Chapter 45: Rescue

  Su Wen couldn't help but smile, which saved him a lot of trouble. He casually put the man's earpiece on his own ears and holstered the pistol and military dagger at his waist.

  Several voices came from the headphones again.

  That was the voice of three people confirming the order, he himself wanted to respond with one, but his voice was too different from that unlucky man's, so he could only keep silent and pretend not to have heard. It has to be said, doing this is very dangerous, if the other party is highly vigilant, they will soon discover that something is wrong with the man, but apparently this time the other party was careless and did not ask for a second confirmation message again, which gave him enough time.

  Su Wen looked at the man, now that the police hadn't arrived yet, he couldn't just leave the man here, who knows when the man would wake up.

  "Hey, you few come over and help out." Su Wen shouted at a few beggars in the distance.

  "What kind of person is this Su Xiao Ge?" An old beggar had long since discovered Su Wen's abnormality.

  "I don't know, anyway he's not a good person." Su Wen said calmly, "The police will be here soon to take him away to the Public Security Bureau. You guys help me keep an eye on him, absolutely cannot let him escape. Once the police successfully take him away, I'll reward each of you with 1,000 yuan."

  "Is it one thousand per person?" The old beggar was startled. "Do we all have that much? I'm not well-read, don't cheat me."

  "How many people give how much, one thousand per person, words count as promises." Su Wen didn't find it funny.

  "Sū Xiǎo Gē, it's not that we're greedy for your money, you've been giving us a lot of money these days too. Logically speaking, it's our duty to help out, but look at us... we're really struggling..." The old beggar looked embarrassed.

  "I've said it all, no need for money." Su Wen didn't understand what the old beggar meant.

  "Alright!" The old beggar finally put his mind at ease, and all he saw was that he took out a worn-out second-hand mobile phone, his fingers quickly tapping on it for a few times, and a message was sent. Su Wen still didn't understand what was going on, but the old beggar said: "Su little brother, you can rest assured to go about your business, I've already called all our Jiangning beggar brothers over, keeping an eye on this unlucky guy is absolutely no problem. In the future, if there's something like this, just speak up, we'll take care of each other."

  Su Wen suddenly fainted, he really didn't think that this old beggar was so sinister. If all the beggars in Jiangning were called over by him, there would be at least a hundred people. At one thousand per person, ten million yuan would have been spent. But the key issue wasn't even this - with so many beggars gathering together, it looked like they were holding a Beggars' Conference or something!

  The old beggar himself felt a bit embarrassed and said with a smile: "Su Xiao Ge, how about I give you a discount?"

  Su Wen couldn't help but smile: "No need to give a discount, maybe next time there will be some small things that I'll ask for your help with, and when the time comes, you can just come as soon as I call."

  The old beggar smiled: "Alright, Xiao Su."

  Su Wen hastily left, and as he walked away, he saw the unlucky man being dragged into an alley by a group of beggars. The old beggar, eager to please Su Wen, didn't give the man any chance to escape. To say nothing of anything else, the man's clothes were stripped clean. But that wasn't all - after the man came to, a group of beggars took turns beating him up, and even though the man had some fighting skills, he couldn't withstand the wild blows from over a hundred beggars.

  Donggang

  Su Wen rarely comes here, mainly because it's too out of the way.

  Jiangning used to have very developed water transportation, but later with the convenience of land transportation tools, water transportation became less promising. Now only those ships returning from abroad come and go to Donggang, and domestic cargo basically does not take water transportation anymore.

  The decline of water transport led to the decline of Donggang. When Donggang was favored by people, land prices soared, and many companies built office buildings here. Many residential areas also sprouted up, but now it has become a remote area on the outskirts of Jiangning.

  Su Wen carefully identified the direction and soon found where she wanted to go.

  "There are three four-story buildings in the slum area." He muttered to himself, his eyes gazing out at the distant sea, "Those guys must have taken Zhao Zhi Fang and plan to escape by boat from here. Once they're out on the open sea, it'll be tough to catch them."

  Su Wen knew that time was pressing, so he sent a message to Tang Long and then walked calmly towards Building 3 of the rotten tail building.

  Above the fourth floor.

  A man was aiming at Su Wen with a sniper rifle, he looked at Su Wen coming over and said in a low voice: "There's a foolish kid heading our way, should we take him out?"

  There are six people behind the man.

  Adding the man's words, there were seven people in total.

  Inside, lying there was Tang Xiaoyao who had fallen into a coma.

  One of the men with a white headscarf played with the dagger in his hand, coldly saying: "Don't shoot, once the gun goes off, our position will be exposed. That silly kid should have just coincidentally come here, he'll leave on his own later. If he's unlucky and wanders to our floor, then that's his bad luck."

  At this point, the man's dagger was suddenly inserted into the table in front of him.

  Su Wen successfully entered the rotten building, and a layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. Just now, he had a feeling that something was staring at him, if he didn't know that he couldn't retreat now, he really wanted to turn around and run.

  "I must not expose myself to danger from now on, I still have a good life ahead of me, can't afford to die in vain." Su Wen muttered to himself, and immediately took out the handgun. This was the first time he saw a real gun, but it didn't stop him from using it. His marksmanship was yet to be tested, but simply firing the gun was still something he could do. It was unclear whether this handgun would work or not, but holding it in his hand made him feel safer.

  He cautiously arrived at the fourth floor and found that it was actually a huge workshop.

  What's even more infuriating is that there's only one entrance, and it's clear that the other side chose this place as their base with this in mind. Su Wen didn't dare to openly enter the fourth floor, or he might get shot. He carefully observed his surroundings and found a drain pipe connecting the third and fourth floors; if he was careful, he should be able to climb up.

  Su Wen walked to the easternmost part of the third floor.

  He carefully observed that if he climbed from the third floor to the fourth floor, this was absolutely the most hidden place, and from here, he should be able to directly circle around to the enemy's rear.

  "When I was a kid, I climbed trees; now I climb down water pipes. Life is indeed wonderful. If it were a month ago, I wouldn't have dared to imagine myself risking my life to save others. Have I become more skilled and thus bolder?"

  He forced a bitter smile, grabbed the drainpipe, and with both arms exerting force, he climbed out of the third-floor window.

  Looking up, it's less than four meters high, and it shouldn't be difficult to climb up.

  With two feet against the wall and hands alternating in climbing, he reached a window sill on the fourth floor in less than five moves.

  In an instant, he saw everything inside.

  He crawled to this windowsill, which was indeed behind the enemy's back. The straight-line distance should be around twenty meters. Now the seven people inside still don't know they've been exposed, so their defense is very lax, and no one saw Su Wen.

  What a great opportunity!

  Su Wen grasped the windowsill and sprang in like a nimble monkey, easily jumping into the fourth floor. He then hid behind a pillar.

  He took a glance at the front, and the equipment of the seven people was very fine. Not to mention the submachine guns, they even had hand grenades attached to their waists, which was simply the configuration of those special forces.

  "The current top priority is to rescue Tang Xiaoyao first, as long as Tang Xiaoyao is safe, the rest will be easy." Su Wen thought of this and quickly observed the surrounding environment. He found that on the east side, there was another staircase, but this staircase could only lead to the fifth floor. The staircase leading to the third floor had been locked tightly.

  Su Wen furrowed his brow: "I don't know what the situation is on the fifth floor, but it should be much better than the fourth floor."

  It's only logical that if the fifth floor is easier to defend, this group of professional mercenaries would not have chosen to hide on the fourth floor.

  After clearing his mind, Su Wen decided to rescue Tang Xiao Yao and then quickly rushed towards the fifth floor.

  He tightly grasped the pistol, and with his other hand he also pulled out a military dagger. He quietly crept up behind Tang Xiaoyao, who seemed to be asleep, and didn't care about anything else. He picked up Tang Xiaoyao and ran towards the fifth floor, while those seven people over there surprisingly still hadn't detected anything.

  Everything went smoothly until they reached the stairs.

  "Hum!"

  An untimely voice rang out, Su Wen almost cried: "Auntie, when are you not awake, and now you wake up at this time."

  The seven people on the other side heard the sound and involuntarily turned their heads back.

  "Hehe, I'm just passing by to get some soy sauce, you guys do whatever." Su Wen looked at the seven people with embarrassment, then took a step and rushed towards the fifth floor.

  Those seven people over there are no fools, what a coincidence that you're passing by with soy sauce, this is clearly a rescue mission.

  Without a single second of pause, the seven people rushed straight towards Su Wen. The wall at the staircase entrance was riddled with bullet holes. Su Wen arrived at the fifth floor with a lingering fear and saw the environment on the fifth floor, he smiled triumphantly, but Tang Xiaoyao in his arms had already let out a loud cry.

  "Let me go!"

  "Don't move!" Su Wen shouted, "It's very dangerous now, quickly find a container to hide in."

  The entire five-story building was filled with two-meter-long and one-meter-wide containers, but it's unknown who had moved them up there in the first place.

  But now these containers have helped Su Wen a lot.

  Tang Xiaoyao was taken aback, she suddenly remembered that familiar sound, which was absolutely a gunshot.

  There was no need for Su Wen to say anything else, she already understood what had happened.

  "Be careful yourself!" Tang Xiaoyao quickly crawled into a container.

  Su Wen felt relieved when he saw this.