Chapter Three: Three Minutes, Thirty Days
[Target voluntarily stopped attacking. Challenge complete.]
[Rhythmic Breathing permanently acquired.]
As the chat demanded an explanation, Ghost retrieved the cash and pulled a sheet from the lining. “The client left no name, only this. If you had humiliated me, I would have wrecked the place. You honored the rules, so I can’t keep the money.”
It was an internal Tianheng list of independent venues. Iron Dome was circled in red: REMOVE WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.
Zhou Lan went pale.
“You knew?” Lin Ran asked.
“I knew Tianheng was acquiring old gyms. I didn’t know they were using underground fighters.”
“What about your tattoo?”
Ghost laughed first. “A silver balance belongs to direct members of the Shen family.
