Rebirth: I Became Mr.President's Beloved-Chapter 1124: I Want to Take a Gamble

A child as thin as a chick did not have any effect on the rescue operation.

With someone facilitating the way, they passed through the checkpoint without any hindrance.

However, just as everyone was getting into the car, gunshots were heard from the direction of the village.

Kun, holding a rifle, rushed out of the residence of a man named Wu, realizing that Wu had abducted his "money tree," he was furious, "Chase! Get them back!"

Wu dared to toy with him; he wanted Wu buried in Shan State!

As he spoke, something occurred to him, and he glanced around the crowd: "Where’s Ruan?!"

At this moment, Ming came over holding a satellite phone.

Ming’s expression was grim, matching Kun’s angry look: "Luoka called. Picha brought people to cause trouble at our special zone venue!"

Picha had always been at odds with them.

"He said the goods we sold to Vino last week were counterfeit."

This was blatant slander!

Kun cursed.

The cars sent to chase after Tang Li had already reached the village entrance. Now learning that Picha had come knocking, he assigned two cars to Ming and prepared to head to the foremost vehicle himself, but a guard with a rifle rushed over: "The warehouse...the warehouse is gone!"

"What’s gone?" Kun didn’t understand.

"The money!" The guard swallowed before continuing: "The money in the warehouse is gone!"

"What!" Kun was infuriated.

That was a whole one hundred million US dollars in cash!

Wu’s money was also placed there yesterday!

Kun jumped off the jeep to rush to his treasury.

At this moment, Wu had become unimportant!

As he stood in the empty warehouse, still unwilling to believe he had been robbed, he picked up a gum wrapper from "Big Bubble Gum" on the ground, trembling with rage, "Investigate! Go investigate immediately! Whoever ate this kind of gum, I want him dead!"

Two jeeps were driving along the rugged mountain road when Tang Li noticed Song Jingtian holding something in his small hand. Out of curiosity, she asked what it was.

The little guy opened his hand, revealing a squished piece of bubble gum.

"It was given by the driver of the car in front."

When the other party took Zhang Delusi·Nalai away, they slipped a piece of bubble gum into his hand.

Song Jingtian turned, looking at Tang Li: "You want to eat again?"

"..." What do you mean by ’again’?

Those unaware might think she’s constantly snatching food from children.

Tang Li glanced at the rearview mirror to make sure Ji Ming and the others hadn’t noticed before finally breathing a sigh of relief, her right hand resting on the edge of the seat, only to be enveloped by a large warm hand.

Song Baiyan said, "Once we return to S Country, you can eat as much gum as you want."

Tang Li’s cheeks burned a little.

"I stopped eating bubble gum long ago." Although knowing it might be interpreted as trying to hide the truth, she still explained herself.

At that moment, the jeep in front was stopped.

Tang Li’s heart once again rose.

Then, she saw a man dressed like a local from Burma approaching.

Yuan Qin opened the front passenger car door, and, once he got out, a man in sunglasses got in, sitting in the front passenger seat and calling Song Baiyan ’Brother Yan.’

Song Baiyan had already let go of Tang Li’s hand and asked the man, "What’s the situation?"

"There’s a checkpoint set up at the border between Kachin State and Shan State ahead."

"They are specifically checking Chinese." The man leaned against the seat and continued, "Kun has a good relationship with Parsong in Kachin State. Every time Kun’s people transport goods, they pass through the checkpoints smoothly because Parsong lets him through. If Kun finds out someone’s missing, he will definitely contact Parsong to help intercept them."

Returning to S Country is not only a single way.

Using smuggling tunnels to cross the border is to avoid alerting any forces. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

The man opened his jacket and took out several tourist visas and passports from an inner pocket, placing them on the dashboard: "If it doesn’t work, use the border crossing between Shan State and Rui City. I’ve already prepared everything."

However, doing this carries a risk of identity exposure.

Nonetheless, the situation within Burma is extremely complex, and the longer they stay, the worse it is for them.

No matter how formidable a dragon, it cannot suppress a pack of desperate local serpents.

Now it’s a situation of having obstacles ahead and pursuers behind.

Song Baiyan made a swift decision: "Tell He Wei, take the route to Mu County."

Mu County, bordering between Shan State and Switzerland in S Country.

The man got off and left, and the two jeeps changed course towards the east.

Tang Li watched through the car window as the man got into an off-road vehicle by the roadside. He wasn’t following them to Mu County; after the cars ’brushed shoulders,’ she withdrew her gaze and turned to ask Song Baiyan: "Is he an S Country intelligence officer in the Golden Triangle?"

Seeing Tang Li’s bright eyes, Song Baiyan smiled: "Do you know what an intelligence officer is?"

"Uh-huh." Tang Li nodded: "When filming ’Mihesha River Action,’ the second male lead’s character was an intelligence officer, specifically developing informants in the Golden Triangle and providing information about the activities of drug lords in the Golden Triangle."

She saw the man fit all aspects accordingly.

"He’s not an intelligence officer." Song Baiyan denied her guess: "He used to be in the same unit, retired and immigrated a few years ago, and now does small business in the border area between the two countries."

Tang Li did not argue but was half-skeptical.

How could a small businessman be so knowledgeable about Burma’s situation?

Although middle-aged men do love to discuss world affairs when gathered together.

His addressing Song Baiyan as ’Brother Yan’ also left a deep impression on her.

With such a significant border crossing for Song Baiyan, if the person were not trustworthy enough, they wouldn’t have been waiting by the roadside just now. After a thorough analysis, she roughly determined the person’s identity, but since Song Baiyan said he wasn’t an intelligence officer, Tang Li cooperated and didn’t dig further.

"What are you thinking about?"

Song Baiyan looked at her suddenly becoming silent and asked with concern.

Tang Li replied, ’It’s nothing,’ turning her head to see Song Baiyan’s expression as usual, different from her current distraction, not showing even a trace of anxious emotion.

——Even though in a few hours they would face the border checkpoints of two countries.

This calmness, wasn’t pretended.

Rather than saying it’s confidence, it’s more appropriate to say it’s strength refined by experience.

Tang Li’s mood was also influenced.

Unassumingly, she reached out with her fingers, gripping Song Baiyan’s left hand firmly.

What her fingertips touched was the man’s strong hand bones.

When Song Baiyan appeared at the village, he was like a deity, supporting half of her world and keeping her away from aimless wandering.

The next second, her right hand was tightly held in response.

Approaching noon, the Jeep drove into Mu County.

A hundred meters away from them was the border trade port between the two countries.

Ji Ming and the others had already changed out of their camouflage gear, scrubbed off the face paint, Yuan Qin took a passport, got out of the car and went near the port, five minutes later, came back, reporting the situation ahead: "It’s not quite normal, there’s an extra checkpoint at the port."

"Moreover, beside the checkpoint, there are two military-plated off-road vehicles."

Yuan Qin’s expression became more serious: "Those responsible for checking are not border guards, if I’m not mistaken, it’s the local armed forces of Shan States."

Meaning Kun used relations to block them at each port.

Song Baiyan instructed Ji Ming: "Call Minister Bai."

Ji Ming took out his cellphone, the front car opened the rear door, He Wei brought over that child soldier.

The child fortunately endured the drug withdrawal symptoms, his complexion still pale, He Wei stood by the Jeep and did not relax his vigil over the child: "After waking up, he’s been shouting ’Lucifer,’ sir, could it be a code from the drug lord’s side?"

Lucifer.

The name was all too familiar to Tang Li.

Isn’t that the son of the bombshell protagonist in "All-Purpose Goddess is a Real Boss"?

She turned to look at Song Jingtian.

The little guy leaned against the seat, glanced at her once, and then turned his head away.

——He certainly couldn’t admit to pretending to be Lucifer.

The child soldier saw Tang Li and Song Jingtian by her side, suddenly became spirited, and spoke: "￥#@#￥&!"

Tang Li understood.

She immediately told Song Baiyan: "He said he knows how to go to the other side without going through the port."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look.

Tang Li didn’t care about anything else, leaned over to communicate with the child outside the car.

The child glanced at Song Baiyan in the car, showed apprehension, and awe.

But when asked by Tang Li, he still answered: "￥#**&."

"He said he can tell us the way across, provided Lucifer promises to teach him how to refine heroin."

It’s Lucifer again.

Due to a guilty conscience, Song Jingtian raised the banner of the rule of law: "Thinking about making drugs at such a young age, we absolutely cannot condone it, he must be sent to the capital’s juvenile detox center for reflection!"

Tang Li ignored him, only talked to the child soldier.

The latter quickly nodded.

Tang Li got a satisfactory answer, turned to Song Baiyan: "Just like the smuggling tunnel on the Kachin State side, there’s one near the port too, last year he was brought here to work, remembers the facade of this port, now he recognized it."

"Could this child be deceiving us?" He Wei expressed the doubt in his mind.

Deceiving them was not impossible.

Tang Li also realized the risk involved.

She couldn’t help but cast her gaze on Song Baiyan once more.

Song Baiyan looked at the child soldier, who instinctively wanted to run but had nowhere to escape, so could only shrink his shoulders and speak, Tang Li heard and translated: "He said if he wanted to harm us, he would have shot at the entrance of the village."

Speaking of which, Tang Li asked him another question.

He glanced up at her, finally answered truthfully.

"He’s had a bit of diarrhea these past two days, hasn’t slept well, was squatting in the bushes for a major affair."

Yuan Qin: "..."

Ji Ming: "..."

He Wei: "..."

Tang Li looked at the armed figures holding guns at the port, even though S country’s border personnel came for negotiation, the other side deliberately made things difficult, they couldn’t pass, might even cause a major confrontation, and Kun could catch up at any time.

Time waits for no one.

In this situation, she couldn’t help but consider another attempt.

"Thinking of finding that smuggling tunnel?" Song Baiyan saw through her intention.

Tang Li nodded, met Song Baiyan’s deep gaze, "I want to take a gamble."

"We can let Yuan Qin accompany me, bring this child along." Tang Li revealed her plan: "I’ll be very careful, the tunnel is right near the separation wall, if he didn’t deceive us."

The answer she received was Song Baiyan’s tightly gripped hand——

"Since we’re going to find it, let’s do it together."

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Going back home!

Two updates combined, good night!