It seems that the villain is targeting me.

[Gu Yilan first gave up on businesses that would become key targets: drugs, human trafficking, loan sharking... She gradually eliminated these things from her business empire.]

"And the gang members who originally engaged in these businesses will fiercely oppose Gu Yilan."

Xiao Niao continued, "This woman put the family back on track and doubled the original business—but these people still hate her."

Because they did not profit from the booming business, but were deprived of their profitable occupations and were pushed to the margins.

[Like this...]

The system seemed to be hinting at something, and Xiao Niao looked at the old shop with its front door closed that Gu Tianjiao had just left.

"That's a drug den," Tongzi said. "Of course it's not allowed, but the shop owner still sells it to addicts privately."

"...Should I call him crazy or praise him for being incredibly audacious?" Xiao Niao frowned. "He even dares to win over such a person. He really doesn't know his own limitations."

That's drug trafficking - these are the most terrifying and most likely to take risks.

Gu Yilan dared to suppress the other party because she had the biggest fist in Jiangcheng. If anyone dared to disobey her, she would beat them until they cried and admitted their defeat.

Otherwise, it would not be so easy to give up such lucrative businesses as drugs and loan sharking.

But Gu Tianjiao did not have such far-reaching considerations, and simply and crudely implemented the principle of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.

He obviously had no idea what consequences his behavior would bring.

Chapter 116: Lando: What is this? A little bird!

What kind of person can cause the most damage?

During his long career in power, Xiao Niao found the answer to this question: what is really scary is not the evil people who have committed many crimes, but the stupid people who only half understand.

Here I mention a man named Cha:

This person is a typical example of stupidity and brutality. He does things without considering the consequences. As the crown prince, he allows others to use his reputation as a weapon - he has almost accumulated all the debuffs that will lead to the destruction of a country and the extinction of a race.

The scary thing about this kind of person is that their behavior is completely unpredictable.

You can never guess what shocking move these people will make next - their minds are like wild dogs on a loose rein, and they may run away on the prairie at any time.

"Gu Tianjiao and Charles are not exactly the same type... but they are still the same kind of people at heart."

Brutal, impulsive...acting on his own without regard for the consequences.

Xiao Niao only felt a throbbing pain in his temples, and the blue veins on his forehead were about to burst.

The butcher bird's instinct seemed to be stirring in its body.

Xiaoniao felt his hands itching for a moment - he really wanted to hang all these guys and sentence them to death!

Isn't this a disaster that will completely harm society?

If we just sit back and allow him to recruit more people and grow stronger, there is no telling what kind of chaos Jiangcheng will be in - even if he can be wiped out in the end, it will cause immeasurable damage.

As a former defender of order, Xiao Niao almost instinctively hates these things that are growing wantonly in the gray area.

Moth.

She had no good feelings towards any group that was outside the social order - this also included the underworld gang headed by Gu Yilan - no legitimate regime would want such a thing to appear under its rule.

If we strip away the halo attached to them by film, television and literary works, we will find that the glory and splendor of all underworld gangs are built on the exploitation of ordinary people.

They are like cancer cells in the body. As long as they are alive, they will continue to take away nutrients from the healthy cells around them.

If left untreated, it will grow and expand rapidly in a deformed manner until it completely destroys the original function of the organ.

[…I’m a little confused. If we allow Gu Tianjiao to continue like this, won’t the new entity we establish become a complete criminal empire?]

[Plus, in the original plot, he was also protected by luck,]

The system's voice had changed a little: [Every evil deed goes smoothly, and law enforcement agencies are rendered useless by the existence of the world's will - won't he bring the world to ruin?]

The collapse of social order and a large number of deaths from unnatural causes - these are the reasons that will lead to the demise of a small world.

This is no longer just a question of whether the commission can be completed.

Even if the bird stopped the death of the Son of Fortune, if he was allowed to continue, the small world would still be in danger of extinction.

Xiao Niao couldn't help but frown.

She was stirring the ice in her glass with a plastic straw - but Xiaoniao was not paying attention to this at all, and the drink had hardly been touched since it was served.

All along, she has been trying her best to avoid direct conflict with the son of luck in this world. At most, she would weaken him intentionally or unintentionally to prevent him from coming into contact with Xiaoya.

Less contact can avoid complications, and since the two people don't know each other at all, there is no possibility of murderous intention - this is also the most gentle way to complete the commission.

But when things have developed to this point, the nature of the situation has changed.

Gu Tianjiao's position is gradually changing from "a domineering CEO with a twisted personality due to a childhood tragedy" to "a cancer of order who decides to take revenge on society to the end".

From harassing the female lead and supporting actress to harassing the entire society, his dangerousness has been significantly elevated.

[We can't let him go on like this. We must nip him in the bud.]

——Xiao Niao already understood it without the system’s additional reminder.

But Xiaoniao certainly cannot accomplish such a thing alone, she needs the help of the police - or rather, if the evidence can be integrated and handed over to law enforcement agencies, these social cancers will have no room to survive at all.

We didn't even need detailed evidence to deal with these people. We could just beat them up. Why would we have to pick a special day? Once we arrested them, we'd have evidence.

Of course, it would be best to have some ready-made evidence.

If possible, it would be best to catch a tongue or two.

Xiao Niao stared out the glass window, his eyes fixed on Gu Tianjiao. After a while, he slowly moved away.

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Lando was not sure, but she felt that this was probably just a complete coincidence and had nothing to do with the case she wanted to investigate.

She was currently sitting in a fast food restaurant, holding a cup of hot fruit drink in her hand, sipping it nonchalantly while observing Xiao Niao sitting in the window seat through the reflection of the wall glass.

The other party probably didn't notice her, Officer Lan thought. She had been staring intently out the window since just now.

Unfortunately, Officer Lando did not see Xiaoniao's face, so she didn't know what she was looking at - she only knew that Xiaoniao was observing the situation across the street.

In Lando's career as a criminal police officer, she must have encountered surveillance operations that were more thrilling and exciting than this - she had also carried out surveillance missions that were more dangerous than this, but none of them were as tense as today.

To make a long story short, it was a stalking operation that happened by chance.

It is said that after Lando arrived in Jiangcheng, she began to explore in various possible directions.

She led her team to visit more than 400 households and carefully studied the possible whereabouts of the suspect. Lando had not yet thought about looking for Xiaoniao. She hoped to understand the background of the case before starting work.

But as expected, Lando encountered a bottleneck: there was no progress in work for several consecutive days, and no suspicious persons were found after checking the surveillance video.

The person who took the gun did not throw away the bullets or other gun parts: this means that Lando only has these clues in his hand, and it is difficult to find new details of the crime.

Feeling worried, Landuo changed into casual clothes and prepared to go out for a short walk to get some fresh air.

Just as the policewoman was hesitating whether to ask the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau to help find Xiao Niao's current address, she made a new discovery.

It was really an unexpected success. The person she was just thinking about looking for suddenly appeared before her.

Officer Lando paused. She happened to be standing in the blind spot of Xiao Niao's vision, a position that was not easily discovered.

And the bird did not notice her presence.

The policewoman thought for a moment and walked into the fast food restaurant.

Chapter 117 People gradually stepped onto the stage (Please refresh this chapter)

Gu Tianjiao took a deep breath.

He was high, like every villain dedicated to a sinister cause, his body trembling with adrenaline pumping through his veins.

The surrounding environment was actually quite noisy, but his head was filled with the rumbling of hot blood, which made him almost unable to hear anyone talking. His nerves were swollen and dizzy as if soaked in alcohol.

In his limited life experience, Gu Tianjiao has never really dealt with gangs - his childhood experiences have long been vague, and he no longer has the opportunity to come into contact with them after growing up.

He almost suddenly entered a world completely different from his previous life.

Originally, Gu Tianjiao brought the money with him to persuade others to support him, but within a few minutes, he was deeply fascinated by the blueprint built by the other party.

"This is an industry like a gold mine," the other party described it to him. "Its profitability far exceeds that of other businesses. It's more profitable than all businesses combined!"

"We were already doing this business before, so we picked it up because it was a ready-made opportunity. We could arrange everything in less than a week. Our raw materials are produced in the Silver Triangle, and we can provide a stable supply every year. There are also local processing plants that can do the work."

"The profits here are staggering," the man known as Old Knife explained to him attentively. "You don't even have to worry about distribution channels. The family just needs to provide a little funding and protection."

The small amount of funds here refers to 2.8 million. After hearing this, Gu Tianjiao felt a little embarrassed because the money he brought was not even a fraction of that.

But he soon cheered up again because Lao Dao then talked about the details of profit sharing.

"I will give you 40% of the profits, and raise it to 50% after two years - if we are both satisfied with each other,"

Lao Dao said, his brown eyes twinkling slightly, "Your dividend in the first year will be three to four million, and the money will only increase more and more after that."

Of course, this is when Gu Tianjiao defeated his mother and successfully became the head of the Gu family.

And Gu Tianjiao was almost intoxicated by this.

What kind of world is this? Without any effort or hard work, you can easily obtain wealth that ordinary people would never dare to dream of in their entire lives?

He recalled the tone of voice Lao Dao had used when he spoke to him earlier, and the collection of fine wines that could be faintly seen in the dim room.

Gu Tianjiao had seen Mr. Lu's wine collection, so he had some basic common sense - he watched helplessly as Brother Dao casually poured hundreds of thousands of yuan worth of foreign wine into a clean jam bottle and drank it.

The Cupid icon on the glass bottle wasn't even peeled off!

Actually, Dao Ge's use of a jam bottle to drink wine is somewhat of a performance. Although the form is a bit abstract, it is indeed a way of showing off and expressing his resentment at the same time:

Your mother has made me so poor that I have to drink from old glass bottles; but I can still afford good wine that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a bottle.

Obviously, this is a legacy of Brother Dao's glorious past - Gu Yilan does not allow people in the gang to continue doing this business, but he is not so heartless as to plunder the hobbies of his old subordinates.

It seems that Brother Dao's business was indeed very profitable in the past, extremely profitable, so profitable that he didn't feel sorry for pouring forty-year-old Dalmore into a jam jar and drinking it.

This deeply touched Gu Tianjiao's nerves.

The man mentioned "millions" as if he was talking about a few dozen yuan in change, as if money was just a number used for measurement in his eyes.

The impact on values was instantaneous - just a moment, and the values that Gu Tianjiao had built up during his nine years of compulsory education were thrown to waste.

However, this person's values are quite twisted to begin with, so compulsory education cannot be blamed.

He was immersed in the extravagant world of money and power that Brother Dao had built for him. Although he had not yet truly entered it, he was unable to extricate himself.

Gu Tianjiao almost forgot the purpose of his coming here until someone reminded him - it turned out that he was the one who needed to win over others to support him.

He quickly said: “Brother Dao, as long as you are willing to support me, you will be the second marshal of the Gu family in the future!”

In the underworld gangs, the status of the second marshal is second only to the incense master who is the boss - this is equivalent to promising high officials and generous salaries.

Business matters were easy to deal with - since his mother didn't allow her subordinates to touch drug-related businesses, he naturally had to do the opposite.

Gu Tianjiao doesn't have many cards to play, so he can't give up any of his advantages.

"of course."

The man opposite him narrowed his eyes and seemed to be more talkative than Gu Tianjiao had expected. The scar on his face began to move, looking a little scary.

"Of course," Brother Dao repeated with a smile, "You are the only child of this generation of the Gu family. I followed your grandfather when I was twelve or thirteen years old. Who else should I support if not you?"

The conversation lasted about half an hour.

No one knew what they talked about, but when Gu Tianjiao got up and left, both he and Brother Dao agreed that their goal had been achieved.

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In an unknown dark alley, an inconspicuous narrow door quietly opened.

Gu Tianjiao walked out sideways from inside.

He was very cautious and waited for two seconds before sticking his head out. He then turned his head and looked around to make sure no one was watching.

After arriving at the alley, he left quickly.

After a while, the narrow door closed quietly again.

The location of the shop here is very bad. It is remote, dirty and messy, and the lighting is extremely poor. Even in the daytime, the room is dim. Except for the occasional drunkard who falls at the door, there is almost no extra traffic.

Of course, a normal person would not choose such a place to do business, but for Brother Dao, who is engaged in illegal business, the conditions here are perfect.