There were four members of the Boat Fire Gang who entered the game hall. The leader was a lean and capable man, and his sharp eyes full of charlatanism were scanning around the hall.
The three followers following the lean man were all tall and strong, and among them was a young man with brown hair combed into three-quarter parts and a Western face.
"Who is Sir Yu?"
Yu Zhesen stepped forward and raised his hand to signal.
The lean man's sharp eyes quickly locked on Yu Zhesen, and his eyes briefly looked past him to Sun Minghang and Jian Yiran behind him, and then returned to him.
"First time we meet, I'm Ding Si from the Boat Fire Gang." The lean man saw that Yu Zhesen had no intention of shaking hands, so he naturally moved his outstretched hand behind him and introduced his three followers: "'Big Golden Retriever"
'Mike, Kuaishan Li and Black Yaksha, they are all my younger brothers who help me take care of my business."
After Ding Si’s introduction, the three followers nodded to Yu Zhesen.
"Without further ado, I want to inquire about the whereabouts of a group of stowaways from St. Newman City." Yu Zhesen explained his purpose straight to the point.
Ding Si's expression was calm. He neither agreed nor refused immediately. Instead, he looked around and suggested: "There are too many idle people waiting here. Let's talk somewhere else."
"Where to go?"
"Mr. Shanjing owns a two-story independent building nearby and signed a five-year lease contract with us." Ding Si smiled and said, "It's very close to here. It takes about ten minutes to walk there. What do you think, Sir Yu?"
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Yu Zhesen agreed to the proposal without hesitation.
He turned back and gestured to Sun Minghang and Jian Yiran, indicating that they should follow him.
Ding Si patted the shoulder of Mike, the follower nicknamed "Big Golden Retriever", and said: "To be on the safe side, go over there and see if the house is clean."
"OK, I'll take care of it." Mike left first.
On the other side, Yu Zhesen also explained the situation to Sun Minghang and Jian Yiran, and then Ding Si was responsible for leading the way to the two-story building for discussion.
Sun Minghang was a little regretful because the space battle game ticket he purchased still had two challenge opportunities left to use. If he left now, he would be giving up on his own.
"It's really unlucky for him to open the door for me. It's so unlucky..." He looked at Jane with complicated eyes and murmured, "If I hadn't interfered with you in the bureau today, I would have been attending Xingyu comfortably at this time.
We met with friends. As a result, not only are we forced to work overtime, but we also lost the reward coupons we almost received.”
Jane still handed the handbag containing the uneaten Burger King food to Sun Minghang, and laughed softly: "Senior Sun, please stop complaining, I am very grateful to you. Eat something, and you won't be angry if you eat something.
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"I'm almost full." Sun Minghang said this, but he still took out the chicken roll with secret sauce from Burger King's exquisite takeout bag and took a bite.
On the way out of Tianheng Department Store, Ding Si always kept a faint smile and answered Yu Zhesen's occasional questions proactively, but he did not try to get close.
When Yu Zhesen asked about the history of cooperation between the Chuanhuo Gang and Shanjing, Ding Si did not shy away from it. He admitted that the smuggling activities based on the Sunset Pier and the seafood market had been going on for more than four years. This smuggling route was stable and successful.
The high rate is also famous on the dark web.
"From what Shan Jing and the smugglers said, you exploited the stowaways very cruelly, almost to the point of breaking their bones and sucking out their marrow. Wouldn't this ruin the reputation of the business?" Yu Zhesen asked in a joking tone.
Ding Si laughed: "That's just a method used to treat low-level customers. To be honest, the money they paid before boarding the ship was not enough to pay for the toll and food expenses on the way. We cooperated with the smugglers to transport the people over and get them ashore.
It is completely loss-making. The so-called squeeze is actually charging real rewards from customers who successfully landed. As for the initial fee they paid, it can be regarded as a deposit for boarding the ship."
This explanation sounds reasonable at first glance, but in fact the behavior of the boat gang is quite rogue. There is obviously a trap of using low-priced smuggling fees to attract customers to board the ship. After smuggling becomes a fait accompli, they will try to extract more money. "We don't exclusively rely on such low-end customers to make profits. We also have customers who do not want to leave records of their whereabouts in the bureau for various reasons and use our channels to travel between rejuvenating cities." Ding Si said proudly.
The introduction said, "There are many wealthy businessmen, political figures, dignitaries and dignitaries who want to act in secret, or mysterious figures who have committed crimes and are on the run."
Yu Zhesen and Sun Minghang both remembered the master-servant pair of Nanhai Saki and Wuyue Yuying.
In the eyes of the Chuanhuo Gang, they should be considered high-end customers.
After the chaos on Paradise Island ended, Yu Zhesen never saw Nanami Saki and Mayu Sakura again. Their departure without saying goodbye made him somewhat surprised and regretful, but the reason is not difficult to guess.
Tracing back to the source, Qihai Shaji came to Qidao City as "Mr. Nightmare" to carry out activities, with the purpose of trapping the murderer of Qu Baizhou, "Night Owl" Zhang Wenchuan.
Although she failed to take revenge in person in the end, Zhang Wenchuan did die in the underground shelter of the military base in the other world.
At this point, Nanami Saki, who had fulfilled a long-cherished wish and received a lot of reward from Jin Fumi, no longer had any reason to stay in Nanami City. In addition, Claire, who had given them some protection, was temporarily absent from Nanami Island for some reason.
Her leadership position in the Municipal Security Bureau made her worry about the safety of her stay in Qidao City.
Before communicating with Sun Minghang today, Yu Zhesen had no idea that Qihai Shaji, who walked away so neatly, would provide such a key clue to the Security Bureau.
This clue seemed to lead to the huge chain of evil dormant in the shadow of the old city, and Yu Zhesen had a strong premonition in his heart.
The interest groups formed between the smugglers in Shanjing, Sunset Wharf and the Chuanhuo Gang continue to import smugglers from the outside and push them into desperate situations. This will naturally lead to more and more gangsters and illegal residents appearing in the old city.
This is undoubtedly the main culprit affecting public security in the old city.
Jane is still a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers, saying that she will cut off this chain of evil, but Yu Zhesen, who has experienced many things in the Security Bureau, knows that this is not easy.
Even if Ding Si, the second leader of the Boat Fire Gang, is right in front of them and it's easy to take him down, they still can't solve the problem from the root.
The weak supervisory power in the old city itself is a natural soil for harboring evil and evil. The Chuanhuo Gang has also attracted many young and middle-aged people from outside to expand its strength through running the smuggling business over the years.
These outsiders are different from the vast majority of Qidao City residents who have legal citizenship. Without citizen bracelets and electronic IDs, they are not under the jurisdiction of the Security Bureau system at all. Once they get wind of the situation and hide, they will be in endless trouble. Therefore, either the Security Bureau continues to ignore the evil forces that have taken root in the old city like the Boat Fire Gang and maintain calm on the surface; or it can show its determination to completely destroy them and use thunderous means to catch them all.
From the perspective of Jin Shounan, director of the Qidao City Security Bureau, perhaps maintaining the status quo is the most cost-effective solution, because compared to gangsters like the Chuanhuo Gang who only occupy one-third of an acre in the old city, the Security Bureau still needs to face
Challenges from many more threatening enemies.
Manpower is limited, but the area to be defended is very large. We can only make choices based on priorities. Obviously, the old city is a low-value area that has been strategically abandoned.
This logic is not a secret at all, and the people in the Boat and Fire Gang also know it very well. As long as they do not cross the tolerance limit of the Security Bureau, they can continue to do this evil and hugely profitable business.
The reason why Ding Si dared to come to the appointment and introduce his business to Yu Zhesen was also based on this reason.
He believes that Yu Zhesen and the security bureau behind him will not easily break the status quo. As long as they find those damn St. Newman City stowaways, the problem will be solved.
Yu Zhesen's idea was somewhat different from what Ding Si expected. He planned to dig out the information about the group of armed stowaways from Ding Si, complete the errand assigned by Zhong Yugu, and then take the opportunity to expose the problem of the Chuanhuo Gang to this
The leader of the Criminal Investigation Department transferred from Xingzhou City.
He has already thought about it at a very deep level - Ding Si said that they have been doing this business for four years. If the person who acquiesced to the Chuanhuo Gang's smuggling business here was a senior executive of the Administration or Security Bureau, then Director Jin Shounan had also been corrupted.
suspicion.
Claire has not returned yet. At this time, the only person who can provide help in making further investigation decisions is Zhong Yugu, who is in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department.
