Zhou Quan had spent years laying the groundwork for operations against the Golden Triangle Drug Den.
This secret plan had already begun when he was still a Police Force Senior Assistant Commissioner.
As his authority within the Police Force gradually grew, so did his support for the plan.
Over the years, the Police Force had done far more than plant undercover officers within the Eight-Faced Buddha Group.
Using Fang Xinwu as a stepping stone, the Police Force's undercover informants had spread throughout the depths of the Golden Triangle Drug Den.
At present, excluding the small-time drug traffickers, the Golden Triangle could roughly be divided among five major drug syndicates.
The largest of them was the Nuo Ka Group, which Zhou Quan currently regarded with the greatest vigilance.
A year before Hong Kong Island officially returned to the Motherland's embrace, the Golden Triangle's sole overlord, General Khun Sa, the founder of Double Lion Globe Brand, had surrendered.
His trusted confidant Nuo Ka had taken over nearly seventy to eighty percent of the Khun Sa Group's power, forming what was now the most brazen syndicate in the Golden Triangle, the Nuo Ka Group.
Nuo Ka himself used drugs and acted with arrogant recklessness.
An incompetent soldier compromised himself; an incompetent commander compromised his entire force.
With Nuo Ka behaving this way, his subordinates naturally followed his example closely.
This left the Nuo Ka Group utterly unrestrained and lawless in the Golden Triangle.
Without Zhou Quan's early involvement, Nuo Ka would certainly have perpetrated the Mekong River Massacre, killing thirteen of their compatriots.
Below the Nuo Ka Group stood the Puzha Group, nominally the second-largest drug syndicate in the Golden Triangle.
It was only nominally second because the Eight-Faced Buddha Group was even stronger than the Puzha Group.
However, under Fang Xinwu's deliberate