The wasps’ nest fell into the crowd, buzzing wildly, causing chaos among the pursuers. Fortunately, there weren’t many wasps. Otherwise, a lot of people would have been stung.
Taking advantage of the distraction, Darnell kicked a dumpster.
With a loud thud, the dumpster flew over, hitting several people on the side, who screamed in pain.
The scattered trash forced three others to retreat awkwardly, slapping fruit peels and leftovers off their bodies.
At that moment, Darnell, with his head carefully covered, rushed forward, kicking two people to the ground and breaking through the encirclement with ease.
On his way out, he grabbed a stick and continued to charge ahead.
Nick, lagging behind, shouted angrily, “Idiots! Block him!”
Several strong men took a shortcut to block Darnell. He swung his stick and hit one man’s knee.
The man cried out in pain and fell to his knees.
Darnell struck two more times, and two men staggered and fell to their knees as well.
They tried to stand up but their knees gave out again.
Darnell took this chance to break through another blockade but frowned when he saw Nick chasing him on a motorcycle.
He quickly darted into another alley, looking for an exit. Fighting so many opponents wasn’t an option.
Just as he reached the middle of the alley, he saw a figure at the entrance on the left. A familiar scent wafted over. He looked up and cursed silently, “Tia!”
Wearing a shirt and black pants with car keys in hand, she looked as sharp as she did at the Cityscape.
Sunlight cast a golden glow on her, highlighting her prominent breasts and giving her an allure that dazzled Darnell’s eyes.
He never expected to run into Tia here.
Tia recognized him immediately. “Darnell!”
Darnell covered his face with his hand and shouted, “Miss, you’ve got the wrong person. Besides, your way of flirting is outdated.”
He turned to leave quickly.
“Darnell!”
Tia blocked his way coldly. “You dare take advantage of me but won’t admit who you are?”
As she blocked him, her upper body leaned slightly forward. Her ample bosom moved enticingly with her arm’s motion.
“Damn!”
Darnell lowered his hand. “How did you recognize me?”
Tia snorted, “Even if you turned to ashes, I’d recognize you.”
She cracked her knuckles. “We didn’t settle things last time. Let’s finish it today.”
“This fight has nothing to do with Mr. Kemp. It’s personal.”
Darnell looked troubled. “Can we do this another day?”
Tia tilted her head, defiant. “Defeat me, then you can go.”
Last time at the restaurant, she let him escape. Now that they met again, she had to settle the score. She believed she lost last time because she underestimated him.
“Tough luck!” he cursed inwardly.
“He’s here,” someone shouted.
Over ten strong men charged over with dust swirling around them.
“It has nothing to do with my woman,” Darnell shouted as he stood in front of Tia. “Stay away from her!”
The next second, he ducked past the stunned Tia. “Run, Tia!”
“Catch Darnell! Catch that woman!”
Over ten men, wielding their wrenches and sticks, charged at Tia.
Tia didn’t have time to think or understand what was happening as wrenches and sticks came crashing down on her.
She let out a shout and leaped into the air. With two swift kicks, she struck two strong men under their chins.
The two men screamed as they fell back with their sticks flying out of their hands. After landing, Tia swept her left leg sideways and knocked down two more men behind them.
“Block him!”
Nick arrived with over ten more men. Seeing Darnell at the end of the alley and Tia in between blocking them, he roared,
“Take down that woman.”
He thought Tia was with Darnell.
More than ten men joined the fight, charging at Tia with various weapons.
Though Tia was good at fighting, there were too many opponents in the narrow alley. After knocking down eight men but taking two hits from their attacks, she stopped fighting.
She grabbed a stick and retreated. She now somewhat understood that these people were after Darnell and she’d been tricked by that scoundrel’s shouts into making them think they were together.
Feeling frustrated beyond words, Tia yelled, “Darnell, you jerk!”
At that moment, Darnell darted out of the alley but saw more thugs circling around ahead of him.
Frowning, he rushed to a pile of empty bottles at a recycling spot and grabbed a beer bottle with his right hand before throwing it forcefully.
The bottle flew through the air and smashed into someone’s head, shattering on impact.
“Ouch,”
The man clutched his bleeding head and squatted down in pain.
Darnell threw two more whiskey bottles at two motorcyclists chasing him. They couldn’t dodge in time and blood sprayed from their heads as they crashed hard onto the ground along with their motorbikes skidding away for meters while they lay injured and screaming in pain, unable to get up again for pursuit.
At this point, Tia burst out of the alley. By raising her right hand and swinging the stick, she knocked down an opponent blocking the path and glared at Darnell twenty meters away, gritting her teeth. She desperately wanted to rush over and teach him a lesson but was surrounded by seven burly men. Facing their frenzied attacks, Tia had no choice but to focus on dealing with them.
Fists and feet flew, and the fight was quite lively.
After a glance at Tia, Darnell briefly sprinted five meters further away. Meanwhile, he threw another two bottles, breaking the noses of two more pursuers.
“Kill him!”
Six thugs roared as they threw their wrenches towards Darnell simultaneously.
Darnell swung his hands left and right, catching all six wrenches mid-air.
Without a pause, he threw back wrenches. Sharp sounds filled the air, followed by cries from pursuers. Darnell watched them fall one after another, moaning in pain.
Seeing Nick instinctively slowing down, Darnell raised both hands and threw two more bottles. Two men next to Nick were hit in the nose, their blood was glaring, and they were crying out in pain, tears streaming down their faces.
Nick didn’t expect Darnell to be so accurate in hitting people, and he quickly dodged to the side while secretly cursing Darnell for being shameless.
As Nick was about to hide behind a pillar, a bottle hit his chin.
He cried out, and his body fell backward.
Several companions rushed to help him up, and Darnell smashed another bottle at them, causing the helpers to scatter with a wail.
Nick fell to the ground with a thud, gritting his teeth.
“A bunch of ungrateful bastards!”
Nick was very dissatisfied with his friends, and then he roared, holding his swollen chin, “Catch him quickly. I want to cripple him!”
“Nick, he really is somebody.”
A red-haired young man shouted, “Our men have all been hit and injured. We can’t catch him!”
Another man echoed, “And that woman is so fierce! Our men are no match for her.”
Nick gnashed his teeth. “Call more people! Let the Apex send more men here…”
Before he finished speaking, he stared wide-eyed at the front, seeing Darnell walking over with a bottle.
An ominous feeling surged through Nick’s heart. He got up and ran. After rushing out for a dozen meters, his collar was grabbed by someone.
His whole body fell backward, and soon he saw Darnell standing in front of him.
“Asshole!”
In his desperate state, Nick kicked out but missed, and then was poked by Darnell’s toe. Pain shot through his ankle, and he screamed, his limbs weak.
Nick dared not resist anymore, retreating in panic.
Darnell played with a bottle as he said, “Nick, I let you off the hook last night, but you dare come after me now?”
He smiled broadly, but Nick felt a chill in his heart. Suppressing his fear, Nick retorted defiantly,
“This is the Apex’s turf, and I am the young master of the Apex. If you hurt me, the consequences will be very serious.”
He was bluffing.
“I’ve already knocked down dozens of people, and I don’t care about one more.”
Darnell smiled, “Tell me. How do you want to solve this matter?”
Damn it!
He injured so many people and made him embarrassed, and he actually asked him how to solve it?
Nick was furious.
However, in order not to be hit by a bottle on the head, he quickly forced a smile and said, “Sir, I’ll let you do whatever you want to do.”
“Great, I want to smash your head.”
As he spoke, he suddenly threw the bottle out, hitting a man who was standing up in the distance. Tia, who was facing away, was stunned at first and turned her head to look at the guy who fell to the ground and the wrench in his hand, guessing that he wanted to attack her from behind.
The hostility in her eyes reduced a bit as she looked at Darnell. Then she kicked the fallen opponent a few more times.
“Have mercy, sir!”
When Darnell picked up another bottle, Nick’s body trembled, and he begged, his voice loud, “Please forgive me! I will never pick on you in the future.”
Darnell said, his tone light, “It’s not enough.”
“I will never show up in front of you!”
“Not enough!”
“Is it money you want? I can pay as much as you want!”
“Not enough!”
“How about this? I will reveal a secret to you. It wasn’t me who drugged that woman in the bar that night! It was Brian’s doing…”