Leaving Fengtian, it was already past ten in the evening. Because Li Zhonglou still had Wei Yin's matters to attend to, Mu Qi and the others did not leave together. However, he did encounter the security guard who had stopped him on the way in.
"Hey! Stop!"
Li Zhonglou turned his head. The other party was still holding the electric baton, walking over with an arrogant demeanor.
The security guard placed his hands behind his back, and only when he was close did he draw out one hand and point at Li Zhonglou's pocket: "You, take out what's in your pocket and let me see."
This was a bit unreasonable. Li Zhonglou's expression turned grim: "On what grounds?"
The man raised the electric baton in his hand, smugly saying, "On the grounds that I am a staff member here. You fellow, don't think you can disregard me just because you are protecting Miss Mu Qi."
"Judging by my back, I'm no worse than you! Hurry up, don't dawdle!"
This was clearly an attempt to humiliate him. Li Zhonglou's eyes immediately flashed with coldness. Just as he was about to make a move, a voice suddenly came from the side.
"Brother Li!"
The voice was unfamiliar. Li Zhonglou turned his head and saw a young man in the third realm walking quickly towards them.
"Brother Li, you haven't left yet? Why don't you come to my company for a bit?"
Li Zhonglou was stunned. The security guard recognized the man and said with a blank expression, "Young Master Wu, you know him?"
The man then realized the atmosphere was not right, and his expression instantly fell.
"What's going on! Are you disrespecting Brother Li?"
The security guard's legs instantly went soft, and he knelt directly on the ground. If it were someone else, he might have invoked the people behind him, but the person in front of him was from the owner's lineage of Fengtian!
In Fengtian, who had more authority than them?
And Li Zhonglou, after hearing the name "Young Master Wu," remembered where he had seen this man before. When he was on the stage, he had seen Wu Long interacting with him.
Hearing his words, it seemed he was some kind of fanboy of Wu Long, otherwise, he wouldn't have addressed him with such respect.
Thinking of this, Li Zhonglou didn't want to waste any more time. He said directly, "Brother, do me a favor. He suspects I stole something from inside. Could you explain it to him? I have urgent matters to attend to. I'll have Brother Wu Long help repay you later."
After speaking, Li Zhonglou patted his shoulder. The latter grinned and said, "Don't worry, Brother Wu Long instructed me to treat Brother Li as one of our own. Leave this to me, and you can go."
Li Zhonglou nodded, glanced at the security guard, and then turned and left without looking back.
It's over.
The security guard's body went soft again, and the light in his eyes disappeared.
The man also said coldly, "Hmph, how dare you use the name of Fengtian to do such things?"
The security guard shivered and quickly hugged the man's thigh. Li Zhonglou didn't see any of this, but he vaguely heard screams before leaving.
Li Zhonglou naturally felt no sympathy for such a petty person. After leaving Fengtian, he headed straight for the port.
Meanwhile, on the top floor of the Fengtian Hotel, a slender figure was silently watching Li Zhonglou's retreating back.
Behind him stood two men in suits, both around forty years old.
"Boss, are we really just letting him go? Should I have someone investigate his background?"
The slender figure shook his head.
"No need. If he were an ordinary person, wouldn't you have already found out?"
"This..."
The two exchanged a glance, and the slender figure continued, "No matter who he is affiliated with, he poses no threat to us for now, and he is cleaning up the rot for us. It's appropriate to give him some convenience."
After the figure's owner finished speaking, he withdrew his gaze and turned to leave. The two men in suits exchanged another glance.
A hint of doubt seemed to flash through their eyes.
On the other side, the closer Li Zhonglou got to the port, the more he could feel that something was unusual. Even the air carried a faint aura of a powerful expert.
"Sky Eye."
Li Zhonglou directly used his Sky Eye divine ability. Besides searching for Wei Yin's figure, he was also observing the surrounding situation.
The entire port was shaped like a semi-circle, but there were only three bridges that could be directly entered, as the port was an independent island!
Li Zhonglou only discovered this fact as he approached. Strangely, there was no information online mentioning this.
By the side of a wide river, over a hundred meters wide, Li Zhonglou stopped, looking at the rapidly flowing river water, and fell into thought.
"This is wrong. This river doesn't look naturally formed."
Li Zhonglou looked at the edges of both banks. They were not transitions of loose sand but were piled with bluestone bricks.
And it continued to the end of his sight, all appearing like a dam!
One must know that only artificially formed banks would have this style. If it were a normal river evolution, its banks would at least have a sandy transition!
This meant that the great river that completely surrounded Beigang was an artificial canal!
After realizing this, Li Zhonglou's face instantly showed shock, because an engineering project of this scale should have been among the top ten in the world. Yet, he had never heard of anything here since he was a child!
The key point was that the entire Beigang was not owned by the General Bureau, but by the Wu family!
Then this Wu family...
Li Zhonglou frowned deeply and muttered, "Fortunately, I didn't let Zhou Tong alert them. They should still not know that I want to investigate them."
Some time had passed since he arrived in Shangjing, but he had never privately investigated the Wu family's information. Any information he had was from people Zhou Tong had found who knew common knowledge.
Even if it genuinely involved the Wu family, it was about edge cases with specific targets, such as auction house passes.
This meant that even if the Wu family investigated him because of the competition, they wouldn't find any traces of him. This somewhat relieved Li Zhonglou.
However, the problem now was how to enter the port.
According to the information obtained at the bar, if Wei Yin had not left Shangjing yet, he would be inside the port, which was inside this large canal. However, when he came over just now, he saw that both sides of the bridge were guarded.
And they were fully armed personnel!
Li Zhonglou was a little worried if he needed special identification to enter. After all, with his Sky Eye divine ability, he had seen no less than two-digit numbers of fourth-realm experts!
The key to capturing someone like Wei Yin was stealth. For Wei Yin, a wanted criminal, to be able to sneak in, it would be unbelievable if there were no insiders at the bridge.
This was precisely what Li Zhonglou was worried about. If ordinary people could enter, he could easily find an excuse, and no one would know about his mission.
But if special identification was required, then even if he entered, there was a high chance he would alert them! If Wei Yin got wind of it and boarded the nearest plane or ship, then his trip would have been in vain.