The ones lying on the ground were all groaning. Some tried to struggle to their feet, but after a few attempts, they fell back down.
"What's going on?" Gao Kai asked Zhao Lei and Jin Kaiyu as soon as he entered.
Zhao Lei kicked the seven handguns piled at his feet. "Damn it, they pulled guns on me the moment they walked in."
He naturally knew Gao Kai was asking about how these seven policemen ended up subdued by the two of them.
"What can I say about you two? Do you still think you're in the army? Assaulting a police officer is a serious crime!"
Gao Kai spoke to them in a low, disappointed tone.
"Brother Kai, don't say anything. I'll take the blame for anything.
When have we brothers ever been pointed at with guns and stayed silent?
The graves of those who pointed guns at us are already a meter high with grass.
Besides, do they even deserve to be called police? A bunch of scum.
If it were in the past, I would have taken their lives directly."
Jin Kaiyu, usually silent, also spoke up at this moment.
Gao Kai sighed. If he had been in their position, being pointed at by guns, he probably wouldn't have fared much better.
Chu Tian frowned, thinking: This matter might not be that simple. He hadn't provoked anyone here. Why would this 'Brother Li' come looking for trouble?
Just then, a figure was lurking suspiciously in the crowd outside the door.
Chu Tian looked over. The person, seeing his gaze, flinched and tried to slip away.
"Catch him!" Chu Tian pointed.
Zhao Lei shot out like an arrow.
He grabbed the red-haired man by the head and dragged him into the room.
"Murder! Help!" the red-haired man yelled at the top of his lungs.
However, the surrounding people had witnessed Zhao Lei's fierce demeanor, and they had seen the more than thirty people on the ground with broken arms and legs, most of whom were dealt with by him.
Therefore, no one dared to step forward to intervene. They just took out their phones and recorded the entire scene.
"Qingqing, pull the safety gate," Chu Tian said again.
Zhao Lei searched around but couldn't find the switch.
"Qingqing..." Chu Tian shouted again.
At this, Qingqing shakily stood up from behind the bar and went to press the gate switch.
Seeing her demeanor, Chu Tian was very disappointed.
It wasn't that he was disappointed by her fear.
It was that the shop had been entrusted to her management, and yet this incident of someone booking the entire place had occurred.
Seven days had passed since the incident. If not for this, he, the boss, wouldn't have known what was happening.
This kind of private booking was unacceptable even once. Even without such an incident, it would have driven away many other customers.
No wonder when he brought Gao Kai and the others back yesterday, the fitness management felt strange.
There were very few people exercising; instead, they were gathered, eating fruit and melon seeds, chatting.
Looking at the group at his feet now, those were the same people he had seen yesterday.
Chu Tian walked over to the red-haired man Zhao Lei had brought back.
"You seem to know something!" Chu Tian asked.
"What do you want? You even beat up the police, and you beat up Brother Li. Do you not want to live anymore?"
This red-haired man was Yang Kai, the one who had harassed Tao Jiayu when Chu Tian first visited the gym.
Chu Tian had seen him that day, but it was only a brief encounter. If not for him lurking suspiciously today and his distinctive red hair, Chu Tian would not have remembered him. He could only blame himself for being too flashy, dyeing his hair red, making himself too conspicuous.
Zhao Lei and the others heard that there was more to the story, but this kid was quite capable, even daring to threaten them.
"Brother Tian, leave him to me. I have a way to make him open his... mouth..."
*Bang...*
Before Jin Kaiyu could finish speaking, Chu Tian grabbed Yang Kai's head from behind and slammed it into the bar counter.
With a dull thud, his entire face made intimate contact with the marble bar.
"Ah..." Yang Kai let out a scream.
When Chu Tian grabbed him by the hair and lifted him, his entire face was distorted, his nose crooked.
"Ugh..." Jin Kaiyu's unfinished sentence was choked back.
He hadn't expected Chu Tian to be so ruthless, hitting someone's head like a slam dunk just because they didn't answer a question.
"I..." Yang Kai cried out, then opened his mouth and uttered one word.
*Bang...* Another slam dunk.
As he was pulled up, his nose was completely flattened, and blood from his nasal cavity kept spitting out from his mouth.
"I..." Yang Kai was about to speak again.
Chu Tian grabbed his chin with one hand, forcing his mouth wide open, and then pressed him directly onto the edge of the bar counter.
He placed his teeth against the hard marble.
Then, Chu Tian forcefully shoved his head inward.
*Crack...* A sound of grinding teeth and something breaking could be heard.
"This..." Zhao Lei and Jin Kaiyu exchanged glances.
Chu Tian's actions made them, who had killed countless criminals as elite soldiers, feel a chill down their spines.
Too ruthless. He didn't give the person a chance to speak at all. Just as they were about to talk, he hit them.
Gao Kai kept staring at Chu Tian and stepped forward to pull him back, saying, "Brother Tian, he seems to have something to say!"
Chu Tian yanked the red-haired man by the hair, pulled him up, and turned back, smiling at the three of them. "I know. I just wanted to test if his teeth were harder or the marble was harder."
Then, he let go of the red-haired man.
On the bar counter, more than ten bloody teeth lay quietly, including several broken front teeth.
Yang Kai slumped against the counter, covering his nose and mouth, convulsing.
The three of them, seeing Chu Tian's warm smile, trembled inwardly.
What kind of person was Brother Tian? On the surface, he seemed to be just a college student. Those favored by the Ninth Office were indeed different from ordinary people.
"Speak!" Chu Tian said calmly, looking at him.
Hearing Chu Tian speak, the red-haired man visibly shivered.
"If you dare to pee yourself, I'll stomp your balls!" Chu Tian added.
The red-haired man immediately let go of his mouth, clutched his crotch tightly, and squeezed it with his hands.
"I'll say it, I'll say it. I was here when you bought this place.
But I remember Brother Li saying that Boss Tang would be unable to hold on in a few days and would sell it to him at a low price.
So I ran to report to Brother Li, but Brother Li wasn't there. By the time he returned, the shop had already been transferred.
So, Brother Li told his men to book the place and also to find out the daily customers and then go and greet them one by one.
Give them some benefits to get them to cancel their memberships, thus forcing you to shut down. Then you would sell it at a low price, and Brother Li could get it cheaply.
I just ran an errand. I didn't do anything. I really just delivered a message."