You don't even want to call me godfather

Chapter 22 Wiping off the dust

"Quick! Seal off the scene!"

"Where's the ambulance? Didn't I ask you to notify the hospital? The ambulance hasn't arrived yet!"

On his way to the explosion site, Koshe kept in contact with various cadres in the family.

After making various priority arrangements, he called several more reliable party members.

A few minutes later, Koshe arrived at the scene. Several family cadres had already sealed off the scene and set up a cordon.

Seeing Koshe coming, they patted each other on the shoulders to remind each other, and then nodded slightly to Koshe.

"Godson, our people are already cleaning up the scene."

A cadre said to Koshei.

"Where's the Godfather?"

"The Godfather had just left the study at that time and was still far away from the center of the explosion, so he is still alive and was sent to the hospital immediately."

"That's fine, that's fine..."

Koshei was relieved that the Godfather was still alive.

He saw about a dozen gang members standing on the ruins of the explosion, moving rubble and trying to find other survivors underneath.

The flames were almost out, and several members were using Originium techniques to put out the remaining flames.

The Cascade family had a huge manpower base, and they had handled everything to this point in just a few minutes.

Suddenly, Koshe's cell phone rang.

"Hello? This is Cascade."

"Hello? Um... Mr. Koche?"

Angelina's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Angelina?" Koshe was a little surprised. This was the first time Angelina took the initiative to call him, although it was also because she didn't know how to use a mobile phone. "What's wrong? You're calling at this time."

"Well... I heard that there was an explosion in the Godfather's house, and I also heard the explosion in the rental house, so I was worried that you might be involved, so..."

Anjie's anxious but hesitant voice calmed Koshei's anxious mood a little. He comforted her, "Don't worry, Anjie, I'm fine, but... I may be busy again during this period."

"Yeah, let's contact each other after Mr. Koshe has dealt with everything," Angelina breathed a sigh of relief after knowing that Koshe was safe, "Then I won't bother you anymore. See you later."

"Well, see you later."

After hanging up the call, Koshe put away his phone.

"Which hospital is the Godfather in now?"

He asked the cadre just now.

"It's in the private hospital run by our family, godson. You know the place."

"Okay, you guys continue to watch here, I'm going to the hospital to accompany Godfather."

"Of course, godson."

After giving instructions to several cadres again, Koshei rushed to the hospital.

These past two days, he seemed to be on the road all the time, even busier than the period before his coming-of-age ceremony.

At the hospital, Koshe met Jose.

"It seems that I won't be able to go to the club to watch the door for the time being," Jose said to Koshei as he stood at the door of the operating room. "I just didn't expect you to notify me to come here. I thought you would hand this matter over to the cadres in the family."

"I trust you, that's enough," Koshe said, looking at the "Operation in Progress" sign on the operating room door. "I may have to trouble you to stay here for the next few days. Something has happened to the Godfather, and there's no guarantee that someone will take advantage of the situation and break in."

"Don't worry. Since it's a task you assigned to me, is there any possibility that I won't complete it?" Jose smiled bitterly and shook his head. "But I'm still curious about who would attack the godfather of the Cascade family and cause such a big uproar. The citizens of Syracuse are furious now. I have already driven away many reporters who came here after hearing the news."

"Perhaps the murderer wanted to plunge Syracuse into chaos, so she made such a big fuss," Koshei said, although he could not tell Jose the identity of the murderer. He still relied on his understanding of Laplande, "to plunge Syracuse into chaos so that she could take advantage of the chaos to do some looting."

"I think you should know something, brother," Jose patted Koshe's shoulder and said to the latter in a surprised look, "Sometimes you are easy to guess. Being too calm can also make people discover clues, but I won't say too much. Just as you trust me, I will also trust you."

"...Thank you, Jose, but this is my own business, so I have to solve it myself," Koshe smiled bitterly, "Before the Godfather, Jimmy was also killed, and the operation will not be completed for a while. I will go and deal with Jimmy's funeral and settle his family first. The Godfather is left to you."

"It's what I should do. You and the Godfather have given me a lot. I am just contributing a tiny bit of my strength."

After the serious conversation, Koshe left the hospital and returned to the church to find the priest.

He climbed back to the top of the church and carefully removed Jimmy's body from the cross. Before going down, he looked at the inverted cross and turned it right side up.

He took Jimmy's body to Jimmy's home, and handed the body to him in silence amid Jimmy's father's crying.

Jimmy's funeral was hasty, and most people focused on the Godfather and the bombed neighborhood.

However, only a handful of people came to attend the funeral.

Koshe, the old man, some of Jimmy's friends, Destiny, and Javi and others who were forcibly pulled over by Koshe.

When Jimmy's coffin was lowered into the ground, a light drizzle began to fall, as if even God was crying for the passing of this young life.

Brocka brought an umbrella. He was always fully prepared. Several people stood in the rain with umbrellas, watching in silence as shovels of soil slowly covered Jimmy's coffin.

Finally, Koshe took an umbrella and walked to the old man who was kneeling on the ground, helping him block some of the rain.

"Jimmy trusted you the most during his lifetime, godson," the old man looked tired and helpless. He stroked Jimmy's tombstone and said tremblingly, "I hope you can say the final goodbye to Jimmy. I... I don't know how to face it..."

Koshe stood for a moment, then walked to Jimmy's tombstone, half squatted down, and put one hand on the tombstone.

"Dedicated to all the fearless young people who set out with great dreams but failed to return home," Koshe wiped the dust soaked by rain from the monument with his hand, and said solemnly and firmly, "We will wipe off this dust sooner or later, just like we will wash away this shame with blood. Jimmy, you made me see something clearly. I will not let anyone tear down this only monument that records my former friends."

Lapland, if what you call revenge is to harm a person who has never or does not want to harm others, if you call killing an innocent person who is magnanimous and kind-hearted, then...

Then I will stop you, declare war on you, and make you sigh for your own ugliness and feel ashamed of your own contemptibility.

Until the day you repent, until the day you are killed by my own hands.

Chapter 23 City-Wide Wanted

After Jimmy's funeral, Javi and others left first. After all, they were just dragged there to make up the numbers and didn't really know Jimmy.

Several of Jimmy's friends also left, and Koshe asked them to replace Jose to maintain order in the club.

"Brother..." Destiny stood beside Koshei with some concern, and she held Koshei's arm, "Father..."

"Let's go."

Koshe took a last look at Jimmy's tombstone and the old man kneeling beside the tombstone and refusing to get up. He pulled his arm out of Destiny's hand and turned around to leave.

Destiny withdrew his hand somewhat disappointedly and followed Koshe silently.

"Godson..."

The old man, with his back to them, suddenly called out.

"What's the matter, old man?"

Koshe turned around and saw the old man still kneeling there, with his forehead resting on Jimmy's tombstone.

"Can you... tell me who killed Jimmy..."

"..." Koshei was silent for a moment, but then he said, "I will find her and kill her."

"Really?... I'll leave it to you, godson."

Koshe and Destiny left the cemetery, and Koshe stopped while passing through a forest.

"red."

"Hong, always here."

Following Koshe's call, Hong appeared in front of them, but this time, Destiny did not make a fuss.

"Unite all the wolf hunters, issue a wanted order for Lappland, and search all of Syracuse for Lappland. We must find her dead or alive."

Koshe gave the order in the face of Destiny's surprised look.

"Hong, you need to ask 'Grandma' for permission. Hong, you cannot act on your own."

"This is an order, Hong," Koshei said with his head down and his fists clenched. "Since Godfather and Godmother can give orders to Hong, then I should also have that right... Please, Hong, just this once."

Koshe did not get a response from Hong.

But when he looked up again, Hong was gone.

"Hong will do it, don't worry, brother."

Destiny held Koshe's hand, letting his fist gradually relax.

"How do you know?"

"I thought my brother would be smarter," Destiny said with a smile, "but I didn't expect my brother to be such a fool."

"is that so……"

"Don't you have anything to say, brother?"

"No... I'm already tired today. Nothing can surprise me anymore. Even if I go back and find that my house has been bombed, I will probably just dig out a blanket from under the rubble and find a place to sleep..." Koshe shook his head and broke free from Destiny's hand. "Let's go. The Godfather's surgery should be over by now."

Looking at Koshe's back as he walked forward in a depressed mood, Destiny subconsciously stretched out his hand, but immediately put it down.

She didn't know how to comfort Koshei now, or whether Koshei could get out of his depressed mood.

But she believed in Koshei, and believed that her brother, who had always been mature and steady, would not be discouraged. Even in the past, her brother always found a way to cheer himself up again.

He is the eldest son and the pillar of the family. He will not collapse.

Destiny followed Koshe to the hospital.

A boundary composed of family members has been set up outside the hospital. The attack on the Godfather is of extremely serious nature, and the members who respect and are loyal to the Godfather have spontaneously organized a defense line.

Jose was standing at the hospital entrance. When he saw Koshe coming, he immediately ran up to him, grabbed Koshe's arm, and said, "You're finally here, brother."

"What's wrong? How did the Godfather's surgery turn out?"

Jose's rare panic made Koshei feel uneasy, so he asked.

"There is no problem with the operation, but the Godfather is suffering from a serious lack of blood. The hospital couldn't find a suitable blood type. The blood bank was damaged. It is not realistic to do blood typing for so many members at the scene at the same time. Moreover, some members have mineralogy. So they are all waiting for you and Miss Destiny to come back!"

"The blood bank was destroyed?" Koshe thought of something. He took out his cell phone, which showed dozens of missed calls. "My phone was muted just now. Take me to the Godfather now."

"Okay, okay, there's nothing to worry about now."

Jose's tense nerves finally relaxed. He had just promised Koshe that he would not let anything happen to his godfather, but then such an incident happened.

Following Jose to the godfather's ward, several doctors and nurses had already prepared the equipment and were ready to start blood transfusion at any time.

The Godfather lay weakly on the bed, tilting his head to look at the scenery outside the window. The arrival of Koshe and others made him turn his head.

"José, please go out first."

"Yes, Godfather."

Jose obeyed, left the ward and closed the door.

"Start now?"

Koshei asked Destiny to sit next to him, and he walked to the instrument and rolled up his sleeves.

"No, Godson, you will be quite busy in the next few days. The amount of blood drawn will be very large, and it may weaken you..." The doctor glanced at Destiny with some embarrassment and said, "Perhaps, we can let the second young lady come..."

This caught Koshei off guard.

After all, Destiny is not a child of the Cascade family, and it is even more unlikely that his blood type is the same as that of his godfather.

"Let Koshe come," the godfather lying on the bed came to Koshe's rescue and said to the doctor, "Don't worry about Koshe's ability, just rest assured."

The Godfather's tone was weak, but still as majestic as ever.

"Yes, I understand."

The doctor agreed. He called a few nurses over and drew a tube of blood from Koshei, which was then tested using an instrument.