Gangland Tremors! Legend of Mountains and Seas! Gathering from All Quarters! Protect Professor Li! Arrival in Singapore!

May 30, 1926.

On a street east of Singapore, several hundred people had gathered, their clamor throwing the entire street into chaos.

Under normal circumstances, no one would have dared act so recklessly.

Because this was the headquarters of Singapore's largest Chinese gang—Hua Kee.

An utterly ordinary name, yet it was the pillar countless Chinese people across Nanyang relied upon.

Hua Kee was a branch of the Hongmen in Nanyang.

Of course, that relationship was merely one of shared roots; the two gangs were in fact independent.

Much like the North American Hongmen, Hua Kee's motto was: "Help one another, uphold justice in Heaven's name."

In Singapore's Chinatown, it openly raised the banner of "protector of the Chinese," secretly contending with the colonial authorities.

Whenever local Chinese suffered injustice, their first thought was not to seek out the colonial police, but to ask Hua Kee for help.

Its influence was plain to see.

Yet today, the major gangs of Nanyang had gathered at Hua Kee—a grand occasion unseen in decades.

Those who had come to Hua Kee headquarters today included dozens of gangs, large and small, from across Nanyang.

Of them, Ghee Hin Kongsi and the Double Flag Society were the most powerful.

The former dominated Johor in Malaysia, with influence stretching from the underworld to legitimate official organizations.

The latter spanned Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, maneuvering between the British and Dutch colonial authorities.

As for the industries these gangs engaged in, naturally, they were the scraps left behind by the European devils, things they disdained.

Even so, they had kept countless desperate Chinese people in Nanyang alive.

The underlings quickly got acquainted and began shooting the breeze.

"Good heavens, what on earth is happening today?"

"My boss came rushing all the way from Java without stopping."

"I've never seen