Chapter 65: One Side Joyful, One Side Gloomy

At the campsite.

Seeing the four men approach, Yu Mingyuan immediately asked: "Is everything arranged?"

"Yes, all arranged," Kong Zhenghui responded first. "However, before we separated from those Thunder Boys, their leader wanted us to add another hundred thousand."

Yu Mingyuan frowned: "Why?"

"They said pushing the boat into the estuary was outside the plan, which invisibly increased the risk of this job, so they wanted more money," Kong Zhenghui bent down to sit. "I didn't have that much cash on me, so I didn't give it to them."

Yu Mingyuan pondered for a while: "Alright, don't worry about it. I'll have someone give them the money."

Su Tianyu opened a bottle of water and stood under the sun umbrella, asking: "Who found these people?"

Yu Mingyuan looked at him: "What's wrong?"

"They're quite average, a bit slow in their work," Su Tianyu said in a low voice. "And they don't take responsibility either, otherwise I wouldn't have had to pilot the boat myself."

Hearing this, Bai Hongbo immediately interjected: "I thought these guys were quite fierce. They're ruthless, and they seemed quite professional. They boarded right after opening fire - how is that slow?"

Su Tianyu didn't argue with him, just expressed his own opinion: "Brother Yuan, for future sea business, we might need all kinds of people, we can't always find them on the spot."

Yu Mingyuan nodded slowly: "Mm, these people were introduced by a military friend. I'll have the intermediary arrange it later."

Su Tianyu took a sip of water and said nothing more.

"What do you think we should do next?" Yu Mingyuan looked up at Su Tianyu and asked.

"What else can we do? We should travel when we should travel, have fun when we should have fun," Su Tianyu replied with a smile. "What do the dock matters have to do with us?"

"Hehe, right, let's stay two more days," Yu Mingyuan also thought this suggestion was good and immediately stood up saying: "I'll catch up on some sleep, you all go play."

Just then, An Qiqi, Doll, and the others walked over.

"What did you really do last night?" Doll also asked curiously.

"We told you already, we were desperately horny and went to find a place to cross swords," Bai Hongbo replied somewhat irritably. "Why don't you believe us?"

"Hmph, you're lying!" Seeing he wouldn't tell, Doll didn't pursue it further.

An Qiqi, wearing a baseball cap and sportswear, changed the subject directly: "Anyone want to go mountain biking?"

"Sure, I was just thinking about going up the mountain to look around," Su Tianyu responded immediately, though it wasn't clear if he wanted to ride bikes or ride someone.

Hearing this, Bai Hongbo also made a suggestion: "To get the male comrades interested in this sport, I suggest we use tandem bicycles, pair up one male and one female, and have a bicycle marathon. The last pair to reach the mountaintop has to perform a show during dinner tonight."

"Hehe, sounds good!" An Qiqi agreed with a laugh.

"Let's pair up, Doll," Bai Hongbo was very good at creating atmosphere. With his leadership, the relationship between the boys and girls was continuously getting closer, and this distance might eventually become negative - it was just a question of who would reach that point first.

Doll glanced at Bai Hongbo: "How bad would my brain stroke have to be for me to choose to pair up with you? With your weight, once you sit on the bike, I probably won't be able to pedal at all."

"I have a stable chassis, I can support you no problem!"

"Let's divide up by palm up or palm down," An Qiqi called out with a smile.

"Come on, come on!" Bai Hongbo gave the male comrades a knowing look.

"I'm not going, I'll sleep for a while," Kong Zhenghui had no interest.

"Come on, join us!" Su Tianbei stood beside him and invited.

Kong Zhenghui pursed his lips and looked at the girls with great disdain: "A bunch of kids who haven't even graduated from university, their buns probably aren't as big as Bai Hongbo's, what's the point of getting all lovey-dovey together? Better to get some sleep!"

"You don't like youthful energy?" Su Tianbei asked.

"I prefer the setting sun," Kong Zhenghui dropped these words and directly crawled into the tent.

And so, Su Tianyu, Bai Hongbo, Su Tianbei, and the Yu family's second young master and other men divided into groups with the girls using the palm up or down method, then rented tandem bicycles and went up the mountain.

The male comrades were all very tacit, knowing what shit the others wanted to pull with just a glance, so the final grouping was: Su Tianyu with An Qiqi, Bai Hongbo with Doll, Su Tianbei with a quiet-looking girl, and the Yu family boy with An Qiqi and Doll's classmate. In short, the division was very clear.

......

While Yu Mingyuan's team was happily camping and touring, things at the dock had completely fallen into chaos.

First, with the involvement of the media and Zha'nan Police Department, the goods on the fishing boat and the captured Feng Hai and others were exposed almost immediately. No matter how strong Xu Hu's connections at the dock were, he couldn't possibly clear them completely.

Around 9:30 in the morning, Dragon City Police Bureau held a special case meeting. After a series of discussions, they finally decided that the Criminal Cases Division and Anti-Smuggling Division would jointly investigate this case, with Li Xing and Wang Daolin as the persons in charge. The Zha'nan District Police Department, which had first arrived at the scene, would also play a supporting and coordinating role.

The composition of this special case group had certainly gone through a series of under-the-table operations. But on this point, Yu Mingyuan hadn't made many private arrangements. Rather, Wang Daolin wanted to take this case himself, so he privately found people to get himself into the special case group.

As soon as Wang Daolin got involved in this case, he received countless calls from connections. These people had only one purpose - they wanted Wang Daolin to be lenient and give the dock side some convenience, but he rejected them all, using the excuse that he had just taken over the case and didn't understand the situation yet.

Wang Daolin was very cunning. His purpose in doing this was, firstly, to sell a favor to Yu Mingyuan, who would certainly make private arrangements for him later, while also putting pressure on the dock gang. With the case in his hands, the other side would definitely have to beg him and make arrangements for him.

However, Wang Daolin wasn't in a hurry to reach out and take things now. Instead, he wanted to observe how the case would develop before making decisions.

......

After the Police Bureau established the special case group, many media outlets in Dragon City reported on last night's sea shooting and smuggling case. The customs and maritime police couldn't withstand the pressure and had to hold a case briefing conference to introduce the case situation.

The gold bricks found on the ship amounted to about 700 jin, and besides that, the smuggled tablets, phones, watches, and other goods were worth five to six million yuan.

If it had been just a simple smuggling arrest, the sensationalism of the entire incident wouldn't have reached the level where all media outlets would follow up with reports. But this case had two very sensitive factors.

First, it involved drug trafficking on a huge scale.

Second, the bandits had fired automatic rifles at sea, and the maritime police had opened fire multiple times, even mobilizing helicopters.

These two points were the reason why this case's attention continued to rise!

......

At 11:30 in the morning, Tang Baiqing, who had been constantly making phone calls at his unit, suddenly saw four men in suits wearing work badges walk in.

"We're from the Inspection Bureau. We have some matters to discuss with you," the lead personnel said expressionlessly to Tang Baiqing.

It was over, he was barbecued!

The Inspection Bureau people coming so quickly meant that even the maritime police's upper-level connections probably couldn't suppress this matter.

At the same time.

Xu Hu sat in his car, shouting into the phone: "Don't tell me all this useless stuff, I just want to ask you, did you take money every time goods moved or not?! Now that something's happened, you're all fucking shirking responsibility! More than ten of my brothers have been caught, over ten million worth of goods have been seized, how am I supposed to explain this to the general gang?!"

At the dock gang's main hall, an old man nearly sixty frowned and demanded: "This shipment was only 300 kilograms in total, why were more than 350 kilograms found on the ship?! Huh?!"