Su Tiannan put on his clothes, held up an umbrella and walked out of the house. Standing on the street, he turned his head and looked around, and called softly, "Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao!"
“Here…!” a response came from not far away.
Su Tiannan came to his senses and walked over with some caution.
Under the heavy rain, the young man named Zhang Chao stood next to the electric pole with his hands in his pockets and his face was very pale.
The dim light from the residential door shone over, illuminating Zhang Chao's face. He was none other than the man who had participated in the kidnapping of Lao Pang and indirectly saved the lives of Lu Feng and Su Tiannan.
Su Tiannan looked at Zhang Chao in surprise and handed him the umbrella: "You...what's wrong with you?!"
"You... do you have a car? Let's talk in the car!" Zhang Chao asked with some stammering.
"Yes, yes, wait a moment, I'll go back and open it!"
…
Five minutes later.
The SUV stopped at a remote street corner. Su Tiannan turned around and asked, "What are you doing...?"
In the passenger seat, Zhang Chao was breathing heavily, with his head lowered, seeming to be in great pain.
Su Tiannan immediately turned on the ceiling light in the car and glanced at the other person again in the light. Only then did he discover a large amount of blood on Zhang Chao's shoulder.
"Fuck, what's wrong with you?!" Su Tiannan picked up the tissue in the car and was about to help the other person block the wound.
“Bang!”
Zhang Chao grabbed Su Tiannan's wrist and said in Mandarin with a certain Cantonese accent: "Nanzi...you...can you help me?"
"How can I help you if you don't tell me what it is?" Su Tiannan replied.
"Something happened to me in Tianhong Port. There was a gunshot. I have two companions with me, one of whom was injured more seriously than me. If I try to leave the city now, I will definitely die." Zhang Chao's voice trembled: "You... you help us. I really have no other choice, otherwise I wouldn't come to you."
Su Tiannan was stunned.
“Please, Nanzai!” Zhang Chao looked at him with a pale face: “… I… I know this will be difficult for you, after all, we haven’t seen each other for a long time… But I really have no other choice.”
Zhang Chao is Su Tiannan’s childhood friend. The two have known each other since they were five or six years old. Zhang Chao’s father also had military experience. At first, the two lived together in a military residential area, and later moved into Longcheng together.
Zhang Chao and Su Tiannan have similar interests and hobbies, and their personalities are similar, both of them are very stable and mature, so their relationship has always been very good. It was not until a few years ago when Zhang Chao went to work in District 2 that the contact between the two of them became less frequent.
"Help me!" Zhang Chao's tone was full of pleading.
"You also fired shots? Someone died?" Su Tiannan asked calmly.
Zhang Chao did not hide it and replied through gritted teeth: "Yes!"
Su Tiannan looked at the other person without blaming him or saying any nonsense, nor did he ask about what happened, because he knew very well that these things were not important.
The current situation is that my childhood friend has come to me. At this moment of life and death, should I help him? !
Su Tiannan lowered his head and paused for two seconds: "... Chao, I can keep you, but I can't control those two people."
Zhang Chao was stunned.
"The person you kidnapped before was the general manager of Baolong Mining. I think this incident should be related to that company." Su Tiannan frowned and replied, "But the relationship between Baolong Group and us is a bit tense. If I get into trouble alone, it may implicate many people. Do you understand what I mean?"
Zhang Chao gritted his teeth.
"I'll help you, no problem, but I can't take care of those two people." Su Tiannan replied: "And you can't go back anymore."
"Forget it. I can't possibly abandon them. Sorry for the trouble." Zhang Chao opened the car door. "This is an urgent matter. I won't say polite words. I'm leaving now."
"Stay, I can send you away." Su Tiannan replied immediately.
Zhang Chao paused, reached out to close the car door, turned and walked towards the street corner.
In the car, Su Tiannan looked at Zhang Chao's back, feeling very guilty and uncomfortable. Let's not talk about the relationship between the two, they were childhood friends. Just talking about the last time in the entertainment city, if Zhang Chao hadn't taken the risk to help, Su Tiannan and Lu Feng would most likely have been killed.
When Zhang Chao stood up at that time, it was absolutely equivalent to handing half of his life to Su Tiannan, because if one of the latter and Lu Feng was not honest enough and reported Zhang Chao's personal information to the police station, not only would he be in big trouble and might be arrested and killed at any time, but even the team might be exposed and suffer a devastating disaster.
From this point of view, Zhang Chao has not forgotten the childhood friendship.
Thinking of this, Su Tiannan felt that he was too cold-blooded and utilitarian. He looked at his childhood friend walking in the rain, and his left hand unconsciously touched the door handle.
On the front street.
Zhang Chao did not blame Su Tiannan in his heart, but after walking quickly for more than ten steps, he felt a little overwhelmed.
In this kind of weather and in this kind of physical condition, what else can I do if I leave? I can only wait to die!
Zhang Chao slowly stopped, clenched his fists, and turned to look at the car behind him.
He knew that if he turned back at this moment, it would be a moral blackmail, but he really had no better choice.
"Gudong!"
Zhang Chao paused, then knelt in the rain facing the car.
“Bang!”
The car door popped open, Su Tiannan rushed down, and ran over in the rain: "Get up, I'll help you!"
Zhang Chao's face was covered with tears.
Five minutes later.
Su Tiannan called his cousin Zhang Hao and said, "Don't alarm other people. Come out by yourself and walk to the left. Then you can see my car."
"Okay, I get it, bro."
In the car, Su Tiannan hung up the phone and asked in a low voice: "What are you doing?!"
"Several of my friends disappeared, and we have been looking for them..." Zhang Chao responded while covering his wound.
…
Summer Island resort waters.
On a yacht, Miao Ziwei, wearing shorts and a flowered shirt, waved his hands at a dozen young girls and drunkenly shouted, "All of you, bend over! The posture should be standard and the attitude should be pious! If you perform well, you will be sent directly to the film and television company! Come on, bend over and move!"
On the leather sofa next to him, another middle-aged man in his thirties reached out and picked up the ringing phone: "What's the matter?"
"Something happened to the cargo ship!"
"Hmm?" The middle-aged man slowly stood up, walked to the edge of the yacht and asked, "What's going on?"
"The foothold may have been missed, and the shooting took place."
"Then just remove it and it's all over!" the middle-aged man replied while smoking.
"Our brothers can withdraw, but the goods cannot leave because the port is closed. Also, someone died at the scene. I'm afraid the authorities will target us."
“…!” The middle-aged man thought again and again: “Let the second brother Wang go over and deal with it immediately.”
…
Tianhong Port, in the backyard of Tianlan Overseas Labor Service Company.
Just as Su Tianyu was about to step into the room to question the witness, Hou Guoyu suddenly caught up with him and said, "Team Leader Su, there is blood at the door, very scattered!"