“Moonbow, a nice kid and you’re going to abduct him to join the underworld and learn how to cheat? You’re f*cking bullsh*tting.”
Zhao Zichen dragged Zhao Xiaoliu back and waved his hand to drive Yue Man Gong away.
“No need for you to introduce me, get lost.”
This development was unexpected, I expected the two to get into a fight, but I didn’t think it would be for this reason.
“No need, my dad also came out of a thousand doors, you see later opened a big company and married my mother, don’t overreact.”
I when to leave the moon full bow, moon full bow full of disdain, half a word not willing to talk to Zhao Zichen more look like, not even willing to look at Zhao Zichen more.
Zhao Zichen came up and opened the door for Yue Man Gong, and made a gesture of please go, and said to me, “Let go of him, look at him.”
“Get out of the way.”
I told Zhao Zichen, “I’ll go first, I have business with him tonight.” Then I hurriedly chased him out.
“Hey, Yue Man Gong, wait!”
I couldn’t catch up with him, I didn’t know how this kid was walking, it looked like a walk, I delayed for a second and he was already thirty metres away from the lift.
The moon was clearly angry with me, and he went into the lift without looking back, regardless of my shouting at him.
I rushed up to him and put my hand into the lift door, which was already closed with only a crack, and was about to catch my hand when the door suddenly opened.
The door suddenly opened. Moon Man Bow pressed the door button and said in a cold voice, “You almost lost a hand.”
“Then I’ll go out and tell everyone that your Moon family has ruined one of my hands. Your father is most afraid of that, and I reckon you’re about the same.”
“How did you become as shameless as Zhao Zichen?” Yue Man-bow pressed a floor and said in no good humour, “Insulting my master, you don’t want me to help him again.”
The Moon family’s stinky temper is really something, and they admit to death, I’ve seen it all before.
He was angry, so there was no point in talking to him, and it would be some time before we left for Yuzhou anyway.
I patted him on the arm, “Forget it, let’s put it aside for now, I have something else to do with you today.”
I told him about He Bi: “I don’t want to spook the snake, but my people are now a big target, and it’s not easy to mobilise troops again, so I can only ask you for help. Just help me get the man who met with He Bi back.”
“Dead or alive?” Moon Fullbow asked.
“We are law-abiding citizens, of course we try to catch him alive.” I was in a cold sweat, the way the Jianghu people spoke was cross.
Meng Meng informed me that He Bi had left the surveillance area and should have gone under the bridge, a location that could only be captured by a few speed cameras on the bridge, but the shots were very unclear and could only roughly identify a figure through the mutual a*sistance of He Bi’s phone and the cameras.
Moon and I drove there, and when we were still a kilometre from our destination, the car wouldn’t go in and we had to get out and walk, otherwise the target would have been too big and we would have been spotted.
Monk said that now He Bei was still waiting alone and that the target had not yet appeared.
I looked at the time and it was close to eight o’clock. The target must not have appeared so punctually or he would have been easily ambushed by us.
The wind was blowing his down jacket up and the stench of river mud was making me sick.
I’ll hold the road and he’ll flank us from behind. We can put some rocks in the way and force him to get out of the car when he gets here.
I shook my head and said, “There’s no way he’s going to drive up here.”
“Not with a kid and not on foot, it’s too noticeable.”
I said, “Look at all the weeds here, there’s not a single rut, which means no one has ever driven here. There’s no way they’d just ask someone out to a place where they haven’t trodden.”
This is called the psychological safety zone of the criminal in criminal psychology, and is often used in criminal investigation. Unless the other party is deliberately donkeying He Bi, there is no need to ask someone out to a location they are not familiar with.
I told Meng Meng through the Bluetooth channel, “Keep an eye on the boats on the river.”
Moonbow didn’t believe me: “You think they’ll come from the boats? The river is so fast and this isn’t a dock, so the boats won’t be able to make it to shore.”
“Let’s wait and see.”
We hid behind a pile of construction debris, half a man’s height of weeds, and as the time approached eight o’clock, there was no movement from He Bi.
I was bored and asked Yue Man Gong, “I thought there were no more male descendants of the Ji family, and this Ji Ming is a woman?”
“He’s not from the Ji family, he was gifted and valued by the old man, but then something happened and he was kicked out.” Yue Man Gong glanced at me, wanting to say something, “The Ji family attaches great importance to their offspring, you are Ji Yan Ran’s son, why do they leave you completely alone.”
Where was I to find out? I was the one who was thinking of asking.
I sneered, “Not to mention my grandparents, my grandparents don’t really care about me either. Oh, maybe the fact that my dad is from the Thousand Clans has made the famous Kee family look down on him.”
“Uncle Shifu is more than just from the Thousand Clans.”
I was about to ask what that meant when I suddenly heard the sound of a motor faintly, but the river was pitch-black, with no light at all, and the river wind churned the water and blew on our faces like knives.
I gestured to Moon Man Bow, who also heard the sound of a motor: “It’s probably just a pa*sing boat.”
“Not like that.”
“Why?”
“Intuition.”
It was something I couldn’t explain to Moon Fullbow, relying on intuition much of the time on the battlefield.
Monk informed me on the channel that a small speedboat was approaching our position.
“Description.”
“Small, speed about 30 knots, wait a minute here, it’s a fishing boat, Captain, not the target vessel.”
Strange that the other side hadn’t come in yet, it was almost eight o’clock.
Ho Bee was as anxious as I was, walking around anxiously, looking at his watch every now and then.
I couldn’t understand why the other party had set eight o’clock as the time. Eight o’clock was the right time for dinner, and we were bound to be looking for He Bi if he disappeared, and there were so many people at this time of day that even in the pitch-black river, occasional pa*sing boats still pa*sed by.
Five minutes later, at 8:03, the speedboat drifted past our position and the gunrunner still hadn’t appeared.
He Bei pressed on and started calling the gun trafficking syndicate. Meng Meng transferred the real-time information from He Bei’s phone to my channel so I could hear it in real time through my Bluetooth headset, but the call never went through.
Moon Fullbow squeezed my shoulder and asked, “Where are you going up?”
I pointed to the car, “Drive up to the front.”
“Wait, it’s only been three minutes, the criminals aren’t that punctual.” Moon Fullbow said, “What if you leave and the other side comes back?”
I said, “You stay here and protect the heck out of it. I have to go up there and check it out, I don’t feel right.”
“What’s wrong? Is it your gut feeling again?”
“It’s eight o’clock, when we were at the hospital the doctors were off duty at eight o’clock, why is there a law enforcement boat patrolling at this time of the year for the fishery? Something’s not right with that boat, I’m going to follow it up and check it out. Anything happens, keep He Bi safe and try to capture her alive, or a dead one if you can’t.”
