Chapter 18 Prelude to Attack
In Wang Daolin's hospital room at the Zhanan District People's Hospital, five or six mid-level officials from the Dragon City Police Bureau were cursing the people from Changqing Company, indignant that Old Wang had been implicated in the matter.
Wang Daolin was not injured at all. He sat on the bed, smoking a cigarette. After taking two deep puffs, he suddenly said, "Damn it, when Changqing Company first came, they were very disciplined and never interfered with us. But in recent years, they have formed a chamber of commerce, and they have been pushing people into the system. They have become so arrogant that they even dare to shoot at my hat. No, I can't swallow this anger!"
"If you can't swallow it, then investigate the matter to the end," said a friend of Wang Daolin's, who was about the same age. "The vandalism, arson, and assault on the foreman, and the shooting in the Cantonese restaurant, are all connected. If we catch any one of them, it will scare Li Hongze."
"Brothers, do you know what Su Laoer's child came to talk to me about today?" Wang Daolin, who had no fear at the moment, asked calmly.
"What did he want from you?" someone asked.
"He offered a price!" Wang Daolin took a puff of smoke and looked at the others, saying, "We should work together on this, not only to vent our anger, but also to benefit from it. And most importantly, we will gain fame, because we did not pick the fight."
"What's the price?"
"What did he say?"
Everyone was interested and gathered around Wang Daolin.
About ten minutes later, Wang Daolin walked out of the hospital room and came downstairs, just as Su Tiannan was being pushed out of the emergency room. He had been shot, but fortunately, the bullet had grazed his abdomen and caused a through-and-through injury without damaging any major organs. However, his intestines were damaged and he needed surgery immediately.
"Are you okay, Little Nan?" Wang Daolin asked as he followed the moving hospital bed.
Su Tiannan had not been given general anesthesia and was still conscious. He looked at Wang Daolin and said in a trembling voice, "It was too close, Uncle Wang!"
Wang Daolin turned to the nurse beside him and politely said, "I'm from the police bureau, I have something to say to him privately."
"Don't be too long, he needs to prepare for surgery." The nurse walked away with long strides.
Wang Daolin lowered his head and looked at Su Tiannan, speaking concisely, "I'll take care of the matter that you mentioned at the restaurant for you."
"Uncle Wang!" Su Tiannan tried to sit up upon hearing this.
"It's alright, it's alright. Just lie down." Wang Daolin patted Su Tiannan's shoulder and bent down to say to him, "Leave it to me. You don't need to worry about anything else."
"Okay, okay!" Su Tiannan nodded repeatedly.
"If your four companies still have chips in hand, don't rush to get rid of them. Let me handle things first." Wang Daolin looked calmly at Su Tiannan and said, "Once I make a move, it's no longer just about handling the matter on my own. There are some relationships involved that need to be taken care of later."
"I understand, I understand!"
"Here..." Wang Daolin casually picked up the prescription sheet from the bed and wrote a phone number on it. He handed it to Su Tiannan and said, "Call this number later."
"I got it!" Su Tiannan was so excited that his body hair stood on end.
"Take care of your injury and we'll talk about the rest tomorrow." Wang Daolin patted Su Tiannan's arm and turned to leave.
After watching Wang Daolin leave, Su Tiannan sat up excitedly. He covered his wound with his left hand and took out his phone with his right hand, immediately dialing Su Tianyu's number. "Hello?"
"Big brother, how are you? I heard you got shot. Our family is rushing to the hospital. Wait for me, hold on...!" Su Tianyu's mouth was like a machine gun, full of worries.
"Stop pretending! You know exactly where I was shot, even better than a CT scan. Why are you yelling?" Su Tiannan cursed in a low voice, then immediately said, "Uncle Wang has just talked to me. Get someone from Lu Feng to come out, I'll give you a phone number, you and Tianbei send the person over, and don't cause any trouble."
"Okay, I understand." Su Tianyu immediately responded.
—---
Approximately five minutes later, Wang Daolin had just left the hospital, and the police station's Li Xing's car, as well as Li Hongze and Lu Feng's business car, were all parked in the hospital's second parking lot.
Li Xing was the first to get out of the car with an assistant and hurriedly walked into the main building, all the way to the door of Wang Daolin's hospital room.
"Where's Old Wang? How's he doing?" Li Xing asked several police officers standing at the door.
Everyone turned to look at Li Xing, and one of the middle-aged police chiefs smiled and replied, "Hey, it's you Li!"
"Where's Old Wang? Is he inside?" Li Xing was getting anxious at this point.
"He just left." The police chief replied softly, "The incident at the Cantonese restaurant has caused quite a stir. Deputy Director Hong just went to the office to prepare for a case meeting, and Old Wang is going there to participate."
"Oh, I thought he was still in the hospital." Li Xing was already very anxious at this point.
"Do you have any business with him?" The police chief's words sounded ordinary, but his tone was slightly intimidating.
Li Xing paused for a moment and replied, "Nothing really, I just heard he was at the scene of the shooting and came to see him."
"Oh!" The police chief nodded and fell silent.
"Okay, you guys carry on, I'll leave first." Li Xing greeted the crowd and left.
Everyone nodded in response.
Li Xing quickly walked downstairs and called Wang Daolin, but the latter did not answer.
"What the hell is going on here?" Li Xing complained with a very unpleasant expression, striding towards the business car and directly pulling the door to get in.
"Have you seen Wang Daolin?" Li Hongze immediately asked.
"No, he's gone back to the police station. I just called him, but he didn't answer." Li Xing replied with a frown.
"You have to talk to him. You can't let this turn into a misunderstanding." Li Hongze urgently said, "How are you going to talk to him? You can't just tell him that the shooter who shot Su Tiannan and him wasn’t sent by Lu Feng, right?"
Li Xing wrinkled his brow and replied, "Isn't that equivalent to indirectly admitting that the previous incidents were related to Lu Feng and me?"
"You can hint at him." Lu Feng reminded him.
Li Xing looked at Lu Feng with a burning gaze and suddenly asked, "Tell me the truth, did you find the gunman?"
"???" Lu Feng's face turned purple when he heard this.
The car fell silent for a moment, and Li Hongze waited for half a day before asking again, "Say something, did you find him or not?"
Lu Feng looked at Li Hongze dumbfounded, and after holding back for a while, he shouted, "If you two ask about this again, I'll just kill myself! I've said it so many times already, the gunman has nothing to do with me!"
Li Xing stared at Lu Feng for a while before turning his head and saying, "It's a shooting case, and the bandits even fired at the chief of the police station. This matter...with my power, I definitely can't suppress it. It now depends on what attitude Wang Daolin takes. I'll call you when I have news after I return to the police station."
"Okay," Li Hongze nodded.
"Bang!"
Li Xing opened the car door and walked out.
Lu Feng's state of mind exploded. After being silent for a while, he suddenly turned to Li Hongze and asked, "Brother, I didn't do the shooting case, is it possible that it was done by Wang Daolin himself?"
Li Hongze was stunned.
Lu Feng thought that the other party was indicating that he should continue, so he immediately added, "Wang Daolin and the Elder Su were comrades-in-arms. He wanted to get involved in the dirty dealings of the gang but didn't have sufficient proof, so he and Su Tiannan came up with a trick."
"I praised you a few days ago, saying that you learned how to use your brain, but how can you say such foolish things now?" Li Hongze looked helplessly at Lu Feng and replied in a low voice, "Are you stupid? Wang Daolin is a police officer and a director! What kind of illness could make him shoot himself three times in a public place?"
In the police car next to them, Li Xing sat in the passenger seat, saying nothing.
The driver drove out of the courtyard and couldn't help but ask, "Lu Feng said he didn't do it, then who could have done it?"
"Do you believe him just because he said it?" Li Xing frowned and replied, "Before Lu Feng came to Dragon City, he had no idea how many lives he had taken. He was more comfortable at shooting people when he parachuted into the big circle. Whether we can take down the territory in Zhanan District the one with the most direct benefit is Lu Feng. If the workers go on strike, he's more anxious than anyone else. He doesn't say it doesn't mean he didn't do it, it's just that the matter is too big for him to admit. These outlaws don't tell the truth!"
—---
On a dirt road in a village in Zhanan District, three vans were parked, and Su Tianbei was standing by one of them smoking while scanning his surroundings.
Inside the middle van, Su Tianyu was sitting in the passenger seat, overcome by drowsiness and yawning incessantly.
Inside the van, the 'Predator' a.k.a the floral shirt man had his hands cuffed by chains and his head lowered as he squinted at Su Tianyu and cursed, "What the hell do you want, kid?"
Su Tianyu was in no mood to answer him.
"You've detained us, but you dare not hand us over to the police, nor you dare kill us. In the end, I see that you're going to have a hard time, ha ha!" The floral shirt's tone was vicious as he said, "I'll say it again, don't let me out, otherwise, your legs will be broken too."
Su Tianyu grew tired of hearing him and turned to him, saying, "Stop shouting, the four companies have already finished their talks with you and Changqing. The police station's people will come to pick you up later, they're Li Xing’s men."
The floral shirt was taken aback for a moment and sneered, "You guys do have some brains."
"Otherwise, what's the point of catching you guys, if not to talk?" Su Tianyu said before falling silent.
After about ten minutes, two police vans arrived and a dozen or so police officers got out. The leader spoke with Su Tianbei for a few moments before opening the van and taking the people away.
After The floral shirt and the others were taken away, Su Tianbei nodded to the leading officer and left with his people.
As the floral shirt and his men were taken away in the van, The floral shirt sat in the middle seat and asked with a smile, "Did Brother Li not come?"
"Which Brother Li?" The leading officer asked.
"Wasn't it Li Xing who sent you guys?" The floral shirt had no idea that a shooting had occurred outside or that Wang Daolin had also been shot. From his perspective, he really thought that the upper-level negotiations were done; otherwise, with the strength of the Su family, they would not have dared to keep them detained for so long.
The leading officer looked slightly bewildered and asked the floral shirt man, "Do you know Li Xing?"
"F*ck, we tear our pants together often. We even had a drink together a couple of days ago. Hey, which squad are you guys from?" The floral shirt asked.
The officer bent down with great interest and handed The floral shirt a cigarette, "Come on, continue, where did you and Brother Li tear your pants and why didn't you call us?"
...
In Longkou District, in a high-end apartment building.
A middle-aged man with a refined appearance got up from the bed and walked to the study, picking up the phone and saying, "Is Lu Feng crazy? Why did he bite Wang Daolin?"
"I don't know, but it's a big deal. The police station held an emergency meeting overnight."
"...This is my instruction, tomorrow you find someone to pass a message to the four companies, just say this..." The middle-aged man paused for a moment and began to instruct his secretary.
Chapter 18 Prelude to Attack
In Wang Daolin's hospital room at the Zhanan District People's Hospital, five or six mid-level officials from the Dragon City Police Bureau were cursing the people from Changqing Company, indignant that Old Wang had been implicated in the matter.
Wang Daolin was not injured at all. He sat on the bed, smoking a cigarette. After taking two deep puffs, he suddenly said, "Damn it, when Changqing Company first came, they were very disciplined and never interfered with us. But in recent years, they have formed a chamber of commerce, and they have been pushing people into the system. They have become so arrogant that they even dare to shoot at my hat. No, I can't swallow this anger!"
"If you can't swallow it, then investigate the matter to the end," said a friend of Wang Daolin's, who was about the same age. "The vandalism, arson, and assault on the foreman, and the shooting in the Cantonese restaurant, are all connected. If we catch any one of them, it will scare Li Hongze."
"Brothers, do you know what Su Laoer's child came to talk to me about today?" Wang Daolin, who had no fear at the moment, asked calmly.
"What did he want from you?" someone asked.
"He offered a price!" Wang Daolin took a puff of smoke and looked at the others, saying, "We should work together on this, not only to vent our anger, but also to benefit from it. And most importantly, we will gain fame, because we did not pick the fight."
"What's the price?"
"What did he say?"
Everyone was interested and gathered around Wang Daolin.
About ten minutes later, Wang Daolin walked out of the hospital room and came downstairs, just as Su Tiannan was being pushed out of the emergency room. He had been shot, but fortunately, the bullet had grazed his abdomen and caused a through-and-through injury without damaging any major organs. However, his intestines were damaged and he needed surgery immediately.
"Are you okay, Little Nan?" Wang Daolin asked as he followed the moving hospital bed.
Su Tiannan had not been given general anesthesia and was still conscious. He looked at Wang Daolin and said in a trembling voice, "It was too close, Uncle Wang!"
Wang Daolin turned to the nurse beside him and politely said, "I'm from the police bureau, I have something to say to him privately."
"Don't be too long, he needs to prepare for surgery." The nurse walked away with long strides.
Wang Daolin lowered his head and looked at Su Tiannan, speaking concisely, "I'll take care of the matter that you mentioned at the restaurant for you."
"Uncle Wang!" Su Tiannan tried to sit up upon hearing this.
"It's alright, it's alright. Just lie down." Wang Daolin patted Su Tiannan's shoulder and bent down to say to him, "Leave it to me. You don't need to worry about anything else."
"Okay, okay!" Su Tiannan nodded repeatedly.
"If your four companies still have chips in hand, don't rush to get rid of them. Let me handle things first." Wang Daolin looked calmly at Su Tiannan and said, "Once I make a move, it's no longer just about handling the matter on my own. There are some relationships involved that need to be taken care of later."
"I understand, I understand!"
"Here..." Wang Daolin casually picked up the prescription sheet from the bed and wrote a phone number on it. He handed it to Su Tiannan and said, "Call this number later."
"I got it!" Su Tiannan was so excited that his body hair stood on end.
"Take care of your injury and we'll talk about the rest tomorrow." Wang Daolin patted Su Tiannan's arm and turned to leave.
After watching Wang Daolin leave, Su Tiannan sat up excitedly. He covered his wound with his left hand and took out his phone with his right hand, immediately dialing Su Tianyu's number. "Hello?"
"Big brother, how are you? I heard you got shot. Our family is rushing to the hospital. Wait for me, hold on...!" Su Tianyu's mouth was like a machine gun, full of worries.
"Stop pretending! You know exactly where I was shot, even better than a CT scan. Why are you yelling?" Su Tiannan cursed in a low voice, then immediately said, "Uncle Wang has just talked to me. Get someone from Lu Feng to come out, I'll give you a phone number, you and Tianbei send the person over, and don't cause any trouble."
"Okay, I understand." Su Tianyu immediately responded.
—---
Approximately five minutes later, Wang Daolin had just left the hospital, and the police station's Li Xing's car, as well as Li Hongze and Lu Feng's business car, were all parked in the hospital's second parking lot.
Li Xing was the first to get out of the car with an assistant and hurriedly walked into the main building, all the way to the door of Wang Daolin's hospital room.
"Where's Old Wang? How's he doing?" Li Xing asked several police officers standing at the door.
Everyone turned to look at Li Xing, and one of the middle-aged police chiefs smiled and replied, "Hey, it's you Li!"
"Where's Old Wang? Is he inside?" Li Xing was getting anxious at this point.
"He just left." The police chief replied softly, "The incident at the Cantonese restaurant has caused quite a stir. Deputy Director Hong just went to the office to prepare for a case meeting, and Old Wang is going there to participate."
"Oh, I thought he was still in the hospital." Li Xing was already very anxious at this point.
"Do you have any business with him?" The police chief's words sounded ordinary, but his tone was slightly intimidating.
Li Xing paused for a moment and replied, "Nothing really, I just heard he was at the scene of the shooting and came to see him."
"Oh!" The police chief nodded and fell silent.
"Okay, you guys carry on, I'll leave first." Li Xing greeted the crowd and left.
Everyone nodded in response.
Li Xing quickly walked downstairs and called Wang Daolin, but the latter did not answer.
"What the hell is going on here?" Li Xing complained with a very unpleasant expression, striding towards the business car and directly pulling the door to get in.
"Have you seen Wang Daolin?" Li Hongze immediately asked.
"No, he's gone back to the police station. I just called him, but he didn't answer." Li Xing replied with a frown.
"You have to talk to him. You can't let this turn into a misunderstanding." Li Hongze urgently said, "How are you going to talk to him? You can't just tell him that the shooter who shot Su Tiannan and him wasn’t sent by Lu Feng, right?"
Li Xing wrinkled his brow and replied, "Isn't that equivalent to indirectly admitting that the previous incidents were related to Lu Feng and me?"
"You can hint at him." Lu Feng reminded him.
Li Xing looked at Lu Feng with a burning gaze and suddenly asked, "Tell me the truth, did you find the gunman?"
"???" Lu Feng's face turned purple when he heard this.
The car fell silent for a moment, and Li Hongze waited for half a day before asking again, "Say something, did you find him or not?"
Lu Feng looked at Li Hongze dumbfounded, and after holding back for a while, he shouted, "If you two ask about this again, I'll just kill myself! I've said it so many times already, the gunman has nothing to do with me!"
Li Xing stared at Lu Feng for a while before turning his head and saying, "It's a shooting case, and the bandits even fired at the chief of the police station. This matter...with my power, I definitely can't suppress it. It now depends on what attitude Wang Daolin takes. I'll call you when I have news after I return to the police station."
"Okay," Li Hongze nodded.
"Bang!"
Li Xing opened the car door and walked out.
Lu Feng's state of mind exploded. After being silent for a while, he suddenly turned to Li Hongze and asked, "Brother, I didn't do the shooting case, is it possible that it was done by Wang Daolin himself?"
Li Hongze was stunned.
Lu Feng thought that the other party was indicating that he should continue, so he immediately added, "Wang Daolin and the Elder Su were comrades-in-arms. He wanted to get involved in the dirty dealings of the gang but didn't have sufficient proof, so he and Su Tiannan came up with a trick."
"I praised you a few days ago, saying that you learned how to use your brain, but how can you say such foolish things now?" Li Hongze looked helplessly at Lu Feng and replied in a low voice, "Are you stupid? Wang Daolin is a police officer and a director! What kind of illness could make him shoot himself three times in a public place?"
In the police car next to them, Li Xing sat in the passenger seat, saying nothing.
The driver drove out of the courtyard and couldn't help but ask, "Lu Feng said he didn't do it, then who could have done it?"
"Do you believe him just because he said it?" Li Xing frowned and replied, "Before Lu Feng came to Dragon City, he had no idea how many lives he had taken. He was more comfortable at shooting people when he parachuted into the big circle. Whether we can take down the territory in Zhanan District the one with the most direct benefit is Lu Feng. If the workers go on strike, he's more anxious than anyone else. He doesn't say it doesn't mean he didn't do it, it's just that the matter is too big for him to admit. These outlaws don't tell the truth!"
—---
On a dirt road in a village in Zhanan District, three vans were parked, and Su Tianbei was standing by one of them smoking while scanning his surroundings.
Inside the middle van, Su Tianyu was sitting in the passenger seat, overcome by drowsiness and yawning incessantly.
Inside the van, the 'Predator' a.k.a the floral shirt man had his hands cuffed by chains and his head lowered as he squinted at Su Tianyu and cursed, "What the hell do you want, kid?"
Su Tianyu was in no mood to answer him.
"You've detained us, but you dare not hand us over to the police, nor you dare kill us. In the end, I see that you're going to have a hard time, ha ha!" The floral shirt's tone was vicious as he said, "I'll say it again, don't let me out, otherwise, your legs will be broken too."
Su Tianyu grew tired of hearing him and turned to him, saying, "Stop shouting, the four companies have already finished their talks with you and Changqing. The police station's people will come to pick you up later, they're Li Xing’s men."
The floral shirt was taken aback for a moment and sneered, "You guys do have some brains."
"Otherwise, what's the point of catching you guys, if not to talk?" Su Tianyu said before falling silent.
After about ten minutes, two police vans arrived and a dozen or so police officers got out. The leader spoke with Su Tianbei for a few moments before opening the van and taking the people away.
After The floral shirt and the others were taken away, Su Tianbei nodded to the leading officer and left with his people.
As the floral shirt and his men were taken away in the van, The floral shirt sat in the middle seat and asked with a smile, "Did Brother Li not come?"
"Which Brother Li?" The leading officer asked.
"Wasn't it Li Xing who sent you guys?" The floral shirt had no idea that a shooting had occurred outside or that Wang Daolin had also been shot. From his perspective, he really thought that the upper-level negotiations were done; otherwise, with the strength of the Su family, they would not have dared to keep them detained for so long.
The leading officer looked slightly bewildered and asked the floral shirt man, "Do you know Li Xing?"
"F*ck, we tear our pants together often. We even had a drink together a couple of days ago. Hey, which squad are you guys from?" The floral shirt asked.
The officer bent down with great interest and handed The floral shirt a cigarette, "Come on, continue, where did you and Brother Li tear your pants and why didn't you call us?"
...
In Longkou District, in a high-end apartment building.
A middle-aged man with a refined appearance got up from the bed and walked to the study, picking up the phone and saying, "Is Lu Feng crazy? Why did he bite Wang Daolin?"
"I don't know, but it's a big deal. The police station held an emergency meeting overnight."
"...This is my instruction, tomorrow you find someone to pass a message to the four companies, just say this..." The middle-aged man paused for a moment and began to instruct his secretary.
