old dream

Chapter 229 Inertia

"Things are well done, as beautiful as ever."

A few days after the assassination, Colin and Luca reunited at the Aspen Hotel.While packing up the stack of cash that had just been counted, Luca said at the same time, with the smoke of a cigar in his mouth:

"Marizio would never have ended so quickly without you. Well done, Colin."

Luca, as always, was generous with the compliments.

But while giving such an evaluation, his brows were still tightly frowned.After Luka put all the piles of cash into his leather bag, he stopped what he was doing, as if lost in thought.

"...To be honest, I hate what these old guys are doing."

He patted the leather bag and said:
“In this age where gold is everywhere, they are still wrestling with the vendettas and rules of 100 years ago. So I always feel that if we don’t bury these people with those old ideas, our organization will never move forward. "

"Killing Marizio or Barain looks to me like knocking down the old pillars to build a new one - eventually I'll tear down these old houses in Five Hands whole and then we'll be on top Build new buildings."

Luca has mentioned this ambition more than once, and Colin has also considered these issues along his lines.

So he thought about it, and replied:
"But it will take a long time before the house completely collapses."

Tradition has inertia, let alone an organization like Five Hands that relies on tradition to maintain.

Even if Luca becomes the new big boss, change will not happen overnight.

"yes"

When Luka said this, he sighed slightly.

"So until then, I also had to abide by, and even use those old rules..."

He seemed to be talking to himself.I found that even in myself, there was also inertia left.

After another moment, Luca seemed to have made up his mind.He didn't hesitate anymore, stretched out his right hand and pushed the whole bag of cash on the table to Colin.

Colin looked at the bag in bewilderment.It is estimated that there are more than 6000 Ori in it, which is almost a huge sum of money. After all, it is worth ten hours of income.

But what is this money for?Colin's eyes turned to Luka again, because he began to not understand the other party's intentions.

Luca went on to say:

"Some things, I thought I didn't need any extra reminders."

"what's up?"

Luca stared into Colin's eyes to confirm that he was not pretending to be confused:
"The condition I said is that you must kill Marizio yourself."

"Yes."

As Colin said, he was still wondering whether the fact that he let Marizio leave Stade alive had been exposed.

But now, is it really that important whether the previous big boss is still alive?

"Then in order to prove that you 'personally' did it, shouldn't you take a photo of the scene when you pulled the trigger?" Luca said.

Colin was momentarily bewildered by the request.

"What are you talking about? At that time, there was such a chance that a photographer could go in with a camera?"

"Of course I know, after all, this is my plan." Luca said:

"But there was no opportunity at that time, and it does not mean that there is no opportunity now."

"What do you mean?" Colin felt a strange feeling in his heart.

"I've spoken to the detectives. Now you can always go back to the scene and find a fat guy who's about the same size as Marizio and retake the 'then' photos."

"Will anyone believe it?" said Colin incredulously:

"I posed for a few minutes before shooting for photographers?"

"Yeah, it's hard to fix now." Luca said, "I thought you knew how to do it."

"How to do what?" Colin frowned.

Luka gritted his teeth and stopped going around in circles:

"I thought you—knew there was evidence to be left there."

Leave evidence that you are the murderer.

"..."

It was only now that Colin suddenly realized that he had been mistaken about a premise.

Luca said: I want you to kill Marizio with your own hands.But it turns out that the focus of this sentence is not in the back.

What he cared about was never Marizio's life or death.It's "Colin killed the big boss".

why?
"Because the person who kills the patriarch will never be the patriarch." Colin murmured.

He hadn't paid attention to the affairs of the five hands for so long that he had forgotten these most famous rules.

Because of the momentum of the "manly man" and the support of Marizio, Luca has regarded himself as a threat.

"But if I leave evidence." Colin recovered and said:
"I will be hunted down by the Caruso family forever, and the police detectives will confirm that I am the murderer..."

"So I'm going to give you another 6000 Ori." Luka said:

"After you perjured yourself, you immediately hid in another city. In other words, I hired you to leave Stade for 6000 Ori for a period of time..."

"And during this period of time, everyone in Stade will believe that I am the murderer?" Colin asked back.

According to the rumors a few days ago, some people said that Colin killed Marizio and knew the details of the plan.those news...

Was it you who spread it?

Colin originally thought that Luca came to cooperate with him out of trust.But I didn't think that this in itself was a kind of precaution.

"What if I can't leave?" said Colin.

Use 6000 Ori to make "Heinrich" put down the important deal at hand and leave Stade?What a joke.

"Then I can only think that you still have plans for the position of patriarch." Luca continued: "Otherwise, I can't explain why you let Marizio go."

Sure enough, the watchers that night were Luka's people.

Colin only now came to his senses and found that he had fallen into a trap.

Not Luca's trap, but Marizio's.

The elderly patriarch made perfect use of the information gap in his hands.

If you don't know that Colin is the "Lieutenant", then it's hard to believe that he will give up the position of "Big Boss" for the Redstone business in another city.

The two seem to be equivalent, but one is won by oneself, and the other is donated by others, and the degree of stability of the status is completely different.

"Colin," said Luca:

"If there is no 'Lieutenant' from the north, then I will be happy to hand over the Caruso family to you."

"But now only by letting me organize the five hands together can it be possible to stop the threat of the Anhe gang."

And bring unprecedented feats to yourself.

"Trust is necessary, but so is testing," Luca said:

"So I say one last time, if you have no intention, please leave Stade for a while."

Colin was silent for a moment, and said:

"I said, I can't leave at this time."

"You have been hiding something from me." Luka said, "Is this what you have been busy with? So you want to take this position from me?"

"No." Colin gritted his teeth and said, "But I can't explain it."

A lie breeds more lies.

Things that are not visible will bring bad luck.Even if they have not been brought to light, sooner or later, they will breed evil results in unexpected places.

From Luca's point of view, every step of development of the "manly man" is indeed advancing towards the position of the big boss.

So in the end, Luca sighed slowly:

"Without a better explanation, then I can only take it as fact."

(End of this chapter)