Chapter 168: Golden Triangle

"Jian, wake up, wake up."

Dongfang Shun tugged at Lin Jian’s arm. His stomach was still growling. He was older than Lin Jian, around thirty-five or thirty-six, but he called him Jian quite smoothly.

Lin Jian opened his eyes and looked at him.

"I’m hungry," he blushed.

Lin Jian gave him a weird look. "Then call the flight attendant. I don’t have any food, so it’s useless to call me."

"I... I don’t dare," Dongfang Shun whispered.

Lin Jian was speechless. Bro, you’re a freaking Grandmaster! A Grandmaster who doesn’t dare to talk to a flight attendant? But thinking about it carefully, it seemed he really didn’t dare. When she gave him food earlier, she had asked him if he wanted it, and he just nodded. He didn’t actively ask for this or that. So... did he have social anxiety? What an oddball.

Lin Jian sighed, then had to call the flight attendant over. "He’s very hungry right now. Can we get two more... no, three or four portions of meals? If there are no meals, instant noodles are fine, and if there are no instant noodles, bread will do."

"Okay, gentlemen, please wait a moment."

The flight attendant was very professional. She also knew that this big black bear was too burly, probably eating several times the amount of an average person, so the light meal from earlier couldn’t fill him up at all. A moment later, the flight attendant brought over bread and milk—a lot of them.

Dongfang Shun didn’t dare to look at the flight attendant, and he was too embarrassed to eat while she was nearby. Only after she left did he start to wolf down the food.

Lin Jian also opened a bottle of milk and started drinking. "How did you cultivate to become a Grandmaster?" he suddenly asked.

Dongfang Shun answered while choking on the bread, "Mhm... mhm... My dad taught me, I learned, and then I became a Grandmaster."

Lin Jian took a deep breath. Was he exceptionally talented? Perhaps he really was. Weren’t there many fictional stories saying that fools had no distracting thoughts, so their cultivation was extremely fast? Perhaps not everything written in novels was fake. Maybe it was true?

"What was your dad’s cultivation?" Lin Jian asked curiously.

"He was a Grandmaster when he died!"

"He died..." Lin Jian said apologetically.

"Yeah, he died. He died a month after my sister got married."

"What about you? Have you married?" Lin Jian asked.

Dongfang Shun blushed. "I was married before, but not anymore."

Lin Jian looked at him strangely. "Divorced?"

"She ran off with someone else." Dongfang Shun glanced at Lin Jian. "Do you think I’m a fool?"

"COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!"

Lin Jian choked and started coughing.

After Dongfang Shun said that, he stopped talking and continued to stuff his face with bread. Lin Jian didn’t dare to ask anymore. Moreover, he surprisingly couldn’t figure out if this guy was truly a fool or just faking it! This guy was far less simple than he appeared on the surface.

At eight o’clock the next morning, the plane arrived at Bojiao Airport. Surprisingly, this airport was newly built and was currently only in its trial operation phase. Just as Lin Jian walked out of the terminal, he saw a young man holding up a large sign with his name on it.

"Hello, I’m Lin Jian. You must be the person Chen Taohua arranged?"

"Hello, Mr. Lin. I’m a Longfu employee, my name is Liu Xiaoyan. President Chen told me to be your guide and translator. Nice to meet you."

Lin Jian shook hands with Liu Xiaoyan and said, "Let’s talk as we walk."

With that, guided by Liu Xiaoyan, the three of them got into a Mitsubishi off-road vehicle. As soon as they got into the car, Lin Jian took out a map, unfolded it, and spread it in front of Liu Xiaoyan. "Where is the area circled in red?"

"Ah... This is the Northern Golden Triangle. Over there is the primitive forest, and there are many armed groups entrenched there."

"Can a car go in?"

"It can, but why are you going there?"

Lin Jian folded the map and smiled. "How about this? You take us to buy some outdoor supplies needed for survival in the jungle first, and then you drop us off at the perimeter of this area. Then your task will be completed. How does that sound?"

"This... Mr. Lin... You can’t go to that place. There’s an area full of landmines, and the drug lords of the Golden Triangle are all over there... So..."

"One hundred thousand. Drop us off at the edge of this area, and I’ll transfer one hundred thousand to you. How about it?"

"No, no, no. I’m an employee of Longfu. This isn’t about money. It’s just that it will be very dangerous for you. I can take you there, but..."

"OK. You just need to drop us off over there."

"This... alright."

Liu Xiaoyan didn’t know what Lin Jian wanted to do, but he had received Chen Taohua’s orders, so he could only comply.

Soon, the off-road vehicle left the airport. A moment later, they passed a large market town. There, they bought two backpacks, a camouflage suit, tall boots, as well as some dry rations and water.

The strangest thing was that Lin Jian actually bought two boxes of steel nails at a small hardware store. They were the boxes with fifty nails each, two and a half inches long, gold-colored, and with red rubber rings.

Liu Xiaoyan didn’t understand why Lin Jian bought nails. Was he going to do carpentry work over there? On the other hand, Dongfang Shun seemed lost in thought.

Liu Xiaoyan was preparing to take the two of them to the Golden Triangle development zone ahead to get something to eat, but Lin Jian told him to go directly to the destination! The two of them didn’t even eat!

The big fool hadn’t uttered a single peep the whole way. Actually, the big fool had been eating the whole way. He kept munching on dry bread and expired bread non-stop.

Not long after passing the Golden Triangle development zone, they reached a dirt road, flanked by dense forest on both sides. Navigation was useless here. If someone didn’t lead the way and they had no guide, it would be very easy to get lost.

After a rough ride that lasted until the afternoon, the group of three finally arrived at a fork in the road.

Liu Xiaoyan stopped the car and said, "This location is already quite a distance into the red circle on your map." He asked for the map and pointed it out to Lin Jian. "But I can’t go any further inside. This area is unsafe. There are lots of armed militants, and there’s a particularly high number of drug traffickers. However, you can follow the road on the right. About twenty kilometers ahead, there’s a small town, but that’s Bossang’s territory. Bossang is a major drug lord."

"Alright, thanks." Lin Jian took out his phone and said, "I’ll transfer the money to you!"

"No, no, that won’t do. I can’t take your money." Liu Xiaoyan repeatedly waved his hands in refusal.

Lin Jian smiled and nodded. "Alright then. I’ll let Taohua know later. Thanks."

Saying that, Lin Jian began walking forward along the dirt road. The big fool immediately followed.

However, before he had gone far, Liu Xiaoyan suddenly got out of the car, ran over, and took a deep breath. "If you run into danger, just say you’re Hui’s men. Hui is Chinese, and she has some reputation in this area."

"No need." Lin Jian waved his hand. "I don’t need anyone else’s reputation."

Lin Jian smiled uncannily, then turned around and continued walking.

Liu Xiaoyan returned to the car feeling somewhat desolate. He knew very well that along this stretch of road, the two of them would likely be interrogated and robbed. This was the Golden Triangle of the Golden Triangle—the most turbulent place! But he couldn’t figure out what these two were here for. He really couldn’t wrap his head around it.

Meanwhile, as Lin Jian walked, he took out the nails one by one and put them into the pockets of his camouflage uniform. Dongfang Shun was still eating. Lin Jian walked in front, and he gnawed on bread in the back.

What shocked Lin Jian the most was that from yesterday until now, despite eating and drinking so much, Dongfang Shun still hadn’t gone to the bathroom!

This Dongfang Shun was truly far too bizarre.