Chapter 425: Pursuit

The location provided by Lao Qi was in Shenwei District. When Chen Chuanxun found it, he saw that Lao Qi's car was parked in a parking lot, and not far away was a private tax payment point.

Lao Qi knows how to park.

Maybe the city patrol is sometimes unreliable, but you can always trust the armed forces of the tax office. If gang members come here, no matter whether you are a citizen or not, just because you have no tax payment records, you will have to be checked from birth to the present.

He used his boundary credentials to contact, "Lao Qi, I'm here."

Lao Qi immediately responded: "Brother Chen, this way."

Chen Chuan saw the door of the SUV open, and Lao Qi got out and waved at him.

He drove along the parking lot's scanning lane and parked in an empty space. He had an ID with the handling bureau, so he didn't need to pay parking fees for using this kind of public parking lot, so the fee that just popped up was immediately cancelled.

Coming out of here, he walked up to Lao Qi. Although the latter hadn't shaved for a few days and looked a little haggard and had dark circles under his eyes, there seemed to be nothing wrong with his body.

In the back seat of the car was a little girl with big eyes and pigtails, about twelve or thirteen years old. She must be Qi Qi, Lao Qi's daughter. When she saw Chen Chuan looking at her, she said, "Hello, big brother."

Chen Chuan nodded and said with a smile, "Hello." He then said to Lao Qi, "Lao Qi, what's going on now?"

Lao Qi sighed and said, "After I hid here, those people stopped looking for me. But this is not going to work. Qiqi hasn't been to school for a few days."

Chen Chuanshuo said, "Is it just about the whereabouts of those materials?"

Lao Qi said: "Looking at the appearance, it should be."

Chen Chuan felt a little strange. Although these esoteric materials were difficult to obtain in the Upper City, they were not rare things. Was it necessary to go to so much trouble?

Lao Qi said: "I was puzzled at first, but then I thought that maybe my friend got his hands on something he shouldn't have, so he got us involved."

Chen Chuan thought this was somewhat possible. If so, then Lao Qi was simply implicated. He asked, "Are those people targeting your house now?"

"Yes, so how could I dare to go back?"

"Which gang?"

Lao Qi said, "The people who showed up are from a small gang nearby. If that were all, I could have handled it myself. My clients are no pushovers, but since this involves esoteric religious materials, they must be backed by some gang or some other force in the downtown area. I don't want to suffer a loss right now, nor do I want to implicate others, so I'm hiding out."

Chen Chuan knew that he definitely didn't want to trouble him and wanted those people to leave without being able to find him. He could understand this, so he said, "Let's go back now. I'll handle this matter."

"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Brother Chen." Lao Qi cheered up a little. With Chen Chuan coming forward, it shouldn't be difficult to solve this matter. However, he felt embarrassed. "Brother Chen, I'm sorry to have to ask you to come all the way here for such a small matter..."

Chen Chuan said, "Old Qi, don't say that. I said we are a team. Besides, I asked you to buy the esoteric materials. This matter is originally related to me, and you shouldn't bear it alone."

The two of them got into their cars and drove towards Lao Qi's home. He lived in an 80-story rental building in Wuding District, where many of the residents were middle- and low-income citizens.

In fact, most of the money he earned from the commission was used to maintain his life and pay his daughter's tuition. Otherwise, it would not be particularly difficult to rent a better place to live.

They parked outside, entered the building, and took the elevator up.

When they arrived at the corridor leading to Lao Qi's house, Chen Chuan only took a glance and saw two people hiding in the corner, glancing at them from time to time, and as soon as they saw Lao Qi, they began to touch the second hand on their faces.

He said, "Lao Qi, take Qiqi back and don't come out yet."

"good!"

Lao Qi knew what was going on, so he took his daughter to the door of his room, took out the key, went in, and closed the door.

Chen Chuan ignored the two men and immediately contacted Wu Bei to ask him to check where the signal communication between the two men was leading to.

Wu Bei quickly tracked down the signal receiving location and discovered that the signal was transmitted to two places. One was the base of a small gang, and the other was a bar located in Shenwei District. It can also be seen on the map that this place is near a tunnel entrance.

The latter is obviously a stronghold set up by a force in the lower city in the upper city. It seems that these gangs like to transform such strongholds into places like bars and hotels.

He had not been clear about the distribution of power in the lower city area before. Although there was information from the processing bureau, it was basically outdated. After all, the members there were complex and the power changes were relatively fast.

But now he has a channel. He used the company's platform to directly contact Lutong Logistics, sent the marked tunnel location, and asked which gang's sphere of influence it belonged to.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was a response from the other side, saying that the people who often moved around near that tunnel were likely members of the Plague Gang, and attached a description of the Plague Gang.

Chen Chuan took a look and found that this gang was not large, but very special because most of its members were technical personnel, many of whom were originally R&D personnel, implant doctors and bioengineers from large companies.

Most of the gang members in the periphery believe in a certain evil god. They will take the initiative to contract some contagious diseases and then take some experimental drugs for treatment. This action is called "filtering". They believe that this is the only way to get close to the god. They also often capture people for human experiments. They are also hated by people in the downtown area.

If the gang's structure itself was not relatively loose and there were not certain people who needed their existence, it would have been destroyed long ago.

Seeing this, he shook his head. Many gangs with clear structures and organizations can actually be reasoned with, so there is some concern. However, this kind of gang with cult characteristics not only acts crazily, but also has mental problems among its members. It is not something that can be solved by conventional means.

While he was browsing the information, Wu Bei transferred a surveillance scene to him. A group of gang members set off from the gang base in two cars, and they were obviously coming for Lao Qi.

Faced with members of these small gangs, Chen Chuan did not show up himself, but contacted the city patrol and explained the situation. After receiving his report, the nearby patrol team immediately set out.

Although the Processing Bureau and the City Patrol are not in a superior-subordinate relationship, they have a close cooperative relationship with each other.

After all, once the patrol team faces crimes committed by people with strong implants and fighters, they basically rely on the processing bureau to deal with it. The faster the processing bureau is dispatched, the fewer casualties they will suffer, so they will generally give face to the processing bureau staff, let alone a second-level executor.

The two cars had been driving for less than five minutes when they were stopped by city patrol officers on the road.

Less than half an hour later, the city patrol informed Chen Chuan that the person had been detained and all the people in the station were taken back for investigation.

Because these people have criminal records, the city patrol can detain them for as long as they want as long as they are willing to investigate.

After receiving the notification, Chen Chuan expressed his gratitude. Wu Bei's voice rang in his ears at this moment: "Brother Chen, I looked up the information from a few days ago. The person who took Lao Qi's friend away is from that bar. I haven't seen him move in the past few days. He should still be in the bar."

Chen Chuanren thanked him and said that it would be easy to deal with the matter once he knew where the person was. The key was to find out the cause of the incident so that he could prescribe the right medicine.

It’s been a few days and I don’t know if the person is still alive, so I can only go and check on him first.

He asked Wu Bei to keep an eye on the area around Lao Qi's house and inform him if anything happened. Then he got in the car and drove towards the bar. He arrived at the location after about 20 minutes.

This bar street was converted from an old house. It looks quite normal from the outside, with a conspicuous bar sign, exaggerated neon lights, and a constantly flashing light curtain.

He parked the car and walked in. There were also flickering lights inside. The floor was made of glass partitions, and he could see the blood-like liquid flowing in the glass pipes underneath.

Because it was daytime, there were not many customers yet. However, after he came in, I suddenly saw a strong sign of blurring in my area. Looking in the direction, the source seemed to be in a sealed decorative wall in the middle.

He retracted his gaze, walked to the bar, and said directly: "I have a friend who was caught here by you a few days ago. Is he still here?"

The bartender was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, revealing his muscular arms covered in circles of tattoos. He had been watching him warily since Chen Chuan came in. Upon hearing this, his expression changed and he denied it, saying, "I don't know what you're talking about."

He winked at the two thugs sitting in the distance, and the people over there immediately began to use the boundary pass to notify the outside.

Chen Chuan seemed unaware of this and sat down in front, saying, "Let's have a drink then."

"We only have wine here, no drinks."

Chen Chuan said: "A glass of water would be fine too."

Seeing that the person using the boundary certificate seemed to be still in contact, the bartender turned back to pour him a glass of water, adding two ice cubes, and pushed it in front of Chen Chuan, "Sir, this is the water you asked for."

Chen Chuan picked it up and drank slowly.

After discovering the situation here, the few guests felt something was wrong and all paid their bills and left. Even some guests who wanted to watch the excitement were persuaded to leave by the bar's thugs.

Not long after, a group of people walked in from outside. The leader was a man in his thirties, dressed very decently. Although the light here was not very bright, he still did not take off the sunglasses on his face.

He turned around and gave an order, and the door outside the bar was pulled down, and the door inside was closed and locked. Then he slowly walked up with several people holding weapons and guns.

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(End of this chapter)