Chapter 665

The office door was suddenly knocked on. Hiram, who was chewing gum, pulled the pistol out of his holster.

He stood on the side of the wall by the door—

This was a lesson learned in blood.

In past battles, everyone discovered that if people were inside a room and someone knocked on the door or asked a question, the mortality rate of answering from behind the door was very high!

When encountering gunmen who were there with orders to kill, they wouldn't play any "open the door first" or "shoot first" games with you.

As long as you made a sound behind the door, they would immediately shoot at the door.

The first time someone went to see God because of standing stupidly, people might not have paid attention, but as more people died and were injured, it was gradually discovered and valued by people.

The wall was harder, and not all houses were wooden structures; it could provide more protection.

"Who's there?", Hiram's thumb, holding the gun, turned off the safety; he could shoot anytime, anywhere.

"Me, Elvin. Done."

Hiram opened a crack in the door and glanced outside. Only after confirming it was Elvin did he turn on the safety and put the pistol back into the holster.

He walked in from outside, the submachine gun strap hanging on his shoulder. "All resolved."

Lan Si nodded slightly, stood up, and walked toward the door. After taking two steps, he remembered something, turned his head to look at Luo Lin, and reached out his hand.

The latter reached out and grabbed Lan Si's hand tightly, following Lan Si out of the vice principal's office with her small schoolbag on her back.

Walking in the hallway, Luo Lin looked curiously at these people beside Lan Si; it was her first time seeing them.

But she could feel the heartfelt respect they had for Lan Si.

There was only the sound of quiet and orderly footsteps in the hallway. This was very strange; it wasn't like this at the beginning. Everyone's footsteps were chaotic and disorderly.

But after walking a few steps, Luo Lin discovered that everyone's pace began to become consistent, and the sound of footsteps became orderly.

Lan Si didn't notice this, but even if he had, he wouldn't care much.

This was actually a kind of "leader effect." As the most special and prominent person in this group, his behavior would unconsciously influence others, making others take him as an example and move closer to him.

Whether it was ordinary movements or anything else, it wasn't intentional; it just naturally became his rhythm.

Walking to the elevator, Lan Si asked, "Whose people?"

Elvin pursed his lips. "Holy Bell Party."

This made Lan Si turn his head to look at Elvin in surprise, as if he were asking, "Are you not joking with me?"!

"Holy Bell Party?", he repeated to himself, his tone also filled with confusion and incomprehension. He had no grievances with the Holy Bell Party.

Why did they want to assassinate him?

And, how did they get in?

Elvin hurriedly explained, "They all have Holy Bell Party tattoos on their bodies, and they weren't tattooed recently; it should have been a long time ago."

With a "ding" sound, the elevator door slowly opened. Lan Si pulled Luo Lin's hand and walked to the very back first, then turned around.

Only then did the others enter, filling the space around and in front of him. After the group entered, they all immediately turned around, facing the direction of the elevator door.

Hiram used the finger he had just finished picking his nose with to press the button, leaving a sticky mark.

Not long after, perhaps only thirty or fifty seconds later, the elevator door opened again. The people standing in the lobby all turned to look toward the elevator.

After Lan Si came out, he glanced at the young people in the lobby with burning gazes and nodded slightly.

Although Lan Si appeared at the company almost every day, getting close contact with him was still not an easy thing, even for people in the Lan Si family.

These ordinary gang members all had their own jobs; they might be patrolling a certain block, might be staking out a certain place, or might have all kinds of work to do.

Those who could be on duty at the company were at least a minority.

Except for large-scale activities, it wasn't easy for them to have close contact with Lan Si, and Lan Si was the idol of them and even all the young people around twenty years old in Golden Port City.

Even those half-grown male students in this private school all had intense curiosity and yearning for this legendary figure, Lan Si!

It was conceivable how excited they were when they saw Lan Si, and how much they wanted to show themselves.

Watching them standing with their heads held high and chests out, Lan Si smiled and walked toward the outside. He even casually patted the arm of a young man next to the elevator.

This made the young man's face immediately overflow with a look of pride and showing off!

The bodies were placed in the lobby on the first floor, a total of seven bodies. They were left with only their underwear; all other clothes had been stripped off.

After being checked, they were placed to the side.

Lan Si intended to let go of Luo Lin's hand; after all... bodies were still a bit too stimulating for a girl like her.

But he tried, and Luo Lin grabbed his hand even tighter. He turned his head to look at the girl and saw determination and some kind of resolve in the latter's eyes.

He no longer tried to break free from her palm but continued to pull her hand and came to the side of the bodies.

On everyone's chest was a tattoo of a handbell and a Bible; this was one of the marks of the Holy Bell Party.

It represented the gospel and glory of God. Everyone who joined the Holy Bell Party had to have such a tattoo.

"Looks like it's real. Find someone who knows about them and ask."

Lan Si stood there for a while and walked outside while speaking. Although these people were dead, there were still clues.

Aixi's dad.

The young man with a submachine gun slung over his shoulder by the car door outside immediately opened the car door. Lan Si walked over quickly and got into the car, followed by Luo Lin.

Others also got into the cars one after another, leaving only a few people here to handle the follow-up matters.

After Lan Si's motorcade left, the chief of the Creek Valley District branch also brought police to the scene.

Not long after, the principal of the private school released an announcement: a group of Holy Bell Party thugs from the western region of Liklai State attempted to carry out an attack at the private school and were discovered in time.

After persuasion and stopping were ineffective, they were shot dead at the scene.

The Creek Valley District branch hoped that everyone could provide some clues and intelligence. The principal used harsh language to criticize the actions of the extremist organization, the Holy Bell Party, to reporters and called on all sectors of society to pay attention to campus safety issues...

Today's events made them, including other private schools, understand a truth.

Sometimes, no matter how many people you know, in the face of power, it is meaningless; it shatters at a touch!

Aixi was also ordered by the principal to suspend her studies and go home because she was considered the fuse for the whole incident.

She could do anything she wanted, except go to school!

For the sake of her still being a girl, the principal had Aixi's teacher drive her home.

This time, the school could be considered to have suffered huge losses. It was imaginable that after today, a large number of students would withdraw from school here, and their network of contacts, which they were so proud of, would also be more than half broken!

The school board and those investors would peel his skin off and then slam it hard on his face; he had messed everything up!

Now the only thing he could do was to try every possible way to make up for it as much as possible and reduce the losses as much as possible.

There was still a not-so-short road from Creek Valley District to the Bay Area. Along the way, Aixi was crying, and her teacher didn't know how to comfort this girl.

The atmosphere along the way was very heavy. As a teacher at what was at least until this moment the best private school in Golden Port City, he knew very well how much trouble Aixi's father had caused.

Never mind private schools in Golden Port City; even private schools in Liklai State would very likely not accept Aixi.

It wasn't that Lan Si's influence could cover the entire Liklai State, but that those schools didn't want to cause trouble!

Unless they moved to another state, she might not even have a place to go to school.

The teacher sighed silently. "Everything will get better." He could only say this, but it was useless. There was only sobbing in the back seat.

Aixi wanted to be strong, but she couldn't do it at all. Thinking that she and her family had caused such big trouble, it felt like the sky had collapsed for her.

The heavy and sad atmosphere in the car lasted the whole way. After passing the inspection by the guards at the community gate, the car slowly entered the internal road and stopped outside her house.

Perhaps because she could immediately get rid of this terrible matter, the teacher's mood improved slightly.

"After you go back, wait until your mood calms down, then talk to your father properly." "My suggestion is, you can have him change to a new environment for you, which also happens to be a chance to make some new friends."

"If you have any questions you want to consult, you can call me."

The teacher pursed his lips and sighed again. "I will always be proud of you!"

If he didn't consider the incident itself, he still liked Aixi very much.

Aixi was very active in class and willing to participate in various activities organized by the school.

For this kind of private school, activities organized by the school were often not simple; they were more like a multi-layered social activity.

It required their parents to come to the school, which was also why some people, even though they weren't in this class, still had to grit their teeth, or even take out loans, to send their children in.

Wasn't it to use the school as a bridge to meet those true upper-class people?

Although doing this might make them look a bit humble, in the world of adults, what is humble or not humble?

There is only "wealthy" and "distressed," nothing else.

Aixi and her family were keen on various social activities and could be considered a relatively active family.

Pretty, with golden hair, and a decent family—who could hate her?

!

Perhaps because she was at her doorstep, Aixi held back her tears slightly. After saying "Thank you," she pushed open the car door and got out, bowing to her teacher.

Then, slowly, her footsteps were visibly heavy as she walked toward her home.

The teacher shook his head and restarted the car to leave. He still had to go back to write an apology letter and read it at the assembly because he didn't distinguish the true situation of this matter at the first time, causing Miss Luo Lin to be hurt.

He couldn't help but pat the steering wheel. A "beep" made the pedestrians on the side of the road who were startled by it curse.

Every teacher has a scale in their heart. Good students are loud and fragrant even if they fart, while those students they don't care about or value, even if they are sacrificed, they feel it's what they deserve.

Standing on the steps, Aixi withdrew her gaze from the teacher's rear window. She pressed the doorbell, but no one answered, and no one opened the door.

She was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then her body began to tremble slightly.

When she came down from the school administration building, she saw those cleaners wiping the blood off the ground, and also saw those police officers throwing body bags into the car one by one.

She began to let her imagination run wild, began to become terrified, and pressed the doorbell several more times, but still, there was no answer.

Just as she took off her schoolbag and found the key, fumbling but unable to insert the key into the lock, the door slowly opened.

Her mother looked at her with unfocused eyes. That look didn't seem to be looking at her own daughter, a living person, but more like looking at something.

"Mom...", she called out timidly in a small voice.

Her mother seemed to have just come back to her senses at this moment, slowly squatted down, and hugged her, hugging her very hard, so hard that she began to feel pain!

She seemed to realize something. She didn't cry out in pain, just hugged her mother, seeming to want to give her some sense of security.

Aixi could strongly resist that silent and powerful force, not letting herself cry out in pain.

By Angel Lake, several young people were cleaning up the blood-stained tarpaulin, diligently and seriously.

Dai Wen bent down to wipe the blood off his leather shoes, ensuring there was no dust on his newly bought leather shoes, only then satisfied to straighten up.

"Dig the pit deeper. The last one was too shallow; I could smell the stench, motherfucker."

"If you guys are lazy again this time, I'll throw you down then, let you be nice and comfortable!"

He laughed and scolded twice, carrying the document in his hand and getting into the car.

When Lan Si hadn't left the school yet, Aixi's father had already been caught.

Perhaps for this middle-aged man, he didn't think Lan Si could escape this disaster.

He didn't even feel that something was wrong and run away immediately like Houf. When Allen and Dai Wen found him, he was actually still at home giggling at the TV!

Then soon, he was taken away, in front of his wife.

Everyone has to pay the price for their actions and bear the consequences; no one is an exception, not even Lan Si.

Aixi's father couldn't hold on for too long either and said everything. What made people feel interesting was that he was still one of the small shareholders of the pier, with less than one-thousandth of the shares, but this could also be considered a kind of harvest.

After he signed the equity transfer agreement, he was about to be buried deep underground.

And he used these things to exchange for the safety of his family.

His wife and his daughter were protected by him.

Blowing the cool spring breeze, the car sped along the road leading to the city. The comfortable breath emitted by nature in the mountains and forests made people want to shout out!

To be eternal in such a beautiful place, this could already be considered a kind of gift!

When Dai Wen returned to the company, Lan Si hadn't been back for long.

This was Luo Lin's first time coming here. Her emotional fluctuations were relatively strong today, and after returning, she was clearly a bit listless.

Lan Si had Ke Lin Da take the girl to wash up and then rest for a while, while he himself still had to handle some work matters.

Because this assassination attempt hadn't been carried out, Lan Si had Bo Dun pull the number of people on the street to the maximum.

This incident also gave him a reminder that in this city, there were places he couldn't monitor.

"It's possible they came in at night!", Bo Dun was a bit sweaty. If a few gunmen could come in today without them knowing, more gunmen could come in tomorrow!

He was very satisfied with his current life. His daughter had returned to his side, his wife was as obedient as a large toy, and his newborn son had strong plasticity for the future.

Most importantly, he had money in his hands, and he was getting richer and richer, and also had more and more social status.

He was more eager than Lan Si for this kind of life to continue.

Lan Si listened to his explanation and nodded noncommittally. "This is indeed a problem. We don't have anyone guarding the streets at night. If someone really comes in, we are very likely not to discover it."

He pondered for a while. "I'll find a way to solve this matter."

He didn't say how to solve it. Bo Dun would inevitably think more; he had to show his own value.

He suddenly seemed to think of something. "A few days ago, Houf seemed to have left once. It's also possible they came back by Houf's car."

Lan Si nodded. "I remember this matter. Someone saw Houf's motorcade leave Golden Port City."

He frowned and thought about the possibility of this development. It indeed existed, and it wasn't careless.

But soon he shook his head again. "Houf ran too early. If we could find him, these problems wouldn't exist."

"We still need to continue to expand our eyes, let our tentacles spread throughout the entire Liklai State, rather than being limited to Golden Port City."

"Don't be satisfied with our current achievements, gentlemen. Now is not the time to lie on the book of merit and enjoy."

"We still have many enemies and still need to face many challenges."

"The only advice I can give you is not to slack off. Once you slack off and leave the team, I won't stop and wait for you!"

While speaking, Dai Wen walked in from outside. He handed the document bag in his hand to Lan Si. "He said it was Houf who made him do this. In addition, this is the equity transfer agreement he signed."

After Lan Si took out the document and looked at it carefully, he quickly signed his name at the end of the two documents. These two documents immediately had legal effect.

"As for his family...", Dai Wen hesitated.

Lan Si shook his head slightly and closed the pen cap. "We are people who follow the rules and also people who keep our promises. He exchanged his family's safety with this equity, so we cannot tear up the agreement."

"Establishing authority takes a long time, but tearing it up only takes an instant."

(End of chapter)