Chapter 640
The Demise of Lian Haolong
"It was Brother Buddha who did it. He was the one who put that woman into the gang."
"Now it seems that he was also responsible for Fourth Uncle's kidnapping. Otherwise, who would know Fourth Uncle's movements? Apart from Fo Ge, we have no rivals in this area."
Inside the Zhongyixin branch, Lian Haolong's murderous gaze horrified everyone.
“We’re not made of clay either, Tianhong, Adong… Starting tonight, smash up Brother Fo’s place! I’ll show him what happens when he messes with Lian Haolong!”
"It's my elder brother."
"Yes, boss."
Su Su stood in the corner, her eyes darting nervously. Ah Fa, who was beside her, also looked to the side guiltily.
It wasn't that they didn't intend to release Fourth Uncle; the main problem was that Fourth Uncle had inadvertently seen the group of idiots he had hired.
Once the kidnapping is exposed, the hostage must die.
But they didn't have the guts to kill Uncle Si; if Uncle Si died, many people would be buried with him.
Loyalty, righteousness, and trustworthiness would also perish because of this; the responsibility had become too great for the two of them to bear.
……
Wu Liuyi stared blankly at the case files on the table.
He was sent here by his superiors to help Feng Yuxiu. It's impossible for a special forces teammate like him to be a police officer in Hong Kong.
The current situation is that he seems to be completely unable to participate. Wu Zhe is more suitable for this situation than him. He doesn't know what the purpose of the superiors sending him here is. He even wants to apply to return to the army.
"Officer Wu, someone is looking for you."
A police officer peeked out from the office doorway.
Wu Liuyi was taken aback. He didn't know anyone here, so who would come looking for him?
Upon entering the reception room, I noticed Feng Yuxiu examining the portrait hanging on the wall.
Wu Liuyi's pupils contracted, and he subconsciously turned around and closed the door. "Why are you here?"
Feng Yuxiu smiled slightly, "Relax, I said I would help you. Do you remember what the company commander said when you enlisted? China is a society based on personal connections, and besides, you are my best comrade-in-arms."
Wu Liuyi still didn't understand what Feng Yuxiu wanted to do, so he could only stare at him like that.
“The Loyal and Righteous Trust will be destroyed tomorrow. I can lead the team to deal with the aftermath.”
Wu Liuyi was stunned. "Wasn't everything fine? How did it all end up destroyed?"
"What has Lu Xuanxin been up to lately?" Feng Yuxiu asked.
"She's probably involved in another case; she's still planning to find the real culprit behind the deaths of those martial arts masters..."
As he said this, Wu Liuyi coughed. Only Feng Yuxiu could have done such a thing.
Having served in the army for so many years, Feng Yuxiu was the officer Wu Liuyi had ever met whose experiences were even more remarkable than those of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Border drug interdiction, the Crescent Island campaign, peacekeeping operations, and even assassination missions in the United States.
Wu Liuyi sometimes thinks that Feng Yuxiu, who came out of the Seventh Company, was the first one to be so brave.
Even in peacetime, many people sacrifice their lives. Bai Tiejun, who sacrificed his life... although he was awarded a first-class merit, he still passed away in the end.
"Alright, remember to go to Zhongyixin tomorrow to clean up the mess."
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The underground parking garage of Chung-yi Shin.
Su Su stood there with a pale face. A Fa looked around suspiciously and cautiously approached, "Sister Su, what's wrong?"
Su Su slowly turned around, her face turning deathly pale. "A Song called me and asked me for the remaining money."
Ah Fa was stunned.
Su Su's voice began to tremble, "He called me Sister Su Su on the phone..."
These words made Ah Fa's face turn ashen, and his eyes filled with fear.
Ah Song was the thug who kidnapped Uncle Si. If Uncle Si were with Ah Song and the others, he would definitely have been able to tell what was going on during that phone call...
In other words, once Uncle Si returns, it will be the two of them who die.
Ah Fa rubbed his temples. "No more words. Go and take them down."
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Daytime.
Ah Fa and Su Su carried their things to a remote mountain forest.
The two climbed the mountain and entered the abandoned building.
Four men were standing at the door.
Su Su smiled.
The group sat down at the table and ate the pigeon that Su Su had brought.
Su Su smiled, "Don't worry, everyone, I'll give you the rest of your money tomorrow..."
"Oh dear, you're eating with both hands..." Su Su suddenly saw a young man eating a pigeon with his right hand and putting his left hand under the table, and quickly turned around and laughed.
The boy nodded and began to eat the pigeon with both hands.
Su Su smiled and glanced at A Fa, who was sitting next to her eating pigeon.
Ah Fa suddenly stood up, pulled out a pistol from his pocket, and fired at everyone on the table.
Bang bang bang!
After a few shots, everyone died tragically.
Su Su took a deep breath, took the pistol from the boy's corpse, and turned to walk to the back.
In the back room, there was a large iron cage, inside which was Uncle Si, who was blindfolded.
At this moment, Fourth Uncle was trembling all over, and urine gushed out from his crotch.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'll give you money, don't kill me... please don't kill me... I have money..."
Su Su crouched down, staring at her blindfolded fourth uncle. She slowly aimed her pistol and let out a shrill scream, "Hey!!"
Su Su's finger rested on the trigger.
Uncle Si's howls echoed through the abandoned building, like a pig waiting to be slaughtered.
This old man, who had held sway over the Loyalty Trust for decades, was now soaked in sweat, his face streaked with tears, his dignity utterly crushed.
Su Su did not fire immediately.
She stared at that distorted face and suddenly remembered the first time she met her fourth uncle.
That was twelve years ago. She was a newly-minted dancer. Her fourth uncle sat in the main seat of the private box, picking at the abalone stuck between his teeth with a toothpick. He glanced at her sideways and said, "This girl is quite alluring."
At that time, she didn't even have the right to look up at him.
Now she squatted in front of him, like a dead dog.
"Please...don't kill me..." Uncle's teeth chattered, spitting out broken syllables, "I have money, I'll give you money, how much do you want..."
Susu did not answer.
She simply watched quietly as this old man, who once held the power to decide life and death, shed all his outward appearance in fear, revealing his most primal, trembling body.
Then she pulled the trigger.
boom.
Gunshots echoed through the mountains and forests, startling a flock of birds into flight.
Fourth Uncle's body twitched twice, then stopped moving.
Blood seeped out from under the blindfold, forming a thin line that flowed towards Su Su's feet.
She stood up and didn't look back.
Ah Fa rushed in from outside, his face ashen: "Sister Su, let's go."
Su Su put the gun into her bag and walked steadily.
As she descended the mountain, she suddenly stopped and looked back at the abandoned building.
The mountain wind tousled her long hair, and she whispered, "Ah Fa, are you scared?"
Afa paused for a moment.
"I'm scared," he answered honestly. "Terrified."
Su Su smiled.
She didn't say anything more.
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Buddha's teahouse is located on the top floor of an old tenement building in Mong Kok, with a view of half of the neon lights of Yau Tsim Mong from the window.
The moment Lian Haolong pushed open the door, Brother Fo was brewing tea with a purple clay teapot.
Boiling water poured into the bottom of the kettle, creating a cloud of white steam that blurred his features.
"Brother Long," Buddha said without looking up, "Sit down."
Lian Haolong did not sit down.
He stood at the door, with Tianhong and Adong behind him.
The shadows of the three people were cast on the floor, blocking out half the light in the tea room.
Buddha poured two cups of tea, picked up one of them, and gently blew on it.
“What happened to my fourth uncle,” he said, “wasn’t my doing.”
Lian Haolong stared at him.
“I know,” Lian Haolong said, “but the mole you planted in my gang… has my ledger.”
Buddha's hand froze in mid-air.
The steam from the tea rose gently, swirling around his fingers.
He neither drank the tea nor put down the cup; he simply remained there.
The air was as still as solidified cement.
"I am also at the mercy of others. In fact, I don't know if I will survive this."
Lian Haolong did not answer. Brother Fo placed the teacup back on the table, making a soft clinking sound. He looked up at Lian Haolong.
“Brother Long,” he said, “let’s talk.”
What should we talk about?
Buddha's voice was calm: "Let's stop talking about this. Continuing to fight will not benefit anyone."
Tianhong's hand had already reached towards her lower back.
Ah Dong's breathing became heavy.
Lian Haolong laughed.
The smile didn't reach his eyes; it was just a slight curve at the corner of his mouth.
“Brother Buddha,” he said, “you’ve been fighting me for twenty years.”
Buddha didn't say anything.
It was so long that one neon light outside the window went out and another came on.
So long that Tianhong's hands were sweating from clenching his fists behind his back, so long that Adong felt his heartbeat could be heard throughout the entire room.
Then Lian Haolong said, "Brother Fo, are you going to take the blame for this? Are my ledgers in the hands of the police?"
Buddha stood up. "No."
He was half a head shorter than Lian Haolong, but his gaze was extremely steady as he looked at him at eye level.
“But I’ll take responsibility for this,” he said.
Lian Haolong gave him a deep look.
"Okay," he said. "Then I'm off."
He turned around, his leather shoes clicking on the wooden floor, and walked step by step toward the door.
Buddha looked at his retreating figure and suddenly spoke up: "Brother Long."
Lian Haolong turned around.
"The person who kidnapped Uncle Si was Su Su," said Brother Fo.
Then, without looking back, he pushed open the door and left.
The tea room returned to silence.
Lian Haolong stood alone in front of the tea table, looking down at the two cups of tea that had gone cold.
He picked up his glass and drank it all in one gulp.
The herbal tea was bitter and astringent when it went down my throat.
-
Su Su did not run away.
She sat in the tea restaurant next to the Chung Yee Hsin Tong, ordered a cup of iced lemon tea, and sipped it slowly.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the setting sun was painting Nathan Road a rusty red.
Ah Fa sat opposite, holding a cup of hot milk tea in both hands, but didn't drink a drop.
“Sister Su,” he spoke for the third time, “let’s go. To Thailand, to Vietnam, anywhere is fine…”
Susu put down the straw.
“Ah Fa,” she said, “how many years have you been with me?”
Afa paused for a moment: "Five years."
“Five years.” Su Su nodded. “Five years have passed, how can you still be so naive?”
Ah Fa shut his mouth.
Su Su looked out the window. Her face was reflected in the glass of the tea restaurant; fine lines appeared at the corners of her eyes, and the color of her lipstick was too bright.
She suddenly felt old.
“Lian Haolong will come to find me,” she said, her tone as if stating the weather. “He has to come.”
Ah Fa wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.
Su Su finished drinking the cup sip by sip, put it down, and took out her wallet to pay the bill.
"Sister Su," Ah Fa suddenly asked, "Do you regret it?"
Su Su's fingers paused on the wallet for a moment.
She didn't turn around.
"Regret what?"
“Regret…” Ah Fa struggled to find the right words, “Regret following Lian Haolong, or regret…”
"Do you regret killing your fourth uncle?"
Susu finished the sentence for him.
Afa nodded.
Susu put her wallet back into her handbag and stood up.
“Ah Fa,” she said, “there’s no going back in this world, only consequences.”
She pushed open the door of the tea restaurant and stepped into the twilight.
As Ah Fa watched her retreating figure, he suddenly remembered the first time he met her five years ago.
Back then, she was Lian Haolong's most favored woman. When she walked into the venue in 12-centimeter high heels, all the men's eyes were drawn to her.
He thought she was the kind of sparrow kept in a golden house by a man.
I later learned that she was an eagle.
-
late at night.
Susu returned to her apartment.
She didn't turn on the lights, just sat in the dark living room, gazing at the city lights outside the window.
The night in Hong Kong will never truly be dark.
Neon lights, car headlights, and the fluorescent screens of office buildings that never go out all night dye the sky an ambiguous orange-gray.
She recalled twelve years ago.
At that time, she wasn't called Susu yet; she was called Amin.
He smuggled himself from Fujian to Hong Kong and sold beer in nightclubs in Mong Kok, earning a commission of two dollars for every dozen beers he sold.
One night, a few gangsters got drunk and dragged her into a private room by the hand.
She struggled desperately, shattering beer bottles all over the floor and cutting her knees.
Then Lian Haolong appeared.
Back then, he wasn't called Brother Long, he was called Ah Long, and he was just a head guard at the stadium, with a butterfly knife at his waist, and he smiled to reveal his neat white teeth.
He quickly took down the thugs, turned to look at her, and asked, "Are you alright?"
She squatted on the ground picking up broken beer bottles without looking up.
“It’s okay,” she said.
Later, she became his woman.
Later, she gained a name, status, and an industry that no one could take away from her in this city.
There was also blood that couldn't be washed away.
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All of Zhongyixin's henchmen were mobilized.
Susu and Afa were also told to go to the forest to attend a meeting.
The two were immediately forced into the car by gang members.
Su Su's face paled slightly, but even Hao Long noticed.
Ah Fa stared blankly out the window; this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Putting aside the matter of killing Uncle Si, the mere fact that they embezzled 200 million yuan of the gang's cash is enough to kill them ten times over.
The vehicle sped towards the mountains and forests.
Meanwhile, in the Major Crimes Unit, Liao Zhizhong also received the news: "Everyone has set off. Lian Haolong made his move today."
As Lei Meizhen passed by, Liao Zhizhong suddenly called out, "Lei Meizhen, stay here."
At the same time, two inspectors walked over from both sides, took out handcuffs, and approached Lei Meizhen.
The other officers stared at the scene in astonishment.
Lei Meizhen paused for a moment, then suddenly smiled and instinctively stretched out her hands.
"Sooner or later."
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On either side of the forest, Feng Yuxiu stood quietly on a high place, with Chen Haonan and his Hung Hing underlings behind him.
Everyone was holding an AK47 and pointing it downwards.
"Shoot them as soon as Haolong's men pass by. Remember, they definitely have firearms, so don't hold back."
Hearing Feng Yuxiu's order, Chen Haonan was somewhat shocked, but he still nodded, as he had also experienced the situation from decades ago.
The current situation is still acceptable to him.
"They're here! Get ready!"
The convoy roared in from afar, kicking up clouds of dust.
Numerous guns were pointed at Zhongyixin's convoy; launching an attack at this time of infighting was the most opportune moment.
Internal strife within the gang, resulting in their gruesome deaths—what a perfect solution! (End of Chapter)