The Black Heaven Hideout

The Black Heaven Hideout is the Xiaoying Gang’s main base of operations.

Gang members donate at least $50 for gang funds each, with funds their food supply, weaponry and merchandise, alot of their funds come from other gangs.

Appearance
It is a medium to large-sized mansion located in a wealthy neighborhood several miles away from The Docks, there is a backyard with a lone tree that Liu Wei was tied to when he was captured, including several deck chairs that gang members used to supervise him.

The gang tend to put notes outside, such as telling dog owners to pick up after their dogs, to tell religious preachers not to come here, and Mila and Mi-Yung’s muteness and deafness repsectively.

On the outside of the house, there is a bunch of drawn signs on paper laminated, one is about dog fouling, which reads “PICK UP AFTER YOUR FUCKING DOGS, WE AREN’T HERE TO PUT IT IN THE FUCKING BIN, WE AREN’T THE DOG SHIT FAIRY”, This sign was likely made by Lei Chao, who doesn’t like dogs and it appeared during November 2001, the year Lei joined the gang, It is noted that Lei makes most of these signs and are filled with profane language.

Shortly after 2015 after Lei had Xiu-mei, he wrote an extra message “TWO OF US NOW HAVE TWO BABY GIRLS, IF THEY GET SICK BECAUSE YOU CAN’T FUCKING PICK UP YOUR DOG SHIT, YOU WILL WAKE UP WITH DOG SHIT IN YOUR MOUTH”

A note written by Maria reads “We do not accept religious books such as Bibles at our door, thank you, To any Jehovah’s Witnesses, please go to the next house.” appears near the door.

During Halloween, a sign with a sad pumpkin reads “NO TRICK OR TREATERS, Thank you and enjoy your evening”

Shortly after Mila and Mi-Yung joined the gang, a note that reads “One of the women living here is mute“ featuring a smiley face with the mouth crossed out and a note reads “One of the women living her is deaf and cannot here, please be patient with her” featuring an ear with a cross over it.

Features
The house has at least 17 bedrooms, many with their own toilets and it also has a basement Feng Zheng uses to test poisons and even make it, which is accessed by a room beside the cupboard.

Maria’s room is noted to have a siderooml

The kitchen is connected to the backyard and the living room, the living room contains many game consoles, including ones that the gang stole and there is also a bookshelf.

Female and male gang member’s rooms are gender segregated that can be accessed via seperate stairways, with female bedrooms on the left hallway and male bedrooms on the right hallway, with the exception of Jiayi and Lei, who both sleep in the same room downstairs, this is noted by the Chinese characters “男“ and “女” on a sign of each hallway which means “male“ and ”female” respectively, male gang members such as Longwei are free to go into the female hallway if it’s to wake up Maria or spend time with her, other than that, male gang members are not allowed in female rooms and the same for the females in male rooms.

Akara’s room is located the female hallways, aswell as Xiu-mei when she is under her father’s care.

In the mainroom, there is a clipboard discussing the money donated by gang member, plans for the future and planned heists, due to the 2019-2020 coronavirus outbreak, a note that is written reads: “All trips to China have been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak”, In March 2020, Maria wrote “It’s now a fucking pandemic, Keep your guards up, anyone ill, please stay home”, because of the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, gang members are forbidden to leave if ill and must wear protective gear when outside.

Due to the pandemic, Fumei and Xiu-mei, Lei’s wife and daughter are temporarily housed in the hideout so Lei could be with his wife and daughter since travel is restricted.

Trivia

 * The guise for the hideout is a a place for orphaned and troubled Asian-Americans that won’t fit in a foster home or in a home.