Longmen Memoirs

No one dares to set this precedent. After the news here is leaked, they will become the enemies of the entire Syracuse family, and they will no longer have a foothold in Syracuse.

But there is also a premise, and this premise lies with Chen Mo and Texas.

If the two local forces of Troca and O'Gorman were folded into the hands of two outsiders, Cao Zhi would be able to clear his suspicions. No matter what method he used to obtain the city and the smuggling network he mentioned, at least On the surface, the infected people have nothing to do with this matter.

Chen Mo thought that maybe the group of infected people he had mentioned before about the attack on the O'Gorman family's warehouse would probably be disguised as members of the Troca family. Maybe they had some other tricks. No doubt Cao Zhi was interested in it. He took the things inside, but there was no telling whether he would take the things and evacuate Grava as he said before.

Of course Chen Mo didn't trust this Jiang Qi person. It would be better to say that neither of them really trusted the other.

"I just hope that in your script, you won't treat me as a bargaining chip later." Chen Mo looked at Cao Zhi and said, "You understand what I mean."

"I don't want to go against you, Brother Chen. I also think that there is no reason for us to confront you now." Cao Zhi spread his hands and said, and he put the knife in his hand back into the sheath on his waist.

"Where is my wife now?"

"She is safe for now."

"temporary?"

"When we leave here, I guarantee that she won't lose a hair on her head."

"Ha." Chen Mo sneered: "How are you going to leave from here? Let's talk about it first. There are at least hundreds of enemies waiting for you and me outside. Every place where you may leave from here will be targeted by snipers. I dare to We guarantee that we will be discovered the moment we emerge.”

"The buried explosives will be detonated from the outermost perimeter first. We can take advantage of their confusion to go downstairs and avoid the sight of snipers. We have prepared an exit passage downstairs."

"Are you leaving first?" Chen Mo asked.

"of course."

Cao Zhi nodded.

"Don't play tricks."

"will not."

Chen Mo looked at the detonator in Cao Zhi's hand.

A few seconds later, violent explosions sounded outside the building. The fire caused by the continuous explosions illuminated Chen Mo's voice standing by the window. He heard chaotic shouts downstairs.

"Who? Who detonated the explosives without authorization."

"It's not us, boss. The explosion came from outside."

"What the hell happened."

"The streets are blocked."

"This is a trap! *Syracuse expletive*, where are the Ogman family, what are they doing!"

"It was the Troca family who ambushed us."

"Fart, the explosives were set by the O'Gorman family. They want to get rid of us. Brothers, follow me and give these bastards some color."

"What the hell did you say? It was obviously you who did it."

"Kill them! Kill these despicable bastards."

"You dare to hit me!"

"Stop! Stop everyone." The leader of the Troca family loudly ordered the crowds colliding with each other, trying to stop the chaos: "Whoever dares to attack, I will kill him first."

"Stop it!" the leader of the O'Gorman family also shouted.

"He wanted to kill us."

A man dressed as a gangster pushed through the crowd and rushed in front of the leader of the O'Gorman family. He was covered in blood, and his original appearance could not be seen with the smoke on his face.

"Boss, the Troca family attacked our stronghold. The brothers who stayed in the stronghold were all dead. I took advantage of the chaos and escaped. They wanted to get rid of us. It's over, it's all over."

The leader of the Troca family opened his eyes wide.

"What did you say!" The leader of the O'Gorman family grabbed the collar of the panicked subordinate, "Say it again."

"The stronghold, the stronghold is over, the warehouse, the things in the warehouse have also been robbed." His subordinates shouted with a cry.

The face of the leader of the O'Gorman family changed and became completely gloomy.

"No wonder, no wonder, why did the people of the Troca family suddenly say that they want to temporarily cease the war? It turns out that they are waiting for me here. Okay, great, great. It's a great move to eliminate the firepower."

"Wait a minute...Listen to my explanation first. There is a problem with this matter. Our people are all here!" The leader of the Troca family hurriedly explained.

There were already many conflicts between the two families.

"What else do you want to explain at this point, Trocavante!!!"

"This is a trap! Someone is slandering us. If I really want to do this, we can do it now, but think about it, use your brain, what good will this do to me!"

"There are many benefits. Don't think I don't know. You have long wanted to swallow up the entire smuggling network in one person."

"fart!"

"Brothers, come on! Avenge the dead brothers of the family! What are you waiting for?"

A family thug knocked the Troca family member in front of him to the ground with a brick.

The crowd suddenly became confused again.

The person who did it looked at the chaotic crowd, looked at each other, threw away the weapon, and quietly exited the center of the chaos.

"Families in small places are always in trouble, and they will fight for a little profit."

Behind the chaos, the man put down the telescope in his hand.

"Then you won't stop them?" The person next to him looked at him sideways and asked.

"Didn't you take action too, Charles? The leader of your family was killed, and the murderer came to our territory. If you hadn't been your own waste, the place would have become as troublesome as it is now."

"Don't talk about us, several of your Terin heirs were also killed by others."

"Who knows if it was you who did it? You and your crazy leader are becoming more and more unruly. I would like to advise you that such a family will not last long in the history of Syracuse."

"Watch what you say, Trin."

"If I don't pay attention, the only thing standing with me now will be your body, Charles. If we can't catch that guy, there will be no good consequences for us."

The man named Trin replied and put his hands back into his coat: "Now it seems that there are more people disrupting the situation than I expected."

"It's not important. What's important is which of us can catch the murderer in the end and take their or our own body back to the family." Trin said, turning around and walking towards the door on the roof: "Their farce is over. Now it’s our turn to do it ourselves.”

Chen Mo followed Cao Zhi towards the passage downstairs.

He heard a noise outside.

He was not familiar enough with Syracuse and could only vaguely recognize a few words.

"It's really lively outside." He said casually as he watched Cao Zhi pull back the dark panel blocking the passage.

Cao Zhi held a flashlight in his hand and climbed down the ladder.

"They're fighting."

"Did you do something wrong?"

"How many brothers are there?" Cao Zhi replied, watching Chen Mo jump down the ladder. The noise faded away, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet. Only the light of the flashlight illuminated the dark passage.

The sound of footsteps was extremely clear in the darkness.

The same scene, different people, the moving city is always connected to an abandoned corridor that leads to nowhere. This is a trace left by human creation, and it usually becomes the road that is best used by the people at the bottom of the city.

Cao Zhineng could feel Chen Mo staring at him from behind. Perhaps he was a little uneasy, or perhaps he felt a little uncomfortable after suddenly becoming quiet. He suddenly asked:

"There is an interesting saying. I wonder if you have heard of it, Brother Chen."

"Oh? You mean Rat Road."

"It's the Rat Way. Only rats live in such dark places."

People in the city have an interesting saying that they call this kind of road that extends in all directions the rat track, because only rats live in the dark sewers and lead a scavenging, dirty life.

This statement is very accurate, but it is not accurate enough. The infected people outside the city have their own way of living, and the infected people in the city also have their own way of living. Life always pursues living, and there is an innate resistance to death. This is nature. Inevitable nature, desire for survival, dependence on being alive.

"Before my brothers and I came to this city, the infected people here lived like rats. They relied on the underground passages extending in all directions under our feet to avoid being cleaned up by their families and the city, and carefully collected some food. , starving, and sometimes I just couldn’t hold on any longer, so I would steal something quietly. If I was lucky, I wasn’t discovered, but if I was not lucky, I would be beaten to death on the spot and the body would be thrown out of the city.”

"I'm listening." Chen Mo signaled calmly.

"I can see that Brother Chen, you are not an ordinary person, and no ordinary person has your ability. In fact, we all know how the infected people live. It is the same everywhere. I don't think I have the ability to change this. I just If we want to make life a little better for our group of people, we don’t need sympathy or even respect from others, as long as we can live a little better and smoothly, that’s enough.”

"But you took advantage of them." Chen Mo said. "Use that group of infected people to capture this town for you."

Cao Zhi's footsteps stopped and then continued to move forward.

"You mean taking advantage? Yes, I took advantage of them, but I don't think I was wrong. I did feel sorry for some of the infected people. They believed in me, but I never told them my purpose." Cao Zhi said: "But as long as I capture this city and completely control the entire smuggling route to Leitania, their lives and ours will only get better and better."

"I've heard many people say the same thing as you. Before you really realize what you said, maybe you really think so in your heart, but the truth is, I don't say it, you said it yourself... It doesn't count." Chen Mo said: "Besides, these have nothing to do with me. Whether it's you or the infected people under your control, whether you use them or sincerely consider them, these have nothing to do with me."

"Ha, I guess that's what you'd say."

"Then your guess is absolutely correct."

"People like you are used to seeing life and death, so you are rarely willing to get into any trouble with things that have nothing to do with you."

"No, I'm just too smart. If it weren't for this and if I weren't just a little bit capable, I think you would be the only one walking on this road now, right?"

"I don't think so." Cao Zhi said.

"But I think so." Chen Mo replied calmly: "There are many capable people. Brother Cao, you and I are barely one of them, but those who are capable can still survive. Now only you and I."

"..."

Cao Zhi skipped the topic and asked after a few seconds: "I'm curious, Brother Chen, what's in the box you're carrying?"

"Guess what?"

"arms."

Chen Mo didn't answer. 【&>

Cao Zhi didn't continue to say anything.

Outside the O'Gorman family's residence.

The infected people disguised as members of the Troca family were hiding some of the supplies they had stolen from the O'Gorman family's warehouse. They were very smart, and they only stole part of it, and set the rest on fire. This batch of goods in their hands will no longer cause trouble.

"George, why are you back?"

Jim looked at the two figures limping over from outside. When he got closer, he saw clearly that they were George and Byron.

"Boss Cao asked us to withdraw first." George said, supporting Byron. "On the way back, Byron was shot in the leg by a crossbow arrow from those idiots."

"I'm fine, Uncle Jim."

"You're okay. Come on, here are a few people. Take Byron to Dr. Dorian. The doctor is inside. You stay, George. I have something else to ask you."

"I won't leave even if you don't tell me."

"Stinky boy."

George watched Byron being helped away.George hung his head.

"Actually, it was Byron who pushed me, otherwise I would have been the injured one."

"You're such a bastard, you've always acted like you're not afraid of anything, but now you've finally learned to feel guilty." Jim looked surprised.

"Don't hurt me. It's not that I feel guilty. I just feel that Byron is usually timid and I look down on him. But I didn't expect...well, I was saved by him once."

"What a big deal." Jim patted George on the shoulder. "It's good that nothing happened. How is the situation at Boss Cao's place?"

"He took the outsider to the place we had arranged before. Boss Cao was worried that the man would see the problem, so he deliberately separated from us."

"That guy is not simple. Boss Cao probably can't figure out his methods. This is the first time that Boss Cao has been so interested in him."

"But the Luper he brought is still in our hands," George said. "He probably won't fall out with Boss Cao."

"I can't say for sure. Who knows if that Luper is his wife."

"Looking at the way he cares so much, right?" George was a little unsure.

"You, young man." Jim sighed softly, "Some things are not as simple as you seem on the surface."

"Oh, I'm somewhat interested. I wonder if this...infected uncle can tell me something?"

A slightly curious voice suddenly sounded behind the two of them.

The two of them turned around subconsciously.