Romance of Dragons and Snakes

Chapter 128: Captured for Interrogation

Even at Wang Chao’s suggestion, the warrior monk of the Shaolin Temple, Yong Bao, did not get angry. Similarly, he did not shirk back, curse out loud, or even say anything other words.

Instead, he had replied to Wang Chao with the warcry of an elephant. Yong Bao’s face grew inexplicably serious without any negative emotions. All that was there were two bright eyes that flickered as bright as two perfectly round night pearls.

Borrowing the breathing exercises of Yoga for aid, he ripped off his yellow monk robes to reveal his body underneath. Bronze in color, his honed muscles was similar to a plate of copper in both firmness and color.

Yong Bao wore a sleeveless shirt that clung to his muscles underneath his robes. Along with skintight trousers, he also wore an equally tight legging.

After he tore off his robes, his style of dress was no longer like a monk that had abstained from meat. Instead, he now resembled a boxing champion that could shake the ring with his name alone and carried a cold killing aura.

Then his arms and legs moved like the wind! Yong Bao’s series of movements had been extremely fast–almost like lightning. As soon as he had torn off the robe, he came smashing down onto Wang Chao. Fluttering in the air, his yellow monk robes had been like a cloud that obstructed the view.

At the same time, his forward steps had brought his fist flying forward in a spiralling motion up towards Wang Chao’s chin.

Whuuu! The way that this fist was emitting Jin had carried a destructive sound to it as it traveled.

Before Wang Chao could finish speaking, Yong Bao’s Longfist had already caused him to falter in his words.

“This warrior monk is truly well experienced in fighting. In an instant, the threw away the fear of death and removed himself from the sphere of life and death to grab hold of an opportunity to strike. After doing my best to dodge the bullets, my body is spent like an arrow at the end of its path. I had wanted to rest up and recuperate my strength, but who would have imagined he would take this opportunity to seize a chance to win!”

In an instant, Wang Chao had thought of that realization.

He wasn’t a robot that knew not of the word ‘fatigue’. In that moment where he moved like lightning and killed someone, he had already used up half of his energy. With the Eagle Claw to gouge out Ah Ming’s windpipe, he was now especially tired.

Going against a gun and bullet was far more exhausting than going against a martial artist.

With Wang Chao’s strength, if he were to fight Yong Bao and Yong He both at the same time, he wouldn’t feel tired at all. But after dodging those bullets in such a short time frame, he was already starting to feel exhausted.

Two agents well trained in the use of a gun could defend themselves against 10 experts of the Wulin.

When Wang Chao told Yong Bao to commit suicide, he had done so in hopes that it would infuriate him and stall for time so that he could rest up. But he didn’t think that Yong He would instead calm down and strike at him with the fury of a storm.

Yong Bao could tell for himself that Wang Chao was exhausted and without energy or power. Before Wang Chao could calm himself, Yong He wanted to let out one final spurt of energy and strike Wang Chao dead with a clap of thunder

In this battle, Yong He had been killed by gunfire, agent Ah Ming had his throat ripped out, and the woman agent was disposed of at the moment. All that remained was Yong Bao. No matter what, Yong Bao had to make sure Wang Chao died here, or there would be trouble later.

Wang Chao was originally invited to the Shaolin Temple as a guest. Because of Yong He and Yong Bao’s relationship to the American agents, they had been quick to capture him. If they had captured him and had the Americans explain why, then everything would have been fine and good. But if they didn’t capture him, then it would be disastrous. Wang Chao was a human being as well. If he were to come across the Shaolin Temple in negotiations in the future, it would be hard to wrestle power away from him.

“If all else fails, then I can inform Shi Yongxin and the government come deal with him. After all, as a spy for the foreigners, they won’t dare not deal with him!” Yong Bao had thought.

The Shaolin Temple and the government were linked almost intrinsically. Many disciples were officials, and if there was a famous general in the country, they were a disciple of Shaolin. Even in the central government itself, the Shaolin Temple had a loud voice to say with roots that intertwined with one another.

Hua! Up against Yong Bao’s ferocious attack pattern, Wang Chao was no longer going head to head with him like before. Instead, his body moved and swayed as he dodged. With a hand pressed against his ribs, he suddenly bore outwards with a “Snake Drilling Crotch” move. With the palm extended outwards like the head of a cobra, the strike flew towards Yong Bao’s crotch.

But this time, there had been no hiss with Wang Chao’s snake stance strike! The reason behind was because his physical strength was not yet able to catch up with his martial arts.

Not being able to have the sound follow the fist meant that the practitioner’s strength was insufficient. Even if the fist struck, it would not do much damage.

With Yong Bao’s trained muscled and his Hidden Jin reaching his arms, legs, chest, back, and neck, Wang Cha’s current strength would not be enough to pose a threat or cause any fear in him.

But Wang Chao was currently striking the crotch, an area that could be said to be Yong Bao’s Achilles Heel. That had also meant there wasn’t enough time to defend himself.

Clamping together his legs and shrinking back his abdomen, Yong Bao immediately moved to protect his genitals. At the same time, he let out a series of strikes towards Wang Chao’s forehead.

Twisting his waist, Wang Chao brought his head and neck to sway to the side and dodged the strikes by a hair-breadth. Using another technique from the snake stance, the “Snake Scaling Tree”, Wang Chao stuck close to Yong Bao’s median line and brought his hand up so that in a moment, they had reached Yong Bao’s eyes. From the snake to the dragon, Wang Chao’s fist extended outwards with two fingers. The “Snake Scaling Tree” immediately became “Twin Dragons Fighting Over Pearl” and moved to gouge out Yong Bao’s eyes.

This form of change, from the “Snake Drilling Crotch” to “Snake Scaling Tree” to “Twin Dragons Fighting Over Pearl” had been a clever sequence of moves that had been inspired by how one would use a stick to fight off a snake trying to bite you.

In the past, Tang Zichen had used this method to gouge out the eyes of the assassin Yang Yingming.

From the “Snake Scaling Tree” to “Twin Dragons Fighting Over Pearl”, his arm morphed into an approach so that it would strike at the throat and eyes. However, because Wang Chao lacked enough strength, he could not emit as much Hidden Jin. Drilling the throat wouldn’t have enough strength backing it up to kill, so it was better to aim for the eyes.

“Hai!” Swallowing a breath of air, Yong Bao’s mouth then released another long hiss as he moved backwards with his legs to dodge Wang Chao’s attempt to gouge his eyes out. Swinging his body, both arms came lashing forward in an attempt to bash down onto Wang Chao’s head.

The trump card of the Shaolin Fist, the elephant stance. Both arms of Yong Bao was like the trunks of two elephants. Within hardness, there was softness.

When Wang Chao failed out gouge out his eyes, he drew back his hand and moved to the side with a nimble speed and a superficial touch. In an instant, he had reached Yong Bao’s right side and dodged the two lashes of his arms. Crouching down with his body, Wang Chao suddenly launched an sideways kick.

This move was the most potentially fatal move of Liao Junhua’s Xinyiquan, “Dog Passing Water”.

Wang Chao’s leg came rushing out with all the strength he could muster. With this opportunity given to him, he had to ensure a kill.

Bang! The leg made contact with the weak knee joint of Yong Bao’s right leg. A cracking sound could be heard before Yong Bao let out a howl of pain as he crumpled down to the ground.

This leg had especially targeted the knee joint with all of the strength he could muster. As Wang Chao stepped on Yong Bao, his entire body could be seen sweating droplets the size of soybeans through all his pores. His entire body was now spent–comparable in strength to a commoner now.

“You! Y-you….” Yong Bao struggled to speak out from his crumpled position on the ground. But with his right leg snapped in half almost, the amount of pain had rendered him useless to unleash a counter attack on Wang Chao.

Although Wang Chao’s arms and legs were weak, and he himself was breathless, he could still move. After recovering from his kick, Wang Chao’s body swayed side to side as he moved away from Yong Bao to pick up the nearby gun on the ground.

Now that all his strength was gone, the gun was his final insurance.

After an intense battle, it was all finally over. Yong He was dead, the agent Ah Ming was dead, the American agent was all but crippled with all her joints dislocated, and Yong Bao’s right knee was completely fractured so the pain was nearly on the verge of causing him to faint. All he could do was to remain on the ground without being able to do anything.

All of Wang Chao’s strength had left his body, so any practitioner would be easily capable of killing him right now. But any ordinary person wouldn’t find it as easy to do so.

“Master Yong Bao, I can shoot you dead any time I want. It would be in your best interest to not move.” Wang Chao held the gun up and pointed it at the still struggling to get up Yong Bao.

This time it was Wang Chao’s turn to hold a gun up to threaten someone

“Ugh!” Suddenly, the bloody American woman let out a groan as her joints started to make a cracking sound. Swiveling her head up sharply, she was unexpectedly able to move now.

Wang Chao’s ears trembled slightly as he immediately turned his head and pulled the trigger. A single bullet came bursting out with a bang before striking the woman in the leg.

“Hngh.” The woman’s body grew taut as blood began to leak out from her leg.

When Wang Chao fired, he had planned on killing the woman. But when he made his move, he had instead shot her leg.

However, this would still make her lose the ability to move at the very least.

“You can’t run! Your only option is to kill me now.” Yong Bao gave a bitter smile. “With such a bloodstained area and two corpses, I believe that some person from Hong Kong will realize there is a problem and call for the police. With the police from Hong Kong coming here, you won’t be able to run away.”

“Should I kill these two, or what other choice do I have? How do I take advantage of this?” Wang Chao didn’t listen to Yong Bao’s words at all. Evening out his breath, he would try to rest for another 20 minutes to recover his strength.

On the mountain path, the cars came to and from. Whenever they saw the scene, not a single car would remain behind. Truthfully, Wang Chao was starting to wonder about the insensitivity of the people of Hong Kong.

Then, in half an hour, seven or eight cars suddenly came into view before stopping off on both ends of the road. Afterwards, several dozen men came filing out and cordoned off the area with Lin Yanan and several men in military uniform come walking out.

Wang Chao’s face twitched as he gave an inquiring look to Lin Yanan.

Lin Yanan surveyed the area with some shock in her eyes, “Take them all and tow the cars. Tend to the injured before we start the interrogation!”