Life 1984

Li Yunhai knew that in recent years, Hong Kong was indeed a bit chaotic, with all kinds of people doing all kinds of things and various gangs running rampant.

Some people take risks and engage in smuggling.

There are also people who dare to rob the rich with just a few guns without caring about their lives.

However, what puzzled Li Yunhai was why these people wanted to hijack the ship?
From an economic perspective, the cost of hijacking a ship is very high!
Mobilizing so many manpower and resources, and using so many speedboats and guns!
For these robbers, this is a business, a trade!
They are not fools, it is impossible for them to do business at a loss!
So, who are they targeting?

Is it just to rob these ordinary tourists?

Or do you know that there are rich people on the ship today?
Li Yunhai couldn't help feeling uneasy.

Does anyone know I'm here?

Aren’t these people coming for me?
Thinking of this, Li Yunhai couldn't help but frown and lowered his head.

The richer a person is, the more he fears death. This is human nature.

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.

People wearing golden shoes are more afraid of being stabbed without knowing it.

Ding Qiang, Zhuang Yong and others were also very conscious and protected Li Yunhai and Su Wan'er behind them to prevent them from becoming the target of the robbers.

At this time, the leader of the robbers, the middle-aged man in a white suit, grinned, revealing two gold teeth.

He stretched out his right hand holding a cigar, pressed his hand in the air, and said, "Everyone is very well behaved! I am very relieved! We are here to seek wealth, and we will not kill anyone if we can avoid it! I promised you at home that as long as you are all obedient, you can all go home safely!"

No one at the scene dared to speak, for fear that they would become the target once they opened their mouths.

The man in white suit looks lively, as if he has become the master here!
He slowly scanned the room with his eagle-like eyes, pointed at a white-haired old man, and said with a chuckle, "Mr. Liu, nice to meet you! Please come out and talk."

The white-haired old man is very dignified. Although he is old, he stands straight and his face looks calm and fearless.

He strode forward and said calmly, "What do you want to do?"

"Mr. Liu Jianhua, it's great to see you again! Do you still remember me?" the man in white suit asked arrogantly.

"I'm sorry, I'm old and my memory is bad. I don't remember who you are." Liu Jianhua said calmly, "I have a lot of friends in my life, but I have never met anyone who pointed a gun at civilians!"

Li Yunhai thought, this person is Liu Jianhua?

He probably heard about some of Liu Jianhua's deeds.

Liu Jianhua is one of Hong Kong's richest people. Although his net worth is not high on the list, he still has assets worth tens of billions.

He started from scratch and is in the real estate business. He owns several buildings and earns tens of millions of dollars every year from rent alone.

This is a very low-key wealthy man and also a very traditional person. He has always been with his wife and has never been involved in any scandals.

I just don't know why he appeared on this ship?
Li Yunhai is a wealthy man from the mainland and did not buy a cruise ship in Hong Kong.

If rich people like Liu Jianhua want to enjoy the sea view, they can buy their own boat.

Of course, not every rich person likes to buy planes and yachts.

It's just for fun occasionally, there's no need to spend tens of millions on it.

The man in the white suit glared, "Liu Jianhua! Open your eyes wide and see clearly! Do you really not recognize me? Ten years ago, I worked in your Liu Group!"

Liu Jianhua was stunned and looked at the man in the white suit carefully. However, what happened ten years ago was too long ago. He obviously didn't remember who this man was. He shook his head and said, "I really don't remember you! What's your name?"

The man in the white suit snorted coldly, "You are a forgetful person! Let me remind you again. Ten years ago, there was a financial officer in the Liu Group who you falsely accused of embezzling the company's public funds. You forced him into a desperate situation and even sent him to jail! Have you forgotten all that?"

Liu Jianhua was shocked and asked, "Who are you?"

The man in the white suit laughed and said, "I have reminded you so much, and you still remember my name? It seems that you have really forgotten me? Sigh! It would not be too much for you to die here today, right?"

Liu Jianhua tried very hard to recall, but he couldn't remember the name of the man in the white suit. He said slowly:

"Ten years ago, our company did have a major incident. Twenty million of the company's funds were misappropriated! There were seven people involved in the case! Are you one of them?"

The man in the white suit burst into anger and shouted, "I am not involved in the case! I did not embezzle! Why are you treating me so unfairly? They took the money! Are you blind? Or has your conscience been eaten by a dog? You sent an innocent person to jail! My life is ruined because of you!"

Liu Jianhua was frightened by his ferocious expression. He took two steps back and said in a deep voice, "I reported the case to the police and handed it over to the police for trial! I believe the police's correct judgment! They said you are guilty, then you must be guilty! Now you keep saying you are innocent? Who will believe you?"

The man in the white suit walked up and slapped Liu Jianhua hard in the face.

Liu Jianhua was hit so hard that he staggered and almost fell to the ground.

The corner of his mouth was broken and he spat out a mouthful of blood foam.

The yellow-haired man next to him raised the gun in his hand and pointed it at Liu Jianhua's head.

The man in the white suit said to the yellow-haired man viciously, "Who told you to kill him? If you kill him, will you give me money?"

The yellow-haired man said timidly, "Boss, I just want to scare him."

As he said this, he moved the gun away.

The man in the white suit said coldly, "Liu Jianhua, what are you going to give me to compensate me for the ten years of youth I lost?"

Liu Jianhua wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, "The one who convicted you was the police, not me! If you have the guts, go and argue with them and ask for compensation!"

The man in the white suit sneered, "Do you think I don't dare?"

His sharp eyes fell on a man in a gray jacket, and he pointed at him and said, "Officer Zhang, how are you? It was you who sent me to prison back then. Do you still remember me?"

Li Yunhai and others were greatly shocked!
I didn't expect that the police officer who handled the case back then was still on this ship?

From this, it seems that today's scene was directed by the man in the white suit, right?
The officer named Zhang stepped forward and said, "I'm retired now. I've been a police officer for decades. I don't know how many criminals I've arrested. How can I remember them all?"

The man in the white suit laughed loudly, "Really? Do you think you are a great judge? A role model in the police force?" Officer Zhang shook his head, "I just did my duty! I won't wrongly accuse a good person, and I won't let a bad person go! I was the one who handled the Liu Group case! I vaguely remember that seven people were arrested and imprisoned at that time. But I can't remember who they were. If I'm not mistaken, you led us to this cruise ship, right? What do you want to do?"

The man in the white suit said coldly, "I have spent a lot of effort to gather you on this ship! If any of you didn't come, my efforts today would have been in vain! Fortunately, God will not let down those who work hard, and you all followed my plan and came to this ship!"

Li Yunhai didn’t know what was special about this ship today?
What attracts these people?
He and Su Wan'er just happened to meet each other and got on the boat.

Fortunately, this was a revenge attack, not an indiscriminate robbery.

I guess these people can’t recognize Li Yunhai?

After all, Li Yunhai is not well-known in Hong Kong.

He has been living in the mainland and only comes to Hong Kong once or twice a year, always on low-key vacations. He has never participated in any large-scale events or appeared in the news.

Except for some people in the circle who knew him, ordinary people couldn't even see him.

Just like the previous Qiya Film and Television Company, the boss Wu Tianqi was bankrupted by Li Yunhai, and Li Yunhai’s real identity was never found.

Officer Zhang said in a deep voice: "I don't care who you are. Now that you are out of prison, you should be a good person instead of doing evil! I advise you to be kind and not go further and further down the wrong path!"

"Kind?" The man in the white suit said coldly, "When you framed me and put me in jail, did you ever think about being kind?"

Officer Zhang's face froze. "We can't possibly frame you! I don't even know you, and I have no grudge against you! Why would we frame you? If you really feel that you've been wronged, you can file an appeal!"

"Appeal?" The man in the white suit said arrogantly, "Power is in the hands of you rich and powerful people! Who can I appeal to? Which judge will redress my innocence? Who dares to arrest this Liu Jianhua? What I am doing today is not to enforce justice on behalf of heaven, but to seek justice for myself!"

Officer Zhang said in a deep voice: "In this case, every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor. The debt you want to collect is owed by Mr. Zhang and me. It has nothing to do with the other tourists. Let them go first!"

Li Yunhai thought that this Police Officer Zhang looked righteous and was fighting wits and courage with the robbers. He was a good man.

The man in the white suit waved his hand: "You don't have to provoke me! I've said that as long as everyone obeys, I will let you go home completely! Officer Zhang, you can rest assured that I won't take your life! However, I won't let you go easily! You can't escape the debt you owe!"

Officer Zhang looked at the gunmen, not daring to move, and said with a humiliated face, "You want money, right? I don't have much savings, but I still have several hundred thousand in the bank. I can give it all to you."

"Hundreds of thousands? You're sending away beggars?" The man in the white suit sneered, "Look, I made such a big scene, just for your hundreds of thousands?"

Liu Jianhua knew that the other party came prepared. If he didn't bleed today, he would not be able to escape unscathed, so he said, "It's hard to tell who is right and who is wrong in the past! There's no need to make it clear! Sir, since you don't want to kill anyone, how much do you want?"

The man in the white suit stretched out his right hand with ten fingers, and said loudly, "One billion! If you give me one billion, I will let you go! And I will let all the people on this boat go home!"

Li Yunhai thought, this is the Star Ferry, which has two floors and can accommodate more than 500 passengers per trip.

This type of cruise is very cheap, a trip only costs two or three Hong Kong dollars, so many tourists take it and business is particularly good.

In winter, Hong Kong is as warm as spring, and with the return to China imminent, many people come here from the mainland to travel.

There are at least five hundred people on this ship today.

The man in the white suit said loudly, "One billion for five hundred lives! Pretty good deal, right?"

Liu Jianhua frowned and said, "You clearly just want to steal my money! What's the point of you bringing up past cases? You're just looking for an excuse to get my money!"

The man in the white suit said fiercely, "What's wrong? Shouldn't you pay me back what you owe me?"

Liu Jianhua was afraid that the other party would attack again, so he said, "I can't afford 1 billion. You've got the wrong person! Not only me, but everyone on this ship combined can't come up with that much money."

The man in the white suit sneered, "Liu Jianhua, you are worth more than 3 billion! Even if I ask you to take out 1 billion, you won't be willing to do so? You really want to be a miser!"

Liu Jianhua smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, you are wrong. My net worth is over 3 billion, but that is calculated by the media. My real assets are only about 2 billion, and most of them are fixed assets. They can only be considered real money if they are converted into cash. If you want me to take tens of millions now, I can still barely take it out. If it exceeds 100 million, I can't do anything! How about this? I'll give you 30 million! You let us go!"

The man in the white suit laughed loudly, "30 million, who do you think we are? Beggars?"

Officer Zhang shouted, "30 million is enough for you to spend your whole life. What else are you not satisfied with?"

The man in the white suit pointed at his brothers and said, "Look how many brothers I brought here. How much does each of them get? It's not even enough to buy a house! One billion! If each of us gets 100 million, we can still live a rich life!"

Liu Jianhua shook his head and said, "Even if you kill me, I still can't get it out!"

The man in the white suit pointed at everyone present and said, "I'll say it again, I want 1 billion! When all of you here have collected enough money, I will let you go! Otherwise, you will never see your loved ones again!"

Many people on the boat were so scared that they burst into tears after hearing this.

Especially the women and children, they all burst into tears.

One billion!

Most of the tourists on this boat are ordinary citizens. How could they have come together?

Liu Jianhua gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, I'll give you 50 million! If it's more, I really can't take it out!"

The man in the white suit raised his hand and slapped him in the face, saying, "Chop off his left hand and give it to his son. I want to see if the Liu Group can come up with one billion!"

Everyone in the audience was shocked!

Even those who were crying were so frightened that they could no longer cry.

Liu Jianhua said in a deep voice: "Even if you kill me, my son can't come up with 1 billion to save me! If you want my life, just take it. I'm not worth 1 billion!"

Li Yunhai felt that Su Wan'er beside him was trembling slightly.

He held Su Wan'er's hand tightly, signaling her not to be afraid.

Su Wan'er whispered, "Yun Hai, they are desperate criminals. I'm afraid that even if they get 1 billion, they will kill people to silence them."

Li Yunhai pondered and said, "We have no other choice but to take it one step at a time. They have guns in their hands, so we can't act rashly."

He also said these words to Ding Qiang, Zhuang Qiang and others.

Everyone in the audience suddenly screamed!
Huang Mao took out a forearm-length machete, had someone grab Liu Jianhua's left hand, and raised the machete to chop off Liu Jianhua's hand! (End of this chapter)