Chapter 2186 - 1186: Jian King City

Yang Xiao and the contact officer sent by the Esoteric Sect boarded the ship together, squeezing into the cabin with everyone else, and found a corner to sit down.

The cramped cabin was filled with a nauseating stench, with only a dim yellow emergency light bulb above.

In the dim lighting, pairs of vigilant eyes were reflected, and a disturbing atmosphere pervaded the cabin.

Perhaps sensing this unease, the sound of a baby’s crying emerged from the cabin, the baby held by a very young woman.

The woman gently rocked the baby in her arms, whispering softly, but it was completely ineffective; the baby’s cries grew louder and more piercing.

This made the woman anxious and seemed to stir up her sad memories, causing her to quickly become tearful.

Seeing this, a middle-aged man who appeared to be the woman’s father immediately put down the luggage he was carrying, comforting his daughter while taking the baby from her, and soothing the baby himself.

The middle-aged man wore gold-rimmed glasses and looked gentlemanly, but his skill at calming children was evidently much better than the young woman’s.

In no time, the baby’s cries gradually diminished, and soon, it was completely quiet and asleep.

However, before the middle-aged man could breathe a sigh of relief, trouble came knocking as a few people shoved through the crowd straight to the middle-aged man and young woman, surrounding them.

"Heh heh, isn’t this Boss Chen? A big businessman like you isn’t living it up in Xuan City, why would you want to smuggle yourself to Myanmar and Thailand?"

Leading the group was a burly man with a scorpion tattoo on his cheek, bald-headed, and looking like someone not to be messed with.

Indeed, he was not someone easy to mess with, as he was also a Fierce Level Apostle, the strongest on the ship besides Yang Xiao and the Esoteric Contact Officer, his strength matched closely with the captain of the ship.

"You... you all..." The middle-aged man known as Boss Chen clearly recognized the bald man with the scorpion tattoo, his pupils shrinking instantly, looking as if he had seen a Ghost.

"Pak!"

The bald man’s underling raised his hand and slapped Boss Chen hard on his face.

The slap knocked Boss Chen to the ground, but in the falling moment, he instinctively raised the baby in his arms, preventing the child from getting hurt.

However, startled by the shock, the previously sleeping baby burst out into loud and piercing cries again.

"You... you can’t just hit people!" The young woman tried to rush over to protect her father upon seeing this, but was shoved against the wall, her frail body nearly falling.

"Mr. Chen, you still owe us over thirty million, are you trying to run away? Do you think you can escape?!" The bald man grabbed Boss Chen by the collar and pulled him up from the ground.

"That’s not what I owe you, you... you forced me to write the IOU. The company... the company has already been handed over to you, and you... you even hired someone to hit my son-in-law with a car, isn’t that enough? Do you really intend to wipe us out completely?" At this moment, Boss Chen couldn’t hold back anymore, loudly questioning.

"Damn it!" The bald man swung his fist and punched the middle-aged man in the face, knocking his glasses off.

Several other underlings stepped forward, tearing open the luggage the man and others had brought, revealing inside only a small amount of cash, clothes, and food.

This left the bald man, who planned to score some easy money, very dissatisfied, and he commanded two of his underlings to punch and kick Boss Chen lying on the ground.

"Mr. Snake, they have no money, but they have people. Boss Chen doesn’t want to repay the debt, I say we take his daughter as collateral. This girl’s appearance and figure are great; if we train her and sell her in Myanmar and Thailand, she can earn us a lot overnight."

At this moment, a woman behind the bald man had her gaze wandering lustfully over the young woman, while the young woman continued desperately protecting Boss Chen from being beaten.

Everyone in the cabin either had their heads lowered or watched with sympathetic, even indifferent eyes, without any interference, some even watching gleefully.

Seeing this, Yang Xiao was about to stand up when he was pulled back by the hand of the Esoteric Sect’s contact officer.

"Don’t get involved, this isn’t our business." The contact officer advised in poor Mandarin.

But the next second, as Boss Chen and the young woman struggled against the attack, the bald man called Mr. Snake flashed a merciless glance and raised his foot, seemingly planning to stomp on the baby on the floor in front of the two, "Ungrateful wretches, I’ll send your whole family down to reunite!"

This was too much for Yang Xiao to bear, and he stood up shouting, "Stop!"

His shout froze the few who were flaunting their violence, and the bald man turned around, seeing that Yang Xiao and his comrade were just two people.

"Brothers, you’ve robbed their possessions and beaten them, that’s enough. Spare them; why insist on pushing them?" Yang Xiao didn’t want trouble at this critical juncture, deciding to try persuasion first.

The bald man squinted at Yang Xiao for a few seconds, confirming that he didn’t sense any spiritual power from him, before laughing menacingly, "Who the hell do you think you are, daring to stand up for others? Do you want to die?"

The bald man’s underlings also eyed the luggage that Yang Xiao and the Esoteric officer had with them, their eyes lit up as they exclaimed, "It’s them! I recognize them; they stole our stuff while boarding during the chaos!"

"So you’re thieves, hand over your baggage, we’re going to search!" The bald man immediately understood, leading his men towards Yang Xiao and the Esoteric officer.

"You don’t need to act; I’ll handle this." The Esoteric officer stepped forward.