Chapter 88: Total Annihilation

The daggers they drew were domestic military blades, razor-sharp.

And because they had been forged by a cold-steel process, each blade now shimmered in the sunlight with a series of icy glints, the mere sight of them enough to chill the heart.

“Patriarch Qian, this is going too far!”

Old Master Bai suddenly spoke up.

If these four retired special forces men only pinned Jiang Hao to the ground and beat him senseless, that would still have been within bounds. But now they had all drawn weapons, and the matter had changed entirely.

With the slightest misstep, someone could lose his life.

Qian Kanglong replied coldly, “Too far? Heh. Too far? Or am I the one being too far? He poisoned my son. Am I not allowed to have my men use weapons against him?”

“That was only because your son was rude first,” Old Master Bai said again.

“So what? My Qian family is one of the great houses of the provincial capital. My son is the eldest young master of the Qian family. What is Jiang Hao compared to that? If my son offends him, he had better swallow it! Even if he cannot swallow it, he must still swallow it! Since he dares poison someone and refuses to provide the antidote, then he has no right to blame me for being ruthless!”

Qian Kanglong seemed to have thrown caution to the wind. The moment he finished speaking, he gave a cold order. “Do it! What are you waiting for? Cut his hamstrings and tendons first!”

“Yes!”

The four retired special forces men nodded heavily, then tightened their grip on their daggers and advanced step by step toward Jiang Hao.

“Jiang Hao, run!” Bai Qiming shouted at once.

The Qian and Bai families were closely connected, and Jiang Hao also had deep ties with the Bai family. At a moment like this, with Jiang Hao facing mortal danger, how could he stand by and watch?

But Jiang Hao only smiled. “Uncle Bai, don’t worry about me. Just a few retired special forces men. I can deal with them easily.”

Hearing this, Bai Qiming felt both angry and amused.

“Jiang Hao, they have weapons! No matter how skilled you are with your hands and feet, how can you fight people holding blades? Don’t do anything foolish. Run first, talk later!”

Even after Bai Qiming said as much, Jiang Hao still stood where he was, showing no intention of fleeing in the slightest.

Qian Kanglong sneered. “I never expected you to have such a hard bone. But what use is a hard bone if it can’t save you?”

“Patriarch Qian, you think you’ve got me cornered?”

Jiang Hao’s voice turned icy.

“Isn’t that so?” Qian Kanglong said smugly.

“Then let me give you two words: foolish. Patriarch Qian, very soon you’ll understand the true meaning of the word strength.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Hao raised his right hand.

On that hand was a black glove.

When he had gone out earlier to greet Old Master Bai and Bai Qiming, Jiang Hao’s hands had been empty; he had not been wearing any gloves.

But he had carried the glove with him all the same.

He had deliberately kept it on him as a precaution.

And now, it was indeed about to prove useful.

Seeing Jiang Hao so confident, Bai Qiming was no longer certain whether he truly had the ability to defeat these dagger-wielding special forces men, so he asked Old Master Bai, “Dad, do you think Jiang Hao can really handle them?”

“Hard to say for now. But I think, since Mr. Jiang doesn’t intend to run, he must be confident he can beat them.”

Old Master Bai guessed as much.

Bai Tianyu lifted her chin and said with great pride, “Dad, Grandpa, don’t worry. Jiang Hao will never lose!”

“Really?”

Bai Qiming asked.

“Of course it’s true. I saw Jiang Hao take down Qian Youwei with my own eyes! Let me tell you, Jiang Hao’s methods are truly beyond comprehension. Even now I still don’t know exactly how he got that fool Qian Youwei poisoned...”

While Bai Tianyu was still talking, over there the attack had already begun.

The four retired special forces men, daggers in hand, closed in around Jiang Hao and surrounded him completely, sealing off every possible route of escape.

Yet Jiang Hao had no intention of fleeing at all.

He lifted his right hand in the black glove and snapped his fingers.

Snap!

One of the retired special forces men suddenly loosened his grip. The dagger forged by the cold-steel method fell to the ground at once, ringing out with a clear, metallic clatter.

“So it really was like this...”

The beautiful secretary, Lu Yanling, wore a look as if she had seen a ghost.

The moment her words fell, the retired special forces man suddenly collapsed with a thud, unable to move!

The scene was far too bizarre!

Old Master Bai and Bai Qiming both widened their eyes, their mouths opening in shock.

And Qian Kanglong, at this moment, stared at Jiang Hao in disbelief.

Before coming here, Qian Kanglong had already concluded that Jiang Hao was the one who had poisoned his son. But he believed Jiang Hao must have seized some opportunity to put the poison into his son’s food or water.

Yet these retired special forces men had not eaten a single bite or drunk a single drop of water here, and Jiang Hao had not even touched them. So why had one of them suddenly been poisoned and collapsed?

“This... this is...” he stammered.

Jiang Hao offered no explanation. Instead, another snap rang out from his right hand.

Thud!

Another retired special forces man fell to the ground.

Now only two of the special forces men were still standing.

These two had been thoroughly frightened by Jiang Hao’s unfathomable methods, but as former soldiers, they were terrified without being thrown into complete disarray.

They exchanged a glance, then split up and rushed Jiang Hao from two directions.

But how could their speed compare with his?

Snap!

At the third snap, the third retired special forces man also dropped.

The last one swung his dagger and slashed at Jiang Hao’s throat.

He no longer cared about Qian Kanglong’s order to injure but not kill; he intended to kill Jiang Hao in a single blow!

If this strike landed on Jiang Hao’s throat, Jiang Hao would surely fall dead at once!

“Jiang Hao, watch out!”

“Move!”

Bai Tianyu and Bai Qiming both panicked and shouted warnings.

Yet Jiang Hao neither dodged nor retreated. He remained standing in place.

Just as the blade was about to slice across Jiang Hao’s throat, Jiang Hao’s left hand, clad in a white glove, suddenly lifted. With only his thumb and forefinger, he easily pinched the dagger.

Those were only two fingers gripping the blade, yet it was as if steel tongs had clamped down on it, holding it so tightly that it could not move even a hair’s breadth!

Snap!

With a twitch of Jiang Hao’s right hand, the fourth snap sounded.

The last retired special forces man’s face filled with terror, and then he collapsed to the ground, no longer even able to move his fingers.

Jiang Hao smiled faintly, then casually tossed the cold-steel dagger aside.

“Your bodyguards are all down.”

Jiang Hao looked at Qian Kanglong and said blandly.

Qian Kanglong’s face went white in an instant.

In order to subdue Jiang Hao, he had brought the six most powerful bodyguards of the Qian family.

And yet, one after another, they had fallen before Jiang Hao, until they were utterly wiped out.