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Wind Rises in Dragon City Chapter 169
🕑 Added 2024-12-09 12:09:32 +0000 UTCChapter 169: Solid Evidence
At Chi Jun's base, Wei Xiangzuo stared at Su Tianyu for a long time but ultimately chose not to draw his gun.
"I still have things to do, let's get to Zone One quickly," Wei Xiangzuo replied in a low voice.
"Good, we'll talk in detail when we get to Zone One," Su Tianyu replied with a smile, reaching out to pat Wei Xiangzuo's shoulder. "Big Brother, once we're there, everything will be fine, don't be tense, hehe."
Wei Xiangzuo looked at him without speaking further.
Su Tianyu turned and left, continuing to busy himself with arranging everyone's evacuation.
Under the moonlight, Wei Xiangzuo sat on a large rock at the entrance of the crude camp, lowered his head to light a cigarette, and calmed his emotions.
Clearly, both Xu Hu and himself had been manipulated by the Yu family's people - more accurately, by Su Tianyu, because Wei Xiangzuo had just seen an extremely calm emotion in the latter's eyes, an expression of absolute certainty about having him.
Yes, Su Tianyu killing Gu Tongshan was true, but Xu Hu wanting to kill Wei Xiangzuo was also true.
Su Tianyu had used his gun to force Xu Hu to also raise his gun when he saw the opportunity.
With internal strife reaching this point, Wei Xiangzuo had no way back, and Xu Hu wouldn't let him go either.
What could Wei Xiangzuo do? Turn against the Yu family people and Su Tianyu now?
It was too late, too late!
Wei Xiangzuo wasn't a lone desperado - he was Zha'nan District's hall master with many brothers following him.
Yes, Gu Tongshan was dead, but Little Xuan had also died saving him. Cheng Gang had betrayed in this matter, while Little Feng, Old Gao and others were severely wounded, fleeing with him in disarray.
Wei Xiangzuo knew clearly what situation those dock brothers would face in the future. If he just killed Su Tianyu now without considering anything else, what would happen to those brothers?
If he upheld his duty to his master's disciple now, he couldn't uphold his duty as hall master.
Wei Xiangzuo took a deep drag on his cigarette and turned to look at the green mountains, having made his decision after helpless compromise in his heart.
There was no choice ahead - without cooperating with the Yu family now, Wei Xiangzuo would likely find it very difficult to turn things around within the dock gang.
After a long while, Wei Xiangzuo extinguished his cigarette on the ground and stood up to walk into the camp.
Seeing Wei Xiangzuo return, Little Feng immediately said through gritted teeth: "Since Xu Hu didn't kill us this time, he'll have to guard against us day and night!"
Wei Xiangzuo glanced at him and instructed with furrowed brows: "Quickly call the brothers at home, whoever can run should run, right now, immediately!"
"How did you discuss things with the Yu family people?" Little Feng asked.
"Discussed well, don't worry about it," Wei Xiangzuo urged again. "Call immediately!"
"Good!" Little Feng nodded.
Wei Xiangzuo didn't tell Little Feng the inside story of Gu Tongshan's death, much less tell him about his psychological struggle with Su Tianyu just now, because discussing these things now was meaningless.
......
One day later.
Su Tianyu and the others took off from Xinaluo's government military airport, heading for Huadu.
At the same time, Xu Hu, forced by circumstances, found the Dock Workers General Association's vice chairman and, witnessed by many hall gang leaders from various districts, brought back Cheng Gang.
In the General Association's conference room, Cheng Gang knelt on the ground covered in blood, trembling.
The vice chairman looked at Cheng Gang while smoking and said in a low voice: "Because of your Zha'nan dock gang's matters, many council of elders members were questioned. You better speak truthfully, otherwise you might carelessly lose your life."
"Yes, yes...!" Cheng Gang nodded repeatedly.
"Tell everyone exactly what you told me," Xu Hu instructed.
Cheng Gang knelt trembling on the ground, head lowered, and replied in a hoarse voice: "Old... Old Gu... was killed by Wei Xiangzuo colluding with the Yu family people."
The vice chairman and gang leaders from various districts all furrowed their brows hearing this.
"Speaking requires evidence - talk nonsense and I'll pull out all your teeth," an old man shouted with raised eyebrows.
"...What I'm saying is all true, the person was killed by Wei Xiangzuo after colluding with the Yu family," Cheng Gang looked up at the people in the room with bloodshot eyes and shouted. "Wei Xiangzuo and Old Gu actually hadn't gotten along for a long time - he didn't want to do the gold brick business... many people knew this, but with Old Gu and Brother Hu pressing down in Zha'nan, he didn't dare speak out in opposition, but was always unbalanced inside. He was Zha'nan's hall master, always in charge of above-board business, but had no say in the gold brick business. Every time goods moved, he could get very little profit, so he was unbalanced inside."
Everyone listened quietly without interrupting.
"Wei Xiangzuo's people - Little Feng, Little Xuan, Old Gao and others - had proposed going independent many times! I'm not just saying this randomly, everyone in Zha'nan knows," Cheng Gang continued adding. "The Yu family people wanted to plant their flag in Tianhong Port - this let Wei Xiangzuo see an opportunity, so he had secret contact with the Yu family side early on! Let's not talk about earlier things, just about when the Yu family found the garrison to snatch people at Tianhong Port... Wei Xiangzuo's side received the news first, but after taking us to Tianhong Port... he secretly told us not to help Brother Hu, to let the Yu family people go - many people knew about this at the time, right?"
"Right, I heard about it," a New Beach District gang leader slowly nodded in agreement. "That time, Wei Xiangzuo definitely didn't help, and left first."
"Yes, he took us and left first," Cheng Gang continued adding. "Also, after Old Gu was gone, a group of us went to Zone One and secretly met with Yu Mingyuan."
"This happened too?" the vice chairman asked in shock.
"Yes, just two days before Old Gu's funeral, we were in Zone One," Cheng Gang immediately nodded in reply. "Eight of us went! Took two cars, several road workers in Zha'nan know about this."
Wei Xiangzuo going to Huadu and privately meeting the Yu family people was almost solid evidence! Because from the leadership's perspective, they didn't know many of the details of the fighting below!
Hearing this, the vice chairman slapped the table and shouted: "Though the dock gang has internal strife, we've never had traitors to outsiders! This Wei Xiangzuo really has lived long enough...!"
Xu Hu swept his gloomy gaze over Cheng Gang before slowly looking up to say: "At Bei'an Street and Dragon Bridge, both times I was trying to catch Old Gu's killers, but Wei Xiangzuo intercepted twice to protect the gunmen! I hadn't realized before that he had connections with the Yu family, so I was careless and let him escape."
"You're the gang leader - Zha'nan's chaos must be handled by you!" the vice chairman pointed at Xu Hu and said. "Just one requirement - don't attract attention from above again, and don't let the villain go!"
"Understood!" Xu Hu nodded.
......
In Huadu.
Yu Mingyuan sat in the car and turned to demand of Su Tianyu: "You son of a bitch, dare to hide things from me?!"
Su Tianyu feigned confusion: "What things??"
"Stop fucking playing dumb with me!" Yu Mingyuan shouted. "Quickly say, what exactly is going on?!"
