and reappeared before his eyes. With a "bang," he was punched again, this time leaving a black eye on his left side.

"What exactly happened? Am I seeing things?"

The boy clenched his fist, chuckled, and muttered to himself, "I didn't expect this method to actually work. Combining the bone-dislocating technique with close-combat domain allows my limbs to lengthen or shorten instantly during an attack. Good grief, have I turned into a rubber man?"

This unremarkable-looking boy was none other than Zhou Hongyi in disguise, or more accurately, he had used the skills of a master of disguise to modify himself. This time, he shortened his height and limbs, and while fighting Yasuda, he extended his arms halfway through his punch, making it impossible for his opponent to judge his attack range. Yasuda took two punches in a row, leaving him terrified.

Having mastered this trick, Zhou Hongyi was eager to try it out. He jumped twice and charged forward again. This time, he launched a kick, and by normal standards, his kick should have landed before it even hit the person. But at that moment, his leg suddenly extended forward a distance and struck the opponent with a "bang."

This time, however, Yasuda didn't trust his own judgment and crossed his arms in advance to block in front of him. Sure enough, he was kicked and forced to take half a step back.

He shook his head, thinking there was something wrong with his eyesight. But after landing, Zhou Hongyi scratched his head in annoyance.

"No, this is fun, but it sacrifices strength. And changing body shape during a fight is too painful. It's better to finish this quickly."

Yasuda was in shock when he saw the boy opposite him mutter to himself for a while, then stand there and stop attacking.

"You bastard, who are you? What kind of kung fu do you use?"

"Hehe, you'll find out what kind of kung fu it is in a moment."

Zhou Hongyi smiled at the other person, his joints cracking like popping beans. As his bones shifted and rearranged, his already short stature visibly increased by at least ten centimeters.

Not only his height, but also his facial features and face shape slowly changed as his hands rubbed together. Before long, a handsome face with sharp features and a mature appearance appeared in front of Yasuda.

"You're Zhou Hongyi, the director of the Jing'an Second Branch Police Station?! Could it be..."

Yasuda was about to say, "Could you be the legendary 'Four-Faced Buddha'?" But as soon as he uttered the word "could you be," he suddenly felt as if he had been struck three times by heavy punches, causing him to stumble back three steps, slip, and fall backward. He then realized that there was a large pit that had been dug beforehand behind him, and that what he had just been hit by were not three punches, but three bullets.

"Baka...you bastard...you have no sportsmanship!"

In the instant he fell, he saw that Zhou Hongyi's right hand, resting on his waist, was holding a pistol. The pistol was specially equipped with a silencer, so the sound was very quiet, muffled. However, the three bullets were extremely precise. Two bullets hit his left and right chest respectively, piercing his lungs. One bullet even severed his heart blood vessel. The third bullet hit his spleen, causing massive internal bleeding, leaving him with no chance of survival.

Although Yasuda was filled with resentment, he had already breathed his last during his fall, landing with a "thud" on Kawasaki's head as he struggled to stand up.

Zhou Hongyi put away his gun, stood at the edge of the pit, and looked down into it, his back to the moonlight.

Kawasaki was horrified to see his companion covered in blood. He looked up and shouted, "Who are you?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several more heads popped out of the cave above. They were all backlit by the moonlight, making it impossible to see their faces; only their outlines could be discerned.

Zhou Hongyi said calmly, "Don't be polite. This is an auspicious place I found for you two. Go ahead and rest assured. Afterwards, this place will be transformed into a pigsty, and the livestock manure will nourish your remains. Also... you're welcome."

Zhou Hongyi's lips curled into a smile, and he raised his hand in a farewell gesture. Then, Kawasaki watched helplessly as the surrounding shadowy figures began to fill the hole with earth. He wanted to shout for help, to attract the attention of his companions, but they had ventured deep into the old town, reaching the depths of the alleyways, while chasing the suspicious figures. Those burying the earth around him were Zhou Hongyi's trusted men, and relatives of the residents of Fengwei Lane who had died unjustly.

They silently filled the large pit with shovels, and then each of them stood on it and tamped the soil down.

The bright moon in the sky looked like a round plate. The people buried in the earth sat on it, softly sobbing, mourning their deceased loved ones.

Zhou Hongyi said softly, "We haven't finished killing our enemies yet, so it's not time for us to let our guard down. We'll build a pigsty here, and everyone's life will continue as usual."