Atlas of Heaven and Man

The man gestured for the others to stop. He came to the bar alone, sat next to Chen Chuan, looked at the ice water in his hand, and said apologetically, "Lao Huang is ignorant. I'm sorry."

He told the bartender, "Change it to a hot drink." The bartender immediately and efficiently replaced it with a hot drink.

The man said, "I'm the owner here. My surname is Ai. The person you're looking for..." He tentatively asked, "Is he your friend?"

Chen Chuan said, "You could say that."

Mr. Ai looked at him. "Now that you've found your way here, we'll give you that face. But let me say one thing: we have little to do with this capture. We have no feud with your friend. Someone just told us to do it. We have to rely on others for a living, so we have no choice, right?"

Chen Chuan looked at him: "Mr. Ai seems very sincere."

Mr. Ai shrugged. "I can't help it. I know who you are. We still have business to do here and don't want to be your enemy." He gestured behind him. "Bring him out."

Two subordinates in the distance immediately walked towards the inside of the bar. A few minutes later, they brought a man to them, supporting his arms. This man's head was drooping, and he exuded a bloody aura and other foul smells. It was obvious that he had multiple injuries on his body.

When the thug next to him raised his face, it could be seen that his face was bruised and purple, and the corners of his mouth and eyes were covered with dried blood. Moreover, it seemed that he had been fed some kind of drug. He was drowsy, and when he saw the bright light, he seemed to subconsciously avoid it.

Chen Chuan looked at him. Although his face was swollen, he could roughly recognize that he matched the photo that Lao Qi had sent him.

Mr. Ai said to the man, "Hao Zhuo, your friend is here."

The man called Hao Zhuo勉力 opened his eyes. He looked at the person in front of him a few times and murmured, "Who? Who is it? Who is my friend?"

He didn't recognize Chen Chuan at all, which seemed to contradict Chen Chuan's statement that the two were friends. However, Mr. Ai didn't show anything strange and said to Chen Chuan very politely: "Sir, you see, the person is here. Hao Zhuo has suffered a little grievance, but they are all flesh wounds. We will pay for his medical expenses."

As he spoke, he pressed a button on his interface and transferred a sum of money to Chen Chuan.

Chen Chuan didn't accept it, but only said, "Since that's the case, then I'll take him away. Mr. Ai, thank you for your cooperation."

He stood up, not minding the dirt on Hao Zhuo's body, took him from the thug, and easily led him towards the door.

"Please wait a moment," Mr. Ai shouted from behind. "Sir, you can take the person away, but... can you give us an explanation?"

Chen Chuan looked back.

Mr. Ai quickly raised his hands and said, "Don't misunderstand. It's that kind of explanation..." He spread his hands and gestured around, "After all, the person has been taken away by you, but we have to put on a show."

Chen Chuan glanced at him, seemingly ignoring him, but when he passed the decorative wall in the middle, he reached out and punched it. With a bang, the wall shattered instantly, and the decorations on the rubble and bricks fell to the ground.

Mr. Ai and the thugs all changed their expressions and swallowed.

However, they immediately saw that inside the decorative wall, a statue of something unknown was revealed. It was sitting there, more than a meter high, with a pair of horns on its head, a ferocious face, but the corners of its mouth were upturned to the corners of its eyes. It looked like a smile, but it felt very creepy.

When Mr. Ai saw the statue, his expression changed involuntarily. He stood up from his seat, and the thugs also became nervous when they saw his movements, and they tightened their grips on the weapons in their hands.

Chen Chuan didn't care about them, but just patted the statue lightly, and the entire statue burst open. Only the head was still intact, and it fell from above, rolling to the middle of the bar, mixing with the flashing bloody light. At the same time, a strong sign of virtualization also appeared on his body.

He glanced over and dropped a sentence: "The explanation is here." With that, he continued to support Hao Zhuo towards the door, and the gang members at the door quickly opened the door for him at Mr. Ai's signal.

After watching him walk out, a thug asked Mr. Ai, "Boss, are we just letting him take the person away?"

Mr. Ai said angrily, "Then what else can we do? That's an executor from the Bureau of Handling Affairs. You don't want to live, but I want to live a few more years."

At this time, Mr. Ai suddenly felt uncomfortable. He didn't know if it was an illusion. He instructed, "Throw this thing to the back," and after thinking about it, he instructed again: "Throw it far away."

Chen Chuan walked out with Hao Zhuo. The man was drowsy all the way. After he put him in the back seat of the car, he fell asleep.

Chen Chuan used his interface to compare and asked, "Lao Qi, is it him?"

Lao Qi said, "It's him!"

Chen Chuan said, "I'll bring him back now and clarify the situation."

After bringing the person back, he took him to the residence that Lao Qi had originally arranged for Hao Zhuo. Lao Qi checked the injuries on his body and said with some relief: "Although he was beaten pretty badly, at least he didn't break any bones. He was just fed some hallucinogenic drugs."

He took a syringe and injected it into Hao Zhuo's neck. After a while, the latter began to cough and then shouted, "Water, give me water."

Lao Qi poured him a glass of water, and he gulped it down. After a while, he started to complain about the pain again, so he threw him a painkiller tablet, and he calmed down after eating it.

After a long while, he recovered and looked at Lao Qi: "Lao Qi, did you find someone to save me?"

Lao Qi said angrily, "Do you think I wanted to save you? Those people have come to me. What did you do?"

Hao Zhuo coughed and said, "Lao Qi, this time, your brother has dragged you down. I'm sorry, but I didn't want to either. I told them that it has nothing to do with you, but they didn't believe me."

"What did you do? Tell me clearly today."

"This..."

Hao Zhuo hesitated and glanced at Chen Chuan, who was sitting on the sofa.

Lao Qi said, "He's one of us. Otherwise, how do you think you got out of there?"

Hao Zhuo said, "I can see that he's a big shot. I say, Lao Qi, you're quite capable. When did you meet him..."

"Are you going to talk or not?" Lao Qi was a little impatient. "If you don't talk, I'll leave you here and you can figure it out yourself."

"Okay, okay, I'll talk, can't I talk..."

Hao Zhuo explained. The matter was originally not complicated because he was a warehouse manager for a gang in the Lower District, mainly handling secret cult materials. Sometimes, he would find a way to sell some "odds and ends" for his own extra money. The materials he sold to Lao Qi came from this.

But he didn't care who he sold them to or what they were used for.

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But the problem was that the gang's superior came over not long ago. When they were taking inventory, they found that a lot was missing and demanded that it be recovered. He felt something was wrong and ran away to the Upper District.

He complained, "I don't know why they're making such a big fuss over such a small thing and even chasing me to the Upper District. There are many people who make a living from the warehouse. I only took some scraps, which don't even count as leftovers. Why are they targeting me alone?"

Lao Qi muttered, "This matter is not right. These materials are not worth much money. Also, do they think they can still track them down after so long?"

"That's what I'm saying. I can't figure it out. Is this little bit of material enough for them to hire someone and pay for the gas to come up here?"

Lao Qi said, "Damn it, did you lose something and they're making you take the blame?"

"Damn, that's really possible."

Chen Chuan said at this time, "That bar may be the territory of the Plague Gang. Is this batch of goods related to them?"

"Lao Ai is a member of the Plague Gang?"

Hao Zhuo was stunned, and then his face changed. He said with some fear, "I can't stay in the Lower District anymore. Lao Qi, you have to help me find another place to live. Don't worry, I won't give you a penny less."

Lao Qi said irritably, "This is not about money!"

Chen Chuan thought for a moment and said, "The Plague Gang has its own biotechnology. They may not be framing you. It is very likely that the batch of materials you sold may have a problem, so they want to recover it."

Hao Zhuo pondered, "That makes some sense, but I've sold so many of these materials. Except for a few regulars, I don't know where the other materials went."

Chen Chuan said, "Lao Qi, you should move to another place to live first. The higher-ups are keeping a close eye on the Plague Gang. It's not a place where they can just come and look for people, so they didn't do it themselves, but hired helpers. Don't worry about this matter. I have something to do recently. You should hide first, and I'll deal with it when I come back."

Wu Bei said at this time, "Leave this matter to me, Brother Chen. I'll find them a place."

Lao Qi hesitated and said, "I'm fine, but I'm afraid that Xiao Qi's studies will be delayed..."

Chen Chuan said, "Qi Qi is in junior high school, right?"

"Yes. This is her first year, at a private middle school."

Chen Chuan thought for a moment. The company at the Fusion Boundary also invests in various private schools, so he contacted Yan Yi.

After confirming, he said to Lao Qi, "I'll have someone transfer your daughter to another school. The place she goes to should not be worse than the original junior high school. Someone will help you get it done, and it won't expose your whereabouts."

Lao Qi was overjoyed. "That would be great." He said gratefully, "Thank you, Brother Chen."

Hao Zhuo looked at Lao Qi enviously, thinking that Lao Qi's friend was a bit awesome, and wondering if he could also get on this bandwagon.

After Chen Chuan arranged things here, he said a few words to Lao Qi and left directly when he saw that there was nothing else to do.

He knew that Hao Zhuo might still be hiding something, but this matter itself was a mess, and he didn't have the heart to figure it out. He would let the two of them avoid the limelight first, and if there were any problems later, he would deal with it after his defense mission was over.

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