Volume 2: Flourishing Chapter 64: How Did You End Up Here?

  Time seemed to stand still as Su Lin seized the moment, leaping out from her hiding place and sprinting to the open space in front of the factory's dormitory building.

  "Why is everything covered in blood? It seems that a fierce battle has indeed taken place here. The Dragon and Tiger Society's internal conflict is real?"

  There were seven or eight detectives on the empty ground, busy and bustling about, but at this moment their movements had all come to a standstill. Su Lin took a quick glance over, and saw two detectives carrying someone who was either dead or injured, a hoodlum. He took a closer look, and exclaimed in surprise: "Isn't that the venomous scorpion from the drug deal the day before yesterday?"

  He went forward, took a closer look, and Su Lin was certain that the person on the stretcher was indeed Du Xiezi. Du Xiezi had a gunshot wound to the chest and was bleeding profusely, but since time had been suspended by Su Lin, he couldn't determine whether Du Xiezi was dead or alive from his current appearance.

  However, Du Xizong appeared at the scene of the fierce battle at this time, which was enough to make Su Lin deeply thoughtful.

  "Could it be that this time it wasn't an internal struggle within the Dragon and Tiger Gang, but rather the Scorpion Gang discovered their poison funds were gone and sent their men back to settle accounts with the Dragon and Tiger Gang?"

  Su Lin took another look at the other injured people on the scene, they were all small-time hooligans from within the Dragon and Tiger Gang, almost all of them had gunshot wounds, her gaze became even more solemn.

  "Longhu Gang must have a large number of guns, and Du Xiezhi's gang is not simple either. They dare to come to Longhu Gang's door, they must also have something to rely on. Two tigers fighting, one must be injured. I just happen to muddy the waters, trying to secretly, without drawing attention, get rid of Huang Gouz and Liu Yuanfeng. However, they have guns in their hands, I must be extremely cautious, otherwise, if I put myself in it, it would be miserable..."

  Looking at the blood all over the ground and the gunshot wounds on those people, Su Lin felt a chill run down his spine. He had never seen a dead person since he was young, and he was also slightly hemophobic. Fortunately, time was currently paused, so when Su Lin saw this blood and these injuries, he didn't immediately faint.

  "No way, in order to get rid of Huang Dogzi, in order to protect my family, I must overcome these."

  Su Lin was still just an ordinary high school student in his third year, although he had obtained extraordinary abilities from the heavens. In reality, he didn't have many more experiences than other high school students. However, now that his abilities were growing stronger, so too were his responsibilities. With the arrival of the ultimate beauty cultivation system that could control time, Su Lin was forced to grow up step by step, overcoming the fears in his life, and for the sake of protecting his family and giving them a better future, even if it meant danger, Su Lin would give it his all.

  "Now all the detectives are patrolling outside, and it's certain that the Dragon Tiger Gang's thugs won't stop at just these ones. It's likely that those who were left heard the police came and have already run away."

  Su Lin sneaked into the factory area and found five or six armed police officers searching around, but except for some bloodstains, there were no other signs of disturbance.

  "Right! This factory area is just a cover-up, the real gathering place of the Dragon and Tiger Society is in the underground base beneath this factory. The entrance to the underground base has been closed now, the police won't be able to find out about its existence, so they'll think that's all there is to it."

  The last time he sneaked into the Dragon and Tiger Gang's base, Su Lin was also surprised to find that such an ordinary factory area had such a large underground distribution. If it wasn't for following Huang Gouzzi in, Su Lin would never have thought that right under his feet, after opening the floorboards, there would be a staircase leading underground.

  "If the police can't find this underground base, they'll never be able to take down the Dragon and Tiger Gang in one fell swoop. But how am I supposed to tell them? I definitely can't show up in person, and if they find out and quickly move in to capture all the gang members, I'll lose my chance to take care of Huang Gouz and Liu Yuanfeng."

  Su Lin was hesitant, wondering whether or not to reveal the existence of this underground entrance to the criminal police team.

  "I'll go in alone, it's indeed a bit dangerous, so here's what I'll do! I'll enter first and then make some marks on the entrance to let the police find it, this way, I'll also have enough time to do my own thing."

  After a brief thought, Su Lin made up his mind. Although he had more than 600 seconds to pause, which seemed quite ample, just this little while had already consumed over 60 seconds. He must seize the time. Su Lin still didn't know what kind of scene was waiting for him below.

  "Ah!"

  With a surge of strength, Su Lin pried up the floorboards covering the underground entrance. He found that during his pause, his strength had increased greatly. This layer of floorboards would have required at least two strong men to lift together, but Su Lin easily lifted it with one hand.

  "Does it mean that after an object is frozen in time, its mass will also decrease?"

  It seems that Su Lin saw Einstein's theory of relativity in a physics book, which mentions the relationship between time and space and the mass of objects. However, this is still just a hypothesis among human scientists, because even the great Jewish scientist Einstein absolutely cannot pause time like Su Lin to conduct experiments.

  "As expected, those Dragon and Tiger Gang thugs have all gone into hiding."

  As soon as Su Lin stepped onto the stairs, he saw two small-time henchmen from the Dragon and Tiger Society holding handguns at the entrance downstairs.

  It seems that my guess was not wrong, these Dragon and Tiger Gang thugs are hiding inside, Su Lin did not see the body of Huang Gouz outside, so Huang Gouzi is probably also in here. As for Liu Yuanfeng, this son of the municipal party secretary, his various connections with the Dragon and Tiger Gang, Su Lin knew about them, but whether he would be in this underground base of the Dragon and Tiger Gang, Su Lin was not sure.

  "As long as we get rid of that yellow dog and destroy one of the Dragon Tiger Gang's bases, it will greatly injure their vitality. Even if Liu Yuanfeng still wants to cause me trouble, he probably won't be able to do so quickly, and will have to go to great lengths."

  As he walked down to the bottom, Su Lin closed the entrance of the floor above, but left a gap in it, revealing a small crack. In this way, as long as those detectives searched carefully, they would be able to discover the abnormality of the floor and then find the hidden underground entrance.

  "Time has already been spent for almost a hundred seconds, I have to save it. If possible, I won't pause the time below."

  Ran down quickly, Su Lin saw that in this large hall, there were only two small thugs holding guns and guarding. He quietly hid in the corner where he had hidden last time, silently chanting a phrase, "Recovery Time".

  "Liu Ge, it seems like there are many detectives searching upstairs right now. Do you think they'll find this underground entrance?"

  "Two sons, what are you afraid of? It's definitely not going to be discovered. If it were you, could you have imagined that under such an ordinary flat factory area, there would be a place like this?"

  As soon as Su Lin regained consciousness, he heard the conversation of two little rascals guarding the entrance. Indeed, if it weren't for Su Lin following Huang Gouzi in yesterday, he would have absolutely no idea that this entrance existed.

  "That... Brother Liu, who were those people that came to find us Dragon and Tiger Gang today? They actually dared to cause trouble for our gang in Jian'an City. However, they're quite formidable, just three or five of them, with a few submachine guns, and several of our brothers got hurt, got shot..."

  That little punk called Erzi was clearly getting scared, his hand holding the gun trembling, "They won't come back and kill us again, will they?"

  "Second son, you're just too green. Look at me, Liu Ge, here, here, and here. These three scars are all gunshot wounds. Actually getting shot isn't a big deal, as long as it's not in a vital spot, take out the bullet, disinfect, rest for a while and you'll be fine. You're bound to pay the price sooner or later when you're out on the streets. With that scared-to-death look on your face every day, don't say you're following me, Liu Zhu Zi, I'd be embarrassed!"

  Liu Zhuizi rolled up his sleeves and pant legs, revealing three scars on top, all of which were healed bullet wounds. He proudly showed off these gunshot wounds as if they were family treasures.

  "Three gunshot wounds? Brother Liu, your luck is really good. Just now when I was up there, I saw Qin Erhu take a bullet to the chest and he was done for, his last breath was gone. You were shot three times and none of them hit vital spots, your luck isn't just good, it's exceptional."

  The two sons looked at Liu Zhuozi with a hint of reverence in their eyes, but still had concerns in their hearts, saying, "Liu Ge, what if the police really rush down, we... will we really open fire on them like Lao Da said?"

  "Cut the crap! They're detectives, if they really come rushing in, you'll be crouching with me, holding your head and hiding in a corner. With just these two broken guns of ours, do you think we can take on the detectives? We need to know when to listen to the big shots and when not to."

  Liu Zhuzi turned his head and glanced at a passageway behind him, pointing and saying, "Now Tiger and the others are hiding in this passageway. If the police rush in, we'll all be finished. Tiger and the others have connections with Liu Shao's side to rely on, so they won't come out unscathed. In the end, it's still us small fries who will take the fall. So, do you think it's that easy to mix with society? The big shots let you enjoy good food and drink every day, but at critical moments, aren't they just using you as a scapegoat?"

  He took out a cigarette and puffed on it twice, and Liu Zhuzi also seemed to see clearly.

  "Is that Young Liu? The son of our Municipal Party Secretary? With Young Liu's old man backing us, the Dragon and Tiger Gang, those detectives wouldn't dare to touch us!"

  "The whole Jian'an City is not just decided by the municipal party secretary, there's also the mayor. That old woman, last time we finally managed to get her to Jiaxing Hotel, planning to secretly take care of her, so that this Dragon and Tiger Gang would be ours. Unfortunately, Old Five and his men really didn't handle things well, later they were still found by the criminal police..."

  These two are indeed a bit foolish, thinking that with the city committee secretary's son as their backing, they can be lawless. And this Liu fellow really knows a lot of inside information about the Dragon and Tiger Gang. Su Lin is not in a hurry now, hiding there, wanting to hear more news from the mouths of these two thugs.

  Just then, Su Lin, who was listening intently to the two hoodlums' conversation, suddenly felt that someone had flashed out from the corridor and ran into his hiding place.

  "Pause..."

  Su Lin felt a sense of danger and was about to pause time and run away, but found that the person who had drilled in was actually that little girl Han Xiaoxiao.

  "You... how did you end up here?"

  Han Xixi's voice was weak and pale, she hid inside and found that there was actually someone else hiding in it, and it was Su Lin, who was also surprised.

  "Are you hurt?"

  Su Lin suddenly noticed that Han Xixi was now covering her thigh with one hand, and on top of it, fresh blood was flowing profusely.

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