Chapter 426 Reason
The man motioned for the others to stop. He came to the bar alone and sat next to Chen Chuan. He looked at the ice water in his hand and said apologetically, "Old Huang is ignorant. I'm sorry."
He told the bartender, "Give me a hot drink." The bartender immediately brought him a hot drink.
The man said, "I'm the boss here, my last name is Ai, and the person you're looking for is..." He asked tentatively, "Is he your friend?"
Chen Chuanshuo said: "I guess so."
Mr. Ai looked at him and said, "Since you found this place, we should give you this honor. However, I have to say that arresting people has nothing to do with us. We have no grudge against your friends. We just did this because someone asked us to. We have to rely on them for a living, so there is nothing we can do about it, right?"
Chen Chuan looked at him: "Mr. Ai seems very frank."
Mr. Ai shrugged. "I can't help it. I know who you are, sir. We still have to do business here, and we don't want to make an enemy of you." He gestured backwards, "Bring the person out."
Two men not far away immediately walked into the bar. A few minutes later, they came in front of the two men holding a man's arm. The man lowered his head, and there was a smell of blood and other unpleasant smells on his body. There were multiple injuries on other parts of his body.
When the thugs waiting nearby lifted his face, they could see that it was covered with bruises, and there was dried blood at the corners of his mouth and eyes. He seemed to have been fed some kind of medicine and was in a daze. When he saw the strong light, he seemed to be subconsciously avoiding it.
Chen Chuan took a look and although the face was swollen, he could roughly recognize that it matched the photo that Lao Qi sent him.
Mr. Ai said to the man, "Hao Zhuo, your friend is here."
The man called Hao Zhuo struggled to open his eyes. He glanced at the person in front of him and muttered, "Who, who is it? Who is my friend?"
He didn't even know Chen Chuan, which seemed to contradict Chen Chuan's claim that they were friends. However, Mr. Ai didn't show any sign of abnormality. He said to Chen Chuan politely, "Sir, look, the person is right here. Hao Zhuo was wronged, but it's only a minor injury. We'll pay for his medical expenses."
As he said this, he pressed the border pass and transferred a sum of money to Chen Chuan.
Chen Chuan confiscated it and said, "In that case, I will take the person away. Mr. Ai, thank you for your cooperation."
He stood up, not caring about the dirt on Hao Zhuo's body, and took him from the thugs, and walked towards the door with ease.
"Please wait a moment," Mr. Ai called out from behind, "Sir, we can take the person away, but... can you give us an explanation?"
Chen Chuan looked back.
Mr. Ai quickly raised his hands and said, "Don't get me wrong, that's what I said..." He spread his hands and gestured around, "After all, the person has been taken away by the gentleman, but we still have to pretend."
Chen Chuan glanced at him and seemed to ignore him, but when passing by the decorative wall in the middle, he reached out and punched it. With a loud bang, the wall was instantly shattered, and the decorations on the rubble and bricks fell all over the ground.
Mr. Ai and the thugs' faces changed and they swallowed.
But then they saw that inside the decorative wall, there was a statue of an unknown creature. It was about one meter tall sitting there, with a pair of horns on its head, a ferocious face, and the corners of its mouth were raised to the corners of its eyes. It looked like a smile, but it was very creepy to look at.
When Mr. Ai saw the statue, his expression changed and he stood up from where he was. When the thugs saw his movements, they became nervous and tightened their weapons.
Chen Chuan didn't care about them. He just tapped the statue lightly, and the whole statue exploded immediately. Only the head was intact. It fell from the top and rolled to the middle of the bar, mixing with the flashing blood. At the same time, the second me also showed a strong sign of emptiness.
He glanced away and said, "The explanation is here." Then he continued to carry Hao Zhuo towards the door. The gang members at the door quickly opened the door for him at Mr. Ai's signal.
After everyone watched him walk out, one of the thugs asked Mr. Ai, "Boss, are we just going to let him take that person away like that?"
Mr. Ai said angrily, "What else can I do? He's an executor from the processing bureau. You don't want to live anymore, but I still want to live a few more years."
"If someone is needed down there..."
Mr. Ai said, "Why do you think I need an explanation? But..." He took off his sunglasses and stared at the statue head. "When did this thing get here? Who put it there?"
The thugs looked at each other and shook their heads.
They were called by the boss. When they arrived, the bar was already open. The boss didn't even know about it, so how could they know to go there?
Mr. Ai suddenly felt uncomfortable, not knowing if it was an illusion. He said, "Throw this thing to the back." After thinking for a moment, he said, "Throw it farther away."
Chen Chuan brought Hao Zhuo out. The man was in a daze all the way and fell asleep after he was put in the back seat of the car.
Chen Chuan checked it with his ID and asked, "Old Qi, are you sure it's him?"
Lao Qi said: "It's him!"
Chen Chuan said, "I'll bring him back right away and get to the bottom of this."
After returning with the man, they took him to the residence that Lao Qi had originally arranged for Hao Zhuo. Lao Qi checked his injuries and said with some relief, "Although the beating was quite severe, at least he didn't suffer any serious injuries. He was just given some hallucinogenic drugs."
He brought a needle and injected it into Hao Zhuo's neck. After a while, the latter began to cough and then shouted, "Water, give me water."
Lao Qi poured him a glass of water, which he drank in gulps. After a while, he started to cry out in pain again, so he threw him a painkiller, and the pain subsided after he took it.
After a while, he recovered and looked at Lao Qi: "Lao Qi, did you find someone to save me?"
Lao Qi said angrily: "You think I want to save you? Those people came to me, what did you do?"
Hao Zhuo coughed and said, "Lao Qi, I'm the one who dragged you down this time. I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to do that. I told them it had nothing to do with you, but they didn't believe me."
"What exactly did you do? Tell me clearly today."
"this……"
Hao Zhuo hesitated and glanced at Chen Chuan who was sitting on the sofa beside him.
Lao Qi said, "We are one family, otherwise where do you want to get out from?"
Hao Zhuo said: "I can see that he is a big shot. I say, Lao Qi, you are quite capable. When did you meet him?..."
"I'm telling you, are you going to tell me?" Lao Qi said impatiently. "If you don't, I'll leave you here and tell you what to do."
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you now, can't I just say it now..."
Hao Zhuo explained that the matter was not complicated at first, because he was a warehouse manager of a gang in the Lower Town, and he mainly dealt with esoteric materials. Sometimes he would find ways to sell some "odds and ends" as extra income, and that was how he got the materials he sold to Lao Qi.
But he doesn't care who he sells it to or what it is used for.
But the problem is that not long ago, the boss of this gang came to find him and found that a lot of things were missing during the inventory. He asked him to track them down. He felt something was wrong and ran away to the upper city.
He complained, "I don't know why there's all this fuss over such a small thing. They even have to come all the way uptown. There are so many people who make a living from the warehouse. I just got some scraps, not even a fraction. Why are you targeting me?"
Lao Qi muttered, "This isn't right. This little bit of information isn't worth much. Besides, do they think they can still trace it back after so much time has passed?"
"That's right, I can't figure it out. Is this amount of material enough for them to hire people and pay for gas to get up there?"
Lao Qi said, "Damn it, I didn't lose something and wanted to blame you, did I?"
"Fuck, it's really possible."
Chen Chuan then said, "That bar might be part of the Plague Gang's influence. Is this shipment related to them?"
"Is Lao Ai a member of the Plague Gang?"
Hao Zhuo was stunned, then his face changed, and he said in confusion: "I can't stay in the lower city now. Lao Qi, you have to do me a favor and find me a place to live. Don't worry, I will pay you a penny less."
Lao Qi said irritably, "This isn't about the money!"
Chen Chuan thought for a moment and said, "The Plague Gang has its own biotechnology. They may not be framing you. It's very likely that the batch of materials you sold may have problems, so they want to recover them."
Hao Zhuo pondered for a moment and said, "That does make sense, but I sold so much. Apart from a few regular customers, I don't know where the rest of the ingredients went."
Chen Chuan said, "Old Qi, you should move somewhere else. The higher-ups are keeping a close eye on the Plague Gang, so it's not a place they can just come to. That's why they hired help instead of doing it themselves. Don't worry about this. I have something to do recently, so you should hide first and wait for me to come back."
Wu Bei said at this time: "Leave this to me, Brother Chen, I will find a place for them."
Lao Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "It's nothing for me, but I'm worried that Xiaoqi's studies will be delayed..."
Chen Chuan said: "Qiqi is in junior high school, right?"
"Yes. This is the first year. It's a private middle school."
Chen Chuan thought about it and realized that the company that integrated the boundaries also invested in various private schools, so he contacted Yan Yi immediately.
After confirming, he said to Lao Qi, "I'll have someone transfer your daughter to a different school. It shouldn't be any worse than the current junior high school. Someone will help you arrange it so your daughter's whereabouts won't be exposed."
Lao Qi was overjoyed. "That's great," he said gratefully. "Thank you, Brother Chen."
Hao Zhuo looked at Lao Qi with envy, thinking that Lao Qi's friend was quite awesome, and wondered if he could also get on board with such a powerful friend.
After Chen Chuan finished making the arrangements here, he said a few words to Lao Qi, and when he saw that there was nothing else to do, he left.
He knew that Hao Zhuo might be hiding something, but this matter itself was a mess, and he didn't have the energy to figure it out. He let the two of them stay out of the spotlight first. If there were any problems later, he could deal with them after he completed his defense mission.
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(End of this chapter)
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