50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 810 Capturing the Thief and Capturing the King
Today is the day to "pay the bill," and also a night of revelry for his henchmen. This nightclub is closed to the public on this day of every month.

After arriving, "Bearded Yong" first gave a speech to boost morale, then announced the official start of the evening's activities, and then went back upstairs.

At this time, several singers and celebrities had already been "invited" to the nightclub lobby to warm up the atmosphere, making the scene very lively.

Sun Zhiwei watched with great interest from inside the RV; he had never seen a live-streamed community event before.

While those leaders were having a meeting upstairs, they argued fiercely over their respective territories and shares, getting so angry that they wanted to kill each other.

But once they got downstairs, they all acted very friendly in front of the henchmen, none of them showing any displeasure. They put their arms around each other's shoulders like brothers, which was quite amusing to watch.

The carnival has begun, and the big shots will stay for a while to enjoy the festivities before heading upstairs to the smaller hall to have some fun, otherwise the underlings below won't feel comfortable enough.

Just then, a female celebrity sang her hit song "Bad Girl," and many of the younger men, who were fans of the female celebrity, started singing along from the audience.

Suddenly, a younger brother ran up to the stage and seemed to say something. He started pulling and tugging at her, acting a bit improperly. The "bad girl" slapped him across the face, making him stumble back several steps.

The atmosphere immediately turned awkward. The agent who had brought the celebrity quickly stepped in to smooth things over, apologizing profusely to the staff on stage.

Just as things were about to be smoothed over, a big boss walked up and slapped the "bad girl," knocking her to the ground.

Then he took a bottle of red wine that had already been opened and poured it over that head of long hair.

On stage, whether they were celebrities or their agents, they could only watch helplessly, none of them daring to move.

After pouring out a bottle of red wine, the leader threw the bottle on the floor and then addressed everyone present: "She thinks she's a phoenix? She's nothing but a chicken we raised!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the henchmen below started chanting, "Chicken! Chicken! Chicken!"

At that moment, the DJ at the bar turned on some upbeat music, and the scene instantly became lively again. No one paid any attention to the disheveled "bad girl" lying on the ground anymore.

Other singers then took to the stage to perform, and the "bad girl" was quietly led away by her manager.

After watching this drama, Sun Zhiwei couldn't help but sigh that being a celebrity in Hong Kong these days is really tough. It's tough for those who aren't famous, and it's even tougher for those who are.

Because making movies in Hong Kong is so profitable now. Even bad movies can have a 300% profit margin. If a star is in charge and a great movie is made, the profit can be ten or twenty times higher.

This is much more profitable than selling soybeans and flour, and it's also safer.

Moreover, filming can turn gray income into investment returns, and after paying some taxes, it can be spent freely.

These various benefits led many gangs to venture into the film and television industry, and the gang leaders made a fortune.

Correspondingly, life is not so good for celebrities. Those who come to drink, support, and sing are considered lucky.

Filming with trolls pointing at the back of one's head, or having one's schedule forcibly scheduled – these are all common occurrences.

Disobedience often resulted in beatings, and even worse, being photographed has happened many times. Several celebrities have even been killed off.

Later, the underworld bosses even set up a "Film Bureau," stipulating that each film had to pay them a 20% "protection fee."

Such bizarre actions are truly eye-opening.

Having witnessed the commotion, Sun Zhiwei realized he no longer needed to find out who had accepted the mission to harass Christie's authentication area. All the leaders of the "Yi" group were here today; all he needed to do was eliminate them.

While they were at it, they also dealt with the core henchmen who were partying downstairs, and the lower-ranking members immediately fell apart.

An hour later, the celebrities left one by one, leaving only the club members inside, and the revelry upstairs and downstairs gradually reached its climax.

A few minutes later, Sun Zhiwei drove the RV back to the Peninsula Hotel. He parked the RV downstairs and went upstairs to his room to rest.

Today was a good day. I saw many interesting glimpses of life at the bottom of Hong Kong Island and learned about the lives of triad bosses.

Sun Zhiwei didn't seem to sympathize much with the things that happened in the entertainment industry.

No matter how miserable those celebrities are, they are not as miserable as the ordinary citizens living in pigeon coops.

While they were drinking red wine and eating steak, those ordinary citizens were working hard from dawn till dusk to earn a meager living.

These ordinary citizens may never be able to afford a house in their entire lives, and even setting up a food stall will result in them being charged sanitation fees by thugs on the street.

In comparison, who is worse off?

The news of the disappearance of hundreds of members of the "Yi" gang, both middle and upper management, spread the next afternoon, causing an uproar among all the triads in Hong Kong.

The "Yi" group is no small faction; the 36 groups in the "14K" group now have a total of over 100,000 members, and the "Yi" group is one of the top-ranked subgroups within it.

"Bearded Yong" had made a name for himself, but now he has disappeared without a trace, neither alive nor dead, and no one even knows who he offended.

Generally speaking, when something happens in a triad, everyone has an unspoken understanding not to go to the police to report it.

When trouble broke out with the character "毅" (Yi), Ge Zhixiong, the nominal bigwig of the "14K" triad, naturally had to step forward.

Yau Tsim Mong is the most lucrative neighborhood on Hong Kong Island. Now that it's suddenly vacant, how could the nearby triads not be tempted? Ge Zhixiong himself was also interested.

So Ge Zhixiong stepped forward, wanting to stabilize the situation by using the righteous name of "14K" and buy some time so that he could gather manpower to take over the Yau Tsim Mong territory.

Unfortunately, although the "14K" was powerful, its subordinate "clubs" were independent and never united. On Hong Kong Island, there were two other large triads, the "Wo Shing Wo" and the "Sun Yee On," that could rival the "14K."

From that day on, the streets of Yau Tsim Mong became lively at night, and a massive battle engulfing the entire Hong Kong Island underworld began.

Now, the police station, which had been watching the commotion from the sidelines, was in a panic. The Queen was about to arrive, and with the triads causing trouble and throwing Hong Kong into chaos, they were afraid they would lose their jobs.

So the foreigners ordered their subordinates to immediately deploy force to intervene.

Unfortunately, there are only a few police officers, but hundreds of thousands of gang members. This is not something that can be resolved in a short period of time.

In the end, the foreigners had no choice but to directly meet with the leaders of the three major gangs and ask them to restrain their subordinates.

In any case, all issues must give way to the Queen's arrival in a few days.

After all this commotion, "Bearded Yung's" henchmen at the port had scattered like leaves in the wind, and Christie's was truly safe in the port warehouse, with no one having time to target them anymore.

(End of this chapter)