At ten on Friday night, over a hundred fully armed elite officers stood ready amid the ruins of a village house in Sai Kung.
This was the joint command post for the operation against Chung Shing Yee's drug shipment.
Zhou Quan had begun secretly deploying personnel here the day before.
One phone call to Police Headquarters in Fanling had secured immediate, powerful support from Kong Chi Lap.
At that very moment, sniper teams led by Ling Jing were conducting surveillance and reconnaissance from vantage points overlooking the two piers at Tai Wong Chai and Sai Wan Mei.
In addition, a waterborne assault team and two assault teams were on standby.
The commanders of the two land-based assault teams were both old acquaintances of Zhou Quan's.
They were his trusted former subordinate, He Wenzhan, and Gao Wenshan, with whom he had worked several times.
As for Zhou Quan's own men, they consisted of the three anti-triad teams under Chow Sing Sing and Chan Kwok-wah.
Over forty Anti-Triad Unit officers were gathered inside the joint command post, awaiting Zhou Quan's orders.
Although Zhou Quan had initiated this joint operation and served as its overall commander, he did not hold the highest rank in the command post.
Over the past two years, Zhou Quan had taken down both the old and new major Drug Lords in Tsim Sha Tsui in succession.
As a result, Lian Ho-lung did not dare bring his smuggled drugs ashore at the piers in East Tsim Sha Tsui.
The two piers where he would land his shipment that day were both in the Sai Kung area of East Kowloon.
That meant there was no way Zhou Quan could bypass the East Kowloon Police District while leading this operation against Chung Shing Yee.
If Zhou Quan refused to share any