A god-like opponent is worse than a pig-like teammate.

Indeed, this Christmas, Huo Qi will have a profound understanding of this sentence.

Let's start with Yue Zhongqi and his team. Because it was Christmas, their police station was closed, and all of them were on duty in the streets to maintain public order.

Some time ago, Sergeant Liao was arrested because of his relationship with Commissioner Liao and Director Zhang. Kowloon then got a new Sergeant Zhao, who has a good relationship with Huo Qi and also gets along well with the mainland police. He even arranged for them to be stationed in Yau Ma Tei.

In fact, a group of mainland police officers are now somewhat obsessed with finding Cheung Tze-keung's secret passage.

Wang Baodao was absent-minded and just stared blankly at the various sewer openings.

Tonight, especially in Kowloon, there were a lot of incidents on the streets. It was either someone stepping on my foot or me stepping on yours, or your fireworks going into my eye, or my fireworks burning your clothes. People would start fighting all the time.

Yau Ma Tei also boasts the largest night market in Kowloon, with all kinds of food densely packed together. Chefs are busy frying, steaming, and boiling, while vendors sell clothes, toys, and performers occasionally breathe fire – it's incredibly lively.

Wang Baodao was intently staring at the sewers amidst the bustling crowd, lost in thought as people bumped into him. Suddenly, a little girl tugged at his pants and cried out, "Uncle Policeman, please help me! I'm lost from my mom!"

It's rare for a citizen to ask the police for help. Even though it's just a little girl, we have to take it seriously. Wang Baodao picked up the little girl and called out several times but couldn't find her mother. So he asked, "Where do you live? I'll take you home."

The little girl said, "My mom is a water delivery worker, and we live in a public toilet."

It might sound strange to hear that people live in public toilets, but it's not uncommon in Kowloon. In the most densely populated area of ​​Kowloon Walled City, it's said that 50,000 people had to share a single public toilet. Moreover, because all the buildings were dilapidated additions without running water, a job emerged called "public toilet water deliveryman," who delivered drinking water to people living in the high-rise buildings.

But this was the first time Wang Baodao had ever heard of someone living in a well. Since he couldn't go to the sewers today and was too lazy to watch the chaos, he asked the girl, "Is it far? Shall I take you back?"

The girl pointed ahead: "Behind the Yau Ma Tei Police Station, there's a large public toilet."

There was indeed a large public toilet opposite the Yau Ma Tei Police Station, and Wang Baodao had even checked it down there. He knew the way, so he squeezed through the crowd with the little girl in his arms and arrived at the destination.

The girl didn't live inside the public toilet, of course. Instead, there was a row of small houses next to the public toilet, even smaller than the single-room public toilets in mainland China. Each house was occupied by a family, but you had to go past the public toilet to get there.

This was a private residential area, and Wang Baodao had never been here before. He put the little girl down and was about to leave when the little girl asked, "Uncle, are you thirsty? Do you want some water? Let me offer you some."

Wang Baodao didn't like drinking beverages sold outside, and even bottled water cost money. He had brought his own cup, but it was empty, so he asked, "Do you have any hot water at home? I can get you a cup."

The girl walked to the door of a room, knocked, and said, "We only have well water, but it's especially sweet and fragrant."

The people of Kowloon now drink tap water, of course. It is said that there are only four wells in the whole of Kowloon. However, Wang Baodao had heard that the well was dug very deep and the water was particularly delicious. For example, there was a well in the yard of Bill's house. He did not drink tap water and always drank the well water in his own yard.

Unlike wells on the mainland, which are just left open, wells in Hong Kong are covered with houses.

As soon as the little girl knocked on the door, an old man, so old that all his teeth had fallen out and it was impossible to tell whether he was male or female, opened the door, smiled, touched the little girl, then walked inside and sat down on the edge of a bed.

Wang Baodao was somewhat shocked when he entered the room.

Because in his mind, a well was just a small well, but this was not the case. It was a large, curved staircase leading down to the well, where there were several taps on the ground for water to flow.

The little girl smiled and pointed to the stone trough under the tap, saying, "Come and drink, this water is so sweet!"

She was clearly a child from a poor family. She wanted to thank Wang Baodao, but there were no drinks at home, so she could only offer him water. Little did she know that she was helping Wang Baodao open the door to the answer he had been desperately seeking.

Wang Baodao turned around and went down the steps, then called Yue Zhongqi: "We made a huge mistake."

He lowered his voice and said, "It's not a sewer, it's a well. There's a well here, 200 meters from Zhang Ziqiang's house."

It's only 200 meters away, and then it's Zhang Ziqiang's house. It would be easy to break through.

It was quite noisy on Yue Zhongqi's end, so he didn't hear clearly at first. He shouted, "What do you mean? Where are you?"

Those on duty in Hong Kong are armed. When Wang Baodao went down to the bottom of the steps, the well was still below, connected to the top by a dense network of plastic pipes. But when he looked around, he noticed a stone hole about two feet wide not far away, dripping water.

He jumped up, gave the address, said "well," and continued to feel his way forward.

He hadn't walked far when, lo and behold, he made a great discovery! He saw lights. Because the passage was narrow, he had to stoop and move forward as stealthily as possible. Suddenly, the old man from Inoue called out, "Amin, Amin!"

Wang Baodao stopped and saw that there was someone else in the passage at some point, and he had a gun in his hand.

The two fired their guns almost simultaneously. Wang Baodao also thought he was doomed, but it must have been that the other man's gun had been stored underground for a long time in a damp place and went off accidentally. So he hit the other man, but the other man's gun went off accidentally.

He immediately shouted, "Stop! Don't move!"

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