On Sunday, in a villa in a southern city, five well-dressed gentlemen sat at a gambling table. The chips on the table were piled up like a mountain. The game had been going on for more than four hours.
For gamblers, time is never a reason for them to give up playing. As long as they have one dollar in their pocket, they can sit still for a while, and maybe a miracle will come.
A round of cards is over quickly. For these gamblers who enjoy the instant adrenaline stimulation of winning or losing money and get the pleasure generated when their heartbeat speeds up and their blood pressure rises, the game method does not need to be very clever, but It has to be simple and exciting.
What they are playing is this kind of gameplay. Each person is dealt three cards in turn, then discards a card in his hand, and then shows the cards in his hand. The points and suits have different opinions, but overall it is very simple.
It's a very simple game that doesn't even require brainpower. Although some people think that such "matching" requires brains and skills, in fact it doesn't.
The ante bet in each round is one dollar, and you can raise during the three dealings, and you can raise once after discarding your hand, for a total of four opportunities.
Four opportunities were enough to make the chips piled up to more than a few hundred yuan in several of the poker games. These people kept blushing and their hearts beat faster, and then kept quiet. There was a special atmosphere in the air, which made people involuntarily fall into excitement. .
Just when these five people were playing so happily that they seemed to have forgotten the time and place, a gentle knock on the door startled them.
They all looked towards the door and then looked away. When playing cards here, no one has cash in their pockets. They use chips for settlement. After the card game is over, they directly calculate the gains and losses, and then settle the bill with cash checks.
This made them not worry about whether the people outside were police officers. One of them sat on a chair and stepped back some distance, stood up and walked towards the door, "Who is outside?"
"Takeaway delivery man, hurry up, I have something to do." The voice coming from outside the door was a little distorted when it passed through the wooden door. At this time, everyone noticed that it was almost seven o'clock, and it was indeed the time to eat. .
I didn't feel it just now, but now that I was reminded like this, everyone felt a little hungry.
Their original plan was to have a big meal after the game and continue playing in the evening, but now someone was so considerate that they even brought takeout for them. It seemed that they could save some time for eating and use it for playing cards.
The man who opened the door didn't suspect anything. First of all, this is a wealthy area, and the service company's security work is very good.
Most of the high-end communities in the empire will install some very useful alarms in the rooms for the owners. Just click hard, and the security duty room of the service company will dispatch personnel to rush over immediately. It only takes a minute or two at most.
Secondly, there are very few fools who go to high-end communities in wealthy areas to commit crimes. It’s not that you can’t find money here. Of course, this is also a reason. The most important thing is that those criminals know very well that they can’t afford to offend all the people in a city. Rich people.
If a rich person is harmed, other residents living in this community will be fearful, restless, and angry.
These are ordinary people who have such emotions. They can only hold it in or secretly find a place to vent. But for the rich, the rich and powerful, they will spend money.
Solving problems by paying rewards has always been effective. Although the police do not advocate this method, they will not stop it. After all, they have to deal with some criminals.
In addition, these five people are not the only ones who know about this bet. There are also some other people who know about it but did not come this time. There will always be some good friends who are thinking about their stomachs. This is a normal thing, and they may even be among them. Someone had already ordered takeout, but they forgot about Burrough.
For these reasons, the man opened the door directly, and then looked at the alarm button next to the door.
"If I were you, I wouldn't do that!" The young man who opened the door was wearing a round felt hat and a high-collared black windbreaker. The muzzle of the gun in his hand almost stuffed into the mouth of the person who opened the door. , there was a clear tendency to tighten the finger on the trigger, and everything fell into deathly silence.
Others quickly poured in behind the man in the trench coat. These people all had weapons in their hands, and they quickly took control of the situation in the room.
No one would have the courage to do something misleading when several pistols are pointed at them.
Finally, two more people came in from outside the room.
Three of the five people who participated in the bet almost screamed because one of the two people who entered the room later was the local mayor, Mr. Schnoder.
The person standing next to Schnoder was his wife, with some inexplicable expressions on her face. She walked up to the five people, carefully examined each one, and stopped in front of the fourth person who was already trembling slightly. footsteps, then raised his arm and slapped him.
The slap was very forceful and the snap was very loud. Half of the man's face, which was about 1.75 meters tall and at least 150 pounds, was quickly swollen and the corners of his mouth were split. A cut was made, and bright red blood slowly flowed out.
This is the man who has been threatening and intimidating Schnoder's family some time ago, and also made blood bombs to frighten their children.
During the negotiation between Schnoder and Powers, he demanded that the man must apologize to his family. That is to say, this man showed up at Schnode's house after the incident, slapped himself in the face, and apologized to his wife. Apologize for what you have done during this time.
Legally speaking, a single piece of evidence cannot be used as key evidence to "defeat" the defendant. If you want to convict the defendant, there must be a chain of evidence that can fully prove each other.
This man is a link in the chain of evidence.
Schnoder's wife returned to her husband, pointed at the man and said, "That's him. I will never forget his appearance and the shock he gave us."
Schnoder comforted his wife, and then looked at the man in the trench coat next to him, "I'll leave the rest to you, but can I ask, how do you plan to deal with him?"
The man in the trench coat grinned, "He will receive the holy baptism!" After saying that, he tilted his head. The two gunmen raised their weapons and hit him on the head several times. After the blood and flesh were blurred, He was also knocked unconscious.
The man in the trench coat asked Schnoder and his wife to leave here first, and then asked someone to load the man into the car and send him away. Then he looked at the other four pale and sweaty guys and smiled.
This smile was very ordinary, but it made all four of them tremble. One of them's legs trembled violently. After holding on for less than five seconds, he fell to the ground and quickly knelt down again.
"Write down your name, home address, and workplace. If you are not lying, then this matter ends here..."
Then someone took a photo of them and checked the information they wrote through their own channels to ensure that they were not lying. The man in the trench coat who was sitting at the gambling table playing with the chips nodded with satisfaction.
He patted his legs and stood up, "Very good, sir. You are very cooperative. This is good. There won't be any misunderstandings between us."
"But I need to remind you that if I hear anything after today that has anything to do with what happened today, I will personally host a memorial service for your family."
He walked up to one of them and flicked the dust off that person's shoulder. "Do you understand?"
Without waiting for these people to express their stance, he turned around and left. The gunmen in the room were all gone in an instant.
The remaining four people looked at me and I looked at you and started packing their things without saying a word.
They knew what happened some time ago, and this was something that the man named Ade used to show off recently. After all, being able to threaten the mayor's family was definitely not an ordinary thing, and it was enough for a middle- and lower-class person like him to show off.
So now, his consequences have emerged. Whether these people are Schnoder's people or someone else's, it means that their mayor is not as simple as he appears.
There were almost ten gunmen, and these people could smell a hint of cold murderous intent from their bodies. They might have really done something.
Everyone has their own survival instinct, and they are no exception. They have even thought about taking their families out for a trip immediately, and then come back when the storm is over.
On the other side, Schnoder's wife felt a little uneasy after she vented her anger, "Dear, how do you know these people, will they implicate you?"
Schnoder soothed his wife's anxiety and whispered in her ear, "I found a new backer, you know, that person!"
His wife was stunned for a moment, and then quickly responded, "But... I heard someone said that you don't... have any conflicts?"
Schnoder smiled self-deprecatingly, shaking his head while laughing and sighing, "No one can be independent of the rules of the game in this world, and neither can I. And there is no conflict between him and me. This work On the contrary, it gave me a rare opportunity.”
He squeezed his wife's hand tightly, "After more than thirty years, I finally see hope..."
At night, the noisy city is covered with a quilt called night and gradually falls into a deep sleep.
In the station warehouse, Ade woke up from a coma. The pain in his head was like an ax embedded in it, and the brain was about to be broken.
Some vague memories came to him completely after being punched in the face. He screamed like a drowning person and took a deep breath, and his whole body tensed up.
With the dim lights and some people hiding in the shadows, he struggled hard for a moment, but it was useless. He was tied to a chair.
At this time, a man hidden in the shadows suddenly spoke up, causing him to become silent.
"Mr. Dulin has a few questions that are not clear to you. Maybe you can answer them for him?"
(End of chapter)