The river was very calm and the speedboat wasn’t going too fast, so I ran back to the car and drove furiously along the river road, soon catching up with the stern.
I was talking to Monk in real time, who had long since monitored the boat for me, and he felt it was fine as it had been driving smoothly and had no intention of speeding up at all.
“Captain, be careful this is a diversionary tactic.”
“I understand, I want to do a test. You tell Cai Xiaobing to rush to Jiang Yang’s house, and the rest of Fox and Snow Leopard to come out to my place.”
“What? No, what about Arashi’s side? And what about the people we have to protect here?”
“Do as I say, quickly.”
“Yes.”
I got through to Baldy and Zhao Zichen once more and asked Zhao Zichen to arrange for someone to protect Arashi for me and Baldy to protect the villa for me.
The speedboat was still going unhurriedly, and after everyone had started moving, Meng Meng asked me what to do next.
Just then, the speedboat stopped in front of an abandoned pier. The people on the speedboat did not come down and I pulled over.
It was already suburban and very quiet, as long as the river breeze rustled the weeds.
A moon was flickering between the clouds and the speedboat was neither anchored nor tethered, just drifting along the river.
Something was definitely wrong with this boat!
“Captain, everyone has moved, but there is still no movement at Ho Bee. Please give instructions for the next move.”
“You go out for a stroll.”
“What?” Monk couldn’t believe his ears.
I said, “When Baldy gets here, you go out for a stroll.”
“That’s too dangerous!”
“Trust me, I don’t know what fish are biting my hook until I do, so go out and wander, don’t worry, it’ll be fine.”
Monk hesitated, but obeyed me.
Although I sounded confident when I advised Monk, I was actually taking a gamble.
The situation was so strange today that I bet they didn’t mean it, there must be some other reason.
Meng Meng turned off all the surveillance and left the villa, and before he set off, he turned on the security surveillance equipment in the house, as I had asked him to do.
And Fox also told me on the channel that he would arrive at the riverside soon and asked me where I was going to ambush him.
I gave him He Bi’s location and asked him to ambush him immediately close by.
When everything was almost ready, I sat in the car, staring at the speedboat, waiting apprehensively for the next reaction from the other side.
After about five minutes, the speedboat restarted and turned its head in the direction it had just come from.
Monk, despite not being at home anymore, had been able to monitor the hospital and the villa through the equipment that came with it.
I immediately turned the car around and went after it. After another seven or eight minutes, Meng Meng suddenly said to me nervously, “Captain, the power is out at the hospital.”
“They’re moving the tiger away from the mountain, the target is Arashi, the hospital is without power!” Meng Meng said.
“Where’s the villa?”
“Nothing is moving for now. But could our men have rushed to the hospital and they’ll kill their way to the villa instead? Maybe it’s a chain of events.”
“You take care of the surveillance at the villa.”
“Could it be a bureau?”
“It’s a bureau then.” I stepped on the gas frantically and smiled, “But they’re not the only ones who can lay out and bury traps, I can too.”
Just then, the speedboat suddenly accelerated, it was driving slowly at about thirty knots, suddenly it was winding up and going straight to fifty knots, it was very dangerous to suddenly go so fast on this dark river.
I immediately contacted Moon Bow and asked him to be careful of the speedboat.
“Tell He Bi to back off and not to stand at the river, it’s a trap.”
The wind was blowing so loudly on Moon Man Bow’s side that it muffled the phone call, I heard him muffle the word yes and then there was only the sound of the whistling wind.
After a while, the wind on the other end of the line died down a bit and Moon Man Bow said, “Something’s wrong, he seems to be getting through and getting closer to the river.”
“Tell him to come back, pull him back even!”
I rewired the Bluetooth channel back to the software that monitored He Bi’s phone and sure enough, He Bi’s call came through.
“You get to the river, get closer, our men will be there soon.”
“Where the hell are you guys? I know what you’re looking for, I’m done, I’m giving you back that latest batch of guns, you leave me alone.”
“You’re quite self-aware, come to the river, and don’t let me see anyone following you, if you cooperate with Zhang Chao, you’ll be waiting to collect the bodies of your whole cla*s together.”
Halfway through the call, it suddenly cut off.
I didn’t know at the time that it was Moon Full Bow who was pulling the strings with He Bi.
He Bi had met Moon Man Bow once and knew he must have been sent by me and hurriedly pushed Moon Man Bow back.
“Zhang Chao told you to come back with me, it’s too dangerous here.” Yue Man Gong said.
“I beg you, you and Zhang Chao should leave this matter alone. I’m going to save my students, they’ll kill Jiang Yang if you’re here! Let me get Jiang Yang back and I’ll tell Zhang Chao everything I know.”
Yue Man Gong wanted to take an arrow step up, grab He Bi and drag him back. The river was full of mud, and the further you went in, the deeper the mud became, similar to a swamp. It had nothing to do with running speed.
“Don’t go there!”
He didn’t listen to the wind and ran towards the river without looking back, not so much running as crawling through the mud, his down jacket covered in mud and his gla*ses covered in mud, but he didn’t care.
“Don’t you come any closer!!!”
He was so mad that he turned and shouted at Yue Man Gong, and fell into the mud.
He looked up and saw that He Bei was still crawling forward, so he continued to chase after him.
The two of them were standing right in the blind spot of the surveillance, invisible to Meng Meng, who, as I had asked, gave his full attention to the villa and the hospital.
I couldn’t get in touch with He Bi, nor could I get in touch with Yue Man Gong, but it was Fox who contacted me: “Captain, what’s going on, what are Yue Man Gong and He Bi doing by the river? Do you want me to go up and help Yue Man Gong?”
“What? He Bi is still at the riverside?”
“Moon Fullbow chased him and he ran, and now both of them are stuck in the river mud. Do you want me to go and help him?”
Seeing that there were five minutes at most before the speedboat would reach He Bi’s position, I said to the fox, “You hold the fort and don’t go anywhere.”
Then I turned the car around and drove straight onto the approach bridge. The boat was going fast, but he was now going against the current and was some way behind me due to the speed of the water.
