What? You're a notorious bandit? What a coincidence, me too!

The young man thought for a moment, nodded slightly, and took out his phone: "Teacher, I'll contact them now."

"Don't rush them, hold them off, and contact them again tomorrow."

Gu Yanbai's eyes flickered slightly as he looked at the bubbling flask on the lab bench and said slowly in a deep voice, "We are now the sellers. If we want the transaction to be safe, we must take the initiative and remain calm."

The young man thought for a moment and nodded again.

Then, the two fell into a brief silence, with only the soft churning of the flasks audible in the laboratory.

Gu Yanbai's gaze fell on the young man's slightly flustered face. After hesitating for a moment, he patted the man's shoulder and said:

"Liu Sen, I've thought about this matter. You shouldn't be involved in the rest of the transaction. I'll give you the 3 I promised you in full once it's done."

Liu Sen gritted his teeth, and after a long while shook his head in refusal: "Teacher, I can't watch you take the risk alone."

Looking into that stubborn gaze, Gu Yanbai sighed, pondered for a long time, and then said:

"Once this is all settled, make arrangements at home, and then go abroad to study. Regardless of whether anything goes wrong later, it will all be considered as something I did alone."

"teacher……"

Liu Sen was about to say something when Gu Yanbai interrupted him.

"Listen to me, I've kept an eye out for a few universities abroad for you. With your grades and talent, you're sure to get in. I've already prepared the recommendation letters, and I'll also give you an additional 3 yuan for your tuition..."

Liu Sen remained silent for a while, then finally nodded.

After Gu Yanbai finished speaking, he walked to the window with his hands behind his back.

The sky outside had darkened, and the gray clouds hung low.

Just like his mood at this moment, it was extremely suppressed.

The two fell silent again until Gu Yanbai's phone rang.

He took a look, and his brows furrowed involuntarily once again.

Liu Sen stood in front of the lab table, listening to Gu Yanbai occasionally respond with words like "Hmm," "I know," "No problem," or "You can arrange it."

His heart also jumped.

Liu Sen could guess that the call was from the hospital, and it seemed that his teacher's wife's condition might have worsened again.

A few minutes later, Gu Yanbai hung up the phone.

He rested his hand on the windowsill, his face looking out the window, making it impossible to see his expression.

Liu Sen hesitated for a moment, then walked over and asked softly, "Teacher, what about your wife...?"

"Her condition isn't good right now. The doctor said she needs a transplant as soon as possible, otherwise..."

Gu Yanbai's voice was somewhat muffled, and he didn't continue speaking, but the meaning behind it was self-evident.

He raised his head and looked at the dim sky outside the window, his dazed eyes gradually sharpening.

"Contact them, there's no time!"

Liu Sen's heart skipped a beat as he looked at Gu Yanbai's retreating figure with a complex expression.

He didn't say much, took out his phone, took a deep breath, composed himself, and pressed the dial button.

…………

After half an hour.

Ming, accompanied by two skilled henchmen, drove away from the bar in an SUV.

He didn't notice that shortly after he left, a slightly worn motorcycle slowly followed him from a secluded street corner.

The man riding the bicycle was a middle-aged man with a square face, a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He exuded an air of righteousness, yet a wicked smile played on his lips, making him appear exceptionally contradictory.

If the Haicheng Criminal Police Team were here, they would definitely recognize him as their captain, Zhao Weidong.

However, this Zhao Weidong is an imposter, a disguised version of Lin Chang'an!

Ming was very cautious, driving around Haicheng in circles, changing cars several times.

If Lin Chang'an hadn't had the "Buddha's Eye of Insight" to lock onto Ming's movements, he probably would have lost track of him long ago with just his naked eyes.

He pondered that Ming was being so cautious, so it seemed he would definitely gain something by following him.

After the tracking map went through three cooldowns, Doflamingo's location tracking finally stopped.

Lin Chang'an followed, and there was an abandoned sand and gravel plant.

He hid his motorcycle, crept over on foot, and found a high spot near the location he had been positioned to lie in wait.

This sand and gravel plant looks like it has been abandoned for some time, with exposed rocks, overgrown weeds, and scrapped machinery everywhere.

At this moment, a pickup truck was parked quietly in the open space in the center of the sand and gravel plant, and several figures stood apart, warily scanning their surroundings.

"This place doesn't look like a drug stash; is this a transaction?"

Lin Chang'an squinted and observed, using the dense weeds as cover.

Half an hour later, a white van with its lights on slowly drove in and stopped a dozen meters away from Ming and the others.

Shortly after, two figures got out of the car. Both were wearing dark coats, masks, and baseball caps, covering their faces completely except for their eyes.

In the open space, Ming stepped forward, smiling, and greeted them.

"What's your name?"

"Old Bai."

"Pinkie".

The person on the other end gave a curt reply: "Let's make a deal."

Seeing how quickly the other party had acted, Ming raised an eyebrow: "Why don't we inspect the goods first?"

"Where's the money?" Old Bai asked from across the street.

Ming opened the black bag on the ground, revealing colorful banknotes inside.

Old Bai gave Fenzi a wink. Fenzi stepped forward, put the canvas bag he was carrying on the ground, and unzipped it. Inside were more than a dozen sealed transparent bags containing shimmering white crystals.

Ming gave a wink, and one of his underlings pulled out a portable device, opened a bag, and used tweezers to carefully examine the contents.

Fenzi squatted on the ground and scanned the money in the bag with a money detector light.

"Don't worry, as long as your goods are fine, my money is fine too," Ming said to Lao Bai.

A moment later, the inspector looked up and nodded to Ming: "Boss, the goods are fine, 99% rare."

Ming Ge relaxed a bit, a smile appearing on his face. He looked at Lao Bai and said, "I didn't expect Haicheng to have such high-quality goods. But I'm curious, where did you get such good stuff?"

He wanted to get information out of the other party and find out where they came from.

Old Bai merely glanced at him indifferently, his tone cold: "Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask. If you want the goods, then we'll trade; if not, then leave."

Ming wasn't angry at being roasted; he just smiled and said, "That's great!"

Weigh the money, and the transaction goes smoothly!

At this moment, Lin Chang'an, who was hiding on the high ground, saw that his eyes were shining, and he was sure that following along was the right thing to do.

This means I've run into Ming Ge making a deal with his supplier.

He silently recited the mantra of mind-reading, and his consciousness spread out like a large net, enveloping Doflamingo and his companions.

But the distance was too great for consciousness to reach.

"Looks like we need to get closer."

Lin Chang'an crouched down and, using the abandoned machinery as cover, slowly moved a few meters towards the edge of the open space.

Just as he stopped, before he could even activate the Mind Observation Technique again, he heard a low shout from the side:

"Who's there!"