The night was dark and the wind fierce, black clouds veiling the moon. The Yuhua River lay in deathly silence.
The large ship had sailed two or three li.
"Hall Master Jiang, we can begin."
A Canoe Gang disciple spoke to the man at the front.
Just as Jiang Tian was about to nod, one of his subordinates suddenly ran over.
"Hall Master, we found a fishing boat smuggling people across. They're casting their nets..."
Jiang Tian's face turned ashen. "They still dare run boats in secret? They clearly don't take our Canoe Gang seriously. Go deal with them. Leave a few pieces of their corpses floating down the river."
"Make it look like the work of a water monster."
"Someone above has been sent to investigate the water monster anyway. We'll pin everything on it."
This stretch of water fell under his jurisdiction. A prohibition had already been issued, yet they still dared violate it.
Within three days, this was already the eighth smuggling incident. It infuriated him.
They refused to pay the Canoe Gang and still wanted to go out on the river to fish? Dream on.
"Quick, ram the boat and kill them, then chop them up."
Feeling Hall Master Jiang's fury, the Canoe Gang disciples aboard the ship trembled in fear. They hurriedly increased speed and rammed toward the fishing boat ahead.
On the fishing boat, a young man and a middle-aged man watched the three-meter-tall ship bear down on them like a monstrous flood beast.
"Oh no, the Canoe Gang found us! Run!"
The middle-aged man's face paled in alarm. He and his son desperately began rowing.
They had merely wanted to take advantage of the dead of night to catch some fish to sell at the market. Their family was already so poor they