376: Chapter 370 Setting Sail 376: Chapter 370 Setting Sail Xiangjiang at night was even more dazzling than during the day.
Towering buildings crowded the sky, and the bustling commercial streets with their glittering neon lights dazzled and overwhelmed the eye.
Those streets resembled colorful silk ribbons winding between the high-rises.
Pedestrians strolling the streets no longer hurried as they had during the day; they seemed much more at leisure.
Deliberately avoiding the crowded commercial thoroughfares, Chen Hai drove his car, with Gong Yuxin as his passenger, neither too quickly nor too slowly, through the stream of traffic on the main road.
Forty meters behind them was a speeding Toyota.
“Who would have thought, that Mrs.
Gong, on hearing about her husband’s mishap, would rush to a hotel to meet up with her young lover?”
“In the hotel room, they stayed holed up for hours, and when they emerged, they were brazenly affectionate, hugging and holding each other.”
“Don’t those tabloids always say that she and Mr.
Wang, although married for almost thirty years, have always been inseparable and loving as ever?”
“It turns out that’s all just a lie.
If we hadn’t been following her closely, we’d never have known she was keeping a young lover on the side…”
In the passenger seat of the car, a young man with dyed blonde hair, cigarette dangling from his lips, puffed away and sighed.
Though his words seemed casual, the look on his face suggested his jealousy and envy were far from trivial.
Maybe he felt, being talented in his own right, why couldn’t he find a wealthy woman who would seek him out so he could avoid struggling for years?
“Those so-called high society ladies are just shiny on the surface; in secret, their private lives are much more chaotic than ordinary women!”
“Mrs.
Gong, anxious and panicked upon receiving the news of her husband’s accident, goes to a hotel to seek comfort and release with her lover.
Isn’t that normal?”
“When I followed her here with Chen Zhengcong, I thought they were having an affair.”
“Now it seems that Chen Zhengcong was just a smokescreen.”
“Gong Yuxin’s real rendezvous was with someone else entirely.”
“Spending hours alone together in a hotel room, I just hope they only indulged in pure release and didn’t start transferring assets or cause any delays in our affairs!”
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The driver, a man with a fierce countenance and a crew cut, kept up the idle chatter with the blonde, but didn’t let it interfere with the task at hand.
His Toyota maintained a steady thirty to forty-meter distance behind Chen Hai’s car.
As the traffic on the Great Path thinned and the surrounding environment grew more secluded, his vehicle slowly began to fall back a bit from the car ahead.
Even so, he always made sure Chen Hai’s car remained within his line of sight.
“Bang…” A gray van suddenly darted out from a side street off the Great Path and rammed fiercely into their Toyota.
Despite his decent driving skills, the crew-cut guy struggled to maintain control of the vehicle when it was hit.
However, the impact was so strong that their car lost control and flipped onto its side.
Before they could react, several men emerged from the van.
They smashed the car windows, forced the doors open, and without giving the crew-cut and the blonde a chance to resist, dragged them into the van like dead dogs.
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“Sharing the most beautiful encounters with you, sharing some worries through storms…”
Gong Yuxin, not knowing what else to talk about after a brief exchange with Chen Hai, played music in the car.
From Jacky Cheung’s soulful singing, she seemed to reflect on something.
With her eyes half-closed, leaning back in the passenger seat, a few uncontrollable tears emerged from the corners of her eyes.
“Boss, the three paparazzi have all been caged.”
“Are we following directly to the port now?”
Ba Xiaohang’s rough voice came through the walkie-talkie resting on the dashboard, prepared in advance by Chen Hai’s men for this operation.
In Xiangjiang, although mobile networks had long been established and mobile phones could be freely used, anyone determined could easily trace their call records through the service provider.
Compared to mobile phones, walkie-talkies, although limited in range, offered greater security and privacy.
“The kidnappers, the paparazzi group you mentioned, have they all been dealt with?” Gong Yuxin, who had seemed to be dozing, had also heard the voice from the walkie-talkie.
Instantly, she opened her eyes, pulled out a tissue from the box, wiped away the tear stains from her eyes, and sought confirmation from Chen Hai.
“That’s correct!” Chen Hai nodded and added, “As for how to deal with them, we’ll follow Ms.
Gong’s wishes.”
“You want to watch them die with your own eyes, I will have my men take them straight to the yacht.”
“If you’re not interested, then find a secluded place where my people can easily dispose of them!”
Here in Xiangjiang, the death penalty had long since been abolished.
The paparazzi caught by Bai Xiaohang and his crew, although part of the kidnapping gang, were merely accessories.
Handing them over to the police, even if they were convicted, would probably result in no more than a few years in jail.
For people like these, Chen Hai felt no sympathy at all.
The customer is king, Gong Yuxin was willing to spend a hundred million to ask for his help.
How to deal with those paparazzi was naturally done according to Gong Yuxin’s wishes.
“Take them straight to the yacht; I want to ask them myself why, with so many wealthy people to choose from, they specifically targeted our family…”
Gnashing her teeth, Gong Yuxin did not hesitate at all in her response.
“As you wish…” Shrugging his shoulders, Chen Hai replied.
An hour later, at Victoria Port, a white yacht over ten meters long slowly sailed out of the harbor.
A yacht is not a cruise ship, and for the rich, it’s just a big toy.
A ten-meter-long yacht isn’t big, and while it’s not suitable for open-sea navigation, there’s certainly no problem just touring the nearby waters.
Operating such a small yacht could be done by one or two people, without the need for many crew members.
Among Chen Hai’s men, the only one who could handle this vessel was Tian Mingjian.
Although he came from the army and had not served in the navy, as a ‘king among soldiers’, he was reluctantly considered versatile.
Planes, tanks, ships – he knew a little about each, and had a rough idea how to control them.
To avoid any unnecessary attention, the yacht’s original crew members had already been sent away by Gong Yuxin.
After Chen Hai and his group boarded the yacht, Tian Mingjian took only ten to twenty minutes in the cockpit to get a good handle on the vessel.
The night sky bore only a crescent moon.
The sea that looked blue and vast during the day turned into a dark expanse at night.
Sitting on the deck, Chen Hai, who had found a fishing rod from the cabin, baited the hook with a small squid and casually tossed it into the sea.
“Ah…
Ah…” Eerie screams intermittently erupted from the cabin behind him.
The owners of those screams were undoubtedly the paparazzi.
After capturing these fellows, Bai Xiaohang, Tian Mingjian, and their group hadn’t really tormented them!
At this moment, their cries were mainly because Gong Yuxin had gone to them and began to mete out her own brand of justice.
This woman, when cruel, could be even more terrifying than a man!
Chen Hai turned a blind eye to this.
He had simply instructed Bai Xiaohang, Bai Baoshan, and the others to cooperate with Ms.
Gong before grabbing a fishing rod and heading to the deck.
Half an hour later, the screaming stopped, followed by the sound of heavy objects hitting the water, reaching Chen Hai’s ears.
“Chen Hai, the three people you captured were indeed the kidnappers.”
“They’ve been following me since I left my villa.”
“Pity they didn’t know much.
I interrogated them for a long time and got nothing of use!”
Gong Yuxin emerged from the cabin and sat down next to Chen Hai.
Her body carried a heavy scent of blood, and her once pristine white dress was now splattered with blood stains.
It seemed as though she, who had consistently claimed she would only observe and not personally intervene, couldn’t resist taking matters into her own hands after all.
Perhaps, after confirming that those paparazzi were indeed part of the kidnappers, her anger had overwhelmed her reason, leading her to commit such acts despite being a woman.
“If I have my people arrest someone, naturally I wouldn’t get it wrong.
To harm the innocent is something I certainly couldn’t do!”
“Whether we can pry useful information from their lips does not matter for you or me.”
“As long as we can confirm that they were involved, that’s enough.
We are not the police; when we act, we don’t need to have any concerns, nor do we need to talk about evidence!”
Turning his head, he gave Gong Yuxin a meaningful look and smiled.
Then, he looked at his wristwatch, continued, “We should reach the coordinates I mentioned in about fifteen minutes.”
“Now it’s 12:35 am.
If I’m not mistaken, around 1:30 am, the fishing vessel where your husband Wang Dehui is should be passing through that coordinate.”
“To prevent the kidnappers on board from using your husband, Wang Dehui, to threaten us, you should stay inside the cabin when we take action and try not to show yourself easily.”
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