Chapter 973: Old Fang’s Despair

Jiang Ran’s expression was calm. “Oh? If you kill me, aren’t you afraid of ending up in prison?”

Zeng Guangyao, the older brother, said, “You dared to bury someone alive. What wouldn’t I dare to do?”

“And besides…”

He looked around. There was no one else, and he couldn’t see any surveillance cameras.

“Isn’t this the perfect place you picked yourself to kill someone and bury the body?”

The brothers really were ruthless. For money, they were ready to kill.

In fact, the brothers often worked with other grave robbers, and whenever they found a major haul, they would sneak up behind someone and knock them out.

“Old Man, you won’t object if we kill him, will you? He was going to bury you alive, too.”

Zeng Guangyao looked at Old Fang, who hurriedly replied, “No, no!”

Nearby, his younger brother, Zeng Guangzu, smiled.

First, he stared at Jiang Ran in the pit. That man was definitely going to die.

Then his gaze shifted to Old Fang.

That old bastard would die too, once he had transferred the money to them.

After all, the two brothers never left a third person alive to witness a murder.

Old Fang had no idea what the brothers were plotting, of course, and was still glad that he was at least safe for the time being.

“Pretty good. So you really were planning to kill me.”

“Come to think of it, I was planning to kill you twins anyway.”

“After all, from the moment you two stuck your noses where they didn’t belong, your deaths were already decided.”

At the bottom of the pit, Jiang Ran held a shovel in his right hand and rested his left hand on his hip. He looked up and sneered.

The brothers at the edge of the pit heard him and thought he had lost his mind.

“Sure. Climb up here and show me what you can do,”

Zeng Guangzu, the younger brother, said.

He reached behind his waist and pulled out a curved knife.

It had a leather sheath, which he removed.

The blade gleamed with a cold light. It was clearly sharp, and stained with blood, human blood.

He had already worked out what to do. With the advantage of higher ground, he would strike Jiang Ran on the head with the curved knife as soon as he tried to climb up.

But what happened next was completely beyond his expectations.

The pit was a full three meters deep. He had thought Jiang Ran would need several attempts to climb out, and even the brothers themselves would have had to do the same.

But Jiang Ran simply crouched and jumped straight up from where he stood. With no effort at all, one light hop sent him soaring out of the pit.

The sight left the twins and Old Fang completely stunned.

Wait, what?

What was going on?

That pit was three meters deep!

He jumped straight out?

If Jiang Ran had at least taken a running start before getting out, the brothers wouldn’t have been so shocked.

The two brothers looked at each other.

They could climb out of a three-meter pit themselves, but it definitely wouldn’t be that easy. They would at least need a running start or have to climb up slowly.

They couldn’t help thinking Jiang Ran wasn’t human. How could he jump so high?

But Old Fang thought Jiang Ran was a monster.

Old Fang liked to plant human trees, using all sorts of different people as the trees’ seeds.

So he would study all kinds of people.

Athletes included.

He wasn’t very familiar with high jumping, but he did know the world record was 2.45 meters.

That was the world record, set by a professional using a running start and proper technique.

And Jiang Ran had just jumped three meters straight up?

Just like that, beating the record?

Jiang Ran didn’t think much of the three men’s stunned expressions.

After all, now that his previous life’s physical abilities had returned, this didn’t even count as a basic move.

He simply said, “All right, I’ll send you on your way now.”

He gripped the shovel and strode toward the brothers.

Zeng Guangzu was closer to Jiang Ran than his brother. Though surprised by Jiang Ran’s jumping ability, he quickly got over it.

When it came to fighting, he wasn’t afraid of anyone. The curved knife in his hand whirled like dancing snowflakes.

He charged at Jiang Ran.

But before he had even managed to get close, he felt something heavy slam into his head. Before he could react, his whole body toppled helplessly to the right.

With a thud, he landed in the three-meter-deep pit.

“Th-this… Ugh, my head hurts…”

Zeng Guangzu, the younger brother, rubbed his aching head with his left hand. When he drew it back to look, it was covered in blood.

Zeng Guangyao was stunned to see his younger brother like that.

Everything had happened in the blink of an eye. He hadn’t even seen how his brother had been sent flying!

“Are you trained in martial arts?”

Zeng Guangyao, the older brother, said, “Jiang Ran, let’s call a truce. You can bury this old man however you like. We won’t interfere anymore.”

Zeng Guangyao could tell there was something unusual about Jiang Ran.

So he immediately decided to back down.

He didn’t charge forward on sheer nerve.

Jiang Ran shook his head.

Zeng Guangyao said, “I’ll give you the nine hundred thousand for the old man. How about that?”

Jiang Ran shook his head again.

Zeng Guangyao said, “Then what will it take for you to let the two of us go?”

Jiang Ran said, “Didn’t I already tell you? The moment you two stuck your noses where they didn’t belong, your deaths were decided.”

“I’m not letting two witnesses walk out of here alive.”

Zeng Guangyao’s face turned icy, and his whole body tensed. He pulled two curved knives from behind his waist, one in each hand.

He removed their sheaths. Both blades gleamed brightly with a cold light.

Under the already pitch-black sky, with only the dim yellow streetlights to see by,

he rushed forward with the knives and slashed at Jiang Ran.

“Jiang Ran! Looks like you don’t know how fearsome I, Zeng Guangyao of the Twin Blades, am!!!!”

Jiang Ran gave him a look of exasperation and casually swung his shovel.

The older twin was sent tumbling into the pit just like his younger brother.

His head was bleeding, and he had lost the ability to fight.

Without another word, Jiang Ran went over to Old Fang.

Old Fang knelt and kowtowed to Jiang Ran, begging for mercy. His head struck the ground with repeated thuds. “I’m sorry, Jiang Ran! I was wrong, I really was! I shouldn’t have had those crooked ideas about you. Please, I’m begging you, spare my miserable life! I’ll give you every last cent in my bank account!”

Jiang Ran said, “I already spared you.”

Old Fang looked up, stunned.

Jiang Ran said, “Someone told me to torture you to death, but I’m not into that. I think burying you alive and letting you experience the same thing is enough.”

Before Old Fang could react, Jiang Ran grabbed him and threw him into the pit too.

As soon as he landed, a large clump of dirt tumbled onto his head. Jiang Ran had already started burying them.

“Jiang Ran! No! Don’t! Please, spare me this once!”

Old Fang begged desperately.

He huddled in the corner of the pit, holding his phone in both hands as he called the two building managers. Manager Wu Meiling didn’t answer.

Manager Wu Wen did answer. “Old Fang? What are you calling me for?!”

Old Fang said, “Manager! Hurry and do something about your assistant manager! He’s going to bury me alive!!!”

Manager Wu Wen fell silent for a moment. Then he hung up without another word.

Old Fang was even more desperate.

He seemed to have gone mad. He threw away his phone and frantically tried to climb out of the pit.

But he was old, and his hands and feet were clumsy. Jiang Ran didn’t even have to do anything. Old Fang fell back down on his own.