#25Chapter 25: Crack down on gangsters and eliminate evil!
The semester ended, and Donghua University was about to welcome a 'long' vacation of 3 weeks and 21 days.
During these 21 days, students could choose to break free from their heavy professional studies and enjoy this rare time of relaxation, or they could choose to continue to stay at school and 'voluntarily' work hard, or even team up and go to the dangerous wilderness...
But your clone and his Xuan Hei squad chose a different kind of vacation life.
On February 5, 12th year, the first week of the vacation, the clone, who led the Xuan Hei squad to clear a level 15 dungeon and successfully raised everyone's level to 13, led the Xuan Hei squad, which was now composed entirely of Bronze-level professionals, to an underground tavern controlled by Nightingale.
In the underground tavern, your clone had Fatty Tiger place one million Federal dollars in front of the five squad members, with 200,000 Federal dollars in front of each member, which was equivalent to two months' income for the squad members in the dungeon.
Under the nervous gazes of the Xuan Hei members, your clone directly laid his cards on the table with the squad members.
The clone told the Xuan Hei squad members that he was now in control of an underground gang that profited by smuggling dungeon items. As of now, this gang had controlled more than 60% of the smuggling share in the Third District of Donghua City, and the smuggling profit alone was as high as one million Federal dollars per month!
Next, he would continue to expand the scale of smuggling dungeon items. Once he completely controlled the entire dungeon item smuggling market in the Third District, the expected monthly profit would reach more than two million Federal dollars. He could take out 50% of it, which is one million Federal dollars, to distribute to the Xuan Hei squad members. If all goes well, each of them will be able to receive a monthly bonus equivalent to the amount of Federal dollars in front of them, which is 200,000 Federal dollars!
200,000 per month, that's 2.4 million per year!
For an ordinary Silver-level talent or even a Gold-level talent professional, this number is not something that can be easily rejected! This means that every year they can use this huge sum of money to buy two top-quality Silver-level skills comparable to Silver Dou Qi, or buy two powerful Silver-level set equipment, or save up for two years and buy a Gold-level skill book that only the rich second generation can afford!
There is no doubt about the role of money for professionals. It is simply a dream to maintain their leading position among professionals solely by relying on the gains from dungeons! Especially since the members of the Xuan Hei squad were carefully selected by the clone from poor families, their relatives could not provide them with any assistance on the path of professionals. In the past, they had all suffered from insufficient funds. Just like most professionals with considerable wealth can directly obtain Silver-level skills subsidized by their families after completing their first job change, but they, even the swordsman with Gold-level talent, still have not settled on their own Silver-level skills so far.
Your clone accurately grasped this point. In the past two months, your clone has also been instilling in them that we are all children of poor people, and only by using unscrupulous means can we compete with those rich and powerful people who were born with golden spoons in their mouths. Under the clone's subtle influence, when the clone presented the smuggling business that violated federal laws in front of them, their first reaction was not to object, but to carefully consider the feasibility of taking risks for this benefit!
Seeing this, the clone immediately knew that his plan had succeeded.
On February 6, 12th year, all members of the Xuan Hei squad agreed to operate Nightingale, the smuggling gang!
On the same day, your clone directly distributed the promised one million Federal dollars to all the members present, and with the help of this huge sum of 200,000 Federal dollars, the members of the Xuan Hei squad ushered in a comprehensive equipment upgrade!
The next day, the Xuan Hei squad began to attack all smugglers in the Third District who disobeyed Nightingale and dared to sell dungeon items privately without Nightingale's control under the clone's orders. In just one day, the six smugglers who most fiercely resisted Nightingale were all eliminated by the Xuan Hei squad! This cruel behavior greatly shocked the smugglers in the Third District, and even Fatty Tiger, who had always been pessimistic about violently unifying the market, was greatly amazed by this.
It turned out that sometimes it's not that violent unification doesn't work, but that the degree of violence is not enough! When an entire professional squad intervenes in the market, ordinary smugglers have no power to resist them at all. Disobedience means death, and the crackdown is dozens of times more severe than the police's anti-smuggling efforts! Who would dare to disobey?
But correspondingly, the impact was also extremely bad. This approach, which completely subverted the unspoken rules and left no way out for people, made the remaining smugglers unable to sleep or eat. The Third District Police Department therefore received a large number of reports, and Nightingale, a smuggling gang that had just emerged in the Third District for only a few months, completely entered the sight of the Third District Police Department's high-level officials.
But your clone turned a blind eye to this. Facing Fatty Tiger's question of whether to suspend the expansion, your clone unhesitatingly denied it, and demanded that Fatty Tiger must take down the remaining 40% of the market within three months. Any smuggler who dares to bypass Nightingale and conduct smuggling trade privately must be reported directly to the Xuan Hei squad. Eliminate one if one appears. Even if everyone in the Third District is killed, no smuggler is allowed to conduct dungeon item smuggling outside of Nightingale's control.
Fatty Tiger began to think that your clone was crazy for the first time... But seeing the cold look in your clone's eyes, and knowing that if he dared to say no, he would end up like those smugglers who were executed by Xuan Hei, Fatty Tiger still decisively swallowed back the unpleasant advice, but had already begun to look for a way out for himself in his heart.
In March, the first month of the school year, the Xuan Hei squad's strength greatly increased under the armament of money. They conquered a level 18 dungeon with only six people! Your clone's level was raised to level 23, and all members of the Xuan Hei squad reached level 15.
At the end of March, your clone dropped to twelfth place in the grade in the monthly assessment. Shangguan Lingwei privately found your clone and expressed her disappointment with the clone's poor performance.
In April, your clone led the Xuan Hei squad to kill a level 5 named BOSS in the wilderness and obtained a level 5 Star-level equipment. It was a pity that the attached skills were mediocre and only worth 1.6 million Federal dollars.
In the same month, an undercover agent sent by the Third District Police Department into the Nightingale gang was discovered by the clone. Because this undercover agent was another anti-smuggling police chief of the same level as the clone in the last simulation, your clone recognized his undercover identity at first sight when he appeared in front of your clone.
Your clone ordered the thugs of the Nightingale gang to tie him up and beat him severely, and threw him to the gate of the Third District Police Department in the dark of night.
The Third District Police Department was furious at the clone's provocative behavior, but Nightingale's reputation in the Third World soared! For the rats in the underground world, what behavior could better demonstrate their strength than pulling out a stool and pooping on the police department's head? Obviously not. This move not only laid the foundation for Nightingale's dominance in the smuggling industry, but even the underground world outside the smuggling industry heard Nightingale's name, knowing that Nightingale was a gang that was not easy to mess with.
In May, the police department launched a special crackdown on the Nightingale gang, and a large number of Nightingale members were arrested by the police. Nightingale's customer base also suffered a devastating blow. Although the police department had not yet figured out the identity of the clone as the gang leader, the police department had basically locked in the clone's age range based on the few traces the clone had shown.
Affected by the police department's crackdown, Nightingale's smuggling income this month declined sharply, and each Xuan Hei member only received a bonus of 50,000 Federal dollars, which made the Xuan Hei members quite anxious.
It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's difficult to go from luxury to frugality. The members of the Xuan Hei squad have already experienced the support brought by huge sums of money, and losing this important income is no less uncomfortable than killing them! What's more, they have already delved into the smuggling gang and have also taken many lives, and there is no turning back.
Being in such a desperate situation, but not getting the money they deserve, this is undoubtedly unacceptable to the Xuan Hei members!
And this is exactly the effect your clone wants to achieve. Your clone tells the Xuan Hei members that since ancient times, everyone's concept has been that gangsters run away and do not resist at the first thought of encountering police officers, but this concept is wrong.
There is no reason for the strong to run away in front of the weak. The Third District Police Department has a great reputation, but it is actually just a civil organization for managing mortals. Its police force is extremely weak compared to professionals, and the number of people combined is only a mere one or two hundred. It is impossible to be the opponent of Nightingale, which monopolizes the entire smuggling trade in the Third District and has the Xuan Hei professional squad.
"We should fight back!" The clone said: "Tonight, we will catch the police officers and their families who dare to search our Nightingale members and customers, and force the Third District Police Department to release our personnel."
"You're really crazy." Fatty Tiger said that he still wanted to live a few more years: "You are now just a local criminal, but if you dare to attack public officials, especially the relatives of public officials, you will be defined as a federal criminal, and you will attract the encirclement and suppression of the army."
"You're wrong, the army won't encircle and suppress me, the police department will only compromise with me." The clone was confident: "This world has never been a fair and legal world. Since the first professional of the Federation was born twelve years ago, and the thermal weapons that mortals were proud of have been reduced to waste paper under the power of professionals, the Constitution of the Federation has given professionals supreme privileges far beyond those of mortals. The common sense that mortals need to abide by and even fear does not necessarily apply to me as a professional."
"This world is ultimately a world of professionals, you have to recognize the essence of this world."
"Essence or not, I'm not a professional, I'm just a mortal..." Fatty Tiger was about to cry, begging: "I really can't bear the consequences of confronting the Federation, brother, let me go, I really don't want to play anymore."
Even though with his current crimes, even if he voluntarily surrendered, he would still be imprisoned for a long time, but no matter what, he could at least keep his life.
But once this lunatic of a clone attacks the police, even if he sells the entire Nightingale, he is afraid that he will not escape death...
Fatty Tiger is only 26 years old now, he still has a lot of good years, and he really doesn't want to explain here with a lunatic so soon.
It's a pity that the clone didn't give him the right to choose.
"If you quit, I'll kill your whole family." The clone said.
Under the threat of the clone, Fatty Tiger, knowing that the clone would definitely do what he said, despairingly succumbed.
As for the Xuan Hei squad, the clone did not explain too much, because as professionals, they knew the law and violated the law, and they had personally stained their hands with human lives, so there was no way out. Just to comfort their uneasy hearts, the clone casually told them that he had already prepared a way out.
In June, under the command of your clone, Nightingale began to retaliate against the Third District Police Department.
In the same month, the average level of the Xuan Hei squad reached level 17! Ranking among the top three of the Silver-level squads in the entire Qinglong Academy. The director of Qinglong Academy awarded you and the Xuan Hei squad the Excellent Professional Squad Award, and shook hands and talked with the Governor of Donghua City at the school celebration at the end of the semester, and accepted the commendation from the Governor of Donghua City.
In July, Donghua City News Radio broadcast that Nightingale was the most rampant criminal gang in Donghua City since the founding of the Federation! The Director of the Donghua City Police Department gave a speech and announced that the Donghua City Fierce Tiger Brigade would be dispatched to encircle and suppress Nightingale.
Through inquiries with the people around him, your clone learned that the Fierce Tiger Brigade was a special police force composed entirely of professionals formed by the Donghua City Police Department, including Silver-level and even Gold-level professionals, which was far from what your clone and the Xuan Hei squad could resist.
This caught your clone somewhat off guard, because he really did not expect that an organization like the Donghua City Police Department could actually afford to support such a powerful professional team. You must know that the pioneering income of Silver-level professionals exceeds one million Federal dollars per year. To make them willing to stay away from the wilderness and work for the police department, the salary paid must definitely reach 2 to 3 times their actual income, that is, 2 to 3 million Federal dollars.
An entire professional brigade, even if it is calculated with fifteen people all being Silver-level professionals, would cost nearly 50 million Federal dollars per year. Does the Donghua local police department have so much money?