Chapter 16 Why did the Predator Lost?
About half an hour after the fight ended, the Su family's garbage dump was already crowded inside and outside.
Onlookers from the surrounding area, Su's workers, more than 20 police officers from the Zhanan District Police Department, as well as dozens of firefighters from the rescue team, were all doing their own things in the yard.
At the entrance, Kong Zhenghui's car was parked. He glanced at the situation inside the yard and nodded to the large private media interview car following him.
Five people got out of the interview car, two photographers, two assistants, and a male host. They set up their equipment and skillfully filmed the situation inside and outside the factory.
"Tonight at about 8:40 p.m., a garbage disposal company in Dragon City's Zhanan District experienced a violent attack involving vandalism and arson..." The male host fluently began to provide commentary while the camera recorded the footage.
—---
Inside the garbage dump, Su Tianbei was being questioned by the police department. Prior to this, Su Tianyu had already made it very clear to him what he wanted him to say.
"How many people were there on the other side?" The questioning officer was the second-in-command police chief who had been drinking with Lu Feng that day.
"There were probably twenty or thirty people, all holding weapons. They came into the factory and started smashing things. They also set fire to the warehouse in my company..." Su Tianbei frowned and said, "Five of our workers were injured and have already been sent to the hospital."
"Are you sure it was the attackers who set the fire?" Second-in-command police chief Ermao asked skeptically.
"Officer, this is my own company. The fire couldn't have been started by them. Could I have set the fire myself?" Su Tianbei raised his eyebrows and asked back.
"During the fight, did they say anything? And where did they run to after the fight?"
"They said if the workers from Su's family go on strike again, it would cost us our lives. After the group finished smashing and looting, they climbed over the wall and ran away. The on-duty worker told me that there were cars waiting for them outside," Su Tianbei replied.
"You have so many workers here, yet none of the bandits were caught?"
"We were all frightened at the time, and we didn't dare to fight back!" Su Tianbei responded fluently. "Most of the workers here were hired later."
"Do you have surveillance here?"
"Yes, but it was shut down a few days ago because we were replacing the system. So, only the surveillance cameras at the main entrance and a few cargo areas were working," Su Tianbei answered.
—---
While Su Tianbei was giving his statement, Su Tianyu had already walked out of the yard and found his eldest brother and Kong Zhenghui. "Brother!"
"Did you not give your statement in the main building?" Su Tiannan turned around.
"No, Second Brother is doing that," Su Tianyu replied, putting on his sophisticated glasses again. He pointed to Kong Zhenghui and said, "I want to talk to Brother Kong for a moment."
Ever since the last incident in Lu Feng’s office, Kong Zhenghui had realized that Su Tianyu was not an easy person to deal with, and he left a strong impression on him. So, he asked proactively, "What's up, brother?"
"Brother Kong, I don't suggest that we involve public opinion relations right now," Su Tianyu said straightforwardly.
"Why not?" Kong Zhenghui didn't understand.
"The timing is not right. We need to accumulate evidence first," Su Tianyu never wasted words when speaking to outsiders.
Kong Zhenghui frowned, "Changqing is already in a mess. Do we still need to wait?"
"My eldest brother is still talking to the police station," Su Tianyu whispered, "Let's wait a little longer."
"Okay, we can do that. Let me know when we can take action," Kong Zhenghui agreed after considering it.
"Alright," Su Tianyu nodded.
Kong Zhenghui smiled and turned his head to look at the garbage dump of the Su family, shaking his head and saying, "Lu Feng is really a stupid son of a b****! If he wants to use killing chickens to scare monkeys tactic, just do it, why start a fire? Now, we don't have to actively poke our noses into this matter. People in the Zhangnan district will definitely know tomorrow that Changqing Company dared to kill and set fires for the sake of grabbing land. Ha ha, this matter cannot be hidden."
"Yes," Su Tianyu echoed, then immediately said, "Brother Kong, wait a moment, I'll talk to my older brother."
"Okay!" Kong Zhenghui nodded.
The two brothers walked to the dark side of the surrounding wall, and Su Tiannan asked, "What's up?"
"Big brother, call Wang Daolin now, right now," Su Tianyu replied.
"It's so late, why call him?" Su Tiannan asked.
"Just listen to me. Call him now and give him the conditions directly," Su Tianyu whispered in his older brother's ear. "Tell him that Lu Feng really wants to kill our family this time, and you're scared, so..."
—---
In the Zhangnan district, at the end of Fulian Street, there was a small gambling den that catered specifically to poor people. It was small in scale and had poor conditions. The surrounding alleyways were filled with the smell of urine. However, there were still many gamblers who couldn't even afford to eat coming here to play cards for nights on end. When they ran out of money, they would rather stay by the table and watch the excitement than go home to sleep.
In the shabby security room on the second floor of the gambling den, Lu Feng sat on the sofa, raising his eyebrows and asking, "You guys are all machete-wielding men, right? Even if you haven't fought before, you should at least know if your own people have all escaped, right?"
"Brother Feng, it was really chaotic at the time. There were too many people on the other side, and we were all disoriented. We all ran towards the windows and corridors in different directions, and we really didn't pay attention to where Ah Ming and the others were," a man with unhealed machete wounds on his body replied pitifully, stuffing a whole package of tissue into his wounds.
—
"Useless!" Lu Feng cursed and dialed the phone number of Ermao, the police officer in charge, "Hey, can you talk?"
After a short pause, Ermao finally responded, "Yes, I'm at the scene."
"D*mnit, some of my brothers haven't come back! I called them earlier, but they didn't answer. Were they taken hostage by the other side?" Lu Feng asked directly.
"I asked people from the Su family, and they said your brothers finished smashing and setting fire before running away," Ermao replied in a low voice, "They weren't taken hostage."
"Nonsense! My people were beaten up. They were blocked in the lobby by the Su family as soon as they entered. I suspect someone leaked information from our company," Lu Feng continued to ask, "Scare the Su family and ask them if they are holding my people and not admitting it."
"How can I ask them that? I'm a public official from the police department, Brother Feng!" Ermao replied with frustration, "But I warned Su Tianbei just now. If they are holding people and not releasing them, it's considered illegal detention. So, I don't think they should do that. It's pointless!"
Lu Feng was also puzzled, "Then where did my brother go? They couldn't have finished and not answered the phone!"
"Keep looking," Ermao advised while standing outside the lobby, looking around and reminding, "But, Brother Feng, you caused a big problem this time. Not only did you smash and set fire, but this is also a garbage dumping area. If a big fire breaks out, do you know what the consequences are? Your brothers are too impulsive!"
Lu Feng became angry after hearing this, "I'm not running a crematorium, how many fires could I set? Someone is causing trouble!"
Ermao remained silent for two seconds and didn't argue. Instead, he asked, "Brother Feng, there was a strike before, then some workers were attacked, and now someone rushed into the Su family's garbage dump and set it on fire. I believe what you said, but can others believe it? The key issue here is not who set the fire, but that your people rushed into the warehouse. Do you understand? The police department is also afraid of trouble!"
Lu Feng had nothing to say.
"I'll deal with the scene first and then we'll talk." Ermao hung up the phone first.
Lu Feng gritted his teeth and was considering what to do when all the waiters in the room stood up and shouted at the stairway, "Big Brother!"
"Director Li!"
Lu Feng turned around and saw Li Hongze with two others walking towards him with a very unpleasant expression.
"Big Brother!" Lu Feng called out.
"What did you do? Can someone still fight back if they're unprepared? And why did you let them set fire, are you refining elixirs?!" Li Hongze explosively questioned.
"It wasn't me who set the fire!!" Lu Feng instantly broke down.
—---
Around 11 pm.
Su Tiannan's car stopped in front of a very popular Cantonese restaurant on Guangming Road in Zhanan District. He pushed open the car door, straightened his clothes, and then said to the young man who was driving with him, "You just wait in the car."
"Okay." The young man nodded.
Su Tiannan walked quickly into the Cantonese restaurant and went up the stairs to the third floor, entering a private room. At this time, a man wearing a duckbill cap glanced roughly at Su Tiannan's car from an alleyway across from the restaurant.
Inside the private room on the third floor of the Cantonese restaurant, a man in his fifties wearing a white shirt and standing with his hands inserted in his pockets said, "Xiaonan, I heard about what happened at your family's factory. How is your family doing?"
The man speaking was named Wang Daolin, a director of the Dragon City Police Station with substantial power, and he was a comrade-in-arms with Su Tiannan's father. Previously, when Tianyu had not yet returned, the Su family had given him fifty thousand yuan, asking him to help mediate the internal conflict of the dirty gang.
Upon seeing Wang Daolin, Su Tiannan said with a very serious expression, "Uncle, if you don't help me now, I might lose my life!"
Wang Daolin fell silent upon hearing these words.
—
"As a last resort, the strike was to save my father, but the effect hasn't shown yet. Two workers were brutally attacked and left disabled, which directly caused the other workers to be too scared to protest with us," Su Tianan sat down, pouring tea for Wang Daolin as he spoke softly, "Before we could even catch our breath, the factory was vandalized and set on fire again today. Another five of our workers were injured. Uncle Wang, please help the Su family again, for the sake of my father."
"I've told you before, I can't get involved in your family's affairs," Wang Daolin sighed, "Besides, it's difficult to catch any leverage against Changqing Corporation. I've suggested that you spend money to avoid disaster, but you didn't listen."
"I have leverage!" Su Tianan suddenly said.
"What leverage?" Wang Daolin was surprised.
"I can hand over the main culprit of the factory vandalism to you," Su Tianan looked directly at him.
Wang Daolin was taken aback and didn't respond.
"I'll give you the person, and it'll be difficult for Lu Feng to defend himself," Su Tianan said in a low voice, "The Kong, Liu, and Bai families will also exert pressure from the outside and raise the stakes. I believe that the higher-ups at the police station don't want to see this continuous negative public opinion, so as long as you can use a little bit of force to deal with Changqing Corporation, my father will be released."
Wang Daolin placed his right hand on his leg, tapping his fingers lightly. After thinking for a while, he slowly shook his head, "Xiaonan, I'm afraid I can't help you with this."
"Uncle, as long as you're willing to take the lead in helping us put pressure on Changqing Corporation, I won't let you do it for nothing," Su Tianan said in a low voice, "Neither will the other three companies."
Wang Daolin frowned at the sound.
—---
Inside the Su family's factory.
The police were still investigating the scene, while Su Tianbei found an opportunity to go to the backyard of the main building, opened his car door, and reached under the car seat.
Previously, Su Tianbei came to surround Lu Feng’s men with a gun, just in case. But, it was obviously useless at the moment, and he was going to take it away and hide it.
However, after reaching under the car seat with his right hand, he was stunned on the spot.
The gun was gone!
Chapter 16 Why did the Predator Lost?
About half an hour after the fight ended, the Su family's garbage dump was already crowded inside and outside.
Onlookers from the surrounding area, Su's workers, more than 20 police officers from the Zhanan District Police Department, as well as dozens of firefighters from the rescue team, were all doing their own things in the yard.
At the entrance, Kong Zhenghui's car was parked. He glanced at the situation inside the yard and nodded to the large private media interview car following him.
Five people got out of the interview car, two photographers, two assistants, and a male host. They set up their equipment and skillfully filmed the situation inside and outside the factory.
"Tonight at about 8:40 p.m., a garbage disposal company in Dragon City's Zhanan District experienced a violent attack involving vandalism and arson..." The male host fluently began to provide commentary while the camera recorded the footage.
—---
Inside the garbage dump, Su Tianbei was being questioned by the police department. Prior to this, Su Tianyu had already made it very clear to him what he wanted him to say.
"How many people were there on the other side?" The questioning officer was the second-in-command police chief who had been drinking with Lu Feng that day.
"There were probably twenty or thirty people, all holding weapons. They came into the factory and started smashing things. They also set fire to the warehouse in my company..." Su Tianbei frowned and said, "Five of our workers were injured and have already been sent to the hospital."
"Are you sure it was the attackers who set the fire?" Second-in-command police chief Ermao asked skeptically.
"Officer, this is my own company. The fire couldn't have been started by them. Could I have set the fire myself?" Su Tianbei raised his eyebrows and asked back.
"During the fight, did they say anything? And where did they run to after the fight?"
"They said if the workers from Su's family go on strike again, it would cost us our lives. After the group finished smashing and looting, they climbed over the wall and ran away. The on-duty worker told me that there were cars waiting for them outside," Su Tianbei replied.
"You have so many workers here, yet none of the bandits were caught?"
"We were all frightened at the time, and we didn't dare to fight back!" Su Tianbei responded fluently. "Most of the workers here were hired later."
"Do you have surveillance here?"
"Yes, but it was shut down a few days ago because we were replacing the system. So, only the surveillance cameras at the main entrance and a few cargo areas were working," Su Tianbei answered.
—---
While Su Tianbei was giving his statement, Su Tianyu had already walked out of the yard and found his eldest brother and Kong Zhenghui. "Brother!"
"Did you not give your statement in the main building?" Su Tiannan turned around.
"No, Second Brother is doing that," Su Tianyu replied, putting on his sophisticated glasses again. He pointed to Kong Zhenghui and said, "I want to talk to Brother Kong for a moment."
Ever since the last incident in Lu Feng’s office, Kong Zhenghui had realized that Su Tianyu was not an easy person to deal with, and he left a strong impression on him. So, he asked proactively, "What's up, brother?"
"Brother Kong, I don't suggest that we involve public opinion relations right now," Su Tianyu said straightforwardly.
"Why not?" Kong Zhenghui didn't understand.
"The timing is not right. We need to accumulate evidence first," Su Tianyu never wasted words when speaking to outsiders.
Kong Zhenghui frowned, "Changqing is already in a mess. Do we still need to wait?"
"My eldest brother is still talking to the police station," Su Tianyu whispered, "Let's wait a little longer."
"Okay, we can do that. Let me know when we can take action," Kong Zhenghui agreed after considering it.
"Alright," Su Tianyu nodded.
Kong Zhenghui smiled and turned his head to look at the garbage dump of the Su family, shaking his head and saying, "Lu Feng is really a stupid son of a b****! If he wants to use killing chickens to scare monkeys tactic, just do it, why start a fire? Now, we don't have to actively poke our noses into this matter. People in the Zhangnan district will definitely know tomorrow that Changqing Company dared to kill and set fires for the sake of grabbing land. Ha ha, this matter cannot be hidden."
"Yes," Su Tianyu echoed, then immediately said, "Brother Kong, wait a moment, I'll talk to my older brother."
"Okay!" Kong Zhenghui nodded.
The two brothers walked to the dark side of the surrounding wall, and Su Tiannan asked, "What's up?"
"Big brother, call Wang Daolin now, right now," Su Tianyu replied.
"It's so late, why call him?" Su Tiannan asked.
"Just listen to me. Call him now and give him the conditions directly," Su Tianyu whispered in his older brother's ear. "Tell him that Lu Feng really wants to kill our family this time, and you're scared, so..."
—---
In the Zhangnan district, at the end of Fulian Street, there was a small gambling den that catered specifically to poor people. It was small in scale and had poor conditions. The surrounding alleyways were filled with the smell of urine. However, there were still many gamblers who couldn't even afford to eat coming here to play cards for nights on end. When they ran out of money, they would rather stay by the table and watch the excitement than go home to sleep.
In the shabby security room on the second floor of the gambling den, Lu Feng sat on the sofa, raising his eyebrows and asking, "You guys are all machete-wielding men, right? Even if you haven't fought before, you should at least know if your own people have all escaped, right?"
"Brother Feng, it was really chaotic at the time. There were too many people on the other side, and we were all disoriented. We all ran towards the windows and corridors in different directions, and we really didn't pay attention to where Ah Ming and the others were," a man with unhealed machete wounds on his body replied pitifully, stuffing a whole package of tissue into his wounds.
—
"Useless!" Lu Feng cursed and dialed the phone number of Ermao, the police officer in charge, "Hey, can you talk?"
After a short pause, Ermao finally responded, "Yes, I'm at the scene."
"D*mnit, some of my brothers haven't come back! I called them earlier, but they didn't answer. Were they taken hostage by the other side?" Lu Feng asked directly.
"I asked people from the Su family, and they said your brothers finished smashing and setting fire before running away," Ermao replied in a low voice, "They weren't taken hostage."
"Nonsense! My people were beaten up. They were blocked in the lobby by the Su family as soon as they entered. I suspect someone leaked information from our company," Lu Feng continued to ask, "Scare the Su family and ask them if they are holding my people and not admitting it."
"How can I ask them that? I'm a public official from the police department, Brother Feng!" Ermao replied with frustration, "But I warned Su Tianbei just now. If they are holding people and not releasing them, it's considered illegal detention. So, I don't think they should do that. It's pointless!"
Lu Feng was also puzzled, "Then where did my brother go? They couldn't have finished and not answered the phone!"
"Keep looking," Ermao advised while standing outside the lobby, looking around and reminding, "But, Brother Feng, you caused a big problem this time. Not only did you smash and set fire, but this is also a garbage dumping area. If a big fire breaks out, do you know what the consequences are? Your brothers are too impulsive!"
Lu Feng became angry after hearing this, "I'm not running a crematorium, how many fires could I set? Someone is causing trouble!"
Ermao remained silent for two seconds and didn't argue. Instead, he asked, "Brother Feng, there was a strike before, then some workers were attacked, and now someone rushed into the Su family's garbage dump and set it on fire. I believe what you said, but can others believe it? The key issue here is not who set the fire, but that your people rushed into the warehouse. Do you understand? The police department is also afraid of trouble!"
Lu Feng had nothing to say.
"I'll deal with the scene first and then we'll talk." Ermao hung up the phone first.
Lu Feng gritted his teeth and was considering what to do when all the waiters in the room stood up and shouted at the stairway, "Big Brother!"
"Director Li!"
Lu Feng turned around and saw Li Hongze with two others walking towards him with a very unpleasant expression.
"Big Brother!" Lu Feng called out.
"What did you do? Can someone still fight back if they're unprepared? And why did you let them set fire, are you refining elixirs?!" Li Hongze explosively questioned.
"It wasn't me who set the fire!!" Lu Feng instantly broke down.
—---
Around 11 pm.
Su Tiannan's car stopped in front of a very popular Cantonese restaurant on Guangming Road in Zhanan District. He pushed open the car door, straightened his clothes, and then said to the young man who was driving with him, "You just wait in the car."
"Okay." The young man nodded.
Su Tiannan walked quickly into the Cantonese restaurant and went up the stairs to the third floor, entering a private room. At this time, a man wearing a duckbill cap glanced roughly at Su Tiannan's car from an alleyway across from the restaurant.
Inside the private room on the third floor of the Cantonese restaurant, a man in his fifties wearing a white shirt and standing with his hands inserted in his pockets said, "Xiaonan, I heard about what happened at your family's factory. How is your family doing?"
The man speaking was named Wang Daolin, a director of the Dragon City Police Station with substantial power, and he was a comrade-in-arms with Su Tiannan's father. Previously, when Tianyu had not yet returned, the Su family had given him fifty thousand yuan, asking him to help mediate the internal conflict of the dirty gang.
Upon seeing Wang Daolin, Su Tiannan said with a very serious expression, "Uncle, if you don't help me now, I might lose my life!"
Wang Daolin fell silent upon hearing these words.
—
"As a last resort, the strike was to save my father, but the effect hasn't shown yet. Two workers were brutally attacked and left disabled, which directly caused the other workers to be too scared to protest with us," Su Tianan sat down, pouring tea for Wang Daolin as he spoke softly, "Before we could even catch our breath, the factory was vandalized and set on fire again today. Another five of our workers were injured. Uncle Wang, please help the Su family again, for the sake of my father."
"I've told you before, I can't get involved in your family's affairs," Wang Daolin sighed, "Besides, it's difficult to catch any leverage against Changqing Corporation. I've suggested that you spend money to avoid disaster, but you didn't listen."
"I have leverage!" Su Tianan suddenly said.
"What leverage?" Wang Daolin was surprised.
"I can hand over the main culprit of the factory vandalism to you," Su Tianan looked directly at him.
Wang Daolin was taken aback and didn't respond.
"I'll give you the person, and it'll be difficult for Lu Feng to defend himself," Su Tianan said in a low voice, "The Kong, Liu, and Bai families will also exert pressure from the outside and raise the stakes. I believe that the higher-ups at the police station don't want to see this continuous negative public opinion, so as long as you can use a little bit of force to deal with Changqing Corporation, my father will be released."
Wang Daolin placed his right hand on his leg, tapping his fingers lightly. After thinking for a while, he slowly shook his head, "Xiaonan, I'm afraid I can't help you with this."
"Uncle, as long as you're willing to take the lead in helping us put pressure on Changqing Corporation, I won't let you do it for nothing," Su Tianan said in a low voice, "Neither will the other three companies."
Wang Daolin frowned at the sound.
—---
Inside the Su family's factory.
The police were still investigating the scene, while Su Tianbei found an opportunity to go to the backyard of the main building, opened his car door, and reached under the car seat.
Previously, Su Tianbei came to surround Lu Feng’s men with a gun, just in case. But, it was obviously useless at the moment, and he was going to take it away and hide it.
However, after reaching under the car seat with his right hand, he was stunned on the spot.
The gun was gone!
