Chapter 1 Prologue (Part )

Under the night sky, the lights in a suburban seaside mansion were bright. In the living room on the first floor, two bodyguards were lying on the ground with their hands and feet cuffed. They were conscious but did not try to break free. Instead, they listened to the voice coming from the restaurant word by word.

There were two masked men with their hair covered in the restaurant. Whether it was a mask or a head cloth, it was clearly a standard product. There was a gray inverted cross in the middle of the black mask, and there was also a small inverted cross on the forehead of the head cloth.

The western-style dining table was filled with delicacies, and four people were sitting around it, including a beautiful lady, a fifteen-year-old girl, an eighteen-year-old boy with dyed hair, and a man in his forties was sitting at the main seat.

There were no ropes to tie them up, but facing two armed gangsters, they could only lower their heads and look at the dining table, trembling all over, not even daring to breathe.

After the young gangster finished talking nonsense, he put a file bag in front of the man: "Mr. Tolov, I believe you are in a hurry to get on the road, but please don't be in a hurry. In our line of work, there are still some procedures to follow. Please open it." The sound of coughing up phlegm was obviously not his real voice.

The man called Tolov opened the file bag with shaking hands and took out some documents and photos. The photos showed a sunny and lively girl who liked to wear all kinds of beautiful hats for photos, but the most striking thing in every photo was her innocent smile like an angel.

The young gangster took out a piece of paper from the file: "Please read it out."

Tolov glanced at the camera set up next to the dining table and looked at the young criminal pleadingly: "Please, don't torture me like this in front of my family. I can give you a lot of money. I can give you anything you want."

The older gangster suddenly raised his gun and pulled the trigger, and the beautiful lady fell back on the chair with her head tilted back. She stared at the ceiling with her eyes open, motionless, with a bullet hole on her forehead.

The two children huddled closer together and closed their eyes.

Tolov broke down and cried: "No, it shouldn't be like this." The young gangster pressed his shoulders and made him sit on his chair.

The older gangster turned his gun towards the boy, and Tolov said hastily, "I read it, I read it."

With tears in his eyes, Tolov picked up the paper and read: "Alice, eleven years old..." His voice was choked and he tried several times but failed to read it out loud.

The older criminal glanced at the clock on the wall and said worriedly, "Too much time has been wasted."

"Let me help him." The young criminal took the file and looked at it, saying, "April 2029, which is four years ago."

Tolov put his head in his hands and cried, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

The young gangster asked, "What are you sorry for?"

Tolov: "I was drunk that day, so I fell in love with her at first sight at the auction."

The young gangster asked, "And then?"

Tolov: "I bought her."

The young criminal asked, "How much did you buy it for?"

Tolov: "One hundred thousand dollars."

Young gangster: "Speak for yourself."

Tolov: "At night, they sent her to my yacht. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry, please forgive me." With tears of regret on his face, who could not have a saintly heart?

The young gangster said, "Mr. Tolov, we have nothing to do with Alice. You don't have to apologize to us. Let's skip this part and talk about what happened three days later."

Tolov kept hitting the table with his head and said, "I threw her into the sea. I was drunk and had inhaled flour. I was unconscious. I really didn't want to do that. Please believe me."

"and then?"

Tolov seemed to not understand the meaning of the young gangster's words and replied: "And then there was nothing."

"Then call Tony and tell him to notify you if there are such top-quality goods in the future." The young gangster pulled out a photo from the pile of photos: "Look, this is Tony's family photo, the whole family is together." He looked at Tolov with cold eyes: He is still trying to make excuses when he is about to die.

Tolov grabbed the young gangster's gloved hand holding the photo and said, "I beg you to let my child go." The young gangster shook off his hand.

The older criminal said, "Buying and selling are equally guilty, and all relatives over 14 years old will be punished together."

After hearing this, Tolov asked angrily: "How much more noble is your collective killing of innocent people than mine?"

The older criminal placed his two fingers on the inverted cross on his mask and said, "The devils in the world have already torn our souls apart. We are willing to step into the endless abyss of hell with our bloodstained bodies."

The young gangster translated: "This sentence means: A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water."

Older gangster: "There's no time. Repent."

Tolov cried and put his fists on his forehead. Three gunshots were heard and three more bodies were found at the scene.

The two gangsters walked out of the mansion quickly. When they passed the living room, the two bodyguards closed their eyes tacitly. They ignored the bodyguards, got into a black car parked at the door and drove away.

The car drove along the seawall road. The young gangster sat in the back seat and said dissatisfiedly: "Old Jin, this is my list. You retired three years ago."

Lao Jin replied while driving: "I promised Alice's parents."

Young criminal: "It is taboo to act on emotion."

"It's not your turn to teach me a lesson yet." Lao Jin pressed the car button and answered the phone: "Hmm?"

A call came from the car speakers. It was a cold mechanical voice: "There are dogs chasing you. You can't board the ship until you get rid of them. The formation is weird. There are two jeeps in the lead, two kilometers away from you. Behind the jeeps is a motorcycle. There is a motorcycle every 500 meters, a total of four motorcycles. There are two black SUVs seven kilometers away from you. We can't confirm their identities for the time being."

"Understood." Lao Jin looked in the rearview mirror and could already see the headlights of the pursuers' car.

The young criminal flipped open the left car mat, took out a bag of flour, and asked, "Are these bodyguards mentally ill? The employer is dead, and it is the police's job to track down the murderer."

Without even turning his head, Lao Jin asked, "Can you stop talking nonsense?"

Young criminal: "No. Besides, I am just communicating normally. You are the one who speaks too little, which makes me seem like I am talking too much. The other person is driving very fast, can't you step on the accelerator? Are you more worried about the gas or the shoes?"

Lao Jin said angrily: "How can a 1.2T compare with a 3T?"

Young gangster: "Three-headed dog, you're going to get into trouble if you're so stingy."

The phone answered: "You wasted ten minutes."

Young gangster: “Are there so many?”

Three-headed dog: "Yes."

Young gangster: "You said there were only two bodyguards, but there were actually six. In addition, the cook and the butler were both very good fighters."

Three-headed dog: "It is already written in the information that the butler won the third place in the national jiu-jitsu when he was young, and the chef was once a professional boxer. As for why there are six bodyguards, I admit it was my mistake."

Young gangster: "Why are there six bodyguards?"

Three-headed dog: "I don't know."

Lao Jin opened the sunroof at the right distance, and the young criminal leaned out. The jeep had approached within 200 meters and was closing the distance between the two vehicles at a very fast speed. The young criminal let go of his left hand, and the flour in the flour bag flew with the wind, rolling towards the jeep like a blizzard.

(End of this chapter)