383: Chapter 382: Defeating Long Tianze 383: Chapter 382: Defeating Long Tianze “Ning Fan, don’t worry about me!”
Xu Ruolan cried out directly to Ning Fan, as Long Tianze threatened him by using her as leverage.
Faltas, with double-swords in hand, charged at Ning Fan, the two sharp swords tracing several afterimages in the air, attacking from all directions.
Ning Fan, with his bloodied dagger, parried the oncoming double-swords and stepped back, his eyes catching a glimpse of Xu Ruolan with a trace of bitterness in his peripheral vision.
Despite her plea for him not to worry about her, how could Ning Fan possibly give up on Xu Ruolan?
Now, with Long Tianze’s threats on the side, Ning Fan could only focus on defense, never able to fully engage Faltas.
Two figures darted back and forth under the intense light, their speed dizzying.
Ning Fan’s right hand was soaked in blood as he gripped his blood-stained dagger and drew it forward, creating a clinking sound.
Faltas felt a formidable force from his double-swords and was repelled several steps back.
“Why don’t you just stand still and let me kill you?!”
Faltas roared, only to be met with a gaze from Ning Fan that viewed him as if he were a fool.
Stand still and be chopped?
Faltas sure had wishful thinking.
Nevertheless, Ning Fan was indeed struggling at the moment.
Unable to exert his full strength and with injuries on his body, he was bearing a tremendous load.
Although the bleeding had stopped, it didn’t mean Ning Fan was at his peak condition, as he had only applied emergency measures.
Under normal circumstances, Ning Fan should have opted for a swift battle, but due to Long Tianze’s threat, he was forced into pure defense, exacerbating his injuries in the process.
“Aren’t you very worried about your little lover?
If you dare to resist again, then I’ll have Long Tianze throw that bitch into the sea!”
Faltas bellowed and then glared at Long Tianze.
Long Tianze’s face twitched as he eyed Ning Fan with extreme wariness.
Even with such severe injuries, Ning Fan still had plenty of fight left in him, and if Xu Ruolan hadn’t been in their clutches, Faltas would probably have been lying on the ground by now.
Intimidation was merely a tactic that could temporarily suppress Ning Fan, but if he were to truly press the remote control in his hand, it would mean losing the shackles on the beast.
Thus, Long Tianze chose to ignore Faltas and stood on the sidelines, waiting for an opportunity.
Ning Fan was injured and could not fully engage Faltas due to his concern for Xu Ruolan, so Long Tianze decided to take this chance to wear down Ning Fan’s stamina, seeking an opportunity to land a fatal blow.
“Fuck!” Faltas cursed upon seeing Long Tianze daring to ignore him, then charged at Ning Fan once again.
The outcome was the same.
Ning Fan was always on the defense, and Faltas couldn’t overpower him, leading to a deadlock that greatly infuriated Faltas.
Ning Fan took nimble steps, beckoning Faltas with his fingers and wearing a mocking smile on his face.
At this, Faltas bellowed like an enraged bull.
Ning Fan dodged left and right, akin to a skilled matador, making a fool out of Faltas.
However, this scene didn’t last.
Though Faltas was not as strong as Ning Fan, he was still an expert from the Fang Guild, and perhaps driven by a blood frenzy, his attacks grew increasingly wild.
Faltas, insensitive to pain, was determined to land a hit on Ning Fan, even if it meant using a strategy that would injure himself to hurt his enemy.
“Tsk tsk, truly worthy of being one of the Fang Guild’s madmen?
Once enraged, they really don’t care about their own lives!”
If it weren’t for Long Tianze using Xu Ruolan to blackmail Ning Fan, Faltas would have died countless times in front of Ning Fan by now.
Now, Ning Fan finally felt some distress.
It wasn’t long before Ning Fan once again had to entangle with Faltas.
On the periphery, Long Tianze was watching Ning Fan, his eyes flickering with a cold light incessantly.
Suddenly, Long Tianze noticed a detail, when Ning Fan blocked his chest with his arm while holding the knife in a backhand grip; at the same time, Ning Fan’s breathing became a bit more rapid than before.
A surge of joy filled Long Tianze’s heart, and he almost couldn’t contain his excitement as he was about to strike Ning Fan.
While Ning Fan was entangled with Faltas once again, Long Tianze finally made his move.
He charged in from the side, swinging his knife at Ning Fan with triumph in his eyes.
“Heh…”
No one knew whose laughter rang out, but Long Tianze and Faltas’s expressions gradually turned to shock.
With a curved smile at the corner of his mouth and a hint of amusement in his eyes, Ning Fan wore a faint smile that instantly gave Long Tianze and Faltas a bad premonition.
Ning Fan’s body bent at an unbelievably fast speed, dodging the attacks of both men.
He raised a fist high and landed it directly on Faltas’s chin.
With a loud bang, Faltas’s chin was knocked askew.
The man, as if hit by a high-speed train, crashed into a nearby shipping container, creating a large hole upon impact.
Ning Fan then turned his gaze to Long Tianze, his lips slowly moving.
Long Tianze didn’t hear Ning Fan’s voice, but still caught what Ning Fan said from the movement of his lips—
“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time!”
A whooshing sound erupted, and Ning Fan charged toward Long Tianze.
Ning Fan’s right fist moved towards Long Tianze, who instinctively went on the defensive.
However, Ning Fan didn’t throw his punch.
Instead, he delivered a roundhouse kick to Long Tianze’s waist, knocking him to the ground.
The remote control was caught mid-air by Ning Fan, who then placed his foot on Long Tianze’s face.
At this moment, the dock fell deathly silent, while Xu Ruolan, suspended in the air, watched Ning Fan with a flicker of different colors in her eyes.
“Impossible, you clearly just…”
“Clearly just suffered a severe injury, and it got even worse?” Ning Fan finished Long Tianze’s sentence and let out a cold laugh at the end.
Long Tianze looked at Ning Fan in astonishment, with a blank mind for several seconds before he realized he had been tricked.
“You were pretending all along!” Long Tianze exclaimed, looking at Ning Fan in disbelief.
He finally understood what had happened.
From the beginning, Ning Fan was feigning, especially those three stabs.
Ning Fan could stab without even blinking, which was also intentional, just to lower Long Tianze’s guard.
Then, in the fight with Faltas, the minor move of using his arm to block his chest was also fake, and Long Tianze step by step had been led by the nose by Ning Fan.
“It seems you’re not that foolish.
Now the roles have reversed.
If you don’t want your head to part ways with your body right now, release my wife obediently!”
Ning Fan bent down and tapped Long Tianze’s stunned face with a blood-stained dagger.