old dream

Chapter 236 Eye of the Storm
"Why do you have to let yourself suffer this?" Luca leaned back against the wall, folded his arms and said:
"Whether it's witchcraft or your insistence on staying in Stade, you seem to have picked the worst of it."

The knee of one of his men hit Colin's lower abdomen hard, and the dull pain made him let out a muffled grunt.These tormentors still covered their faces and refused to show their faces, because maybe they had been taken care of by Colin in the past.

Colin retched, but nothing came out.Luka frowned and waved his hand, telling his subordinates to stop temporarily.He stepped forward and held the beam above Colin's head, twisted the other hand into a fist and hammered his chest, then put it on Colin's chest, and said:

"Of all people, I only told you about my naive ambitions. When you were a child, I said that I wanted to change everything in Nanstadt and my hometown."

"When talking about those immature ideals, I heard the trembling in your voice, which is an undisguised excitement."

He let go and stepped back, back to the edge of the wall.The men immediately made up for a knee bump.Luca wiped the stains on his palm and said:
"So I originally thought that you are the most likely to support me. Even if I am down one day."

Colin shivered, gritted his teeth to hold back the discomfort.He closed his eyes, and even squeezed out a forced smile from the corner of his mouth.After a long time, he asked Luca intermittently in a low voice:
"Ever wonder why, you have absolutely no tolerance for me being the 'big boss'."

Colin raised his head with difficulty, and found Luca's eyes in the darkness of the underground prison:

"Even if that's just a tiny bit of possibility in your imagination."

To this day, I can still say that I am someone you can trust.

Even if it was inconvenient to disclose something, or dealt with some issues too aggressively, Colin never betrayed Luca's interests.

what about you?Can you still say that what you do is only for the original ambition?
"Karang."

The iron fence was opened, and another person walked into the small cell.

"...It hasn't been resolved yet?"

A voice with no features after some kind of processing.

It was the unidentified wizard.

"There are still some questions to ask him," Luca said. "We have to figure it out if we are going to take over South Stadt."

"so."

Luca didn't seem to intend to explain too much to the wizard, he left the wall he was leaning on just now, and left the cell first.

The wizard looked at Colin again to make sure that he still had no ability to use witchcraft, and then left with Luca.

In the restored dark room, Colin looked at the locked fence door and thought.

Ideal is the mother of ambition.

Luca still tries to stay in control, to stifle the most insignificant risks.But he didn't know how much trouble he had caused himself.

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Because Colin is unwilling to leave Stade to avoid suspicion, Luca needs to let him disappear for a while before solving the problem of the Caruso family.

But what Luca didn't know was that the disappearance of Colin was equivalent to the disappearance of the lieutenant.And what does the lieutenant's disappearance mean to this city.

Ricardo began to go in and out of various underground bars wearing a burn mask, handling some of the most basic affairs for Colin.At this time, the Stade Agency seemed to be the calmest party, because the members did not know that the real Lieutenant Heinrich had disappeared at this time.

Ricardo counted the profits shared by all parties, and stuffed a large bundle of cash into the leather bag.The thick secret ledger was opened and placed beside the bag, and the groups of numbers on it showed that the Stade organization was temporarily operating as usual.

But Ricardo's arm was trembling slightly, because he didn't want to see anything happen to Colin, and he didn't want to guess that the person who did it might really be Luca, who was like their elder brother.But Ricardo also knew that no matter what the truth was, a fierce storm was quietly brewing in Stade, and no one could stop it.

Two days later, the real owners of the country have begun to panic.Because it is Ke Lin who has the full power to handle the bootlegging transactions between this country and the hinterland of the alliance, which will make nearly ten million Ori in the next one to six months.But now, they have all been put on hold, and the uncertainty is increasing rapidly. Maybe this huge wealth that is about to be acquired will disappear.

Even thinking about it more seriously, could it be someone from the alliance who kidnapped Colin?What if Colin hadn't withstood the torture and revealed something to them?Once things develop to that point, even Archduke Edmund will be caught with ironclad evidence of bootlegging.As a result, the future of the entire principality will become even more unknown.

The top-secret communication line between Danaro and Stade became extremely busy overnight, which drove the senior management of the entire Ninth Bureau into a frenzy, desperately searching for all clues related to Colin.After being "exiled" to Colin's side, poor Goldie may face the crisis of being demoted again. She was left in the office of the Stade Agency because of "doing a problem". Maybe he went to the Franciscan monastery, but he couldn't even tell the route of the object of protection.

The ability of one department is no longer enough to deal with this kind of crisis, so even the secular police detectives have been mobilized. Whether it is the Old City or South Stadt, criminals who are usually unattended have been hit hard. Dozens were imprisoned.

But Colin, who was in the center of all these storms, was in an unprecedented calm.

The beatings continued, but he found himself getting used to it.Muscles and bones are continuously injured and then healed under the action of stimuli.Because a lot of energy was consumed in this process, he lost weight quickly within a few days, but the tormented pain was no longer unbearable, just like a kind of combat training that should have been persisted for many years, was compressed into a short period of time. Within a few days.

And the dream is still being maintained intermittently.Because there are too many chores in the usual time, he has never looked at those dreams so intently for several consecutive days.Because there is no imaging, he and the "teacher" still have a language barrier, but some kind of silent dialogue seems to be slowly being established.

Just like the mere perception of each other's presence is already a powerful signal.

joy.

The memory fragments grew more branches, overlapping each other to form new meanings.Even the ten years that were taken away were not all suffering as imagined. In fact, there were too many details full of joy and emotion. something to ignore.

The iron fence was roughly pushed away again, and the rust scraped and made a harsh sound.

Colin slowly opened his eyes, as if he had expected to see Luka come back here again, and his slightly anxious face, without any surprise.

"I probably know what you're facing," Colin said.

Although you haven't been able to connect the anomalies to me.

"I know that the detectives are starting to go crazy. In this case, let alone fighting with the Caruso family, it will be difficult to maintain normal activities."

Luka was stunned, and began to think about why Colin knew what happened outside when he was in the cell.But at this time Colin had already finished speaking:

"Now let me go, and all problems can be solved."

(End of this chapter)