Chapter 5 – From Jin City With Love (II)

"... he is afraid I will attack?"

While thinking this, his fingers had already glided over the touchscreen of his Wristpie and ordered a database search.

Unfortunately, Yana Yun did not respond to the youth's question; instead, she just stood there with fearful eyes and stared at Alex, slightly trembling.

"Ha, I envy those WN protagonists! If it were them, the maiden would surely throw herself into her valiant rescuer's arms; but in reality, it seems not all girls have such an energetic reaction after seeing a handsome man beat up a pack of scum," Alex thought.

He was considering whether this girl really was worth the effort of befriending...

"Hey, you fucker, what are you trying to do to her?"

"She is really cute with those big eyes, yet slender body... Why do I feel like I'm looking at a rabbit?"

"Fucker, I'm talking to you. Hey!"

Alex' thoughts were disrupted when the youth attempted to grab his shoulder.

"What the... He was actually calling me a fucker? What is wrong with everyone's eyes today? How could my handsome self be called anything less than Young Master? Haizzz..." Alex sighed in his thoughts.

At the same time, he grabbed the youth's arms and forced him to stand still with his arms held behind his back.

The only reasons he did not beat this youth up for insulting him like he had the scum earlier was that he seemed to know the girl; furthermore, he also looked like someone of Chao descent, perhaps he was her brother?

Right when he was considering this, the results of his earlier inquiry were ready; he permitted the pop-up, and a summary file was displayed in front of his eyes:

"Zhunni Gao, FcL1b, Centraler, male, born in Jin City, ..."

He had requested the file of the youth who he was currently restraining.

"Haha, turns out you're actually a hidden young master..." he laughed in his mind.

"But he is not her brother or in any official way related to her..."

This thought bothered him, so he asked the guy who was struggling to free himself,

"You, how are you related to that girl, Yana?"

Remembering how rude the youth had been earlier, he added:

"Please do remember to answer politely! Who would call someone with my face a fucker?!"

The file had told him that the guy in front of him was the son of Sonji Gao, COO of Jin City's Wujin Group; the Wujin Group was very influential in the northeast.

They dealt mostly in heavy industries.

Since they were very profitable, it was no surprise they were involved with the Organization: their CEO Ray Jin was a L3 member of the Organization; this meant an upper rung of the lower level.

This youth's dad, the COO, on the other hand was merely a L1, the lowest level.

... Not that he would be any safer from Alex if he were a L3: a low-level member was nothing to him, no matter the rung.

Yet, since this youth was family of an Organization, he was willing to give some face.

"I am her boyfriend! Let me go!"

"Ha..." Alex sighed but let him go for the aforementioned reasons.

"She got a boyfriend..."

Out loud he asked:

"Is that true? Is he your boyfriend?"

"Ye...Yes!" she stuttered.

Having heard the confirmation, he returned his gaze back to the youth, Zhunni:

"You are quite a boyfriend. In your absence she was lucky that I passed by and stopped these guys. Yet, you just run here and swear at me. Not gifted with situational awareness, huh?"

"You were protecting her?"

While Alex did not deign it necessary to respond, Zhunni's gaze fell on the four dudes on the ground: one seemed to have fainted while the other three were groaning in pain, seemingly barely conscious.

Realizing that this likely was indeed what happened, he looked at his girlfriend, Yana and shot her a questioning gaze.

When she slightly nodded in response, he exhaled and spoke again:

"Thank you very much! I apologize for my calling you so rudely earlier. I was worried about Yana and misjudged the situation."

"Mmh," Alex hummed and decided to accept this sincere albeit slightly lacking apology.

"As I was just explaining to her, Toi City and especially Xin University are usually very safe, so such a thing happening is quite rare,

"Now that you are here, why don't you tend to your traumatized girl while I investigate who gave them the guts to do this."

After hearing that she had a boyfriend as well as seeing her boring reaction, his interest in Yana Yun had diminished quite a bit; so, he turned around without waiting for their response and walked up to Little Wei.

"Ah, yes! Thank you! Oh, and my family name is Gao, I am Zhunni Gao. This is Yana, her family name is Yun. Might I ask for your name?" Zhunni called from behind him.

Turning his head back for a glance, he replied dismissively: "Moqi, Alex Moqi."

Then his undivided attention fell on David Po who was currently pretending to have fainted.

He placed his foot on Dawei's chest and then slowly added force; at first, he managed to keep still, then he started twitching, and only a moment later his pent-up breath escaped him in a painful moan:

"Ugh ah!"

His eyes shot wide-open and the moan became a scream. Dawei felt like a mountain of weight was slowly crushing his chest.

"Aaah, pleaa...! Please!"

Alex lessened the force a bit to make the dude stop screaming:

"Not playing dead anymore?"

"I was wrong, I was wrong! I am sorry!" Dawei, still in pain, continuously apologized.

"Seems like Little Wei's pain tolerance is quite low..." Alex thought.

Then he removed his foot and said,

"Alright, now, no nonsense. Tell me, do you know where you are?"

"Yes yes, ... This is Xin University?" Dawei responded, unsure why he'd been asked this question.

"Indeed, this is Xin University. Can you tell me where Xin University stands in this country?"

"Where it stands... where it stands..." Dawei murmured, seemingly not understanding the question.

Then he saw Alex foot slowly nearing his mouth... touching it... pressing down...

"No, please, uhdonno... mmm!"

Of course, Alex could see the genuine panic in his eyes; Alex understood this scum was just stupefied.

"How did someone this stupid even get into Xin University in the first place? Aiya, I should read his full file later to find out."

After all, due to time restraints, he had only read summaries.

Then he felt the scum grabbing his leg, trying to lift Alex' foot from his face.

"Oi, you better let go, lest I break your hands next!"

Hearing this, David fought an inner struggle between pain and fear for a few seconds before fear won. He slowly let go of Alex' leg but continued twitching.

Seeing his obedient reaction, Alex benevolently removed his foot again.

The scum's nose was bleeding, likely broken.

"Ngg... Tha… Thank you! Ah... I really don't know, please!"

"The correct answer would have been 'At the top'. Now, this university is the pride of Central, yet you dare cause trouble here. Who do you think you are?!?"

"I'm dirt, nothing, an ant... Forgive me, forgive me!"

"Already broken," Alex thought.

"You mentioned your father earlier, his name and position?"

"Po, Juhan Po, Bion Group, Senior Executive!"

Having heard what he wanted, Alex looked at Zhunni and Yana, smiling.

He did not let their horrified expressions deter him and asked,

"Are you familiar with them?"

Zhunni Gao took a moment to compose himself; after seeing Alex torture a man, he was now sure the other party was... 'special'.

"No... I mean, we are not. I have heard of Bion Group though, but we... um, my father's company has no conflicts with them."

Alex' gaze returned to David.

"Why did you try to embarrass her?"

"Ah, she looked cute... I just... Please, please forgive me!"

"And you did not remember that this is Xin University?!"

"No... Yes... But..."

"Speak clearly!"

"Aah! I thought my dad could just call!"

"Call?"

"Yes, yes! You know the saying 'If you have money, you can have ghosts turn the millstone'? Money talks," Dawei explained eagerly.

"Then I hope your father gets a chance to explain to you that for some things money alone holds insufficient power," Alex responded.

Then he addressed the Jin City couple:

"Seems like you got unlucky. Got any other questions for him? Now is the time to ask."