Chapter 130 An Old Friend

Su Tiannan put on his clothes, held an umbrella, walked out of his house, glanced around on the street, and softly called out, "Zhang Chao, Zhang Chao!"

"Over here...!" A response came from not far away.

Su Tiannan turned around, cautiously walking over.

In the pouring rain, the young man named Zhang Chao stood next to a utility pole, hands in his pockets, his face extremely pale.

The faint light from a nearby house illuminated Zhang Chao's cheeks. He was none other than the person who had participated in the kidnapping of Lao Pang and indirectly saved Lu Feng and Su Tiannan's lives.

Su Tiannan looked at Zhang Chao in surprise and handed him the umbrella. "What... what's wrong with you?!"

"Do... do you have a car? Let's talk in the car!" Zhang Chao asked, stuttering slightly.

"Yes, yes, wait a moment, I'll go back and drive!"

...

Five minutes later.

The SUV was parked at a secluded street corner. Su Tiannan turned his head and asked, "What's going on?"

In the passenger seat, Zhang Chao was breathing heavily, his head lowered, seemingly in great pain.

Su Tiannan immediately turned on the interior lights. In the light, he noticed a large amount of blood on Zhang Chao's shoulder.

"Damn it, what the hell happened to you?!" Su Tiannan grabbed a tissue from the car, intending to stop the bleeding first.

"Pa!"

Zhang Chao grabbed Su Tiannan's wrist and said in Mandarin with a Cantonese accent, "Nan Zai... can... can you help me out!"

"How can I help you if you don't tell me what's going on?" Su Tiannan replied.

"I got into some trouble in Tianhong Port. Guns were fired. And two of my companions, one of them is hurt worse than me. If we try to leave the city like this, he's definitely not going to make it." Zhang Chao's voice trembled, "You... you have to help us. I really have no choice, otherwise I wouldn't come to you."

Su Tiannan was stunned.

"Please, Nan Zai!" Zhang Chao looked at him with a pale face. "...I... I know this will make things difficult for you, especially since we haven't seen each other in so long... but I'm really at the end of my rope."

Zhang Chao was Su Tiannan's childhood friend. They had known each other since they were five or six years old, and Zhang Chao's father had also served in the military. They initially lived in the military housing complex together and later moved to The Dragon City.

Zhang Chao and Su Tiannan had similar interests and hobbies, and their personalities were also similar: steady and mature beyond their years. Therefore, their relationship had always been good. It wasn't until Zhang Chao went to work in the Second District a few years ago that the two had less contact.

"Help me!" Zhang Chao's voice was full of pleading.

"You guys fired guns too? Did anyone die?" Su Tiannan asked calmly.

Zhang Chao didn't hide anything, gritting his teeth as he replied, "Yes!"

Su Tiannan looked at him, without blame, without superfluous words, and without asking for details, because he knew clearly that none of those things mattered.

The situation was that his childhood friend had come to him, in a moment of life and death. Was he going to help him or not?!

Su Tiannan lowered his head for two seconds. "...Chao, I can keep you here, but I can't take care of those two."

Zhang Chao was stunned.

"You guys kidnapped the general manager of Baolong Mining before. I think this incident should also be related to them." Su Tiannan frowned and replied, "But the relationship between Baolong Group and us is a bit tense. If I cause trouble alone, it might implicate a lot of 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." Su Tiannan replied, "And you can't go back there anymore."

"Forget it, I can't abandon them. Sorry to bother you." Zhang Chao opened the car door. "Things are urgent, so I won't bother with formalities. I'm leaving first."

"Stay here, I can send you away," Su Tiannan immediately replied.

Zhang Chao paused, closed the car door, and turned to walk toward the street corner.

Inside the car, Su Tiannan looked at Zhang Chao's back, feeling very guilty and sad. He wasn't just talking about their relationship, being childhood friends. Just last time at the entertainment city, if Zhang Chao hadn't risked helping them, Su Tiannan and Lu Feng would have most likely been killed to silence them.

When Zhang Chao stood up at that time, it was absolutely like handing half his life to Su Tiannan, because if either the latter or Lu Feng had a loose tongue and reported Zhang Chao's personal information to the police, not only would he be in big trouble himself, possibly being caught and killed, but even his team might be exposed and suffer a devastating blow.

From this point of view, Zhang Chao had not forgotten their childhood friendship.

Thinking of this, Su Tiannan felt that he was too cold-blooded and pragmatic. He looked at his childhood friend walking in the rain, his left hand unconsciously reaching for the car door handle.

On the street ahead.

Zhang Chao didn't blame Su Tiannan in his heart, but after walking quickly for a dozen steps, he felt somewhat despondent.

In this weather, with this physical condition, what could he do if he left? He could only wait to die!

Zhang Chao slowly stopped, clenched his fists, and turned his head to look at the car behind him.

He knew that turning back at this moment would definitely be a moral kidnapping, but he really had no better choice.

"Gudong!"

Zhang Chao paused, faced the car, and knelt in the rain.

"Bang!"

The car door flew open, Su Tiannan rushed down, and ran over in the rain. "Get up, I'll help you!"

Zhang Chao's face was covered in tears.

Five minutes later.

Su Tiannan dialed his cousin Zhang Hao's phone. "Don't alarm anyone else, come out by yourself, walk to the left, and you'll see my car."

"Okay, I understand, brother."

Inside the car, Su Tiannan hung up the phone and asked in a low voice, "What exactly are you guys doing?!"

"Some of my friends disappeared, and we've been looking for them..." Zhang Chao replied, covering his wound.

...

Xiadao Resort Sea Area.

On a yacht, Miao Ziwei was wearing big shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, waving his hands and shouting drunkenly at a dozen or so young women, "All of you, bend over! The posture must be standard, the attitude must be pious! If you perform well, I'll send you directly to a film company! Come on, bend over, move it!"

On the leather sofa next to him, another middle-aged man in his mid-thirties picked up the ringing phone. "What's up?"

"There's been an accident on the cargo ship!"

"Hmm?" The middle-aged man slowly got up and walked to the edge of the yacht. "What's the situation?"

"The drop-off point might be compromised. Guns were fired."

"Then just abandon it!" The middle-aged man replied, smoking a cigarette.

"Our brothers can retreat, but the goods can't be moved, after all, the port is sealed off. And someone died at the scene, I'm afraid the authorities will be keeping an eye on it."

"..." The middle-aged man thought for a moment, "Let the Er Wang brothers go over and handle it immediately."

...

Tianhong Port, in the backyard of Tianlan Overseas Labor Service Company.

Just as Su Tianyu was about to step inside to question the eyewitness, Hou Guoyu suddenly followed up and said, "Team Leader Su, there's blood at the door, very scattered!"