He had never imagined that after he spent a mere two or three days in the "Immortal Realm" taking care of a few things, these people would seize the opening!
"A few days ago, a large shipment of Holy Salt worth over five hundred million entered Lower River, but the police seized it. The people behind it suffered heavy losses. When they learned that my uncle had been the strongest supporter of the ban on Holy Salt, they assassinated him in revenge. They even left a packet of Holy Salt beside his body."
Brazen. Utterly brazen!
Tang Changsheng asked evenly, "What happened to the Holy Salt they seized?"
"It was stolen!" Deng Xiancheng said helplessly. "They used heavy weapons in broad daylight and opened fire on the police. Six officers have died in the line of duty, more than ten have been wounded, and three are still in critical condition...
"It wasn't that the police were incompetent. For one thing, no one expected those terrorists to use heavy weapons. For another, it seems experts in Daoist arts took part in the operation..."
Tang Changsheng listened in silence. So this was Ultimate Care. So this was Holy Salt.
It had not been long since the incident at Skanda Temple. Only a small amount of Holy Salt had entered Lower River then, yet Tang Changsheng had already tried to forestall trouble by stopping any more from coming in.
Now, it seemed the trafficking network was established and had begun shipping into Lower River on a massive scale!
Back then, Tang Changsheng had worried that the stuff might one day flood Lower River. He had never expected it to happen so soon, with five hundred million worth of it already brought in.
Was Ultimate Care behind this? Were those people still bent on