Chapter 155: Novel Ways to Collect a Debt

Hesitating for a moment, Xu Yang immediately led the remaining colleagues and ran downstairs.

With a sudden addition of more than a dozen people, the men downstairs no longer dared to make a move.

Although there were dozens of people in this company, they were merely employees working here for a wage, and saw no reason to risk their lives fighting these twenty-some people.

The others were crying out for repayment, claiming that the sixty thousand yuan was life-saving money; if it wasn't returned, they wouldn't be able to survive.

Since Nong Liangren refused to let them live, they were ready to throw caution to the wind.

Human hearts are made of flesh, and these people had not come to fight, but to demand their money. Consequently, the employees retreated back into their offices.

However, with the power cut off, staying inside the offices became unbearable.

He Haoxuan fiddled with the circuit breaker for a moment before running downstairs.

Then he went up to the twenty-fifth floor and repeated the exact same operation.

Seeing Xu Yang and the others just standing outside the company, He Haoxuan couldn't help scolding, "What are you all doing here?"

"Brother Xuan, we're here to collect debts," Xu Yang replied.

"How about this? Split half of the people and go up to the twenty-sixth floor. Act like bosses right inside their office. If they don't pay up, don't you dare leave." Fearing they wouldn't know how to handle it, He Haoxuan walked straight inside and shouted, "Pay up! Pay back the money immediately!"

With that, He Haoxuan rushed further inside, sat right on top of a pretty girl's desk, and planted both feet firmly on her chair. How was anyone supposed to sit like that?

One of the men jumped up in fury, "Don't push your luck too far!"

"I am pushing my luck, so what?" He Haoxuan sneered, then casually flicked a ballpoint pen from his hand.

With a whoosh, the pen struck the man right in the right leg.

"Ah!" the man shrieked in agony, then collapsed directly to his knees before He Haoxuan.

"Wh-What is going on here?" the others screamed in terror.

Glancing at the surrounding men, He Haoxuan sneered, "You owe us money, and yet you dare to curse and beat us? Is there any justice left in this world?"

Finished speaking, He Haoxuan swept a stack of documents off the desk onto the floor. "I've been on the streets since I was sixteen; who doesn't call me Brother Xuan? If you don't want to die, you'd better sit here quietly or get the hell out of here right now. Otherwise, who knows what kind of accidents might happen to you on your way home from work tonight."

Having said this, He Haoxuan slammed his palm down onto the desk.

With a loud crash, the desk was smashed to pieces by He Haoxuan and collapsed into ruins on the floor.

"Ah, this is too terrifying!" Only then did those men realize that He Haoxuan was not someone to be trifled with.

Seeing how formidable He Haoxuan was, Xu Yang and the others burst into applause and cheers, shouting, "Brother Xuan is mighty! May your glory last forever!"

"Good grief, saying that makes it sound like I'm a fallen revolutionary hero." He Haoxuan shot Xu Yang and the company a sidelong glance of exasperation.

Rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment, Xu Yang said, "Brother Xuan, my Chinese teacher back in elementary school was a P.E. teacher."

He Haoxuan led a team up to the twenty-sixth floor, had them disperse into various offices, and then walked straight into Nong Liangren's office.

"You just wait and see, I won't let you off the hook for this!" Nong Liangren shouted, his guilt betrayed by his bravado.

Having over twenty people show up like this was truly a massive headache.

To hire thugs to chase He Haoxuan and his crew away would require at least a dozen or twenty men.

Just hiring them would cost ten or twenty thousand yuan.

Besides, the manager of the twenty-fifth floor had just said that these people acted like hoodlums rather than decent folk.

And what if the hired thugs got injured? He'd end up having to pay out tens of thousands more in compensation.

If it came to that, he might as well just pay the money back to Baili Group in the first place.

He Haoxuan smiled and said, "Great! I was just hoping you'd hurry up and call your people. I'm waiting right here. I, He Haoxuan, fear neither heaven nor earth; my only worry is that you won't bring enough people. In fact, you'd better call a hundred or two hundred people over, otherwise you're no match for us. You can also call the police—we're just about to have the police take a heartless boss like you, who preys on migrant workers, and bring you to justice."

Feeling his guilty conscience prick him, Nong Liangren stammered nervously, "H-Hmph, I'll settle accounts with you later."

Nong Liangren figured he needed to get out of here quickly and figure something out from the outside.

However, Xiao Lin had already received a hint from He Haoxuan earlier and blocked Nong Liangren's path with two male colleagues. "Heartless boss, hurry up and return our hard-earned money! Don't even think about running away with your sister-in-law!"

"Nonsense!" Nong Liangren was so furious he almost coughed up blood. When on earth did he ever have a sister-in-law?

His wife was the youngest in her family and only had an older sister.

"You actually dare to deny it?" Xiao Lin acted as if she were driven to rage, rushing forward to grab Nong Liangren's arm. "I don't care anymore! Wherever you go today, I go too, or I'll just die right here!"

With that, Xiao Lin dragged him as she rushed toward the exit.

Nong Liangren couldn't care less about whether Xiao Lin lived or died; in fact, it would be best if she dropped dead right here—at least he wouldn't be held responsible.

Just as Nong Liangren tried to break away, two other male colleagues blocked his path. Then two more male colleagues walked in from outside, forming a circle of four men around Nong Liangren, completely cutting off any chance of escape.

"I'm calling the police! You are restricting my personal freedom!" Nong Liangren yelled angrily.

"Go ahead, call the police. Our colleague is about to jump from the roof—don't you care about the PR disaster?" He Haoxuan sneered.

"Her life or death has nothing to do with me!" Nong Liangren roared furiously.

As soon as those words left Nong Liangren's mouth, they were recorded by Xiaoyu standing in the background.

Xiao Lin and Xu Yang arrived on the rooftop. Stepping toward the edge and looking down at the cars looking like tiny ants far below, Xiao Lin was frightened out of her wits. "Xu Yang, if I fall, I'll die."

"What are you afraid of? Didn't Brother Xuan say this is just acting? Can't you even do that?" Xu Yang scolded angrily.

"I really can't! I've never tried committing suicide before," Xiao Lin shook her head frantically. "Why don't you do it? I'll support you from behind."

"Are you out of your mind? Nong Liangren owes *you* the money! If you ask me to fake a suicide, how is that going to look convincing?" Xu Yang cursed in frustration. "Hurry up! Someone is going to come up soon. Xiaoyu has already called the police. If the police arrive and discover you're faking a suicide, you won't ever get that sixty thousand yuan back!"

Hearing that she might lose the sixty thousand yuan, Xiao Lin panicked and shouted down toward the street at the top of her lungs, "I'm going to jump! Don't come any closer! I just want them to pay me back my sixty thousand yuan, or I won't be able to go on living!"

Upon hearing that someone was threatening to jump from a building and commit suicide, the police rushed to the scene immediately, followed by firefighters who quickly assessed the terrain below and prepared to deploy an air cushion to catch Xiao Lin.

Nong Liangren had drunk quite a bit of water that morning and desperately needed to use the restroom, but He Haoxuan and his crew wouldn't let him go. He was holding it in until he was nearly bursting.