Chapter 286

In a room in a corner of the city, an old man and a young man sat opposite the mayor’s secretary.

The two were dressed very ordinarily, no different from ordinary people. If they walked on the street and you didn’t keep staring at them, they would blend into the whole street in the blink of an eye.

They were the most standard kind of passersby: ordinary clothes, ordinary looks, ordinary hair, but they had extraordinary identities.

Assassins.

Assassination is a very old profession. From the beginning of human society, assassins began to be active on the stage of history.

Along with priests and prostitutes, they are rated as the oldest professions.

On the coffee table between the two, there was a photograph of Lance’s front face.

He had a smile on his face, looking very handsome, with a hint of shyness, making it impossible to connect this sunny and handsome big boy with the name “Lance Family.”

Let alone connecting him with “a pound of bullet heads”!

The old man picked up the photograph, looked at it for a few moments, flipped it over. A lot of information was recorded on the back of the photograph.

He then handed the photograph to the young man beside him, then looked at the secretary, “I thought he wouldn’t use me until the day he died.”

This sentence actually had many deeper meanings. The old man knew who the mayor was, knew that he was the mastermind behind the scenes, and also knew what he was doing now.

This sentence actually had no meaning of ridicule or mockery, but was simply describing a fact.

A mayor, being forced to the point of using an assassin, this showed that he had indeed encountered a big problem that he himself could not solve.

Under the mayoral system, there were indeed not many opponents who could make a mayor feel powerless.

The secretary smiled, took out half a one-dollar bill from his pocket, and handed it over.

The old man also took out half a bill from his pocket. The two halves were put together. Although they couldn’t be said to fit perfectly, it was basically clear that this was the same banknote.

He put the two half-banknotes together, lit them with a match, and burned them to ashes.

No one spoke during the whole process.

The profession of an assassin was actually not as… interesting as people imagined, nor was there any ranking list.

All the famous assassins eventually died early, just like their former targets.

Only those unknown assassins could live to the end.

The old man had encountered some trouble when he was young. The mayor appeared and gave him a hand, not only letting him survive but also letting his family survive.

To repay the mayor, he promised that he would do one thing for the mayor: kill one person.

Although there is no concept of “chivalry” in the Federation, some people also value promises very much!

Even if it meant they had to risk their lives to fulfill their promises, they might curse you out, but in the end, they would still fulfill their past promises.

For some people, this is the belief they live by, the spiritual foundation for everything they pursue.

The stronger a person’s heart is, the more they care about the things they have promised. The old man was like this. His heart was very strong. He could not avoid this matter.

Otherwise, he would begin to question himself. Everything he owned that made him proud would be shaken, collapsed, and disintegrated.

“This person is very troublesome. It’s not easy to solve him with conventional means. And you know, he’s a gang member.”

“He can break the rules, and he was the first to break the rules.”

The old man’s calm gaze was as if looking at a ball of air, “I don’t care who he is. I came here to repay what I owe him. After I’m done, I’ll leave.”

“But you have to understand, my grandson and I are just gunmen. We are not the kind of assassins who can take down a whole army single-handedly as described in those literary works.”

“He should have told you.”

The secretary nodded again, “Yes, so someone will cooperate with you, find a way to lure Lance out, and then you will get rid of him.”

In fact, strictly speaking, the grandfather and grandson were “snipers.” It was impossible for them to solve a whole army of modern soldiers by themselves, as described in those literary works.

What they were best at was preparing in a suitable place for an ambush, then waiting for the other party to come to their door, and then pulling the trigger!

Bullets can talk!

They can also prove their ability. In fact, compared to being called assassins, he preferred others to call him and his grandson “sharpshooters.”

The old man nodded slightly, “This makes it easier. Last time we met a client, he thought that if he gave each of us a pistol, we could help him solve all his opponents.”

A smile appeared on his grandson’s face beside him. They had finally completed the mission, but the client’s losses were a bit large.

“Our plan is…”

The old man interrupted him, “You don’t need to tell me what your plan is. You just need to tell me where the target will appear, and the rest is our business.”

The secretary was a little unaccustomed to his forcefulness, but considering that the other party was a professional assassin, he took out the prepared map and drew a few circles.

“This is where he lives, this is where he often appears. Now his movement pattern is very simple. Every time he goes out, a large number of people will follow…”

The old man took the map, put it in his pocket, and then stood up, “I know.”

The secretary watched the grandfather and grandson leave, pursed his lips, but thinking that the mayor had told him that this old guy was very formidable, perhaps formidable people are all a bit eccentric.

I hope Lance can hold on this time, a thought came to his mind, and then he was amused by himself!

The assassin was in place. It was time to urge Wolf and the Professor.

When the Professor received the call, he was talking with several small gangs about cooperation.

“If it weren’t for Bill wanting to drive us out, or even kill us, we wouldn’t have fought back so fiercely.”

“And you see, after we got rid of the Red Dog Gang, we didn’t immediately expand outward, but talked with you about cooperation.”

“Although we are outsiders, we now have a foundation in the Port District. In a sense, we are also people of the Port District.”

“The most common thing I’ve heard others say since I came here is ‘Golden Port is so big’!”

The young people in the room couldn’t help but laugh because this sentence had hit their itchy spot just right!

The most proud thing about Golden Port is that Golden Port is big, much bigger than other cities. This sentence, in a way, also reflects the pride and arrogance of the people of Golden Port!

Because they don’t think there is any other city that is bigger than Golden Port.

But in fact, it’s not that there are no cities bigger than it, and more than one. It’s just that these cities may not be as famous as Golden Port and are not well known to people.

The professor’s appearance was very deceptive. He was gentle and scholarly, not fierce at all, and his tone of voice was slow, his enunciation very clear, and he wore a pair of glasses, which made people not feel his threat.

The atmosphere of conversation in the room was very relaxed. The professor’s little trick had a miraculous effect, “What I want to say is, Golden Port is so big, we don’t have to just focus our eyes on the Port District, on ourselves.”

“I hit you, you hit me. No matter what the result is, we are just consuming each other internally.”

“We should set our sights further, to places further away. Priliccia, the city center, the Starlight District…”

“These places where we can make big money are the places we should aspire to.”

“To be honest, even if the Port District is completely occupied by one gang, the benefits we get from here are not as much as a gang in the Bay Area gets.”

“Why should we kill each other for this poor place?”

“This is what I don’t understand the most. Who the f—k stipulated that we people from the Port District can only grab territory within the Port District?”

“If you ask me, we should fight our way out…”

Mr. Black man sitting in the corner interjected, “You’re right…”

But before he could finish his sentence, someone next to him immediately said with a laugh, “There’s no cotton here, brother!”

Everyone understood this joke and burst into laughter in an instant!

The situation of the little cotton-picking experts was not good, even worse than the immigrants.

At least the immigrants were still “people.” In the hearts of some people who had been indoctrinated with traditional Federation thought, this group of people who picked cotton were just animals, not considered people.

The guy from the Black gang who had spoken immediately stood up. He was tall and strong. The laughter subsided a little as he stood up and quickly ended.

The two sides seemed to have a bit of a gunpowder smell. The professor sighed in his heart, these sons of b—tches are so f—king despicable!

But he still mediated, appeasing both sides. The method he used was benefits!

“If you fight now, I’m afraid many people will laugh out loud. I will too, and so will they.”

“Because soon, there will be two fewer gangs to share the benefits with us.”

The people on both sides glared at each other for a while, then focused their attention back on the professor.

“What did you mean just now?” the tall and strong leader of the Black people asked. “I don’t want to waste time talking to a bunch of idiots here. If you have something to say, just say it directly!”

The guy next to him muttered again, “Of course a pig’s brain can’t figure it out!”

Seeing that the two sides were about to have friction again, the professor quickly said, “Wolf and I plan to give two-thirds of the Port District to you!”

With one sentence, all the contradictions disappeared. All eyes were focused on the professor.

In fact, he had twisted a concept. The Wolf Gang did not rule the entire territory of the Port District. They probably didn’t even occupy one-third of it.

So what the professor said about giving up two-thirds was simply nonsense. They had never owned it, so how could they give it up now?

But what he was facing was just a group of social dregs who had not received higher education, and had not even finished high school.

To deal with these people, the professor, as a high school teacher, was more than enough!

As expected, they quieted down.

“Our plan is to give the Port District to you, while we will enter the Empire District.”

“There is only one gang in the Empire District, which is the Lance Family. If we get rid of the Lance Family, it means we rule the Empire District.”

“With the Empire District, whether it’s the city center, the Priliccia District, or the Triangle Area, they all border us.”

“We can then try to touch those places, encroaching on their territory bit by bit, and eventually gain more territory!”

“A bar in the city center is said to make tens of thousands a day, but here, in the damn Port District, a bar only makes a few thousand a day!”

The professor didn’t know that the poor sales of the bars in the Port District were actually related to the dockworkers’ club.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers, if they had a need to drink, would go to the club to buy cheap liquor.

Other bars do business to make money, but the workers’ club is to lose money.

If Lance hadn’t refused non-dockworkers from entering, perhaps their business would be even worse!

The professor’s words resonated with people. Everyone said that running a bar was so profitable, why hadn’t they experienced it?

In the grand blueprint simply described by the professor, what they saw was countless amounts of money!

The Black person seemed very extroverted and had a strong desire to express himself. Perhaps it was because their ancestors were not allowed to communicate when picking cotton and were whipped into their genes, which gave them a strong desire to express themselves now.

“What do we need to do?”

“We have no requirements. Perhaps the only requirement is, don’t attack us from behind!”

“Actually, I hope more that we can become a whole. Only in this way can we have an advantage when we expand outwards.”

“Of course, this is just a proposal of mine. You can think about it. I’m not insisting that everyone has to be together. That’s not realistic, but this is indeed a good way.”

“After the merger, you will still be you, and we will still be us. We will just be sharing a gang name…”

Someone knocked on the door, walked in, and whispered a few words in the professor’s ear.

Then the professor excused himself, left the room, came to the office, and answered the phone.

“Sir?”

“Professor?”

“Yes, it’s me.”

“In a few days, I want to see the results of your action against the Lance Family. Don’t try to stall for time, not even a little bit. At least let us see it.”

The professor bent over and said softly, “Of course, sir, I promise!”

Glancing at the idiots in the other room, the professor lit a cigarette. It was indeed about time.

That night, the members of the Wolf Gang launched a large-scale sweep of the remaining forces of the Red Dog Gang. What was even more incredible was that some other small gangs in the Port District were actually with the members of the Wolf Gang!

This discovery made many people find it incredible. They didn’t know how the Wolf Gang had gotten together with these people, but they knew that the Wolf Gang had become dangerous.

In fact, it was very easy for the professor to achieve this. He just told these people that a large part of the Red Dog Gang’s territory would be given to them.

Since it was for their own interests, how could they fall behind others?

This also led to scattered gunshots being heard throughout the Port District all night long.

As the sky slightly brightened, the Red Dog Gang officially became a thing of the past. At the same time, the Wolf Gang also began to send people to test the waters, setting up a house in the Empire District.

“They opened a bar, right on our turf.”

Elvin felt it was a bit incredible when he reported this to Lance. Are these people f—king crazy?

Actually opening a bar in the Empire District?

But soon he realized that something was not right, so he came early to tell Lance.

Lance raised his wrist and glanced at the time. It was only a little after ten, “The news spread quickly. Who did you hear it from?”

“Some drunkards are spreading it. They say the Wolf Gang’s whiskey has a stronger taste.”

“So that’s how we found out that the Wolf Gang plans to plant their flag on our turf.”

“Should we send people to take care of them?”

Lance rubbed his eyebrows, “We just finished those few things, and now the Wolf Gang has stepped over the line. The mayor must have put pressure on them.”

“Send people to watch them first. I have a feeling they are planning to make a move on us.”

This made Elvin a little nervous, “What will they do?”

Lance shrugged, “He can’t use the police now, and the Bureau of Hazardous Materials doesn’t care about people like us. So the only thing he can use is the gang from Fides.”

“The Wolf Gang is from Fides!”

“Be careful when you go out during this period. Have Morris check it out, see if he can find their core members.”

“If we can find them, we’ll do it again!”

This thing about gangs, once the tip of the pyramid is lost, the people below will quickly disperse.

This is because the gang’s resources are basically in the hands of a few people at the top of the pyramid. Once something happens to these people, it means the gang will enter a state of paralysis.

But this also made Lance relax a little. If it was just using gangs, he wasn’t afraid of anyone!

On this day, some other things also happened.

For example, Charlie once again showed his influence over the police system. Almost all the precinct chiefs went to his villa because the precinct chief of the Port District had also died in the previous attack.

So the word “almost” was used here, not all.

In Charlie’s villa, he talked about many things, for example, the unprecedented challenges the police system had recently encountered, for example, the Bureau of Hazardous Materials was taking away the police’s law enforcement power, for example, “unity.”

Charlie believed that the reason why the police system was now wavering and at a loss was because it lacked a person to stand up and lead everyone in the right direction.

Although he had already resigned and was no longer the police chief, he was willing to act as a bridge between the police system and the Bay Area to help everyone.

At the same time, he also believed that Hunter was a capable person who could lead everyone back to the old times very well.

This gathering revealed a lot of information. Although everyone on the surface agreed with Charlie and let Hunter be temporarily in charge of the overall situation, this actually also caused some people’s dissatisfaction.

He had already resigned, was no longer the police chief, yet he was still trying to use his former identity as the police chief to influence everyone’s choices.

How could this make people satisfied?

It’s just that there seemed to be no other way now, so everyone just pinched their noses and accepted it.

But Precinct Chief Bruce could feel that they were dissatisfied with Charlie, and also a little dissatisfied with Hunter.

A homicide division officer, on what grounds should he be in charge of all of them?

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