He's in Marvel, working behind the scenes.

Moreover, given his personality, he doesn't like long-winded speeches.

He immediately raised his crutches, ready to fight.

"and many more!"

Just as the battle was about to break out, Madam Gao called out to him.

Seeing everyone looking over, Madam Gao coughed lightly and said, "You are a Mafia family, you should know that if you want other gangs to submit, you have to give them benefits. But instead of talking about benefits, you ban drugs and human trafficking, taking away our livelihoods. You don't actually think that force can decide everything, do you?"

As the saying goes, conquering a country is easy, but maintaining it is difficult.

If you want others to follow you, you have to make sure they have enough to eat.

Those who join gangs are all men who live on the edge; they are not content with simply having enough to eat.

Even if the Vongola family uses force to subdue them, if it cannot bring them any benefits, they will eventually rise up and rebel.

Kingpin became the kingpin of the underworld not because he was the strongest or most powerful, but because he was smart enough to unite various forces through interests, making other gang leaders submit to him.

Perhaps the speaker was an elderly woman, or perhaps he felt that what she said made a lot of sense, because Hibari Kyoya, contrary to his usual behavior, put away his aggressive stance and calmly mocked: "Would you die if you didn't traffic drugs and smuggle people? You're almost at the end of your life, do you want to use money as a coffin and your stinking conscience as a burial offering?"

"conscience?"

Upon hearing this, Madam Gao couldn't help but sneer, "Hahaha... young man, I once said the same things to those scumbags, but do you know their answer?"

“I’m not interested in answers that don’t require guessing,” Hibari said, a hint of curiosity on his face. “Since you’ve been poisoned by these things, why are you so obsessed with drug trafficking and human trafficking?”

"Of course it's revenge!" Madam Gao sneered. "Back when I was still in China, those foreign devils sold opium to my hometown, turning that paradise into a cesspool of smoke and ultimately destroying it. When I was persuading those foreign devils, I swore: if you continue to sell drugs in my hometown, I will repay you tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold in the future."

Madam Gao was speaking Japanese at the time, so apart from Shin, the gang leader, and Kingpin, who was fluent in multiple languages, everyone else was completely bewildered, including the translator next to Kingpin.

Because Mrs. Gao's Japanese accent is extremely difficult to pronounce.

"What do you say, Vongola?" Madam Gao suggested. "If you allow my business, then all my forces will pledge allegiance to you!"

Hibari raised his crutches, his eyes cold. "This is Tsunayoshi's idea, and I agree with it."

"Then we have no choice but to fight to the death!"

After Madam Gao finished speaking, she suddenly touched the ground with her toes, spread her wings like a roc, and instantly appeared in front of Yun Que, raising her palm to strike.

Lark reacted instinctively, placing his crutches horizontally in front of him.

then……

"boom!"

Chapter 54 Kingpin Makes His Move

The withered hand slammed onto the crutches with an overwhelming force, causing the crutches to bend inward and strike the lark, sending him flying.

Fortunately, Lark had excellent body coordination and did not lose his balance. The moment he was knocked away, he flipped backward in mid-air and landed seven or eight meters away. He then stumbled backward until he was about to fall into the elevator shaft at the other end of the corridor before finally stopping.

(This old woman is amazing!)

The lark looked up, its face filled with horror.

He wasn't shocked by the opponent's strength... In fact, he had witnessed even greater power using box weapons or rings.

However, the one who possessed this power was an old man who looked to be in his seventies or eighties, hunched over, walking with a cane, trembling slightly, as if he might fall at any moment, and he had not yet used any weapons.

That's terrifying.

In the world of tutors, even with all sorts of extraordinary powers, there's no such thing as getting stronger with age.

Compared to the lark's astonishment, Madam Gao was also surprised.

Using the secret techniques of Kunlun, she refined an elixir of immortality with dragon bones as the core material. This elixir not only grants them eternal life but also bestows upon them immense power.

Although a long time has passed since the last time he took the medicine, and the effects of the longevity medicine in his body are almost completely digested, causing his body to age and his strength to decline severely, he is still not comparable to ordinary extraordinary individuals.

Take the super-strong woman living in Hell's Kitchen as an example. She can easily throw a person more than ten meters away, but this palm strike can send her flying more than ten meters away.

While Hibari also displayed superhuman physical abilities, to be honest, he wasn't much stronger than ordinary people; his strength lay more in his combat skills and the combination of his strange weapon.

However, by flipping and dissipating the force, he only flew about seven or eight meters before stopping.

Although she couldn't completely stop, she did better than the super-strong woman with even stronger physical abilities.

However, while the two combatants were surprised by each other, the onlookers were unaware of this.

"it is good!"

"As expected of Madam Gao, kill him!"

"Old ginger is spicier!"

The gang leaders behind him erupted in cheers.

Although they were surprised by the power that Madam Gao could unleash, they had not fought her personally and could not truly understand the actual situation; they could only judge the situation based on appearances.

"What are you yelling for!" Madam Gao cursed like a shrew from the countryside. "Instead of yelling, why don't you come and help? You bunch of young men have the nerve to watch an old woman like me lead the way?"

“That’s right, we can’t let Madam Gao go alone!”

"Let's all go together and take him down first, so we don't run into him again when we go to war with the Vongola later!"

"Then let's do it together!"

A group of gang leaders made the suggestion, and even Kingpin strongly agreed.

Since battle is unavoidable, let's kill the enemy completely.

The Vladimir brothers, members of the Russian mafia, charged out one on each side.

Although they are not superhumans, they have trained their bodies to the extreme, and with the ferocity of polar bears, they can fight back and forth even when facing low-level mortals.

They moved quickly, taking only a few strides to pass Madam Gao and charging towards Yun Que from both sides.

Behind them, Mexican gangsters, Irish gangsters, and the leader of the Hellfire Bike Gang drew their weapons and fired first.

"An ant trying to shake a tree!"

The lark had regained its composure, calmly raising its right hand, the flames on its ring being completely absorbed by the cloud needle rat on its left.

"Snapped!"

The ring shattered and fell off.

The Cloud Needle Mouse curled up its body once more, then spun rapidly and charged out.

As it rushes forward, it expands and grows larger.

In a short while, it burst the entire corridor, rolling towards the end like a boulder pierced by needles.

"Go back!"

Madam Gao shouted and slapped her hands out to both sides. The invisible force of her palms collapsed the wall, creating two paths for Vladimir and his brother to escape.

She herself bumped into the room on the left.

At the end of the corridor, the other gang leaders, their faces pale with fright, fled to either side, while Kingpin stood still, silent.

With the needle-like boulder about to hit, Kingpin was still standing there. Wesley couldn't help but shout in worry, "Kingpin!"

As if it were a signal, Kingpin raised his cane, the tip pointing at the needle-like ball.

"biu!"

A laser beam shot out from the tip, instantly piercing the needle-pierced boulder. The boulder, like a punctured balloon, burst into pieces with a loud bang.

what?

Is it empty inside?

Everyone stared in disbelief at the carnage scattered all over the ground.

They felt like they had been tricked.

"It's very hard, not the soft rubber material of a balloon!" Xin emerged from the broken wall, picked up a fragment, examined it, and concluded.

“Of course, no matter how much it expands, the material of its original body will not change.” Kingpin stepped into the corridor and slowly walked towards Hibari.

As they walked, he continued, "I've been observing your fighting style. Every time you use that Cloud Needle Rat, both the ring and the Cloud Needle Rat ignite with purple flames simultaneously. And by observing the process of it expanding and growing, I wondered if the purple flames might be similar to the gas inside a balloon?"

But now it seems that this is not entirely true.

The cloud needle rat did indeed grow larger because of the purple flames, but it wasn't stretched out; rather, it grew and expanded like a plant until the flames were exhausted or withdrawn, at which point it shrank back to its original size.

However, it is clear that although the specifics of the flame are unknown, there is a difference in hardness between the gaseous and solid states.

The enlarged cloud needle mouse was like a balloon, easily popped.

"...As expected of the underworld emperor, to be able to analyze so much in such a short time, and almost all of it is correct, even I have to praise you!" Hibari, astonished by Kingpin's brilliant analysis, couldn't help but exclaim after a moment of silence. After the exclamation, he immediately resumed his expressionless and cold demeanor, "However, there's one thing you've misunderstood!"

After saying that, he took out the open box and pointed it at Kingpin.

Kingpin thus came to a halt.

He didn't know what Lark's action meant, but in the previous battle, Lark used this box to release the Cloud Needle Rat.

Therefore, it's best to be cautious.

Moreover, the two were only 6 meters apart at that moment.

At this distance, we are within Kingpin's attack range, so there is no need to advance further.

But the expected attack did not occur.

The box simply emitted a powerful suction force, drawing back the scattered debris and closing.

Then, the newly fitted ring burst into flames and was aimed.

"Crack!"

"Open the box!"

The box opened again, and the intact Cloud Needle Rat flew out once more, crashing into Kingpin, and continued to swell and grow larger along the way.

But it only remained at the size of a basketball.

Chapter Fierce Battle