Chapter 148: A Heavy Taste

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Jiang Lele held her phone, thinking of secretly dialing 110, hoping the emergency center could hear the sounds at the scene, even if she couldn’t speak. However, she didn’t expect the two ferocious thugs chasing her, nearly causing her to trip, were instantly floored in front of Li Yan!

Damn, are they knocking over scarecrows? She couldn’t help widening her eyes, and forgot to call the police. Moments later, she approached Li Yan, panting and praising, "Li Yan, you were so fierce!"

Li Yan turned to look at her and laughed, "Milkmaid, you can use strong and brave, but fierce is often used to describe men in bed!"

"Tch!" Jiang Lele pouted and elbowed him: "What did you just call me?"

"Haha, nothing, just remembered the first time on the bus when you punished the pervert with milk." Li Yan chuckled; back then her words, "Stop squeezing, you’ll squeeze my milk out," left a deep impression on him.

Jiang Lele snorted softly, then looked at the two thieves lying motionless on the ground, and asked in a low voice, "What should we do with them? Call the police?"

The two had fallen pretty hard, and the kick to the abdomen was excruciating. Realizing they’d encountered someone tough, they naturally wouldn’t dare to act recklessly, adhering to their principle of bullying the weak and fearing the strong. They all pretended to be unconscious in unison, but hearing Jiang Lele mention calling the police startled them — they’ve already been messed up this badly, and she still wants to call the cops?

"Are these perverts or just thieves?" Li Yan retorted.

"Yeah! There are always some scumbags, damn it. How many rich people take the bus? Whoever they steal from isn’t losing much." Jiang Lele muttered a curse. The sleazy bus perverts were disgusting, but these thieves were even more detestable.

Li Yan glanced at her, "You’ve always dared to fight with these thugs, yet you were still chased to a dead end by them!"

"Hmph! That’s because a busload of people, even the one whose wallet I stopped from being stolen, didn’t dare to speak up and help me. If they all took action, wouldn’t these two thieves be easily caught? It was the same on the street! I ran at least a few hundred meters, and not a single person wanted to come over, not one car stopped to help me!" Jiang Lele said angrily. She somewhat understood that Li Yan stopped because he recognized her, not out of some sense of justice; otherwise, he might not have stopped either!

"Relying on others is not as good as relying on yourself!"

Li Yan ignored her complaints and said coldly, "Pick up the knife on the ground, and each cut one of their fingers!"

"Huh?!" Jiang Lele was startled, damn, big guy, are you also a psycho? Compared to the perverts and thieves, you’re even more terrifying as a bloodthirsty lunatic!

The two thieves were even more frightened, if they actually lost a finger, how would they show their faces among the gangs? They started thinking about escaping when Li Yan wasn’t paying attention, but the pain in their abdomen made it impossible to struggle up.

"After what happened tonight, will you continue with your previous attitude and style? Yes, next time, no one’s going to help you either, so you have to be ruthless! When the law can’t protect people, eye for an eye becomes the most practical existence!" Li Yan tossed out the sentence indifferently.

Jiang Lele bit her lip tightly, her chest heaving. His words hit her hard. She agreed with being a bit fiercer to evildoers, but she had always resorted to verbal confrontations, coincidences, or accidental solutions, mostly letting the bad guys feel helpless without much tangible punishment. Wanting her to fight fire with fire, even if she had the chance, would be extremely difficult!

Li Yan saw her look, knew she was struggling intensely, and smiled, "Forget it, I shouldn’t incite a girl to go down a path of evil, I’m just joking, I’ll take you home!"

Jiang Lele gave Li Yan a glance; she didn’t think he was joking just now. He sounded serious, and there was a kind of power in his voice that made her want to agree with him. Perhaps, besides defending justice, there really was a bit of darkness in her heart...

"I... I’ll try!" she spoke softly, but firmly!

Upon hearing Li Yan say it was a joke, and then offer to take her home without mentioning calling the police, the two thieves breathed a sigh of relief. Jiang Lele’s last words were in such a small voice that they didn’t hear, and they continued feigning unconsciousness.

Li Yan saw she was serious, nodded. Given her past few experiences, it’s hard to change her nature. It’s impossible for every encounter to be with cowardly criminals, and he wouldn’t always be there to save her—she still needed to become a bit more ruthless herself.

Jiang Lele took a deep breath, exhaled, then took another deep breath, bent down, and picked up one of the knives on the ground.

Li Yan walked over to one of the men, nudged the man’s arm with his foot.

The man thought it was a test to see if he was pretending, hurriedly continued playing dead, hoping they’d leave soon.

Unfortunately, Li Yan simply wanted to make the man’s hand more visible, and after kicking, pointed at the man’s outstretched hand lying on the ground.

Jiang Lele looked at him, truly shocked. Never had she thought that Li Yan would instruct such a scene; was this inciting crime? And judging by his expression, she didn’t doubt that Li Yan would have the courage himself, wanting to use her hands instead.

Li Yan pointed at the little finger.

Jiang Lele, having just mustered the courage to pick up the knife, now faced with actually carrying out the act, found the decision incredibly difficult.

Just as she hesitated, suddenly she felt someone grabbing her hand, and then felt her hand holding the knife, uncontrollably stabbing downwards!

"Ah—ah!"

"Ah!"

The next to scream was the thief, and the other scream was from Jiang Lele. She didn’t expect Li Yan to hold her hand and complete the task of cutting off the finger! Her body had been pulled down to a squat, watching a piece of pinky finger spring up in front of her, scaring her into sitting down on the ground.

With ten fingers connected to the heart, the thief who had his pinky cut off continued to scream miserably. The facial injuries and the intense abdominal pain seemed to fade; the greatest agony centered on the finger. He knew that even if he fought desperately, it would be useless against the formidable person who just took them both down with one move. This time, he almost fainted for real, but feared if the man thought the woman wasn’t decisive enough, he might practice more on his hand, which would be terrible.

So, at this moment, he scrambled up and ran without looking back. The other thief, although not witnessing it, understood what had happened, and despite the intense pain, crawled up and ran desperately.

Both cursed Li Yan as a pervert in their hearts. Who teaches a girl to play with cutting fingers? It’s simply a psychopathic cold-blooded assassin! They secretly swore to avoid these two whenever met.

The good fears the evil, the evil fears the ruthless, the ruthless fears those who don’t fear death... But now they’ve encountered a psychopath!

They didn’t know this thought was true; Li Yan was indeed a cold-blooded assassin, just not a psychopath yet. Of course, they thought cutting fingers was psychopathic because they hadn’t seen cutting throats to bleed, suffocation, scalping, craniotomy; explosion spraying brain matter and more cruel aspects...

...

Seeing the two of them running away, Li Yan didn’t chase after them. He looked at Jiang Lele sitting on the ground, a bit dazed, and patted her head: "Scared stiff? You scared them stupid too!"

Jiang Lele glanced at him, then turned her head to look at the two thieves fleeing desperately; were those the same two just chasing her? Was it because they were frightened by the finger cutting or afraid of Li Yan?

"Why didn’t you say something?" Jiang Lele started to regain her senses, complaining.

"I told you several times and you didn’t act, so I had to lend you a hand." Li Yan pointed to the ground, "Look at your result, haha, does it look like the tail of a lizard or gecko being shed? Only its tail still jumps, while this finger just bounced slightly and stopped..."

Following his direction, Jiang Lele saw the finger on the ground again, and after hearing Li Yan’s subsequent description, she turned over and scrambled up, ran a few steps away, then bent over and dry heaved.

Li Yan shrugged, he didn’t know why he would teach Jiang Lele this; did he feel she had the potential to be an assassin?

"You have heavy tastes!" Feeling someone patting her back, Jiang Lele straightened up, complaining without throwing up.

"For the first time, your performance was already good. Do it a few more times, and you’ll dare to wield a knife at people, and you won’t fear the villains chasing you." Li Yan was nonchalant.

"But... the feeling just now was really thrilling!" Jiang Lele casually remarked, and then blushed; what a lousy metaphor!

Li Yan was even more speechless; she clearly was scared just now and now says it was thrilling! Is this gal thick-skinned or scatterbrained?

"Then practice a few more times, and you can not only be a heroine fighting against injustice, but also enjoy the excitement on the street or bus!"

Hearing Li Yan’s teasing, Jiang Lele spat: "Don’t talk nonsense! I made a bad metaphor, I was almost scared to death just now. How can I have tastes as heavy as yours?"

"Alright, I’ll take you back! Excitable girl." Li Yan went to the car.

Milkmaid... Excitable girl... Jiang Lele was utterly speechless, "Do you like giving people nicknames? Mighty-Man!"

To her retort, Li Yan laughed heartily, got in the car, and signaled her to get in.

"Hmph, not bad! Becoming a film company manager, changed cars right away, must have taken a lot of benefits?" Jiang Lele sat in his previous car and mocked once in the car.

"It’s alright. Where do you live?"

"Up ahead!" Jiang Lele was also trying to keep calm; the scene just now was undoubtedly a big stimulus for her. After a while, she reminded him again: "I live with my family, and still don’t have a boyfriend, don’t address me with anything ’girl’, making people think I’m doing something outside!"

Li Yan laughed: "I’ll only drop you near your house; do you want me to take you inside?"

"..." Jiang Lele awkward-ing...

"By the way, your income isn’t bad. Save your money for name brands, then you can casually buy a car or take taxis. From the looks of it, you can’t be ruthless; your personality is very unsafe." Li Yan gave a reminder.

"Who says..." Jiang Lele mumbled, adding, "I haven’t bought name brands in a long time..."

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