Atlas of Heaven and Earth
Chapter 425: Pursuit

Old Qi's provided location was in Voidward District. When Chen Chuan followed the directions, he saw Old Qi's car parked in a parking lot. Not far from here was a private tax payment point.

Old Qi knew how to park.

Perhaps the City Patrol team was sometimes unreliable, but you could always trust the armed strength of the tax office. If gangsters came here, regardless of whether you were a citizen or not, the fact that there was no tax record would mean they'd dig into everything about you from birth to the present.

He contacted Old Qi using his Boundary Token, "Old Qi, I've arrived."

Old Qi responded immediately, "Little Brother Chen, over here."

Chen Chuan saw the door of the off-road vehicle open, and Old Qi got out and waved at him.

He drove along the parking lot's scanning lane and parked the car in an empty space. Because he had Processing Bureau identification, he didn't need to pay the parking fee for using this public parking lot, so the payment slip that had just popped up was immediately canceled.

Getting out of the car, he walked up to Old Qi. Although the latter hadn't shaved for a few days and looked a bit haggard with dark circles under his eyes, he seemed to be fine.

In the back seat of the car was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl with big eyes and two braids, who should be Old Qi's daughter, Qiqi. She saw Chen Chuan looking over and said, "Hello, Big Brother."

Chen Chuan nodded and smiled, "Hello." He then said to Old Qi, "Old Qi, what's the situation now?"

Old Qi sighed and said, "After I hid here, those people haven't come looking for me, but this can't go on. Qiqi hasn't been to school for days."

Chen Chuan said, "Is it because of the whereabouts of those materials?"

Old Qi said, "It seems like it."

Chen Chuan found it a bit strange. Although these Secret Cult materials were relatively difficult to obtain in the Upper City District, they weren't anything rare, so was it necessary to put in so much effort?

Old Qi said, "I was also wondering at first, but then I thought that maybe my friend got involved with something he shouldn't have, so it affected us here."

Chen Chuan felt that this was quite possible. If so, Old Qi was just implicated. He said, "Are those people watching your house now?"

"Yes, so I don't dare to go back."

"Which gang is it?"

Old Qi said, "The people who came forward were from a small gang nearby. If it were just them, I would have taken care of it myself. My clients aren't pushovers either, but since it involves Secret Cult materials, there must be some gang and power from the Lower City District behind these people. I don't want to suffer an immediate loss, and I don't want to implicate others, so I hid first."

Chen Chuan knew that he probably didn't want to bother him originally, hoping that those people wouldn't find him and would leave on their own. He could understand that, so he said, "We'll go back now, and I'll handle this matter."

"Okay, then I'll have to trouble you, Little Brother Chen." Old Qi's spirit perked up a bit. With Chen Chuan coming forward, it shouldn't be difficult to resolve this matter, but he was very embarrassed. "Little Brother Chen, I'm sorry, I have to make you take a trip for my matter..."

Chen Chuan said, "Old Qi, don't say that. I said we're a team. Besides, I asked you to buy the Secret Cult materials, so this matter is related to me, and you shouldn't have to bear it alone."

The two got into their respective cars and drove towards the location of Old Qi's house. He lived in an eighty-story rental building in Martial Determination District, where many low- to middle-income citizens lived.

In fact, most of the money he earned from commissions was used to maintain his livelihood and pay for his daughter's tuition. Otherwise, renting a better environment wouldn't be particularly difficult.

They parked the car outside, entered the building, and took the elevator up.

When they reached the corridor leading to Old Qi's house, Chen Chuan glanced over and saw two people hiding in the corner, occasionally glancing at them, and as soon as they saw Old Qi, they started touching the used Boundary Token on their faces.

He said, "Old Qi, take Qiqi back. Don't come out for now."

"Okay!"

Old Qi knew what to do, and protecting his daughter, he walked to his apartment door, took out the key, went inside, and closed the door.

Chen Chuan didn't pay attention to those two people, but immediately contacted Wu Bei to see where the signals those two people were contacting were going to.

Wu Bei quickly tracked the signal reception location and found that it was being transmitted to two places: one was a small gang's base, and the other was a bar located in Voidward District, and on the map, he could also see that it was near a tunnel entrance.

The latter was obviously a stronghold set up by some force from the Lower City District in the Upper City District. It seemed that these gangs liked to transform such strongholds into bars and hotels.

He didn't know much about the distribution of forces in the Lower City District in the past. Although there was information on the Processing Bureau, it was basically outdated. After all, the members there were complex and the forces changed relatively quickly.

But now he had channels. He directly contacted Clear Path Logistics through the Company's platform, sent the marked tunnel location, and asked which gang's sphere of influence it belonged to.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was a response, saying that the people who often operated near that tunnel were likely from the Plague Gang, and they attached a description of the Plague Gang's data.

Chen Chuan looked at it. This gang was not large in scale, but it was very special because most of the gang's internal members were composed of technicians, many of whom were originally R&D personnel, implant doctors, and bioengineers from large companies.

The outer gang members mostly worshiped a certain evil god. They would actively contract some infectious diseases and then take some experimental drugs to treat them, calling this act "filtering," believing that only in this way could they get close to that god. They also often captured people to conduct human experiments, and in the Lower City District, they were also hated by everyone.

If it weren't for the gang's structure itself being relatively loose, and some people needing their existence, it would have been destroyed long ago.

Seeing this, he shook his head. Many gangs with clear organizational structures can actually be reasoned with, and they have some scruples, but this type of gang with cult-like characteristics is not only crazy in its actions, but also has problems with their brains, so it cannot be solved by conventional means.

While he was browsing the data, Wu Bei transferred a monitoring scene to him. A group of gang members left the gang's base in two cars. This was obviously aimed at Old Qi.

Faced with these small gang members, Chen Chuan did not come forward himself, but contacted the City Patrol, explained the situation, and the nearby patrol team was dispatched immediately after receiving his notification.

Although the Processing Bureau and the City Patrol were not in a hierarchical relationship, they had a close cooperative relationship.

After all, once the patrol team faced criminals with strong implants and Martial Artists, they basically relied on the Processing Bureau to clean up the mess. The faster the Processing Bureau dispatched, the smaller their casualties would be, so they would generally give face to Processing Bureau staff, let alone a Second-Class Executive Officer.

The two cars had only driven for less than five minutes when they were intercepted by the City Patrol on the road.

Less than half an hour later, the City Patrol informed Chen Chuan that the people had been detained and that the people in that base had been taken back for review.

Because these people all had things on their backs, the City Patrol team could detain them for as long as they wanted as long as they were willing to investigate.

After Chen Chuan received the notification, he thanked them. At this time, Wu Bei's voice sounded in his ear: "Little Brother Chen, I found the information from a few days ago. The people who kidnapped Old Qi's friend were from that bar. I haven't seen any transfers these days, so the person should still be in the bar."

Chen Chuan thanked him and knew that it would be easy to handle if he knew where the person was. The key was to find out the cause of the matter in order to prescribe the right medicine.

But after these few days, he didn't know if the person was still alive, so he could only go and take a look first.

He asked Wu Bei to pay attention to the surroundings of Old Qi's house and notify him of any situation at any time. Then he got into the car and drove to the bar. After twenty minutes, he arrived at the location.

This bar's street was converted from an old-fashioned building. The outside looked very normal, with an eye-catching bar sign, exaggerated neon lights, and constantly flashing light curtains.

He parked the car and went inside. The inside was also full of constantly flashing lights. The floor was made of glass partitions, and he could see blood-like liquid flowing through the glass pipes underneath.

Because it was daytime, there were not many customers yet, but after he came in, his Second Self suddenly showed a not weak fading sign. Looking along the direction, the source seemed to be in a sealed decorative wall in the middle.

He withdrew his gaze and came to the vicinity of the bar, saying directly, "I have a friend who was brought here by you a few days ago. Is he still here now?"

The bartender was wearing short sleeves, revealing strong arms with rings of tattoos on them. After Chen Chuan came in, he looked at him vigilantly. Hearing these words, his expression changed, and he denied, "I don't know what you're talking about."

He winked at two thugs sitting in the distance, and the people there immediately started using their Boundary Tokens to notify the outside.

Chen Chuan seemed not to have noticed, sat down in front, and said, "Then give me a drink."

"We only have wine here, no drinks."

Chen Chuan said, "A glass of water is fine too."

The bartender saw that the person using the Boundary Token seemed to still be in contact, so he turned around and poured him a glass of water, not forgetting to add two ice cubes to it, and pushed it in front of Chen Chuan, "Sir, here's your water."

Chen Chuan picked it up and slowly drank it.

After discovering the situation here, the few customers who were there felt something was wrong and checked out and left. Even some customers who wanted to watch the excitement were persuaded to leave by the thugs in the bar.

Not long after, a group of people walked in from outside. The leader was a man in his thirties, wearing very decent clothes. Although the light here was not very bright, he still did not take off the sunglasses he was wearing on his face.

He turned around and ordered, and the door outside the bar was pulled down, and the door inside was also closed and locked. Then, he slowly walked up with a few people holding weapons and firearms.

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