Chapter 110: Chapter 109: Brother Harper
Knock, knock knock.
Elliana Lyle knocked on the door and took half a step back, waiting for a response from inside.
"Come in." A man’s voice came from inside, sounding very imposing.
Luna directly pressed down the door handle, and with a click, as soon as the door was pushed open a crack, a choking smell of tobacco came wafting out.
The first thing Elliana noticed when the door was opened was five men surrounding a mahjong table, and the man sitting directly opposite her had a tattooed arm exposed, with a blonde-haired man leaning beside him watching the excitement.
Luna immediately elbowed Andrew Hue slightly, causing him to walk half a step inside with a fearful expression. When he saw these people, his body even stiffened, and it was only when Luna nudged him again that he slowly spoke: "I... I’m here to repay the money."
"Hmm." The tattooed man sitting in the main seat responded without even glancing at them and then instructed the blonde beside him, "Tiger, go check the account."
The man who spoke must be Brother Harper, his eyes solely focused on the mahjong game, his face full of hostility.
"Alright." Tiger glanced at Elliana and the others and couldn’t help but sneer, a hint of mockery in his tone.
He’s seen people bring their parents or brothers to repay money, but it’s the first time he’s seen someone bring two young girls and a foreigner.
"What’s your name?" Tiger said lazily as he headed toward the computer desk in the corner, his tone somewhat impatient.
"Andrew Hue."
Tiger tapped a few keys on the computer and then looked at Andrew Hue, saying, "The principal plus interest, 150,000." While speaking, he tapped on the POS machine beside the table as a signal.
"What?" Andrew Hue was startled, his tone urgent, "Wasn’t it only 70,000?"
"What are you shouting for? Kid, don’t want interest, huh?" Tiger, having lost in mahjong, was already upset, and this only made his temper flare.
Andrew Hue, intimidated by Tiger’s fierceness, completely wimped out, seeming to shrink in stature. He could only helplessly turn his head to look at Elliana and the others, seeking help from them.
Just then, one of the men playing mahjong got up, went to the door to close it, and then returned to the mahjong table.
Luna scanned the entire room and then, with her hands in her pockets, took two steps forward, looking at Tiger with displeasure, "You guys are running a black shop, aren’t you?"
As soon as she said this, Brother Harper, sitting at the head of the mahjong table, darkened his expression. Grabbing a mahjong tile with force, he slapped it onto the table, "You’re here to cause trouble, aren’t you? Kid, if you have money, pay up. If not today, you’ll leave a finger!"
Andrew Hue stammered, trembling, "I... I don’t have that much money..."
"No money? No money and you dare to play with me? Today, if you don’t leave a finger, don’t even think about leaving this place!" Once Brother Harper spoke, the other four immediately surrounded him, each with a fierce look, twisting their necks and wrists.
While Andrew Hue and Luna were still thinking of protecting Elliana, Tiger had already grabbed Andrew Hue’s hoodie like a chick, lifting him up.
"Don’t cut my hand... Save me... Save me..." Andrew Hue was extremely frightened; he should never have come here. At this moment, he resented Elliana and the others but regretted borrowing money to put on a front even more, thinking he could pay it back by spinning a story to deceive Elliana and the others...
Luna glanced at Andrew Hue, then said to Brother Harper, "You’d better not do anything rash, or we’ll call the police."
"Hah!" Brother Harper and his underlings laughed coldly a few times before finally saying, "Go ahead, the one I’m least afraid of is the police."
Luna frowned lightly, staring at Brother Harper, who was smiling disdainfully.
One of the men named Monkey, upon seeing that Andrew Hue, the foreigner, was first protecting a girl wearing a hat, sunglasses, and mask, became interested.
With his agility, which earned him the name Monkey, he swiftly pulled off Elliana’s hat and mask!
Elliana’s identity was immediately recognized by several people. Brother Harper instantly lost his previous ease. He wasn’t exactly afraid of Elliana, but if someone like her got into trouble at his place, it would spell bad news.
"So it’s Miss Elliana," Brother Harper said with a vicious look, staring at Elliana. "But as long as you stepped into my lair, you follow my rules! If this punk doesn’t pay today, I’ll be keeping that finger."
Despite the danger presented by Brother Harper, Elliana, feeling a bit tense inside, remained composed, saying, "For such a small debt, I’ll pay for him. We just want to know about Evelyn Dunn."
"The one from South University who just died?" Brother Harper replied with a cold smile on his face, "Miss Elliana, you know that debts must be collected. Since Miss Elliana wants to pay for him, please go ahead." Brother Harper gestured toward the POS machine.
Luna glanced at Andrew Hue, who was already trembling, then asked Brother Harper, "Do you know it was your people who drove Evelyn Dunn to death?"
Bam! Brother Harper kicked the chair on the ground, genuinely enraged, "Don’t know what good you have!"
As soon as Brother Harper spoke, his henchmen naturally surrounded them aggressively.
"Andrew, it’s time for action, take him down!" Luna naturally pulled out the stun baton she had been hiding in her right sleeve, while Andrew took out a baton from his pocket.
Luna’s main goal for coming here was to find some release. For her, a fight was welcome, as she knew she could hold her own.
However, Elliana was dumbfounded. How did things turn out differently than planned? How did it escalate into a fight?
Seeing that Elliana and the others were armed, Tiger pulled out a knife and pointed it at Andrew Hue: "Don’t move, or I’ll... ah!"
Before Tiger could finish his sentence, Luna had already stabbed a small blade directly into his thigh, causing him to immediately release Andrew Hue in pain!
They scuffled together, and Monkey, who was closest to Elliana, was swatted away by Andrew with a baton as soon as he approached her. The force was so great that Monkey felt his back bones crack!
As for Luna with the other two, she was as comfortable as a small snake, swift and agile.
Watching this scene unfold, Brother Harper was truly infuriated. In just a few steps, he grabbed the dumbfounded Andrew Hue and put his knife directly against Andrew Hue’s neck.
Andrew Hue could even feel the cold temperature of the blade, so much so that his eyes nearly bulged from fear.
"Everyone, don’t move!" Brother Harper shouted while holding Andrew Hue hostage, giving him a slap hard enough to make him see stars.
"Dream on!" Luna cranked up the electricity on the stun baton to maximum, zapping Monkey, who was closest, until he convulsed throughout and eventually passed out!
Brother Harper gritted his teeth, growling, "Then don’t blame me for not being polite!"
"You guys are just after money! If someone dies, no matter how strong your background is, do you really think your underlings will walk away unscathed?!" Elliana stepped forward at this critical moment.
She straightened up, taking off the mask that had been pulled down to dangle from her ear, and tidied her messy hair! Her small stature stood especially tall at this moment!
"Stop spouting nonsense! If you don’t want to die, settle this brat’s debt and get lost!"
Brother Harper didn’t buy it, sneering and giving Andrew Hue another slap on the back of his head!
"Miss Elliana is a big superstar now, surely she wouldn’t miss this small amount of money. Us brothers are just making a hard-earned living! As for that woman from South University who died, it wasn’t our doing!"