Chapter 1 Warehouse

Inside the warehouse, squad leader Fang Zheng had already led the police officers to secure the scene. Not a single gangster managed to escape; all were pinned down.

Seeing that the scene was under control, Su Tianyu immediately found Hou Guoyu, intending to have him identify the ringleader.

"Come out and take a look...!" Su Tianyu rushed into the room, but as he was about to speak to Hou Guoyu, he spotted the little girl curled up inside the wooden crate.

The room fell silent.

Su Tianyu stared at the little girl's curled-up corpse in the crate, his heart filled with horror and shock.

"...These... these are beasts, utterly devoid of humanity." Hou Guoyu said, his voice trembling, clenching his fists as he cursed.

Snapping back to reality, Su Tianyu felt his scalp prickle and his chest tighten. It was the most primal of physiological reactions, a first impression born from the convergence of discomfort, anger, and astonishment.

"...She... she's the child you picked up?!"

"Yes!" Hou Guoyu replied, his face turning extremely grim as he stormed out of the room.

Ten seconds later.

In the warehouse lobby, Hou Guoyu, wielding a chair in one hand, marched menacingly towards one of the gangsters, "Where are they? The one with the hooked nose, and those two Eastern Europeans?!"

The gangster lowered his head, not uttering a word.

"Bang!"

Hou Guoyu slammed the chair onto the man's head, sending his head crashing into the concrete floor, rendering him unconscious on the spot.

"Where are they?!" Hou Guoyu roared, turning to look around.

The room was silent, and Fang Zheng immediately rushed over, shouting, "Hou Guoyu, you can't move...!"

Before he could finish, Su Tianyu ran over as well, pointing at the officers in the hall and yelling, "Everyone, go check the scene outside!"

Seeing Su Tianyu's expression, the officers immediately understood what he wanted to do, so they quickly scattered.

"Xiao Su, this way...!" Fang Zheng walked over, about to say something.

Su Tianyu directly turned off his law enforcement recorder, pulled out his gun, and grabbed a gangster by the collar, "I'm giving you three seconds! Where are they? Where did they go?!"

The gangster trembled, sweat pouring down his forehead, still hesitating.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Su Tianyu lowered his head and fired three shots, directly shattering the gangster's right kneecap, sending bone fragments and flesh flying. dafengxsw.com

"Where are they?!" Su Tianyu roared, demanding an answer.

Nearby, a middle-aged man who was handcuffed on the ground shouted in terror, "I know, I'll talk!"

Su Tianyu looked at him.

"Wang Xiong just left; they went to Dongzhou Express at No. 56 in the city's outskirts. That... that's a stronghold of the Dragon City Intelligence Division. He... he's going to take a plane back to District One." The gangster swallowed hard, confessing.

Su Tianyu pushed away the man he was holding and walked over to ask, "Did he suddenly leave because he sensed something?"

"No, it's... it's because the job here is done, and there happened to be a helicopter at the Intelligence Division's stronghold ready to fly to District One. He was just going along the way, so he left early," the gangster replied.

Upon hearing this, Su Tianyu immediately turned to Fang Zheng and said, "Captain, have someone contact Chief Cheng and get the department to send reinforcements immediately. We'll go to the Intelligence Division's activity point first with the men we have."

Fang Zheng frowned, "The Intelligence Division? You're just barging in...?"

"I'll explain everything to the higher-ups," Su Tianyu interrupted.

Fang Zheng naturally knew who the "higher-ups" were, so he could only nod in agreement, "Alright, then we'll leave some people to guard the scene, and we'll go over first."

"Yes!"

After the two finished communicating, they led more than twenty police officers, quickly left the warehouse, and drove straight towards the outskirts of Dragon City.

...

Su Tianyu never imagined that this group of traffickers would actually be connected to the Intelligence Division, making them far more powerful than he had thought. This also proved his previous guess was correct: the other party was not a simple trafficking gang, and there was likely a much bigger hand behind them.

With the ringleader Wang Xiong possibly on the run, Su Tianyu didn't have time to think and could only immediately call Li Mingsheng.

In the call, after listening to Su Tianyu's account, Li Mingsheng agreed, "If that's the case, then your previous judgment should be correct."

"...Leader, the place we're going to is an Intelligence Division activity point. I need your support," Su Tianyu replied.

"If the people from the Intelligence Division are helping them, then I definitely can't let these gangsters successfully run back to District One." Realizing there was a big fish on this line, Li Mingsheng immediately replied to Su Tianyu, "If you successfully catch the people, I'll commend and award you; if you don't catch them, then I can only hand you over to the Intelligence Division to deal with."

Su Tianyu instantly understood Old Li's meaning, "Alright, if I can't find the people, I'll bear the consequences alone."

"That's it." After saying that, Li Mingsheng hung up the phone and had Li Yuan contact Chief Cheng again.

Two minutes later.

After receiving the call, Chief Cheng walked back and forth in the room, his expression somewhat conflicted.

"Going after the Intelligence Division, can Old Li handle it?" The deputy chief asked with some concern, "Should we...?"

"There's no choice. From the moment Su Tianyu came to our police department, your and my positions were already set." Chief Cheng waved his hand, "I'm tired, let's just destroy it all. Notify the other three squads to provide reinforcements, that's all!"

...

About forty minutes later.

On the west side of the Dragon City suburbs, six police cars stopped next to a land transportation cargo distribution base covering hundreds of thousands of square meters.

Inside the car, Fang Zheng was no longer prepared to make his own decisions, because the matter was too big, so he planned to "listen" to Su Tianyu. "What do you think we should do?"

Su Tianyu glanced down at his watch, "When we went to the warehouse, they had just left. We've arrived here now, so they probably just got here too. Let's not hesitate, let's just do it!"

"Just do it? What if there's a shootout?! That's directly treason, this is an Intelligence Division unit!" Fang Zheng swallowed hard, replying.

Su Tianyu said in a low voice, "Do it like this, you take five people..."

...

Five minutes later.

Fang Zheng led five people and walked into the Dongzhou Freight Station. This was an intelligence station disguised as a regular freight station, but in reality, it worked for the Intelligence Division, mainly responsible for gathering information in the Old Mo area.

Most of the workers here didn't know what the company did, but the core members were all soldiers, probably around twenty or so people, but it was impossible for everyone to be there at the same time.

After entering the freight station, Fang Zheng directly found the person in charge, showed his credentials, and said, "We are from the Maritime Police Force, and we need your cooperation with a case."

"What case?" The person in charge frowned.

"It's impossible to tell you what case it is. Do you have a helicopter landing pad here? Take me there," Fang Zheng said irrefutably, pretending not to know their identity at all.

The person in charge was stunned for a moment, "I can't take you."

"Citizens have an obligation...!"

"I'm not a citizen." The other party didn't waste time and directly took out his credentials from his pocket, "This isn't an ordinary freight yard; this is an activity stronghold of the Intelligence Division. It's almost a semi-public state. People in your police system actually don't know?!"

...

Outside.

Su Tianyu cocked his gun and turned to look at the team members behind him, "Brothers, trust me, I, Su Tianyu, never screw people over! Everyone, work with me on this, we will hold these traffickers down even if we die!"

"Yes!"

Everyone immediately responded.