Chapter 1 The Dragon City Rises

On the plane back to The Dragon City.

Lu Feng was covered with a blanket, rubbing his old legs with his hands.

"Injured?" Su Tianyu turned his head and asked.

"No, they didn't dare to torture me, they've been working on Lao Yang." Lu Feng sighed, "People, you can't refuse to get old. I can't sit on a cold chair anymore. After being tossed around all night, I've lost half my life."

Su Tianyu looked at him, "You've worked hard, Feng-ge!"

"Don't give me that mushy stuff." Lu Feng rolled his eyes. "I've been working for you for three years, and you just realized I've been working hard?"

"When we get back, I'll personally find you two artistic representatives to massage your three legs." Su Tianyu said sincerely.

"Heh, okay!" Lu Feng laughed when he heard that.

Although Master is full of Buddha's light, doesn't lack money or power, he is still easy to arrange for. As long as the private life service is in place, he will be a good man again in the morning.

Su Tianyu looked at him and asked softly, "Feng-ge, do you think the An family's proposal is reliable?"

"I don't have much education, so I'll just say what I think." Lu Feng replied bluntly, "Look, I come from a grass-roots background, so I know best what the people below are thinking! If the external pressure doesn't reach the point where our people can't survive, then the different forces can't fully integrate. Why? Because human nature is selfish. If everyone isn't pushed to the limit, who wants to stand out as the leader? When it comes to real interests, even brothers can fight each other with kitchen knives, let alone our commercially organized associations. To put it bluntly, Wu Boxin standing up and shouting about injustice is certainly great and touching, but have you ever thought about why he's doing it? It's very simple. He's already past the stage of material satisfaction! He's also getting old! So, what he's pursuing now is a state of life, it's great love, it's leaving something behind in the world after he dies...!"

Su Tianyu couldn't help nodding.

"Don't even talk about ordinary people! Just talk about those people in our chamber of commerce who are neither high nor low! What are they pursuing? It's being able to change wives several times a night, it's being able to save a fortune for their sons, it's being able to climb a little higher...!" Lu Feng sighed. "Do you think there are more people like this, or more people like Wu Boxin?"

"I understand what you mean."

"So, don't talk about great integration, great ideals, it's too ethereal and unrealistic." Lu Feng frowned and said, "It's better to set the tone closer to the ground, more realistic. Shouting slogans of resource sharing and common prosperity might be better. However, I'm not saying that the An family's proposal is completely worthless. That Liu Hongxu obviously wants to achieve a grand integration. He wants resource sharing, because we have more chips, which is beneficial to the An family. That's why Qi Qi pulled back when she saw that we didn't look right, saying that we should each govern ourselves, and only have a common position on major issues. I think this proposal is still workable. Everyone can just join in the fun. If it works out, great. If not, we won't lose anything, it'll just be an unhappy ending."

Su Tianyu nodded slowly, "That makes sense!"

"But seriously, your little girlfriend has changed a lot." Lu Feng sighed. "Alas, the environment is really the best teacher for training people."

"So, should we take the lead and try it?"

"We can try it, but I suggest not showing all our cards. If we want the Tongji Association to play with them, we can add chips when they start playing. If they can't play, we'll have to do it ourselves." Lu Feng said cautiously.

"Okay!" Su Tianyu nodded.

"I'm going to take a nap, I'm tired." Lu Feng pulled the blanket up and leaned back in his seat, closing his eyes.

Su Tianyu took out a pen and paper from the front storage bag and began to write lightly.

Huagong Association, Tongji Association, Changqing Company, An Family, Tan Family, Yu Mingyuan...

Su Tianyu wrote down all the names of social groups he could think of, and finally began to draw relationship diagrams little by little.

...

Around ten o'clock in the morning.

On the cruise ship, An Qiqi finished reading the information written by Zhang Baofeng and asked softly, "Which unit is currently guarding Wu Boxin?"

"It's the Fifth Action Team of the Central Bureau, with the assistance of the Sixth Division of the Second District," Zhang Baofeng replied.

"How many people are there?"

"There aren't many people, two squads, about thirty people." Zhang Baofeng frowned and replied, "But the location where Wu Boxin is located is more troublesome. He's in a villa next to the Sixth Division. It's unlikely that you'll be able to get to him."

"Can you co-opt relevant personnel?" An Qiqi asked.

"If something happens to me, Gwen will be alert and probably replace the people guarding Wu Boxin." Zhang Baofeng thought for a moment and replied.

An Qiqi handed the information to Liu Hongxu, looked down at Zhang Baofeng and said, "If you play a role in this matter, I'll let you go. Or, if you want to stay, you can also join our military intelligence system."

Zhang Baofeng fell into deep thought.

"Think about what to do." An Qiqi picked up a mobile phone, dialed a number and said, "Now, you need to call your family and ask your wife to contact your father-in-law and ask them to leave Iceland, where they are vacationing, before this afternoon."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Baofeng was dumbfounded.

"As soon as we caught you last night, our military intelligence people went to the First District. They found your wife and son." An Qiqi said expressionlessly, "From the moment you boarded the ship, you can only choose to cooperate!"

Zhang Baofeng was speechless.

"Answer the phone! Do as I say." An Qiqi handed him the phone.

"You're trying to put the blame on me!"

"Hehe, you're very smart!" An Qiqi held up the phone. "Talk to them!"

...

Ten twenty-five.

Gwen had just finished a meeting at the hotel and was about to go downstairs to see Wu Taiyong.

"Dilingling!"

A burst of telephone ringing resounded.

"Hello, this is Gwen!"

"Chief, we didn't find Zhang Baofeng's wife and children in the First District." The other party said very quickly, "Also, I just received a text message!"

"What?!"

"The local police department retrieved the surveillance footage outside Zhang Baofeng's wife's residence. After identification, it was discovered that a group of people picked them up before the incident last night. And about a few minutes ago, Zhang Baofeng's wife's mobile phone signal was restored. After listening in, she personally called and asked her parents to leave Iceland, where they were vacationing."

"...!" Gwen was stunned.

"Hello, are you listening? Chief!"

"That's it!" Gwen hung up the phone, paused for a moment, turned to his assistant and said, "Cancel the meeting with Wu Taiyong, and tell him I'm busy."

"Okay!" The assistant responded.

...

Inside the restaurant downstairs.

Wu Taiyong yawned and drank a beverage.

Opposite him, a member of the Fifth Division of the Central Bureau asked softly, "Mr. Wu, did you go see Zhang Baofeng last night?"

"Yes!"

"What did you go there for? Oh, I don't mean anything else, this is a routine inquiry!"

"He called me and said he had something to talk to me about." Wu Taiyong looked at his light eyebrows with a small mirror and replied, "I went to see him and talked to him about funding and the list of members of the chamber of commerce!"

"Oh!" The other party nodded.

One o'clock in the afternoon.

Gwen submitted a report on last night's attack, and the investigation concluded that Zhang Baofeng had defected!

...

One day later.

Su Tianyu called his eldest brother, preparing to meet with the higher-ups of the Huagong Association.