Chapter 195: Chapter 111: The Group (Third Update)
On a plane to Mexico.
Su Jie was holding a book, studying the Mexican language.
“Is cramming at the last minute actually useful?”
Liu Yingying, sitting beside Su Jie, asked curiously when she saw this.
Her English was very good, but she hadn’t dabbled in the native language of Mexico.
“It’s not difficult. Once I’ve learned it, I can take you touring around the place and we’ll be able to communicate without barriers,” Su Jie said, flipping through the pages quickly. His Divine Soul was so strong that with a sweep of his Divine Sense, he could grasp the basics of the language. The only issues were fluency and accent.
“You don’t seem nervous at all, but that’s Mexico we’re talking about. Maybe we should forget about the tourism part,” said Liu Yingying, shaking her head repeatedly. She had also done her homework before heading to Mexico and knew how chaotic and dangerous the country was.
Here, unlike in the Mande Region, there was no large contingent of Jieke Security, which always caused concern.
“We’re going on business, they’ll be more than welcoming to us,” Su Jie responded without lifting his head. If they encountered an unreasonable business partner, even without a single member of Jieke Security present, Su Jie could easily handle the danger. Liu Yingying just didn’t know that the greatest protection came from right beside her.
With more than 1.96 million square kilometers of land and 120 million people.
Despite being so close to the United States, the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, and sharing a 3,000-kilometer border with it, the people living here are exceptionally poor.
When it comes to Mexico, the impressions one gets about the country are chaos and violence.
In this country, the most infamous thing is the prevalence of opium.
For decades, the opium trade has become an important pillar of Mexico’s economy, with over 500 cities involved in the smuggling of opium.
The main reason for this is the proximity of the United States, the world’s largest consumer of opium.
Currently, more than 60% of the world’s opium is sold to the United States, with nearly 10% of the US population being drug users.
The several thousand kilometers of the US-Mexico border undoubtedly make it the best location for the production and distribution of opium.
The annual trade in opium between the US and Mexico, valued at thirty to forty billion dollars, has fostered a thriving opium industry within Mexico’s borders and countless drug lords.
Even if a drug lord is taken down, driven by enormous profits, more will continue to emerge and enter the trade.
Te Lu City—a city near the US-Mexico Border, and also a major center for drug trafficking and criminal activity.
At the airport, Su Jie walked out with Liu Yingying.
They had planned to hail a taxi to the hotel, but unexpectedly, the taxi took them to an increasingly remote location.
When the car stopped on a desolate road, Su Jie felt the local customs were quite simple.
The taxi driver got out quickly and blew a sharp whistle.
Outside the taxi, several locals responded to the sound and warmly welcomed Su Jie and his companions. One by one, black handgun muzzles were pressed against Su Jie’s forehead.
“Hand over all the money you’ve got.”
“Hurry up, you yellow monkey, can’t you understand what I’m saying?”
“And the woman, we can have a good time with her.”
These hooligans used foul language and were wildly enjoying the situation.
Liu Yingying bit her lip in the back seat, trying to maintain her composure.
“Ah, I feel your warm welcome, so as a return gift, I’ll send you on a trip to hell,” Su Jie replied in Mexican Spanish with a strange accent. With a stretch of his hand, a gun flew from the grasp of a thug straight into Su Jie’s own hand.
Su Jie held the handgun, aimed it at the thug’s forehead, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
A gunshot rang out, and the body heavily fell to the ground, with fresh blood oozing out of the bullet hole right between the eyebrows.
Just as a few thugs began to react and were about to pull their triggers, several gunshots almost sounded at the same time.
Three lifeless bodies lay on the ground, and finally, Su Jie looked at the driver who was leading the way, pointing the handgun at him.
“Are you going to take me to the hotel, or do you plan to sleep here like them?”
The driver was terrified and nodded hastily, “I’ll take… take you to the hotel.”
The car continued to start, and Su Jie also sat back in the back seat, resuming his reading as if nothing had happened.
“Su Jie, you’re so skilled!”
Liu Yingying was astonished. She had asked why Su Jie hadn’t brought a few Jieke Security guards with him; now she understood why.
“Haven’t you felt it in bed?”
Su Jie raised an eyebrow, causing Liu Yingying’s pretty face to blush.
“This place is too dangerous. We should have brought more people.”
Liu Yingying clung to Su Jie’s arm, the dangerous gazes of those Mexicans towards them, if not for Su Jie being there, she would never have come to this place.
“It’s okay; I’m here.”
He comforted Liu Yingying with a few words, telling her not to worry.
Chit-chatting along the way, they soon arrived at a hotel in the city center.
Su Jie got out of the car with Liu Yingying and entered the hotel.
Behind them, the taxi sped away with a slam on the gas, fleeing from Su Jie, this dangerous person.
“Wait until I notify the boss. Killing our brothers and thinking it will just end , wait for your beheading.”
The expression on the driver’s face was no longer sycophantic but full of hatred.
As he spoke, the driver suddenly felt a pain in his neck. Reaching out, he slapped and killed a strange bug.
“Where did this bug come from…”
The driver didn’t finish his words before his body became paralyzed, unable to speak, his body convulsing violently.
The accelerator beneath his foot uncontrollably floored, and the car charged straight towards a thick concrete wall.
Liu Yingying took out some information, which were gathered using the means of Jieke Company, including some intelligence within Mexico, among which were the largest drug lord organizations in the country.
Te Lu City was the headquarters of one such organization called the Tijuana Drug Lord Organization, which ranked in the top three among many groups trafficking opium in Mexico.
Their main work was cultivating and selling opium, and they also dealt with some human smuggling businesses, helping people from various countries scale the border wall and enter into the United States to breathe the sweet air of freedom and realize the American dream.
“This man is named Huarez Gusman Loera. He is the head of the Tijuana drug trafficking group, the number one most wanted criminal in the world.”
Liu Yingying pointed at a photo of a bald man with a very fierce face.
“I like the look of him, so I’ve decided it’s going to be him.”
Su Jie nodded in satisfaction. This man had strength and was a good partner to work with.
To complete the smuggling of Tianyuan Hair Growth Liquid, it was necessary to rely on local forces, as it was impossible to do it alone.
And these arrogant and brutal drug traffickers were just the partners Su Jie had chosen. While others feared to work with such people, Su Jie, a Demon Cultivator, found these opium sellers to be just little darlings in his eyes.