Gao Fei ordered the Celestial Bull to guard the two unconscious clients, then turned around and gave Pearl a signal.
Pearl shook his eyes, threw the female killer to the ground, relaxed the chokehold, and allowed her to resume breathing.
The female killer gasped for air and looked at Gao Fei approaching, her eyes filled with horror.
"Who sent you here?" Gao Fei asked calmly.
In fact, he didn't know whether this assassination was a premeditated plan against him.
It is presupposed in advance that there is someone behind the scenes, pretending to have seen through the conspiracy, and it is just a trick to force a confession.
The system prompts you to make a DC12 "Intimidation" or "Persuasion" check. If you pass the check, you can successfully extract a confession.
"Warlock Mask" comes with the "Persuasion" skill, and "Paladin Mask" comes with the "Intimidation" skill.
Gao Fei also conducted a very effective torture before extracting a confession, so he had an advantage in the test and passed it easily.
"It's the Camorra..." the female killer replied tremblingly, "The three of us are members of the Camorra Gang. The boss ordered the three of us to follow your carriage and try to get rid of you..."
Camorra gang?
This answer is a bit unexpected.
Goofy opened the astrolabe and quickly searched the background settings of the game. He learned that the so-called Camorra Gang, also known as the "Camorra Family", is the most powerful gang in Pattus Street after the "Street Angels"
.
As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Of course, the relationship between two major gangs in the same neighborhood is very tense.
In order to compete for territory, the two gangs often clashed.
"I have nothing to do with the Camorra Gang, why does your boss want to kill me?" Gao Fei then asked.
The female killer shook her head weakly.
"I don't know... I really don't know. The boss gave the order and we are ordered to do things. How dare we ask more..."
Gao Fei observed her expression and felt that she was not lying.
This kind of killer who is at the bottom of the gang is indeed unlikely to understand the boss's mind.
Gao Fei is now not sure whether the assassination he suffered today was caused by the Jones family's inheritance dispute, or whether he was passively involved in the dispute between the two gangs, the "Street Angels" and the "Camorra Family"?
After all, as a member of the "Street Angels" and an important figure who often appears around Umberto, he is indeed qualified to be on the blacklist of hostile forces.
Just when Gao Fei was thinking secretly, the sound of footsteps came from the alley.
"Brother Musk, why is it you?" Mario Ricardo ran over with a group of gang brothers.
"I heard gunshots here just now. Brother Musk, are you okay?" Mario asked with concern.
"Mr. Mario, I'm fine. There are three assassins from the Camorra Gang here. I leave it to you. You'd better help me figure out why the Camorra Gang specially sent people to assassinate me."
Gao Fei said in a deep voice.
Mario's face also darkened and he nodded heavily.
"Brother, don't worry! I have plenty of ways to make them talk!"
"I'll excuse you here, Mr. Mario. I'm going to the tavern first. See you later."
Saying goodbye to Mario Ricardo, Gao Fei picked up the pistol that the female killer dropped on the ground, put it in his pocket, left this dark alley filled with the smell of blood, and walked towards the "Paradise Tavern" at the end of the street.
Pushing open the door of the tavern, the familiar noisy atmosphere rushed into my face.
Gao Fei greeted his gang brothers along the way, passed through the crowd, sat down at the bar, and ordered a glass of lemon soda.
"Brother Umberto, Sister Claire, good evening."
"Musk, you smell of blood..." The animal tamer girl held a bright red "Bloody Mary" in her hand, sniffed, and looked at Gao Fei with concern, "Just now we heard gunshots coming from the alley at the end of the street.
Are you OK?"
Gao Fei smiled and shook his head, and then briefly recounted the assassination incident he had just encountered.
"The Camorra Gang?" Umberto frowned deeply, "Strange, those crazy people who smuggled opium, maybe they smoked too much, so why did they cause trouble for you?"
"From Patus Street to Arsi Street, there are opium dens in all the neighborhoods where foreign immigrants gather. Most of the opium dens are either directly operated by the Camorra Gang or provide supplies, relying on this kind of dirty business.
Make a fortune," Claire added.
In modern countries, as soon as the process of urbanization and industrialization begins, as the unemployed population of the middle and lower classes in the city surges, and slums and gang crime become a common social reality, the industry surrounding "addictive substances" will naturally grow rapidly.
Expansion.
The Kingdom of Feizhen is no exception.
Parliament has also enacted laws prohibiting drugs, smoking and even alcohol, but it has been difficult to enforce them.
Banning tobacco and alcohol will only skyrocket the price of tobacco and alcohol on the black market, enriching smugglers, and the country will suffer losses in tax revenue.
Later, controls on tobacco and alcohol were relaxed, allowing free trade.
The harm of drugs is too great. Taking into account the public health and social impact, the authorities dare not completely relax control and cannot ban it. Finally, they introduced a compromise plan, which is the so-called "Addictive Substance Monopoly Regulations".
According to the regulations, only a number of colonial companies authorized by the king and parliament had the right to import opium from the opium-rich Eastern colonies.
Only legally operated hospitals, clinics and pharmacies can sell addictive drugs such as laudanum as prescription drugs with the signature of a professional physician.
These control regulations are actually just a formality.
In reality, opium smuggling continues, and it is not difficult to buy laudanum by forging prescriptions or bribing doctors.
What's more, in the slums where immigrants gather together and where there is a mixture of people, there are opium dens disguised as public bathhouses, which the police cannot control at all.
Due to the moral obsessiveness of Umberto, the leading brother, the "street angels" did not directly intervene in the opium trafficking business.
However, Umberto was not arrogant or naive enough to try to take up the banner of anti-drugs. He acquiesced in allowing the opium den to operate on his own territory and just paid the protection fee.
Most of the opium dens are backed by people from the Camorra family. How can they be willing to pay protection fees to the "street angels"?
In this way, contradictions arise.
Because of this fundamental conflict of interest, the two major gangs have had frequent conflicts over the years, both overt and covert.
"I have no interest in getting involved in the opium business, nor have I ever gone to a opium den to collect protection money. God knows why the Camorra Gang has trouble with me!" Gao Fei shrugged aggrievedly and spread his hands.
"Could it be because of something else?" Claire reminded Gao Fei, "Have you offended anyone recently, or intervened in something that offended someone?"
"It's possible. Four days ago, I took on a business to protect the inheritance left by her husband on behalf of a wealthy widow."
Gao Fei took advantage of the situation and got to the point.
