Lin Chen's voice was calm, yet it seemed to weigh a ton, and his powerful aura made it hard for people to breathe.
Lin Xiaoye, who considers himself an ordinary arms dealer.
Anyone involved in organized crime or with dirty hands has basically heard of Lin Chen's name. In some chaotic small countries, even during coups, it was Lin Chen who sold various weapons and equipment.
Lin Chen's hands are not clean, and his father, Lin Qisheng, is even worse, perhaps even more so.
Hark knew all too well that he couldn't afford to offend either of them.
But he insisted on trying to outwit a tiger...
Thinking of this, Hack's dejection became even more pronounced. He looked like a wilted eggplant, glanced at Lin Chen, and said with a wry smile, "Young Master Lin, do we really have to say this here?"
"...Let's go."
Lin Chen paused, then slightly raised his hand.
The mercenary who was holding a gun to Hack quickly pushed him and forced him to walk towards his room on the cruise ship, while the others were all restrained and could only watch this scene unfold.
...
Hack sat in the small room, bound and grim, while the mercenary guarding him stood outside the door.
Just then—
"……let go."
"I don't!"
"What are you doing here? Be mindful of your place, stepmother, get down here right now."
"I want to hear it too! I haven't finished eating my melon yet, I'm not leaving!"
Hearing the sounds coming from afar, Hack was momentarily stunned. He looked up blankly and saw Lin Chen walking in with a heavy gait, a koala hanging on his back.
Ruan Qing'an is shameless; as long as she calls Lin Chen "son" every day, she becomes incredibly arrogant.
The male lead's future stepmother.
In other words, she is the mother of the supreme god!
Thinking of this, Ruan Qing'an became complacent and felt at ease being raised as a little good-for-nothing. This was the God of God showing her respect!
037: ...No wonder our ancestors were so lazy in the small world.
Lin Chen was also helpless with her. He couldn't scold her or hit her, so he could only continue walking towards the room. After seeing Hack, he grabbed Ruan Qing'an by the back of her neck and put her on a chair next to him.
He said in a deep voice, "If you hadn't insisted on coming, I wouldn't have let you in, but—no nonsense allowed, do you hear me!"
"Okay, I understand."
Ruan Qingan nodded quickly and sat down obediently.
Just then, the mercenaries guarding the door came to close it. Upon hearing this, they couldn't help but roll their eyes inwardly—come on, with Young Master Lin's skills, if he wasn't happy, he would have thrown his wife into the sea to feed the sharks eight hundred years ago.
At this moment, only Lin Chen, Ruan Qing'an, and Ha Ke remained in the room. The atmosphere became quiet, with only the soft sound of Lin Chen's slender fingers tapping on the table.
Harker was under a lot of pressure, but he forced himself to say, "Let me start from the very beginning. Young Master Lin, please listen patiently."
"explain."
"……I see."
The situation was beyond his control, so Harker backed down and didn't dare say another word. He said directly, "Young Master Lin should know that drug trafficking is actually the most profitable business I do, and it's been rampant in the Silver Triangle all along."
“Even farmers are growing poppies. There’s too much drug trafficking. Although I’m one of the most powerful ones, some people are trying to take my business away and have already caused me considerable losses. I have to find a way to recover.”
Upon hearing this, Lin Chen's eyes darkened. He already knew something about this before, so he nodded and said "Mm".
Harker continued, “Therefore, I urgently needed new buyers and a large number of orders, and at this time someone in China contacted me with a big deal for me, but the goods had to be of high quality.”
"You must know the situation in China, Young Master Lin. Although it's easy to get into trouble, there's a lot of money there, so I sent some goods over. But they weren't satisfied, saying the goods weren't new enough and they insisted I replace them. They offered a lot of money, so I agreed."
At this point, Hack glanced cautiously at Lin Chen.
"Well, the Lin family has even better stuff, or more precisely, only Lin Qisheng has it. Only those of us who specialize in this know about it, because Lin Qisheng doesn't seem to want to expose it."
Sure enough, that old bastard Lin Qisheng's hands were filthy.
A cold, fierce glint appeared in Lin Chen's eyes: "I know, keep talking, don't keep looking at me."
Yes, yes, yes.
Harker hurriedly said, "So I contacted Lin Qisheng to buy the goods, and he agreed, but said he couldn't ship them over himself, and that it was too risky to go through China. He told me to sign a deal with you, Young Master Lin, and that you bring the weapons over to me when you transport them."
"But the previous batch had an accident, and my money went down the drain. That's why I was thinking of getting some money back from you, Young Master Lin. But Lin Qisheng told me that he would ship it over again, the transaction would continue, and you would personally lead the team to deliver it in half a month."
"That was this time, but when I went to check, there was no cargo hidden in the weapons you sent, Young Master Lin."
Having revealed everything, Hack breathed a sigh of relief: "That's all, Young Master Lin. I've told you everything I know."
"..."
Lin Chen kept his eyes half-closed, and a silent silence spread through him.
After a long pause, he finally said, "Your goods are gone, Hark, because in this whole affair, you were just a pawn."
"I had already guessed it, but there's money to be made."
Lin Chen didn't answer him, but instead glanced at the window of the small room, where there was a vast and boundless sea where the sky met the sea.
He suddenly said, "We're about to enter international waters, Hark."
Hack gave a bitter smile, lowered his head and said nothing more. It's all about the winner taking all, and if Lin Chen loses, he'll probably push Lin Chen to the brink of despair for his own sake.
People in this line of work are all corrupt, so they can kill others, and others can use the same methods to kill them.
Lin Chen stopped talking and simply raised his hand.
The mercenaries guarding outside immediately came in, pointed their guns at Hack, and pushed him out again, bringing him back onto the deck.
This time, only Ruan Qing'an and Lin Chen remained in the room.
037, who had been watching the whole thing with Ruan Qing'an, couldn't help but say: "Hark got screwed over by Lin Qisheng."
"No."
Ruan Qing'an paused, then said, "Lin Chen was the one who got tricked."
037: [It seems so. After all, that's China. The male lead was really lucky to get caught, and he's the one who suffers, while Lin Qisheng is the one making money. Damn, that old bastard is too despicable!]
At that moment, Lin Chen said, "Lin Qisheng is trying to trick me, but I feel that something is wrong with what happened to that old man."
037 was stunned again: [Huh? What happened to Lin Qisheng now?]
After a brief silence, Lin Chen's voice and Ruan Qing'an's voice explaining to 037 in her mind rang out simultaneously in the room.
"I'm afraid... someone is plotting against Lin Qisheng."
Lin Chen closed his eyes and said slowly and deliberately, "As for Lin Qisheng, he just took advantage of the situation to trick me."
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