Although Lian Ho-lung of Chung Yee Shun had held back, planning to settle the score when an opportunity arose, others might not be able to.
Especially once news of Yu Lanjian's arrest spread, it was like pouring a bucket of oil onto a spark.
Yu Lanjian had escaped even when the entire Yi Kwan was wiped out, only to be arrested in this sweep. The other gangs had suffered countless losses too, and they hated this "cleanup" operation with a vengeance.
Only Hongxing and Kowloon Walled City had suffered no losses.
Hongxing had been explicitly excluded from the sweep, while Kowloon Walled City was a city within a city, cramped and chaotic inside. Even the police got nowhere when they went in.
Apart from them, every other gang had lost plenty of businesses and had plenty of underlings arrested.
"Fuck, over a dozen catties of my stuff!" Fire Ox of Wo Shing Wo sat in a chair, smoking one cigarette after another, the floor at his feet covered in cigarette butts.
The current market price of No. 4 Drug was five hundred thousand a kilogram. Over a dozen catties meant several million.
He could still afford that loss, but so many of his underlings had been arrested, including several trusted men, that he was terrified someone would give him up.
After all, too many people had been arrested this time. It would be hard to make arrangements for them all, and any one of them might name him.
He was hesitating over whether to flee.
Although he still had some savings, he would have little income after fleeing, and he would lose his power too. He would have to keep his head down and behave himself.
But if he didn't flee and someone gave him up, he would spend the