Chapter 44: Daring to Make a Move Against a Deputy Provincial Police Chief in China? Insane!

Somewhere in Florida, Eagle Nation.

Inside a dimly lit room, Li Baatian sat in a chair, waiting from morning until night.

And yet...

He still waited for nothing at all!

Zhang Youqian had promised him over the phone that he would definitely see the money today. But now the night had completely fallen, let alone that hundred-million-plus sum.

He hadn't even laid eyes on a single penny!

"Has this Zhang Youqian decided I've become soft-spoken?" Veins bulged on Li Baatian's forehead. "He gave me his word from the very beginning, kept dragging it out until now, and it's still just a promise!"

"He hasn't let me see a single dime of the money!"

This major drug lord entrenched in Eagle Nation felt like he was being played for a fool at this moment!

For a while now, it felt as though Zhang Youqian had been treating him like a monkey on a leash!

"No! Based on my understanding of him, that kid wouldn't dare to play me!" Immediately afterward, Li Baatian shook his head again, his expression growing even more complicated.

"Could it be that something actually went wrong with the money he lent out?!"

Right at that moment, Ryuji Yamagami walked into the room with a panicked expression on his face. "This is bad! Our partners in California were just wiped out in one fell swoop by the FBI!"

"What?!"

Hearing this news, Li Baatian's pupils constricted! He abruptly stood up, his expression panicked!

He paced back and forth anxiously, muttering to himself, "Th-this past month, we've already had four distributors busted by the FBI. Including this one in California, that makes five in total!"

Ryuji Yamagami sighed. "It looks like the FBI is playing for keeps this time."

After saying this, he hesitated for a moment before speaking again:

"There's another matter. Since our entire stash has been compromised, quite a few of our men are feeling anxious. Morale is in complete chaos right now. If this isn't handled properly..."

He didn't finish the last sentence, but Li Baatian naturally understood what it meant!

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The drug trade was inherently a high-risk, high-return business.

The reason Li Baatian's men were willing to risk their lives for him was precisely because of the staggering profits generated by narcotics.

This path was like rolling a boulder down a mountain; the further it rolled, the greater the risks and the higher the rewards. But... there was absolutely no chance of stopping anymore!

Once you stopped, you would be smashed to smithereens.

Just imagine:

You are a drug dealer, and you know this is a capital offense, but you can take home one hundred thousand US dollars a month from your boss. Naturally, you would cast all risks to the wind.

What if that hundred thousand dropped to ten thousand? Or a thousand?

Then who would risk their lives?

Right now, Li Baatian was facing precisely this problem: no money!

All the smuggled goods he sent out had been raided by the police; his laboratories had been wiped out; and what was even more infuriating was that the one hundred million invested in Zhang Youqian hadn't yielded a single cent back yet!

In just a few months, Li Baatian had transformed from a major drug lord lording over Eagle Nation into his current dilemma of being caught between a rock and a hard place.

"Zhang Youqian, where is my money?!"

Li Baatian's lips trembled as he let out a resentful roar toward the ceiling.

"I can't keep waiting like this. If this guy doesn't bring me the money soon, I'll send men to Huaxia to properly interrogate him about where all the funds went!"

In the end, Li Baatian gritted his teeth and said viciously.

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Meanwhile, in the Golden Triangle, the Jin Family estate.

"General, our men reported that over the past few days, they've been running into fewer and fewer 'goods' coming from Eagle Nation. It looks like that Li Baatian is reaching the end of his rope!"

Beside Jin Feihu, an alluringly charming woman said with a smile.

"Heh!" Jin Feihu sneered. "He dares to compete with the Jin family for business? How could I possibly let him walk away so easily?"

"As the saying goes, courtesy demands reciprocity!"

"Oh?" The woman beside him looked perplexed and asked, "What kind of reciprocity does the General have in mind?"

"Send our goods into the Eagle Nation market!" Jin Feihu said coldly!

Over the years, the Jin family's business had already dominated the Northern and Southern Koreas, little Sakura, and Southeast Asia...

Ambitious by nature, Jin Feihu had long since ceased to be satisfied with Asia alone.

He would simply use this opportunity to test the waters in the Eagle Nation market!

"By the way, how are things going regarding the weaponry?" Jin Feihu suddenly asked.

"About that..." Li Xiaohua, the alluring woman beside him, began to look hesitant. She shook her head and let out a helpless sigh.

"Right now, many arms dealers flat-out refuse to trade with us the moment they hear the name Jin family. I've had people quietly procure some scattered arms over this period, but it's just a drop in the bucket."

Jin Feihu's forehead instantly darkened. "Bah! These arms dealers really don't know what's good for them!"

So what if their Jin family had hijacked a few shipments of black-market goods?

Did they really have to blacklist them across the entire industry?!

Suddenly, Jin Feihu thought of an idea and said, "Have your people look for newly opened arms dealers, especially those newly established ones that are in desperate need of orders!"

"That's right!" Li Xiaohua's eyes lit up. "Those newly established ones might not know about the Jin family's reputation, and besides, a newly opened arms company is usually desperate for orders!"

"I'll go handle it right away!"

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Huaxia, Dongshan City, Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Wu Youhai glanced at his watch and involuntarily let out a yawn.

"By my count, I haven't rested in a month. No matter what, I'm applying for leave tomorrow."

As he muttered to himself, his peripheral vision accidentally caught sight of the leave application form sitting in the wastepaper basket beside his desk.

His leave had actually been approved, but then someone reported a case claiming their personal freedom had been restricted by over a thousand gang members.

"I hope no more cases crop up tomorrow."

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"Old Li, as a dignified Deputy Director of the Provincial Public Security Department, aren't you afraid of retaliation when you tag along with me on an 'incognito inspection'?"

On a highway in Dongshan City, Fan Nong sat in the passenger seat, teasing Li Weimin, who was driving.

Li Weimin chuckled softly, playing along with the remark. "Retaliation? Retaliate against a Deputy Director of the Public Security Department right here in Dongshan City? To be honest, in my decades as a police officer, I've never encountered such a daring criminal!"

The two of them were naturally joking.

They were just taking a trip around Pazhou Village; it wouldn't attract anyone's attention.

Besides, it was just as Li Weimin had said.

Retaliation?

In Huaxia, openly launching an attack against a Deputy Director of the Public Security Department—not to mention since the founding of the People's Republic, such a case hadn't occurred even across five thousand years of history!

Who could possibly have such immense audacity?

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