Chapter 511 - Luo Lans new friend (1/2)

Luo Lan looked at the middle-aged man standing at the entrance of the villa. The other party was wearing a trim suit with his tie secured close to his chest with a golden tie clip. He had seen him before, but only in a photograph.

Zhou Shiji looked calmly at Luo Lan and asked, “Did you have to knock out an entire company of my soldiers if you were just going out for a stroll?”

“Haha, it’s all a misunderstanding.” Luo Lan laughed it off.

Luo Lan realized Ren Xiaosu already intended to let him come back here. Otherwise, Ren Xiaosu, who was known to be someone decisive, would definitely not knock the soldiers out but kill them all instead.

But if he killed these soldiers, there would be no way for the matter between Luo Lan and the Zhou Consortium to be resolved.

It seemed that Zhou Shiji also did not intend to further investigate the matter. As the neighborhood of Houguan Lake was quite important, there were many surveillance cameras around.

Someone had already pulled the surveillance footage from earlier. However, they discovered that not even the surveillance cameras could capture the attacker’s image clearly.

What Luo Lan did not know was that Zhou Shiji’s official residence was also in the neighborhood of Houguan Lake. It was just a simple house. Awhile ago, Zhou Shiji did not even hear any noise. He only found out about the big mess in the neighborhood after someone informed him Luo Lan had fled.

If this person had been here to assassinate Zhou Shiji, what would have happened?

However, Zhou Shiji did not seem to feel that this was the most important matter. He looked at Luo Lan. “Did you kill Zhou Xilong?”

“Of course not.” Luo Lan was now in high spirits. “I have a flash drive that contains evidence that the director of the Public Order Division colluded with hitmen from the Anjing House. The corpses of the assassins responsible have also been found!”

Zhou Shiji took the flash drive from him but did not say anything for a long time. He pondered things before saying, “As expected of someone with Boss Luo’s reputation. To think that you actually have such great influence in our Stronghold 73. We couldn’t even find the assassins, yet you managed to do so.”

This was obviously not a compliment. Zhou Shiji suspected that the Qing Consortium must have planted a large number of spies in the Zhou Consortium!

“That’s really not true….” Luo Lan smiled in embarrassment and said, “It was all thanks to the help from a friend who happened to pass by. He was the one who helped to find the evidence.”

“Then what’s Boss Luo’s purpose in coming to our Zhou Consortium?” Zhou Shiji asked noncommittally.

“To make friends!” Luo Lan chuckled and said, “It’s to make friends, of course!”

“Then why didn’t you come to me but Zhou Xilong? Am I not worthy of being your friend?” Zhou Shiji asked.

Luo Lan was embarrassed again. ‘Does Zhou Shiji not know how to carry a conversation? Must he always say everything so sarcastically? No, that’s not it!’

Luo Lan suddenly looked up at Zhou Shiji. “I thought Brother Zhou would be unwilling to be friends with our Qing Consortium.”

“How could that be?” Zhou Shiji finally laughed. “Of course it’s better to have more friends. The fewer enemies there are, the better.”

Luo Lan finally understood that Zhou Shiji was taking the initiative to form an alliance with the Qing Consortium. But why? Wasn’t Zhou Shiji the leader of the Zhou Consortium’s conservative faction?

The two of them did not waste any more time and went straight into the villa.

It was not until an hour later that Luo Lan finally realized that even though Zhou Shiji, a conservative leader, did not like the idea of dealing the first strike in a war, he understood the concept of self-preservation. He was willing to face war for the sake of protecting his consortium. There was essentially no conflict between the two positions.