Chapter 1148: Acting Separately

The pain of parting was not worth mentioning. Wang Guanshui waved goodbye to his four subordinates, ordering them to lure away the pursuing police. He wiped away a tear that didn't exist, then said to his cousin, "Let's go, too."

The cousin, slung with a gun, followed Wang Guanshui's pace without a word.

Wang Guanshui first led him along a mountain path. After walking for a while and identifying the direction, he began to take a smaller trail.

Lanyue City is surrounded by mountains. The mountains around the town look wild, but in reality, many have been developed; the small trails are frequently used and not difficult to traverse. For the two of them, who had walked mountain paths since childhood, it couldn't be called walking on flat ground, but it was as easy as hiking.

"Are we not going to the riverside anymore?" The cousin was also a smart man; although he had guessed it long ago, he only brought it up at this moment.

Wang Guanshui gave an "un" sound and said, "Everyone has their own destiny. If they reach the riverside, they also have a chance to escape. You and I are going into the cave; we are just as likely to be caught. How about it, are you afraid?"

In a short sentence, Wang Guanshui had already completed a bait-and-switch of the concept.

The cousin calmly accepted Wang Guanshui's "CPU" (brainwashing) and said, "I'm not afraid. I just think they were doing quite well, and it's a pity to throw them away."

"There's no help for it. If I could take them, I would have. The supplies prepared in the cave are only so much; the two of us hiding for a few months is no problem, but with six people, I'm afraid we'd go crazy in a month, especially Old Qiu—he snores when he sleeps and stinks even when he doesn't poop. I don't want to live with him." As Wang Guanshui said this, he began to put on a mask of pain while explaining the reason for sending his subordinates to their deaths.

"Old Qiu's smell is a bit heavy." What could the cousin say? Ask him to call the others back? Impossible. If it were up to him to decide, his decision would be the same.

However, this did not prevent the cousin from thinking Wang Guanshui was cruel.

Working for a big drug lord is just prone to death.

The cousin subconsciously touched his gun. It was a pity Wang Guanshui hadn't left any money in his hands; otherwise, there would have been a reason to kill him.

As for now... one couldn't just kill Wang Guanshui because one person less would be pooping.

"Now, start crawling in from here." Wang Guanshui led his cousin from the small path to a large rock, stopped, sighed, and said, "When we were kids, we had nothing to do and would crawl everywhere in the woods. Ordinary people would absolutely never find the cave inside here."

"Then how did you bring the supplies in?" The cousin watched as Wang Guanshui lifted a cluster of vines beside the large rock, revealing a crack in the stone underneath. The inside of the crack looked quite smooth, and he didn't know where it extended to, but a hole that could only accommodate one person crawling made him a bit worried that if he went in, he would be 'rat-tat-tatted' (shot) inside.

Wang Guanshui looked quite open and aboveboard, smiling and saying, "Inside, there is a world of its own. According to my observations, among these trees, there is a super large rock. It also grows grass or small trees on top, but no big trees, so drones can fly over from above and drop the supplies. The compressed biscuits, canned food, and pure water I bought before were dropped from the middle. After accumulating a lot, I would send them into the cave once."

The cousin realized: "No wonder you often played with modified drones alone. I thought you were bored."

"Actually, it really was boredom. I didn't think I'd end up relying on this trick to survive. But isn't that how an idle move is used?" Wang Guanshui was also a bit proud. He had already begun to recover from the failure. It was just a drug manufacturing plant; although it took him more than half a year to build, he had already earned what he should have. Even if nothing had happened here, in another half a year or so, he would have had to transfer his base anyway.

Of course, if he could have transferred smoothly, the money he earned should have been able to multiply several times over. Most importantly, at that time, he could have taken his subordinates with him, and the original factory here wouldn't have been abandoned; he could have handed it over to some subordinate to operate, and the latter would still have had to hand over a large amount of profit.

"Follow behind me and clean up the traces outside so the police don't find us." Wang Guanshui felt that the pursuing troops should have been lured away by the other four subordinates. As for the police who would come to search the mountains later, Wang Guanshui wasn't that worried. Searching mountains isn't that easy; even with police dogs, in mountains like these, it's not certain they could find anyone.

The public often sees news of police successfully searching mountains, while people like Wang Guanshui often read stories of industry insiders who successfully escaped searches. Everyone learns from each other, and it just depends on whose cultivation is higher.

Wang Guanshui tightened his gun strap, lifted the vines at the cave entrance again, and bent down to start crawling.

The cousin looked at the dirt road behind him. To say there were absolutely no traces would be impossible, but the traces weren't heavy either.

He simply walked a bit further up along this road, backed up, shouted once, and started crawling into the hole.

The stone cave was about ten meters long. It was easy to crawl in, but difficult to crawl out. By the time he crawled to the back, the cousin had to unload his gun and drag it behind him as he crawled.

Even as a child, the cousin wouldn't have crawled into a hole like this. Who knew if it would be blocked inside or if there would be a centipede or something.

Thinking of this, the cousin thought to himself, once he got in, he would find a big rock and block the other end. Wouldn't that be a safe secret resort?

At that time, not only could they hide in the cave, but after the heat died down, they could come out of the cave and move around a little outside to get some air or poop. Calculated this way, a month or two wouldn't be that hard to endure.

It was absolutely impossible for the police to search the mountains for such a long time. If they discovered their tracks, so be it, but as long as there was no definitive evidence to trace back to him and his cousin, a long-term mountain search was impossible. Calculated this way, they wouldn't even need to wait two months. As long as the wind died down, they could go out of the mountains, take some money, buy some equipment, and building another factory wouldn't be difficult.

In doing anything, the entry is the hardest part. As long as you are in the industry, it might be a bit difficult to talk about improving, but is repeating yourself still hard?

This could be said to be the advantage of opening a drug factory. When other industrial categories are rolling and dying, fighting to study new categories with bald heads, and reducing costs to survive, those who make drugs only need to repeat themselves. As more and more peers die, the profit is still steadily increasing.

It could be said that in this industry, except for the business environment being a bit harsh, everything else is quite good. But in this day and age, how many industries have a good business environment?

"Grab my hand, I'll pull you out." Ahead, Wang Guanshui's voice came, and he reached out to pull the cousin out of the hole.

Crawling out from the pitch-black hole, the dim light was enough to make one feel dazzled.

The cousin squinted and looked up at the sky, saying in surprise, "It really is a world of its own."

"Once you mess with enough college students, you get some culture." Wang Guanshui laughed twice, then pointed to the back and said, "The cave is over there. The entrance is a bit bigger, but it's very deep inside, which is equivalent to a double guarantee."

"Let's block the hole we came in through." The cousin, following the thought he just had inside, smiled and said, "Once it's blocked, even if someone else crawls, they won't be able to get in."

"You thought of the same thing as me." Wang Guanshui laughed loudly, looked up, and said, "With this level of secrecy, we can stay here for a few months with no problem!"

The cousin nodded in agreement and said, "If it weren't for the tense situation, we could even build another factory right here."

"It's not convenient to get in and out." Wang Guanshui shook his head regretfully. "If poison is honey, licking it is arsenic. This place is well hidden, but the equipment can't be transported in. It can't house too many people either; eating, drinking, and pooping are all troublesome. If we go into the mountains too frequently, it's easier to be discovered."

"You've already thought about it?"

"That's for sure." Wang Guanshui smiled and added, "I reckon that with the current speed of technological development, in another seven or eight years, when drones can drag hundreds of kilograms of things in, we'll come back and do something big!"

"Good idea."

Wang Guanshui laughed up at the sky and pointed at it: "Just like this, flying in... what is flying over? A drone! Hide quickly."

As soon as the words fell, a drone was already hovering overhead.

Wang Guanshui and his cousin fled into the cave in a panic, their foreheads covered in sweat.

"They might not have discovered us." The cousin comforted himself, then looked at the many supplies piled up in the cave behind him, his brow furrowing.

"There are still a lot of supplies thrown outside the cave that I didn't have time to move in." Wang Guanshui regretted his actions.

"How did they discover us?" The cousin just felt it was unbelievable.

"This is fate!" Wang Guanshui suddenly sighed. "The police here probably only have a few drones, and it just happened to fly over..."

As he was speaking, the buzzing sound outside the cave increased, and a drone flew low to the cave entrance, attempting to observe the situation inside.

The cousin subconsciously hugged his gun and turned off the safety.

The drone seemed to have seen them and immediately flew up.

The cousin breathed a sigh of relief: "We have guns, they can't get in, and the domestic police don't have helicopters..."

Before the words were finished, a huge propeller sound came from afar.

A manned helicopter quickly swept across the sky and finally hovered directly above the cave.

Wang Guanshui and his cousin looked at each other.

"People inside, listen up, you have been surrounded..." The loudspeaker on the helicopter played repeatedly without stopping.

Wang Guanshui gripped the gun handle tightly and encouraged himself: "It's okay, they can't get in, we still have a chance."

The cousin nodded: "They know we have long guns in our hands. If one comes in, we'll kill one!"

Several kilometers away, the command vehicle, which had already been prepared to be packed and transported out of the area, was reactivated.

Dai Mingsheng, Huang Qiangmin, Yuan Bomin, and others began a fierce pre-battle discussion:

"Our detachment's Old Meng, you've seen him; he's suffered his whole life. If he gets a second-class merit, he'll have all the treatment he needs..."

"Young people need this more. You've solved so many cases, this one doesn't make a difference..."

"We've spent so much, and now the opportunity to catch the big boss is being given away. This isn't appropriate, is it?"

"I'll make a suggestion: throw tear gas on one side, use sniper rifles on the other, and wait for them to surrender. Finally, see what the criminals choose..."

"Nonsense!"