Chapter 46: Narcotics Transaction

  "Not good, am I going to be found out? How should I respond?"

  Never having seen such a scene before, Su Lin's heart tightened instantly when he was asked by Ji Tou.

  "Hey Chicken Head Bro, I'm the new guy, I hang out with Dog Bro. I just went to take a dump, so I'm late. Did Dog Bro and them already go in?"

  Su Lin's mind moved quickly, adapting to the situation, speaking while poking her head inside.

  "It seems that Huang Gouz recently has been getting more and more mixed up! Little brother is also getting more and more collected. After going in, walk straight, go down the stairs to the underground, don't run around everywhere, find Huang Gouzi."

  The guard glanced at Su Lin again and didn't suspect anything, so he let him in directly.

  "Whoa! That was close, otherwise even if I had paused time to sneak in, I would have probably still been discovered."

  After entering the factory, Su Lin felt a bit relieved. Especially with several small hooligans inside playing cards and staring at him, Su Lin knew that if he had really forced his way in, it would probably not have ended well, and he would have wasted time escaping later on.

  "This place is actually hidden so deeply, from the outside it's just a one-story flat factory building, not eye-catching at all, who would have thought that the secrets are all underground."

  Su Lin walked down the stairs lightly, with poor-quality light bulbs of 50-60 watts hanging on the wall, which were not incandescent lamps. The dim yellow light was not enough to illuminate the stairs. In addition, this place was a bit damp, and the old cement steps had grown a lot of moss, making them slippery. Su Lin could only hold onto the railing and walk down slowly.

  "With such a strict guard, there must be some rascals guarding the stairs downstairs too. If I go down directly like this, I don't know what the situation is like below. What if those yellow dogs are at the entrance of the stairs and recognize me at a glance? Not only can't I mix in, but I'll also be surrounded and intercepted."

  Slowly going down, Su Lin's mind was thinking of a countermeasure. "Just now Huang Gouzishu said that there is a transaction being carried out below today. What kind of transaction would it be? Will Liu Yuanfeng be there? I followed him to see if it was right or not. It seems that this is a stronghold of the Dragon and Tiger Gang, with so many small thugs. My time must be used sparingly, otherwise when the time comes to pause time and escape, it won't be enough."

  Just about to reach the bottom, Su Lin leaned against the wall and secretly poked her head out to take a peek downstairs. Sure enough, that yellow dog brought several small hooligans who were smoking and playing cards next to the staircase exit at this time.

  "It's a good thing I didn't rashly walk down, otherwise I would have been discovered."

  Sulin quietly wiped away a bead of sweat, after all, he was just an ordinary high school student. To infiltrate so deeply into the internal workings of a black society gang was such a perilous act that if it weren't for his ability to pause time, Sulin wouldn't have dared to venture in alone no matter what.

  "Brother Dog, you said that the goods in those people's hands were directly smuggled from South Vietnam? They must have made a lot of money from smuggling! Why don't we brothers go on a trip like that sometime too?"

  "Bullshit! Those goods in their hands were probably resold several times. You think smuggling is lucrative? If caught by the border police, you'll be eating peanuts. Bang! No matter how much money you have, it's useless!"

  The yellow dog child was holding a cigarette in his mouth, and smiled slyly, saying, "You bunch of mixed balls, just honestly follow me, Dog Brother. Now Jian'an City is the world under our Dragon Tiger List, I, Dog Brother, have been mixing with Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother, you follow me, eat delicious food, drink spicy wine, and have beautiful women to accompany you, isn't that satisfying enough?"

  "Yes, yes, yes... Brother Dog is right!"

  "We brothers owe it to Dog Brother for taking care of us!"

  "Damn it! You guys are always quick to eat and find girls, but today you let a little kid escape!"

  He spat and cursed as he held his cigarette.

  "Brother Dog, this can't be blamed on us! We were just about to catch up with that little guy, but somehow, suddenly, he vanished. Don't know where he hid!"

  "Yes! Dog brother, at that time you also saw it, we looked left and right but couldn't find that little guy. This can't be blamed on us!"

  The little rascal was yelling injustly, while Huang Gouzi was puffing on his cigarette, smoothing out the few yellow hairs on his head, saying: "Brother Liu's instructions, we must do a good job. Even Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother call Brother Liu brother, if we can't even handle the tasks assigned by Brother Liu, what are we still doing in this gang? What face do we have to say we're part of the Dragon and Tiger Gang? I've already found out the address of that stinky little kid's house, tomorrow morning you guys go over there early and guard his door, I don't believe he can escape again!"

  "They even investigated my home address, fortunately I followed them today."

  Sulin, who was hiding at the staircase entrance, had just been a little skeptical about whether he should have followed, but now he's starting to feel lucky. Just then, it seemed like someone upstairs came down and saw a dark shadow crouching beside the staircase on the lower floor, not going up or down, and called out: "Hey, who's that downstairs! Why aren't you going down..."

  "Trouble! Someone is coming down from upstairs."

  This was something Su Lin had overlooked; he himself hid at the entrance of the stairs leading underground, and as long as no one came down from upstairs, he wouldn't be discovered, but it was possible that there were still people upstairs who might come down.

  "Why aren't you speaking? What kind of person are you?"

  Seeing Su Lin didn't respond, the little rascal upstairs became suspicious. At the same time, Huang Gouzi and others who were guarding the stairs also heard the noise and turned around to walk towards the inside of the staircase.

  Caught between the front and back, the situation was extremely urgent. If it were someone else, they would have no way to escape in this situation, let alone without leaving a trace. But Su Lin had a way out, silently muttering "Time, pause for a moment".

  Time seemed to have stopped for everyone in the space, but Su Lin was able to move freely.

  "There's space behind that pile of wooden boxes, hiding there won't be easily discovered. I'll hide over first and observe the situation before doing anything."

  Seizing the moment, Su Lin flashed out of the stairwell and ran into the corner of the underground hall, where a pile of broken wooden boxes was placed. Without thinking much, Su Lin took advantage of the temporary pause in time and hid behind the pile of boxes.

  "Huh? Where did that person go?"

  The little rascal above walked down two steps and found that Su Lin was gone. He rubbed his head in wonder.

  "A Biao, what are you yelling about? There's no one here! You're not going blind from being worn out by the girls last night, are you?"

  Huang Dogzi and others looked around but didn't see a single ghostly figure, so they started teasing him.

  "Could it be that I really misjudged? Was I seeing things?"

  The little rascal nicknamed Abiao scratched his head and began to doubt himself.

  "What a close call!"

  Hiding behind the box, Su Lin patted his chest and saw Huang Gouzishen and others go back to sit down and play cards, only then did he begin to examine the situation in this underground hall.

  This underground hall is not very large, about five or six meters long and wide, around twenty square meters. In addition to piling up some miscellaneous items, there are also two passageway entrances, presumably leading to other rooms.

  But at these two entrances, there was no one on guard, only a few yellow dogs playing cards in the hall while keeping watch.

  "There are two entrances here, I don't know where they lead to. Could it be that Liu Yuanfeng is also inside?"

  Su Lin's original intention this time was to follow Huang Gouzi and find Liu Yuanfeng, then give him a severe warning so that he wouldn't come to trouble him again. But now, following Huang Gouzi, Su Lin arrived at the underground base of the Dragon Tiger Gang, still unaware whether Liu Yuanfeng was inside or not.

  "Are you going in?"

  Looking at these two channels, Su Lin was hesitant in her heart whether to go in and take a look or just pause the time and leave along the original road.

  Just as Su Lin was hesitating, footsteps came from the passageway on the right. Su Lin quickly lowered his head, held his breath, and stared cautiously in that direction, afraid of being discovered.

  Dada...

  The footsteps got closer and closer, and the person in the corridor came out. Su Lin was stunned, how could it be her?

  It was none other than Han Xiaoxiao, the little girl who helped Su Lin scare away Huang Dangzi and his gang yesterday.

  "Hey yellow dog, you guys be careful, Tiger brother is entertaining those people from South Vietnam inside."

  Walking out of the corridor, Han Xiao Xiao looked at Huang Gouzi and others playing cards, frowned and said.

  "In this broken place, the cops can't find us. Besides, what's the use of being on guard? The big shots upstairs are watching over us, there won't be any problems."

  The yellow dog child slanted his cigarette holder to one side and left, expressing his dissatisfaction with Han Xiaoxiao.

  "Anyway, give me some spirit, don't just focus on playing cards."

  She added two more sentences, Han Xiang looked around and her gaze also swept over the box where Su Lin was hiding, but Su Lin shrunk his neck, as long as Han Xiang didn't get close, she wouldn't be able to discover Su Lin. So without seeing anything unusual, Han Xiang went back into the corridor again.

  "This little girl is also inside, what kind of deal are they making in there? People from South Vietnam, what are 'happy pills' and 'divine powder'?"

  In this place, he saw little girl Han Xiaoxiao again, and Su Lin's heart became even more disgusted with her.

  However, in this regard, Huang Gouz and others are the same as Su Lin, they don't have a good impression of Han Xiaoxiao.

  "Damn it! Dog brother, you say this woman has only been in our Dragon and Tiger Gang for more than two months, how can she just step on our heads and shit?"

  "It's just, this damn woman interferes too much, yesterday's matter, if it wasn't for her meddling, Dog Brother, we would have caught that little brat long ago."

  A few hoodlums saw Han Xiao walk away with a look of displeasure on their faces and complained.

  "Who let this stinky girl cling to Tiger Brother's thigh, with Tiger Brother backing her up? Now in our gang, which brother dares not give her some face?"

  The yellow dog was also resentful, but he couldn't do anything about Han Xiaoxiao either.

  "It turns out this little girl is actually the woman of the leader of the Dragon and Tiger Gang."

  Su Lin eavesdropped on the conversation of the Huang dogzi, and also gained a lot of information. He looked at the passage where Han Xiaoxiao had just entered and thought to himself, "Since I've come, I can't just leave empty-handed. What kind of shady business is the Dragon Tiger Gang doing inside? I, Su Lin, will open my eyes wide."

  She glanced at the time she could pause and saw that there were still over 300 seconds left. Su Lin muttered a word of pause, then flashed out from behind the box again, quickly rushing into the passage and walking in quickly.

  The corridor was not long, only about 7 or 8 meters, and at the end of it was a fairly well-decorated reception hall with several genuine leather sofas. At this moment, a dark transaction was taking place in the hall, Yan Hu, the second-in-command of the Dragon and Tiger Society, was negotiating with these Vietnamese smugglers, while Han Xiao stood beside him.

  "Recovery time."

  Su Lin figured out the form, found a hidden corner to hide in, and then restored time.

  "Brother Tiger, our goods are absolutely genuine. You can inspect them first, we're not cooperating with your Dragon and Tiger Society for the first time. We've always been at this price, if you don't want this batch of Happy Pills and Magic Powder, the neighboring counties' gangs won't be unable to afford it? At worst, we'll just take a few more buses and sell them in the next county. In these times, we're risking eating prison food by smuggling some drugs, can't you at least let us make some money?"

  The two middle-aged men wearing sunglasses sitting opposite Yan Hu smiled and said. Obviously, Yan Hu thought the price was too high and wanted to lower it a bit.

  "Drugs? They're actually dealing drugs here!"

  Su Lin was shocked and finally understood that the "happy pills" and "divine powder" Huang Gouzzi had mentioned earlier were actually drugs, his eyes fixed on the two large black boxes placed in the center of the table.

  "When watching movies, the gangsters' drug deals are always 'one hand with money and one hand with goods', could it be that those two big boxes have one filled with drugs and the other filled with cash?"

  Her heart skipped a beat. As for the drugs, Su Lin was not interested at all, but that box of money made her eyes widen instantly, and her heartbeat accelerated.