Chapter 108 Is It Absolutely Necessary to Save Him?

Outside the Haijing Division compound, Hou Guoyu, wearing a raincoat, turned and looked at the little girl standing beside him.

She looked about six or seven years old, dirty and thin, as if she had been malnourished for a long time.

The little girl's face was pale, her lips were purple, her clothes were ragged, and she was draped in a large plastic sheet to shield her from the rain—the kind used to cover cargo boxes outside supermarkets.

Hou Guoyu was taken aback for a moment and lowered his head to ask, "Why are you pulling on me?"

"Cough, cough...!"

The little girl coughed violently twice, reached out and gestured at the Haijing hat Hou Guoyu was wearing, but no sound came out of her mouth.

Hou Guoyu was a little confused. He bent down and shouted, "Are you a little beggar? What's wrong, are you hungry?!"

The little girl had bruises on her face and gestured anxiously, trying to communicate with Hou Guoyu in sign language, but he couldn't understand it at all.

"Stop gesturing, are you hungry?" Hou Guoyu thought she was asking him for food, so he raised his head and called out, "Boss, add another pancake and get her something hot to drink."

"Okay," the boss nodded.

Seeing that Hou Guoyu wasn't reacting correctly, the little girl immediately grabbed his wrist with both hands and pulled him backward with all her might.

Hou Guoyu was also confused. "What exactly do you want? Didn't I buy you food?"

The little girl let go, stood on tiptoe, laboriously pointed at Hou Guoyu's police hat, and made "ah ba, ah ba" sounds.

"She's mute!" Hou Guoyu realized something was wrong and immediately bent down to ask, "What does pointing at my hat mean? Are you saying I'm a cop?"

The little girl's clear eyes were full of anxiety. She grabbed Hou Guoyu's wrist with her cold left hand and pulled him hard into the distance.

"What are you doing?"

"…!" The little girl gestured walking, pointing into the distance with a very urgent expression.

Hou Guoyu roughly understood what she meant. He frowned and asked, "Are you saying I'm a cop and you want me to go with you, right?!"

The little girl nodded vigorously.

"Let's go, I'll see what you want to do." Hou Guoyu got up and said to the boss, "Start making it, I'll be back to eat in a while."

...

Inside the Tongji Association on the second floor.

Su Tianyu sat in a chair, looking at his elder brother with a serious expression, and asked, "Is it absolutely necessary to save him?"

"He saved me and Lu Feng," Su Tiannan sighed and replied, "Otherwise, let me try to get them out first."

"It's pouring rain outside, and multiple departments have issued cooperation notices. It's very difficult to get out now." Su Tianyu got up and replied, "Can I meet that Zhang Chao?"

"You can!" Su Tiannan nodded.

"Let's go, let's go down and take a look!" Su Tianyu strode towards the door.

About ten minutes later, in the backyard warehouse, Su Tianyu met the three bandits hiding in his association.

"Chao, this is my younger brother, Su Tianyu," the elder brother introduced.

Zhang Chao weakly stood up and extended his hand to Su Tianyu. "Hello, sorry for the trouble."

Su Tianyu's feelings at this moment were different from his elder brother's, because he had no emotional connection with the other man. He really felt that the other man was causing the association a lot of trouble.

For his elder brother's sake, Su Tianyu symbolically shook his hand, then asked with a serious face and a cold voice, "What exactly happened?!"

Zhang Chao hesitated for a moment, but chose to tell Su Tianyu about what happened.

It turned out that when Zhang Chao was working in the Second District, he was introduced by a friend to join a labor union organization. Its nature was similar to that of the Tongji Association. It was just a group of poor brothers banding together to keep warm and trying to do something together.

After joining this labor union, Zhang Chao quickly gained the trust of the upper echelons due to his calm personality, and became a backbone member from an unsalaried worker.

Some time ago, eight of Zhang Chao's companions in this labor union disappeared in the war zone while running goods and doing business. Even the third-in-command of the labor union disappeared while looking for people.

Zhang Chao's superior brother inquired around and learned that Lao Pang of Baolong Mining was involved in this matter, so these people took the risk of entering the city to carry out a kidnapping.

After interrogating Lao Pang outside the district, Lao Pang told them that he had indeed opened a company with others and was secretly providing test drug subjects for a certain pharmaceutical group. Therefore, he had trafficked some unregistered personnel outside the district, black, white, and Asian, all of them.

However, Lao Pang himself was not the manager. He only invested a little money and got in touch with the pharmaceutical group.

Lao Pang's appeal for doing this was very simple. With his level, he certainly didn't need to make money from test drug subjects, but he could use this to befriend the pharmaceutical group, obtain drug distribution quotas from them, and sell them at high prices in the war zone.

However, in this industrial chain, Lao Pang himself did not get involved in the specific affairs, such as population transportation and trafficking, which were all done by his partners.

After Zhang Chao and the others learned of this news, they inquired about the situation of the partners. Lao Pang told them that he had been kidnapped for a few days, and the partners must have learned of this news, so it was not realistic to use himself to lure them out.

However, the partners had offices in Sinalo, Casaro, and even around Dragon City, which were usually used for transporting people. Therefore, if Zhang Chao and the others wanted to investigate, they could start from this aspect.

According to some information provided by Lao Pang, Zhang Chao and the others set their sights on a cargo ship sailing from the southern sea. They originally planned to take action at a mid-way supply point, but they did not expect that a typhoon had started in Dragon City, and the cargo ship was forced to dock and berth. Therefore, everyone could only choose to take action here.

Zhang Chao explained the cause and effect of the matter very clearly, and the logic could match up, but no one knew whether this was a pre-prepared line or a deliberate lie.

After Su Tianyu listened to all his narrations, he immediately asked, "Where did you guys shoot last night?!"

"We originally planned to sneak into Tianlan Labor Company, but before we could enter, a group of people suddenly rushed over and started shooting at us," Zhang Chao replied, "We don't know when we were exposed."

"Tianlan Labor Company?!" Su Tianyu frowned. "Does this place have anything to do with what you're investigating?!"

"Yes, as far as we know, this company helps abduct people in the name of overseas labor, specifically targeting poor people who want to get rich," Zhang Chao replied in a firm tone.

Su Tianyu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

...

On the street.

Hou Guoyu stood in the pouring rain, turned his head and looked at the empty street, and asked with a stretched neck, "What did you bring me here for?!"

The little girl stood in the pouring rain, her eyes a little confused. She kept looking around, but couldn't remember the way.