Chapter 144 A Matter of Life and Death

On the deserted street, Wei Xiangzuo walked up to Xu Hu with a knife, slowly raising his arm, "The Yu family used a fake to test the real thing. If you hadn't wanted to kill me, I wouldn't have joined forces with them."

Xu Hu lay on the ground, stiffly wiping the blood from his face with his arm, and replied with a contemptuous look, "Bullshit! Without the Yu family, you and I would have ended up like this sooner or later. Old Gu is dead... Zhanan definitely can't have both of us, that's just human nature. Wei Xiangzuo... I went soft... I should have taken care of you the night Old Gu died, but I hesitated. I should have done it after his funeral, but I still couldn't make up my mind."

Hearing this, Wei Xiangzuo felt a pang of remorse, and his hand holding the knife trembled twice.

Although the two had always been at odds, they were, after all, from the same school, and they had shared a certain amount of friendship in those days when neither of them had money or power.

Wei Xiangzuo believed what Xu Hu had just said, so he couldn't bear to do it.

"...Old Wei, if it wasn't for you clearly rejecting me at the food stall that night, and Li Hongze, the Elders Council, Bao Cheng, and the Xue family forcing me... I might not have been able to make that decision..." Xu Hu squirmed, staring at Wei Xiangzuo with trembling voice.

Wei Xiangzuo slowly turned his head away, his voice hoarse, "Huzi, this knife of mine is too heavy, it's suffocating me..."

"Xiangzuo, let me go," Xu Hu roared, not wanting to die. "I promise I won't come back...!"

Wei Xiangzuo didn't reply, but decisively swung his knife.

"Puchi!"

Xu Hu, who was about to jump up, had his neck slashed open with a single stroke. He fell to the ground with a thud, covering his throat with both hands, staring at Wei Xiangzuo with wide eyes, "You... you're more ruthless than me...!"

After killing Xu Hu, Wei Xiangzuo didn't run away. He simply dropped the knife and stood on the side of the street, staring blankly at the neon lights across the way.

Xu Hu's words had indeed touched Wei Xiangzuo for a moment. He had indeed felt remorse, because he understood the other party's situation better than anyone else.

Xu Hu wasn't lying. He had indeed hesitated about killing Wei Xiangzuo. The meeting at the food stall that night was the best proof.

But Xu Hu had been put on the spot. There were too many people supporting him from behind, and he had no choice but to personally engage in close combat, because retreating even a step would cost him dearly.

Similarly, Wei Xiangzuo had also been put on the spot. Now that things had come to this, how could he explain himself to those who supported him if there were no results?

Wei Xiangzuo felt some sympathy for his old brother Xu Hu. The two were in the same position and faced the same predicament, but he had no choice. He was also unable to control his own destiny.

Xu Hu was dead. Looking back on everything that had happened, you would realize that humans are truly complex creatures.

Gu Tongshan wasn't killed by Xu Hu, so how much of the crying in the mourning hall, and the subsequent arrangements and consolations for Gu Baishun's mother and son, were true? And how much was false?

Perhaps it was this mixture of truth and falsehood in his cries, and the three parts hesitation to kill Wei Xiangzuo, that made up Xu Hu, a living, breathing person.

On the side of the road, Wei Xiangzuo took out his phone and dialed Su Tianyu's number, replying in an extremely concise manner, "It's done. Move in."

Su Tianyu was silent for a long time, "There needs to be an explanation."

"I am the explanation." Wei Xiangzuo replied without any hesitation, "You go find Gu Baishun, you know how to talk to him."

"Okay." Su Tianyu wasn't surprised by this reply, but he still admired Wei Xiangzuo from the bottom of his heart.

The two ended the call, and Su Tianyu sat in the car and contacted Yu Mingyuan.

…

Two minutes later, in the Yu family compound, Chief Lin stood up and said with a smile to Yu Jinrong, "Let's keep in touch in the future."

"Definitely, definitely!" Yu Jinrong replied politely.

"Okay, then I'll leave first."

"I'll see you off."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Yu Jinrong escorted Chief Lin to the gate of his villa, and the latter left in a low-key manner in a car.

In the car, Chief Lin nodded to the male assistant in the passenger seat.

…

In Tianhong Port.

Old Tong, the captain of a coast guard squadron, walked out of the compound in a hurry and waved to more than a hundred team members, shouting, "Move out!"

Upon the order, all the team members in the compound rushed to the vehicles and left the compound with a menacing aura.

At the same time, the Dragon City Police Department, the Fukuoka District Police Department, and the Zhanan Police Department dispatched 400 police officers, entering the port in full force less than five minutes after Xu Hu's death.

On the other side, the Dragon City Police Department's riot squad, with 300 officers, also flooded into Tianhong Port to make arrests.

Several police units moved out at the same time, which would definitely not be possible without the permission of the chief and the approval of the city's top leaders.

However, the police department's Chief Lin and the city leaders were not necessarily doing this to help the Yu family. Their motives were far from being that simple.

Perhaps it was because the Dockworkers' Association had become too powerful and had been causing trouble frequently during this period, angering the higher-ups, so the authorities wanted to deal with them. And Yu Jinrong, as the Dockworkers' Association's opponent, would naturally reap the benefits.

Or perhaps it was because there was internal strife within the Dragon City government. Some people supported the Dockworkers' Association, while others had long wanted to take action against them, so they "inadvertently" saw the Yu family, who were at odds with the Dockworkers' Association.

These behind-the-scenes motives and calculations are actually difficult to prove. Therefore, Yu Jinrong would never naively believe that just because Chief Lin had come to his house once, the two of them were friends who shared weal and woe.

…

A large number of police officers entered the scene to clean up the mess. The first to suffer were Bao Cheng's men, who had just rushed into the port from Zhengyang Street. While they were still looking for Xu Hu, they were blocked on the street by several multi-functional riot control vehicles.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of riot squad members in heavy uniforms, holding shields and batons, throwing smoke bombs, beat the group to the ground.

Bao Cheng's scheming and intelligence seemed very endearing in this group of cunning old foxes' secret contest. This was also why it was difficult for him to rise to the top even after the gang leaders in the Longkou District had died. His thinking was muddled, and his mind was confused, yet he wanted to reach the sky in one step.

A large number of police officers entered the scene, and like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, they cleaned up all the unstable elements in the port.

In the end, Wei Xiangzuo didn't run away. He stayed at the scene of Xu Hu's death and was personally arrested by Old Tong of the coast guard team.

Before Wei Xiangzuo got into the police car, he instructed Xiao Feng, "You contact Su Tianyu."

Xiao Feng nodded.

On the side of the road, inside a restaurant on the second floor, Luo Guo glanced down at the street and said into the phone, "I'm late. Xu Hu is already dead. Wei Xiangzuo didn't run away, he was arrested."

The other party was silent for a long time before saying, "That's fate, alas. Okay, you can go."

"Okay, I understand."

After saying that, the two ended the call.

…

After the port calmed down, Su Tianyu picked up his phone and dialed Kong Zhenghui's number, "Help me find Gu Tongshan's son's phone number..."