old dream

Chapter 84 Deserves the World

There were no kerosene lamps in the wine cellar, and the lighting depended on the moonlight shining through a long and narrow window.

Don't be surprised why there is a window in the basement. Looking up from that window, it is the road outside, and occasionally you can see the feet of pedestrians passing by.A few strands of road surface water are still gurgling down along the cement wall.

It's not so much a window, but a sewer-like opening on the side of the road, which is why this room is so messy.

After placing the tracking device, Colin asked the bartender where the power generation room was.At this point, the bartender's mission is complete.

"If you don't want to die, just stay here honestly." Colin said to the bartender while preparing to open the door:

"Wait until the gunfire stops outside before going out, and then no one will be alive to trouble you."

He didn't intend to kill the bartender.On the one hand, the other party was very cooperative along the way, and he did not have the habit of killing laymen casually.

Then Colin held the doorknob, but paused slightly before opening it decisively.

He took a deep breath.

Colin had never been an indecisive person, but at this moment he was unable to unscrew the doorknob.

Certainly not because of the bloody battle to come.

Perhaps, he thought, that was the most trivial test of the day.

After hesitating for a while, Colin finally opened the door.The incongruous sound of piano playing enters the room,

Then, as expected, he saw the familiar figure standing in front of the door, Ricardo.

"... Colin." Because of the light behind his back, Colin couldn't see Ricardo's face, and could only hear his voice erratic:

"What are you doing here?"

Didn't you say you were looking for a generator?

As Colin expected, Ricardo keenly sensed something wrong with his behavior.

His own attempts at bootlegging seem to be about to come to light.

But looking at Ricardo who was questioning him face to face, Colin unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where's Julio?"

Colin didn't show any panic, but asked the situation carefully as usual.

"Others are taking care of her," Ricardo said.

Colin glanced in Julio's direction, and a gunman was sitting beside her.Two other gunmen were also taking cover.

"Then I don't blame you for leaving without permission." Colin said as if he didn't hear Ricardo's questioning.

But Ricardo obviously didn't want to let things go by ambiguity:
"What did you do in that wine cellar?"

"How do you know it's a wine store?" Ke Lin asked lightly.

And just now, after he left the bar with the bartender, he followed.

Ricardo was at a loss for words.

The two gunmen entered the bar three hours early. As "soldiers", their abilities are quite trustworthy.

Judging by the stock of wine on the bar, it needs to be replenished at least once in three-hour intervals.Then the bartender or whoever will go in and out of the wine cellar and bring out the wine case.Several gunmen should not miss this obvious detail, from here they can definitely confirm the location of the wine cellar.

Ricardo, who was in charge of the subpoena, should have told Colin this, but he deliberately concealed it and did not reveal the location.

He probably didn't intend to use this to test Colin, after all, he couldn't have predicted that Colin would kidnap the bartender and go to the liquor store.The reason why he concealed it should be because Luca had entrusted him with certain suspicions about Colin. Although he didn't believe it, he subconsciously avoided the suspicion at this time.

Colin had planned to go to the wine cellar to place the tracker. When he heard Ricardo say he didn't know the location of the wine cellar, he was first surprised, and then he realized that it was Ricardo's intentional failure to tell him the location.

So he decided to take this to test Ricardo.

Colin won't let an eyeliner stay by his side, even if there will be a showdown in some form sooner or later, the sooner this issue is dealt with, the better.

So before entering the wine warehouse, Colin found Ricardo quietly following behind him.But he remained calm, ready to see if Ricardo would come to question him face to face, or if he planned to report to Luca secretly.

Before opening the door, he even considered the worst case scenario, that is, Ricardo would deliberately avoid himself and pretend to be ignorant.

That was what Colin was really afraid to see, and it meant that he had to kill Ricardo tonight.

At this time, there was also a faint commotion in the direction where Julio was, attracting everyone's attention.

According to the agreement beforehand, her show should also start.

Under the cover of the commotion, Colin went straight to the power room, with Ricardo still relentlessly following behind him.

"Do you think I betrayed Luca?" Colin asked.

"Isn't it?" Ricardo suppressed his anger.

"I'm just planning to sell some bootleg wine. I don't think I can do anything wrong to him." Colin quickly opened the door lock and said:

"It's just that he overreacted."

"Have you forgotten the prohibition on the five hands?" Ricardo sneered and asked back: "If you violate the prohibition, others will not be implicated."

"What's involved?" Colin walked into the power room and said:
"Will the family fall because of this? Or is Luca the one who will be executed by the 'jury' for this?"

"At least it will be very disadvantageous..."

A small, humming generator appeared, connected to several cables, supporting the electricity in this basement.Colin watched its structure, looking for a way to stop it.

"But it's just a disadvantage," said Colin.

"I have my troubles, Ricardo."

"...Again because of Uncle Craigie?"

In the past, Colin often used his uncle's illness as a shield for his need for money, but now there was an automatic misunderstanding, but at this time Colin would not refute anything.

"I don't think I did anything wrong, I didn't betray Luca." Colin said:

"The confrontation between me and him is because of the ban on five hands, what if, soon, even five hands will cease to exist?"

"Impossible." Ricardo categorically denied: "You don't have to defend anything..."

"Let me tell you, if Five Hands is going to disappear, it must be because they rejected bootlegging. They saw the profit, but they never believed the scale of it, how crazy this era really is."

Colin lowered his voice, but because of the stimulus, his tone was involuntarily aggressive:

"Even as shrewd as Luca, he underestimated what the bootlegging market can bring: it will make the original business of Five Hands look like a child's joke. It is too petty to collect a commission on the street."

"The cake is there. If they don't take it, someone else will take it. When they come to their senses, it will be too late... Do you believe it? Luca will thank us in the end, and we will take what we deserve-"

Ricardo was shocked by Colin's madness for a while, and he asked dully:
"What do we deserve...what?"

At this time, Colin found and disconnected a certain part of the generator. The lights in the room were suddenly cut off, and the humming noise that had been humming all along disappeared, so at this time Colin's voice was extraordinarily clear.

What do we deserve?He answered without thinking, and the answer was unusually short:
"--worldwide."

In the dark, he said normally.

It wasn't until his words were settled that the screams of customers came from outside the door.

(End of this chapter)