Chapter 226 Support
Dinner was still instant noodles, but Cui Jian cooked the noodles himself. He washed the noodles with water first and replaced the seasoning packet with seasoning, which reduced the smell of instant noodles. Zhao Ai called and said she would stay in the hospital for one night and could return to work tomorrow morning. Cui Jian asked her to bring some raw meat along the way.

At 3pm, Cui Jian took over the surveillance. After sitting in the chair and watching for less than minutes, Cui Jian began to laugh. He forced himself to be energetic, drank a cup of coffee, walked around, watched short videos, and finally made it through the first hour. He was so bored that he took out his address book and looked through it for a while, then called Yiyi: "Did you find anything?"

Yiyi: "Except for the photos released by the Bai Gang yesterday evening to alert their subordinates, no other actions have been detected so far. Within 24 hours, the facial surveillance system captured the faces of people close to No. 187 and found their identities. There are white-collar workers, students, and vendors. They all work and study within the area."

Cui Jian: "It shouldn't be a big deal. The bosses will sit down and have tea tomorrow." Qi Xi didn't have much time left. It took time to scout the area and recruit assassins. The assassins also had to make plans, conduct on-site inspections, and understand the situation of the other side's armed personnel. All these things took time.

Yiyi: "Well. Let me ask you a traffic question. The road is a two-way lane with a dotted line in the middle. There is a car driving very slowly in front of me. If I cross the dotted line and use the opposite lane to overtake, is there any problem?"

Cui Jian: "No, the dotted line can be crossed, no matter if it is the same or opposite lane."

Yiyi: "When I was about to overtake the car in front of me, it suddenly turned left into the opposite lane, and its left front end scraped the right side of my rear bumper. How does the traffic police determine the liability?"

Cui Jiandao: "If you deal with it quickly, you will be primarily responsible or fully responsible. The reason is: if you overtake in the same direction, the overtaking vehicle is responsible. To put it simply: if you don't overtake, the traffic accident will not happen. If the traffic police go to the scene to investigate, the other party will be primarily responsible or partially responsible."

Yiyi: "But my car passed by immediately. If he had turned left more slowly, if he had looked to the left and at the left rearview mirror, there wouldn't have been a scratch."

Cui Jian: "You have a point, but many things cannot be won just by having a point. You said the car in front of you turned left without observing, but he only needed to observe the oncoming cars because he was going to invade the oncoming lane. So it is basically impossible to determine that he was fully responsible. Since there are clear regulations on overtaking in the same direction, the quick handling department will directly determine the fault. If you are not satisfied, you can file a complaint and conduct on-site inspection and monitoring investigation."

Cui Jian: "Quick handling means quick processing. If you are not satisfied, you can file a complaint. I suggest you discuss with the other car owner. If there are no casualties, one party should take full responsibility. The insurance premium of the person who takes full responsibility will increase next year, but it is better than both of you having your premiums increase."

Cui Jian: "No matter if it's due to lack of experience or other reasons, in most cases no one will intentionally cause a traffic accident. We should be considerate and understanding of each other. For example, in your case, if you insist on holding out to the end, you will at most make a profit. The result is that you and the other car owner will spend more time and energy, and you will not lose a penny. In a small accident, you should avoid one thing: when you get out of the car, you should blame the other party for everything. No one will admit defeat just because you speak up first. If there is a problem, you should solve it, and don't treat the other party as an enemy."

Yiyi: "I am just very angry and aggrieved."

Cui Jian said: "You will get used to it after a few times."

After hanging up the phone, Cui Jian fell into deep thought. When did he start to receive emotional garbage? In the past, he could only listen, but he didn't know what he heard, and then he just hummed and passed it over. Was it Xueying? This little girl kept chattering and asked him to respond. After many times, she kept chattering, but he would subconsciously listen, and slowly the conversations became more frequent. It could also be Ye Lan. He could always listen to her seriously. If she couldn't listen anymore, he would give her chocolates, but he wouldn't be perfunctory. Maybe it's because she's the boss.

Cui Jian looked at the surveillance camera and saw a male student riding a bicycle. Hmm? The male student seemed to have appeared three times in this hour. Cui Jian contacted Yiyi: "Did you see the male student riding a bicycle?"

Yiyi: "I checked. His name is Xiaomao. His parents are divorced and neither of them cares about him. He lives nearby and attends a nearby high school."

Cui Jian: "He showed up three times. Now it's 9:10 pm. He's here again."

In the surveillance video, Xiao Mao parked his bicycle at the intersection with one foot, staring at the second-floor balcony of No. 187. The windows of the second-floor balcony were closed and the curtains were drawn. It was completely unknown what he was looking at. Xiao Mao took out his mobile phone and took photos of No. 187 continuously. Yiyi said, "It seems there is a problem. Should we withdraw?"

"I'm not the project manager." Cui Jian picked up the intercom and said, "Manager, please go to the second floor."

Duanmu, who had just fallen asleep, came to the second floor with a cold face, pushed Cui Jian away, sat on the only chair in a daze, and listened to Cui Jian's explanation. Duanmu turned on his tablet and watched several videos of Xiaomao taken by the surveillance camera: "He is looking for a house. He should have found a house after the fourth time."

Duanmu answered the phone call, "Yiyi, dig up Xiaomao and see if he has any connection with the Bai Gang."

Yiyi: "We've dug it up. According to the information, he has never been to the police station and his record is very poor. But I was surprised to find a lot of photos of him and a local gangster on the social platform. The gangster's name is Xiaohun and his boss is Brother Kun. Brother Kun has a file in the police and is a middle-level cadre of the Hancheng Bai Gang. His boss is Brother Xu, who is a subordinate of Qi Xi and has opened a wine trading company whose main business is money laundering." A bottle of French wine is purchased at US$100 and sold for US$5.

Buying pork, even local pork, is not that expensive. But wine and tea are different, quality is everything, and there is no standard for quality, because everyone has different tastes.

Duanmu: "Keep an eye on Brother Xu's phone."

Yiyi: "Understood."

Duanmu connected with Diudiu: "Something has happened, be prepared to evacuate."

Diudiu: “Understood.”

Duanmu said to Cui Jian: "Watch the surveillance, I'll go downstairs."

Cui Jian: "Where to?"

Duanmu: "To do something illegal."

Xiao Mao sent the photo to Brother Kun. After waiting for a long time, Brother Kun sent a message: "Are you sure?"

Xiao Mao: "It should be."

Brother Kun: "Are there any suspicious persons nearby?"

Xiao Mao: "No, there are not many people coming and going, and they are all familiar faces."

Brother Kun: "Okay, you go home first."

Xiao Mao hung up the phone and felt very happy. He felt that he was being valued. But he also thought, what if he was wrong? He planned to take another careful look and remember it carefully.

As he stared at No. 187 and recalled carefully, he felt a pain in his neck and passed out. When he woke up, he found himself in an empty room with only a table, chairs and a bed. There was also a masked man in the room. He was tied to a chair with tape taped in his mouth.

The masked man lifted up the chair and the person, dragged them to the bathroom, picked up a wrench and swung it horizontally, knocking out several of Xiao Mao's teeth. The masked man made an electronic voice and said, "Don't shout, answer the question." Then he tore off the tape.

As soon as it was torn open, Xiao Mao immediately yelled: "Help..." and was blocked again. In the next minute, Xiao Mao had his two big toes cut off.

Hearing the noise, Cui Jian took a cup of hot tea, went upstairs to take a look at the bathroom in Room A on the third floor, then turned and left.

Ten minutes later, Duanmu injected Xiaomao with a long-acting sedative, washed his hands, and went from the third floor to Cui Jian's room, saying, "He saw the third sister smoking on the second-floor balcony the day before yesterday."

Cui Jian said while drinking tea: "Or they say smoking is harmful to health."

Duanmu took out a cigar and handed one to Cui Jian, who took it and said, "Childish."

Duanmu put a box of six cigars in front of Cui Jian. Cui Jian asked, "Any other information?" Duanmu said, "He met the boss's boss, named Brother Kun, at the auto repair factory. Brother Kun arranged for him to go to school normally and pay more attention. But he was eager to make a contribution. You know, kids of this age have the great awareness of sacrificing their lives for their boss. So after school, he wandered around in this alley."

Cui Jian asked: "Retreat?"

Duanmu said, "I've given you the cigar, can't you just fart?" Duanmu knew that Cui Jian was better than him in sensing danger on the battlefield.

Cui Jian put the cigar in his pocket and said, "I think Brother Kun let Xiao Mao go to school normally because he didn't want to alarm us. We don't know what they did today, but they should have used drones and other means to scout the area. I think it will take time for them to hire assassins, so they probably won't do it tonight unless they use the White Gang's main force. After the big guys negotiate tomorrow, the matter will be resolved."

Cui Jian added: "If the other party uses the Bai Gang's headquarters, Yiyi will definitely find out something." The Bai Gang's large number of people is both an advantage and a disadvantage. There are many people and they are diverse, and there is a lack of discipline. As long as you keep an eye on a few of the more important members, you can know the dynamics of the Bai Gang's armed forces.

Duanmu nodded: "I also think Li Di is inclined to negotiate." What he didn't say was that Li Di's main task recently was to prevent Qi Sha, and he needed to create an environment where he could meet and talk with the prince safely. They had to sign a lot of documents, and each legally binding document needed to be prepared in multiple languages. They also needed to change and supplement the terms, and the agreement needed to be fair. It also involved overseas banks and foreign laws.

Even if everything goes well, this meeting will take at least two days. Just think about it, it takes an average person ten minutes to sign a contract to buy a house, not to mention a cross-border business cooperation agreement.

Li Ran didn't know the progress of Li Di's work, so he asked Bai Qi to be his lobbyist. Bai Qi happened to be the person in charge of building a safe environment for Li Di's talks. After the two sides communicated, Li Di also hoped to end the matter as soon as possible. He didn't want to get entangled with Li Ran's forces at a critical moment.

The reason why Xiao Mao, Brother Kun and the others appeared was because of Qi Xi's anger, and had nothing to do with Li Di. Li Di was very busy, and Qi Xi knew Li Di, and he knew that he didn't have much time left for revenge, so when he couldn't find the third sister and the others, he delegated the task to the henchmen.

Duanmu's conclusion: The White Gang may attack No. 187 tonight, but no professionals will be involved. The best solution is to transfer secretly. The key lies in secrecy. Since it has been targeted, can it still be transferred secretly? As a project manager, what decision should I make?

Duanmu connected with Hailan, and Hailan reported the currently known intelligence: "The spy in the club said: Half an hour ago, Qi Xi received a call. After hanging up the phone, Qi Xi smashed two bottles of wine and drank himself half drunk in one breath. After checking the communication records, it should be Li Di who called him, and he didn't want him to make a big deal. In addition, Dayin Security Company has spies from Li Di or Qi Xi, and they seem to have known that you and Cui Jian secretly joined the Third Sister Project."

Duanmu hung up the phone and connected with Diudiu: "It's okay, just do your night duty as usual."

Cui Jian waited for Duanmu to finish his work and asked, "What's going on?"

Duanmu: "You didn't want to ask?"

"Yes." Cui Jian: "I'll give you face."

Duanmu: "Thank you. My people told me that Li Di has restrained Qi Xi."

Cui Jian: "Is Li Di so kind?"

Duanmu said: "Li Di has more important things to do right now."

Cui Jian: "How do we deal with Xiao Mao?"

Duanmu: "Throw it into the trash can later."

Cui Jian: "You seem to have some hostility towards the gangsters."

Duanmu said: "Bad guys like us don't harass ordinary people easily. But it's different for gangsters. Their target of bullying is ordinary people. The kinder, weaker and more upright people are, the more they are bullied. Do they dare to bully evil people? Qi Sha killed countless people, bad, right? In Blue Enchantress and Plum Blossom Island, they killed so many people, but the panic they caused was not as great as the panic caused by soldiers entering the city. It's different for gangsters. You might get beaten up just by going out to buy a pack of cigarettes. When I was in middle school, they beat me up because the school beauty liked me. The reason was that the school beauty was favored by a gangster outside the school, and the one who beat me was my classmate."

Cui Jian: "Were you beaten?"

Duanmu: "What should I do? They are broadcasting live on their phones, and I can only be beaten."

Cui Jian: "You killed them afterwards?"

Duanmu looked down on me, "Are you stupid? They beat me for 20 minutes and imprisoned me for 30 minutes, and in return they charged me with a serious crime. I happened to be very rich, and in the end even the driver was sentenced to ten years. I will give the prison some money and have someone serve them well. Just say that you rough people, why use force to solve problems that can be solved with money?"

At this point, Duanmu fell into deep thought: "Maybe you are right. Although it feels good to take revenge afterwards, I always remember everything I suffered during the hour of being kidnapped. I should have resisted on the spot and killed them afterwards. My young and ignorant thinking habits made me use legal weapons to punish my opponents, but I forgot the price I had to pay. Only if I pay a heavy price can legal weapons punish them. I obviously have the ability, so why did I choose to kill one thousand enemies and injure eight hundred of my own?"

Yiyi called and said, "Xiao Mao has more news. He is a pimp who has persuaded at least 20 high school girls to become prostitutes. He also accepts reservations from special customers. After the customers are selected, he acts as a lobbyist. Once a girl refused Xiao Mao's invitation and was harassed by several hooligans on her way home from school. She pushed one of the hooligans and he fell to the ground. He came to her house every few days to ask for medical expenses and insulted the girl's parents. Because it was a civil dispute, the police could not intervene deeply. In the end, the girl could only ask Xiao Mao for help and was forced to agree to Xiao Mao's conditions."

Cui Jian: "Where did you get the news?"

Yiyi: "If you dig into Xiaomao's social media profile and cross-check it, you'll find something. People like this like to use their own evil deeds as a badge of honor. But I have no evidence. It's all the girl's words. She may have framed Xiaomao."

Duanmu asked: "Yiyi, why are you telling us this?"

Yiyi said: "Don't you think you can teach him a lesson?"

Duanmu: "We are all law-abiding bodyguards."

"Oh, goodbye." Yiyi hung up the phone.

Cui Jian looked at Duanmu with a smile: "Law-abiding bodyguard?"

Duanmu: "Do you think that asking him to sign an organ donation consent form and then his accidental death is enough to atone for his sins?"

Cui Jian: "They are just ants. It's not worth wasting time discussing them. Just do whatever you want. I'm a law-abiding person. I'm going to cook instant noodles. This stuff really doesn't satisfy your hunger. How many packets do you want?"

Duanmu: "Shouldn't you ask me first if I want it?"

Cui Jian asked: "Do you eat instant noodles?"

Duanmu: "Eat."

Cui Jian: “A few packs.”

Duanmu: "One pack."

(End of this chapter)