Hong Kong Island: From a small stall to a global supplier

Han Yili's panic was not without reason; regardless of whether the robbery was solved or not, he would be recorded on the pillar of historical shame.

The theft of $2300 million in cash is enough to place it on the list of the world's biggest heists.

Robbery List:
First: The Great Train Robbery in 1963, in which 15 robbers posing as railway workers intercepted a postal train traveling from Glasgow to London and stole £260 million.

Second: The 1972 Louvre Diamond Robbery. The robbers, disguised as tourists, used a spray gun to damage the display case and steal the $400 million 'Regent Diamond'. Surveillance footage revealed that the robbers used forged documents to enter the museum, and the robbery took only 90 seconds.

Third: The 1971 DB Cooper hijacking case, in which a plane was hijacked in mid-air, and $20 was stolen before the hijacker parachuted to safety. The amount was not large, but it was legendary enough.

Then: the 1982 Hong Kong armored truck robbery...

The robbery of $2300 million in cash is historically significant enough to be ranked second or even first, so it's no wonder Han Yili felt dizzy.

Even if it could be recovered, it wouldn't work. Han Yili's first order was to strictly control the information, and anyone who leaked the details would be severely punished!

(Zhang Ziqiang, a native of Guangxi, was dubbed the "King of Thieves of the Century" because the amount of money he robbed was enough to be recorded in history.)
meeting room.

Han Yili presided over the meeting, which was attended by all the top police officials, as well as senior executives from Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong). The atmosphere in the meeting room was very heavy.

Assistant Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, Cabel, solemnly described the current situation under police control, while photos from the scene were projected onto a screen using a projector.

"These are photos from the scene. Based on eyewitness accounts, there were three robbers. They shot and killed the driver while the vehicle was in motion, causing it to crash and stop. Two robbers then jumped out of the vehicle. One blocked the vehicles behind, while the other opened fire on the armored truck, killing the security personnel inside. They then used explosives to blow open the rear door, carried the cash box, crashed through the guardrail, and escaped against traffic. We later tracked the robbers to the seaside and concluded that they escaped by boat."

"This is their last escape location. The robbers set fire to the vehicle. The evidence we have so far, based on the shell casings, indicates that the robbers were armed with Type 56 assault rifles and that the bomb was homemade ammonium nitrate explosive. Based on the footprints left at the last escape location, we believe there were three robbers, all adult males, two of whom weigh around 70 kilograms and the other weighs over 85 kilograms."

"The robbers were professionally trained, had excellent marksmanship, acted swiftly and meticulously, were proficient in demolition and counter-surveillance, and were judged to have military or police experience."

"Is there any other information?" Han Yili asked in a deep voice.

“No more.” Cabel shook his head.

Han Yili really wanted to yell at him for being useless, if it would be of any use.

He turned to look at the Standard Chartered Bank executives and asked, "Is there a tracking device in the cash drawer?"

“Yes.” A Standard Chartered executive nodded, his face grim, and said, “Two years ago, we purchased IBM’s Active Badge system. The tracker was installed inside the safe. After receiving the notification, we immediately dispatched security personnel with beacons to begin tracking. We eventually located it in Victoria Harbour, where the robbers had discarded the safe in the sea.”

After saying that, the Standard Chartered executive took two deep breaths. He had known all along that they were going to be robbed...

It's too late to say anything now; the total amount was sent to headquarters the day before the shipment!

Damn robbers, why didn't they rob a bank vault!

Han Yili rubbed his throbbing temples. Another investigative method had been rejected. The guy had run off to the sea. How were they supposed to catch him?

……

On the other side, after presiding over the funeral ceremony, on the way to the hotel, A-Jie whispered in Wang Yaotang's ear, "It's done, 2300 million."

Wang Yaotang's eyes lit up, and the corners of his mouth curled up. He had already made back ten times the money he spent on the funeral!
Wang Yaotang glanced at A-Jie, whose mouth was practically stretched to his ears, took a deep breath, raised his hands from his lower abdomen, and then pressed them down with each exhale. He repeated this three times before his face returned to normal.

He tilted his head and whispered in A-Jie's ear, "Stop it, it's a funeral, why are you laughing so happily, you bastard?"

"I just couldn't resist, I really wanted to participate!" Ah Jie chuckled.

Wang Yaotang elbowed A-Jie in the waist, and A-Jie cried out in pain, but didn't laugh.

Ah-Ji: Hehe!
After a while of fooling around in the car, the three of them had calmed down by the time they arrived at the hotel.

With so many people at the hotel, it would take a long time just to settle them in before the banquet started. News from outside was not readily available, but the local forces quickly learned from their underlings that a cash transport vehicle had been robbed in North Chatham Road, and the news naturally spread.

However, this news did not cause much of a stir. There are many robberies in Hong Kong, and even the most sensational ones involve only a few hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars, which is nothing to everyone present, just a day's income.

The police and banks are keeping the news tightly under wraps. Han Yili is very glad that Wang Yaotang held such a grand funeral today to attract the media's attention. Otherwise, if the news of a $2300 million robbery had really been spread by the media, who knows how many 'righteous people' and 'heroes' would have been tempted.

It's almost certain that someone will imitate and learn from it!

There wasn't much to say about the banquet; it was just some introductions and expressions of gratitude.

The bigwigs who attended the funeral seemed quite happy, and they all drank quite a bit. For Sheng Yi, it was a funeral, but for them, it was a perfect social occasion.

Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to gather so many underworld figures from various countries together for drinks, to get to know each other, and to exchange their criminal experiences. With the clinking of glasses, the avenues for making money naturally expand. After a big drinking session, whether it was local Hong Kong forces like "Yi An" and "Sing Wo," or foreign bigwigs from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, everyone got drunk.

Fortunately, I had the foresight to stay at the InterContinental Hotel; after drinking too much, they arranged for me to stay in a room upstairs.

Wang Yaotang was also drunk. Everyone who came today wanted to toast him. He was thanking them for attending the funeral, while others were congratulating him on becoming the leader of one of the four major forces in Hong Kong's underworld, and that his fame would spread throughout the Chinese community.

We do plan to take this opportunity to expand some business, but that will have to wait until tomorrow when these guests have sobered up.

Wang Yaotang, Aji, Ajie, and the other three brothers, having drunk too much, stayed at the hotel. He already had a long-term private room at the InterContinental Hotel.

I didn't rush to see Bisina. It's precisely at times like these that we mustn't panic. In times of great crisis, we must remain calm. The police must have gone crazy by now. Regardless of whether there was time to commit the crime, anyone capable of doing so is definitely under close police surveillance.

If he were to suddenly disappear from everyone's sight for a period of time at this point...

With Standard Chartered Bank involved and a massive $2300 million in cash at stake, the police won't follow any rules at this point!
Wang Yaotang had anticipated this before the operation and had already made a series of arrangements afterward.

Wang Yaotang slept for 12 hours and woke up the next morning. He called the others and they were all awake. He asked the hotel to send breakfast up and invited them over to eat together.

Bisina followed along.

Bisina became known to many people when she attended a TVB gala with Wang Yaotang and others last time. Yesterday was the funeral of 'Sheng Yi', and since she was not one of his people, she naturally could not attend. However, as Ah Jie's girlfriend, her appearance at the hotel was not out of place.

Along with breakfast came today's newspaper. Wang Yaotang turned on the TV, but after flipping through several channels, he found no news about the robbery. He then picked up the newspaper and quickly flipped through it; the front page was full of photos of a grand funeral.

Someone climbed seven or eight meters high to take a panoramic photo of the stadium. Although there was no view inside the venue, the sight of the red carpet and the 400 people in black suits lined up outside was impressive enough.

The newspapers were filled with sensational headlines like "100 Mercedes-Benzes," "5000 People Seeing Him Off," and "A Grand Gathering of Asian Jianghu Powers," which amused Wang Yaotang.

Some newspapers also published photos of many powerful figures from overseas, along with accompanying descriptions.

If I can't film the local underworld, I can at least film you, you stinking out-of-towner!
He handed the newspaper to a few brothers, and they all seemed to enjoy reading it. After exchanging a few jokes, Wang Yaotang smiled and clapped lightly at Bi Sina. A-Jie and the others joined in the clapping. Bi Sina crossed her arms, trying to maintain a cool demeanor, but after a few seconds, she turned her head away and burst into laughter.

She wasn't the type to be coy or timid after all.

"A heist of the century, handled swiftly and efficiently!" Wang Yaotang praised.

Although he planned the entire heist, and Bissina didn't lift a finger or even get seen by anyone, well-planned but poorly executed heist is the norm, and the credit for such a perfect execution mostly goes to Bissina.

"If this gets reported, wow, that'll be amazing!" A-Jie exclaimed.

"A heroine among women!" The bespectacled man gave a thumbs up.

"So dashing!" Awei exclaimed.

After the brothers showered her with compliments until Bisina herself felt embarrassed, Wang Yaotang finally asked, "I didn't have time to ask yesterday, were there any unexpected events?"

"Yes, there were a lot of cars on the road, the chase took longer than planned, and we missed the exit," Bisina said, still somewhat shaken.

"Wow!" Wang Yaotang gave another thumbs up. "It's true that it's impossible to control this very precisely. Sure enough, the more meticulous the plan, the lower the margin for error. Luckily, you remembered the surrounding terrain and decisively crashed into the guardrail to get out. Otherwise, there was a tunnel ahead, and if you got stuck, you would have been dead."

"If it were me..." A-Jie scratched his head, unsure how to handle the situation.

"I'll give you time to move the boxes. If you panic, the other two will probably panic even more, and in the end, tsk tsk..." The four-eyed guy felt his heart racing just listening to this.

“That wasn’t even the most thrilling part,” Bisna sneered. “You weren’t there, so it’s hard to imagine what it looked like to have over 2000 million dollars piled up like that. We don’t usually feel anything when we talk about hundreds of millions, but seeing a mountain of money piled up right next to us…”

Bisina swallowed hard. "Ah Biao's three eyes were completely red at that moment."

"Wait, what about A Biao and the other two?" Wang Yaotang suddenly remembered to ask.

The four people who worked with Bisina were the four who ran away when Wang Yaotang first recruited Hai Dazhao. They were later found and recruited again. They went to Italy for training some time ago and have been staying in the shadows ever since.

Bisna remained silent, and the room fell into a deathly silence.

The bespectacled guy was the first to lose his composure, asking cautiously, "What happened?"

“Ah Biao touched a gun,” Bisina explained.

Wang Yaotang and the others gasped in shock. (End of Chapter)