On the lawn by the reservoir.

"Su Tiannan, give me back my phone!" Zhang Taotao shouted helplessly.

Su Tiannan ignored her, took tape from the car, and crudely wrapped the lower half of Zhang Taotao's face like a mummy, directly blocking her mouth.

After finishing, Su Tiannan yanked open the car door, sat in the passenger seat, and looked down at the other party's phone.

Things had reached this point; it was obviously difficult to force Zhang Taotao to compromise. This woman had a very strong mental fortitude. She was certain that Su Tiannan wouldn't dare to really kill her, and other coercive measures had no real effect on her. Dragging it out would only put him in a difficult position and delay important matters.

So, to get Zhang Taotao to cooperate, he had to immediately grasp her weakness and cause her to have a mental breakdown.

A cell phone was a good thing. It not only made people's lives more convenient, but also revealed their social circles without reservation.

Su Tiannan sat in the passenger seat, drinking water while browsing through Zhang Taotao's contacts and social media apps.

After searching for a while, Su Tiannan found that Zhang Taotao had almost no chat history on her social media. She had deleted everything very cleanly. The various contacts in her address book were mainly people in her work circle, with very few friends or relatives.

"Damn it, doesn't this person have a private life?!" Su Tiannan reluctantly opened the phone's photo album and continued watching.

Halfway through, Su Tiannan saw many of Zhang Taotao's sexy photos in the private album. He swallowed and silently straightened the bulge in his crotch, then continued watching with a flushed face.

The album contained many landscape photos and selfies of Zhang Taotao traveling. The scenery was beautiful, and the woman was even more beautiful. Su Tiannan looked through more than a hundred photos with an appreciative attitude and finally caught a clue.

In an album group called "Indebted from the Previous Life," Su Tiannan found many photos of Zhang Taotao with a young, handsome man.

"DiDi."

As Su Tiannan was watching, Zhang Taotao's social media suddenly received a message with the following content:

"Director Zhang, are you in bed yet?"

Su Tiannan immediately clicked on the person's profile picture and found that the person in the photo was the young, handsome man with whom Zhang Taotao had many photos.

Seeing this, Su Tiannan grinned.

Two minutes later, Su Tiannan pushed open the car door, put Zhang Taotao back in the trunk, and drove away.

...

A day later, around eight o'clock in the evening, near a street in Tianhong Port.

Five private cars were parked, and ten plainclothes coast guard members were gathered together, smoking and chatting, while the only non-official member, Hou Guoyu, was also on the scene.

After waiting for a while, two more cars arrived. Su Tianyu got out of the car with Lao Hei and five others.

"Team Leader Su!"

"Are we leaving now?"

"..."

The coast guard members immediately surrounded them.

"Come on, everyone gather around," Su Tianyu waved his hand.

Everyone stepped forward and surrounded Su Tianyu.

"You should all have met these people, Lao Hei, Li Zi..." Su Tianyu pointed to Lao Hei and the others and said to the coast guard members, "This time, we'll still go together for the investigation. When you get in the car later, get to know each other better. Let me talk about the disciplinary principles. This time, we're going to find clues on Seven Island. We might be in District One for a few days. During this period, everyone's communication devices will be under unified management. Unless there's a particularly urgent matter, you can't leave on your own. If you want to leave, you have to let me and Captain Fang know."

"Understood," everyone nodded.

The coast guard members' salaries were not very high. Although they usually had some gray income, that had to be divided among everyone in the department, and not much actually ended up in their own hands.

After Su Tianyu came, although the work was a bit dangerous, he really gave money to those below!

The last time they went to Alan Town, after returning, Su Tianyu gave each uninjured member an eight thousand subsidy, which didn't include the department's attendance allowance. In addition, most of the people in the department who were willing to work with Su Tianyu were from humble backgrounds or ordinary families, so they were very satisfied with the treatment Gou Liuzi gave, and they were willing to work.

First, they could make money, and second, they all knew about Su Tianyu's connections in the city. They were ambitious and wanted to make a career for themselves.

After Su Tianyu finished explaining the basic investigation discipline, Fang Zheng also drove to the scene. He was the one that Police Chief Cheng specifically asked to come along to keep an eye on things. Because of this, Fang Zheng cursed Police Chief Cheng for two nights at home...

"Let's go?" Fang Zheng greeted with a smile.

"Let's go!" Su Tianyu waved his hand. "Let's go!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone yanked open the car doors, got into the private cars, and headed straight for District One.

For this trip, Su Tianyu had two plans in mind. He planned to first go to the location Xiao Kai confessed to for the handover to track down clues. If he found anything, he would continue to push forward. If he didn't find anything, he would change his approach and start with Zhang Taotao or Huihong Pharmaceuticals.

Under the cover of night, everyone quickly left Dragon City.

...

On the sea.

The dilapidated cargo ship was still moving slowly. It was less than six hours away from its destination.

Around six o'clock in the evening, the human traffickers on the ship specially added a meal for the abducted people in the hold, giving them an extra set of fruit and two side dishes.

This unusual behavior did not make the abducted people in the hold grateful. On the contrary, as long as they weren't mentally ill, they felt uneasy because they had all sensed something was up.

Sure enough, around nine o'clock in the evening, six managers entered the hold carrying four cardboard boxes.

"Everyone gets a new set of clothes. Line up and take your size. Change into them after you get them." The leader of the human traffickers shouted fiercely in Chinese and English several times.

The abducted people, seeing the bright automatic rifles in their hands, naturally didn't dare to resist and could only follow their instructions to line up and get clothes.

Inside the hold, Fei Pingsheng was not in a hurry to line up for clothes. He was panicking inside and had already guessed that he was about to be sent to his destination.

What to do?

After hesitating for a long time, Fei Pingsheng decided to take a gamble because he had observed many details in the past few days.

After making up his mind, Fei Pingsheng squatted and moved to the door, grinning at the young man named Hu Zi and saying, "Brother... are we almost there? Can we go... go out for a smoke?"

Hu Zi looked down at him. "Are you getting cocky, thinking I'm being too nice to you?"

Fei Pingsheng slowly stood up and said in a very low voice, "I have something to report."

Hu Zi paused, glanced at Fei Pingsheng, and said, "Wait until everyone's gotten their clothes."

...

On the way to Huafu in District One, Su Tiannan stopped the car on an endless plain and reached into the passenger seat to pick up a pile of food.

He pushed open the car door, went to the back of the car, opened the trunk, and tore off the tape from Zhang Taotao's mouth. "Open your mouth. I'll feed you."

Zhang Taotao was already very disheveled from being tossed around. She weakly turned her head away, refusing to eat.

"Why aren't you eating? Are you afraid of being embarrassed to shit in front of me?!" Su Tiannan pinched Zhang Taotao's mouth and poured half a bottle of milk directly into her mouth...