Dog Eats Dog

Dog Eats Dog

Cao Jing's back was soaked with sweat, and all color had drained from his face.

"Who... who the hell said that?!" Cao Jing roared.

Everyone looked at him innocently. "Big Brother, you said it."

"???" Cao Jing was about to explode with rage.

He kicked one person to the ground and cursed, "Can't you understand human speech? I told you to take the money and run. What the hell did you mean by throwing it downstairs for someone else?"

The yellow-haired man quickly reminded him, "Jing Ge, think about it again. That was what you said at first, but then Ma Ye's people arrived to receive us, right? So you had someone notify us to throw the money downstairs. That was the later money-moving plan..."

Seeing the yellow-haired man seriously helping him recall the events, Cao Jing was nearly angered into passing out.

If someone had maliciously cut the power, at most people would make trouble and wreck the business.

But the money disappearing was definitely no accident. Put together, it was obvious someone had set them up and swallowed the money under cover of darkness!

Eight million, just handed over like that? The thought made Cao Jing's scalp go numb.

"Do I need you to teach me? I never said that! Do you understand? Who the hell spread that nonsense? You said I had someone notify you. Who notified you?!" Cao Jing pressed.

Everyone looked at one another. Who had notified them? It had been so dark at the time, who could tell? It had to have been one of them, anyway.

Now Jing Ge said he had never said that, which meant... the money had been stolen?

At that thought, everyone realized how serious this was.

The yellow-haired man looked at the others and widened his eyes. "There's a traitor among us!"

"Who the hell said it?! Huh? Who?!" Cao Jing scrutinized everyone too, his eyes red with fury.

"It was A Lu! I recognized the voice. It was A Lu!" a scar-faced man suddenly said.

Cao Jing immediately glared at A Lu.

A Lu froze, then hurriedly said, "Bullshit! It wasn't me!"

Seeing Cao Jing staring at him, he quickly added, "It had to be Scarface! It clearly wasn't me, but he's framing me. That bastard must be the mole!"

"Talk, Scarface! Did you work with outsiders to steal the money?"

"Damn, you even forged Jing Ge's orders and tricked us into throwing the money downstairs. You've got some nerve. Eight million! You're fucking bold!"

Cao Jing immediately turned to Scarface again.

Scarface hurriedly said, "How could it be me? Jing Ge, you know how loyal I am!"

Cao Jing said darkly, "I only want to know where the money is. Return it, and you'll be fine..."

Scarface quickly said, "It really wasn't me, Jing Ge. Everyone, be reasonable. Can't you recognize my voice? You all heard that person's voice at the time. It was obviously A Lu!"

At that moment, a man with a hairstyle like a flower roll shook his head. "It sounded a little like him, but it wasn't A Lu. I was standing beside A Lu the whole time. It was dark, but my phone light caught him. The person delivering the message was standing across from me."

A Lu laughed. "Exactly! Hua Juan'er, this asshole was framing me. He's definitely the mole."

But Hua Juan'er shook his head again. "That voice clearly wasn't Scarface's either."

"Maybe he deliberately changed his voice?" someone said.

At that moment, Wu San stepped forward. "First of all, it definitely wasn't Hua Juan'er or me. That person shone the light on our faces and even called us by name."

Everyone nodded. Then someone else said, "We can rule out A Lu too. So the mole must be among the rest of us... I know it wasn't me..."

As he spoke, he sized up the remaining few people.

"Xiao Yang, it wasn't you, was it? Why aren't you saying anything?"

When Xiao Yang saw Jing Ge looking at him, he hurriedly said, "It couldn't be me, Jing Ge. You know me. I'm an orphan. What would I need that much money for?"

"Who knows? That's eight million," the yellow-haired man chimed in.

Xiao Yang said angrily, "Bullshit! I treat money like dirt! I get it now! It was you, wasn't it? You're the greediest one here!"

The yellow-haired man jumped up. "He's talking nonsense! Jing Ge, I may be greedy for money, but I don't have the guts for this! Besides, this was definitely premeditated. I didn't even know there was money in that private room."

At that, everyone said, "Yeah, I didn't know there was money there."

"I didn't know either."

Hearing this, Cao Jing stared at Wu San'er. Among these people, only A Lei and Wu San knew where the money was.

A Lei had followed him since childhood, and Cao Jing trusted him completely. Besides, A Lei had gone to deal with the goods and had not been in the private room at all. So Cao Jing immediately suspected Wu San. Only Wu San could have planned this.

Wu San hurriedly said, "Jing Ge, that person called my name too."

"Huh? How do we know you didn't call it yourself?" someone said.

"Impossible. I was standing with Wu San at the time!" Hua Juan'er spoke up for him.

Someone else said, "I get it! There are two moles!"

Everyone argued noisily, and Cao Jing's head throbbed from the irritation.

He roared, "Shut up, all of you!"

Everyone fell silent. Cao Jing asked, "What distinguishing features did the messenger have?"

"Oh!" The yellow-haired man immediately blurted out, "A flashlight!"

"...You call that a distinguishing feature?" Cao Jing said in astonishment.

"He was shining a flashlight, with the light behind him. We really couldn't see clearly," the yellow-haired man said helplessly.

Everyone nodded in agreement. When they thought back, their only impression of that person was the beam of the flashlight. It had practically filled all their memories.

"A flashlight? Are you all pig-brained? The only thing you remember is a flashlight?!" Cao Jing despaired. He truly despaired...

How had this happened? Who was it?

Cao Jing gritted his teeth. "Since the person is among you, don't blame me for using some methods."

A Lei had listened from the side for a long while. Now he leaned closer and said to Cao Jing, "Jing Ge, they all look like they're just guessing. I don't think the mole is among them. Otherwise, why would they have come back?"

Cao Jing knew that made sense, but what else could he do? He could only force answers out of them.

A Lei said, "Jing Ge, you were there at the beginning. The problem happened after you left. What happened then?"

Cao Jing thought it over and quickly described what had happened.

"What? The cash box was snatched away? No, it wasn't. One of our brothers brought it over and put it on the office desk. I saw it. Then the power went out," A Lei immediately pointed out the inconsistency.

Then he added, "Right, the cash box disappeared during the blackout too!"

Cao Jing finally realized it. Someone had pretended that the cash box had been stolen at that time.

"You mean... I called an outsider in and treated him like one of our own, telling him to move the money?" Cao Jing was dumbfounded. He had never expected such a thing.

The yellow-haired man exclaimed from the side, "Huh? Weren't those our guys at the door? Three people came into the private room with me!"

"What! Three?" Cao Jing stared in shock.

"Ah!" Hearing the yellow-haired man's words, A Lei shuddered as he thought of the two people who had been standing guard at the door.

"I remember now. Two people had been standing guard at the entrance the whole time. Jing Ge, after the power went out, you called them inside to move the money?"

Cao Jing broke down. So he had personally called the outsiders in!

"Who? Who were those two people? Why were they guarding the door for me?"

Standing beside him, A Lei angrily punched the wall, as if he had figured something out!

He confidently said to Cao Jing, "Jing Ge! I know who did it!"

"Oh? Who?!" Cao Jing was delighted. As expected of A Lei, his best brother!

A Lei confidently asked, "Jing Ge, do you remember who came to make the deal with us? He was at the scene before the power went out!"

"You mean Wang Siwen?" Cao Jing suddenly understood.

Wang Siwen was the man in the suit.

A Lei smiled. "Those two guards were Wang Siwen's men. He brought quite a few more people the second time he came. Remember how he lost money before? He insisted that Jing Ge had stolen it and had a huge fight with us. Thinking back, it was extremely suspicious."

"Maybe he really did lose money and thought it was you, so he held a grudge. The second time he came, he brought more people and pulled this stunt."

"Or maybe Wu San accidentally leaked the information, making Wang Siwen target Jing Ge. He deliberately failed the first deal because he had no money, then scoped out the place and got a clear understanding of the private room."

"The cops checked our original trading location, so we temporarily hid everything in this KTV. He might have guessed that. He sent people to guard the door, sent people to cut the power, and sent people to collect the money... When the alarm went off, he deliberately said he wasn't making the deal anymore and ran off to chase the money, then used the opportunity to have his own people slip inside... You were set up, Jing Ge!"

After hearing A Lei's analysis, Cao Jing's eyes turned red and his rage surged.

"Wang Siwen, well played. You actually dared to steal from me."

"Let's go! We're going to find him!"

He had to get the money back. But just as he gathered his men and arrived at the rear parking lot downstairs—

Wang Siwen had already arrived with his people!

At that moment, Wang Siwen had even taken off his suit jacket and wore only a dress shirt. The dozens of people beside him were all armed.

His face was red and his neck bulged as he viciously smashed a box onto the ground!

Cao Jing looked down and saw that the box was filled with bricks and rags.

Wang Siwen angrily pointed at the box. "Cao Jing! I knew you took the money. How do you explain this?!"

They had seized this box from "Cao Jing's men," but when they opened it after returning, it contained nothing but bricks and rags. It had been switched!

Wang Siwen was nearly furious to death.

"You still dare to come here? I told you! I didn't take your money! But you, isn't this going too far? Who taught you about that text message? Talk!" Cao Jing demanded. Other than the money, he knew the most serious part of this was that text message.

"I went too far? You think I went too far?"

Wang Siwen was so angry it seemed smoke was rising from his head.

He pointed at himself and said, "Setting me up once wasn't enough for you? You had to set me up twice!"

"You didn't touch my money? Heh heh heh... Do you take me for a fucking idiot?"

With that, he suddenly pulled a baseball bat from behind his back and viciously smashed it into Cao Jing's head.

The man who had previously been so neatly dressed in a suit now looked like a wild beast.

"I'm telling you, Cao Jing! I've put up with you for a long time!"

Wang Siwen planted the bat on the ground and jabbed a finger through the air at Cao Jing, who had been ambushed and knocked to the ground. His hatred seemed ready to seep out through his gums!

His voice trembled with hatred. "You've gone too far!"

P.S. Sorry.