46. Round tables
Hu Che: "Opponent? Sefar then pointed to his hand and said, "Well, I've seen it at Mafia's meetings before, it's the boss of the 'Dragon Gang', the underground organization of the Wurm, and I've seen a pattern similar to this tattoo on his hands. â
Hu Che thought for a moment, and began to search for vague memories in his mind: "Dragon Gang? The Dragons? Long Wen reminded him while flipping through the magazine: "You also said that he looks like a eunuch." Hu Che suddenly realized at this time: "I'll go!" It's him! Could it be that he is a gang boss? Is the 'Dragon Gang' a gangster? Long Wen: "What do you think?" He is a ruthless character in the Dragon Hall. â
Hu Che: "Oh! My God! It's really unseemly. Sefar listened in a fog: "Who are you and what?" Hu Che, who was subverted in his worldview, shook his head and sighed: "It's nothing, oh, by the way, Long Wen, have you thought about it?" Did you email your horrible family member? â
Long Wen's eyes stayed on the picture of the magazine's "dew point foreign girl" for a long time before he sighed faintly: "I closed my eyes." Hu Che: "Aren't you afraid that she will pull you home?" Long Wen: "What's the way to run away after taking something." Ay! It's a pity that I finally got a weapon that I had in hand and scrapped it. â
Hu Che: "Are you sure that thing in your house will be useful for 'foreign ghosts'?" Long Wen: "Now it's not a question of whether it's useful or not, it's a question of whether people borrow it or not." â
Custer interjected, "May I ask what you're talking about?" Hu Che: "The explanation for cutting it short is that Long Wen abolished the Galaxy Knife, and he doesn't have a weapon to kill foreign ghosts now, so he sent an email to his family, saying that he wanted to borrow the 'heirloom' to use it." â
Custer asked curiously, "Does it mean something very valuable?" Hu Che: "Of course, after all, it happened suddenly, so we are guessing whether we can borrow it." Custer: "Also a 'holy artifact'?" "Tiger Che looked at Long Wen. Long Wen touched his chin: "It should be counted, I heard that there should be no problem with 'subduing demons and subduing demons', but I don't know if I will be unaccustomed to foreign countries." â
"But....now it's mainly good that 'things' come, and 'people' don't come." Long Wen shuddered, covered the magazine's big beauty picture on his face and said. Custer asked Tiger Che, "What's wrong with him, as if he's about to see a ghost." At this time, Hu Che raised his hands with blood-stained rubber gloves, his face was gloomy, and he spoke like a perverted doctor filming a ghost movie: "She~than~ghost~more~to~fear~scary~"
Custer's head was full of question marks: "What?" â
Rotunda of the Tower of Confession on the island of Pantelleria
Located on the fifth floor of the Tower of Confession, the Rotunda is a circular design with curved walls decorated with Itarian classical tapestries and portraits of the Mafia Fathers. Vlad's Deposit ZĂ i. In the center of the conference hall is a round table with a diameter of 3 meters, and because of its age, the wood has a bright black color. Sixteen identical black velvet high-backed chairs surround the round table, as if guarding the walls of the palace.
All of the knights were present except for the first black knight "Lancelot", the white knight wore a white suit, and the black knight wore a black suit. Sit in black and white alternate intervals. This misaligned seating pattern has been in place since the separation of powers in Mafia, in order to express their opinions and not be influenced by their respective camps.
The seats are not fixed, and they are always randomly seated. The last two seats are reserved for the godfathers of both sides, and of course the last two seats are not allowed to be attached to each other, which is the only rule of the round table.
Of the 11 people in the hall at this time, Gerante was still the one who talked the most. He took out a photo from his white suit and handed it to the poker-faced "Kai", and pointed with his eyebrows fluttering and said, "This is a photo of my little princess." What do you think? Isn't it beautiful. Hahaha. â
Kai frowned, and at this time, the "Ranmarlot" next to him came over to look, and Ranmarott first widened his eyes and then laughed out loud: "Haha." Geraint, are you asking Mr. Kay to comment on the 'color ultrasound' technology of this hospital? Hahaha," Ranmaro laughed loudly.
Geraint didn't care and continued to transfer the photo to Dagonit on the other side: "Although it's just a color ultrasound photo, it already shows the beauty of my little princess." "Humpty Dumpty" Dagonit "twisted his stubby eyebrows: "Mr. Geraint, how do you know it's a girl, in case..."
Geraint hurriedly grabbed the words at this time: "Impossible, I have a hunch, this time it must be a little princess, definitely!" At this time, "Bare-handed Bose" spoke: "Geraint, you were broken by your three sons, right?" "Yes! I dreamed of having a daughter, watching her every day, protecting her as she grew up. â
After Geraint finished speaking like a poem, he kissed the "color ultrasound" affectionately, and then Bedwell, who was diagonally opposite him, sneered while touching his black nails: "Stupid man." At this time, she glanced at Galahad next to her, and saw that her expression was unnatural, and she was looking down at her phone.
Galahad's appearance looked in the eyes of Tristan, who had the title of "Eagle Eye", "Galahad, are you okay?" Tristan asked. Galahad: "Ah... I'm fine," Tristan narrowed his deep red eyes and didn't ask any more.
At this time, the curved door of the conference room opened, and everyone present put away their expressions and looked at the door sternly.
I saw Al walking in with a straight black suit and a smile, "Are all the knights here?" Al asked. Kai said, "The knight is still two," he was about to say, but seeing that there was no one around Al, he changed his words: "Three short." Al's red flamboyant looked around, "Oh? It's actually the first black knight. He snapped his fingers.
At this time, a black-clad guard walked in, "Hurry up and call Mr. Lancelot, and tell them that the round table is about to begin." â
Seeing this scene, everyone has already noticed something unusual. Mordred, who was Al's teacher and personal deacon, didn't follow him, even as a "knight", he should have appeared, and he hadn't mentioned "Gawain", and the first white knight "Gawain" was also absent. Finally... After receiving the notice, the suspicion in everyone's hearts deepened.
There are a total of seven black knights, seven white knights, and two godfathers, a total of sixteen people, and there is no place for "godsons" at the round table, so godsons generally sit on the sofa in the conference hall to listen, and they are not allowed to participate in the meeting and discuss as long as they listen.
Al did not walk to the "auditor's seat" at this time, but walked straight to the round table, bowed politely to everyone in front of the round table, and said, "Actually, everyone should have doubts about this convocation. With that, he took out two delicate crystal boxes from his suit pocket and placed them in front of the round table.
When they saw these two crystal boxes, the faces of everyone present changed. At this time, Al gently put his hand on his chest, lowered his head, and said in a deep voice: "Yes, everyone should know about them when they see them." At this time, the black knight "Kai" was the first to get up from his seat: "Lord Godson, what do you want to sue us?" â
One of Al's hands relapped on the table. There was a look of grief and indignation in the red eyes: "It's a vampire hunter!" He gritted his teeth and spat out the words. Geraint clutched his head and exclaimed in disbelief, "My God! Both Godfathers ......"
At this point, Al unbuttoned his suit and shirt, pointed to his bandaged chest, and said, "If it weren't for Galahad, I might be like my father." All eyes were on Galahad. Young Galahad looked nervously around the crowd at this time.
"What the hell is going on?" Kai asked eagerly. Galahad was a little flustered: "Ah... I just saw the back of the killer....... he was holding a gun to kill my godson....... me...... So I pounced...... And then...... I was knocked unconscious......"
Percival then got up and asked Al, "What about the 'Godfather of Corleone'?" At this time, Gareth exclaimed: "Mr. Gawain is with the godfather of Corleone!" Gahaerys: "Is Mr. Gawain's absence ......" Al said in a heavy tone as he rebuttoned his shirt, "When I woke up, I learned that the Godfather of Corleone and Mr. Gawain were also attacked at the same time." â
Gareth slapped the table excitedly and stood up: "How is it possible!" Those damned cops are definitely no match for Mr. Gawain! You're lying! At this time, Gakharis hurriedly got up and reprimanded in a low voice: "Gareth pay attention to your tone. â
Al said in a calm and heavy tone without any emotion: "There are too many things suddenly, I will investigate the specific ins and outs in depth, and I gave the convening order, I want you to do your best to discuss what we should do now?" â
Gareth immediately shouted angrily, "That's still worth talking. Be sure to find out who did it! Percival's deep eagle eyes looked at Al: "Does the godson see the other party's appearance clearly?" Al: "Masked." I didn't see it clearly, but definitely a vampire hunter. He used a 'silver bullet'. â
Dagonit: "It's a problem, the key now is that if it goes public, it will be a disaster for the whole of Mafia. At this time, Ranmalot wiped his tears with a handkerchief and choked up: "If it is not public, I will find the murderer and poke him into a honeycomb." Kai: "If it doesn't go public, then Mafia is now leaderless." How do you hide it? â
"So it has to be public!" A firm tone came with the sound of pushing the door, and everyone turned their heads to look at the curved door, only to see Lancelot walking in lightly, he took off his top hat and saluted everyone: "I'm sorry everyone, my plane is late." â
Kai said expressionlessly, "You're finally here." Bedwell, still nonchalantly, said, "yes, something big has happened." Lancelot kept nodding: "Mmmm, I've already heard from my godson, and I've been thinking about it all the way." â
Kay: "You mean public? Lancelot: "I'll find out sooner or later, it's better to make it public." At this time, Percival said: "If it is made public, it will definitely affect the pattern of the 'underground world' or even the 'upper world', what will happen to our branches in other countries? Especially our forces in Russia and Asia, which are exactly what the 'brown bears' are looking forward to. ('Brown Bear' is the name given to the Russian sub-gangs, because there are many Russian sub-gang factions and there is no unified organization, so they are generally called 'brown bears')
Ranmalot said with tears in his eyes: "I really can't accept it, this is too sudden, we must investigate it." â
Lancelot: "So we're going to make plans for the next steps. As he spoke, he walked up to Al and bowed, "Your Highness, please take a seat, our meeting is about to begin." Al didn't speak, just nodded slightly, then turned and sat down in the listening seat.
Lancelot also sat down in the empty seat next to Bose at this time: "Okay everyone, this meeting is related to the future of Mafia, please put aside the negative feelings of sadness, anger, and suspicion for a while, and may all the Heroic Spirits of the Godfather bless Mafia through the calamity, let's get started!" â
Everyone stopped talking, and when the two godfathers were no longer there, the first knight was the spokesperson, and now "Gawain", who was the first white knight, was also absent, so the presiding power all fell on the "first black knight" Lancelot, and everyone present suppressed their feelings and sat down patiently.
At this time, the expressions on everyone's faces were complex and inscrutable, and a solemn and strange atmosphere permeated the circular conference hall, and Al in the auditor position quietly looked at the twelve people in front of the round table, and a trace of unnoticed greed flashed in the seemingly calm red pupils. (To be continued......)