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Chapter 119 Rough Bandits
Zhou Jiye followed the directions given by Xiangjiangzi. Before leaving, he made a point of exchanging some local currency with Xiangjiangzi, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to buy a bus ticket because he was penniless.

Don't forget, this is Hong Kong, not the mainland. The money he brought can't circulate here.

Although the Hong Kong guy got a better exchange rate when exchanging money for him, Zhou Jiye couldn't care less about that at this point. He figured he might as well suffer a little loss since he was on someone else's turf.

While waiting for the bus, Zhou Jiye almost got the direction wrong, mainly because buses here drive on the left. Zhou Jiye initially waited on the right as usual, but after waiting for a while, he realized that the bus was coming from the wrong direction.

After the bus arrived, Zhou Jiye boarded, paid for his ticket, and, being from the south, dressed in a shirt and jeans, looked much like the locals. However, his awkward Hong Kong accent was immediately recognizable.

Helpless, he could only say a few words, such as "how much money" or "one gong". However, Zhou Jiye was tall and stood out in Hong Kong where the average height was average. In addition, Sai Kung, where he was located, was considered a suburb of Hong Kong. The sudden appearance of such a person inevitably attracted the attention of others.

Forcing himself to remain calm and avoiding the gaze of others, Zhou Jiye boarded the bus and swayed towards Kwun Tong. Finally arriving at his destination, Zhou Jiye quickly got off the bus and walked briskly. After running a short distance, he hid in a corner and looked back, only breathing a sigh of relief after confirming that no one was following him.

By this time, it was already broad daylight, and the area near the ferry was bustling with people. Zhou Jiye observed from afar for a while, and only after figuring out how others boarded the ferry did he emerge from his hiding place. He straightened his clothes, trying his best to look no different from the others, before mingling with the crowd and following them toward the ferry.

Once on the ferry and out of the dock, Zhou Jiye finally felt relieved. Looking at the bustling skyscrapers across the sea, he felt less apprehensive and more excited. Hong Kong Island was just ahead, a place he was visiting for the first time in both his past and present lives, and he felt a sense of anticipation.

It's only a few kilometers of sea from Kwun Tong to the main island; taking the ferry across is no different from going from Jiangdong to Jiangxi in Shanghai.

After a short ferry ride, the ship docked smoothly. Zhou Jiye lowered his head slightly, followed the flow of people off the ship, and walked forward. However, he had only taken a few steps out of the exit when someone suddenly called out to him.

"Sir, could you please show me your ID card?"

Looking up, Zhou Jiye inwardly groaned. Two officers dressed in black leather uniforms had stopped him, their expressions very serious.

"Okay, okay..."

Zhou Jiye answered aloud, but inside he was incredibly nervous. He was utterly unlucky. Why was he the only one stopped out of so many people trying to disembark? Did someone have a mark on his forehead with the four big characters "illegally immigrated person" written on it?
But Zhou Jiye didn't realize that his height made him stand out in the crowd, and coupled with his habit of walking with his head down and deliberately avoiding people, it would be strange if the police didn't investigate him.

With a calm expression, pretending to take out his ID card from his pocket, Zhou Jiye's eyes quickly scanned his surroundings. Seeing that he was cooperating, the officer relaxed slightly. Just then, Zhou Jiye suddenly moved.

With a brutal collision, the officer in front was caught off guard and stumbled several steps to the ground. Before the other officer could react, Zhou Jiye grabbed him by the collar, yanked him behind him, and then, without hesitation, took long strides and ran forward, ignoring the shouts and curses of the people he had pushed through the crowd.

"Stop! Stop!"

Behind him, the fallen officer shouted at Zhou Jiye, frantically pulling out his Type 38 rifle and waving it forward. But Zhou Jiye would be out of his mind to stop; if he didn't run now, when would he? He turned around and saw that his feet were already running even faster.

In the end, the officer didn't fire, after all, there were too many people in front, and accidentally injuring a passerby would be a serious matter.

The two officers got up and gave chase, but by then Zhou Jiye had already run quite a distance, taking advantage of his height and long legs to run wildly. However, the officers behind him did not give up and chased after him desperately.

"Holy crap! They caught up that fast?"

After running a distance, Zhou Jiye looked back and couldn't help but curse. For some reason, these two officers were fixated on him and had actually chased him all the way from the dock exit. Although they had left him behind, they wouldn't give up.

"Boss, is this really necessary? I just don't have an ID card, I haven't killed anyone or committed arson!" Zhou Jiye really wanted to ask these two officers why they were chasing him so closely. Wouldn't it have been better to just turn a blind eye and let him go?

Zhou Jiye was running desperately ahead, while two officers were chasing him breathlessly behind. Logically, Zhou Jiye should have been able to shake off his pursuers, but because he didn't know the way and had to find his way while running, the officers behind him gradually caught up with him as time went by.

After running for a while, Zhou Jiye looked back and saw that the other person was getting closer and closer. He was extremely anxious. If the distance between them closed any further, it wouldn't be a joke if the police officer just pulled out his .38 rifle and shot him. In his desperation, Zhou Jiye ran even faster. Suddenly, he saw a bustling commercial street ahead. Zhou Jiye was secretly delighted and, without hesitation, made a left turn and ran straight there, intending to use the crowd to shake off the police officer behind him.

The commercial street was bustling. Zhou Jiye didn't know which part of Hong Kong he hadn't been to before, but there were far more people here than on the streets he had just run through. After diving into the commercial street, Zhou Jiye continued to run wildly. The police officer chasing behind him had to slow down to avoid the crowds, which gave Zhou Jiye the upper hand once again.

He continued running, and after running for about several dozen meters, just as Zhou Jiye was about to pass the door of a shop, someone suddenly came out of the shop. Zhou Jiye, who was running wildly, was afraid of crashing into him, so he quickly shouted, "Get out of the way!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the person who came out turned to look at Zhou Jiye. When Zhou Jiye saw clearly what the other person was wearing and what he was holding, he was stunned. He suddenly stopped and barely managed to stop when he was less than a meter away from the other person.

"Damn it! There are cops here!"

The man was taken aback when he saw Zhou Jiye, then noticed the pupils of the two officers standing a dozen meters behind him shrinking sharply. At the same time, two more people came out of the shop. Like the first person, all three were dressed in ordinary clothes, but their heads were covered with stockings so their faces could not be seen. They were carrying bulging travel bags in one hand and holding a "human equality device" in the other.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Jiye's mind went completely blank.

"Damn cop! Let's get him!"

One of the men who came out of the shop raised his hand without hesitation and fired at the two officers who were chasing after him. With a loud bang, the gunshot was deafening. The bullet flew past Zhou Jiye's ear. In that instant, Zhou Jiye seemed to see his great-grandmother, and his whole body stiffened and he didn't move.

The officers reacted quickly, immediately taking cover the moment the gun went off. Fortunately, the other side fired hastily, and there was some distance between them, so the shot missed. The two officers scrambled into a shop on the street, using the corner of the wall and the counter for cover, and fired their .38 caliber guns outwards in a frenzy, but the bullets seemed to have hit nowhere.

As soon as the gunshot rang out, chaos erupted at the scene. Passersby screamed and scattered in terror. Before Zhou Jiye could react, one of the three robbers grabbed him by the neck and used his tall frame as a shield, firing continuously at the officer's position from behind. The muzzle flashes and bullets flew through the air. Zhou Jiye turned pale with fright, and his legs went weak.

"Come on!"

The ruthless bandit who had Zhou Jiye hostage grabbed the "shield" and called out to his two partners. The three of them ran towards the roadside while firing. At this point, the two officers didn't care about anything else. Their .38 caliber guns were much weaker than the enemy's big black guns. If they were not careful, they would get shot and lose their lives.

The officer, who was hiding in the corner, dared not show his face and fire back. He could only desperately call for backup while holding his walkie-talkie. In the blink of an eye, the three of them took Zhou Jiye to a van parked on the side of the road, opened the door and climbed in.

Before leaving, the three thugs fired a few more shots and dragged Zhou Jiye into the car as well. The moment they got in, their accomplice in the driver's seat slammed on the gas, and the van shot off like an arrow, speeding away in a cloud of exhaust fumes.

"Damn it! How come there are cops?"

"I don't know, the cops shouldn't be here this fast!"

"Boss, I know, it's this kid! This kid brought the cops here!" The thug holding Zhou Jiye hostage pressed the black gun against Zhou Jiye's head and shouted, "You bastard! Tell me! Did you bring the cops here?"

"Captain...no...Boss, it's a misunderstanding! This is a misunderstanding!" Zhou Jiye was almost in tears. What kind of situation was this?!
I've never been this unlucky in my entire life, not even in my last twelve hours. So many things have happened to me.

First, he encountered smugglers in Ma Tsun. He didn't have time to disembark and mistakenly boarded a "pirate ship," unknowingly ending up in Hong Kong from the mainland. When he arrived in Hong Kong, he realized he had come to the city to get his ID card, but as soon as he got off the ferry, he was stopped by police officers checking ID cards. Thus began his frantic run.

That was bad enough, but who knew that while running, they would run right into a ruthless robber in the middle of a robbery.

These three thugs… no! If you include the driver, there are four of them, and they're not police officers. If they fell into the hands of the police, not having ID wouldn't be a big deal, but at the very least, their lives would be in danger. Now he was facing a tough guy who could shoot the police with a gun! If they mistook him for someone who had brought the police to disrupt their operation, and shot him twice, wouldn't that be incredibly unfair?

(End of this chapter)