1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 207 Boarding the Ship
Guizai Tian followed Ye Zhiming into the VIP gambling room.

Three bodyguards were close to his side. The bodyguard who was knocked to the ground climbed up with a shameful look on his face, holding his throat and following at the end with a painful look on his face.

"Mr. Ye, Jun Ge guessed that you and Zhai Yuan would cause trouble, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly."

Guizaitian's face looked unhappy. He glanced at the unfamiliar fat middle-aged man in the casino and then fell on Ye Zhiming.

He threatened, "But it's no use. The dealers on this ship are still from Xinji. If I don't show up for a long time, the people outside will ask them to suspend the games and close the tables. What will you do then?"

Ye Zhiming laughed twice, then took Chen Chaowu by his side and said, "Let me introduce you to Peter Chen from the American Casino. He brought a group of dealers from America for me in advance, and they are now on standby at Wai Lingding Island."

Guizaitian looked surprised and looked at Chen Chaowu again, who smiled and nodded at him.

Chen Chaowu smiled and said, "I didn't bring many dealers, only about twenty, but it's more than enough to handle tonight's situation."

The job of dealer requires high concentration. Usually, they have to change shifts after staying at the gambling table for two or three hours. However, the situation is special now. Chen Chaowu used his maximum authority to transfer 20 dealers from America. He planned to take over from Xinji dealer directly after getting on board and play until dawn.

After just one night's work, Ye Zhiming paid the twenty dealers a full month's salary.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Guizai Tian took a deep breath, glanced at the big black star in the bodyguard's hand, stared at Ye Zhiming and said in a deep voice: "Even if the people on the sea are dealt with, there are still dozens of old and new security guards on this ship. They are all carefully selected and have extraordinary skills. Your four short dogs can't scare them, and it won't be so easy for the dealers outside to get on board."

"Young man, if you and Huang Jun can think of this, how could Uncle not think of it?"

Ye Zhiming smiled calmly as he took the Black Star from a bodyguard. He flicked his fingers twice and said arrogantly, "Four short dogs on board are certainly not enough, but I still have dozens of long dogs at sea. Otherwise, how could we deal with your two new large aircraft carriers? You're so old-fashioned! Huang Jun thinks bringing back a group of people from the Netherlands is impressive enough? Do you know where the cheapest and most effective weapons are these days? Of course, the Soviet Union! If I weren't afraid of being exposed, I'd have fighter jets hanging over the gambling ship by now. How could I still be so unskilled as to carry an AK on the high seas? Pick on me!"

Guizai Tian was not frightened by Ye Zhiming's words. His expression remained calm. "Even if you brought an atomic bomb here, it would be useless. If there was a quarrel on the ship and the rich guys in the gambling hall were scared, everyone would be furious and no one would benefit!"

Ye Zhiming nodded in agreement and said to Chen Chaowu, "What this handsome guy said seems to make some sense."

Chen Chaowu glanced at Guizai Tian with a smile, his eyes teasing, "It's something that everyone knows, but speaking in this tone, coupled with his serious expression, it does seem quite intimidating."

Guizai Tian felt humiliated. He glared at Chen Chaowu with murderous eyes, but the latter just smiled indifferently.

The difference in their levels was too great. Chen Chao had achieved great success in martial arts and had long passed the stage of being brave and aggressive. If Ye Zhiming had not invited him on board today, Guizai Tian would not even be qualified to meet him.

Ye Zhiming and Chen Chaowu's current actions are like an old man teasing a naughty child, but they still have to get to the point.

"You go out there yourself and take the Vietnamese guys on board. With you here, no one will doubt their identities. Everyone will think they are Xinji's men at sea, so there won't be any arguments."

Ye Zhiming bossed Guizai Tian around: "Once the Vietnamese guys get on board, they can take care of Xinji's security in ten minutes at most. Ten minutes may not even be enough for the guests in the casino to play a round, so how can we alarm them?"

Guizai Tian frowned and said, "You want me to be a traitor? Why should I help you?"

Ye Zhiming curled his lips, raised the gun and pointed it at his head: "Why don't you try to help?"

"Mr. Ye, even if you seize this ship tonight, you still have to return to the port tomorrow. Do you think you will never go ashore in your life?"

Feeling the cold muzzle of the gun, Guizai's face twitched twice: "Even if you don't consider yourself, you have to consider Zhai Yuan and his family. Brother Jun will definitely not let you go..."

"Pick that mother!"

Before Gui Zai Tian finished speaking, Chen Jiale, who had been silent the whole time, looked gloomy and suddenly attacked.

Chen Jiale walked up to Guizai Tian in two or three steps, raised his knee and hit him hard in the lower abdomen, then snatched a big Black Star rifle, turned the butt of the rifle upside down, and smashed it hard on Guizai Tian's head.

"Are you messing with Aunt Zhen and Yaoyao? I'll skin you first, then I'll go ashore and kill Axe Jun!"

Chen Jiale pulled the bolt and pressed it against Guizai Tian's temple, saying fiercely, "Do you think I won't touch you just because we are brothers? Do as Mr. Yeh tells you and bring the Vietnamese boy aboard, or I'll shoot you!"

Guizai Tian was hit hard by the butt of the gun, his eyes were dazed, and after a few seconds a streak of blood flowed down his temples.

"Pick your mother. Brother Jun threatened Zhai Yuan's family. What the hell does it have to do with me?"

Guizai wiped the blood off his face, took a deep breath, and forced an ugly smile at Chen Jiale: "I'm going to take your people aboard. What happens after we get ashore is none of my business."

Seeing this, Ye Zhiming and Chen Chaowu didn't say anything more and took out their satellite phones one after another.

"You can bring the speedboat over now..."

"The dealer takes his place and enters the venue..."

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The sea breeze blows gently, bringing a slight chill to the body.

Carlos Chan and Guizai Tian walked onto the deck arm in arm, behaving affectionately.

We encountered Xinji’s security personnel from time to time along the way.

The people arranged by Xin Ji on the ship did not carry guns, but were all equipped with sabers, and were all good fighters selected from boxing gyms. There were also fifty of them. If the troops on the sea were not completely wiped out, the escort team this time would have been as many as a hundred people, accounting for one-sixth of the total number of people on the ship. This shows how much importance Axe Jun and the elders of the society attach to the gambling ship.

"Help me take care of this tonight, and I'll pour you some tea and apologize when we get ashore."

Chen Jiale held Guizai Tian with one hand, wearing a windbreaker, and hid the other hand under the clothes, with the muzzle of the gun against Guizai Tian's waist.

Guizai Tian followed his footsteps closely, saying helplessly, "It's useless for your boss Zhai Yuan to do this. Unless he doesn't want the theater business on the shore and sends his family overseas, how can he play with Xinji?"

Chen Jiale chuckled, "You make the society sound so powerful, but we haven't seen them occupy the Governor's House. They'll at least blackmail Li Ka-shing, right? Anyway, I've known Brother Yuan for so long, and I've never seen him take the society seriously. Luen Kung Lok's Deng Guangrong also threatened to get rid of him, and now he's still in prison, eating the emperor's food."

Guizai Tian certainly didn't think that Zhai Yuan could be compared with a tycoon like Li Ka-shing, but seeing Chen Jiale's expression, he swallowed his words back.

Besides, how can Lian Gong Le, a small gang, be compared with Xin Ji, one of the three major gangs?
On the sea.

Shangguan Yonggan and Weixing's two speedboats were approaching the cruise ship.

When Carlos Chan and Gui Zai Tian arrived near the gangplank, several security guards immediately came over to greet them.

Several people stared at the speedboat nervously and said to Guizai Tian, "Brother Tian, there was a firefight on the sea. I wonder if these two big speedboats are ours."

Chen Jiale pushed the muzzle of the gun hidden in his windbreaker forward.

Guizai Tian shrugged: "Just try turning on the signal light and you'll know."

Immediately, someone took out a flashlight and sent a signal to the two speedboats on the sea from a distance, and immediately received a response from the other side.

Guizai Tian pretended to take the night vision goggles and looked around before saying, "I've seen quite a few people on the boat. They're definitely one of our own. Let's drop the sling."

By the time the two speedboats approached, the slings on the Natural Selection had already fallen.

The first two people to board the boat were two Vietnamese guys. The Xinji security guards didn't know what was going on and pulled them on board with a smile on their faces.

One of them asked with a smile: "Wow! That naval battle was so exciting to watch. Brother, are our people injured?"

The Vietnamese guy didn't understand what he said. He just raised his head and smiled at the security guard who was asking questions. With a flick of his wrist, a saber appeared in his hand. Before the Xinji security guard could react, the sharp blade had already pierced into the other's heart.

In a flash, another Vietnamese man made an equally fierce move, slashing the security guard's neck with a knife, and hot blood spurted out instantly.

The security guard who was stabbed covered his neck and backed away in fear, but the Vietnamese guy didn't even look at him anymore. He kept moving and kicked the second security guard in the chest. When the other's back hit the cabin and he was dizzy, he raised the tip of his shoe and directly kicked his Adam's apple.

By the time Shangguan Yonggan and his companions jumped onto the boat, there were already four or five bodies lying on the ground.

The strong smell of blood mixed with the sea breeze made both Chen Jiale and Guizai Tian's faces turn pale.

Satellite glanced at the bodies on the ground and told the Vietnamese to throw them into the sea.

After finishing, he nodded to Chen Jiale and said hello, then continued to give orders to the Vietnamese boy: "The boss ordered, don't use your guns, and end the fight in ten minutes."

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Black as night, red as blood.

Led by Guizai Tian, figures wandered around every corner of the cabin.

The lights in the casino were still bright.

The band replaced the passionate piano music with hot Dutch dance music.

A row of long-legged models wearing low-cut tops and short skirts twisted their bodies on the stage to the rhythm of the music.

The gamblers were so excited that they were too lazy to even take a second look at the dancers on the stage, let alone the occasional scream or two coming from outside.

Ye Zhiming and Chen Chaowu did not go out to take a look from beginning to end.

Until Chen Jiale pushed Gui Zai Tian back into the gambling hall, he said with a grim face: "It's done. He's so old-fashioned. Those Vietnamese guys are so cruel. If I had known, I wouldn't have eaten so much."

The scene outside shocked Chen Jiale and Guizai greatly. Compared with the Vietnamese, the so-called boxing masters of the local community were as good as never having practiced before.

Ye Zhiming stood up with a smile and said to Chen Jiale, "How can such a big business not suffer losses? If we can't handle them, you and I will be carried out tonight."

Chen Chaowu also stood up and said, "Brother Zhiming, I'm going to go outside to pick up the dealers. I'll go back to America with them at dawn. I probably won't be coming to Hong Kong again in the short term. I'll leave the rest to you."

"Thank you very much. I'll come to America to visit you after I finish my work."

Ye Zhiming nodded in thanks to Chen Chaowu and added, "Besides, I don't want Xinji to win too much money tonight."

"clear."

Chen Chaowu responded and walked straight out of the gambling hall.

When I reached the deck outside, a bloody smell entered my nostrils.

Chen Chaowu frowned. He could vaguely see someone washing the deck. He knew that everything would be back to normal after daybreak.

The American croupiers set out from the vicinity of Wai Lingding Island and boarded the cruise ship in more than half an hour.

Ye Zhiming stood on the second floor of the gambling hall, leaning against the railing, holding the microphone and shouting:
"This shop is closed for the time being. Please take a break."

The gamblers were well-informed and knew that in this situation it was the dealer's turn to change shifts. They finally had a brief break and were able to focus their attention on the model performance on the stage.

The dealers who were on duty walked down from the gambling table and prepared to go back to their rooms to take a rest.

As a result, as soon as they left the gambling hall, a group of people had guns pointed at their heads.

Amid the dealers' panic and confusion, Ye Zhiming appeared in front of them with a smile on his face.

He politely addressed the dealers, "Excuse me, everyone. You may not be able to return to Hong Kong for the next while. I'd like you to stay on a nearby island and help train a group of new recruits. If the casino boat opens during this time, you'll need to come and help... Of course, I know this request is quite rude, so upon completion, each of you will receive a large red envelope of 100,000 yuan. Thank you for your cooperation."

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Twenty dealers who returned to the casino quickly took over the gambling tables, many of whom had foreign faces.

However, these dealers were of high quality and spoke Cantonese very well, which did not affect the mood of the gamblers.

"The mud chips in Xinji's shop have been sold. Tomorrow morning I will send the guests off the boat and exchange them for cash with Axe Jun."

Ye Zhiming dealt with the dealer, biting a cigar and walked into the monitoring room, handing a cigar to Chen Chaowu: "It doesn't matter if he turns hostile and takes 10%. Tonight is the opening night and we will have a big sale. Let the guests win more and leave some soup base for him."

Chen Chaowu smiled and said, "Brother Zhiming, how do you want to reward us?"

Ye Zhiming stared at the surveillance screen, his eyes quickly locked on a trendy young man wearing a floral shirt.

He said with a teasing smile, "This is the son of real estate developer Huang Xiaoqiu. He wins and loses over ten million every year at the Mahjong Casino. Of course, he chooses such high rollers as his reward. If a poor guy makes money, he might quit gambling forever."

In the surveillance footage, a fashionable young man was sitting in front of a dice table with a gloomy look on his face, and it seemed that he had obviously lost another bet.

A staff member nearby said with a smile, "I've observed this Mr. Huang. He's lost 12 big games in a row. He's quite courageous."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. Huang in the surveillance video grabbed a handful of chips worth at least tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, slammed them on the table, and continued to bet on the word "big".

Seeing this, a group of poor individual travelers who didn't even have a seat and were gathered behind Mr. Huang placed bets on the word "small".

This group of gamblers have been hanging around in casinos for many years and have also summed up a set of rules. For example, if a wealthy gambler like Mr. Huang suddenly loses 12 games in a row, it is obvious that the casino is trying to cheat him out of his money. At this time, he can make money by buying the opposite way.

"These poor fellows have made a lot of money. Let them pay it back and give it to Mr. Huang."

Chen Chaowu said with a smile, leaning over to the microphone on the table and giving orders to the dealer: "Sic Bo table number three, big."

Any dealer who knows how to cheat is always an expert at it. You don’t have to do it, but you must learn it.

At baccarat table number three, the white dealer heard the boss's instructions through the headset. After both parties placed their bets, he let go and slowly opened the dice cup.

Three dice lay quietly in the cup, 556, sixteen points.

(End of this chapter)