Chapter 18 “Green Giant”
In another top-tier Michelin restaurant in the city center, completely reserved for a private event.
At the head of the main table sat a middle-aged man with an extremely muscular and imposing build.
He held a thick Cuban cigar between his fingers, his sharp eyes gleaming with arrogance and conceit.
This was Mason's father, the current head of the Jones family—Grayson!
Around Grayson sat various powerful figures and family members who were attached to the Jones family through complex webs of interests.
Almost everyone looking at Grayson showed undisguised flattery and fawning in their eyes.
"Grayson, with you personally coming here, you'll definitely show that arrogant, ignorant lowlife what true cruelty means!"
"Exactly! The Jones family's authority cannot be challenged!"
Listening to the flattery around him, Grayson took a deep drag from his cigar, exhaled a thick cloud of smoke with evident satisfaction, and a cruel smile curved at the corner of his mouth.
As his career continued to rise, Grayson's status grew higher and higher, and he gradually touched upon another side of this world hidden in the depths.
In pursuit of absolute power and strength, he had spent an unimaginable fortune and finally connected with a certain secretive and terrifying force.
Just recently, he had successfully injected himself with the S-grade enhancement serum he had been dreaming of!
That serum completely unlocked his body's potential, making his muscle density and bone strength far exceed human limits.
At this moment, Grayson only needed to clench his fist slightly to clearly feel that terrifying power surging violently within him!
This strength, capable of crushing everything, had inflated his ego to the extreme.
"Ethan, is it?"
Grayson viciously stubbed out his cigar in the ashtray, his eyes revealing a chilling malice. "A lowlife bug who just crawled out of prison dares to touch my son?"
He slammed the table hard, and the surface actually showed a dented handprint from his strike!
Everyone gasped, followed by even more frenzied awe.
"Tonight, I'll personally drag that bastard Ethan back here!"
Grayson declared arrogantly in front of everyone, his voice echoing through the hall.
"I'll break his bones bit by bit, smash his arms and legs!"
Sitting beside him, Mason listened to Grayson's cruel declaration, his eyes bursting with extremely excited bloodlust, the flames of revenge burning wildly in his heart.
"Father, you must also bring his woman. I want to, right in front of him..."
Mason's vicious words hadn't finished when a deafening explosion suddenly erupted!
The two doors, along with the four burly bodyguards standing at the entrance, flew through the air straight into the room!
The bodyguards sprayed blood as they crashed onto the dining tables, their bones instantly shattered, their fate unknown!
All the powerful figures present screamed in terror, frozen in place with panicked expressions, their minds going blank.
Through the flying wood chips and dust, a tall, straight figure with hands in pockets slowly walked in through the shattered doorway.
The moment Mason saw the cold, stern face clearly, his eyes nearly popped out. He scrambled behind Grayson, screaming shrilly.
"Father! It's him! It's him! He's Ethan!"
Hearing this, Grayson slowly stood up.
He showed no panic. Instead, he looked Ethan up and down, his savage smile growing more intense, even showing a hint of condescending contempt.
"I thought it would be some kind of monster, turns out it's just a kid still wet behind the ears."
Grayson cracked his neck. "I know very well that for you to take down so many people, you must have also, like me, used enhancement serums through some shady channels."
"Otherwise, an ordinary person like you couldn't possibly have that kind of fighting ability."
Grayson looked down at Ethan, his eyes full of mockery. "But you probably don't know that even among serums, there's a world of difference!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Grayson suddenly let out a roar!
In everyone's horrified gaze, Grayson's suit instantly burst into countless pieces!
The muscles all over his body expanded wildly like they were being inflated, blood vessels bulging under his skin like thick, protruding veins.
In just moments, his entire body grew significantly taller, like a huge, terrifying humanoid beast—practically like the Hulk walking out of a movie!
Violent power filled Grayson's entire body. At this moment, in his eyes, Ethan and everyone present were as fragile as paper, easily crushed with just one finger!
"Go to hell! You lowly—"
However, Grayson's arrogant roar had only gotten halfway out!
Whoosh!
Ethan's figure disappeared from his original position without warning!
So fast that not even an afterimage remained!
Before this "Hulk" could react at all, Ethan had already appeared in front of him as if teleporting, his eyes showing no emotion, simply lifting his leg casually and kicking out.
BOOM!
A sickening thud!
Grayson, who just a second ago seemed ready to destroy everything, had his chest instantly cave inward horrifically!
Immediately after, his massive body flew backward at a speed barely visible to the naked eye!
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Grayson's body smashed through an entire row of support pillars thick enough to require three people to wrap their arms around, finally embedding deeply into the solid load-bearing wall at the far end!
Large amounts of rubble and steel reinforcement bars crashed down. Grayson's eyes rolled back, blood mixed with organ fragments gushing from his mouth as he passed out on the spot, his survival uncertain.
"..."
The entire hall fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone was too scared to speak, trembling like leaves, not even daring to breathe hard.
Mason's legs went weak, and he collapsed to his knees, wetting himself, looking at Ethan with eyes full of absolute despair and terror.
One hit! A complete one-hit kill!
Ethan slowly lowered his leg, coldly scanning the terrified powerful figures around him, his icy gaze as if looking at a group of dead people.
"This is just a warning."
Ethan's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached into everyone's soul, carrying bone-chilling coldness.
"If anyone dares to target my family again in the future, I don't mind making you, along with the families behind you, completely disappear from this world."
With that, Ethan didn't even glance at the pile of mangled flesh in the wall, simply turned around and walked out through the shattered doorway.
However, just as he stepped out of the restaurant entrance.
Ring ring ring!
The phone in his pocket suddenly rang urgently in this extremely quiet night!