Volume 2 Exotic Prestige Section 3 Traces of the Hand Clan
The number of people traveling changed from 2 to 4, they changed to a Mercedes Benz van, Danny stepped on the accelerator hard, and the car roared out.
On the way, the two brothers introduced each other to their companions, and the man who came out with Danny was his father's friend and partner, the son of Harold Meacham, the previous president of the RAND Group, and Ward Meacham, who is also the current president of the RAND Group.
Danny greeted Luo Zhijian and told him a rough story about what he had experienced after returning to New York.
Not long after the family crashed in Kunlun Mountain, Harold Meacham died of cancer, and the RAND Group was temporarily managed by the company's board of directors. When Danny first returned to the RAND Group, he had a lot of misunderstandings with the Meacham siblings, but fortunately, in the end, his identity was finally recognized, and he inherited 51% of the company's shares left to him by his father, becoming the largest shareholder of the RAND Group.
One day, Ward took him to a mysterious place and met Harold, who was supposed to die, but Harold was controlled by the Hand hidden in New York, and they used secret methods to resurrect him, and used his hand to remotely control every move of the RAND Group, and privately seek benefits for the Hand Group. Since then, Danny has known that the Hand that Kunlun has been chasing and killing is actually hidden in his family's company!
According to the information provided by Harold, the new Hudson River pier newly acquired by the RAND Group was actually promoted by the Hand behind it, Danny took advantage of the night to investigate and found that a team of people was secretly transporting goods, he sneaked into one of the trucks and found that the compartment was full of poison pins!
Danny rescues the imprisoned old man in the car and learns that the man named Latoine is a chemist and that the Hand has taken control of his daughter, forcing her to make drugs, and even trying to force him to write a chemical formula.
The new pin, according to Latovan, is a revolutionary synthetic anesthetic that guarantees safety and versatility and can be made into tablets, plasters, powders or drops of any kind while maintaining 100% purity, and the efficacy is long-lasting. It can improve the absorption rate of substances in the human body and reduce the metabolic rate, and the PYC liver enzyme inhibitor can make the body not resist it, in other words, people who are addicted to this drug, every time they use it, the body produces the same strong feeling of refreshment as the first time!
Most importantly, this drug is completely chemically synthesized, there is no material that is illegal, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, no matter how much demand there is, the laboratory can produce it. More than 12% of the population in the United States has a history of using duke, and if this drug is promoted, it will definitely run rampant in every city - it is a cash cow for the handicap!
Danny said to Liu Zheng: "I think they are using the warehouse of the RAND Group to transport these medicines, Sabina is likely to be somewhere, we have to go..."
Ward, who was driving, turned around and interrupted him, "I don't understand what you're saying, but please, stop talking about your crazy theories." It's already 3 o'clock, and if the two of us can't make it to the conference room in 1 hour, we're in big trouble. ”
"That's big trouble!" Danny replied angrily.
"We're going to the Lower East Side, and you can't go through six warehouses in one hour!"
"Listen, I won't stop until I find her!"
"Okay, okay, stop arguing." Liu Zheng persuaded the two, "Let's check a few places if we can, if not, you can tell me the address when the time comes, and Ah Jian and I will continue to search." ”
By the time the four of them found the third warehouse, it had been less than 20 minutes before the meeting began, and Ward's face was so gloomy that it was about to drip water. But when they walked into the warehouse, it was clear that something was different.
This small old warehouse is filled with a strong smell of blood, not to mention a dog's nose like Luo Zhijian, even an ordinary person like Ward can smell it.
"Look, it's this truck!" Danny shouted as he pointed to the large van parked in the innermost part of the warehouse, and several people hurriedly ran over. I saw that the door at the back of the truck had been damaged, and there was a clear fist mark on it, which seemed to have been directly blasted open by Danny with an iron fist.
Everyone worked together and opened the door.
A bloody human head, stuck in a steel bar, stood in the middle of the wagon's bed.
“Holy sh*t!” Ward had never seen anything like this before, and his legs went limp, and he took several steps back to his feet.
Danny grimaced and climbed into the carriage.
Ward warily looked at the traffic outside the warehouse and pulled his phone out of his pocket: "We need to call the police... We have to... No, no, no, the RAND Group can't get involved. ”
With that, he put his phone away again and shouted to Danny, "Danny, we need to get out of here!" Hey, what are you doing? ”
"This man died because of me." Danny paid a moment of silence to the dead man's head, and said in a deep voice, "He lost to me and failed to save the chemist, so the Hand put him to death..."
The human head had a stick of wood stuffed in his mouth, and Danny took it off and jumped to the ground.
"What is this?" Liu Zheng leaned over curiously to look. The front of the bamboo piece has many irregular knife carvings, and in turn there are several English letters written on it.
Danny muttered, "430 Cherry Street... Senior brother, this is the 'Great Challenge', a custom from the Kunlun Realm. The host will invite others to come to the door to challenge, if you lose, you must do one thing for the master's family, otherwise, the host will do one thing for us, this is our opportunity, brother! ”
Ward also saw the words on the bamboo slices, and said angrily: "I will never go again!" ”
"I didn't invite you, it was for me."
Danny said to Liu Zheng and Luo Zhijian: "Senior brother, Ah Jian, you two should go with me, I want to see what masters the Hand Club can make." ”
After speaking, he just wanted to leave, but Luo Zhijian grabbed him.
"Wait a minute." Luo Zhijian sniffed hard, sniffed around, and then jumped into the car, without looking at the disgusting human head, and began to rummage in the carriage. After a while, he jumped down with a small paper bag.
He held up the small paper bag in front of Danny and Liu Zheng and said, "What I smelled at the gate of the RAND Group is this smell, it seems that those women must have a lot of these things in the box." ”
Danny reached for the paper bag, which was the size of an adult's fingernail and had snake-like lines on its surface. He opened the paper bag and sprinkled a puff of white powder on the ground.
"Hateful... Damn it!!! ”
Danny suddenly became angry, slapped his palm on the compartment of the truck, and made a loud "tom" sound that startled Ward, and the thick iron sheet on the carriage was pierced by Danny's strong palm, and the whole car was smashed and deformed.
"Danny, what's wrong?" Liu Zheng asked.
"Senior brother, do you remember this?" Danny unbuttoned his shirt and showed the dragon tattoo on his chest in front of the three of them, "This war paint is a symbol of the Iron Fist, this dragon is Shou Lao, look at it again!" ”
Danny pointed to the snake pattern on the piece of paper, such a comparison, Liu Zheng found a problem, the snake on the painting is exactly the same as the dragon pattern on Danny's chest, the only difference is that there are no wings.
"Hand Clan, it's naked humiliation and contempt to put the wingless dragon's logo on the poison pin package!!" Danny Rand was so angry, Kunlun was supreme in his heart, how could he be so humiliated, "I absolutely, absolutely want to uproot the Hand Junction, and leave no one behind!" ”
He angrily walked up to Ward, grabbed him by the collar with both hands and lifted him up, "Let's put the meeting aside, do you know what's going on?" The Hand will directly produce poison pins in the RAND Group Building! Someone blatantly carried poison in and out of the gate of our company, and if this matter was exposed, it would be more serious than ten Staten Island accidents! ”
Ward also realized the gravity of the situation at this time, and sweat began to break out on his forehead.
Danny glared at Ward: "We're going to find trouble with the Hand now, you'd better start finding out who those women who returned in the afternoon when you get back to the company!" ... As I said when I came, that's the biggest problem. ”
Liu Zheng and the others found that the warehouse of the human head was located in the East Side of Manhattan's Lower Downtown District, also referred to as the Lower East Side. A few streets further south is Manhattan's Chinatown, the largest Chinese community in the entire United States.
Since the middle of the 19th century, when the first Cantonese opened their first shop in Lower Manhattan, more than 100,000 Chinese have slowly gathered to live here for more than 100 years, and gradually this area has become "Chinatown" by Manhattan.
More than 95% of Chinatown's residents are Chinese, but if you really want to distinguish them, they can be divided into three different areas, from west to east, which are "Chinatown", "Really Chinatown" and "China".
To the west is Chinatown, which is home to most of the second- and third-generation immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as the rich, second-generation officials and second-generation officials who came to the United States to gild, making the area the richest and with the best accommodations.
The area east of Broadway Avenue and south of Kenny Road is the earliest "Chinatown", where old immigrants and traditional overseas Chinese groups are concentrated, and there is a landmark building here, the Huaxia Office, which was also petitioned to the Manchu government when the Huaxia Office was established 134 years ago. At that time, the chairman of the Huaxia Office was even sent by the Qing court, which was equivalent to the "Qing court's minister to the United States". Together with its 60 associations and overseas Chinese associations whose history can be traced back to the Chinese exclusion period more than 100 years ago, Huaxia Mansion has created a "country within a city" with a long history. In order to distinguish it from the newly developed Chinese residential areas in the east and west, it was called "authentic Chinatown" by local Americans.
Over the past 20 years, Chinatown has expanded eastward, with more and more immigrants from Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang moving east to occupy larger territory than the "authentic Chinatown", expanding their residence all the way to the East River, which New Yorkers call New Chinatown, or "Huaxia City." This is the most mixed community where Chinese live in the entire Chinatown, the place with the most food and food in all parts of China, but it is also the place with the worst security.
The cherry street written on the bamboo piece is not far from the East River bank in "Huaxia City".