old dream

Chapter 110 No longer a hostage

In any case, three Capello leaders are certain to be executed.

One of Capello's leaders stood up with a livid face. If he had a gun on his body now, he would definitely pull it out and shoot at Marizio and Giulio, but unfortunately he didn't.So he could only angrily throw his chair on the ground, making a loud noise.

He raised his hand and pointed one by one at the people sitting at the table, who were also looking at him when the conversation was interrupted by the noise.

Finally the leader's fingers fell on Marizio:

"The 'underground mayor' is just a dog in the hands of the Anhe people."

He cursed like that.Accused Marizio, as the leader of the Sincilian tribe in Stade, but tied the hands and feet of his compatriots for the ban of the League.

After finishing speaking, he rubbed his shirt vigorously, and walked out of the venue.

The remaining two bosses also quickly recalled that most of the decisions have now been settled, and there is no point in listening to others slowly discussing how to sentence themselves to death.

So they also dropped their chairs and left the venue.

Most of those present understood that bloodshed was somewhat inevitable.

Those already tied to the bootlegging business will continue to resist.

However, new meanings have begun to emerge behind the name Julio. Capello will welcome his patriarch again, so most of the three bosses will no longer follow them to death wholeheartedly.

The intensity of the fire merger is reduced, but it is still a fire merger.So who will do the hard work?This requires the five patriarchs to continue to discuss.

Afterwards, the discussion on various details and other topics lasted for another three hours, and Colin felt drowsy.

I always feel that this should not be the appearance of gang members getting together to discuss things, but a group of government officials wrangling over certain decisions.

But having said that, for the Sindhili community, the Five Hands originally assumed certain functions of social governance.

Some people say that they are the authorities in South Stade, and it is not entirely unfounded.

After all the details were finalized, several patriarchs breathed a sigh of relief.At this time, Marizio added another one at the end.

"Dirty Fingers Dejo must bring a gun to the field if there is a need for fire."

The big boss rubbed his signet ring, looked at the bewildered Dejo with a smile and said:

"In this way, I will not further pursue his offense to me."

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One day after the Five Hands meeting, Colin had just left the Holy One Theological Seminary when he saw Giovanni not far away.

Giovanni did not greet him.Ke Lin also pretended not to see the other party, and walked home as usual.It was a while before he turned into a deserted alley, and Giovanni followed.

This is how they approached this time.

They walked side by side for a while without a word, before Giovanni told Colin about the movement on the lampkeeper's side:
"Arecio intends for you to stop Julio's approach."

"Why?" Colin asked unmoved, "Threatening with the withdrawal of inhibitors?"

According to the results of the follow-up discussion at yesterday's meeting, the Chestalo family must terminate the protection of Giulio in the near future.

After all, "protection" can also be regarded as coercion and control.

But until Julio is able to secure her own life, her safety will remain with the Chestalo family.

So at least during this period, Arecio still has to provide inhibitors for Colin and Luca, because they hold Julio's personal safety.

Giovanni said:

"Alessio has been suspicious of you, whether it's suspicion of witchcraft or suspicion of bootlegging."

"He can't open the shooter's head, so he can't know what happened in the speakeasy."

"But he was obviously not reconciled, so he spent the night alone with the corpse last night. The corpse was already smelly, but in the end, he really found something on the dead man's clothes.

What?Colin was slightly taken aback.

"Beside the gun holes and the bloodstains, there are still some traces of thin glue. He pointed it out to me and I couldn't see it. It's really inconspicuous, but he found it."

"I heard that you used red graphite water and darkness to kill the gunman in the speakeasy very well."

Giovanni compared his fingers to pistols as he walked, as if he still kept the fun of a child, with only one eye open, and he shot with his wrist up and down:

"In the dark, everyone shoots at the redstone fluorescent marks. In such a messy situation, no one actually knows who they are shooting."

Colin stopped, and Giovanni was in front of him.

Giovanni looked back at Colin with some doubts. He didn't know whether he was surprised that he stopped suddenly, or he suddenly saw another side of this person from Colin:
"Before you turned off the lights, were you the one who sprayed the shooter with red graphite water?" Giovanni asked.

Colin looked at Giovanni calmly and did not answer his question directly.

In fact, if Ricardo and the others had observed carefully at that time, they would have discovered that there was one more redstone marker in the field at some point.

At that time, there were more than nine moving targets in the field, one more or one less, and it was difficult for the human eye to detect this difference.

What's more, even if someone noticed it, they would think it was a new target discovered by others.

In that darkness, even the gunman himself may not have realized that he was shot by his companion's bullet.

"sharp."

Giovanni said in retrospect, he imagined that it was an assassination with almost no flaws.

The red graphite water on the clothes of the dead gunman evaporates and fades over time, leaving only a very thin layer of glue traces in the end.

No matter how patient he was, it was only luck that Aresio was able to discover such details last night.

And this cannot be taken as evidence, because it is impossible to prove when the glue was sprayed on.

"If you don't deal with a shooter, you won't be able to insert people from our side, so that all of Julio's actions will be under Luca's sight."

Colin said quietly: "If there is no other way out, I will never be soft."

Even if the other party is just an innocent person.

Giovanni looked at Colin, and caught a look of pain in his eyes.

Giovanni sometimes even intentionally killed people to find excitement, but he rarely did things so viciously and thoroughly without leaving any traces.

He knew that Colin was not a bloodthirsty person, and sometimes he would have some extra warmth.But when necessary, he will do even worse than a villain like him.

What exactly is chasing him, enslaving him, making him do these things even against his own nature?

While Giovanni was curious, he was glad that he was at least luckier than him.

Because I have less kindness than Colin, I don't have any resistance to dirty work, and even try to find fun in it.

Although the feeling of all the fun and excitement brought to me over the years has been like syrup after being continuously mixed with warm water, it is tasteless, but it brings more unattainable desires.

……

"Although those traces cannot be used as evidence, Arecio has made up his mind to deal with you," Giovanni said.

Colin nodded. This was expected, otherwise he wouldn't need to hastily take risks to improve his strength.

Of course, Colin would not tell Giovanni the fact that he is now a Ziyue wizard.

In the confrontation with Aresio, his real hole card is definitely not this strength.After all, the Lantern Keeper has killed dozens of Ziyue and even Chixing's wizards.

Perhaps in front of a knowledgeable powerhouse like Aresio, only the power of surprise can be regarded as power.

Colin didn't answer Giovanni's reminder, instead he asked another question:

"Those plots that Julio made yesterday."

"Did you remind her to do this?"

If Giulio's strategy was instigated by someone, Giovanni was most likely to be that person.

After all, he is the one who most hopes that the Capello family can continue and revive.

"Do not."

Giovanni denied, "I didn't expect much from her."

I thought that if anyone was going to be the patriarch, it should be you.

"But after hearing the news yesterday, I think Capello's prospects are much clearer."

He said with emotion:

"I just wanted to struggle to the death, but I didn't expect to bet on the right place."

"Then will you stop Julio?"

Colin stared at him and said that the man was always baggy and unpredictable.

If Arecio wanted Julio to remain under protection, which side would you be on?
"No." Giovanni thought about Neville's entrustment to himself:

"If Arecio is bad for Capello, he will be my enemy."

That is to say, he has the same interests as Colin for the time being.

…………

Julio's transformation is a surprise to most people.

Several leaders, including "Dirty Finger" Dejo, decided to cooperate with Julio's plan without thinking too long.

Thus, what remained of Capello regrouped.

The five major families began to take over the remaining property of the Capello family. At the same time, several families also sent representatives to check all the accounts of the three subordinate branches within a week.

After everyone's suspicion of bootlegging has been ruled out, the people under the three bosses will be reorganized into "alcohol detectives" within the Five Hands to attack other bosses who have violated the prohibition.

The number of the three bosses, including the "soldiers" and all the "crows", was around 600.

But there may be less than 100 people who are really going to be executed, or who will resist.

In the past, if a member of the Sincilian Group wanted to transfer from one leader to another, he needed the approval of both leaders.

Such swaps are rare, and if a member changes affiliation for his own advancement, or even if it's perceived as such, he's likely to tarnish his reputation.

This would be seen as some kind of betrayal.

So at the venue, Marizio also made an amnesty: If a member wants to break away from the guilty leaders, he does not need anyone's permission.

As a result, before the evening of the next day, more than forty "soldiers" joined Julio's side.

Overnight, the name of Giulio Capello took on a different meaning in the underground world of Nanstadt.When people who know some inside stories mention her, they often have an unbelievable tone.

She is not yet 20 years old, but she single-handedly pulled a behemoth like Capello back from the brink of collapse in the five-hands meeting.

And only a few days ago, most people mistakenly regarded her as a "waste".

But no matter how noisy the people outside were talking about, the apartment where Julio was in was as silent as ever.

After saying goodbye to Giovanni, Colin went directly to Giulio's residence.

It was still Chestalo's gunmen who greeted him.

Until the representatives of the five great families complete their investigations of the three subservient branches, Giulio's safety will remain in the hands of Chestalo.

Colin came to Julio's living room along the familiar corridor, and found that she was sitting cross-legged on the sofa indecently, shaking her body back and forth boredly.

But the whole person is much more angry than ever before.

When she saw Colin coming up, something seemed to light up in her eyes.Standing up on the sofa gently and deftly, then walked to the ground barefoot:

"How is it? Are you satisfied?" She asked, although it was not obvious, but there was a hint of showing off in her tone.

If the Capello family has really become a "drinking detective".Then for Ke Lin's underground bootlegging career, it will also have an unimaginable boost.

This means that the Five Families will have less direct surveillance of bootleggers, and Capello will become a force that can be used to wipe out most competitors in the bootlegger market.

Even Colin himself didn't think that Julio could do this.

Earlier, she had guessed the differences between herself and Luca through the title of "man" and the content of the statement.

So when he persuaded Ricardo on the carriage leaving the speakeasy, Colin didn't deliberately avoid Julio.

As a result, Ricardo didn't take the prospect of prohibition to heart, but Julio, who was sitting across from him, had a clearer understanding of the current situation.

So she will make such a strategy yesterday, the purpose is far more than just to save Capello.

This is something that even Marizio who was present did not expect, it is deeper.

"I'm convinced by you that Prohibition will fail. If the Five Hands don't change their minds, they will disappear."

Julio said with a smile, she half bent down and put her hands behind her back, making her look playful and at the same time more elusive.

"You did very well."

When he said this, Colin hesitated again.

Because he wasn't sure if Julio's rapid growth was a good thing for him.

Julio's eyes are always out of focus, looking blankly and don't know where to look.

What is her purpose?
This question has become increasingly important and confusing without realizing it.

"Then let's make a deal," she said, turning.

Transactions occur between equal individuals.

I am no longer your hostage, Colin.

(End of this chapter)