Chapter VII: The Hunt
For the rest of February, from Lincolnwood to Burnham, from Midway Airport to the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was soaked in bloodshed, with murders taking place around every corner.
Crowded streets, secluded alleys, taxis, subway stations, barber shops, factories, houses, and even villas in the wealthy north of the country, or under the nose of some aristocrat. The corpses of mafia men can be seen everywhere, and this is war in the true sense of the word.
The situation was not expected by De Witt, the Luches did not take advantage of this mutual assassination, and the Genovise family would not always get together and be calculated.
During this war, there was little progress in the net alloy trade, and Joseph was not free to do so, and the lives of all the official members of the family were in danger until the war was over.
On March 1st, DeWitt's patience reached the limit, and he decided to talk to Four Eyes, that is, Mike, this kid has disappeared like an outsider since the night of the negotiation, probably hiding at home every day for fear of being killed.
Mike lives on the third floor of a rental apartment, and the neighbors are not very nice people, and the rent in this kind of place is very cheap, and the environment is similar to where DeWitt lived when he first arrived in Chicago.
After knocking on the door a few times, there was no movement inside, and DeWitt shouted at the door: "Open the door, four-eyed, I'm DeWitt, if there is no one, I will break in." ”
Then there was a sudden movement in the room......
Mike opened a crack in the door, the chain was still hanging inside, he looked left and right, and said to DeWitt, "Turn around." ”
"What?" DeWitt asked with a frown.
Mike said: "How do I know if someone is holding a gun against your back at an angle that I can't see, you turn around and I'll make sure." ”
DeWitt tilted his head: "Listen, if you want to watch men spin in circles, I can recommend a few more alternative bars to you." Now open this damn door, and don't force me to destroy it. ”
Mike closed the door, put down the chain, and reopened the door, "What are you doing?"
"Oh, so, now we're talking in the hallway, and let the pimps in this building listen to the mafia anecdotes with the drug dealers? ”
Mike sighed, "Okay, okay, come in." He dodged and let DeWitt in, then cautiously looked around before closing the door.
"What were you doing, do you care about the movie?" DeWitt scurried around as if he were going back to his home, and finally his eyes stayed on the laptop screen on Mike's desk.
Mike quickly followed from behind and closed the computer: "Hey! Respecting someone's privacy is a courtesy. ”
DeWitt spread out his hands, "'Tobacco Club Forum'?your hobby is really weird, do you secretly collect hookahs in the cabinet or something?" he immediately began to make fun of Mike with the web page he had just seen.
Mike said: "The Tobacco Club is not a club that studies tobacco soil...... It was a brotherhood of retired seniors, and they just took that name. ”
"Oh, do you mean the kind of organization that recruits retired working-class male members who get together for smoking, drinking, beer, and saunas?" DeWitt continued his verbal assault.
"Yes, there are a bunch of crazy retirees, including one of my cousins, is there anything else you could ask?"
DeWitt lit a cigarette to himself: "I don't think so, because according to my estimate, it is difficult for a person like me to enjoy the luxury of retirement." ”
Mike sneered: "Ha, do you mean that you will die young?"
DeWitt replied: "No, I will sleep in a coffin with power and money in my hands, enjoy a king-like funeral, and become the object of countless peers vying to imitate and try to surpass after death." ”
"You don't dream anymore......"
DeWitt felt it was almost time to get down to business, and he said, "The Genovise family is tougher than I thought they were, I'm running out of patience, Mike, I need conclusive intelligence." ”
"As I told you, after the night of the negotiations, they replaced all their mobile phones, including the secret contact information on the Internet, and I have no way of finding out how they communicate now. Mike said impatiently, "Oh, by the way, if you don't remember well, I can remind you that you were so embarrassed to tell the other party that I was a hacker." ”
"Four-eyed, four-eyed, you're too serious, and I'm ready to train you as my assistant, but you're always complaining about objective difficulties. DeWitt replied casually.
The first day I met you, you said you needed my technical support, and then when I was stealing someone else's information in the car, you killed them all and threw them into the lake. ”
DeWitt explained: "No way, I wanted to rob the money and let them go, who knew that their resistance and tenacity exceeded my expectations." ”
Mike continued: "Forget it, at least you know that you have two police uniforms in the trunk in advance to escape, and you don't leave any traces after burning the car." But the second time, you sold me right in front of a group of heavily armed and furious killers. ”
De Witt said again: "What's there to be nervous about, my position was more dangerous than you at that time, and besides, I was prepared, didn't you also take WM2030's protective medicine in advance." ”
"When you gave me the pill before you left, you said it was vitamins and 2.5 milligrams of diazepam. ”
"You look like a menopausal woman who is anxious, so I think this explanation is more time-saving and effort-saving. ”
"Well, now that you're going to be able to 'conclude' the information, do you think I can conjure up the whereabouts of an important figure in the Genovese family like a trick?"
"Yes, otherwise why would I have come to you. DeWitt said rightly.
"Hey...... You stinking grandson. Mike said, "You wait." With that, he took his laptop and went to the next room.
In fact, Devitt is not proficient in Chinese, so he didn't fully understand Mike's first sentence, and could only know that he was swearing.
Fifteen minutes later, DeWitt lit three cigarettes, and after waiting a little longer, he was about to start smoking marijuana, just as Mike returned, still holding a freshly printed piece of paper.
"Here you go, bastard, I don't know exactly which room this hotel is, you go find it yourself, there's more than an 80% chance that Frank Genovise lives there. ”
DeWitt raised an eyebrow, "Can I ask you how you did it?"
Mike replied impatiently, "There's a deal between Frank and the police, and they're going to be in more contact during this special time." The police officer had a mobile phone number specifically for mafia contact, which is usually not changed, and I got it a long time ago. So just now I checked their call logs, tracking the policeman's activities in the past few weeks, in addition to the police station, his home, the shops he frequented, and some recorded crime scenes, there were still a few public places left, and he stayed there for a relatively long time.
Then I marked those stops on the map of the city, made a map, and delineated an area. Frank's character would never venture to go very far from his lodgings to contact a police officer, so he was sure to be within that range.
There were so many people in the big hotel that he didn't dare to stay, so I hacked the computers of all the small and medium-sized hotels in the area, and used the elimination method to get rid of those who checked in with their real names, and finally...... That's it. ”
Devitt was stunned for about five seconds: "Hmm......" He took the piece of paper with a few lines written on it from Mike's hand, and decided to change the subject and not provoke the dead house again: "That...... Four-eyed, have you been staying in the city and don't have to go back to school?"
Mike said: "Yes, I don't usually go to class, but I can still graduate next year, so you don't have to ask more, it's okay to leave quickly." ”
Devitt left Mike's apartment, and there was some secret joy in his heart, it seemed that Four Eyes was a rare talent, and this kind of person must be taken in as his own personal confidant, not as the Lucis family.
Although he still has his own calculations in his heart, he still has to rely on the power of the Luches family for now. Therefore, it is imperative to capture or kill Frank Genovese alive first, so that the war can end as soon as possible, if it drags on any longer, then Joseph Luches is not a good stubble, and it is difficult to guarantee that this old fox will not suddenly turn his face.
............
An hour later, in the hotel that had been marked by Mike.
Samuel Genovise is talking to his brother Frank.
"Three more family members died yesterday, and we've lost a lot of people lately, some of them ruthless, but the Luches family is no better off than us. Joseph Luches and Tommy Galliano have not been seen in public for a long time, their mansion is also empty, this is an unprecedented contest, no one is absolutely safe, only to eliminate each other is considered victory, and we will be the winners. Frank said with a little excitement.
Samuel said, "Can your police friend be more specific? He has a lot of appetite, but he's very limited, isn't he?"
"I've instructed Arthur to help us arrest a lot of Luches' people, and there are cases where he was killed on the spot, but that's all he can do, after all, the police can't kill people at will, and if there is no actual evidence, as long as the Luches family doesn't resist, they can get out of the bureau soon. Frank explains, "If we over-rely on Arthur's power, he will quickly become suspicious of our own colleagues, and the only way to remedy the disadvantage is by our own killers." ”
Samuel took a sharp drag on his cigarette: "Then if necessary, Ernie will have to do it too." ”
Saying that Cao Cao Cao was coming, Ernie suddenly rushed into the house without knocking on the door: "Boss, second boss, the situation outside is a little abnormal." ”