Chapter 1 The Dragon City Rains

The next day, after nearly half a month of clear weather, The Dragon City Rises, and a sudden downpour began.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Xiangzuo returned alone from Fukuoka District, entered Tianhong Port, and prepared to find a place to eat.

Normally, Wei Xiangzuo was never alone. No matter where he went, he was always accompanied by several brothers, but today he was uncharacteristically on his own, having driven away alone first thing in the morning.

Back in the port, Wei Xiangzuo's phone rang before he could even get to a restaurant. He glanced at the number and pressed the answer button, "Hello!"

"Brother, something urgent, where are you?"

"I'm in the port, what's up?"

"Come to Erdao Street," Xiao Feng said in a low voice, "Cheng Gang and the others are waiting for you."

"What is it?" Wei Xiangzuo asked.

"It's about the gunman."

"Okay, I got it." Wei Xiangzuo replied and immediately drove to Erdao Street in the port.

...

Heavy rain poured down, the roads were slippery, and there were few pedestrians.

Wei Xiangzuo's car stopped in front of a small food stall on Erdao Street in the port. A burly man, around thirty years old, immediately ran out to greet him, holding the stall owner's umbrella.

Wei Xiangzuo got out of the car, ducked under the umbrella, and asked in a low voice, "Did you find anything?"

"Yeah, we caught a thread, let's talk inside." The man nodded in reply. This man was called Cheng Gang, a foreman of the Zha Nan wharf gang, mainly responsible for distributing goods.

The two men jogged into the restaurant and went to a private room on the first floor. There were six or seven other people inside, all Wei Xiangzuo's brothers.

These people were all Wei Xiangzuo's confidants. When he was on the run, things weren't going so well, but these brothers had always stuck with him. They had drifted around together for several years, and their bond was very strong.

Inside the private room, Wei Xiangzuo wiped the raindrops off his body, bent down, sat down, and asked, "What did you find?!"

Cheng Gang poured a glass of water for Wei Xiangzuo and said with a smile, "Just wait a moment for Er Lao Gui to come, he'll tell you."

"Okay." Wei Xiangzuo nodded.

The group sat in the room drinking tea, eating dried fruit, and waited for about five minutes before a sneaky-looking man walked in, bowing and calling out to Wei Xiangzuo, "Brother!"

"Hey, you're here." Wei Xiangzuo nodded with a smile.

Xiao Feng looked at the man, smoking a cigarette, and said, "Tell Big Brother what's going on."

The man pulled up a chair, bent down and sat down, and immediately said, "It's like this, Big Brother. Wasn't today the day we got paid? I went to the hall to collect my bonus and happened to run into Er Tao. I owed him some money from playing Texas Hold'em before, so I gave it to him and even treated him to lunch."

"Ah, and then?" Wei Xiangzuo nodded.

"We both drank a lot, more than a jin (approximately 500g) at noon." The man said ramblingly, "We got drunk and started talking nonsense about the assassination of Gu Lao... I said that the higher-ups seemed to have argued about this matter at a meeting in Longkou yesterday, and it might not have been the Yu family who did it... But I didn't expect Er Tao to agree with me, saying that the Yu family didn't do it and that there was a mole in the wharf gang."

"He said the Yu family didn't do it?" Wei Xiangzuo asked.

"Yes, I was curious at the time, so I asked him what was going on." The man nodded in response, "Er Tao is a blabbermouth. I coaxed him a bit, and he told me... Three days before Gu Lao's incident, someone went to Yang Ming's place to get guns, long and short, two whole bags."

Wei Xiangzuo raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is that Yang Ming the one who works with Xu Er?"

"Yes, that's him. This Yang Ming also loves to gamble. Er Tao often plays Texas Hold'em with him." The man said in a low voice, "Er Tao said that they played until after two o'clock in the morning that day, and he thought it was too late to go home, so he stayed in Warehouse Four. Yang Ming was also there at the time. Two people came in the middle of the night and took the guns from the warehouse. Er Tao asked him what he was delivering, and Yang Ming said it was contraband that someone else had bought, but Er Tao saw from upstairs that Yang Ming was taking guns."

Hearing this, Cheng Gang immediately asked, "Er Tao likes to brag after a few drinks, is what he said reliable?"

"Didn't we inquire about those gunmen before? So I asked what the people who came to get the guns looked like, what their physical characteristics were." The man lowered his voice and replied, "Er Tao told me that one of them had a buzz cut and was missing half of his left ear."

Wei Xiangzuo was stunned when he heard this.

"When I heard that, this information matched what we investigated, so after Er Tao and I finished drinking, I called Xiao Feng." The man replied.

"If Er Tao saw that half-ear, then this matter really adds up." Xiao Feng glanced at Wei Xiangzuo, "Yang Ming is Xu Er's man, damn it, this is getting interesting."

Wei Xiangzuo put down his teacup, waved his hand at Er Lao Gui, and said, "Okay, I know, thanks for your trouble."

"Hehe, it's nothing." Er Lao Gui immediately stood up, "Then you guys talk, I'll leave first."

"Remember to get a red envelope from Xiao Feng later, don't tell anyone." Wei Xiangzuo instructed.

"Okay, thank you, Big Brother!" Er Lao Gui turned and left.

Wei Xiangzuo turned his head to look at Xiao Feng, "Did you check?"

"I inquired, Yang Ming is still in Warehouse Four." Xiao Feng naturally knew what his Big Brother meant, so he immediately replied.

Wei Xiangzuo looked down at his watch and said softly to Xiao Feng, "There are too many people in Warehouse Four. Find someone to keep an eye on Yang Ming and take him down tonight."

"Understood!" Xiao Feng replied.

...

The clue that Er Lao Gui gave was too direct, so Wei Xiangzuo couldn't let it go.

The group gathered together and waited until after nine o'clock in the evening when Xiao Feng received a call from his henchman, who told him that Yang Ming had gone home.

After receiving the call, Wei Xiangzuo took six of his brothers, drove a business van, and headed towards Bei'an Street in the rainy night.

Bei'an Street was located close to the outside of the port, next to Tu Fang Street in Zha Nan. The living environment wasn't good, and it was full of crowding and poverty.

The car slowly entered Bei'an Street, and Wei Xiangzuo sat in the back of the car, closing his eyes to rest.

"Everyone, put on your masks later!" Xiao Feng sat in the passenger seat and turned his head to remind them, "After catching Yang Ming, take him to the outer port for a beating first. If he really gave the guns to the gunmen, then we can basically lock down Xu Hu; if not, let's not show our faces, so as not to give Xu Hu a handle."

"Hehe, okay!" Cheng Gang nodded.

The car continued to drive forward, and the distance to Yang Ming's residence was getting closer and closer.

"Buzz, buzz!"

At this moment, the phone in Wei Xiangzuo's pocket vibrated several times. He slowly opened his eyes, took out his phone, and glanced at it.

It was a text message. After Wei Xiangzuo read it, he suddenly sat up straight, and his eyes became much clearer.

Outside, the rain was pouring down. Wei Xiangzuo, holding his phone, suddenly shouted, "Xiao Xuan, don't drive!"

"Huh?!" The driver turned his head, "What's wrong, Big Brother?"

"Find an alley to stop in, I want to smoke a cigarette." Wei Xiangzuo returned to his lazy expression, took out a cigarette case, and ordered.

Although the driver didn't know what his Big Brother was going to do, he did as he was told, parked the car in an alley, turned off the lights, and turned off the engine.

"What's wrong, Brother?" Xiao Feng also turned his head and asked.

Wei Xiangzuo lit a cigarette, sat on the back seat of the van, and, in the extremely dark light, scanned the people in the car, "...Wait a moment, I'll send a few messages before we go."

"Ah!" Xiao Feng nodded.

Inside the car, everyone was quiet, Wei Xiangzuo fiddled with his phone, his face calm.

...

District One, Huadu.

Yu Jinrong lay in a hospital bed, also holding his phone and sending a text message that read, "Gu Tongshan is dead, but the wharf gang is very calm. What do you think?"

The other party replied, "Don't rush, observe."