The night getting deeper, city already not so noisy liao, only left the sea wind blow-blow at the shore, bringing that salty fishy smell. The whole place feel damn quiet, like something big going to happen soon.
Li Chuan stood on an abandoned watchtower near Port Klang, looking down at Lighthouse Terminal far away. Last time, this place was a proper cargo station, but after some big towkay bought it over, it turned into an underground trading hot spot. Aiyah, money really can change everything.
He looked at his watch, time showing 23:45—only fifteen minutes more before February 17 officially arrive.
If Zhao Qiming really arranged one big deal on this date, then tonight sure got movement.
The Deal is About to Start
Doo—
Earpiece suddenly got Cheng Mo's voice: "Eh, you really want to go inside alone ah?"
"You not say police here don't care one meh?" Li Chuan laugh a bit, his voice light-light. "Since nobody want follow law, then we also no need so guai."
Cheng Mo quiet for a few seconds, then low-low voice say: "I check already, this Lighthouse Terminal past two months got at least five 'high-value' illegal trades. 30 million wei, enough for any black market dealer to take risk."
"Wah, so our Zhao Qiming really geng ah." Li Chuan's eyes stared at a few dark shadows near the dock, those trucks confirm part of the deal. He squinted a bit. "Tonight buyer and seller should be reaching soon."
"Bro, careful a bit lah." Cheng Mo reminded.
"Relax lah, I won't simply go hantam." Li Chuan said, adjusting his earpiece, then quiet-quiet moved into the dock.
Li Chuan sneak-sneak along one abandoned oil pipeline, until he reached a high place where he could see everything clearly.
At the dock, a few black SUVs already park nicely. Some guys wearing masks stood near the cars, eyes looking left, looking right, like scared-scare got people kacau them. Another side, one white lorry slowly came in, door opened, one man in a suit stepped out, hand holding a silver briefcase.
"Wah, this thing really like movie." Li Chuan thought, then counted the timing in his heart.
But suddenly, he realized something very weird—
Zhao Qiming was not here.
If this trade was his deal, then his people sure need to come one. But now, even though the deal was still happening, he was missing like kena evaporate.
That meant two things: either he no need show face, or… something bad happened to him.
Li Chuan took a deep breath, continuing to peep.
Both sides started talking. One guy from black SUV opened the car door, took out a black briefcase, slowly walk-walk toward the suit man. At the same time, the suit man also unlocked the silver briefcase, showing a lot a lot of money inside.
The air suddenly super tense, like anytime will explode.
But then—
BANG!
A gunshot suddenly piak the night sky!
The bullet directly hit the suit man's arm, his silver briefcase dropped to the ground, money flying everywhere!
"CB! Got ambush!" The black SUV guys reacted damn fast, quickly pulled out guns and hid behind the car. But the hidden shooters kept firing non-stop, bullets flying everywhere!
Li Chuan frowned, this was not like a normal deal gone wrong, this felt more like… someone wanted to clean up all the people.
"Cheng Mo, you got hear or not?" He lowered his voice, moving position faster-faster.
Earpiece got Cheng Mo's serious voice: "Heard already, bro, this is not normal deal problem, this one is 'black eat black'."
Li Chuan eyes cold cold, continued watching.
Suddenly, one black van with no logo zooooom into the dock. The door piak open, and a whole team of masked gunmen rushed down, all holding big-big silenced machine guns, their shooting damn precise, straight away hantam the traders.
"Wah, now I know, someone doesn't want this deal to happen at all." Li Chuan mumbled.
Gunfire still non-stop, the traders all ran for their lives, cars reversing like siao. But those black-clothed gunmen were super calm, one by one taking down the traders.
Li Chuan's heart jumped damn fast. He noticed something super weird—
Those masked gunmen, they never touched the money at all.
If this was just normal black eat black, the ambush side sure would grab the money. But these people didn't even look at it.
That meant, their mission was not to rob, they just wanted to… destroy this whole deal.
"Cheng Mo, can you check the buyer info or not?" Li Chuan asked, voice serious-serious.
"I checking, but very weird leh—this buyer's records all wiped off already." Cheng Mo said.
Li Chuan's heart suddenly tightened.
Zhao Qiming left behind this deal, not just a normal intel trade, the buyer had a very deep background, deep until even the black market also helped erase records.
If tonight he didn't come personally, and only asked Cheng Mo to check online, maybe this clue would completely disappear tomorrow.
Li Chuan adjusted his earpiece, voice cold-cold: "I need a car, 5 minutes later come fetch me."
"Okay, I settle." Cheng Mo said, straight away went to handle it.
Meanwhile, the dock gunfight was dying down, the ground full of dead bodies. Those black-clothed shooters started to retreat, and they really didn't take anything away.
Like a group of professional 'cleaners', their job was just to kill, not for money.
Li Chuan narrowed his eyes. He had a new theory.
Zhao Qiming… if this deal itself was a trap, then his disappearance, confirm had something to do with the power behind this deal.
Li Chuan took a deep breath, then quiet-quiet disappeared into the night.