Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 426 Reason
The man motioned for the others to stop. He came to the bar alone and sat next to Chen Chuan. He looked at the ice water in his hand and said apologetically, "Old Huang is ignorant. I'm sorry."

He told the bartender, "Change it to a hot drink." The bartender immediately brought him a hot drink.

The man said, "I'm the boss here, my last name is Ai, and the person you're looking for is..." He asked tentatively, "Is he your friend?"

Chen Chuanshuo said: “I guess so.”

Mr. Ai looked at him and said, "Since you have found this place, we should give you this honor. But I have to say that arresting people has nothing to do with us. We have no hatred with your friends. It's just that someone asked us to do this. We have to rely on them for a living, so there is nothing we can do, right?"

Chen Chuan looked at him: "Mr. Ai seems very honest."

Mr. Ai shrugged. "I can't help it. I know who you are, sir. We still want to do business here, and we don't want to be your enemy." He gestured backwards, "Bring the person out."

Two men not far away immediately walked into the bar. A few minutes later, they came in front of the two men, holding a man's arm. The man had his head lowered, and there was a smell of blood and other unpleasant smells on his body. There were multiple injuries on other parts of his body.

When the thugs waiting nearby lifted his face, they could see that his face was covered with bruises, and there was dried blood at the corners of his mouth and eyes. He seemed to have been fed some kind of medicine and was in a daze. When he saw the strong light, he seemed to be subconsciously avoiding it.

Chen Chuan took a look and although the face was swollen, he could roughly recognize that it matched the photo that Lao Qi sent him.

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

The man called Hao Zhuo opened his eyes with all his strength. He glanced at the person in front of him and murmured, "Who, who is it? Who is my friend?"

He didn't know Chen Chuan at all, which seemed to contradict Chen Chuan's claim that they were friends, but Mr. Ai didn't show anything unusual and said to Chen Chuan politely, "Sir, look, the person is here. Hao Zhuo was wronged, but it was only a flesh wound. We will pay for his medical expenses."

As he said this, he pressed the button and transferred a sum of money to Chen Chuan.

Chen Chuan confiscated it and said, "In that case, I will take the person away. Mr. Ai, thank you for your cooperation."

He stood up, not caring about the dirt on Hao Zhuo, and took him from the thugs, and walked towards the door with ease.

"Please wait a moment," Mr. Ai shouted from behind, "Sir, we 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 get me wrong, that's what I said..." He spread his hands and gestured to the people around him, "After all, the person has been taken away by the gentleman, but we still have to pretend."

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

Mr. Ai and the thugs all looked unhappy and swallowed their saliva.

But then they saw that inside the decorative wall, there was a statue of some unknown creature. It was about one meter tall when sitting there, with a pair of horns on its head, a ferocious face, and the corners of its mouth were raised to the corners of its eyes. It looked like a smile, but it was very creepy to look at.

When Mr. Ai saw the statue, his expression changed and he stood up from where he was. When the thugs saw his movements, they became nervous and tightened their weapons.

Chen Chuan didn't care about them. He just casually tapped the statue and the whole statue exploded. Only the head was still intact. It fell from the top and rolled to the middle of the bar, mixing with the flashing blood. At the same time, the second me also showed a strong sign of becoming empty.

He glanced away and said, "The explanation is here." Then he continued to carry Hao Zhuo towards the door. The gang members at the door quickly opened the door for him at Mr. Ai's signal.

After everyone watched him walk out, one of the thugs asked Mr. Ai, "Boss, are you just going to let him take the guy away like that?"

Mr. Ai said angrily: "What else can I do? He is an executor of the processing bureau. You don't want to live anymore, but I still want to live a few more years."

"If we need someone down there..."

Mr. Ai said, "Why do you think I want an explanation? But..." He took off his sunglasses and stared at the statue head. "When did this thing get here? Who put it there?"

The thugs looked at each other and shook their heads.

They were called by the boss. When they arrived, the bar was already open. The boss didn't even know about it, so how would they know to go there?
Mr. Ai suddenly felt uncomfortable, not knowing whether it was an illusion. He said, "Throw this thing to the back." After thinking for a moment, he said, "Throw it farther away."

Chen Chuan brought Hao Zhuo out. The man was in a daze all the way and fell asleep after he was put on the back seat of the car.

Chen Chuan checked it with his ID and asked, "Old Qi, are you sure it's him?"

Lao Qi said: "It's him!"

Chen Chuan said: "I will bring him back right away and clarify the situation."

After they brought the man back, they took him to the residence that Lao Qi had originally arranged for Hao Zhuo. Lao Qi checked his injuries and said with some relief, "Although he was beaten pretty hard, at least he didn't break any bones. He was just given some hallucinogenic drugs."

He brought a needle and injected it into Hao Zhuo's neck. After a while, the latter began to cough and then shouted, "Water, give me water."

Lao Qi poured him a glass of water, and he drank it down in gulps. After a while, he started to cry out in pain again, so Lao Qi threw him a painkiller, and he calmed down after taking it.

After a while, he recovered and looked at Lao Qi: "Lao Qi, did you ask someone to save me?" Lao Qi said unhappily: "You thought I wanted to save you, those people came to me, what did you do?"

Hao Zhuo coughed and said, "Lao Qi, I am the one who has dragged you down this time. I am sorry for you, but I didn't mean to do that. I told them that it had nothing to do with you, but they didn't believe me."

"What on earth did you do? Tell me clearly today."

"This……"

Hao Zhuo hesitated and glanced at Chen Chuan who was sitting on the sofa nearby.

Lao Qi said, "We are one family, otherwise where do you want to get out from?"

Hao Zhuo said: "I can see that he is an important person. I think you are quite capable, Lao Qi. When did you meet him?..."

"I'm telling you, will you tell me?" Lao Qi said impatiently. "If you don't, I'll leave you here and you have to figure out a way to get out of here on your own."

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you now, can't I just say it now..."

Hao Zhuo explained that the matter was not complicated at first, because he was a warehouse manager of a gang in the Lower City District, and he mainly dealt with esoteric materials. Sometimes he would find ways to sell some "odd bits and pieces" as extra income, and that was how he got the materials he sold to Lao Qi.

But he doesn't care who he sells it to or what it is used for.

But the problem is that not long ago, the boss of this gang came to him and found a lot of things missing when taking inventory. He asked him to track them down. He felt something was not good, so he ran away to the upper city district.

He complained, "I don't know why there's such a fuss over such a small thing. They have to come all the way to the upper city. There are so many people who make a living from the warehouse. I just got some scraps, not even a fraction. Why are you targeting me?"

Lao Qi muttered, "This is not right. This little material is not worth much. Besides, do they think they can still trace it back after so much time has passed?"

"That's right, I can't figure it out. Is this amount of material enough for them to hire people and pay for gas to get up there?"

Lao Qi said, "Damn it, I didn't lose something and asked you to take the blame, did I?"

"Fuck, it's possible."

Chen Chuan then said, "That bar might be the Plague Gang's influence. Is this batch of goods related to them?"

"Is Lao Ai a member of the Plague Gang?"

Hao Zhuo was stunned, then his face changed, and he said in confusion: "I can't stay in the lower city now. Lao Qi, you have to do me a favor and find me a place to live. Don't worry, I will pay you a penny."

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

Chen Chuan thought for a moment 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 problems, so they want to get them back."

Hao Zhuo pondered for a moment and said, "That does make sense, but I sold so much, and apart from a few regular customers, I don't know where the rest of the ingredients went."

Chen Chuan said, "Lao Qi, you should move to another place. The higher-ups are keeping a close eye on the Plague Gang, so it's not a place they can just come to. That's why they hired help instead of doing it themselves. Don't worry about it. I have something to do recently, so you should hide first and wait for me to come back and deal with it."

Wu Bei said at this time: "Leave this to me, Brother Chen, I will find a place for them."

Lao Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "It's nothing for me, but I'm worried that Xiaoqi's studies will be delayed..."

Chen Chuan said: "Qiqi is in junior high school."

"Yes. This is the first year. It's a private high school."

Chen Chuan thought about it and realized that the company that integrated the boundary also invested in various private schools, so he contacted Yan Yi immediately.

After confirming, he said to Lao Qi: "I'll have someone transfer your daughter to another school. The place she goes to shouldn't be any worse than the original junior high school. Someone will help you with it and won't reveal her whereabouts."

Lao Qi was overjoyed. "That's great." He said gratefully, "Thank you, Brother Chen."

Hao Zhuo looked at Lao Qi with envy, thinking that Lao Qi's friend was quite awesome, and wondered if he could also get such a close friend.

After Chen Chuan finished making the arrangements here, he spoke a few words to Lao Qi, and when he saw that there was nothing else to do, he left.

He knew that Hao Zhuo might be hiding something, but this matter itself was a mess and he didn't have the energy to figure it out. He let the two of them stay out of the spotlight first, and if there were any problems later, he would deal with them after he finished his defense mission.

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(End of this chapter)