"Just try your best." Monroe and Fisher looked at each other and smiled, not caring about what Verak said solemnly.
You won't sit idly by.
Who are you?
Can a poor boy who has just arrived really influence the situation in Dunman and change the living environment where outsiders are almost out of breath?
Impossible.
No matter whether you are modest or not, whether you emphasize that doing so is not conceited but a choice, it will make people laugh.
Verak could see that the two of them had no expectations of him, but he didn't expect that he could still be looked upon by others even though he was hiding his identity: "What will be the specific situation tomorrow?"
"At ten o'clock in the morning." Monroe's eyes quickly glanced at the tavern. After confirming that no one was paying attention to them, he lowered his voice and said, "Meet in the black street where the Sder people are."
"The three of us will be the representatives of the Brexi people, the Gold Flash Gang of the Mongolian people, and the Black Street Gang of the Sder people will also have similar numbers." When Fisher added, he also glanced at Monroe,
It seems that he is not very accepting of Verak's participation in the meeting.
"Only the three of us? Where are the other gangs?" Verak had a panoramic view of Fisher's performance, without any fluctuation on his face, and continued to inquire in depth.
Monroe habitually took out his cigarette case and found that it was empty. He directly reached out and took Fisher's cigarette from his pocket: "Dun Manli, we have the largest number of immigrants from the three countries, accounting for the total foreign population.
70% to 80%, so let’s talk first. Then if necessary, we will unite with the miscellaneous people to fight against the government.”
"Do you know what their current attitudes are and what their thoughts are?" Verak once again declined the cigarette offered by Monroe.
Monroe tilted his head and motioned to Fisher.
"I don't know. We previously maintained the stability of our respective regions and didn't communicate much. It was the new conscription law that stimulated us to contact each other and decided to meet to discuss the future of immigrants," Fisher said.
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"Although I don't know what they are thinking, I can still guess something based on their behavior." Monroe continued, "The hatred and hostility between the Monlegos and the Dunman people has been around for a long time, so the Gold Flash Gang
The boss, Lao Jin, has always liked to fight head-on and retaliate. Ruffalo, the boss of the gang, is sociable, flexible and able to lead the Sder people to survive in the cracks. He should advocate a soft response."
"In this way, our opinions are crucial in this meeting." Verak had asked Monroe his initial thoughts before, and now repeated the question at that time, "What do you think?"
Monroe slumped in his chair, smoke filling his eyes: "What do you think?"
"Of course we must fight resolutely." Verak insisted on the concept of Equality in Bressy. "Dunman has been obsessed with the issue of immigrants for a long time. They really want to completely solve our troubles. Even if we are not so tough, through
Showing goodwill and giving in to prevent the Tun Man government from expelling us are only treating the symptoms but not the root cause. After we abandon our arms and weaken our strength to show sincerity, I think what is waiting for us is still the ruthless and heartless Tun Man government.
Comprehensive suppression of scruples.”
"Fisher, what do you think?" Monroe held a cigarette in his mouth, as if he was in a daze or thinking.
"I think this is an unsolvable problem. Instead of wasting time on how to stay, it is better to stabilize the situation first, then transfer our assets as soon as possible and go to live somewhere else." Fisher held a different opinion.
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Verak reminded Fisher of a question he must be aware of: "How is it possible that all the people from Manchester City can be transferred?"
"Then let's go by ourselves." Fisher said, "Anyway, the little money they gave us is only enough to protect them for a while. If we have to take the safety of the entire Manchester City and immigrants on ourselves, we are asking for it.
happy."
"Then what? Go to the next place, get kicked out again, and leave again?"
Fisher spread his hands: "Otherwise? Everyone just wants to survive. If you can't survive in this place, just find another place to live. Is it necessary to risk your life in order to fight for the right to survive? Even if you have won the right,
, what’s the point of losing your life?”
Verak was speechless.
He knows how to refute, but this is everyone's own choice. He is not qualified to stand on a high ground and criticize Fisher with his own standards.
"It's not that serious." Munro came forward to express his opinion, "My idea is very simple, and the result will only be known after trying it. I don't want to lose my life for others, but I am sitting in this position because of everyone.
Trust. If I didn’t make any efforts, didn’t fight for anything, and gave up the tiny possibility because of timidity, then I wouldn’t have established any Sea Rat Gang.”
"Yeah." Fisher agreed with Monroe's idea first.
"As long as you are willing to try." Verak also accepted Munro's idea. Trying is better than giving up.
Monroe bumped Fisher with his shoulder: "Let's arrange dinner, I'm hungry."
"Okay." Fisher stood up and left.
After Fisher got up and left, Monroe sat up straight and poured himself a glass of wine: "Stay here and fight for the right to survive with the Dunman government. Donate a sum of money and leave as Fisher said. Which one do you choose?"
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"...the former." Verak's hesitation was not because of the choice itself, but because he was worried that if he made a true move, it would be inconsistent with the identity he forged, which would arouse Monroe's suspicion.
But even with the risk of being suspected, he still spoke the truth openly and honestly.
"Why?" Monroe's eyes flickered.
"Why?" Verak also asked.
"Um?"
"Why do you think it's normal for me to choose money and a more stable life?"
"Did I say that?"
"But that's what you think, otherwise you wouldn't ask me why I chose the former." Verak said.
Monroe paused and smiled: "Because that's human nature."
"So everyone subconsciously feels that fighting for the right to survive is not a normal thing. At least it is not as simple and practical as running away." Verak pursed his lips and shook his head.
"What do you have in mind?"
"I don't have any high opinions. I'm just like everyone else. I think this is wrong and shouldn't be done." Verak sat upright. "It's a pity that many people knew that this was wrong and didn't resist and make their voices heard.
idea.”
"You have?"
"I have."
After replying with two brief words, Verak and Monroe looked at each other for four or five seconds.
"Gulu."
Monroe finished the drink, and the smile on his face seemed a little more real: "At two o'clock in the morning, you don't want to be discovered by anyone, quietly come out of the Essen Hotel, and we will meet across the street from Mink's Tavern."
"What?" Verak was puzzled by Monroe's sudden and cryptic appointment.
"Drink something. It's nothing if you don't drink in the pub." After Monroe finished speaking, he returned to his lazy look and poured Verak a glass of wine without any explanation.
Verak realized that Monroe didn't want to be discovered, so he didn't mention it anymore. He picked up the wine glass and took a sip absentmindedly, thinking about why Monroe said that.
The fact that Monroe is so cautious in his own territory shows that there are still things in the Sea Rat Gang that Verak doesn't know about.
And Monroe made the invitation after hearing his own questions about their stay, so the secret meeting was probably for this matter.
"Eat." While Verak was analyzing, Fisher came back and started arranging dinner for the people in the tavern.
After seeing Fisher, Verak felt a sense of awakening. He glanced at Monroe, who had always been slightly drunk, and boldly guessed that he had just deliberately pushed Fisher away to create an opportunity for the two to meet.
Is it possible that there is another side of Fisher that no one knows about?
Verak felt that he had inadvertently been involved in a more complicated incident within the Sea Rat Gang.
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After dinner, Verak left first and returned to the Essen Hotel. He had slept for most of the day, so he was not sleepy. He waited patiently until two o'clock in the morning, then quietly left the hotel through the window and hurriedly arrived
Across the street from Mink's Tavern.
It's a cold time at the end of January, and it's hard to see any pedestrians on the streets of Manchester at two o'clock in the morning.
Verak soon joined Monroe.
At this time, Monroe was wearing simple and smart clothes, and his body was upright, not at all the decadent and depressed look he had before.
"Follow me." After seeing Verak, the extra sober Monroe led him around in a circle and stopped at a more secluded and safer place.
"Why are you meeting me so secretly at this point?" Verak asked impatiently.
"There are some things I can't tell you in a tavern." Monroe put his hands in his pockets and breathed out as he spoke.
Verak said what he had guessed all night: "Is there something wrong with Fisher?"
"How can you tell?" Monroe asked with approval.
"You are so cautious in your own territory, which shows that the Sea Rat Gang is not safe enough. To make a boss of you so cautious, I am afraid that only Fisher in the Sea Rat Gang can do it. In addition, after you sent him away
You just mentioned to me about the secret meeting at night, and this guess is almost certain." Verak expressed his thoughts.
Monroe smiled and said, "You guessed it all, that's how it is. But there is something that may surprise you."
"What's up?"
"Remember when you came the day before yesterday, you escorted a gun dealer?" Monroe said, getting addicted to cigarettes again, struggling to strike matches in the cold night, "The manipulator behind the gun trafficking organization is Fisher.
"
"It's him?!" This incident was really beyond Verak's expectation. He remembered clearly that the gun dealer Derek was finally taken away by someone arranged by Fisher, "What on earth is going on?"
"Hiss...huh..." Monroe exhaled a puff of smoke, "The matter is very complicated, I will try to keep it short. Before the new conscription law was released, we were aware of the government's movements. The sensitive Fisher began to propose to me many times
The forces of the Sea Rat Gang plundered a large amount of money, and then they fled Dunman together and went to any other place to live a wealthy life without fighting and killing. But I rejected his idea and said that I would stay in Dunman forever.
Stay with the Bresci in Manchester."
When he said this, Verak basically understood the subsequent development of the matter.
"After he realized that he couldn't convince me, he secretly started his own business of selling contraband to make huge profits - I only discovered this later." Menro mentioned this, his expression was full of sadness and regret, "Except
In addition to doing this kind of thing that will bring great danger to Manchester City if he is not careful, he is also supporting his cronies in the Sea Rat Gang in an attempt to replace me."
"Then you just sit back and watch him grow stronger and kick you away?" Verak asked.
"By the time I found out about this, the situation was already getting worse. I didn't know which of the people around me were his cronies and which were not, so I didn't dare to contact him casually for fear of exposing the information and triggering civil strife in the Sea Rat Gang in advance."
Monroe smoked quickly. He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and picked up another one. "You just appeared when I was at a deadlock and no one was available."
"Me? How can I help you break the ice?"
"You are a newcomer, and you caught Fisher's gun dealer right after you arrived. This means that you cannot have anything to do with Fisher, so I can safely contact you." Monroe smoked a cigarette.
, "As long as you can pass my test, I will work with you to deal with Fisher and nip the coming civil strife in the cradle."
Verak understood something: "No wonder you asked me in the tavern whether I would choose to run away with money or stay and fight."
"If you had answered even a little imperfectly, you wouldn't have been able to convince me, and there would have been no meeting tonight." Monroe sniffed his nose, which was red from the cold, "But the reasons you mentioned,
Success convinced me that you would not defect to Fisher after learning the truth."
"I basically understand the matter, so how do you want to get rid of Fisher? He controls a gun trafficking organization, and you said within the Sea Rat Gang that he supports a lot of cronies. We shouldn't be able to compete with just the two of us, right?
"Verak was curious if Monroe had any good ideas to solve the internal crisis of the Sea Rat Gang.
"Do you know what you are going to do at ten o'clock this morning?" Monroe did not answer directly.
"Go and have a meeting with the Mongolian Gold Flash Gang and the Sderian Black Street Gang."
"We all have to go."
"You, me, Fisher - you want us to work together to get rid of him during the meeting?" Verak said.
Monroe nodded: "This is the best opportunity. As long as he dies, his cronies in the Sea Rat Gang will not be able to make any trouble."
Verak's pupils shrank, and he discovered that Monroe's city was very deep, and the layout of the matter had been prepared as early as the first day he came: "You defied all opinions and asked me to attend the meeting with you and Fisher. Really
Is this the purpose?”
"That's right." Monroe admitted, "otherwise, as a newcomer, no matter how outstanding you are, I wouldn't think so highly of you."
"No wonder..." Verak also always felt that Munro's reason for asking him to follow was a bit far-fetched. Now that the truth has surfaced, everything makes sense.
"I don't mind your background or your origins. It doesn't matter what kind of person you were before. As long as we join forces to re-stabilize the Sea Rat Gang, we can work together to fight for the immigrants' right to live according to consensus." Monroe formally told the reporter.
Verak extended an invitation, "How about it? Can we cooperate?"