Breaking Through The Clouds

Chapter 76

A few minutes later, Yan Xie's cell phone vibrated, and a gloomy, fierce, and young face appeared on the screen.

Jin Jie, male, Burmese nationality. His name was not guaranteed to be authentic, and his age was unknown, but between twenty-six and twenty-nine. When he was just a teenager, he was involved in local gangs, being involved in many over the years. The crimes he committed with conclusive evidence include collecting money to kill opponents in black market boxing matches, illegal gun possession, smuggling ivory[1], killing military police in shoot-outs, selling large amounts of drugs, etc.

Five years ago, the armed police seized a batch of Heroin at the China-Myanmar border. Most of the drug traffickers were killed on the spot during the crossfire, and two criminals were captured alive. But the siege wasn't a complete success, because one of the drug traffickers was able to act quickly. While being outflanked by five or six armed police soldiers, he seriously injured two people and escaped. The armed police team searched the jungle for three days, but still couldn't find any trace of him.

Later, according to the drug traffickers' confession, that young man was sent from "above" to supervise the escort of the goods. His role was to carry out the execution in case anyone dared to hide goods or gold during the transportation. No one in the entire smuggling team knew his real name. Usually, he was called Jie Ge according to the Chinese habit, or "Bo Jie"[2] according to the Burmese habit. Only once has the leader of the convoy ever addressed him as "Jack of Diamonds".

Since then, this person had gradually disappeared from Myanmar. According to the Myanmar military police, he died on the Myanmar-China border - who knows how much money the local military and police have received from drug traffickers.

Now it seems that this person was not only alive, but even illegally immigrated into China.

"Jack of Diamonds--" Yan Xie rubbed his chin and said, "If we arrange the cards in the order, this person should be the third highest in the King of Spades' drug cartel, right?"

The piano sounded elegantly in the five-star hotel restaurant, the air was fragrant, the waiters occasionally came and went without making any noise, and there was a very subtle clunking sound from the cups in the distance.

Jiang Ting used the spoon to gently stir the little bit of seafood porridge left in the bowl. He lowered his eyes and said, "He should be!"

Yan Xie hissed softly, "That's not right."

"..."

"The big boss and the third-in-command of a transnational criminal group went to Hu Weisheng's rooftop alone to search for a bag of 'blue gold'. Were they too daring, or did they not care about their lives? There must be another reason for this."

Jiang Ting said: "That, how should I know?"

He raised his head, the two of them looked at each other in mid-air, and Jiang Ting spread his hands helplessly after a while: "All of these things you're assuming now are meaningless. How do you know that those two people are just bold? On the abandoned highway, when the police rescue arrived that night, on the surface, there were only two motorcyclists who came out to rescue Jack of Diamonds, but in fact, there was a whole convoy of drug traffickers lurking in the distance. It's hard to predict whether the police would be able to escape unscathed if a fight broke out..."

"I recalled it many times afterwards," Yan Xie interrupted him, "The two of them didn't seem to have backup that day on the rooftop."

The surroundings were quiet, Jiang Ting was speechless for a moment, and finally said: "Then we can only speculate that when King of Spades and Jack of Diamonds went to the rooftop of Hu Weisheng's house, they were very sure that no police would come."