Chapter 1 The Company's Hole

On the cruise ship, Wang Ying stood by the railing, shouting into her phone, "Do whatever you want, I can't be bothered with you!"

She hung up, staring blankly at the sea, looking dazed.

Qiuqiu and An Qiqi, who had been taking photos of the sea view, noticed her emotional state and lost their desire to play. They walked over to her.

"What's wrong?" An Qiqi asked.

"Huh?" Wang Ying turned her head in a daze, a smile more painful than crying immediately appearing on her face. "Oh, it's nothing, just some business."

Qiuqiu rolled her eyes. "Please, the expression you had on the phone looked like you were going to eat someone. What kind of business is that exciting?"

Wang Ying smoothed her hair. "Really, it's nothing."

"We're all good friends, you can tell us anything!" An Qiqi said.

"Hehe, I...!" Wang Ying lowered her head, clutching her phone tightly.

"Ugh, I hate seeing you like this." Qiuqiu looked exasperated, her tone impatient. "Forget it, say it or don't, it's not my problem if you're feeling bad."

Wang Ying's emotions crumbled instantly. She slowly squatted on the ground, covering her face and saying, "I... I really don't know what to do, I can't cover the company's hole anymore."

An Qiqi and Qiuqiu exchanged a look and immediately helped her up. "What happened?"

"Sis, you didn't embezzle company funds, did you?" Qiuqiu asked, looking down at her with disbelief. "Did you?"

...

The 045 border area.

Su Tianyu sat in front of an off-road vehicle, leisurely drinking rice porridge.

Sun Wei, slapped to the ground by Xin Xiaodong's deputy commander, sat slumped on the ground, his hair a mess, shouting, "I understand! I understand!"

"Understand what?" the deputy commander asked, touching his gun.

"I understand everything!" Sun Wei wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted, "Check... check!"

Behind him, a family member who had come with Sun Wei immediately rushed forward with a briefcase, handing over a blank check.

Su Tianyu, with drooping eyelids, sat on a small stool like a sucker, slurping his rice porridge and eating small pickles.

Seeing that there were no chairs around, Sun Wei immediately lay on the ground, sweating as he filled in ten million on the check.

After writing it, Sun Wei stamped it and immediately got up, saying to Su Tianyu, "Officer Su, your great name resounds throughout the land. I've heard of your deeds in Sinaloa for a long time and admire you greatly. This is our first meeting, and I don't have much to offer, so here's ten million as a little gift."

Su Tianyu, holding his bowl of porridge, turned his head and shouted to the guards, "Everyone come and eat some, don't waste food. Out here, every meal is hard-earned!"

"Tap, tap!"

Just as he finished speaking, a guard ran over, saluted, and shouted, "Officer Su, we've caught six rebel spies."

Su Tianyu glanced at him without a word.

"Where are they?" Hou Guoyu asked, standing beside him.

"Outside."

"Bring them here," Hou Guoyu waved his hand.

Sun Wei sat slumped on the ground, holding the check, at a loss for what to do. Su Tianyu didn't respond, and the deputy commander was chatting with others, not even looking at him.

A series of footsteps sounded, and the guard led six men over. Two of them were Chinese, and four were Black.

"They're all here, Officer Su," the guard reported.

Su Tianyu held his rice bowl. "Have their identities been verified?"

"Yes, we found their communicators," the guard replied.

"Mm." Su Tianyu nodded and scooped another bowl of porridge.

"Swish!"

Seeing Su Tianyu's reaction, Hou Guoyu immediately drew his gun and stepped forward.

"Mr. Su, we're working for the rebels just to get some food..." the Chinese informant from the rebels said, his voice trembling.

"Bang!"

Hou Guoyu shot the man in the head, raising his right arm and stepping sideways.

"Bang, bang, bang...!"

Six gunshots rang out, and the six rebel informants were executed on the spot, their heads shattered and blood spurting.

Hou Guoyu tucked his gun into his waistband, waving his hand and saying casually, "Damn it, how come they can't just get some food, they have to harm others, be traitors?!"

Hearing this, Sun Wei turned his head and shouted to his family member, "Give... give me another one!"

The family member hesitated, then took another check from the bag and said to Sun Wei in a low voice, "This is the last one, there's only a little over two thousand in the account... take it easy."

Sun Wei lay on the ground, filling in another ten million, then raised the check with a pale face. "Officer Su, this is twenty million. That's all the usable cash in the Sun family's account."

Su Tianyu didn't reply, still drinking his porridge.

"We really don't have any more!" Sun Wei shouted, almost crying.

Since Su Tianyu had come, he couldn't just do things on a small scale, because he could only do this once. After this round of extortion, these black market merchants operating outside the district would run as far as they could. And those who remained were mostly the ones with connections and backing, so it would be impossible to mess with them.

Moreover, there were rules to eating this kind of food. As the old saying goes, even bandits entering a home have to leave some food for the family. No idiot would go too far. If you kept bleeding people dry, and they got desperate, they could just take five million and hire someone to mess with your family.

The reason these black market merchants were willing to give money was mainly to avoid disaster, but if they found out that they had paid and still couldn't get peace, they would definitely grab a gun and fight you to the death.

Who's been operating outside the district for so many years for nothing?

So, you have to eat your fill in one go, and even when acting like a thug, you have to be strategic.

Su Tianyu felt that the Sun family had more than that, so he didn't respond at all.

Sun Wei held up the two checks and remained silent for three seconds, then stood up and said, "Officer Su, let us discuss it."

Su Tianyu didn't even lift his head, just continued drinking his porridge.

"Discuss it well! If you discuss it well, your brother will go home. If you don't discuss it well, you're all rebel spies," the deputy commander said.

"Yes, yes!"

Sun Wei replied and turned to leave with his family members.

Hou Guoyu looked down at Liu Zi and leaned over to ask, "Was that a bit harsh?"

"Aren't you renovating your house?" Su Tianyu retorted.

"...Damn it, demand two hundred million from him, and if he doesn't give it, squeeze his brother's balls!" Hou Guoyu said fiercely.

About five minutes later.

Sun Wei returned with his family members and knelt in front of Su Tianyu with a thud, saying blankly, "Officer Su, let's not talk about how much money, I'll call the United Savings Bank in a moment, I'll check the account, and you listen. You can take all the money that's available."

Su Tianyu finally looked up at him.

"You can take the money, and you have to take the people too!" Sun Wei said inexplicably.

"?????!" Su Tianyu was stunned by these words, his mind full of question marks.

"What do you mean?" the deputy commander asked.

"We're quitting," Sun Wei said straightforwardly. "We don't want the cash flow in our account anymore, it's all yours, just take us away."

"Ah?!" Su Tianyu never expected the other party to pull this move.

"We can't do it anymore! The Xue family owes us money and doesn't pay, and the rebels are a bunch of idiots. I called them and said that there's only one regiment shaking us down here, and the army commander insisted it was a trick, that I was a traitor and was lying to him, and wouldn't come no matter what. How are we supposed to do business like this?!" Sun Wei responded honestly, "I'm just making a little money from secondary processing, and I've put my whole family on the line. They don't treat us like people at all! So, we're quitting. I heard that the Chi Army is quite large now, with over twenty thousand people, so we're going up the mountain too. The Sun family and our brothers on the periphery also number a thousand or eight hundred people. If Officer Su doesn't mind, then we'll swear allegiance to you!"

"Swear allegiance to Officer Su!!!"

The Sun family members shouted in unison.

Su Tianyu was so startled that he almost dropped his bowl. He looked at Sun Wei and the others in a daze, swallowed, and said, "The... the money can actually be a little less, but the people... no thanks..."

Hearing this, Hou Guoyu leaned over and whispered in Su Tianyu's ear, "I think this guy is alright, pretty honest."

"Honest my ass! What are we going to feed them with?" Su Tianyu turned around and cursed, "Feed them with your milk?!"