Atlas of Heaven and Earth
Chapter 426: The Reason

The man signaled the others to stop. He came to the bar alone, sat next to Chen Chuan, and looked at the iced water in his hand, saying apologetically, "Old Huang is ignorant. I'm sorry."

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

The man said, "I am the boss here, surnamed Ai. The person you are looking for..." he asked tentatively, "Is he your friend?"

Chen Chuan said, "Sort of."

Mr. Ai looked at him. "Since you have found this place, we have to give you face. But we have to say that the matter of capturing the person has little to do with us. We have no grudges with your friend. We were just asked to do this. We have to make a living, right?"

Chen Chuan looked at him. "Mr. Ai seems very frank."

Mr. Ai shrugged. "No way, I know who you are. We still have to do business here and don't want to be your enemy." He gestured to the back. "Bring him out."

Two subordinates in the distance immediately walked into the bar. A few minutes later, they came to the two men, supporting a man's arm. This person's head was lowered, and he exuded a bloody and unpleasant smell. Other parts of his body showed multiple injuries.

When the thugs next to him raised his face, it could be seen that his face was bruised and swollen, and the corners of his mouth and eyes were covered with dried blood. Moreover, he seemed to have been fed some medicine, and he was groggy. At this moment, when he saw the strong light, he seemed to be avoiding it subconsciously.

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

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

The man called Hao Zhuo tried his best to open his eyes. He looked at the people 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. This seemed to contradict Chen Chuan's statement that the two were friends, but Mr. Ai didn't show anything unusual and said to Chen Chuan very politely, "Sir, you see, the person is here. Hao Zhuo has suffered a little grievance, but it's all skin trauma. We will pay for his medical expenses."

As he said that, he pressed the Boundary Token and transferred a sum of money to Chen Chuan.

Chen Chuan didn't accept it, only saying, "In that case, I will take him away. Mr. Ai, thank you for your cooperation."

He stood up, not minding Hao Zhuo's dirtiness, took him from the thugs, 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 hand and said, "Don't misunderstand. It's that kind of explanation..." He spread out his hand and gestured around. "After all, the person has been taken away by you, but we also have to make a show of it."

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

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

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

When Mr. Ai saw this statue, he couldn't help but change his expression and stood up from his place, and the thugs, seeing his actions, also became nervous and tightened their weapons.

Chen Chuan didn't care about them, 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, mixed with the flashing blood, and at the same time, there was a strong fading trace on Second Self.

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

After everyone watched him go out, a thug asked Mr. Ai, "Boss, are we just going to let him take the person away like that?"

Mr. Ai said angrily, "Then what else can we do? That's an Executive Officer from the Processing Bureau. If you don't want to live, I still want to live a few more years."

"What if the people below want someone?"

Mr. Ai said, "What do you think I wanted an explanation for? But..." He took off his sunglasses and stared at the statue's head. "When did this thing get here? Who put it in?"

The thugs looked at each other and shook their heads.

They were brought by the boss. The bar was already open when they came. Even the boss didn't know, so how would they know?

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," he thought for a while, and then instructed, "Throw it farther away."

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

Chen Chuan compared it with the Boundary Token and asked, "Old Qi, is it confirmed that it's him?"

Old Qi said, "It's him!"

Chen Chuan said, "I'll take him back and find out what's going on."

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

He took a syringe and gave Hao Zhuo an injection in the neck. After a while, the latter began to cough and then yelled, "Water, give me water."

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Old Qi poured him a glass of water, and he drank it down. After a while, he started to groan in pain again, so he threw him a painkiller tablet. After he took it, he calmed down.

After a while, he recovered and looked at Old Qi. "Old Qi, did you find someone to save me?"

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

Hao Zhuo coughed. "Old Qi, this time it's my fault for dragging you down. I'm sorry, but I didn't want to either. I told them that it had 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.

Old 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, Old Qi, you're quite capable. When did you meet..."

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

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

Hao Zhuo explained that the matter was not complicated. Because he was a warehouse manager for a gang in the Lower City District, he mainly handled Secret Cult materials. Sometimes he tried to sell some "odds and ends" to earn some extra money. The materials he sold to Old Qi were from this source.

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

But the problem was that the gang's upstream supplier came over some time ago and found that a lot was missing during the inventory, and they demanded that it be recovered. He felt bad and ran to the Upper City District.

He complained, "I don't know why they made such a big deal out of such a small amount of stuff and even chased me to the Upper City District. There are so many people who make a living off the warehouse. I only took some scraps, not even a fraction. Why are they targeting me alone?"

Old Qi muttered, "Something's wrong with this. This little bit of material isn't worth much money. Besides, do they think they can still recover it after so long?"

"That's right. I don't understand. Is this little bit of material enough to pay for their expenses for hiring people and coming up here?"

Old Qi said, "Damn it, did you lose something and they're trying to make you take the blame?"

"Damn it, that's really possible."

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

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

Hao Zhuo was stunned, and then his face changed, and he said with some trepidation, "Now I can't stay in the Lower City District anymore. Old Qi, you have to do me a favor and find me another place to live. Don't worry, I won't pay you a penny less."

Old Qi said irritably, "This isn't about money!"

Chen Chuan thought for a while 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 get it back."

Hao Zhuo pondered for a while, "There is some truth to what you said, but I have sold so many things. Except for a few regular customers, I don't know where the other materials went."

Chen Chuan said, "Old Qi, you should move to another place to live first. The authorities are keeping a close eye on the Plague Gang. It's not a place where they can come and find people casually, 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 will deal with it when I come back."

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

Old Qi hesitated for a while and said, "I'm okay, but I'm afraid that Xiaoqi's studies will be delayed..."

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

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

Chen Chuan thought for a while. Fusion Boundary's Company also invests in various private schools, so he immediately contacted Yan Yi.

After confirming, he said to Old Qi, "I'll have someone transfer your daughter to another school. The place should not be worse than the original junior high school. Someone will help you take care of it and will not reveal your whereabouts."

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

Hao Zhuo looked at Old Qi enviously, thinking that Old Qi's friend was amazing. He wondered if he could also get on this bandwagon.

After Chen Chuan arranged things here, he said a few words to Old Qi. Seeing that there was nothing else to do, he left directly.

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

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