The largest private room in the Red Stone Bar can be seen as a small dance hall. The dance floor can accommodate dozens of people dancing together. Long sofas surround the dance floor on three sides. The extremely wide dark green glass coffee table is filled with various beers and several expensive brandies.
The other side is a movie screen that can play movies, and there are also speakers that can play records.
The most luxurious thing is that you can invite the bar's band and singer to perform directly, and the hourly box fee actually includes the band's fee. Even if you don't want the band's fee, the singer's fee will still be charged, and the singer's fee will be calculated separately.
Lu Ming was drinking and chatting with Deputy Captain Cook, Black Dog Luo, Bone Spear Luo, Black Fox Luo, Gold Jade Luo, Giant Sand Luo and others.
There was a long sofa next to the coffee table on the west side, where a dozen girls were sitting and chatting.
The center of their gathering was the chief minister's wife, Jinzhishimi, and sitting next to her were Suttira and Shivanu.
Today is the weekend, and it is a team-building event for Lu Ming and his close subordinates. Everyone brings their families. Lu Ming wants to bring Jinzhi Shimi, and Jinzhi Shimi naturally has no objection, but timidly asks if he can bring Shiva Nu along.
Apparently, the two of them often stayed in the apartment, and Shiva Nu was very scheming, and gradually became Jinzhi Shimi's friend.
Lu Ming did not object. Jinzhi Shimi was not very social, so it would be good to have someone like Shiva Nu to accompany her.
Here, Black Fox Luo and others were in high spirits and toasted one after another.
After Deputy Captain Cook clinked glasses with Lu Ming, he laughed softly and said, "Captain, was Bruce arrested because the people from the 4th Division often come to provoke our people?"
Black Fox Luo and others immediately pricked up their ears.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "It doesn't matter much, don't spread it."
As they were talking, the door of the box opened and in came another deputy commander of the gendarmerie, Barber, who was also the military prosecutor. The gendarmerie hall held a meeting of military prosecutors in the afternoon, and it seemed that the meeting was adjourned late. His wife had already arrived, but he arrived just now.
At Lu Ming's invitation, Barber sat next to Lu Ming and said with a smile: "Chief General, the 4th Division will be reorganized, and those who have insulted you will be dismissed from their military posts."
Cook smiled and said, "General, the question I asked now has an answer."
Black Fox Luo and his companions were even more excited. They looked at each other but said nothing.
Barber added: "Bruce will be sent to a military court on multiple charges, including treason."
Lu Ming was stunned. "Treason?"
Barber nodded. "In his border area in the country, he had been sheltering Gaide refugees. There was a Gaide settlement of several hundred people living there, but he had been hiding it from his superiors and even provided a lot of food to the Gaide settlement."
Over there, Black Fox Luo and his companions were already cheering with joy, and it was obvious that Bruce had no chance of turning things around.
Lu Ming was slightly stunned. It turned out that Bruce had this side.
Although he regarded the local states in the Western Regions as savages, he recognized and sympathized with the Gad people. After all, they were all white people.
Humans are truly extremely complex creatures.
He looked at Cook beside him again. Cook was also stunned and shook his head and sighed.
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Walking on the long street, Lu Ming felt very complicated.
With Bruce's downfall, one can imagine the cruel fate that the Gaide settlement he had been protecting would face.
I have unintentionally harmed many people. Of course, even without me, Bruce would have gotten into trouble sooner or later. I was just a catalyst, causing Davis, the devil who had been coldly watching everything about Bruce, to kill him in advance.
I don't feel any guilt or regret. Even if I knew the result in advance, I would still do it at my own pace.
I just feel that the higher the position you stand, the more impossible it becomes to want many things to be perfect, and there always have to be trade-offs.
The three women, Jinzhi Shimi, Sutiluo and Shivanu, followed Lu Ming without saying a word. They could vaguely feel that their male master was not in a good mood and did not dare to breathe.
The captain of the guards, Langman, and a dozen guards were all in plain clothes, walking on the left and right, but they were dressed in suits and leather shoes, and each of them was a sturdy man. In addition, with their Sonya faces, one could tell at a glance that they were bodyguards, and the person they were protecting was a big shot from Sonya.
In front and behind the group of people, several military vehicles were driving slowly at the same speed as the pedestrians. The vehicles were filled with soldiers in green uniforms armed with live ammunition.
In the city of Nicolo, General Bit is one of the most powerful figures besides General Dönitz. There are only a dozen or so people like him.
"Oh..." Jinzhi Shimi paused for a moment and then hurried on.
Lu Ming looked at her in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Jinzhi Shimi shook her head timidly.
Lu Ming glanced at her, turned around and continued walking. After a while, Shiva Nu came over carefully and said softly, "Sir, the wife saw her family's former shop. She often played in this shop when she was a child. At home, the wife told me many things about her childhood..."
Lu Ming looked in the direction of Shiva Nu's white little finger, and saw a large opium den with red lanterns hanging high. The name translated into Zhongzhou language means "a place of blessing and longevity", which is similar to the meaning of the Fu Shou cream in the Northern Territory.
"Oh, this used to be my wife's jade shop..." Shiva explained hurriedly.
Lu Ming frowned slightly as he looked at the opium shop. The Kingdom of Sonia banned smoking and drugs, but in the Western Regions they turned a blind eye and only imposed high taxes. There were many drug dealers who came to the Western Regions to seek their fortune.
This opium den is very famous and is registered with the local police station under the General Police Corps. The apparent owner is called Sinaide, an Ounian businessman, but the boss behind the scenes is rather mysterious. According to the secret documents of the First Control, it is speculated that it is the base of another intelligence organization in the kingdom, the "Secretary Office Six".
Secretariat Six is an intelligence organization under the command of the Kingdom's Prime Minister Dumas. It is low-key, secretive, small in scale, but very efficient.
"Langman, go and smash this opium den and arrest the owner!" Lu Ming pointed at the opium den.
I was in a bad mood, so it was a good opportunity to vent my anger. As Sonia was a member of a Gestapo-like organization, I didn't have to think too much.
Moreover, I mainly want to see what the structure of the "Sixth Secretary's Office" is like.
This Sinaide has done a lot of evil things. He is really bad enough to have pus oozing from the soles of his feet.
Over there, following Lu Ming's orders, Langman blew a whistle, and the soldiers in green uniforms immediately jumped off the military vehicle.
Leaving a circle of guards to protect the chief, Langman led the rest of the people into the opium den.
Soon, there were screams from inside and the sounds of banging and smashing could be heard clearly from outside.
Shiva Nu looked at this scene excitedly, her pretty face glowing. For a woman like her, power is indeed the best aphrodisiac, and she can probably understand this sentence very directly.
Jinzhi Shimi was a little frightened, so she moved a few steps towards Lu Ming and hid behind him.
Inside the opium den, one could also see from outside that soon the messy guests no longer dared to say a word, and walked into the hall with their heads in their hands, squatting in several rows by gender. The cold steel guns in the hands of the soldiers in green military uniforms were the fundamental reason why these powerful people quickly went from being arrogant to being little lambs.
This opium den is very upscale, and the customers are either rich or noble.
Two Western men and women were pushed out. The man was quite unconvinced and shouted, "Who are you? Which division are you from? You sons of a bitch, you bastards, don't you know who I am?!" Looking at the sinister look on his face, it was naturally Sinead.
With a gesture, Langman's eyes showed murderous intent.
The man was still yelling when the soldier behind him smashed down with the butt of his rifle. The woman was also hit as well and screamed in pain. She was then forced to her knees on the ground. The man was hit badly with a bloody head. He held his head and wailed on the ground. The soldiers then roughly pulled him up and made him kneel on the street.
The black muzzles of guns were pressed against the necks of both men.
"Commander-in-Chief, were they executed? They kept shouting there and scared my wife." Langman asked in a low voice.
Lu Ming was stunned, seeing that Lang Man looked serious.
Langman didn't know the details here, and he couldn't see the internal secret files of First Control that he had the authority to see.
Most of the first control members such as Langman were transferred from the Gaide area and have experienced too many lawless things.
Langman meant that there must be a master behind this tobacco shop, and the so-called boss who showed up now was just an errand boy. His direct execution was just a warning to the person behind the scenes. How to negotiate next would depend on what the chief wanted.
There is nothing wrong with the drug dealer being executed directly, because he resisted fiercely.
With the Chief's current status and position, there would be no problem in directly executing any other lackeys of powerful people in Nicolo City except General Dönitz.
Moreover, the members of the First Control Group will definitely not deal in drugs, so they still have some purity.
If it is true that a member of the organization is the boss behind the scenes, then we can only hold our noses and swallow our anger.
Nodding, Lu Ming said, "The woman will stay." He then said, "My wife and I will leave first!"
As an increasingly important member of the First Control, you have to adapt to their bloody style of doing things, otherwise you will not get real respect in this organization.
As for Sinead, there was nothing wrong with his execution.
Lu Ming led Jin Zhi Shi Mi and others into the car. He heard gunshots behind him and the woman screaming. He turned around and saw that the Western man had fallen in a pool of blood on the long street.