Chapter 1380 - 412: Wu’s Secret

Chapter 1380: Chapter 412: Wu’s Secret

Chapter 412 [Uncle Wu’s Secret]

When night fell, Uncle Wu finally woke up.

Chen Yan moved Uncle Wu to his own bedroom, placed him on the bed, then took out his phone, opened the hot news page, and brought the phone screen close to Uncle Wu’s face.

"The person you took down, was it the guy who had designs on your daughter? Was he the mayor’s family? Son? Or some relative?"

"None of them." Uncle Wu shook his head, his face still pale, but the Bone Pill used by cultivators had an explosively good effect on ordinary people’s bodies. He could already lean back on the bed, speaking in a coherent manner, though his breath was somewhat weak.

Chen Yan saw Uncle Wu’s gaze sweep toward the bedside table. He immediately understood, walked over to open the bedside drawer, and took out the pack of cigarettes inside, tossing it to Uncle Wu.

Uncle Wu’s fingers were trembling slightly as he lit the cigarette.

"I crawled back home after being shot, and before passing out, I was still thinking, it’s a pity I couldn’t take a puff before dying."

After lighting a cigarette and luxuriating in a puff, Uncle Wu said this.

Chen Yan remained silent, simply standing quietly at the foot of the bed, arms crossed, face serenely observing this guy.

Uncle Wu smoked the Three-Five brand, a mixed type of tobacco, whose smell Chen Yan didn’t quite like.

"Alright, sit down, and I’ll tell you the course of events again." Uncle Wu’s fingers, holding the cigarette, flicked the ash rapidly to the ground.

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The nightgown man at the villa who wanted to make a move on Angie was a businessman, more precisely, a construction contractor specializing in municipal building projects.

As you can imagine, doing this kind of business, he must be a die-hard direct lineage to the Mayor of New York.

There’s even a possibility that he himself is the Mayor of New York’s white glove for accumulating wealth.

The Mayor of New York, though just a mayor, placed in the American political scene, is a big figure, especially with the resources and power he can influence being immeasurable.

Because this is New York City.

The Mayor of New York City is not comparable to a mayor of a city in Minnesota.

New York is the world’s largest city, the largest single economic entity, with countless world-leading companies and the financial center Wall Street.

In this territory, being mayor is naturally incomparable to an ordinary mayor.

The nightgown man, though beside the current mayor, wasn’t the financier but more of a partner in accumulating wealth.

Uncle Wu had to kill this guy, and it’s truly a blame to be pinned on Chen Yan.

Because Chen Yan stole that suitcase from the fire incident scene.

If it weren’t for that suitcase, Uncle Wu could have done nothing.

The nightgown man had attempted to make advances on Angie during a party but that was merely an incidental interest arising from alcohol and environment, which resulted in such a plan when lust clouded his mind at the time.

But after the fact, given that guy’s identity and status, he wouldn’t have continued to pursue Angie—Angie was just an average-looking and slightly ordinary-bodied girl.

Initially, this matter could have just passed.

But with Chen Yan stealing that case from the fire incident scene, things took a different turn.

The $200K cash inside the case wasn’t significant for a construction businessman accumulating wealth alongside the mayor—lost was lost, no need for a major stir.

However, those two large bags of "goods" were of different significance.

The value of the two large bags, purely from the exchanged money, wasn’t worth the nightgown man, a "big figure" in New York, exhausting efforts to track down.

But the problem is, that wasn’t just money, it was two large bags of drugs (DP).

This stuff involved many complicated ties.

The DP was bought by the nightgown man, sourced from top-tier trafficking channels, the goods were top quality, high purity.

The things were prepared for the Mayor’s son.

The most crucial point is that the case also contained a contract, a contract concerning a transaction of money and power, involving a municipal engineering contract worth millions of dollars.

Just money, lost was lost.

Just two bags of DP, lost was lost.

Just a contract, could also be lost.

But these three things placed together, inside one case simultaneously lost, meant something completely different.

Anyone with sense could think that the nightgown man, and the mayor backing him, would definitely seek to find this case.

The fire scene wasn’t a cosmic black hole.

Fire burns things, but there should be remnants of the case from the scene, especially since the fire didn’t spread extensively and was put out by firefighters, logically there should be remnants of the case left behind.

If even remnants couldn’t be found, then there’s only one possibility—the case was taken away.

Though the mayor is a big figure, within the framework of American political institution, he also has many open and hidden political enemies.

Once this case falls into some hostile forces’ hands, it could easily brew a storm targeting the Mayor.

Therefore, they must track this case. To track the case, they’ll have to track the people at the party that day.

If Uncle Wu was truly just an ordinary restaurant owner, and his daughter just a regular high school girl.

Investigate then, go ahead.

After all, with a clean background, no matter how they investigate, they won’t find anything. Besides, the other side focused on tracing the case’s whereabouts wouldn’t have time to target an ordinary restaurant owner.