“Wait a moment…” Qi Xia furrowed his brow, as if thinking of something. “Must resist the enemy while also protecting one’s own people?”

It sounded like a very familiar predicament.

Got it… this time there really was a solution.

Qi Xia ran to the side of the iron plate, lifted this heavy thing up, and slowly rolled it on the ground, as if verifying the feasibility of his plan.

“Hey! Qiao Jiajin!” Qi Xia called out. “I found the ‘answer’! Come to me!”

“I’ve been waiting for you to say that for a long time.” Qiao Jiajin said slowly. “Wait, I’ll come right away.”

The black bear vaguely sensed that the “prey” before it wanted to escape, so it once again stood on its hind legs, increasing its attack range.

But Qiao Jiajin had absolutely no intention of fleeing. Suddenly, he took a jumping step forward. His feet straddled wide, his shoulders moved with his waist, and his right fist rotated one hundred eighty degrees toward the black bear’s cheek.

“BANG!”

A tremendous sound. This punch solidly landed on the black bear’s face, actually forcing the black bear back a step and a half.

The black bear first paused slightly, its nose constantly spraying hot air. Then it shook its head, seeming somewhat dizzy and dazed from this sudden punch.

It had never imagined that this “prey” that had been running away all along would actually have such terrifying explosive power.

Qiao Jiajin also shook his arm that had been shocked painfully numb, cursing and swearing, “You stupid thing really are tough enough…”

The black bear came back to its senses, opened its mouth and roared several times, then swung down again in humiliated rage.

Qiao Jiajin carefully watched the opponent’s movements. His right foot took a small retreating step, immediately followed by his left and right feet changing to shift his center of gravity. Not only did he dodge this strike, but he also made the black bear’s center of gravity unstable, nearly causing it to tumble.

Taking advantage of this opening, he bent slightly at the waist and swung an uppercut from below, fiercely striking the black bear’s lower jaw.

A strange wail sounded. The black bear took another punch.

Although this kind of damage couldn’t pose much of a threat to its thick hide and flesh, it truly became somewhat wary of the man before it.

“Damn, my hand’s about to break, and you still won’t pass out?” Qiao Jiajin spat on the ground, then did a forward roll and slipped away from the black bear’s side.

Seeing this scene, Qi Xia was also somewhat stunned. He had thought Qiao Jiajin was just an ordinary street thug, but it seemed the opponent’s combat ability was extremely formidable.

These moves and techniques didn’t look like street fighting, but more like mixed martial arts.

Qiao Jiajin came to Qi Xia’s side, shaking his right hand while asking, “What should we do?”

“You!” Qi Xia came back to his senses and beckoned to Qiao Jiajin. “You hold this iron plate steady to block the black bear’s attacks.”

“Just like that?” Qiao Jiajin was somewhat puzzled. “Liar Boy, have you lost your mind? I thought you’d have a better idea!”

“No, this is the best idea!” Qi Xia pulled Qiao Jiajin to the front and had him support the iron plate.

But this iron plate was circular after all. Placed on the ground, it wasn’t stable and was extremely easy to roll.

Qiao Jiajin could only lower his body and use his shoulder to brace the plate, trying to make it more stable.

“This thing is extremely heavy…” Qiao Jiajin gritted his teeth. “I can’t lift it up…”

“You don’t need to lift it up,” Qi Xia explained. “You just need to roll it on the ground!”

“Damn, then I understand, but this way I can’t see that beast,” Qiao Jiajin said. “This big iron plate is blocking my view. I don’t know where it is at all. How can I block its attacks?”

At this time, the black bear had become increasingly furious and walked cautiously toward Qiao Jiajin.

“I’ll help you watch,” Qi Xia said, standing behind Qiao Jiajin.

“You?”

“That’s right. I’ll grab your clothes from behind,” Qi Xia said. “If I pull right, you roll the iron plate right. If I pull left, you roll the iron plate left.”

“Alright…” Qiao Jiajin nodded and began adjusting the iron plate’s direction, making it face the black bear as much as possible. “Thinking this way, the two of us probably won’t die… I just don’t know if that group of idiots will come to snatch the iron plate.”

“They won’t come to snatch it,” Qi Xia said. “Because I’m going to save everyone here.”

“What?” Qiao Jiajin was startled. “You want to use this iron plate to block for everyone?!”

“Hey!” Qi Xia turned his head and shouted toward the group of people fighting in a pile. “If you keep fighting, you’ll really die. If you don’t want to die, come stand behind me.”

Everyone heard Qi Xia’s words and came back to their senses to look at him, also looking at the iron plate in Qiao Jiajin’s hands.

The middle-aged man was the first to stand up, wiping his face that had been scratched by someone in the melee. “You two idiots, put down the iron plate for me!”

He stumbled and ran toward Qiao Jiajin, seemingly wanting to reclaim the iron plate. But at this time, Qiao Jiajin couldn’t let go and could only glare at the middle-aged man with his eyes.

Qi Xia at this moment stepped forward and blocked between the two.

“Hey! Get out of the way!” The middle-aged man roared. “Little Glasses! Come help quickly!”

Qi Xia’s mind spun rapidly. A voice sounded in his heart: “The 80/20 rule—decision-making power is often only grasped in the hands of twenty percent of people. To control a group, you only need to control a minority of them…”

Before the middle-aged man could summon help, Qi Xia suddenly extended his hand and firmly grabbed his throat.

The opponent had never imagined that this refined-looking man before him would actually be so ruthless. For a moment, he was stunned.

“Stop making trouble,” Qi Xia said. “If you want to live, listen to me.”

“Listen to you?!” The middle-aged man’s eyes were full of anger. “Who the hell are you? Why should I listen to you?”

Qi Xia’s right hand continuously exerted force, firmly clamping on the opponent’s throat. “I’m not discussing this with you.”

Seeing Qi Xia’s performance, Qiao Jiajin couldn’t help but furrow his brow.

He had previously only felt that Qi Xia was very smart, and that following him might provide a chance of survival. He had never expected that the other party also had such a vicious side.

“Cough, cough… you, you let go…” The middle-aged man was about to suffocate. He extended his hand and kept pounding Qi Xia’s arm. “Are you a madman…”

“Either be strangled to death by me here, or obediently stand in the back,” Qi Xia’s eyes were ice-cold, as if he had never had emotions. “Pick one of these two options.”

Seeing this, Little Glasses hurriedly ran up with a pleading tone. “Big brother… it’s not necessary, not necessary… First let Old Lu go…”

Although he said this, he continuously adjusted his position, standing to Qi Xia’s side and approaching him step by step.

Qi Xia quickly sized up this person and discovered that one side of his glasses had been shattered by someone during the melee. He looked somewhat disheveled.

“Hunting law…” Qi Xia’s eyes stared intently at the two men. He silently recited in his heart, “The hunter must be more ferocious than the prey. Even the most cunning prey has its weak points and vital spots…”

“Big brother, first let go… otherwise…”

Little Glasses approached Qi Xia step by step, seemingly with other plans.

Qi Xia’s expression turned cold. He immediately extended his other hand. This time, he didn’t grip the opponent’s neck but instead pinched the opponent’s face, with one thumb pressing on the shattered glasses.

“Damn!” Little Glasses cried out in alarm, then immediately closed his eyes tightly.

“If you also want to cause trouble, I’ll rub the glass shards into your eyes.”

“No, no, no…!” Little Glasses waved his hands in panic. At this moment, he was half-crouching with his head tilted back, not daring to move at all. “I was wrong, wrong, big brother. We’ll listen to whatever you say.”