Hong Kong Variety Show: Me, the Traffic Enforcement and Control Team?

Seeing this, Lin Zhengyi smiled faintly for a moment before becoming serious and said, "Alright, you can have this one for now. There's another one over there; I'll go catch him!"

As he spoke, he handed the man over to Zhang Qiang and said, "By the way, don't lock them up together later. Although that kid said a lot, I still need to question him again to verify their statements and prevent him from lying!"

Although he wanted to ask for a statement, Lin Zhengyi was also afraid that the other thief would realize something was wrong and run away, so he decided to arrest the other thief first and then question him.

"understand!"

Zhang Qiang said decisively.

Later!

Lin Zhengyi then returned to Zhengde Street and used the same trick on the remaining thief, catching him red-handed and taking him back to Ronghua Street.

When this thief saw the other two thieves, just like the second thief who was caught, surprise, hesitation, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.

"He also knew the other two thieves!"

Lin Zhengyi thought to himself.

Moreover, Lin Zhengyi discovered that the case is still unresolved.

In other words, according to the system's assessment, there are still criminals in the vicinity.

"Things are getting more and more interesting!"

Lin Zhengyi murmured to himself, his gaze involuntarily falling on the three thieves.

The only way to get to the bottom of this is to interrogate the three thieves.

Chapter 14 A Great Merit Delivered to Your Door

"Put this one aside, I need to ask this one!"

After handing the last thief over to Zhang Qiang, Lin Zhengyi pointed to the second thief and said...

"Yes!"

Zhang Qiang quickly stepped forward and pulled him aside.

But he had just taken the person to the other side.

The second thief immediately replied, "Sir, I'll tell you whatever you ask!"

"Oh?"

Lin Zhengyi looked at him with a half-smile and said, "You're going to tell me already? Aren't you going to put up a fight?"

"As others have already said, there's no point in me resisting!"

The second thief gave an awkward smile, offered an explanation, and then said seriously, "However, I have a small request?"

"A small request?"

Lin Zhengyi sneered, "Do you think this is a wishing well? You think you can just make any request? Let me tell you, it doesn't matter whether you say it or not, it doesn't matter if you don't say it!"

He paused, then pointed to the first thief locked in the car not far away and said, "Just now, the one in that car over there confessed everything about you, which is why I was able to catch you two!"

"But to be honest, I don't believe him, which is why I'm asking you again. But if you have any demands, then I'm sorry, I'll just take what he said as true. He just said that you were in charge of directing him to steal it, and that you were the mastermind!"

"What!?"

The second thief was startled at first, then said viciously, "That bastard Wu Erwu is just as his name suggests, a real traitor. Not only did he confess, but he also tried to pin the blame on me! It's just that he skipped out on the bill at dinner last time and I made him pay. Does he have to hold a grudge for so long?"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but look angrily at the first thief who had been caught, Wu Erwu.

As for Wu Erwu, who was locked inside the car...

Although he saw the second thief's angry gaze through the car window, he was too far away and inside the car to hear anything, so he was completely bewildered by the anger.

This time!

After glaring fiercely at Wu Erwu, the second thief turned to Lin Zhengyi and said, "Sir, I'll talk, I'll tell you everything, I have no demands!"

A hint of joy flashed in Lin Zhengyi's eyes, but he remained outwardly calm and said indifferently, "Alright, if what you say is good, I might consider granting your small request, provided that it's really a small request!"

Initially, he refused to grant the other party's small request because he didn't want them to get what they wanted so easily. If they got what they wanted too easily, they might think his testimony was really important and then take advantage of him.

The reason I'm saying this now is to give the other party a little something in return.

This will encourage the other party to give a more thorough statement.

"Thanks, sir!"

The second thief's eyes lit up. After saying something with a face full of gratitude, he opened his mouth again, as if he was about to say something.

But suddenly!

He gave an awkward laugh, scratched his head, and said, "Well, I don't know where to begin!"

"Don't know where to begin?"

Lin Zhengyi raised an eyebrow and casually said, "Then let's start with your name!"

"My surname is Shi, my given name is Shan, and everyone calls me Thirteen."

"Is there a boss behind that?"

"Yes, I'm with Brother Chang Le Fei Hong!"

Chang Le Fei Hong?

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhengyi narrowed his eyes, and the information about Chang Le and Fei Hong involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

Chang Le is a third-rate triad in Hong Kong, with a total of three or four hundred official members. Including those who are nominal members, the total number is about one or two thousand. Because the triad is weak, its territory is basically in some unwanted corners of Hong Kong.

Fei Hong is the most powerful leader in the Chang Le Gang, also known as the head of the gang.

His territory was in the Tsz Wan Shan area, and he had over a hundred official underlings.

Their main business is theft.

That's right, steal!

Theft is something that any large gang would disdain.

On the one hand, it affects the reputation of their own gang in the underworld, and on the other hand, it also affects the gang's business.

The gang's business generally comes from collecting "tea money" (also known as protection money) on their territory, as well as valet parking, running bars, dance halls, bathhouses, and so on, plus prostitution, gambling, and drugs.

But without exception, all of these businesses are affected by thieves.

These days, there's no mobile payment, so people basically carry cash when they go out. If there are thieves on your turf, people can come to your turf and have their money stolen before they even have a chance to play. Not only do they not get to play, but they also lose a lot of money. Who would want to come back next time?

If no one comes to play, the business will naturally go out of business, and if the business goes out of business, there will be no tea fee.

Valet parking, bars, dance halls, bathhouses, and the like are even less of a concern. If no one comes, where will you get cars for valet parking? If no one comes, how can bars, dance halls, and bathhouses stay in business?

The same applies to things like prostitution, gambling, and drugs.

How can people play if their money has been stolen?

These things are all illegal, they only want cash, and nobody knows if they'll get arrested the next day, so you can't basically buy on credit except for very regular customers.

Therefore, large organizations generally disdain stealing.

For them, the hidden losses from stealing are far greater than the small amount of money they earn!

But Fei Hong was different.

The Cheung Lok Gang was a third-rate triad with little power to engage in prostitution, gambling, or drugs. Fei Hung's territory, Tsz Wan Shan, was one of Hong Kong's notorious slums, so they couldn't collect much in tea money on a daily basis.

Based on this, and considering that Fei Hong has over a hundred official underlings, supporting these underlings would cost a lot of money, even though the gang doesn't pay for employees' social insurance and housing fund like a company does.

As a proper subordinate, shouldn't you at least pay him enough to eat?

If you can't even get enough to eat, who will want to be with you?

To feed more than a hundred underlings, a considerable amount of money is required.

The meager resources available in impoverished areas like Tsz Wan Shan are simply insufficient to meet their needs.

There was no other way; in order to make money, Fei Hong had to engage in theft, a business that the big triads looked down upon.

While large organizations might not be interested in this business, the potential profits are still quite attractive to small organizations like Chang Le.

As for the impact on business

Changle has virtually no business, so how could it be affected?

The above information was obtained by Lin Zhengyi from internal police documents.

Based on the movies he watched before his time travel, he also knew that Fei Hong had a special person under his command, Little Stutterer!

The female lead in the Young and Dangerous movies.

Of course, although Chan Ho-nam is now a favorite of Brother B, there is no news in the underworld that he killed Bobby, so naturally he doesn't know Little Stutterer yet.

Thinking about it!

Lin Zhengyi continued, "Are you stealing because you need money, or do you have some other purpose?"

"Brother Fei Hong said he was going to do some big business, and once it was done, he would give each of us a large sum of money. But because of insufficient funds, he arranged for more than a hundred of us craftsmen to steal things and cars in Yau Ma Tei. Each street was assigned one to four or five people based on the flow of people!"

"Once we steal something, we have to hand it over to one person, who will record it. Then Fei Hong will arrange for it to be sold. Fei Hong will use the money from the sale to start a business. After the business is finished, he will return the principal and interest to us!"

Shi Shan explained, "Soft-footed Cat and I, the last person you caught, were assigned to Zhengde Street. Ronghua Street has a lot of traffic but few people, so Wu Erwu was the only one assigned there!"

He paused for a moment, then said angrily, "That kid is probably afraid of implicating Brother Fei Hong and getting punished by him, plus he has a grudge against me, so he said I was the one who ordered it!"

Craftsman?

Well, stealing can be considered a skill, and it wouldn't be wrong to call it a craftsmanship, right?

However, after hearing what he said, Lin Zhengyi finally understood why the system had not closed the case, even though Wu Erwu had just said that he had no accomplices, and Lin Zhengyi had not found any accomplices.

In Wu Erwu's mind, an accomplice is someone who steals together. People like Shi Shan, even if they are from the same gang, don't count. Lin Zhengyi's mind is similar to Wu Erwu's. He believes that an accomplice is someone who cooperates in stealing.

However, in the system's understanding, members of the same gang who are assigned the same task are considered accomplices.

Therefore, the case has not been closed.

After figuring it out, Lin Zhengyi felt a little excited.

why?

Because Shishan said they have over a hundred skilled craftsmen!