Chapter 178: Preparing to Go to San Francisco

"Then you aren’t going to Thunder Dragon’s place anymore?"

When Ma Yuguo heard that Lin Jian was leaving overnight, he immediately grew anxious. With Lin Jian here, he had confidence. It could be said that Lin Jian and Sha Shun had become his super bodyguards. With these two lethal powerhouses around, he wouldn’t need much time—just give him a month, and he could unify the Golden Triangle. However, these two reapers were destined not to take orders from him. In front of them, he still had to bow and scrape like a subservient flunky.

At that moment, Lin Jian nodded and said, "I’m not going."

Just moments ago, Zhang Weihong had called him. He had regained consciousness and called right away to report that he was safe. Lin Jian had expressed his intent to take Sha Shun along and avenge him, but Zhang Weihong hurriedly refused, claiming that both Thunder Dragon and Sun Dahai were involved in other cases. Furthermore, Sun Dahai was back in the country, so killing Thunder Dragon would alert him!

Therefore, Lin Jian didn’t need to intervene in this matter; the relevant domestic authorities would take the whole situation into consideration. Lin Jian had no objections to this, so he prepared to leave overnight.

Ma Yuguo’s face was filled with disappointment. He had hoped to lead his troops into battle while Lin Jian was off killing Thunder Dragon. That way, he could annex Thunder Dragon’s territory and undoubtedly establish his dominance. But now that Lin Jian had changed his mind, there was nothing he could do.

"Then... then... could you leave your contact info?" Ma Yuguo asked. He knew that Lin Jian and Sha Shun were both extraordinary individuals, so it would be a huge pity to just let them slip away like this. If he got their contact information, perhaps they could collaborate again in the future.

"Sure, do you have WeChat? Let’s add each other," Lin Jian said with a chuckle.

"I do, I do."

The two added each other on WeChat. Then, Lin Jian departed with Sha Shun into the night, with Sha Shun carrying the money on his shoulder.

At noon the next day, Liu Xiaoyan picked up Lin Jian and Sha Shun, then drove them toward Vientiane. Vientiane was the capital of Laos, where Lin Jian needed to board a flight to San Francisco in Migu Country. His ticket had already been booked, once again by Chen Taohua. He had remained in constant contact with her.

Meanwhile, back in the country, aside from Chen Dachun, Wang Qinglong, Qin San’Er, Tan Jian, Wang Chuang, and Huang Mao were already preparing to set sail. As for why Chen Dachun wasn’t with them, he had already flown out of the country to San Francisco, taking the faxed documents from Jiang Xue with him.

A Longfu Sea Transport cargo ship was about to set off for the African Continent. The vessel was loaded with all sorts of Huaxia-manufactured goods. Once it reached Africa, it would load up on their company’s mineral resources to bring back. In truth, this kind of maritime trade with the African Continent was incredibly lucrative. The basic necessities—food, clothing, shelter, and transportation—in many countries on the African Continent largely came from Huaxia; they were all made in China!

The motorcycles they rode, the clothes and shoes they wore, the lightbulbs and phones they used, and even the baskets they balanced on their heads were all made in China now. And these Chinese-made products needed to be shipped over. Longfu Sea Transport existed precisely for this purpose.

Moreover, Longfu’s overseas branch was actually affiliated with domestic strategic resource departments. This was a connection that Chen Taohua and Fan Jingqiang had managed to establish only after pulling a lot of strings. However, they had been in the preparatory stages until now, so no resources had been shipped back yet.

Otherwise, if there were a steady stream of overseas resources being shipped back to the country, Fan Jingqiang wouldn’t have even needed to go into hiding. Because this was a collaboration with the government—working for the state—his previous minor legal troubles would no longer be an issue. It was just a pity that they were only in the beginning stages. Not a single ship’s worth of resources had been brought back yet, so both he and Chen Taohua felt uncertain. Once continuous streams of mineral resources were shipped back, boatload by boatload, he would become a true Red Hat Merchant!

Liu Xiaoyan must have lived in Laos for a long time, as he managed to smoothly deposit over two million USD into the bank. At the same time, Lin Jian gave him a hundred thousand US Dollars in cash and kept a hundred thousand on himself.

That evening, Lin Jian and Sha Shun bought new outfits. He wore casual attire, while Sha Shun was dressed in a black suit, a tie, and large leather shoes! Sha Shun had no objections. Even if Lin Jian had told him not to wear any clothes at all, he wouldn’t have minded. As for whether he looked handsome or not, that concept simply didn’t exist in his mind.

That night, Liu Xiaoyan treated the two of them to another meal and even offered to take them out for a massage and other such entertainments. But Lin Jian refused. He was a pure, upstanding young man; how could he possibly leave his precious first time in a foreign country? Furthermore, he had a 5:00 AM direct flight to San Francisco the next morning.

Chen Taohua hadn’t just booked tickets for him and Sha Shun; she had also arranged for a local guide in San Francisco. Naturally, this time it wasn’t a Longfu employee, but a hired local Chinese guide. In Migu Country, there were many guides who specialized in serving people from back home. Chen Taohua had seemingly found a highly reputable service company and paid a premium for them to assist Lin Jian throughout his entire trip.

Late at night in his hotel room, Lin Jian took out the stolen Jade Pendant...