Chapter 15: Gathering
New York Harbor is primarily composed of the lower Hudson River, the Long Island Sound, and the waters west of Staksel Island. With a total coastline of more than 1,200 kilometers, it can be said that large and small ports can be found throughout the city.
The general cargo and bulk terminals are mainly concentrated around Manhattan Island, which is very close to Hell's Kitchen and only half an hour's drive away.
During the day, these small docks are orderly and controlled by the government's customs in charge of import and export trade, but at night, they become the lifeline of smuggling in New York's underworld.
All of New York's shady smuggling is done in these small docks, with drugs, weapons, automobiles, and even top-notch technology that countries restrict their exports.
This time, the Hand and the Russian gangsters made an arms deal in a small port near the Hudson River, on the edge of Hell's Kitchen.
At that time, even if something really happens, it will be conducive to the escape of both parties who are secretly trading.
Tonight was a perfect night for such a shady trade, the low clouds of the sky obscured the already scarce moonlight and the stars, and only the occasional lightning streaked across the sky could illuminate the dark world.
Both sides of the transaction were very cautious, and before officially entering the transaction, they sent a team of people into the dock to investigate, and held all the commanding heights and intersections on the bright side.
It wasn't until it was almost confirmed that it was safe that the main members of the Hand and the Russian Gang drove slowly into the dock from the only two entrances and exits.
Although the personnel on both sides who entered the dock first were very cautious and careful, it was a pity that their reconnaissance skills were still not able to match the government's professional forces.
There are too many places on the dock that can be ambushed and hidden, and too many people who have been waiting at the dock for a long time and have bad intentions towards their deal.
"Six ears, there's something I'm curious about! You see, on the water not far from the pier, there are a dozen speedboats with their engines and lights turned off; In the open-air factory 500 meters away, there are also two idling helicopter gunships;
And on the bridge on the left, after the handicap they entered the dock, more than a dozen police cars with their lights turned off drove in. You say, are these policemen here to run for the little devils and old hairy people of the hand, and they are here to steal business with us? ”
Just as the convoy of the Hand and the Russian gangsters slowly entered the dock, Xiao Yu asked Liu'er who was standing next to him softly.
"Looking at these arrangements of the police, they should be here for tonight's deal between the Bracelet and the Russian gangsters!" Liu'er, who couldn't figure out what Xiao Yu wanted to express, replied to him a little vaguely.
"What should be, it's simply not good or not! Otherwise, would it be necessary to place so many police officers along this broken dock in the middle of the night? Boss, what should we do now? ”
The fat man, who was also standing next to Xiao Yu, directly scolded Liu'er, and after finishing it, he didn't forget to ask Xiao Yu for instructions on his next actions, he was really a good dogleg.
However, Xiao Yu didn't take care of the fat man immediately, and after seeing it, Carder on the side thought about it and interjected:
"It stands to reason that even if the Hand Tonight's deal is discovered by the government, shouldn't it be more appropriate for the FBI to handle this kind of underground deal with a large number of arms? How did all the people around the dock appear as officers from the New York Police Department? ”
"Whether it's the FBI or the NYPD that suddenly appears, plus the Defenders Coalition that we deliberately drew the blame for, not counting us, there are four gangs of people gathered in this little dock.
I estimate that tonight's deal between the Hand and the Russian gangsters will be very lively, so why don't we watch the show first and then make a decision slowly! ”
After rubbing the index finger and thumb of his left hand against each other for a while, Xiao Yu continued to ask, "You say, are we superheroes or super villains?" ”
"Not counting!" Faced with Xiao Yu's question, the four people who came to the dock to blow the wind together tonight replied in unison.
"Well, then I get it!"
In Xiao Yu's muttering, a breeze blew, and the black demon cloud that enveloped the five people seemed to be even darker.
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In total, the Hand and the Russian gangsters came in nearly twenty off-road vehicles, and the front of the vehicles on both sides were clearly facing each other, like a group of bulls about to fight each other for territory and females.
It's just that in the convoy of the Russian gangsters, there are also two giants that stand out from the crowd, and the most important protagonist of the night, the king of the 8-wheeled road - Scania box truck.
The fully armed and capable members of the Hand and Russian gangsters got out of the car one after another with the headlights of the two vehicles, and after putting on a vigilant posture, the bigwigs on both sides opened the car doors and walked out slowly.
The leader of the Russian gang is a muscular man with a whomp of more than 1.9 meters, dressed in a black Armani handmade suit, and is bulging by his developed muscles, worthy of being the descendant of the fighting nation known as the polar bear!
And the person in charge of the hand-holding who got out of the car was a little old man who was less than 1.6 meters tall and extremely obscene, and if he was described by the word "unattractive", it would make people feel humiliated.
After getting out of the car, the two stood at a distance of about three meters, and then stopped walking, and after looking at each other, the Russian man said in a contemptuous tone after a smirk:
"Presumably you are the head of the Hand in New York, the second elder of Ida! I'm Maxim from the Russian Gang, and it's an honor to meet you! But I don't think it's for the sake of gossip and politeness that everyone ventured here today, right? So I'll just get straight to it.
Elder Ida, I brought all the goods you wanted, I don't know the money we negotiated, did you bring it? If the money is okay, let's trade as soon as possible to be on the safe side! ”
After listening to Maxim's words, Kamiji Ida nodded in agreement at first, and then gestured to the three men in suits carrying boxes beside him.
After seeing the three of them carrying the box and stepping forward to signal to Maxim that the money was in the box, Ueji Ida spoke:
"There will certainly be no problem with money, but Mr. Maxim should not be too anxious, since we are all trading with sincerity, should we also let my people inspect the goods a priori?
If there is no problem with the goods brought by Mr. Maxim, not only will the money be yours, but I don't think our next transaction will be too long. ”
"The second elder of the well field wants to inspect the goods? That's how it should be, check it out early, and trade it early. Alexandra, you take the people of the second elder Ida to take a good test of the good goods we specially shipped from Russia. ”
Hearing that there would be a transaction in the near future, Maxim didn't say a word, and directly ordered a Russian man who was taller and stronger than himself, and asked him to take the people of the handicraft to inspect the goods.
However, after arranging for his subordinates to take the handicap to inspect the goods, Maxim began to stare straight at Ida, with a playful smile in his eyes.
"Sato, you and Mr. Maxim's men will inspect the goods, and Masao, you will give the money to Mr. Maxim for inspection." Ida Kamiji was also very good under Maxim's gaze, and offered to let the other party check the banknote.
At this point, as long as the money and goods of both parties are fine, the transaction is basically completed.
However, the ancestors said that nine times out of ten, things in life are unsatisfactory! Just when Ueji Ida and Maxim were both smiling, the uninvited guest who had been in ambush for a long time was about to show his fangs.