Chapter 174: Clash of Warriors

The sound of the motorbikes clashing with each other was getting louder. Ryan's rickety motorbike had the most noisy sound similar to that of a thunder. The thirteen of them struggled in trying to overtake each other to be the winner of the race.

Brandon was still leading in the first position while Ryan was closely following him.

"Bastard, that guy still didn't let go of the gas handle?"

Brandon continued to monitor Ryan from his bike's mirror. The pressure he felt was getting bigger by the second and doubts started rising from within his heart.

Brandon noticed Ryan's presence for the first time when they passed a corner. When he stepped on the brake a little and looked at the reflection behind him, he saw Ryan riding his motorbike without braking at all. The distance between the two of them immediately closed. 

One wrong move and Brandon's racing career would end.

Ryan really put pressure on him.

'How does he keep up with me with a bike like that?'

The question continued to well up in Brandon's heart, he guessed that the man must have done some trick on his bike so that he could catch up with him. However, the next few hundred meters was just a straight road so his bike should be able to cover some distance with the racer behind him.

Ryan looked at the racer in front of him getting away with a flat expression. He was riding this fast purely to save Megan.

Brandon started to widen their gap, but what he didn't know was that Ryan didn't consider him as a rival at all.

However, after a few bends, Ryan caught up with Brandon again.

"Geez, that mysterious racer is approaching Brandon again! Now they're just a finger away from each other!" Hendrix was at a loss for words. Who was that mysterious racer really? How did he get that fast?

Brandon didn't need to hear the information from his earphones to know that Ryan was right behind him. 

The terrain they were going to go through next was really difficult to pass. Soon, there would be a big hole in the road and could only be traversed by jumping. After that, they would be greeted with a harsh road.

People would normally avoid this place and use an alternative route. But since they needed an adrenaline rush, the committee decided to include it in the track. Of course, they had already prepared some precautions so that nothing could happen.

Brandon gritted his teeth and spurred on the motor. His ride suddenly let out a loud roar and so he floated in the air. Brandon felt like he was covered by clouds. However, he immediately froze when he looked up!

Looking at the sky above, the mysterious racer jumped over him and passed him with ease.

Brandon wasn't a fool, but how could that guy jump that high?

At this time, Ryan was still floating on top of Brandon and dropped a few screws. It looked like his motorbike was at its limit.

Since they were at high speed, the screw that landed on Brandon's helmet stuck into the glass. He saw Ryan successfully landed and went fast in front of him.

However, this made him experience bad luck. He failed to calculate his speed and fell into the hole.

DUAK!

Brandon and his motorbike fell quite hard in the hole. He collapsed not long after that while thinking of why his opponent could jump that high.

"CRAZY! The mysterious racer managed to overtake and stole the first spot. Brandon fell in the hole!" Hendrix was completely shocked.

"Brandon! Hey, Brandon! Can you hear me? "

Brandon's trainer was worried, his son didn't answer at all.

Their plan went awry, the media should've been interviewing his team and Brandon as soon as they managed to win this competition if not for that damn mysterious racer. 

Now that they couldn't win it, the headline news that said "A mysterious racer arrived and humiliated the professionals" or "Helpless, professionals can only be ashamed of being defeated by a mysterious racer" would be all over the newspaper and television.

...…

Belden Village was a poor village located near the mountain. Since road access was difficult and clean water was hard to find, people in that village lived in poverty. The declining birthrate and population there also added to the problem. The women from this village mostly chose to marry people from outside the village to change their fate. This left the men difficult to find partners.

The main cause of all this was money. The second reason was that the women didn't want to marry men from the same village. They were all living in poverty. Therefore, the women from the village went outside to change their lives while some women from outside were brought and trafficked there.

The men from this village worked in the city and saved some money. After a few years, they would buy women to continue their lineage. With the traffickers' help, they bought women to bear their offspring.

In the house of the village's chief...

Inside the lampless house, Megan was tied to both her feet and hands. Her mouth was covered by a duct tape so it was difficult for her to scream for help.

Megan stared at the people outside through the window. She kept trying to escape while screaming to her lungs. However, the door to the house suddenly slammed open. 

"Shut up or I'll kill you!" The man was angry with the noise that Megan made. His violent figure managed to shut her.

The man then came out and went back to talking with his friend.

Looking out the window, Megan could only see unfamiliar faces of the passers-by. The look in her eyes was filled with despair. Remembering last night's incident, she started crying.

She didn't expect to be a victim of kidnapping and human trafficking. Life's truly cruel.

When she was depressed like this, all that came to her mind was the figure of Ryan smiling at her. 

At this time, three people were chatting outside the window.

One of them was wearing a shabby blue shirt with a creepy wound on his cheek. The other one was the cruel man who just broke in and threatened her.  Another one was a middle-aged man smoking his cigarette.

This middle-aged man was the chief of the Belden village. He had experienced bitterness throughout his life. He'd only had his happy times when beautiful women were brought to his village by the trafficking organization.

They seemed to be talking about Megan. 

"Sir, don't you know how hard it is for me to bring such a beautiful woman here? And now you hesitate to buy it?" The cruel person who threatened Megan earlier was a trafficker associated with a human trafficking ring.

"Sir, I suggest not," The man in blue said to the head of the village. "Her price is too high, we won't be able to afford her,"

"Looks like you guys are still hesitating," The salesman then smiled. "Look inside, you guys." The girl is white, sexy, beautiful and moreover she comes from the city so she is an educated person. The selling value is high but try to pay attention to her qualities as a woman. No wonder she is expensive, right? I'm only going to let her go for 75 million, no less."

"I had to pay dearly myself to bring her here. If it weren't for her pretty face, I wouldn't have offered it to you first. And now you think this girl is expensive? If you continue to hesitate like this, don't expect me to want to do business with you again," the trafficker was completely unwilling to budge. Megan was truly a high-end money vending machine to him.

"Never mind, I really want to marry that woman," the son of the village's chief who heard this secretly from afar immediately joined in. Was his father blind? The woman in his house was truly the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her smooth white skin was completely different from the women in this village.

What's more, Megan's sexy body looked hot. The boy really wanted to fuck Megan. If his father didn't buy her then he would kill himself with her!

The village chief frowned. "75 million? Can you lower it a little?"

"Sorry, my price is non-negotiable for this item," the seller was also looking for a profit.

"Well, I've worked and raised 50 million, haven't I? Let me borrow it from other residents when they come home."

After thinking about it for a moment, the village's chief nodded. "Well then, I'll give you 50 million first and the rest will be given when you come here again with another girl,"

"Wow, that can't be done. I can't do business that way. If you want that girl then you have to pay in full. If I keep giving credits like that, what will I eat later?" The salesman shook his head. "Besides, there are many reasons that you can use to stall or run away with my stuff. If that's the case, who should I charge?"

In the world of business, players must be vigilant and trust no one.

"But we only have 50 million," the head of the village said.

"I don't care. If you can't pay then I'll sell it to someone else," the seller immediately looked away. He seemed about to take Megan away from this village.

"Ah! Wait!" The village chief's son immediately intercepted him. He then said to his father, "Well, I really like that girl. What if we borrow some money from the residents first? We will return it when we have the money,"

"Who do you want to borrow from?" The chief felt his head become dizzy. "We have to let the woman go,"

His son immediately knelt down. "NO! Please, I really want to be with that girl,"

The salesman snorted coldly. "I don't care whether you like it or not. If you guys don't have the money, I'll be out of here. I still have other clients who want to buy her,"

"Well, don't you have a jade necklace from an ancient royal relic?"

The village head was immediately shocked. "It is the legacy of our ancestors, where will I put my face if I were to give it up for a woman?"

"Well, they're long dead. This is also for my future, after all. I swear I'll return it when I get back to town. I beg you," his son didn't move and kept kneeling in front of his feet.

With a heavy sigh, the village chief nodded. "Then wait here for a moment. I'll take the necklace."

When he heard the words jade necklace, the seller was delighted. If it was true that the necklace came from the royal era, the price would be very high!

"If you add 5 million along with the necklace, that girl can be yours," the seller said. "But we must first confirm the authenticity of the necklace before the agreement is made,"

The boy answered immediately, "Agree."

At this moment, there was a loud motorbike sound at the village's entrance. Ryan was the one riding it.

"Good evening, who is the chief of this village?"

Ryan immediately shouted and looked for the person responsible.

It so happened that the chief's house was not far from the entrance, so his scream reached the ear of the man he's looking for.

"I'm here, I'm the chief," the head of the village said.

Ryan then stopped and parked his motorbike.