Chapter 1 Dawn

It was a little after four in the morning, and the sky was already beginning to lighten.

Inside the Su family's living room, a man claiming to be a special agent from the Dragon City intelligence department frowned as he looked at Su Zhengcai and asked, "You've finished the phone call, right? Then let's go!"

The reason the burly man was being so "amiable" was because the Su family was a large household with many members inside and out. Furthermore, the matter involving Li Mingsheng was sensitive. He didn't want to have any conflict with them in the Su household. He just wanted to take the person away and hand him over so that he wouldn't get into big trouble himself.

Su Zhengcai looked at the man, completely unaware of what was happening outside, so he didn't dare to resist forcefully. He simply nodded and replied, "Alright, I'll go with you."

"It's not enough for just you to go now. Your eldest son and second son must also cooperate with our investigation," the burly man frowned as he replied.

Su Zhengcai clenched his palms and said in a low voice, "My second son is not here." Then, he turned to Tiannan and said, "Go with them."

At this moment, the men who had gathered outside the Su family's door silently walked in. Su Tianzhan was the first to speak, questioning loudly, "We are ordinary people who don't court disaster or cause trouble. Why are you here to arrest people in the middle of the night?!"

The burly man completely ignored Su Tianzhan and went directly to Su Zhengcai. He took out a pair of handcuffs. "I'm already being very restrained. You better cooperate, or I'll smash your face on the ground."

Su Zhengcai glared at him and waved his hand at his family members. "If you haven't done anything wrong, you don't need to fear a knock on the door! Don't make a scene here. I'll go with them…"

"Wait a minute!"

Just as he finished speaking, his second sister-in-law ran out of the house, holding a phone and shouting at Su Zhengcai, "Phone call! It's from Liu Zi. He says it's urgent!"

Su Zhengcai was stunned for a moment, then looked up and said to the man, "Can I take this call?!"

"Take a call my ass! Am I giving you too much respect? The intelligence department is summoning you. I'm already being considerate by not dragging you away!" The young man behind the leader stepped forward and grabbed Su Zhengcai's wrist.

"What are you doing?!"

"You want to hit someone?!"

"Let go of my dad!"

"…!"

Twenty or thirty men from the Su family all crowded into the living room, glaring at the five special agents.

"Call it in, tell our people outside to come in," the leader instructed expressionlessly.

The young man next to him immediately picked up the walkie-talkie. "Bring your weapons and come in!"

Su Zhengcai pushed the young man away, looked up at the burly man, and said, "It's not like I'm refusing to go with you. There's no point in putting on this show. I still don't know what happened outside. Let me take this call and ask him a couple of questions. What if he's telling me to cooperate with you?"

The burly man looked at the twenty or thirty Su family men inside and outside the house, touched his gun with his right hand, paused briefly, and said, "I'll give you two more minutes. And you tell the person who called you that if he doesn't understand the situation, he definitely won't get through this today."

The reason the burly man agreed to let Su Zhengcai take the call was because he realized that the caller was likely Su Tianyu. So, putting some pressure on him through Su Zhengcai at this time wouldn't be a problem.

Su Zhengcai nodded, pointed at the Su family members, and said, "Don't mess around!"

With that, Su Zhengcai took the phone and went into the hallway.

Inside the living room, Su Tiannan, who was usually taciturn, watched the swaggering special agents, his emotions surging within him.

Many recent events had quietly changed Su Tiannan's worldview. He used to think that as long as his family worked hard and stuck together, everyone would get better and live a prosperous life.

But since the Su family's sanitation company gradually rose to prominence and did better and better, the various events they had encountered were not what Su Tiannan had imagined.

As soon as the company grew and became profitable, Su Zhengcai was framed for selling arms. Then, they were forced to rely on the Yu family and were forced to run away two or three times. In these events, Su Tiannan witnessed firsthand what darkness was and how the weak had absolutely no right to choose. They could only drift along with the currents of the upper echelons.

A few days ago, after Xiao Yucheng returned, he came to Su Zhengcai for help. In the end, his second uncle handed the matter over to Su Tiannan, so the latter almost witnessed how Xiao Yucheng, who had honestly worked hard and honestly been a law-abiding citizen, was forced to his death.

You should know that the Xiao Yucheng case is not an isolated case that occurs with extremely low probability in society! His death, his experience, represents the plight of countless laborers.

A good man, after wandering outside for thirteen years, his wife died, and he became disabled. He originally returned to Dragon City full of hope, but in the end, his family was ruined.

As someone who witnessed this firsthand, Su Tiannan felt a great deal of emotion, even a bit of sadness.

And today, the special agents from the intelligence department came to his door, wanting to arrest people for no reason, which stirred up his emotions even more.

In this era, in Dragon City, a region that appears stable on the surface but is actually full of chaos, it seems impossible to be honest and do business honestly. If people have no power, they are fish on a chopping board, at the mercy of others. If they are not careful, their families will be ruined, and they will have to pack up and run away.

Su Tiannan looked at the people in the room, his mouth twitching, his eyes gloomy.

Inside the hallway.

After Su Zhengcai answered the phone, he immediately questioned, "What the hell is going on?!"

"Did anyone go to the house?" Su Tianyu's voice sounded.

"A few people from the intelligence department came and want to arrest me."

"Damn it!" Hearing this, Su Tianyu immediately asked anxiously, "Didn't Mingyuan call you and tell you that something happened at the Supervision Council?!"

"He only told me that it was hijacked, that you were on the scene, and told me not to worry…" his second uncle replied.

Yu Mingyuan left early, so he didn't know about the series of events that followed. It was understandable that he would tell his second uncle this.

Su Tianyu paused slightly and replied, "Second Uncle, it's a bit complicated to explain. In short… I got caught up in a political struggle between high-ranking figures. The people who are coming to you now should be Secretary-General Lu of the Municipal Government."

Hearing this, Su Zhengcai immediately cursed, "You son of a b\*\*ch, would you die if you didn't court death? Why did you offend the Municipal Secretary-General?!"

"Because I'm on the Mayor's side…"

"What did you say?!" Su Zhengcai frowned and asked.

"I said, I'm on the Mayor's side. I'm protecting him on the outskirts of the city so he can return." Su Tianyu didn't have time to explain so much, so he only told him, "Second Uncle, don't resist them. Stall for time, and the Mayor's people will come…"

Hearing this, Su Zhengcai immediately asked, "Are you sure your boss is Li Mingsheng?!"

"Yes, he's with me! He entered the Supervision Council building himself to exchange for hostages, and was later taken to the outskirts of the city by the Chizuru Army… But I didn't expect that someone didn't want him to go back."

"…!" Hearing this, Su Zhengcai's expression became strange.