Chapter 230: Warning

In the office, Chen Mo stood by the window, watching the endless stream of traffic outside.

Shen Guodong entered as the door opened.

"Mo Ge, I've already followed your order and passed the location of Wang Bao's powder warehouse to Chen Yongren."

Chen Mo nodded and said, "Continue the investigation, and any new findings should be passed to Luo Ji."

During this week, besides the minor skirmishes between the two sides, Chen Mo also deployed a dozen or so veterans.

After a week of surveillance, although they didn't locate Wang Bao's main powder warehouse, they did find several small warehouses used for moving goods.

This time Chen Mo didn't act personally; he had someone relay the location to Chen Yongren.

If he acted himself, Wang Bao would lose only a bit of product and a few of his underlings' lives.

Letting the police handle it allows deeper investigation and creates bigger trouble for Wang Bao.

Chen Mo didn't tell Huang Bingyao the location of the powder warehouse.

He is now a Chief Superintendent, the director of the Xijiulong Police Headquarters.

Just a few small powder warehouses; this minor contribution is of no use to him, and he looks down on it.

"How's it going with Wang Bao? Have you uncovered his methods and locations for dealing with the foreigners?"

"Not yet," Shen Guodong said with a hint of shame, "Wang Bao and that Ah Ji are both experts, highly vigilant; our brothers have been shaken off several times while tailing them."

"A few of our brothers were also injured."

"How are the injuries? Are they serious?" Chen Mo asked with concern.

These two hundred veterans are his treasures; each one received a settlement allowance and a high salary, and Chen Mo feels pain at any casualty.

"Two are seriously injured and have been taken to the hospital, still unconscious and likely unable to act again. Two more have minor injuries; nothing serious, but they need to recuperate for a while."

Chen Mo let out a sigh of relief.

"It's good they're not dead. Let them recover properly; after the two seriously injured brothers wake up, ask them what they plan to do.

If they want to go home, give them a settlement allowance. If they wish to stay, assign them a lighter job."

"Thanks, Mo Ge! I thank you on behalf of the brothers," Shen Guodong said, his eyes glistening with grateful tears.

The settlement allowance Chen Mo gave is far richer than their previous discharge benefits.

Nowadays, a ten‑thousand‑yuan household is rare on the mainland; Chen Mo's allowance is at least one hundred thousand.

If those two seriously injured brothers choose to go back, with this allowance plus a few months' salary, they'd return as small millionaires, enough to be the richest in a town.

"We can leave Wang Bao's side for now; we'll revisit it after a while."

Although Chen Mo wants to locate where Wang Bao trades with those foreigners and deal a heavy blow,

it's clearly not the right time now.

Wang Bao has already realized he's being tailed; if we wait for the police to bust his small powder warehouses, his vigilance will skyrocket.

Continuing the tail could cost several lives, and may not even work; it's not worth it.

But Chen Mo won't just leave it at that.

Chen Mo now has two options.

First, act personally and eliminate Wang Bao outright.

If Wang Bao dies, the group loses its head and his underlings will scatter.

His territory will, like the former Ni Family's, be quickly divided up by other Triad Societies.

However, that brings Chen Mo no benefit.

Chen Mo's current territory is already large; he would gain little from Wang Bao's.

Second, strike directly at the foreigners behind Wang Bao.

The root of the conflict between Wang Bao and Chen Mo lies with the foreigners.

As long as those foreigners want to traffic powder on Chen Mo's turf, they'll keep causing trouble for him.

Only by forcing the foreigners to abandon that idea can Chen Mo be at peace.

But those foreigners won't give up easily.

Chen Mo's current territory includes four streets of Jianshazui and most of Wang Jiao.

If used for powder trafficking, it would bring the foreigners huge profits.

To make them relinquish such profit, a ruthless move is required.

"Guodong, how's the investigation on that foreigner Lawson who came last time?"

"Didn't find much."

Jeffrey Lawson appears to be a businessman who runs a multinational trading company.

But I had Jimi look into it; his company seems to be a shell with no real operations.

As for the officials you mentioned being linked to him, the time frame is too short and we haven't uncovered anything yet."

Hearing Shen Guodong's reply, Chen Mo was not surprised at all.

That Jeffrey Lawson is the same foreigner who contacted Chen Mo last time.

People thrust into the spotlight like that are usually insignificant pawns.

Chen Mo had anticipated this.

"Assign a few meticulous brothers to eliminate him, and do it cleanly."

Shen Guodong frowned and asked, "Are you still looking for the people behind him?"

Chen Mo's eyes flashed with a cold hint: "Continue the search. After he dies, see if anyone contacts his family or takes over his company.

No rush on that; it can be investigated slowly!"

Originally, Chen Mo intended to use Jeffrey to uncover the drug‑smuggling operators hidden behind him.

However, Shen Guodong has already had people investigate for several days.

Using the abilities of those retired soldiers, tailing them for days turned up nothing, indicating that uncovering their identities is not simple.

It might be that Jeffrey's contact with those people is very covert.

But Chen Mo felt they were more likely to have already formed a stable system; under normal circumstances, they might not need to stay in frequent contact.

So Chen Mo felt it was still better to simply take out Jeffrey.

Chen Mo didn't dare to act lightly against the foreign high official behind Jeffrey, but he didn't care about Jeffrey, such a small fry.

If Jeffrey died, someone else would take his place.

By then, it might be better to dig out those foreigners behind the scenes.

After receiving Chen Mo's order, Shen Guodong immediately went to make arrangements.

That night, foreigner Jeffrey was hacked to death on his way home.

Because Jeffrey was a foreigner, the police attached great importance to the case, devoting considerable resources to track down the killer.

After the coroner's examination, they believed that although Jeffrey's body bore several knife wounds, the fatal blow was highly professional.

The killer's intent was to kill, not to rob.

Therefore the coroner concluded that Jeffrey died from a vendetta, not robbery.

However, when the police investigated Jeffrey's personal connections and business situation, someone called off the investigation.

In the end, the police classified Jeffrey's death as an ordinary robbery case, and, like many other robbery cases, treated it as a cold case.

Upon hearing the news, Chen Mo smiled with satisfaction.

"Guodong, give the brothers who carried it out some extra bonuses; this job was done very nicely."

Although simply taking Jeffrey away and dumping him in the sea would be simpler and direct, with less risk.

But that would not achieve the effect of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.

Taking out Jeffrey, Chen Mo not only wanted to use the opportunity to uncover who was behind him, but also wanted to give those foreigners a warning.

Warn them, he Chen Mo is not someone to be provoked.

Push him too far, and he will kill.