Among the various areas of Hong Kong Island, Kwai Chung could hardly be called the countryside, but it certainly was not a prosperous district.
In fact, it had originally been rural land, but as Hong Kong Island continued to develop, even land in the countryside was put to use.
The construction of Public Housing Estates and the relocation of most industrial buildings to the outskirts had made the social environment in these rural areas rather complicated.
People from every walk of life, the good mixed with the bad-that was a true picture of Kwai Chung.
Compared with the former Kowloon Walled City, the disorder in Kwai Chung was naturally hardly worth mentioning.
But there was no denying that public safety in an area like this was bound to be worse than in the prosperous districts of Hong Kong Island.
The complicated mix of people meant that darkness was bound to lurk within such areas.
By now, there was no longer any room for the various triad factions to survive on Hong Kong Island.
Or rather, those relatively clean and law-abiding Triad Societies had already gone legitimate, becoming lawful, compliant commercial organizations.
The most representative examples were undoubtedly the New Wo Hing Group and the Hung Hing Group.
The Police Force remained highly vigilant toward commercial organizations that had gone legitimate after starting out as Triad Societies.
But until those organizations broke the law, the police would not launch direct operations against them.
Yet although white, representing the positive side of things, held the dominant position in this world, that was not the whole picture.
In the shadows, gray and black could never be completely eradicated.
Take the two principal suspects involved in Cheung Tak Biu's rescue operation: the two Gou Hok Jai, Ho Wai-lok and Wong Kwan.
Although they lacked