Yang Ming looked at the people whose eyes had become hot and shining. He showed a smile at the corner of his mouth. “Is this the reason why you learned martial arts?”
Most people nodded helplessly. Indeed, it was a lie to say it was for physical fitness. Who would learn such thing that wouldn’t make it easy to find a job? As they grew older, they gradually understood a lot of things. They were no longer as impulsive as they were at the beginning. They understood the hardships of society.
“You understand now that some people have done bad things, but they didn’t get the punishment they deserve!” Yang Ming paused and said, “If some things can’t be solved on the surface, then they should be solved in the dark. What I want you to do is to let you solve some things that can’t be dealt with on the surface.”
When everyone listened to Yang Ming’s words, they suddenly looked at each other. Finally, Li Qiang said, “Boss… are you saying that you are asking us to break the law?”
Yang Ming looked up at Li Qiang. When he didn’t speak after a long while, Li Qiang’s beads of sweat dropped instead. The sense of oppression in Yang Ming’s eyes was too strong, making him breathe unnaturally. Of course, all of this stemmed from Yang Ming’s strong skills.
“Boss… I…” Li Qiang lowered his head and didn’t know what to say.
“Li Qiang, you disappoint me too much.” Yang Ming said faintly, “Well, let me ask you this. Do you think that in ancient times, a hero who killed a bully who had done a lot of bad things Is breaking the law?”
“This… this isn’t the same…” Li Qiang replied with his eyes flickering.
“Well, if you don’t think so, then I’ll ask you again. You tell me. The boss who raped your girlfriend that year, if you see him again one day, what will you do?”
“I will make him suffer. I will definitely smash his corpse into pieces…” As Li Qiang said this, he couldn’t help but get stunned. After that, he said in embarrassment, “I understand, boss.”
“What about you guys?” Yang Ming turned to look at the other people.
In fact, after Yang Ming asked Li Qiang, everyone understood it. These men studied martial arts. They didn’t have such a strong distinction between right and wrong. After listening to Yang Ming, they all felt that it made sense. So, they nodded their heads to show that they understood.
“But I promise to not ask you to do anything against innocent people.” Yang Ming looked at the crowd and said, “Your dream to be heroes will be realized in the future.”
Obviously, Yang Ming’s words had completely changed the value of right and wrong of these people. At this moment, except for the excitement, there was still excitement. The distant dream of yesterday was about to be realized. How could they not be excited?
“Well, people who are willing to stay with me come to me to get the cost of living this month. If you aren’t willing, I will still give you five hundred yuan as traveling expenses to leave here.” As Yang Ming said this, he opened the handbag and took out a stack of money.
“Can we become as powerful as you, boss?” Li Qiang took the first thousand yuan that Yang Ming handed over. His eyes were full of passion.
“You will. Those who stay, I will train you intensively.” Yang Ming nodded. “At that time, each of you will be truly independent.”
“Okay, I’m staying.” Li Qiang solemnly nodded. People who studied martial arts idolized the stronger person. The opportunity to become stronger attracted them more than anything else.
If Yang Ming said before that he could make them as strong as he, then Li Qiang wouldn’t have asked those questions at all. In his opinion, this was more important than the previous question.
“Boss, are you for real?” Liu Chao who was unwilling before suddenly asked out of surprise.
“Of course, I don’t need a useless man.” Yang Ming said faintly, “My men must be strong.”
“Okay, I will stay.” Liu Chao also went up to take the money, but his expression at the moment was much more respectful.
Others had also expressed that they wanted to stay. No one wanted to leave which made Yang Ming dumbfounded. If I had known, I wouldn’t have to say those sensational nonsenses. These people are simply martial arts idiots. When they heard that they can improve their skills, they didn’t care about anything else.
After the thirty-nine people received their money, Yang Ming registered their names one by one. Now, no one had any doubts about Yang Ming, because Yang Ming had an unattainable power in their eyes.
“Be good at discipline first. When I feel satisfied then I will teach you martial arts.” Yang Ming glanced at the scattered formation of the thirty-nine people and shook his head.
Although the chances of doing a mission alone were relatively high as an assassin, the possibility of large-scale collective operations shouldn’t be ruled out. Discipline was still very important. He didn’t want an army that was scattered like sand.
“I will find Big Hou, who is Hou Zhenhan, President Hou to train you.” Yang Ming said, “Li Qiang, you were the squad leader. Now you can continue to be the leader of everyone. As for the meals, you guys solve it yourself.”
“Don’t worry, boss.” Li Qiang nodded and replied. The others didn’t have any opinions. Even if Yang Ming didn’t let Li Qiang be the leader, he was formerly the leader of these people.
On the same day, Yang Ming called Hou Zhenhan and asked him to come over to train the thirty-nine people. Of course, it was to train them like training new recruits in the military.
With Yang Ming’s instructions, Hou Zhenhan naturally didn’t dare to delay and immediately began to train these people. Because Yang Ming’s identity was revealed, it was easier to explain it to Bao Sanli, too.
These people were all from the Martial Arts School. There were some group activities at school. Although they were not as strict as being soldiers, these people were more disciplined after Hou Zhenhan’s day and night training.
When Yang Ming came the next day, they were all neatly lined up.
According to Hou Zhenhan’s recommendation, several people who had good martial arts and good quality were selected. One was Li Qiang; the other was Liu Chao, and the third was Wang Peng.
The three of them were the best of the 39 people. Yang Ming divided the 39 people into three groups. Li Qiang, Liu Chao, and Wang Peng each led a group.
Li Qiang was the leader of squad no. 1 and the captain of all squads. Liu Chao and Wang Peng were the team leaders of squad no. 2 and squad no. 3, respectively.
“The three of you shouldn’t use your real name. It’s not convenient when you’re on a mission later, so each of you pick a code name. Li Qiang, you’re called Bluto.” Yang Ming said.
“When I was at school, they called me Martian. Calling me Martian will do.” Liu Chao said.
“My name was Xiao Ye.” Wang Peng wasn’t talkative. He said only five words.
“Alright.” Yang Ming nodded. “Later, give each squad member a code name. When you’re on a mission in the future, don’t call each other’s real names. You guys should work together with each other all this while.”
“Yes!” The three men said at the same time. It seemed that Hou Zhenhan’s training was effective.
Yesterday, Yang Ming developed a training plan for these people according to Fang Tian’s method of training himself. Of course, Yang Ming had some reservations. After all, Fang Tian didn’t allow him to recruit apprentices or pass these techniques on! Yang Ming just summed up a set of methods to quickly improve physical attack skills, as well as some quick killing moves. Of course, for those relatively secretive things about acupuncture points, etc., they wouldn’t be revealed.
Even so, it would be of great help for the improvement of these people. It won’t be long before Yang Ming’s men can be independent. At least, it would not be a problem to deal with guys like Wu Ming.
Yang Ming explained the first part of the training plan to Li Qiang. He let Li Qiang lead the training of these people step by step. After doing this, Yang Ming had the idea of using Fang Tian’s prescription. Yang Ming wanted to improve the strength of these people in a short time, so he had to resort to these supplementary things.
It’s just that Fang Tian wasn’t in Song Jiang now and Yang Ming couldn’t contact him. He could only search in Fang Tian’s house. Maybe he could find the prescription.
During these few days before the New Year, Yang Ming finally got to rest. He was so busy for a while, so he didn’t have the time to manage his personal affairs. Since I got my special abilities, I didn’t have the time to rest. The butterfly effect is really true [1]. My life can no longer be as normal as before.
It’s really the higher the level I am, the stronger the opponents. I didn’t have such a capability before, and I dared not easily provoke those heavyweight enemies.
In the past few days, Yang Ming took the time to look at the book about voodoo healing that Lan Ling gave him through Elder Zuo. Although he didn’t understand it most of the time, he checked the information online for a long time to learn about it instead. However, he still developed a deeper understanding of voodoo.
On the other side, on the Municipal Criminal Investigation Team, Xia Xue and the customs cooperated to find out about a corrupted official in the customs. The official’s position wasn’t big, but he had the power and authority. After the interrogation, he confessed about the smuggling process of the Mercedes-Benz sedans. But the person who contacted him was Su Dazhi, so the clue was gone again!
Because of this, Chen Fei was so angry that he scolded Xia Xue, “For such an important issue, why didn’t you talk to me first? You took action on the customs people on your own? Do you know that you’re alerting the person behind-the-scenes? If you arrested him, the criminals will be hiding deeper instead!”