Brutal

With this strategy working in her favor, she took down the entire group one after another.

The underground space filled with groans and cries of pain.

Tu Ran offered her heartfelt apologies to them all.

She even tried to help up a man who couldn't stand after taking a kick to the knee.

But the moment he saw her approaching, he yelled for her to stay away while scrambling backward on his hands and knees.

Was she really that terrifying?

Tu Ran touched her face.

She accidentally brushed against the cheek that had been punched earlier, and the pain made her suck in a sharp breath.

She raised her communicator and checked her reflection on the screen. Her left cheek was completely swollen, already tinged with a dark purple bruise. She carefully probed the inside of her cheek with her tongue, and her body convulsed with pain.

Damn, that hurt!

During the ambush, those who were more seriously injured were carried up to the clinic above.

Xiao Jiu stood by the secret passage, watching the steady stream of people being brought up, and felt the world spinning around him.

So many people—when was he supposed to finish treating them all?

He'd originally assumed the one being carried up would be Tu Ran. Instead, it was all his own people.

He couldn't help snorting, "Weren't you all complaining this morning that Chief Xie was overkill for calling all of you just to deal with one woman? How come you've all ended up like this? And you still have the nerve to cry about the pain? How embarrassing!"

Someone protested, "You think you could do better? Go ahead and try—one kick from her and your scrawny little body would fall apart!"

"I'm a doctor, not a fighter. If I trained up a set of muscles like yours, I definitely wouldn't get beaten into this state by a woman!" Xiao Jiu said dismissively.

He was sick of looking at them. He could've spent the afternoon relaxing, playing on his computer and checking out pretty girls, but because of them, he now had to run around treating their wounds.

"She's not even a woman," someone said. "Anyway, I've never seen a woman this vicious—she goes straight for the most painful spots. My arm was dislocated last time and hadn't fully healed yet, and now she's gone and ripped it out again. Hey, Xiao Jiu, can you take a look first and tell me if my arm will recover?"

"Yeah, yeah," Xiao Jiu said, thoroughly annoyed as he walked over, muttering under his breath, "If it won't heal, then it won't heal. I'll just get you a mechanical arm, which will definitely be sturdier than your original one."

"Hey, hey, hey, Xiao Jiu, look at me first. He's just got a broken arm; he's not gonna die in the next few minutes. Check me first—my mechanical skull—I feel like it might be cracked. I think it's leaking electricity."

"That's definitely psychosomatic," Xiao Jiu replied curtly. "The mechanical skull I installed won't crack that easily."

"Oh come on, Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu, look at me first! I got kicked... down there... can you see if there's any saving it?"

Xiao Jiu was busy preparing medicine and didn't even turn around. "Everyone can be saved. No matter what part's broken, I can replace it with a mechanical one."

"But but but... I've never heard of that part being replaceable." The man asked uncertainly.

Xiao Jiu turned and glared at him, then stormed over. "Come here, let me see what's broken on you. I don't believe there's anything I can't replace."

"It's... here." The man said.

"Where?" Xiao Jiu's voice grew sharper as he looked him up and down, all over. "You've got all four limbs and a head, don't you?"

"It's... here..." The man pointed cautiously with his finger.

Xiao Jiu: "..."

Xiao Jiu: "Alright, you're more urgent. I'll treat you first."

The man thought: Xiao Jiu, with that expression on your face, I feel like I'm in danger...