A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 377 Confiscating the house

To subdue a group of hooligans and gang members, you can't use any great principles, simple and crude means are often the most effective. Deterrence by force and killing a chicken to scare the monkey are only the first step.

Then, Lu Cheng looked at the guys lying on the ground and continued, "Next, I will knock you all out, wake you up one by one, and ask each of you some questions. If anyone says something inconsistent with the others, I will send him to see your boss immediately, so that your boss won't die too lonely."

Everyone looked horrified when they heard this, and they looked at each other, as if they wanted to communicate something with their eyes.

However, Lu Cheng did not give them any extra time and attacked at an extremely fast speed, one person at a time, with just the right amount of force to knock them unconscious without causing any brain damage.

In a short while, the guys who were enduring the pain just now fainted one by one. Even the guy whose wrist was pierced by a dagger was unconscious at this time.

When Lu Cheng's eyes swept over the old bartender behind the counter of the tavern, the old guy immediately raised his hands and took two steps back to show that he was harmless.

Lu Cheng walked to the counter, took out a double-barreled shotgun from under the counter, threw it on the counter, then took out a bottle of malt whiskey from the wine cabinet behind, took a clean cup, poured himself a glass, took a sip, then shook his head and asked: "Let's start with you. What's your name? What role do you play in this gang? What business does your organization do? Is Cosimo really your boss?"

"Sir, my name is Enrique. I'm just the owner of this tavern. I'm not a gang member and have nothing to do with these people."

"It doesn't matter? If it doesn't matter, would these people come to your bar to party? The scar on your face was left 20 years ago, right? It's obvious that it was caused by a knife. Old man, don't try to fool me. I don't mind killing one more person."

As he spoke, Lu Cheng picked up the double-barreled shotgun, opened it to check the bullets inside, then closed it again and aimed it at the old man's chest.

"Hey, sir, I'm telling you everything..."

Afterwards, Lu Cheng asked some more questions, and after the old man finished answering, he knocked him unconscious.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng kicked a guy who had fainted on the ground to wake him up, and then asked some questions, some of which were the same questions he had just asked.

This guy's answer wasn't much different from the old bartender's.

"Who else is in the family of your boss Cosimo? Who is the most loyal to your boss? How many people are there in your gang? What is the situation in each person's family?"

When asking these questions, Lu Cheng would also observe the micro-expressions of these people to determine whether they were lying.

Although Lu Cheng has not studied psychology or micro-expression analysis, he has experienced several reincarnations and has hundreds of years of life experience, so it is not that difficult for him to judge whether a person is lying.

By asking one question after another, Lu Cheng quickly understood the situation of this group of people.

This is a small local gang in Syracuse, which has nothing to do with the Mafia. There are a total of 34 people, most of whom are hooligans who have never seen blood. They usually make money by petty theft, extortion, and reselling some supplies.

There were more than 30 people, but they only had seven or eight guns, including the old double-barreled shotgun in the hands of old Enrique. From the weapons and equipment, it can be seen that the strength of this small gang is very average.

After waking everyone up and asking them one by one, Lu Cheng woke everyone up, looked at everyone and said, "I am very satisfied with the performance of most of you, but two gentlemen seem to be not very honest. Now, I will fulfill my previous promise and send these two gentlemen to meet your boss. However, I am a person who pays more attention to hygiene and does not like to get my clothes dirty.

So, I would like to ask each of you to give each of those two gentlemen a knife. Now, start. "

After saying that, Lu Cheng pointed at the two guys lying on the ground.

The two guys had just been kicked in the Fengshi acupoint on the outside of their thighs by him, and their legs were now paralyzed and unable to move. Hearing Lu Cheng's words, the two men begged for mercy: "No, sir, we are willing to surrender, and we are also willing to recognize you as our boss."

"It's a little late, why don't you hurry up and do it? Do you want to accompany your boss like them?"

Twenty or so people looked at each other in bewilderment. Then, one of them took the initiative to stand up, picked up a dagger on the ground, walked up to the two men, and apologized: "Sorry, man, I want to live too."

After saying this, the man stabbed one of them in the thigh, then pulled out a dagger and stabbed another person in the thigh before walking aside.

Lu Cheng nodded and asked, "Good job. Your name is Camilo, right?"

"Yes, sir."

"From now on, you are my deputy and the leader of all of them."

After saying that, Lu Cheng casually handed him a Beretta 1934 pistol from the table.

The man took the gun and immediately became excited: "Thank you for your trust, sir. I will do my best."

Seeing that the first person who took action had gained benefits, the others also became proactive. Soon the second and third people stood up, walked up to the two men with knives, and stabbed them each.

Immediately afterwards, the others took turns to step forward and slashed the two men with a knife.

More than twenty people, more than twenty knife wounds, one of them is already dead, and the other one is breathing in more than out.

Lu Cheng casually picked up two daggers and threw them out, nailing them on the forehead, completing the final blow to them. Then he looked at the others and said, "Now, follow me to your old man's house and confiscate the property."

To deal with these gang members, coercion alone is not enough, after all, they will run away, and Lu Cheng can't always keep an eye on them. Therefore, inducement is also necessary.

It was naturally impossible for Lu Cheng to bribe his subordinates with his own money, so he had to get the money from their boss.

So, everyone left the tavern, rode their bicycles together, and headed towards the house of the old man named Cosimo in the moonlight.

Although this group of brothers are not doing very well, their boss owns a manor in the suburbs, which is not too far from the tavern.

Half an hour later, everyone arrived outside the manor, broke into the room and killed their way in.

Afterwards, accompanied by a few exclamations and screams, the leader of this small gang and his entire family passed away in an intact manner.

As for the brutal killing of the elderly, the weak, women and children, Lu Cheng did not take it to heart.

After all, Lu Cheng had experienced many years of fighting and killed countless people.

What's more, the gang leader was not a good person either. He had committed many crimes, such as kidnapping, extortion, and indiscriminate killing of innocent people. His family enjoyed the black money he earned, so they should also bear the corresponding consequences.

Then, they searched Cosimo's house thoroughly and found a pistol, more than 50,000 lire in cash, some gold and silver jewelry, several works of art, and a savings book with 200,000 lire.

The guy named Camillo respectfully handed the passbook to Lu Cheng and said, "Sir, I just interrogated Cosimo's wife and learned the password of this passbook..."

Lu Cheng took the passbook and was even more satisfied with this Camilo: "You did a good job."

Then, Lu Cheng took out the more than 50,000 lire and placed it on the table. He took out 10,000 lire and handed it to Camilo: "This is what you deserve. The rest can be divided equally among the others."

"Thank you, boss!"

Hearing that there was money to be won, everyone became excited, especially when they saw the 10,000 lire in front of Camilo, they were all envious.

Ten thousand lire, which an ordinary person would have to work for at least two or three years to earn, fell into Camilo's hands.

You know, they couldn't save much money in a year before, and the money they got was basically spent on drinking and women.

Except for Camillo, the other twenty-one people divided more than 40,000 lire equally, and each person got more than 2,000 lire, which was enough for them to live happily in the brothel in Syracuse for more than a month.

If following Lu Cheng before was just a helpless act under duress, now these people are willing to recognize Lu Cheng as the boss. Cosimo would not let them earn so much money before.

"Boss, should we raid Fernando and Jorge's house as well? I know where they are."

It was obvious that these guys who got the money wanted to kill the other two guys they had killed.

Lu Cheng directly instructed Camilo: "Camilo, you take them to do the rest. I will come to the tavern again tomorrow night."

"Yes, boss."

Afterwards, Lu Cheng turned around and left, taking some passbooks, gold and silver jewelry, and artworks.

Those younger brothers moved out all the valuable things in Cosimo's house, including some wine, food, cigarettes, etc. One guy even dismantled the chairs and chandeliers.

After moving, everyone burned down the manor before leaving.