After Song Laosan knocked down the guard, I quickly rushed over, wrapped his arm with the guard's belt, and then took off my sock and stuffed it into his mouth.
Song Laosan searched the man's body and found that he didn't have a cell phone, only a walkie-talkie and a stun gun. He put the walkie-talkie in his pocket and led me around to the basement.
In the dead of night, the copper factory was still brightly lit, and the roar of the machinery was like muffled thunder.
Under a metal frame, I could see three people sitting at the entrance to the basement from a distance.
In front of them was a lit, horizontally cut gasoline drum. One of them was asleep, while the other two were eating peanuts and drinking alcohol.
Seeing this, Song Laosan handed me the stun gun from his pocket, while he himself gripped half a brick: "There are two people over there. Let's go around them, one on the left and one on the right. You take care of one, and I'll take care of the other two!"
I weighed the stun gun in my hand and asked with some skepticism, "Can this thing knock someone out instantly?"
"It looks like a cheap, unregulated product sold at a street stall. It might knock someone down, but it's unlikely to stun them with an electric shock."
Old Song tapped the side of my jaw with his finger: "After you knock him down, punch him in this spot. The nerve plexus here is very dense, and six kilograms of force is enough to make him faint."
I resisted the urge to knock Song Laosan down here and nodded: "Okay, let's do it!"
The basement where we were previously detained was in a remote area of the factory. There were no workers around, and the two guards had been drinking quite a bit and were not very vigilant.
I groped my way through the darkness and saw Song Laosan rushing towards the door, so I dashed over as well.
"Hey! You...!"
The person facing me saw my figure, pointed at me, and was immediately kicked over by Song Laosan with a whip kick.
"Crackling and popping!"
I turned on the stun gun and roughly pressed it against the neck of the person whose back was to me. He convulsed and foamed at the mouth without me even needing to finish him off.
By this time, Song Laosan had already taken care of two people. I smelled the stench of urine in the air and looked at the person I had electrocuted: "Why is he blowing bubbles? Is he going to die?"
Old Song glanced at them and began searching the people he had knocked down: "Muscle relaxation after an electric shock is normal. Look for the keys on them!"
"brush!"
Just then, a flashlight beam suddenly shone on us, followed by a male voice: "Hey! What are you doing there?"
I'm already very cautious when doing this kind of thing, and hearing the roar startled me even more.
Turning my head, I saw a factory safety officer wearing a hard hat shining a flashlight at us, and he had already pulled out a walkie-talkie from his waist.
He was at least ten meters away from us. I knew it would be too late to rush over and subdue him, and if he reported this, we would be completely finished.
Before I could even shout "Run!", a figure suddenly appeared behind the safety officer. With a wave of his hand, the safety officer fell to the ground.
I saw another person running towards me, gripping the stun gun tightly, ready to fight to the death, when I heard a familiar voice: "Brother, is that you?"
I was stunned for a moment, and by the firelight, I saw the two people who had rushed over. I was a little confused: "Lin Que? Man Jing? What are you two doing here?"
The two men who had just taken down the security guard were none other than the two eccentric robbers I had encountered at the Cultural Expo City.
After I hired them to perform a play to deceive the cripple, I parted ways with them.
I never expected to run into you here.
When Manjing saw me, his憨憨 (simple and honest) face crinkled with a big smile: "Big brother, it really is you! Brother Que said you were here, but I didn't believe it, haha!"
When I heard that the two of them had come specifically to find me, my guard went up: "How did you know I was here?"
I overheard it by chance.
Lin Que scratched his head: "Manjing and I originally came here to work, but we just heard someone mention your name in the factory area. They said they were determined to lock you up and not let you escape, so we brought Manjing to rescue you!"
Old Song recognized the two brothers: "Didn't you two make over ten thousand yuan a while ago? Why are you working here?"
Manjing sniffed, his nose snotty: "We didn't work!"
As soon as I heard his answer, I knew what was going on.
Originally, these two brothers were just stealing electric bikes, but later, because Lin Que became obsessed with tipping female live streamers, he accumulated a huge debt. Driven to desperation by his creditors, he robbed me.
Although the money I earned with them was enough for Lin Que to pay off his debts, there probably wasn't much left. That's why the two brothers came to this factory to resume their old ways and steal things.
I never expected that the two people I saved by chance would now be of great help to me. I didn't have time to say much and waved to Song Laosan: "Don't worry about these things, save them first. We can talk about everything after things are safe."
Old Song searched frantically, sweat beading on his forehead: "Damn it, none of these people have the keys. They must all be with Su's trusted confidants! How are we going to open the door without the keys?"
Upon hearing Song Laosan's words, Manjing looked around, then picked up a thick steel bar and stuck it into the chain lock: "You need a key to open the door? Get out of the way!"
"Splash!"
With a muffled groan, the chain lock on the door was pried off, and the basement door swung open.
When I saw the door open, I picked up a dagger from the ground and went in first.
Qu Ruilin and Wei Shengnan inside had different expressions when they saw me enter.
I walked up to Wei Shengnan and used my dagger to untie the ropes binding her wrists.
Wei Shengnan ripped the gag from her mouth and glared at me: "Duan Shenxing, what are you trying to do? You've made a deal with the Su family to go after us, haven't you?"
Since I've already chosen to save people, I naturally won't do something thankless. I retorted sarcastically, "Don't worry, I'm not as despicable as you! You may not remember our past relationship with the Four Gates, but I can't stand by and watch someone die!"
Qu Ruilin, now freed from his ropes, angrily retorted, "What do you mean by that? When have we ever stood by and watched you die? Shengnan and I came to Luoyang to find Duan Jinyan, but we never targeted you, Duan Shenxing! You and Duan Jinyan are father and son, so what's wrong with us doing these things behind your back?!"
I knew I couldn't truly understand Qu Ruilin, so I passed the favor to Song Laosan: "You can avoid me, but why avoid Third Master? What has he done to wrong you? He risked his life to save you, you ingrate!"
Seeing that I was steering the conversation toward him, Song Laosan untied the ropes of the other two men and led Qu Ruilin outside, saying, "Hey, we're all on the same side! Even if we don't care about the monk, we should at least consider the Buddha's face, and even if we don't care about the Buddha's face, we should at least consider the face of our ancestors, right? This place is too dangerous to talk here, let's go! Let's all leave here first!"
"brush!"
As soon as we stepped out of the basement door, all the lights outside came on.
Just as we were rescuing people, four or five private cars arrived without us noticing. Su Jiaming, holding a modified hunting rifle, glared at us fiercely: "If you want to leave this place, you'll have to ask this gun for permission first!"
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