I successfully persuaded Xue Dong to come with me to rescue Jiang Man. I told him, "I need exploration equipment from the geological exploration team, such as drilling rigs, spectrometers, electromagnetic instruments, remote sensing instruments, etc., as well as stab-proof vests, gas masks, stun batons, crossbows, etc. It would be best to also get a few guns."
"Everything else is easy to get, but firearms are a bit difficult."
Xue Dong explained, "With my authority, I can easily obtain anything that is permitted by law. As for weapons like firearms, I need to apply to President Jiang. After all, we represent the Tianxia Group. If we get into trouble by acquiring guns privately, it will affect the group's reputation."
Seeing how difficult it was to get firearms, I stopped insisting: "Then let's get the other equipment first. We need to get the surveying equipment as soon as possible, and we also need to find a few people who know how to operate it! Jintu Mining, which is providing support to us this time, should have its own exploration team. If we contact them, it should save us a lot of time."
"I'll take care of it right away!"
Xue Dong is a decisive person. After discussing the plan with me, he went to the side to make a phone call.
After discussing the plan with Xue Dong, I suddenly remembered that the security captain had said he had something to tell me, so I waved him back and asked, "You said you had something to report, what is it?"
The security captain countered, "Mr. Duan, do you remember Li Changyou, who helped us install the listening equipment before?"
I nodded: "What's wrong with him?"
“This morning, Li Changyou came by and said he wanted to sell us some information about your friends.”
Before I could ask any questions, the security captain spoke up, “I asked him what happened, but he didn’t say anything. He only said that it was related to the young lady’s friend and that if I wanted him to talk, I would have to pay him 20,000 yuan for the information. I was busy contacting you at the time and didn’t have time to deal with him, so I sent him away. Before he left, Li Changyou said that if the young lady and you came back and wanted to know about this, you should go to his house to find him.”
I was completely confused: "What, our friends? Which friends?"
"Li Changyou is too cunning; he only said this one sentence without any context."
The security captain paused for a moment: "When I met him before, I felt that he was unreliable. Anyway, I didn't trust him. However, according to regulations, I still have to report this information to you."
"Take a few men and come with me to Li Changyou's house."
After thinking about it for a while, I decided to go find Li Changyou to find out what he meant by the matter concerning our friend, and who this friend was.
When we arrived at Li Changyou's house, the gate to his yard was tightly shut. The security captain pushed the iron gate and cursed, "I knew this bastard was unreliable! He clearly said he would be waiting at home all day!"
I saw the locked gate and didn't want to waste any more time on Li Changyou. Seeing that he wasn't home, I turned to leave, but as soon as I turned around, I heard a glass bottle shattering in the yard. I asked the security captain next to me, "Did you hear anything?"
The security captain shook his head blankly: "What did you hear?"
I thought for a moment, took a few running steps, and climbed onto the top of the wall: "Everyone, get into the yard!"
I was the first to climb over the wall. Seeing nothing unusual in the courtyard, I held two throwing knives in my hands and moved toward the tiled house in front of me.
As I approached the house, I glanced inside through the window and my eyes widened immediately.
At this moment, a hemp rope was hanging from the roof beam of Li Changyou's house, and Li Changyou was hanging on it, his body convulsing violently.
"Bang! Crash!"
When I saw this, I grabbed a brick, smashed the window, and threw the throwing knife.
"Gulp!"
Li Changyou, who was hanging in mid-air, fell from the sky and began to clutch his neck, coughing painfully. Judging from his flushed face, I guess if I had arrived a minute later, he would have been dead.
I jumped into the room through the broken window and looked at Li Changyou on the ground: "How could someone as shameless as you try to hang yourself like others? What, were you driven to desperation by your creditors?"
Li Changyou fell to the ground, clutching his neck and crying out in pain, "Cough cough... Help... Help! Someone... Someone is trying to kill me!"
"Someone wants to kill you?"
Upon hearing Li Changyou's response, I frowned and asked, "Who is it?"
“I don’t know, those people are all crazy! After they came in, they asked me about the people who used to live here. I originally wanted to scam some money, but I didn’t expect them to treat me so badly! They smeared tissues on my face and then poured water on it, saying that it would be hard to find the injuries after I died. I was so scared by their torment that I had to tell the truth. When they heard that the people who lived in my house had all left, they decided to kill me! If I hadn’t heard a noise outside just now and kicked over a water glass with all my might, I would be completely finished today!”
Li Changyou turned pale with fright and scrambled to his feet, reaching for his phone: "These lunatics! This is a bunch of lunatics! I have to call the police!"
"Calling the police won't do any good. Those people are all fugitives. Once they find out you're still alive, they'll definitely kill you to silence you!"
I stopped Li Changyou and pressed him for an answer: "Since you're still alive, that means those people haven't been gone long. Where did they go?"
"I have no idea."
Li Changyou looked at me with a mixture of fear and apprehension: "I'm about to lose my own life, do you think I have the mind to think about anything else?"
I knew that the person who came looking for Li Changyou must be from the Black Robe faction, but we didn't encounter any suspicious people on our way here, and it would probably be too late to chase after them now. So I asked him, "You went to see our people this morning and said you had information about our friend. Who is this friend?"
Li Changyou, clutching his neck where a bloody welt had appeared from being strangled, held up three fingers: "Thirty thousand yuan!"
I looked at Li Changyou speechlessly: "You almost lost your life, and you're still thinking about money under those circumstances?"
"Isn't the point of living to make money? Since I'm not dead, I have to keep living!"
Li Changyou paused for a moment: "I almost lost my life because of all this mess. Now those people want to kill me to silence me. It will cost me money to run away!"
I glanced at him sideways: "They didn't kill you because of me, so it's not appropriate for you to blackmail me, is it?"
"This whole mess was started by people like you. You're the only one I can find now, so you should be the one to pay for it!"
Li Changyou looked at me unreasonably: "Anyway, this matter concerns your friend. If you don't want to spend money, then just pretend I never said anything!"
I could tell Li Changyou was genuinely scared. Faced with this guy who was willing to risk his life for money, I felt somewhat helpless: "I'll transfer the money to you right now. Can you tell me what you've learned?"
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