Chapter Ninety-Seven: Insidious and Vicious (2)
Two days later, in the afternoon, according to Ma Xiaolin's prompt, Alun easily found a bar in the West neighborhood of Shamoset, where Southeast Asians often gather.
This is a wine bar with a strong Southeast Asian flavor, and most of the customers in it are immigrants from Southeast Asian countries.
The owner of the bar is a middle-aged man in his fifties, who is busy in the bar himself, and at the same time warmly greets the guests who come in.
Alun sat down on the stilt stool by the bar, asked for a beer, took two sips slowly, and looked around, this time was not the peak time for customers, there were only a few customers in the bar.
Alun saw the gap between the boss, took out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket and put it on the platform, gently pushed it in front of the boss, and said in French in a low voice: "I want to see Ruan Xingguo, please introduce me." ”
The boss looked at Alun for a moment and asked softly, "Where did you come from?"
"Las Vegas, you say it's a friend of Nguyen Xingqiang. ”
The boss didn't speak again, walked to the side and picked up the phone, whispered a few words into the microphone after dialing, put down the phone and waved to a male waiter next to him, and said a few words in his ear.
The young man went to Arun and said, "Come with me." After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the bar.
Arun followed the young man and walked three or four hundred meters along the street, and the young man turned into a shop selling Southeast Asian crafts next to the street, he said hello to the clerk and walked straight to the store.
Arun followed, and inside was a narrow corridor filled with items on both sides, some of which had to be turned sideways to pass, as if walking through a tunnel. After walking dozens of meters, there is an iron fence gate, behind the door is a staircase, and after going up the stairs, I turned a few corners before I came to a door.
Walking through this labyrinthine road in the building, it was a little difficult for Arun to find the direction, and the young man stopped in front of the door, then pointed to the door and said to Aaron, "The person you are looking for is inside." With that, he turned around and left.
Alun stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door a few times, and the door suddenly opened a gap more than ten centimeters wide from the inside, but Alun didn't see anyone, and when he was surprised, he suddenly saw a gun barrel against his stomach.
It turned out to be a dwarf who was only more than a meter tall holding a shotgun with a sawed barrel, blocking the middle of the half-open doorway, looking very funny, Aaron couldn't help but laugh.
"Who are you?" asked the dwarf in a shrill voice.
Alan hurriedly smiled and said, "I'm from Las Vegas to visit Mr. Nguyen Xingguo. ”
"Are you armed?" the dwarf asked.
Aaron raised his two arms and gestured to him, "No, nothing." ”
"Alright then, you can come in. The gnome spoke, pulling the door open.
Alun walked into the room, the room was not very big, the furnishings were similar to the general office, I saw a man in his thirties sitting behind the boss's desk, with a gloomy face, two eyes staring at Aaron, like two swords as if they were about to pierce his body, and like a vicious wolf ready to devour Alun at any time.
Ah Lun's heart couldn't help but tremble slightly, feeling as if he had been doused with cold water, and soon he stabilized again, and said with a smile: "May I ask if you are Mr. Ruan Xingguo?"
"Who are you, what are you coming to me for?" Ruan Xingguo asked coldly.
"My name is Ah Lun, and I am a friend of Ruan Xingqiang, and I used to hear him mention you, so I came to visit ......" Ah Lun said as he observed Ruan Xingguo's expression, wanting to see his reaction.
Ruan Xingguo's expression was still the same, and he asked quietly: "Is my brother okay? Why didn't he come?"
When Ah Lun heard this, he thought that he didn't know that Ruan Xingqiang had been executed, and immediately pretended to be very painful, "Ruan Xingqiang has an accident, and I came here for this matter." ”
"What's wrong with my brother?" asked Ruan Xingguo, pretending to be surprised.
"Ruan Xingqiang took me and Li Kun to rob a casino fortune bus, I didn't expect to be tracked down by the casino, Ruan Xingqiang and Li Kun were killed by the casino's bodyguards when they went out to eat, I noticed that I had already escaped, and finally came here, one is to send you a letter, and the other is to hide from you for a while......"
"Did the guy in the casino kill my brother?" Ruan Xingguo suddenly stood up, glared at Arun and asked loudly.
"Yes...... It's the Imperial Palace Casino......" Alun said in a panic.
"Damn, Lao Tzu will definitely not let them go, and let them pay for their blood debts......" Ruan Xingguo said through gritted teeth.
"Big brother, after we robbed the bus, I divided 200,000 yuan, and now I have 1230,000 yuan left, I want to give all this money to my eldest brother, please let me avoid the limelight here with you, do you think it's okay?" Alun said in a begging tone.
"No problem, since you are my brother's friend, even if you don't give money, you should protect you, but these brothers under my command ......"
"I understand, I understand. Aaron nodded hurriedly.
"Well, I'll find you a place to hide first, and then we'll see the situation later, what do you think?"
"Everything is arranged by the eldest brother. ”
Ruan Xingguo said to the dwarf standing aside: "You take Ah Lun to the back, and Ah Chai will take him to a safe place." ”
"Come with me. The dwarf said to Aaron.
"Then I'll go first, big brother, thank you, big brother. Arun said to Nguyen Xingguo gratefully.
"Go ahead, I'll see you in two days. Ruan Xingguo said with concern.
The dwarf led Arun down from the second floor, and instead of going out of the corridor where he had entered, he walked towards the back, where there was a courtyard with several cars, both sedan and van, parked in it.
There was a room next to the courtyard where several people were playing cards, and the dwarf said to the people inside, "Guess, let you take this person to a safe place." ”
Alun took advantage of the gap between the gnomes and hurried to the gate of the courtyard, and looked out through the crack in the door, checking the situation on the street outside.
Several young men cursed and threw the pokers in their hands on the table, came out of the house, and came to a box truck, and one of them opened the door of the trunk behind him, and said impatiently to Aaron: "Hurry up, get in the car." ”
Aaron stepped into the sealed trunk and slammed the door behind him.
It was pitch black in the trunk, and Aaron fumbled to sit down on the side, thinking that the car was similar to a prisoner's car, and soon the car was moving. Because he couldn't see the situation outside, and he didn't know what direction the car was going, Aaron judged from the sound outside the car that it seemed to be driving outside the city.
After about an hour of driving, Aaron felt his speed slow down, and he heard the sound of waves crashing against the shore, and then the car stopped.
The back door of the carriage opened from the outside, and a man said to the inside, "Come down, it's time to get there." ”
Alun jumped out of the car and looked around, it turned out that the car had come to the dock of a small town by the sea, there were several fishing boats moored by the pier, some seagulls in the sky were flying around quickly, skimming the sea from time to time, not far away were beautiful small buildings, everything seemed so quiet and peaceful.
Arun was wondering how he had brought himself to the docks, and Achai had already walked up to the car and said to him, "Come with me." ”
One person in front of one and one behind him accompanied Aaron to the dock, and then jumped onto a dinghy.
Aaron asked the people around him with some uneasiness, "Where are we going?"
The man pointed to the front and said, "Go up there." ”
Alun looked in the direction of his finger, and a large freighter was moored a few hundred meters from the shore. In a few minutes, the dinghy came to the side of the tall freighter, and the waterline of the steamer was a large section above the sea, indicating that it was an empty ship, and the side of the ship was seven or eight meters above the water. However, the freighter looked very old, and its hull was mottled with rust.
There was a ladder leaning against the outside of the hull, and the dinghy slowly docked under the ladder, and the man named Achai grabbed the handrail of the ladder and jumped onto it, and Alun jumped on the ladder as he did, and then climbed up the ladder.
Arriving on deck, Aaron looked around, looking like an abandoned freighter, with rusty equipment exposed to the outside and unusable. Aaron wondered how these guys had brought themselves here, and if it was to avoid being chased here, it would be a safe place.
The three of them walked into a cabin under the cockpit, only to see some garbage bags, empty wine bottles and other items thrown at the door of the cabin, apparently someone lived here.
After entering the cabin, Achai turned to Arun and said, "Take out all the items you are carrying and hand them over to us for safekeeping, especially mobile phones, weapons, etc., you can't keep them all and hand them over." ”
Aaron pulled out the contents of his pocket one by one, and as he did, he said, "Big brother, what are you doing here? How do I feel like you treat prisoners ......?"
"That's so much nonsense, hurry up and ......" Achai scolded loudly, looking very vicious, just like the two of them just now.
After Aaron took out all the things on his body, another person pushed him with his hand and walked towards a hatch inside, which was a passage, and after walking along the passage for more than ten meters, Aaron was locked in another cabin.
As the hatch behind him slammed shut, Aaron guessed that he might be imprisoned by them. He looked around, there was nothing in the cabin, there were several small round windows in the outer bulkhead, and Alun walked over and leaned on the glass of the window and looked out, outside the window was the endless Pacific Ocean, and only a few seagulls could be seen flying around.
Aaron looked at it for a while, then turned around, leaned his back against the bulkhead and slowly sat down on the cold iron plate. He thought about it carefully, and felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell why. Ruan Xingguo shouldn't have locked himself up as soon as they met, this is a bit unreasonable, could it be that there are other reasons in it? Alun was here alone and was thinking nonsense, and fell asleep unconsciously.