The business community along the river was suddenly shaken.

The Zhuge Family, a major financial conglomerate along the river, had been jointly attacked by the Tang, Tang, Lou, Mo, and Yi Chen Groups.

Within three days, the industries of the Zhuge Family were all destroyed, and the entire family disappeared without a trace!

The Yi Chen Group had completely become the new commercial giant along the river, ranking alongside the Tang, Mo, Dong, Fengrun, and Fukang Groups as one of the six major financial conglomerates!

Yet, Jiang Chen, the central figure behind this upheaval, boarded a plane to the Diamond Country with Yan Hu, Xing Fei, and Mengte De'er.

Diamond Country, Tamwood Country, Longjiang City.

Tamwood Country is a warlord nation where the national big shot is the head warlord, Wu Yati!

Longjiang is the central city of Tamwood Country, surrounded by large expanses of jungle mountain ranges. To leave Longjiang, one has to take one of the four asphalt roads in each direction. Wu Yati's military set up checkpoints on each road at distances of one kilometer, five kilometers, and ten kilometers from Longjiang City.

All who enter Longjiang City must undergo inspection.

It is precisely because of this terrain that Longjiang City has a strategically advantageous position of being easy to defend and hard to capture.

Many armed forces have tried to take down Tamwood Country but were repelled by Wu Yati exploiting the terrain, making this place his own dictatorial domain.

As a warlord country, Longjiang City attracts a large number of mercenaries, assassins, fugitives, arms dealers, and other shady figures.

The entire Longjiang City is like a scaled-down version of a sect's territory.

Extremely dark, extremely chaotic.

Wuu wuu...

An old pickup truck rushed towards Longjiang City from the northern road, with four large wooden boxes in the truck bed.

"Stop the car!"

As the pickup approached within ten kilometers of Longjiang City, it was stopped by guards at the first checkpoint.

Parked beside the first checkpoint were two military trucks and a pickup truck, with forty to fifty Tamwood Country guards holding guns, watching the incoming pickup truck while laughing and frolicking with each other.

The man who stopped the vehicle was a middle-aged man wearing a distinctive uniform, with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth, a roguish look on his face, his jacket unbuttoned, looking nothing like a soldier.

Screech!

The pickup stopped five meters in front of the checkpoint; the driver took out a pack of soft Huaxiang cigarettes from the storage box, opened the door, and got out.

"Hey, Team Leader Li'er, why are you personally on duty? Tough job! Here, have a cigarette!" The driver opened the pack of cigarettes, passed one to a guard that had stopped them, then casually slipped the rest into the middle-aged man's pocket.

"The cigarettes from Flame Dragon Kingdom are always the best."

Li'er seemed not to notice the driver's action, took the cigarette from the driver, and used his own to light it, taking a satisfied drag. He glanced at the pickup bed and lazily asked, "It's dark, what's in the truck? People or sheep?"

A burly and formidable man sat in the passenger seat of the pickup, while two men and a woman sat in the back. One of the men was also quite burly, and to avoid crowding the others, he was slouching and leaning tightly against the door, looking extremely uncomfortable to the onlooker.

"People, they've just come from Flame Dragon, I'm taking them to see the boss," the driver replied, looking around and then whispered, "and also two 'sheep' who think they're people."

Li'er's eyes lit up, and he took a careful look at the pickup truck, a gleam in his eyes. He said sneakily, "It's dark; I've heard that there are many beauties in Flame Dragon Kingdom, but I never expected them to be this beautiful. How about you leave this 'sheep'...?"

"Li'er, big bro, this is beyond me, how about...you take a look after your shift is over and have a drink with our boss?" the driver winked.

"Haha! Of course, of course I'll have a good drink with Boss Long."

Li'er laughed heartily while eyeing the pickup truck and patting the driver on the shoulder, "You'd better speak up for me later, kid. Your boss is so stubborn; last time things got a bit unpleasant, and my uncle scolded me. If you could get that sheep on my bed, I'll definitely make it worth your while!"

"Don't worry about it, Li'er, big bro, we're brothers after all! If you could help me get a hold of some...," the driver mimed the act of smoking.

"Haha! That's no problem, rest assured, it's on me!" Li'er slapped his chest, making a promise.

The driver's eyes lit up as he nodded vigorously, "Good, good, good, don't worry Li'er, big bro, your bed will be warm tonight!"

"Tonight...tonight won't work!" Li'er suddenly remembered something, "Uncle's hosting a banquet at home tonight, says there's a guest of honor to entertain, and told me to join. I'll likely have to stay there. Let's do it tomorrow, tomorrow I'll go have a drink with Elder Long."

"Guest of honor? Who else can Wu call a guest of honor?" the driver asked, surprised.

Li'er glanced around then whispered, "For the sake of that beauty in the car, I'll tell you, but you better not spill the beans, kid."

Lowering his voice even further, Li'er leaned over to the driver's ear and whispered.

"This, this, this...this is really a guest of honor!" The driver's face changed as he exclaimed in shock.

Li'er quickly covered the driver's mouth, scolding in a low voice, "Keep it down, will ya?"

"Mmm mmm mmm!" the driver nodded repeatedly.

"Alright, get a move on!" Li'er waved his hand and turned to signal the guards at the checkpoint.

Clang!

The guards behind the checkpoint pulled the barricade aside.

"Thanks, big bro Li'er, I'll be waiting for you to come drink tomorrow!" the driver bowed gratefully to Li'er, then got back into the vehicle.

Vroom vroom...

The pickup passed through the first checkpoint with ease.

"An Long, what's this about sheep and warming up the bed? Since when did you get all saucy?"

Xing Fei looked at the driver with a curious expression. Although they had been speaking softly, to a Great Grandmaster at the Innate Peak like Xing Fei, unless they deliberately wrapped their voices with inner qi, speaking at this distance was no different from whispering in her ear.

The reason for Xing Fei's odd expression was because she noticed Li'er had been looking at her while talking.

The driver was indeed An Long, and he chuckled, "Here in Tamwood Country, if you talk all prim and proper, no one will respect you, plus, they will treat you like a fat sheep ready to be fleeced!"

"Fat sheep? You were talking about us being fat sheep just now?" Xing Fei looked at An Long, unbelieving, as the way Li'er looked at her seemed to be far more than just seeing a fat sheep.

"Uh... well...don't you know, Snake Woman?" An Long glanced in the rear-view mirror, somewhat surprised.

"Although we've been mingling in the sects' influence all this time, we've only been in the Beast Fighting Arena. After following Mr. Jiang, we don't understand these things as much as the locals!" Mengte De'er explained softly.

"Oh, right, I forgot about your background!"

An Long suddenly understood and explained softly, "People, that refers to our own people. Sheep, that's about the sheep being trafficked!"

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