City of Vice (Fourth Section: Struggle for Financial Resources)

  Two nightclubs were successively bloodbathed, and even the police didn't think it was done by one or two people. They simply shifted all the responsibility to the already fallen gang leader. The police knew who the gendarmerie had taken away, so they let these people's subordinates take the blame. As soon as the police station's case filing report came out, a large number of headless gang members fell into the hands of the police. When their bosses gave money to the police before, they could do whatever they wanted. Once they lost their leadership, the police immediately took them down and even used deadly force when "capturing" those so-called nightclub bloodbath "suspects". The "crime suspects" refused to confess and face trial, so the police shot dead the "ferocious" thugs. There was no need for a police officer to prosecute or a court to try the case. The case was quickly solved in less than 24 hours.

  "How did they do it, solving the case so quickly? Do they not know about us or don't want to catch us?" Lisa sipped her iced beer while watching TV. Xu Huaqing had already prepared for tonight's action and was waiting for the midnight peak of gamblers before making his move. He endured the wait in his cabin, eating dinner and preparing for the start of work.

  "The local crime rate is high, so there are plenty of scoundrels. The police can catch a few habitual robbers to take the fall and show off their detective skills. They don't plan on catching us; the case is already closed, what's the point of continuing the investigation? Even if they find out it was us, they won't arrest us. What would be the point of arresting us? The killer they shot earlier wasn't a scapegoat or anything. The police don't like to make trouble for themselves unless some busybody accidentally crosses us. Don't worry about this. Even if we get caught, I have an escape route. What gun are you using tonight?" Xu Huaqing asked her.

  "I'll take two Calico M-110s as well, I see you're looking pretty cool with them. Tonight when we start work, I'll sit on the dolly and you push it forward while I do the shooting." Lisa opened another chilled beer and continued drinking. The sailboat remained still in the quiet harbor, seemingly unrelated to that city where people die unexpectedly every day.

  The constables on street duty all looked forward to nightfall, so that their superiors could let them return to the camp to rest. Standing guard for a whole day was no easier than training, and everyone was tired of waiting for time to pass. Yu Fei didn't need to stand on the road to be sunburned, he drove his car to patrol the situation at each post in the city, when he arrived at a street with few pedestrians, he got out of the car, took some coins and walked to the payphone, and directly called Xu Huaiqing.

  "Why didn't you get a new number, find one that doesn't require ID registration and tell me, just in case something unexpected happens. I'll also prepare a special number to call you. You're doing well at the nightclub, the police have already helped you wrap things up. Where are you planning to go today?" Yu Fei kept looking around while making the phone call.

  "I want to go take a look at the casino." Xu Huaiqing didn't need to lie to him.

  "You still go to nightclubs, casinos I think you can take care of yourself, what do you think?" Yu Fei knew that he went to the casino also to make a fortune, but he needed more money than him, he needed more funds to use on people like Xu Huaiqing, and also needed to spend money on military contractors, the casino was his source of funding, he knew that the Ministry of National Defense did not want to give him money, those professional bureaucrats in the Ministry of National Defense would not be busy applying for funds for Yu Fei's promotion, he understood which incompetent officials were, but he also didn't need national funds, the confiscated ill-gotten gains belonged to the state treasury itself, using this money was also using the state treasury's money, handing over the confiscated ill-gotten gains to the Gendarmerie Headquarters, then the Gendarmerie would hand it over to the Ministry of National Defense, then transfer it to the Ministry of Finance, and finally allocate it to the Lion City Gendarmerie team was too troublesome, having money could bypass those incompetent bureaucrats.

  "Alright, you found me, I'll listen to you." Xu Huaiqing's solo fortune-making dream was shattered. Yu Fei got on the command car and used wireless telegraphy to inform his troops to gather, the constabulary returned to camp to rest. Yu Fei led his troops to wait for the time when the casino would make money. Xu Huaiqing had no choice but to discuss their goal with Lisa again.

  "Has someone said something to you?" Lisa asked.

  "Nothing, we won't go to the casino anymore, it's not safe. We'll still go to the nightclub, I think the police won't strengthen their guard there. If someone dies, they can use that as an excuse to continue arresting those thugs and framing them for the crime. Are you going to the nightclub or not?" Xu Huaqing sat down on the sofa and continued eating dinner, while Lisa lay on the bed. "It's always impossible to do what we want most, okay, let's go to the nightclub, but don't make it too bloody. If you have enough incapacitating gas bombs, that would be fine. This city is very hot, so everyone has air conditioning and ventilation ducts. As long as the air doesn't circulate and the gas gets in, people will pass out naturally without causing too much chaos, and it's also less likely to hurt innocent people. Those who don't have weapons on them won't all be killed either, the misfire rate is very low. What do you think?"

  "It's not that easy, the explosive power of incapacitating gas shells is not great to begin with. If we can reduce the amount of explosives in the warhead even further, then the sound won't be loud either. If we use an aerosol dispenser, there will be no sound at all, but it's all too complicated. I also have non-explosive incapacitating gas shells, just like smoke bombs that don't require explosions." Xu Huaiqing proudly showed off his weapons.

  "The most people are in the hall, just throw them there, I'll take care of the hall," Lisa said, looking at him. Xu Huaqing said: "This way the cost is higher, I don't even want to use those things, since you want to use them, go ahead." He moved a box out from the bottom cabin, opened it and inside was a full box of smoke bombs, ordinary people wouldn't notice there's anything wrong with them.

  "It looks just like a smoke bomb." Lisa took out her own bag and packed the smoke bombs. With this thing, she could personally search the people who had fainted. Those with poison or weapons on them were naturally not good things, one shot would finish them off. If there was no problem, they would be let go, and when they woke up, they wouldn't know anything. Xu Huaiqing also handed her a gas mask, "Do you know how to use it?"

  "Of course."

  "If you send half of your people to help me transport things today, I won't look for a moving company. Are those container trucks of yours still available?" Yu Fei asked Wu Junwen if he could help him seal off the casino, and Wu Junwen said: "There are plenty of vehicles, they're usually parked upstairs, what do you plan to load onto them?"

  "The culprit and the casino's gaming equipment, I plan to take down several more casinos in one night, taking care of those large and profitable ones. This way, even if the top doesn't allocate funds to support our signed contract, I won't default on giving you money. With the money, I can give you five years' worth of commission all at once, as well as other expenses - what do you think?"

  "That's great, someone is resisting, that can fire a few more shots." Wu Junwen was very happy because the contract he had signed did not include armed escort tasks. This job would have earned him an extra sum of money, and for a military contractor who wanted to do clean business, there was nothing better than this.

  "Prepare more ropes and tapes, in order to prevent them from speaking out of turn, we must gag their mouths and tie them up tightly. The important ones will be detained at my place for interrogation, the others can be put here with you. Go prepare, my team will set off soon and you follow." Yu Fei finished speaking and turned to leave, he also needed to go back and prepare handcuffs and other things. He estimated that today they could complete their goal of taking down the large-scale casino, conservatively estimating they could make 10 million, but the money in the casino's finance room was not limited to this amount.

  The mercenaries under Wu Junwen heard that they were going to carry out an escort mission, which made the restless guys very happy. Everyone made sufficient preparations, helmets and bulletproof vests were all worn, assault rifles, carbines, and submachine guns were all ready, and spare items like pistols were all brought along. The container truck from the port arrived empty at the gate of the garrison.

  Yu Fei was amazed at Wu Junwen's ability to handle things, it seemed that there was almost nothing useless on his ship. The car he brought himself could finally not be left on the ship and could come out to continue making money for him. The garrison commander's command vehicle came out of the camp with a flourish, followed closely by the garrison's vehicles, and finally the professional security company's fleet, all large container trucks. Wu Junwen sat in Yu Fei's command vehicle, also holding a walkie-talkie, ready to call on his subordinates to risk their lives for him at any time, but it was not a combat mission, they could patiently watch the garrison arrest people.

  Not far from the casino sealed by the military police, there is a large nightclub. It's an independent building with only one company occupying the entire floor. There are large parking lots in both front and back. Due to two nightclubs being attacked, this one has obviously increased its security guards and bouncers, most of whom are hidden inside the dance hall. The entrance and parking lot don't have much security, personnel are all used in places where trouble is likely to occur.

  These rice buckets didn't stop Xu Huaiqing's attack, he still pushed the small cart down from the cargo car and came to the back door without saying a word, knocked out the security guard, and damaged the camera. Then he went into the security room, this time he didn't destroy the machine, but only shut down the remote control system, he was worried that there might be another server outside the Nightclub storing the surveillance footage, so he turned off the recording function of the local machine and deleted a large amount of video data already stored in the machine. For those that couldn't be deleted, he simply removed the hard drive from the machine, making the monitoring system a very primitive device, even if the camera continued to work, it wouldn't record anything, so as not to leave any evidence.

  "Are you ready to close the signal jammer in front and back?" Xu Huaqing asked his partner, Lisa responded quickly: "Ready." Then the anti-theft door and fireproof door began to close. Lisa saw two trash cans placed under the anti-theft rolling shutter door, apparently to prevent the door from closing. She ran over and kicked the trash cans away with her feet. After the anti-theft door closed, she rushed into the front hall, pulled out a pair of guns, and shot dead the armed security guards and thugs. Then she entered the ballroom, opened her bag, and threw in tear gas grenades.

  Smoke quickly spread in the dimly lit dance hall, and the leader of the dance didn't notice what kind of smoke it was. Drunken men and women who had taken drugs were jumping around here, Lisa put on a gas mask and threw out more than ten smoke bombs, many people fainted after smelling the smoke, Xu Huaiqing sitting next to the monitor was watching Lisa's wonderful performance, he had cut off the phone line and opened the mobile phone signal jammer, he could perform again in the closed space.：City of Sin