"You are too young and haven"t achive a high enough level, so that it"s normal that you don"t know." His face shows a mocking smile, "There are so many little messes on the street are claiming to be gangsters. In fact, they are not even close to the real gangs. At best, they"re just the local dregs. What is real gang? Like j.a.pan"s Yamaguchi Group, the Black Dragon Society, they are! Yamaguchi Group in j.a.pan is the underworld boss. No one dares to say no to them. They can even exert influences to the politics. The Black Dragon Society was said to have close ties with the j.a.panese Army. This is the real gang. This is the real dark! The Italian Mafia, a few big families, everyone knows, just right there, so what? They have controlled the economic resources. They have money and power! Several major arms families in the United States openly trade arms all over the world, which is also dark. But they have their own government behind them! Hundreds of years earlier, the British Empire"s East India Company, which controlled more than 90% of the world"s opium trafficking! The Governor of the Far East of the British Empire must look at the face of the East India Company!"He"s sneering: "Now you go outside and look, those with watermelon knives on hand, and take people to the restaurant to collect protection fees, which is also called the gangster? What is it? The real gangs have their own ways! What you do should be dark, and at the same time, you should have a strong and perfect system!"
To be honest, I can"t help but respect the fat fellow in front of me!
He pinches the cigarette in his hand vigorously. "Don"t think there"s no Mafia in our country! There are also! QH family are! They have a long long history."
After a pause, He looks at me with a round eye. I say: "I never heard of it."
He smiles and says:"But it"s real!"
My heart is thumping. "You mean, Juan belongs to QH family?"
He sighs, "That"s why I said you were bold enough! QH family"s people, although not very visible outside now, but that is now they have gone to high-end way, do not fight and kill anymore, just pay attention to high-level crime, to make power and money transactions. I said, what is dark? They are the really dark."
My brain is a little dizzy. He looks at me with a sneer: "Now silly? Who do you think you have offended?"
I shrug my shoulders and rub my nose. "Did I offend the leader?"
"Bah, the leader? He doesn"t deserve it! Not even close!" Fat fellow is mocking again, "Actually there isn"t a general leader of QH family. There are some bosses to manager together. Although none of them is dissatisfied with each other. But they are basically still corporating with each other. You"ve offended one of the big bosses, a very powerful one. As for Juan, he"s just one of the managers of the big boss."
"I thought I really offended the big boss," I say with my eyebrows rise.
"Although he"s not the leader, but the level is high enough! You don"t know how complicate it is. Half of the country"s underworld is looking for you now. Pursuit Order No. 1! Much tougher than the police"s national arrest warrant! If you can"t stand it, just wait for you death, boy!"
Suddenly, I stop smiling and look at him quietly for a moment. I whisper, "Thank you anyway."
"What do you thank me for?" He looks at me and says, "I can"t save you. I don"t have that much skill. It"s my best effort to bring you here. The rest depends on your own destiny!"
I shake my head. "Not thanking you for saving me, it"s thanking you for saving the girl."
He squint his eyes and suddenly shows a little laughter: "I say boy, I also heard about this thing, you are for that girl to beat people into eunuchs, right? This girl looks just OK. It"s far not very beautiful. Is this worth fighting so hard?"
I say seriously, "It"s not what you think. She and I are not boyfriends and girlfriends." I take a deep breath and say, "I"m entrusted to take care of her. Someone tried to bully her. Should I go and investigate whether that person can be made trouble first?"
He takes a sip of tea and grinns his mouth. "You"re doing this for this girl? You"re not afraid if you"ve lost your life?"
"Yes, I do!" I say lightly, "Of course I am afraid. Why am I not afraid of death? But at that time, I did not know his background, so I did it. Now when I think about it, I have been nursing a grievance too. But I don"t regret it. Even though I knew that guy had such a big background, I would still do it! I have to do it even I"m afraid! I promised to protect this girl!"
He sighs:"You are really bold!"
I shake my head. "Trusted!"
"Hey hey!" He"s sneering.
I hear some complicated meanings in his laughter, and he looks at me deeply for a moment, then suddenly points to the room inside: "That girl, don"t think I don"t know. That eyebrow, that nose and eyes. Hmm, is she Juan"s daughter? He does have a good eye!" He looks at me, and do not know whether it"s emotion or helplessness: "He"s got the right person, and entrusted his daughter to you. It"s just this will make you have to throw your life. Do you think it is worth doing?"
"It"s not worth or worthless. In this world, if we have to ask such a question before doing anything, we just can"t do anything at all!" I look at him coldly, without any evasion, and stare at his leg. I grit my teeth and ask, "I dare ask you, is the wound on your leg caused by the war? When you went to war and left the wound, did you ask yourself if it was worth it when you were rushing forward?"
He"s tongue-tied.
Then he looks at me and is silent for a long time. Then he suddenly stands up and pats me on the shoulder with a few different meanings in his eyes, which seem to be regretful and helpless. Suddenly he whispers, "Young man, live well and keep your life! It"s a pity that there are too few people like you. Die one just short one."
His eyes that look at me like dead people make me feel uncomfortable. But he stops talking to me and slowly walks out of the room. Before leaving, he leaves a sentence: "Stay here, don"t go out."
The door is closed and the room is dark without lights on.
"Am I going to die?" I have some bitterness in my mouth, but then I suddenly laugh and pull out the measuring device from my arms.
"Seems I have a good luck in life, maybe I won"t die?" I laugh a few times, but unfortunately even I myself feel that my laughter is dry.
These two days I have measured. The yellow index is always high. The yellow index stands for "luck of the life", it seems that I should not be short-lived, but do not know whether being killed counts?
I feel a little confused and rest on the sofa for a while. There were so many things in these two days that I"m so nervous that I didn"t sleep well. And this fat man, although we have only known for a short time. But he left me a very strange feeling, this person can be trusted!
As soon as my mind and body relaxed, I close my eyes and fall asleep.
I don"t know how long it took. Maybe I"m too tired to even have a dream, just in a sleepy state all the time.
Don"t know when, I suddenly shiver and wake up! I feel a chill all over my body, as if my hairs are standing up. A vigilance is coming from my heart, and my eyes pop up, I jump from the sofa and I see a man sitting in a dark room.
It"s dark now! It seems that I have been sleeping all day without realizing it! In the dark room, without light, the man is sitting and looking at me, breathing very long. I can not see his appearance, only see a outline!
I wake up in my sleep with someone peeping! My first reaction is: I"m in danger!
I bounce off the sofa and hit almost immediately.
Then I see his body hiding quickly and I feel that my wrist is immediately grasped. The fingers of the other side pinch me like iron forceps. Then I hear a familiar voice: "Little 5, I"m Jim."