Hong Kong variety show: The mastermind behind the scenes is emerging.

The rainforests of northern Thailand are a painting forever forgotten by God. There is no dazzling neon lights of Bangkok here, only extreme humidity, the smell of decaying vegetation, and a heavy sense of gunpowder and blood that lingers in the air year-round.

Chen Jiaju wiped the sweat from his forehead. His once neat shirt was now soaked through, clinging to his back and feeling incredibly sticky. He felt like he'd had the worst luck imaginable lately. First, he'd been tricked into going undercover in prison by those two old foxes, Chief Lin Leimeng and Uncle Piao, under the guise of "Project Super Cop."

After finally managing to put on a grand show with Leopard Qiang in Foshan, bringing along Yang Jianhua, whom Leopard Qiang considered a burden, they finally met Guan Caiba, the biggest drug lord in Southeast Asia. They thought they could finally sit down and catch their breath, but before they could even settle in, Guan Caiba dragged them into this primeval jungle where even birds wouldn't linger, to meet the local tyrant who controlled the entire Golden Triangle and Hong Kong Island business—General Luo Lie.

"This isn't being a cop, this is practically risking your life," Chen Jiaju muttered to himself, his eyes scanning the surroundings with the vigilance of a hawk.

The military camps, built against the mountainside, were more like small, heavily armed fortresses than actual camps. The heavy machine guns hidden in the shadows and the rocket launchers carried by the patrolmen served as a constant reminder to this "super cop" that this was not the streets of Hong Kong Island, but a lawless zone.

……

Inside the reception room of the main building of the military camp, several old ceiling fans spun weakly, but they couldn't dispel the suffocating tension in the room.

"General."

Guan Caiba pushed open the door and entered, a seemingly gentle but actually vicious smile on his face. At this time, Chen Jiaju was using the alias "Lin Fusheng," dressed in a sharp and capable manner, looking like a desperate criminal who only knew how to kill. He and Yang Jianhua, who used the alias "Hua Nu," followed Guan Caiba on either side, scanning the people in the room.

General Luo, seated in the main seat, held a large cigar between his fingers. He raised his eyelids, glanced at Guan Caiba, paused for half a second on Yang Jianhua, and finally landed on Chen Jiaju, letting out a hearty laugh: "Guan Caiba, hahahahaha! Welcome, welcome, please sit down."

"Thank you." Guan Cai Ba sat down casually, seemingly as usual, but Chen Jiaju could feel that the drug lord's muscles were constantly tense.

General Luo exhaled a thick plume of smoke, the smoke swirling and shifting in the dim light. Without further ado, he cut to the chase: "My dearest friends, there has been too much rain in the Golden Triangle this year, resulting in a significantly smaller harvest than in previous years. I'm afraid... we won't have enough goods to supply you."

The moment those words were spoken, the temperature in the room seemed to drop to freezing point.

"Where did that guy go?" Guan Caiba's eyes narrowed, a hint of danger in his voice.

"I only got 30% too," said Shen Wei, a notorious Japanese drug lord sitting to the side, in a sarcastic tone. He was wearing a flashy floral shirt, fiddling with an exquisite dinner knife in his hand, his eyes full of mockery.

"I don't care what you do, I want three tons," a white drug lord on the other side said in broken Chinese, his tone arrogant and brooking no refusal.

General Luo spread his hands, looking at Guan Caiba with amusement: "You heard that? Those two have already taken half. The rest... probably won't even be enough to fill your teeth."

"I want the rest," Guanchaiba said coldly.

"Sorry, I already took the other half." Han Yisheng, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke up, a smug sneer on his face. "I, Han Yisheng, am not like some people. I have plenty of money and can afford to eat it all."

Shen Wei, puffing on his cigar, stared at Guan Caiba as if he were a dead man, and sneered, "Exactly, why should you be the one to demand goods with just a few words? Do you think you're Bush?"

"Hahaha!!!!" The crowd burst into unrestrained laughter.

Han Yisheng, who received the largest share, pointed at Guanchai Ba and said in a chilling tone, "The purpose of today's meeting is just to tell you that there are no goods for you this year. You can go back to Hong Kong Island for afternoon tea."

Guan Caiba's face darkened completely, and the tyrannical aura of a ruthless tyrant could no longer be suppressed: "So the purpose of today's meeting... was to divide up my share."

He slammed his hand on the table, glared at General Luo, and said angrily, "What? Isn't my business business? Does my money stink?"

General Luo continued to leisurely puff on his cigar, remaining silent. As the supplier, it didn't matter who he sold his goods to; since some people wanted to join forces to take down Guanchaiba, he wouldn't stop them. At this moment, he was like a spectator in a gladiatorial arena, watching these wild dogs tear each other apart.

Seeing that Luo Lie tacitly agreed, Shen Wei became even more arrogant.

He stood up and walked up to Guanchaiba: "Who dares to say that Guanchaiba's money is tainted? But... I heard that some people still haven't paid for the last batch of goods?"

"That's right, it's me." Guan Caiba admitted it directly, after all, this kind of thing can't be kept secret in the industry.

"I have plenty of money in Swiss banks, I can pay back my debts in no time..." Guanchai Ba stared at the crowd, gritting his teeth as he said, "If someone hadn't tipped off the Malaysian police and had my wife arrested, I wouldn't be in debt!"

"Your wife got arrested?" Shen Wei exclaimed dramatically, his sarcasm growing even stronger. "Oh dear, that's really bad news. She might not be able to hold out and expose everything about us. Cai Ba, you're the kind of person who leaves trouble behind, and you still want the goods?"

Just as Shen Wei was feeling most triumphant, Guan Caiba made his move.

The movement was so fast that Chen Jiaju's pupils constricted slightly.

Guan Caiba's left hand shot out like lightning, grabbed Shen Wei's tie, and yanked it down towards his chest!

Shen Wei lost his balance, cried out in surprise, and slammed his chest heavily against the hard mahogany dining table.

"Pfft!"

Guan Caiba grabbed the steak knife from the table with his right hand and, without hesitation, plunged it into the side of Shen Wei's neck.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

A piercing scream instantly shattered the deathly silence of the reception room.

Shen Wei frantically clawed at Guan Cai Ba, trying to push him away, but the struggle seemed so weak in the face of death. Guan Cai Ba's eyes were as cold as iron. He twisted the knife in his hand, and with a sickening slicing sound, the knife slashed from the left side of Shen Wei's neck to the right.

That was a cut so deep it reached the bone.

Shen Wei's throat and arteries were severed in an instant, and his originally piercing scream turned into a gurgling sound. Blood gushed out like a violently crushed tomato under the powerful blood pressure, splattering on the table, the carpet, and even General Luo Lie's old face, leaving bloodstains everywhere.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

No one expected that, on General Luo Lie's territory, Guan Cai Ba would dare to overturn the table and kill someone!

Shen Wei's two men were stunned for two seconds before they reacted, and were about to reach for the pistols at their waists.

"Bang! Bang!"

Leopard Qiang had already drawn his sidearm from his chest. Two crisp gunshots rang out, and two bodyguards instantly had bright red blood bloom between their eyebrows before falling heavily to the ground.

"General," Guan Caiba turned to General Luo Lie expressionlessly, his tone icy, "Now... do you have enough supplies?"

General Luo Lie was startled by this brutal scene. He subconsciously wiped the hot blood from his face, his eye twitching: "Cai Ba... you're too arrogant!"

"Arrogant?!" Guan Caiba sneered, having completely gone all out. "I can be even more arrogant!"

He suddenly pulled a piece of plastic explosive from the gap in Yang Jianhua's bulletproof vest, threw it casually onto the windowsill, and pulled the trigger at the same time.

"boom!"

A flash of fire accompanied by a deafening roar—the pre-arranged signal.

"This suit is full of this high-explosive!" Guan Caiba shouted at the drug lord and General Luo Lie in the room, pointing a gun at Yang Jianhua's back. "If I fire, we'll all be going to meet our maker!"

Chan Ka-kui stood to the side, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably. But his current identity was "Fuk Sang," the top henchman of Kwun Chai-pa, and at this moment, he could only cooperate.

So Chen Jiaju suddenly drew his two guns from his waist, leaped like a leopard, and stood in front of Guan Caiba, also blocking Yang Jianhua's vest.

Just then, a commotion broke out outside; it was Guanchai Ba's men, having received the signal, beginning their operation.

General Luo Lie, after all, was a warlord who had been living on the edge for many years. He looked at the explosions that had begun to sound outside and guessed that they were the movements of Guan Caiba's ambush troops. His eyes shifted uncertainly.

"Guan Cai Ba, what exactly do you want to do?" Luo Lie questioned.

"I told you, I'm buying all of this stuff." Guan Caiba stared at him. "General, don't think I don't know you tacitly approved of them taking my flesh. Now that they're dead, it's time for you to talk business with me."

Luo Lie, true to his old fox nature, glanced at Shen Wei lying in a pool of blood, then at the terrified Han Yisheng and the white drug lord, and suddenly burst into laughter. He led his men out of the room: "Cai Ba, I told you, I'm in business. Since you have personal grudges, settle them here. Come find me when you've settled them."

After saying that, he immediately led his men to retreat.

Seeing that he was now trapped, Han Yisheng decided to cut to the chase: "That's right, I'm the one taking your share. What can you do about it? Guan Caiba, you're like a tiger fallen into a pit now. I'm definitely going to devour you—attack!"

Han Yisheng cunningly planned to make a move while he was halfway through speaking, but he didn't expect Chen Jiaju to react even faster than him.

"Bang bang bang!"

At this moment, Chen Jiaju's dual pistols displayed the terrifying precision of a "super cop." Before Han Yisheng's bodyguard could even pull the trigger, Chen Jiaju's rapid-fire shots blew his head off.

"Cover!" Yang Jianhua shouted. As a soldier, although she felt uncomfortable with this kind of ruthless killing, she had no choice but to obey for the sake of the mission. So she quickly grabbed a submachine gun and fired wildly to suppress the fire on the flank.

Outside, Guanchaiba's men began bombarding the barracks with rocket launchers, turning the jungle into a living hell amidst the flames.

Inside the room, bullets flew everywhere.

Han Yisheng was ruthless. He grabbed one of his men's corpses to shield himself from the bullets, then picked up a submachine gun and opened fire wildly at Chen Jiaju's position: "Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!"

Chen Jiaju executed a graceful side roll to hide behind a pillar. Hearing the whistling sound of bullets shattering wood, he snorted coldly and launched himself out like a spring, turning sideways in mid-air.

"Bang!"

A bullet struck Han Yisheng's knee with pinpoint accuracy.

"Ah!" Han Yisheng screamed and fell to his knees.

Guan Caiba gave him no chance to catch his breath, rushing forward like a hungry wolf, grabbing Han Yisheng's hair and shoving the gun into his mouth.

"Waaaaah..." Han Yisheng's eyes finally revealed extreme fear.

"Bang!"

The bullet exited from the back of his head, bringing with it a large patch of red and white material.

As for the white drug lord who tried to escape in the chaos, he was riddled with bullets before he could even get out of the wooden door.

The three major drug lords were all killed within ten minutes.

……

As the gunfire subsided, Guan Caiba wiped the blood from his hands and walked proudly out of the reception room.

Outside, General Luo Lie, with over a hundred fully armed men, surrounded them. Looking at the bombed-out camp, Luo Lie's face was ashen: "Cai Ba, you've gone too far. Making such a scene here, are you disrespecting me?"

"Respect is earned, not given," Guan Caiba said with a forced smile. "General, dead drug lords are worthless. I can buy all the drugs, and I can give you double the profit. Do you choose the dead, or the money?"

Luo Lie stared at Guan Cai Ba, then looked at Guan Cai Ba's subordinates who had emerged from the surrounding mountains. Finally, the anger on his face turned into a kind smile.

"Fine! Guanchaiba, you're ruthless. However, if you want to book all the goods here, it's not up to me. You'll have to go see Mr. Jinsha to discuss it."

"No problem, General. If you're willing to make the introduction, I'd be happy to go." Guan Caiba breathed a sigh of relief; he knew he had won this gamble.

"Prepare the helicopter!" Luo Lie waved his hand.

Before leaving, Guan Caiba patted Chen Jiaju on the shoulder: "Fusheng, you and Baoqiang wait for me in Malaysia. Baoqiang, please treat the brothers well and have fun."

Chen Jiaju nodded, watching the helicopter roar as it flew into the depths of the rainforest.

He led Yang Jianhua into the car that was leaving, but he had an extremely uneasy premonition in his heart.

This unease didn't come from Guanchaiba, nor from Luolie. Rather, it came from the shadows of this forest, where it seemed as if a pair of cold eyes were watching everything.

……

As the sun set and the roar of helicopters faded into the distance, General Luo Lie stood before the ruins and spat.

"Damn it, they're a bunch of lunatics... Go and dispose of Shen Wei and the others' bodies, and clean up the battlefield properly. Making such a commotion will definitely attract the attention of those government troops. Increase security tonight, don't let them sneak in."

"yes!"

The henchmen, cursing and swearing, put away their guns and began moving the bodies.

They were used to it; after all, double-crossing was all too common in this jungle.

However, they did not know.

High in the dense forest, less than 800 meters from the military camp, a black camera was watching everything.

"Target 'Luo Lie' has been confirmed to have entered the standby area. The main force has departed by helicopter." In the headset came Xiao Zhuang's (Gin's) voice, devoid of any emotion, cold as frost.

"Tequila received. Scavenger team is in position. The boss said, except for the target, the rest... not one will be spared." Little Fu's voice rang out in the channel, carrying a chilling calm.

"Cohen received." Feng Yuxiu's morbid laughter echoed in the channel. "I like this kind of jungle night, the leaves here... are just missing a little blood to irrigate them."

Above the heads of these henchmen, a massive web of death, woven by the dark forces of "Jiahe International," had completely enveloped them.

The nightmare for this group has only just begun.