378: Chapter 372: Fishing Boat 378: Chapter 372: Fishing Boat Hearing the advice of his father Zhong Zheng, Zhong Zhi was stunned for a moment, and he clearly didn’t react immediately.
“Go to Siam?
Dad, what about you?” It was quite a while before he finally spoke up to confirm.
“Right!” Zhong Zheng nodded.
After a slight pause, he added, “The matter involving Wang Dehui, I am the planner, and the matter is only halfway done, you can leave, but I cannot.”
“The police haven’t sent any message, and a few paparazzi suddenly disappeared, it’s definitely not the work of the police.”
“Perhaps, that woman named Gong has brought in some other external forces to assist.”
“The missing paparazzi were always your responsibility to contact, although you have always been using a fake name, but it is not impossible for someone to trace it back to you following the vine.”
“After all, if some unofficial forces were involved in this matter and took action in secret, they would certainly stop at nothing in their actions.”
“The police play by the rules, they do not, the things those paparazzi know, will sooner or later be forced out of them, there’s no way to hide it.”
“I’m sending you to Siam for your own good!”
“You are my only son, I don’t want to see anything happen to you, Cha Caiwang is a sorcerer, very well-known in the northern part of Siam.”
“No matter what the final result here, if you go to him, I will be at ease!”
“If things go smoothly here and I get the money, I will contact you.”
“If there’s an accident, just stay in Siam, and in the future, unless absolutely necessary, never come back to Xiangjiang…”
With a somewhat gloomy face, Zhong Zheng let out a long sigh.
Those wealthy families, the relationships were already complicated.
Having a pile of money, who could know what unknown forces the woman named Gong could call upon for help?
A few paparazzi suddenly losing contact out of the blue, Zhong Zheng couldn’t help but overthink.
Sending his own son to make a quick escape to Siam, he was clearly making the worst of plans.
“Dad, I…” Zhong Zhi seemed to want to say something else, but unfortunately, as soon as he began to speak, he was already being forcefully interrupted by his own father.
“Go, Xiaozhi, the paparazzi have only just disappeared, if you leave now, it’s still timely!”
With a sharp shout, Zhong Zheng impatiently waved his hand at him.
As he spoke, he too stood up.
He had just contacted the shipping group, but for the other groups, he felt he should notify them about the paparazzi group’s situation and discuss it with them.
“Dad, take care…” Biting his lip lightly, Zhong Zhi nodded and turned to walk toward the door.
And Zhong Zheng, after making a couple of phone calls and speaking briefly with someone.
He too stepped out of the room and, in the blink of an eye, vanished into the thick night.
…
On the vast expanse of the sea, a yacht lay quietly afloat.
This ten-meter yacht, in comparison to the vast body of water, appeared as insignificant as a speck and went unnoticed.
Especially at this time of day, with the thick veil of night, if one were a little further away, with the naked eye, one might not even be able to detect it.
This area of the sea was the coordinates mentioned by Chen Hai.
Xiang Dong and Tian Mingjian sailed this yacht here and had been around for a while.
Sitting on the deck, Chen Hai still held a fishing rod in his hand.
When his stubborn temperament showed, he really wasn’t willing to pack up the fishing rod without having caught a fish.
“Boss, the day’s not right, the two-hour period is off, I think when you cast your fishing rod, you should do a divination first!”
“With your skills, Boss, even if you were to catch a great white shark, Xiaohang and I would not find it the least bit strange!”
Tian Mingjian, with a strange expression on his face, rarely joked with Chen Hai.
“Boss, do you need a hand?”
“When you first picked up the fishing rod, you said you’d catch fish and give us an extra meal tonight.”
“I’ve skipped my late-night snack, just waiting to eat fish, but as it turns out…”
Bai Xiaohang snickered, and while he was at it, he didn’t forget to take a dig at Chen Hai, following Tian Mingjian’s banter.
“You guys don’t know shit, I fish for the mood.”
“If I had to rely on divination to fish, where’s the fun in that?
Am I such a superficial person?”
Rolling his eyes, Chen Hai responded irritably.
Although Tian Mingjian, Bai Xiaohang, and the few others called him boss, this wasn’t any formal workplace, everyday horseplay and banter were common occurrences.
Despite saying it would be too superficial to fish by divination, Chen Hai’s hand on the fishing rod seemed somewhat tempted to reach into his pocket for the Copper Coin.
If Tian Mingjian, Bai Xiaohang, and the others weren’t around, and if he didn’t want to lose face, at that moment, he might have really taken out the Copper Coin and started the Divination.
“Here comes a fish…” Feeling some movement in his hand, Chen Hai quickly jerked the fishing rod.
“I knew it, how could it be possible for me not to catch a single fish!”
“You guys, weren’t you itching for an extra meal?
Hurry up and get everything ready…”
The feeling he got when he lifted up the fishing rod with a fish on the line was obviously different from when it was empty.
Chen Hai’s brows lifted in a smile, invigorated by the catch.
As he reeled in the line, he didn’t forget to show off to his subordinates a little bit.
Due to the depth of the water, initially, the force coming from below seemed considerable, but soon, the fish on the rod appeared to have exhausted all its energy and didn’t have much fight left.
“Plop…” The fish finally breached the water and Chen Hai yanked it onto the deck.
It was a sea bream, and judging by its size, it wasn’t even as big as his palm.
Tian Mingjian, Bai Xiaohang, and even the usually tight-lipped Bai Baoshan couldn’t help but cover their mouths and snicker at the sight.
“A fish is a fish, no matter how small.
It’s still better than catching nothing!”
Chen Hai looked supremely composed as he lifted his wrist to check the time.
He turned to the few people beside him and asked, “It’s 1:10 in the morning now.
It’s not long until the 1:30 I mentioned.”
“If nothing unexpected happens, the fishing boat I mentioned should soon appear in this area.”
“Pull yourselves together.
It’s time to get down to business.
Are you all ready?”
Right now, the ones in front of him were none other than Bai Xiaohang, Tian Mingjian, and Bai Baoshan.
Xiang Dong, on the other hand, was inside the cockpit.
His combat skills were pretty average, so having him pilot the yacht was naturally more suitable than letting him participate directly in combat.
After all, the people on that fishing boat were not like those paparazzi—they were truly armed with firearms.
As for Gong Yuxin, a few minutes earlier, she had come up on deck to ask about the fishing boat.
After responding to her questions, Chen Hai asked her to go back inside the cabin.
“Don’t worry, boss.
We’re all prepped and good to go.
We’ll just follow the plan!” Tian Mingjian and the others looked at each other, nodded, and replied.
The Black Star pistols they had specially procured from Buck Teeth Zhu in Hao River were now in the hands of Tian Mingjian and Bai Baoshan.
Only Bai Xiaohang, that guy, was holding a machete in his hand; the pistol prepared for him was tucked at his waistband.
There was no helping it; his marksmanship was just too terrible.
Wielding a knife in close combat was the only way for him to make full use of his strength.
Seeing the confidence in the team, Chen Hai didn’t say much more.
The fishing rod in his hand had already been casually tossed to the side.
Now, what he held in his hands was an infrared telescope.
1:28 in the early morning.
To the southeast, a small fishing boat that looked a bit rundown and only had a displacement of thirty or fifty tons came into view.
Their yacht, which had been anchored here quietly for a long while, was now being rapidly steered towards the fishing boat under Xiang Dong’s control.
In terms of sailing speed, such a small fishing boat naturally couldn’t compare with the yacht.
With the help of the infrared telescope in hand, Chen Hai could clearly see several people on the deck of the opposite fishing boat, also looking in their direction.
The kidnappers on the fishing boat might have ignored the stationary yacht.
But now, their yacht was speeding straight towards them and unless those on the fishing boat were blind and deaf, it was impossible for them not to notice.
As the yacht barrelled towards them, there was a visible confusion among the men on the fishing boat.
They whispered among themselves, murmuring in a low buzz.
If it had been a patrol boat or an armed merchant ship, they might have turned tail and fled.
But now, an unarmed yacht approaching them, while the men on the fishing boat were suspicious, they didn’t make any drastic moves.
One kilometer, five hundred meters, three hundred meters…
The distance between the two boats quickly closed to within a hundred meters.
At this distance, the people on the boat could already clearly feel that the yacht advancing straight towards them seemed to bear ill intent.
With stern faces, they had already drawn their weapons in their hands.
“What are you doing?
Keep coming closer and don’t blame us for not being polite…”
When the distance between the two boats closed to just fifty or sixty meters, the people on the fishing boat, using the loudspeaker installed on the boat, sent out a warning to Chen Hai and his team.
“Bang… bang… bang…”
The response they got was merely a few gunshots.
The shooters were Tian Mingjian and Bai Baoshan.
Although the firing range of the Black Star pistol was limited, its power was quite decent among pistols.
With a few screams, three of the men standing on the deck of the fishing boat couldn’t react in time and were hit by bullets, collapsing on the spot.
“There are a total of six people on the fishing boat, five of them kidnappers!”
“Now, there are only the last two kidnappers left on the boat, plus the target we need to rescue!” Chen Hai put down the telescope and casually briefed the few people around him.