Chapter 1 The Dragon City Rises

In downtown Hanoi, downstairs from an apartment building, Gui Mengjun led more than twenty men toward their cars: "Send the information of the high-level officials involved in the coup to Brother Pao, and have his men take action immediately. Lock down the families of these people, and don't let any of them escape."

"Yes!" A young man following behind nodded in response.

"Let the border bandits enter the scene and support Su Tianyu in quickly clearing out the material factory," Gui Mengjun said in a low voice as he bent down and got into an SUV. "Notify our direct subordinates to go to the company headquarters, quickly!"

"Understood!" The young man nodded repeatedly.

Gui Mengjun closed the car door and immediately urged, "Let's go."

As soon as he finished speaking, six or seven cars sped away.

Gui Mengjun was an extremely patient man. He had been lying low for so long, forced to watch his father take risks and even having his family create a fake grave for him, all to prepare thoroughly so that when the counterattack began, he could deliver a final, decisive blow.

If the Gui family had rebels, then Gui Mengjun definitely had his own faction of loyalists. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to become the person in charge.

These loyalists hadn't dared to act rashly before, afraid of alarming Gui Mengxiong, Wu Ziliang, and others. So they had chosen to observe, hesitate, and remain silent on the surface.

But now that the horn of counterattack had been sounded, these loyalists and Brother Pao's men had also begun to act separately.

Before tonight, Gui Mengjun had Brother Pao's men secretly keep an eye on the residences of all the company's high-level officials, executives, and relatives, but they had remained in place.

If Gui Mengxiong and Wu Ziliang didn't go all-in and reveal their final cards, Gui Mengjun wouldn't be able to discern who among the company's wavering members was a ghost and who was a friend.

But now that all the ghosts who were going to take action at the material factory had been exposed, Gui Mengjun naturally no longer needed to wait and see.

With an order, Brother Pao and his loyalists began to encircle and suppress the enemy from the outside.

...

In a high-end residential apartment in Hanoi's Baojin District, a middle-aged woman was leading her thirteen or fourteen-year-old son and a dozen other people toward the lobby on the first floor.

The middle-aged woman held a phone to her ear, speaking quickly: "Yes, yes, we just left."

In the phone, a man's voice said in a low voice, "They've already started taking action here. To be safe, you and the child should go directly to Second Brother's place. Don't come back until things have settled down."

"Got it," the middle-aged woman replied immediately. "Be careful too."

"Understood!"

After they finished talking, they ended the call. The middle-aged woman hurried out of the lobby, protected by her men, and arrived at the parking lot facing the street.

"Quick, quick, send Madam first...!" The leading thug waved to his brothers behind him.

"Buzz!"

"Bang!"

Just then, an SUV on the side of the road suddenly rushed onto the sidewalk and crashed directly into the car next to the middle-aged woman.

After the muffled crash, before the middle-aged woman could react, she saw four men get out of the SUV. One of them had his waist wrapped with dense explosive tubes (lei guan), and he held a hand grenade in each hand.

"Don't move!"

"Everyone, don't move!"

"…!"

The other three all raised their automatic rifles.

At the same time, more than a dozen people rushed out from behind the cars on both sides of the parking lot, all carrying guns and glaring angrily as they surrounded them.

"What are you doing?!" The middle-aged woman immediately shielded her son behind her.

"What are we doing? We're taking care of you!" The middle-aged man with the explosive tubes kicked the woman in the abdomen and roared, "If anyone dares to move, I'll send them to heaven immediately!"

"Whoosh!"

While the middle-aged man was threatening the other side's thugs, three men holding automatic rifles immediately forced the woman with their guns: "Take your son and get in the car with me. Hurry!"

...

Inside a company on the second floor of Hanoi's commercial port.

An old man was sitting on the sofa, anxiously asking, "What's the situation at the material factory?"

"Big Brother and Gui Mengxiong, Wu Ziliang, and the others have arrived, preparing to force the old man and his son to hand over power," the middle-aged man beside him said with his hands behind his back. "It shouldn't be a big problem."

"I'm just a little uneasy." The old man frowned and rubbed his palms anxiously.

"Gui Mengjun is gone, and the remaining two younger brothers are also useless. We have all the advantages on our side, and they shouldn't have a chance to turn the tables," the middle-aged man continued. "If the old man doesn't hand over power, I estimate that none of his family members will be spared..."

"Bang, bang!"

Before he could finish speaking, two muffled sounds suddenly came from the anti-theft door outside.

"What's wrong?" the old man asked as he stood up.

"Swish!"

The lights in the room went out instantly, and everything was plunged into darkness.

"Crash!"

The anti-theft door was pried open, and a dozen masked men with guns rushed in, followed by fierce gunfire.

In less than half a minute, the old man and the other three people in the room were taken away.

From the moment Gui Mengjun left his hiding place, similar incidents were happening in more than twenty places in Hanoi. Large numbers of family members of rebellious members who had already shown their faces were quickly controlled and taken away.

...

Inside the material factory.

Gui Mengxiong, Wu Ziliang, and the others were still unaware of what was happening outside. They only knew that they and the rebellious high-level officials and relatives who had arrived later had rushed into the courtyard, preparing to capture and kill the old man Gui and force the Gui family's main branch to hand over power.

Inside the factory courtyard, Gui Mengxiong waved his hand and roared at a thug, "Send two people to shout at them. Tell him that if he comes out, we can talk. If he delays any longer, we'll fight our way in and leave no one alive. Hurry!"

At this moment, Gui Mengxiong had completely lost his mind. Family affection was not in his considerations. He only knew that if he didn't win tonight, he would die.

Inside the main building of the material factory, one of Gui Mengxiong's thugs was holding a gun and hiding behind the wall, yelling, "Old Man Gui, we have a message from above. If you come out now with your people, we can sit down and talk, but if you keep delaying, then I'm sorry, we're going to fight our way in, and your son, daughters, and daughters-in-law will all be killed, not a single one will be spared!"

Deep in the corridor on the second floor, Lao Hei panted and waved his hand. "Lightbulb, the reinforcements are too slow. We can't hold on anymore. Observe the surroundings and if we really can't hold on, we can only take..."

Before he could finish speaking, Su Tianyu's voice suddenly sounded in Lao Hei's earpiece: "The net is closing! I'm here!"

Lao Hei's spirits lifted when he heard this: "Where are the people?!"

"On the north side."

"Bang, bang, bang!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of portable mortars firing suddenly came from near the small hill on the north side of the material factory.

"Boom!"

Explosions erupted in the factory, and huge craters were blown out in many open spaces.

Gui Mengxiong ducked to avoid the explosions, then suddenly looked up: "The back! What happened to the back?!"