Austin frowned.
Nonetheless, he totally understood where Sam was coming from.
After all, Sam had a wife and a daughter. He was from an ordinary family. Dent, on the other hand,
seemed to be a no-good bully.
Sam didn't seem to want to provoke Dent, for his family's sake.
"How about this," Austin proposed.
"I can wait here while you call for help. But, you'd better call Dent over here as well."
"The arrogance!"
The men Austin was talking to snapped indignantly, shocked at his audacity.
"Viola, we need to leave,"
Sam said to his daughter, his face paling slightly.
"No, stay right where you are,"
Austin said firmly.
"Just wait."
The second Austin finished speaking, Sam and his daughter found that they were glued to place,
completely unable to move.
"Sir, I don't want to get involved,"
Sam pleaded. He knew it was the young man before him that froze them in place. "Please just let us
go."
"Don't worry," Austin said with a smile.
"You'll be fine! I promise."
"What's going on?" Sam demanded,
his stomach tying knots in fear.
Without answering him, Austin abruptly turned to face the men.
"Hurry up," he ordered. "Or else you'll be doomed to stay here forever."
"Fine," one of the men spat, clearly furious.
"Call the others. Let's see how long this guy can stay arrogant."
"But we can't even move," a companion replied. "How will we inform the others?"
Only then did the men realize that they too were frozen in place.
They couldn't even move their fingertips!
"You," Austin said, pointing at one of the men.
"Go summon the others."
Immediately, the man was able to move his arms.
Stunned, he stared at Austin with eyes full of fear.
Grumbling, the man brought out a communication tool and sent a message.
"This guy might be remarkable, but he won't stand a chance against the Green Bamboo Gang!" he
muttered under his breath.
The Earth, at this point in time, was a world where martial arts developed alongside science and
technology.
Actually, the growth of martial arts had promoted the growth of science and technology.
In this world, now there were many technological products that Austin had never seen or heard of
before.
This gadget in the man's hand was one of them.
After the man activated the communication tool, a curtain of light appeared in front of him immediately.
A muscly man with an intimidating face appeared on the curtain of light.
"Drake, why are you calling me this time? I'm busy!"
the muscly man shouted exasperatedly.
"Hoffman, bad news,"
the man said hurriedly.
"There's this guy in the Oasis Park who's stirring up some trouble. Not only did he stop us from
collecting taxes, he also insulted the Green Bamboo Gang in public!"
"What?!
How dare he?
Does he want to die?
Who the hell is he?"
The strong man's questions came one after the other.
"It's that guy!" The man called Drake pointed at Austin.
"Hoffman, he's weird...
Please send some strong cultivators to deal with him!"
"Why, you piece of shit!"
From the curtain of light, the muscled man looked straight at Austin.
"Come over and face me, if you dare." Austin smiled smugly.
"I'll be waiting."
Julian watched this scene unfolding before him with great interest.
He wasn't afraid of divine gods, let alone these weaklings of the Earth. Thus, it was amusing to him to
see these men challenge Austin.
"Sir, please let the two of us go,"
Sam begged, his eyes filled with desperation.
"When people of the Green Bamboo Gang come, we will be in great trouble.
We can't afford to offend the Green Bamboo Gang."
It didn't take a detective to see that Sam was genuinely afraid of the Green Bamboo Gang.
"Don't worry. You'll be perfectly fine,"
Julian said to him.
Austin just smiled at Sam reassuringly, but didn't say anything.
"Bastard, just you wait. You're doomed!"
the muscly man in the curtain of light shouted fiercely. In a fit of anger, he turned off the communication
tool without another word.
"You're screwed now!"
Those men looked at Austin gloatingly.
They all knew how terrible Hoffman was.
A few moments passed.
Shoop! Shoop! Shoop...
Suddenly, many figures appeared at the grassland, one after another.
Dozens of cultivators had shown up.
In the lead was Hoffman himself.
"Well, I guess he is kind of powerful," Austin said to himself.
Looking at the burly man before him, Austin could tell he was at the middle stage of Earth Realm.
"Still, you are too weak," Austin said with a yawn.
"You should ask more of your people for help."
As soon as he finished speaking,
Hoffman and his men found themselves unable to move, as if they were fixed by some kind of magic.
"What's going on?!
Bastard, are you responsible for this?"
Hoffman couldn't help but turn pale with fright. Suddenly, the big, strong man didn't look so big and
strong anymore. He struggled desperately, but he couldn't move at all.
"Oh no, I can't move!"
"Me too!"
The people brought by Hoffman couldn't help but scream in shock and fear.
"I won't ask again.
Summon more people from your so-called 'gang'.
Otherwise, you will never be able to leave this place,"
Austin said indifferently, addressing Hoffman.
Then, Hoffman found that he was able to move his hands.
Realizing he was up against an extremely powerful man, he chose not to throw insults at Austin
anymore. Instead, he took out a communication tool and called someone.
Whoosh!
Again, another light curtain appeared.
An old man appeared on the screen.
"Sir, there is a guy..."
Hoffman immediately explained the situation to the old man.
"Oh?
is this guy really so weird?" The old man frowned.
"Who the hell are you? What do you have against the Green Bamboo Gang?
Do you really think you're untouchable?"
the old man asked coldly, looking at Austin with a threatening aura.
"Cut the crap already," Austin said impatiently.
"Summon all your people.
And you'd better ask Dent to come to see me right now."
"Ha-ha." The old man laughed dryly.
"I've got to say that you've successfully infuriated me.
I'll be right there!"
"Don't waste my time,"
Austin responded coldly.
The old man narrowed his eyes at Austin,
and then abruptly shut off the communication device.
In just a few moments, hundreds more people appeared.
Shoop! Shoop! Shoop...
They surrounded the grassland, each one of them a cultivator.
"You arrogant bastard!"
the old man on the curtain of light earlier shouted.
Austin saw that this old man was at the preliminary stage of Mysterious Realm.
"It seems that the average strength of the warriors on the Earth has increased a lot.
Last time I was here, warriors at the Mysterious Realm were practically invincible.
I can't believe that now, even in a sect as small as this, there are cultivators on that level!"
Austin muttered to himself in surprise.
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