Chapter 1 The Dragon City Rises

Although Da Xiong went in, it wouldn't affect anyone's life. Life had to go on, and business had to continue as usual. It was just that when Su Tianyu was idle, he would occasionally feel bored and depressed.

The most frightening thing for people is actually habit. For the past few months, Da Xiong would come to Su Tianyu as soon as he got off work, following him around, calling him "Little Yu Ge" all day long. This sudden disappearance shook Su Tianyu a bit.

On Saturday during the day, Su Tianyu went to the criminal detention center of the police station, deposited a thousand yuan in prison currency for Da Xiong, and also deposited the brand-new daily necessities that Third Sister had found in the garbage dump.

Su Tianyu was able to deposit money for Da Xiong purely because he felt they were friends and he sympathized with him to some extent, so spending a little money was nothing to him. As for Third Sister getting daily necessities for Da Xiong, the motivation was even simpler, because Da Xiong helped Third Sister with work in the factory all day long. The latter felt more pity for him, thinking that his life was quite hard and his family didn't care much about him, so she just had Su Tianyu bring him some things along the way. There was no other intention besides that.

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After depositing money for Da Xiong during the day, Su Tianyu began to arrange for the cargo pick-up in the evening.

The third floor that Linda rented before was definitely unusable, so Su Tianyu took the company's money a few days ago and rented a very dilapidated bungalow courtyard near Haiyan Pit for storing equipment and gathering personnel before work.

Around seven o'clock in the evening, Su Tianyu, with his little follower Zhang Hao, the Bai family, and the Kong family, gathered in the bungalow courtyard.

Su Tianyu was the only one in charge tonight, because the business on the sea had become stable. Everyone had summarized the methods for picking up goods and landing, so there was no need for Bai Hongbo, Kong ZhengHui, and others to follow along.

Gou Liuzi was Yu Mingyuan's hardcore lackey and the incarnation of the boss, so he had previously formulated a shift plan for everyone. He himself was the overall person in charge of receiving the goods. After the goods landed, they would be transported to the bungalow courtyard first, and then Bai Hongbo and Kong ZhengHui would take over and arrange the time to distribute the goods to the sales channels.

With a clear division of labor and a perfect organizational structure, it could be said that they were running the offshore business like a listed company.

…

The group waited in the bungalow courtyard until about 9:40, when someone from the Coast Guard called Su Tianyu and told him that there was no wind at sea and they could start working.

Since Tang Baiqing had been plagued with troubles recently, he had arranged for a friend from his unit to be responsible for contacting Su Tianyu. Although he had a shift tonight, he took leave and went home early.

After receiving the call, Su Tianyu skillfully took more than twenty people to the beach of Haiyan Pit, and then, according to the old routine, they took a boat, went to sea, and picked up the goods.

Zhang Hao was responsible for leading the team into the water. He led twenty people and disappeared on the water in seven speedboats, while Su Tianyu led the remaining people to bring the trucks over in advance, set up a formation, and wait for the other party to pick up the goods ashore.

At the beach of Haiyan Pit, Su Tianyu sat on a reef, blowing the sea breeze and fiddling with his phone. The other workers around him gathered together to smoke and chat.

The first half went very smoothly. Zhang Hao had been gone for less than half an hour when he shouted on the walkie-talkie, "The ship is here, loading the goods."

"Call when returning," Su Tianyu replied.

"Okay!" Zhang Hao responded and started working.

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Around 11 o'clock.

After all the goods were loaded onto the speedboats, the delivery ship left the receiving area and prepared to enter the official port after the appointed time.

On the sea, the cold wind howled. Zhang Hao stood on the speedboat at the front, sadly shouting to the workers, "Press down on the goods on top, don't let them fall. Use tarpaulins to cover the cardboard boxes, don't let the sea water splash on them. Last time we brought in goods, five boxes got wet."

The workers listened to Zhang Liang's words and lay on the goods to spread the tarpaulins.

"Da da da…!"

At this moment, rhythmic engine sounds suddenly rose from the left and right sides directly in front of the seven speedboats.

Zhang Liang raised his head upon hearing the sound and saw five or six speedboats on the sea, also with their lights off, rushing over at an extremely fast speed.

"Damn, why are there other boats here!" the helmsman muttered strangely and shouted back to Zhang Hao, "Someone's going to be hit! What should we do, keep going?"

Normally speaking, it is difficult to encounter other ships when working at night on the sea, because Longcheng implements a port closure system at night. Fishing boats, transport ships, etc., without formal procedures and special certificates are not allowed to leave the port without authorization, in order to avoid smuggling or illegal immigration. But sometimes, when people are picking up goods, they will still encounter other ships. The other party may also be doing borderline business, so both sides will not have any communication. If they pass each other, so be it.

Zhang Hao immediately replied when he heard the driver's question, "Go around a bit, just keep going normally!"

Zhang Hao thought he had encountered people from the wharf gang or people in the same trade, but he never expected that as soon as he finished speaking, the five or six speedboats on the left and right sides converged together and rushed straight over.

"Something's wrong, it looks like they're coming for us!" a worker shouted.

The speedboats were traveling very fast, and the two sides were moving head-on, so in just a few seconds, the five or six speedboats rushed close.

At this time, Zhang Hao saw that all the people on the speedboat were masked and holding weapons such as machetes and long forks.

"Everyone, don't move!!" A masked strong man on the leading speedboat immediately shouted, "Kill the engine!"

Zhang Hao was stunned for a moment, then reacted extremely quickly and picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Little Yu Ge, we've run into people at sea…!"

"Didn't you hear me telling you not to move!" The strong man on the leading speedboat took a fish spear more than a meter long and raised his arm directly.

"Whoosh!"

The fish spear fired, and the arrowhead with the fishing line pierced into Zhang Hao's right leg with a *puchi* sound!!

This was a fish spear specially used to catch medium-sized sea fish. The arrowhead that was shot out was about the thickness of an adult's finger. One could imagine what the consequences would be if this thing hit a person's leg!

Zhang Hao felt like he had no feeling in his right leg after being hit!

"Bang!"

Immediately afterwards, the strong man on the leading speedboat used the gun body to pull the fishing line on the arrowhead, and pulled Zhang Hao from the air as if he were walking a dog!!

With the arrowhead still in the flesh of his leg, Zhang Hao's face twisted in pain, and he fell onto the boat with a scream!

"Everyone be honest, or I'll use you as turtles to shoot!!" The leading strong man shouted in a loud voice, "Kill the engines, everyone squat on the boat!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, people on other speedboats responsible for blocking the road also took out fish spears to force the crowd!

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At the beach.

Su Tianyu lifted the speedboat hidden next to the reef, stepped up and shouted, "Quick, get on the boat!"

About fifteen minutes later.

After Su Tianyu's speedboat rushed to the area where the goods were robbed, he saw a dozen workers soaking in the water, helping each other, while the boats, goods, and Zhang Hao and others were all gone.