Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 425 Pursuit
The location provided by Lao Qi was in Shenwei District. When Chen Chuanxun found it, he saw that Lao Qi's car was parked in a parking lot, and not far away was a private tax payment point.

Lao Qi knows how to park.

Maybe the city patrol is unreliable sometimes, but you can always trust the armed forces of the tax office. If gang members come here, no matter whether you are a citizen or not, just because you have never had a tax payment record, you will have to be checked from birth to the present.

He used his boundary pass to contact, "Lao Qi, I'm here."

Lao Qi responded immediately: "Brother Chen, this way."

Chen Chuan saw the door of the SUV open and Lao Qi got out and waved at him.

He drove along the scanning path of the parking lot and parked his car in an empty space. He had the identity of the processing bureau, and he did not need to pay parking fees to use this kind of public parking lot, so the fee bill that just popped up was immediately cancelled.

Coming out of here, he walked up to Lao Qi. Although the latter hadn't shaved for a few days and looked a little haggard and had dark circles under his eyes, there seemed to be nothing wrong with his body.

There was a big-eyed little girl about twelve or thirteen years old in the back seat of the car. She had two pigtails and must be Qi Qi, the daughter of Lao Qi. When she saw Chen Chuan looking over, she said, "Hello, big brother."

Chen Chuan nodded and said with a smile, "Hello." Then he said to Lao Qi, "Lao Qi, what's the situation now?"

Lao Qi sighed and said, "After I hid here, those people stopped looking for me. But it's not going to be a good thing if this continues. Qiqi hasn't been to school for a few days."

Chen Chuanshuo said: "Is it just for the whereabouts of those materials?"

Lao Qi said: "From the looks of it, it should be him."

Chen Chuan found it a little strange. Although these esoteric materials were difficult to obtain in the Upper City, they were not rare things. Was it necessary to go to so much trouble?
Lao Qi said: "I was also puzzled at first, but then I thought that maybe my friend got his hands on something he shouldn't have, so he got involved with us."

Chen Chuan thought this was somewhat possible. If this was the case, then Lao Qi was just implicated. He asked, "Are those people targeting your home now?"

"Yes, so I dare not go back."

"Which gang?"

Lao Qi said, "The people who showed up are from a small gang nearby. If that was all, I would have handled it myself. My clients are not pushovers, but since it involves esoteric cult materials, these people must be from a gang or some force in the downtown area. I don't want to suffer a loss, nor do I want to implicate others, so I'm hiding out first."

Chen Chuan knew that he definitely didn't want to trouble him, and wanted those people to leave because they couldn't find him. He could understand this, so he said, "Let's go back now, and I'll take care of this matter."

"Okay, then I'll trouble Brother Chen." Lao Qi cheered up a little. It shouldn't be difficult to solve this matter with Chen Chuan coming forward, but he felt embarrassed. "Brother Chen, I'm sorry to ask you to run all the way for such a small matter..."

Chen Chuan said, "Old Qi, don't say that. I said we are a team. Besides, I asked you to buy the esoteric materials. This matter is originally related to me, and you shouldn't bear it alone."

The two of them got in their cars and drove towards Lao Qi's home. He lived in an 80-story rental building in Wuding District, where many of the residents were middle- and low-income citizens.

In fact, most of the money he earned from the commission was used to maintain his life and pay his daughter's tuition. Otherwise, it would not be particularly difficult to rent a place in a better environment.

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

When they reached the corridor leading to Lao Qi's house, Chen Chuan only took a glance and saw two people hiding in the corner, glancing at them from time to time, and as soon as they saw Lao Qi, they began to touch the two people on their faces.

He said, "Lao Qi, take Qiqi back and don't come out yet."

"it is good!"

Lao Qi knew what was going on, so he took his daughter to the door of his room, took out the key, went in, and closed the door.
Chen Chuan ignored the two men and immediately contacted Wu Bei to ask him to check where the signal between the two men was leading to.

Wu Bei quickly tracked down the signal receiving location and found that it was transmitted to two places. One was the base of a small gang, and the other was a bar located in Shenwei District. It can also be seen on the map that this place is close to a tunnel entrance.

The latter is obviously a stronghold set up by a certain force in the lower city in the upper city. It seems that these gangs like to transform such strongholds into places such as bars and hotels.

He had not been clear about the distribution of power in the lower city area in the past. Although there was information in the processing bureau, it was basically outdated. After all, the members there were complex and the power changes were relatively fast.

But now he has a channel. He used the company's platform to directly contact Lutong Logistics, 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 from the other side, saying that the people who often moved around near that tunnel were likely members of the Plague Gang, and a description of the Plague Gang was attached.

Chen Chuan looked at it and found that this gang was not large in scale, but it was very special because most of the gang members were technical personnel, many of whom were originally R&D personnel, implant doctors and bioengineers of large companies. Most of the members of some peripheral gangs believed in a certain evil god. They would take the initiative to contract some infectious diseases and then take some experimental drugs to treat them. This was called "filtration". They believed that this was the only way to get closer to the god. They also often captured people for human experiments. They were hated by people in the Lower City.

If the gang's structure was not relatively loose and there were certain people who needed their existence, it would have been destroyed long ago.

Seeing this, he shook his head. Many gangs with clear structures and organizations can actually be reasoned with, so there is some concern. However, this kind of gang with cult characteristics not only does things crazily, but also each of them has problems in their brains. It cannot be solved by conventional means.

While he was browsing the information, Wu Bei transferred a surveillance scene to him. A group of gang members set off from the gang base in two cars, and it was obvious that they were coming for Lao Qi.

Faced with the members of these small gangs, Chen Chuan did not show up himself, but contacted the city patrol and explained the situation. After receiving his report, the nearby patrol team immediately set out.

Although the Bureau and the City Patrol are not in a superior-subordinate relationship, they have a close cooperative relationship with each other.

After all, once the patrol team faces crimes committed by people with strong implants and fighters, they basically rely on the Processing Bureau to deal with it. The faster the Processing Bureau is dispatched, the fewer casualties they will suffer, so they will generally give face to the staff of the Processing Bureau, let alone a second-level executor.

The two cars had been driving for less than five minutes when they were stopped on the road by city patrol officers.

Less than half an hour later, the city patrol informed Chen Chuan that the person had been detained and all the people in the station were taken back for investigation.

Because these people have criminal records, the city patrol can detain them for as long as they want as long as they are willing to investigate.

After Chen Chuan received the notification, he thanked him. At this time, Wu Bei's voice rang in his ears: "Brother Chen, I found the information from a few days ago. The person who took Lao Qi's friend away is from that bar. I haven't seen him move in the past few days. He should still be in the bar now."

Chen Chuanren thanked him and said that it would be easy to deal with the matter once he knew where the person was. The key was to find out the cause of the incident so that he could prescribe the right medicine.

It’s been a few days and I don’t know if the person is still alive, so I can only go and check on him.

He asked Wu Bei to keep an eye on the area around Lao Qi's house and inform him if anything happened. Then he got in the car and drove to the bar. He arrived at the location after about 20 minutes.

This bar street was converted from an old house and looks quite normal from the outside, with a conspicuous bar sign, exaggerated neon lights, and a constantly flashing light curtain.

He parked the car and walked in. There were lights flickering inside as well. The floor was partitioned by glass, and one could see the blood-like liquid flowing in the glass pipe underneath.

Because it is daytime, there are not many customers yet. But after he came in, I suddenly saw a strong sign of blurring in my body. Looking in that direction, the source seemed to be in a sealed decorative wall in the middle.

He retracted his gaze, came to the bar, and said directly: "I have a friend who was caught here by you a few days ago. Is he still here now?"

The bartender was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, revealing his muscular arms covered with circles of tattoos. He had been watching Chen Chuan warily since he came in. When he heard this, his expression changed and he denied it, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about."

He winked at the two thugs sitting in the distance, and the men over there immediately began to use the boundary pass to notify the outside world.

Chen Chuan seemed not to notice it, sat down in front and said, "Then have a drink."

"We only have wine here, no drinks."

Chen Chuanshuo said: "A glass of water would be fine."

Seeing that the person using the boundary certificate seemed to be still in contact, the bartender turned back to pour him a glass of water, adding two ice cubes, and pushed it in front of Chen Chuan, "Sir, this is the water you ordered."

Chen Chuan picked it up and drank it slowly.

After discovering the situation here, the few guests felt something was wrong and paid their bills and left. Even some guests who wanted to watch the fun were persuaded to leave by the bar's thugs.

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

He turned around and gave an order, and the door outside the bar was pulled down, and the door inside was closed and locked. Then he slowly walked up with several people holding weapons and guns.

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(End of this chapter)