Shocking! The young educated youth had just arrived and was already clashing with spies.

Chapter 897 Drug Trafficking or Arms Smuggling?

Instead of going out for dinner, the group bought some simple food and ate it casually before waiting patiently for their departure time.

Around 11 or 12 at night, the four of them set off under the cover of darkness, and did not arrive at a mudflat in Shajiao, Humen until after 3 a.m.

There were no sentry posts, only a crooked mangrove forest, with the sound of the tide lapping against the mudflats.

Under the dim moonlight, Hu Kan led Chu Xin and the other two deep into the mangrove forest and walked for almost half an hour. After parting the waist-high weeds, they finally saw a faint, dim light in front of them—a small sampan.

These small sampans are lightweight and easy to conceal, and are often used by smugglers to facilitate travel between larger ships. They are so narrow that they can only accommodate four or five people.

At this moment, a lean man was sitting on the sampan. When he saw them appear, he first looked Chu Xin and the other two over warily before grinning at Hu Kan. "Brother Hu, you've finally arrived. I've been waiting for you for a long time. If you had been half an hour later, the patrol team at sea would have been coming over."

Hu Kan nodded and walked over first. "Let's go."

"Alright." The man put away the small anchor that was securing the boat, and after Chu Xin and the other two boarded the boat, he picked up a bamboo pole and pushed it into the water, and the sampan sailed away.

The sea breeze, carrying a salty, fishy smell, swept over them. Everyone remained silent, holding their breath and paying close attention to any movement on the sea. They couldn't let their guard down yet; at the very least, they had to successfully evade the patrol boats of the Coast Guard before they could truly be considered to have set sail.

Fortunately, Hu Kan and his group had figured out a safe enough route, and everything went smoothly. Just as dawn was breaking, they saw a relatively large fishing boat, which was the first boat they would be transferring to on this journey.

The rowers had already made contact with the fishing boat using signal lights before they even got close, and by the time they got close, a rope ladder was already hanging on the outer wall of the fishing boat.

Ge Shaoting's sharp eyes narrowed into slits. "I never imagined that smuggling activities in the waters of Southeast Asia could develop so conveniently and quickly."

Chu Xin glanced at him. "What, you want to get involved too? Drug trafficking or arms smuggling?"

Yang Zheng was stunned. This was the first time he had ever heard that Ge Shaoting possessed such strength. "Really?"

Ge Shaoting: "Of course it's authentic, but my business is mainly focused on Western countries like the United States and the United Kingdom. I've never really thought about Southeast Asian waters before because it's too chaotic."

His K gang and Hong gang now use Hong Kong as their core transit hub, relying on three mature transoceanic routes, and combining land and air "water passengers" and financial channels to carry out smuggling. Moreover, this is a complete smuggling model that was formed as early as 20 or 30 years ago.

Even under the current Cold War embargo, this route continues to reap huge profits by transshipping goods without leaving the port, mixing and falsely declaring goods, and laundering them in neutral ports.

Two or three decades ago, most Southeast Asian coastal countries were generally poor, and individual armed forces and separatist forces were extremely active, spreading throughout the sea and borders. Not only were there no sufficiently attractive huge profits, but it was also easy for officials and bandits to collude and double-cross each other.

Chu Xin mocked Ge Shaoting, "Don't do anything against your conscience for money. I advise you to sell weapons to foreigners and send drugs to places that need them more. In places where your own people are, whether it's Hong Kong or the mainland, don't be reckless and active, or I'm sure the more you jump around, the faster you'll die."

Especially after Hong Kong returned to the mainland, the country used swift and decisive measures to combat organized crime.

"That's for sure," Ge Shaoting said with a guilty smile.

He wanted to clear his name as soon as possible, but it was really difficult to do so. His adoptive father, who came from the Kuomintang, used to make money by having guns and cannons.