Chapter 29: Chapter Thirty

Relying on his great lung capacity, and the hand-and-foot strength gained from training the Golden Bell Shield, Bai Lang's speed underwater was still quite fast. However, the Mekong River has a large flow, and there are also many undercurrents in the water. For Bai Lang, his swimming skill isn't that proficient yet, so in fact the time it took him to go under the hull and reach the other side was a bit longer than he had estimated.

The enemy's speedboat was also moving, not fixed in one place, and what Bai Lang saw when he lifted half his face above water was that the speedboat was already five or six meters away from him. Originally, if they kept going, Bai Lang's swimming speed probably wouldn't be enough to catch up, but because the river was flowing and not very clear, those armed personnel didn't notice the approaching Bai Lang.

This is quite normal; even fishermen fishing on the river might not notice a tiger swimming toward them, and thus get attacked by the tiger—let alone these few people, whose attention is on the cargo ship, firing guns at the vessel, so they can't hear any other sounds. Now they are preparing to jump aboard under covering fire, so they have slowed the boat.

Bai Lang half-submerged approached the speedboat, paused slightly for a breath, then Bai Lang's legs exploded with force, his whole upper body surged out of the water; he pushed off the deck with his left hand, and his right hand tiger-clawed directly grabbed the nearest armed person's spine. Under the exertion of Internal Force, the bulletproof vest he wore was utterly useless, and he was seized straight into the spine. Bai Lang used this force to lift himself onto the speedboat, and at the same time tore downward.

The scene was extremely bloody; the tiger claw that had pierced a person's body literally tore the living person's spine out of his body, and as soon as Bai Lang's foot stepped onto the deck, he immediately launched into close-quarters combat. This speedboat could only seat seven or eight people; after losing the pilot, only three armed personnel remained. When those two turned their gun muzzles, they were more likely to shoot each other—if they kept their fingers on the triggers.

And once they stopped firing, subduing them would take Bai Lang less than a second—in fact, that's exactly what happened: the three men were killed in a total of just one second of Bai Lang's effort; adding the one he killed when boarding the boat, all four were dead. Bai Lang shouted to the freighter above, "All right, it's clear. We'll split up here."

He threw all three corpses overboard—the one whose spine had been torn out had already fallen into the water. He rinsed the deck with a bucket, stowed the weapons, and Bai Lang sped away in the speedboat. "After I leave, these guys should have the guts to call the police."

Indeed, that's how it was—Bai Lang had been gone for over half an hour, and the crew of the Jade Splendor 3 finally dared to come out of their hiding places. After inspecting the ship, they found their luck wasn't bad: aside from bullet holes punched in the hull and sides, there was no further damage, and nobody was hurt—except for two people whose skin was cut by shattered glass.

So they should report the incident right away, just as Bai Lang said—in fact, they have more experience in such matters than Bai Lang does, and they have no trust whatsoever in the Myanmar police; the phone call was placed directly to the Yunnan police in China to file the report, and the ship sped up, heading for home as fast as possible.

This matter basically belongs to an international case; our country's police also need to cooperate in handling it. After the case was accepted, of course they first notified the Myanmar police—but that's basically useless, as these places are beyond the control of the Myanmar central government. Due to pressure from China, Mingming is in Myanmar territory, yet the handling of the case remains chiefly in the hands of the Chinese police......

Personnel from both the Myanmar and Thai police arrived—there were fatalities in both countries, and the case details were actually quite clear, with many witnesses who were still alive. Basically, the conclusions reached by the Myanmar and Thai police were similar: "We can't catch him, because we don't know where this person went." As for the Chinese police, they merely added a bunch of data to someone's file.

The dead were all foreigners, and all were bad people who trafficked addictive drugs; even the handling officers frankly said, "Good riddance!" However, the person who took action is also a trouble—this person had already committed manslaughter domestically, and although the ones he killed weren't exactly good people either, one originally thought that if he had fled the country, staying abroad would be the end of it...... but unexpectedly, this person also caused a major incident overseas.

"Those who practice martial arts to break the law—ancient people truly did not deceive me." The expert from the Ministry of Public Security in charge also sighed. Half of the bodies were salvaged, the other half are considered missing with no bodies found; the autopsy results confirmed the witnesses' accounts. The man called Bai Lang really is as ferocious as a tiger, and he truly possesses martial arts that could be called miraculous.

In reality, where would you find a martial artist like in the movies who can tear a person's body apart as easily as ripping paper? Anyone capable of that can no longer be called human; rather, they are like a big cat walking upright. The situation is similar: every trace on the salvaged wreck and the freighter proves this point—this person's strength truly exceeds human limits.

The speedboat that had been taken away was finally found on a river at the China-Myanmar border, and of course those aboard were untraceable. Despite a search covering hundreds of kilometers around where the boat was discovered, involving massive manpower, it ended in failure. In the end, this case can only be said to have fizzled out—the sole result was the dismantling of an armed drug-trafficking gang in Myanmar territory.

Where did Bai Lang go? This remains a riddle that many people later cannot solve.

After discarding the boat, Bai Lang disguised himself and climbed onto another freighter to hide—given his skill, it was easy for him to avoid detection by the crew. Aboard the ship he drifted downstream again, several times silently changing boats at night; by the time the police of three countries were combing the Mekong River for him, he had already openly entered Cambodia.

This is likewise a rather chaotic country, but Bai Lang, devoting himself to cultivation, didn't find it particularly troublesome.

One good thing happened: the year after he escaped, Yu Yu transmitted a voice, "Charging complete, ready to return!" At that moment Bai Lang was resting in his rented bamboo hut; hearing it, he also cursed, "Wasn't it supposed to take ten years? This is only the third year, and it hasn't even finished! What's going on?"

Of course Yu Yu wouldn't answer, and given Bai Lang's current martial arts abilities, he naturally had no idea what was going on either; the feeling Yu Yu gave him was, "You're making me inflate, huh?" He really could do nothing with Yu Yu, wondering, "Should I just toss this thing after crossing over?" Bai Lang was genuinely considering this question seriously.

Yu Yu seemed to come alive, leaping up again and flicking its tail, and then together with Bai Lang it just disappeared like that......