69novels Chapter 192 The Gun is Gone
Chapter 192 The Gun is Gone
Chapter 192 The Gun is Gone
Zhou Yongling's face immediately darkened.
"Heh, don't say all of those are true?"
"No—something's not right!" Zhuo Yifei's smug smile froze. He hurriedly waded through the water and examined each strand one by one. The more he looked, the paler his face became, and he broke out in a sweat.
"There was only one piece! I nailed it on myself! Who did this?!"
Zhou Yongling's face had turned ashen as he stared at the flustered Zhuo Yifei, his voice icy: "Zhuo Yifei, are you playing me?"
"No! Boss Zhou, I absolutely don't have it! The gun is definitely inside! It's just this mark—" Zhuo Yifei was so anxious that he couldn't speak coherently.
One of his men stepped forward, grabbed Zhuo Yifei by the collar, and demanded menacingly, "Then tell me, which one is it?!"
Just as the situation was in a chaotic stalemate, a series of disordered footsteps suddenly came from behind.
Just then, Assistant Shi arrived in a hurry with more than a dozen constables, and Ma Rulong followed behind.
Shi, the clerk, glanced at the log in the water and the two sides facing off on the shore, a gloating expression on his face. He shouted, "Boss Zhou, Zhuo Yifei! What are you doing here so early? Looking for a gun, huh?"
Zhou Yongling's eyes narrowed, and he released his grip, signaling his men to let go of Zhuo Yifei. He said with a forced smile, "Officer Shi, what brings you here? We've just come to check on the timber."
"Looking at the timber?" Inspector Shi snorted, ignoring him, and directly told the constables behind him, "Go find it! The gun is in the wood without the red cloth markings!"
Zhou Yongling and Zhuo Yifei were both taken aback.
No red cloth?
Several officers immediately waded into the water and searched through a pile of wood nailed with red cloth.
Soon, someone shouted, "Hey! There's a piece of cloth here that hasn't been sewn on!"
"Open it!" Assistant Shi exclaimed, his spirits lifting.
Zhou Yongling's men looked at each other, not daring to stop the officers.
Zhuo Yifei stared in disbelief, then abruptly turned to look at Ma Rulong, his eyes practically spitting fire: "Ma Rulong! It was you! You tricked me, you brat!"
Ma Rulong looked at him coldly: "So what if it was me? Zhuo Yifei, you're the one who tricked me first! You said the Hong Kong government colluded with pirates, but it turns out you're the scum who was the one who connected the pirates with their guns!"
"I'm doing this for money, you bastard! And you? What are you pretending to be, some kind of righteous hero!" Zhuo Yifei cursed.
"When you were little, you fell into the river and almost drowned. Who risked their life to pull you out? Huh? You traitor!"
"You still have the nerve to bring up your childhood? Last time you peeked at Ah Hua next door taking a bath and got chased and beaten by her dad, who helped you distract him?" Ma Rulong retorted.
The two were exchanging insults and revealing each other's shortcomings.
The officers over there had already used tools to pry open the only log that wasn't covered by red cloth.
The crowd gathered around, with Assistant Shi looking on with anticipation.
However, when the crack in the wood was pried open, there was nothing inside except damp sawdust and seawater.
There were no guns either.
Everyone was stunned.
"Where's the gun?" Inspector Shi's smile froze as he looked at Ma Rulong. "Didn't you say the gun was hidden in here?"
Ma Rulong was also stunned. He squeezed forward to take a closer look and found that the wood was indeed hollow inside.
"Impossible! I clearly—" He stopped mid-sentence. Could Zhuo Yifei be up to something else? Or—
Upon seeing this, Zhuo Yifei immediately sneered and mocked, "Oh, Inspector Ma, Captain Ma! So it was you who lied about the information? What, trying to keep those hundred guns for yourself? Quite the appetite!"
Shi's face turned ugly. He had hoped to gain merit through this, but now he had failed.
He waved his hand, somewhat annoyed, and said to Ma Rulong, "Ma Rulong, don't spread rumors without definite information."
"Everyone is busy searching for these missing guns right now. Time is tight and the task is heavy. This is not the time to fool around."
He patted Ma Rulong on the shoulder, softened his tone, and said meaningfully, "Now that you've followed Sir Chen, you should work diligently for him."
"The lord values you; your future lies ahead, far better than wading through the muddy waters of the police station."
"Don't worry about what happens here."
After saying that, he stopped looking at Ma Rulong, whose expression was changing, and Zhuo Yifei, who was sneer, and turned to leave with the equally disappointed officers.
"Help! Look again! It might be hidden in some other piece of wood!" Ma Rulong shouted hurriedly.
Shi, the assistant, didn't even turn his head; he simply waved his hand.
Ma Rulong was both anxious and angry. Looking at the pool full of logs, he gritted his teeth, took off his coat, and prepared to go into the water to search for them himself.
Zhuo Yifei was also anxious. Those hundred guns were worth a lot of money. Was the duck that was about to be eaten really going to fly away?
He didn't bother arguing with Ma Rulong anymore and jumped into the water with him. The two of them began to haphazardly turn over the heavy logs, checking them one by one.
but.
Despite searching almost the entire wooden pool, they found nothing but soaking wet and covered in mud, without even a single gun barrel.
"What exactly happened?"
Zhuo Yifei, panting heavily, slumped down on a piece of wood.
"The red cloth was clearly hidden right here—how come it's all messed up? Where's the gun?"
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Ma Rulong was also exhausted, and his heart was filled with doubts and unease.
He personally participated in hiding the guns, marking them with the marks made by Zhuo Yifei, and then he changed the marks.
But how could the gun have disappeared?
Did a third group of people come after they left?
As the two stared at each other in bewilderment, trying to figure out the strange situation, a series of hurried footsteps and shouts came from the shore.
"Seize those two! They dared to mess with me, Zhou Yongling! I'll make them pay!"
Zhou Yongling returned, this time followed by more than a dozen thugs.
"Oh no!" Zhuo Yifei cried out and sprang up from the wood.
Ma Rulong reacted quickly, and the two of them put aside their previous argument and doubts, their priority now being to escape.
"Don't run!"
"You two scoundrels, give the guns back!"
The thugs panicked and chased after them while shouting and cursing.
Although Ma Rulong and Zhuo Yifei cursed each other in their hearts, their feet did not slow down at all, and they ran wildly down the steep slope.
They specifically targeted narrow alleys and steps, which limited the thugs, making it difficult for them to catch up. The thugs were furious and kept cursing.
"Over here!"
Zhuo Yifei, with his sharp eyes, spotted a fork in the road filled with miscellaneous items, and the two of them slipped inside.
Several thugs jumped out of the car and chased after them, only to find that Ma Rulong and Zhuo Yifei had not fled far, but were standing back to back in the alley, ready to fight.
"You dare fight back?" The leader of the thugs grinned and swung his club at him.
Ma Rulong dodged to the side, delivering a swift short punch to his opponent's ribs, while simultaneously tripping another person.
Almost at the same moment.
Zhuo Yifei's obese body nimbly shrank back, dodging the sweeping wooden stick, and punched the attacker in the stomach, causing the man to bend over and gag.
The two did not exchange any words, yet their cooperation was incredibly seamless.
Ma Rulong primarily attacks the upper body, employing clean and decisive punches and kicks.
Zhuo Yifei specializes in attacking the lower body, and his methods are tricky.
A thug lunged at Ma Rulong from the side. Ma Rulong seemed unaware, but Zhuo Yifei just happened to sweep his leg and knock him down.
Another person attacked Zhuo Yifei from behind, but Ma Rulong turned around and elbowed him in the face.
They filled in each other's gaps, their offense and defense switching was incredibly smooth. Just moments ago they were hurling insults at each other, but now they seemed like partners who had practiced for years.
More than a dozen thugs were beaten so badly by the two that they couldn't even get close, and half of them fell down in the blink of an eye.
"Damn it!" Seeing that he was no match for the enemy, one of the thugs' eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he reached into his pocket.
"They have guns!" Zhuo Yifei's expression changed.
"Go!" Ma Rulong shouted, and the two of them turned around and ran for their lives into the depths of the alley without hesitation.