Chapter Forty-Three
The West End, also known as the Syndicate, used to be the largest Heterocrystalline mining area, but after the explosion in the Inland Sea, the mining industry in the West End withered, and it gradually became the evil party paradise of Diss City, a place outside the law, for nearly twenty years - punching the FAC and kicking the General Security Bureau, it has become a city where Night City shakes its head when it sees it, and Gotham people cry when they come.
Eventually, the city council was forced to sign the Western District Public Security Management Ordinance, which gave the syndicate gangs a considerable degree of extralegal autonomy to alleviate many of the social problems caused by the syndicates.
To put it bluntly, the gangsters are the rulers of the syndicate, and the rules they set in the syndicate cannot be interfered with by the dised authorities.
And now Kyle is sitting in the patrol car that has been reinforced several times, still sitting in the passenger seat, and the driver next to him is his FAC team leader.
"Wayne, I heard that you applied for the syndicate in advance, can you tell me why?"
Bang!
A wine bottle smashed into the front window, and the rest of the wine inside spilled all over the windshield. The FAC squad leader rolled down the window and fired a shot directly at the guy who threw the bottle, and the street thug didn't have time to dodge and fell straight on his back.
After turning on the wipers, Kyle fell into a kind of silence as he looked at the wipers in front of him that clicked on the glass.
"Oh, this is the Syndicate, we don't usually interfere in the internal affairs of the gangs, and the gangs usually don't come to our trouble. Newly created contaminants in the syndicate and confined people are what we deal with. And then just let that group of little imps who don't have long eyes know that we FAC is not easy to mess with, and it will be very troublesome if we are looked down upon in this hellish place. ”
"Uh, so can you shoot directly? Don't you need to write a report afterwards? ”
"No, who wants to see how I killed a syndicate thug? By the way, you haven't answered my original question yet. ”
Kyle didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically:
"While the dangers of working in the Syndicate are high, the pay is good, isn't it?"
"Hehe, that's good, and it's easy to get promoted, after all, if you can't keep it, your boss will be dismembered by a madman or a gangster killer one day. Boy - this isn't a gold mining town, it's hell on earth, it's as simple as that. If your dream is to make a fortune here, I advise you to give up the idea of it. ”
The FAC captain was dissatisfied with Kyle's answer, but he was a little troubled by the fact that he saw that Kyle's skills were really good yesterday.
"Forget it, a support officer like you who won't be assigned to the Heteromorphic Stabilizer anyway...... In short, you will be a member of the FAC's 23rd Rapid Response Team in the Syndicate in the future, and I will be your direct boss, just call me Uncle Seven. ”
Uncle Seven...... You weren't called Severn when you were younger, were you? It was Jack before, and now it's Severn, and as a result, his style of doing things is even more ruthless than Beria.
It's outrageous.
"So Uncle Seven, is there anything else I need to know about the Syndicate?"
Lao Qi touched his chin, then hit the steering wheel and approached a wall, which was covered with various graffiti, not so much like syndicate wall painting art, but more like gangster puppies taking over the territory by peeing everywhere.
"First of all, it's important to understand the four major gangs of the Syndicate - Carnivore, Yanagi Corporation, House Gonzalez, and All Souls, and the guys except for the four gangs are basically their downline organizations or some stinky fish and shrimp."
Lao Qi slowly drove the car into the carnivorous destination plate, although there were no ignorant gangsters to make trouble like just now, but it can be said that there are a lot of real gangsters waiting for the roadside around to move, looking at the tattoos on their shoulders, it is a two-headed dog with scarlet eyes and black coats, and the brutal and bloodthirsty desire is directly expressed on the tattoo.
"These guys are carnivores. A group of mad dogs who like to fight with other gangs all day long, although they run a number of pharmacies and weapons stores on the surface, but the source of funds is still to charge a high protection fee, and as a result, they are not responsible for protection at all, but those who do not pay will be killed. ”
Then Lao Qi took Kyle to the territory of Yanagi Co., Ltd., and after arriving here, it was obviously different from the rest of the Syndicate, and Yanagi's territory seemed to be kept neat and tidy, and the garbage cans were piled up like Carnivore.
"These companies are all owned by Yanagi, and their current leader is Kenichi Yanagi, the head of the Yanagi family, and this group of yakuza is the most idiot of the four gangs who like to pretend to be serious people, although the company looks like it is doing normal business, but they are the largest knife manufacturer in the syndicate, and they are also responsible for the distribution of other types of weapons."
There are also many 'Entertainment Chess and Card Halls', 'Pole Dancing Association', 'Hunting and Decompression Club' and other places on the Yanagi territory, the security guards in front of the door are basically wearing a long knife at their waists, and the tattoos flashing on their necks are two folding fans, and the people of Yanagi are far from the carnivores who have just been full of fierce faces, basically these guys who look like neon people in their previous lives will always maintain a polite smile, but it makes Kyle look disgusted.
After leaving Yanagi's territory, the patrol car soon arrived at the intersection of a street called Monterey Street, but it was cordoned off by gangs, with various barricades and even two pillboxes set up in the rear.
"Is this street a gang?"
"That's right. This is the territory of the Gonzalez family, and their base is an old house on this street. And they belong to the kind of family-like gangsters, the cadres are all Gonzalez's psychopaths, and the funniest thing is that the only son of the current head of the family gave up the family inheritance at the age of sixteen and went to work at the syndicate's dead love radio station. ”
Outside members of House Gonzalez patrol the streets, and their tattoos are more like pirates, as they have a skull tattooed on their shoulders and two crossed arquebuses underneath.
It seems that the leader of this gang is indeed a bit sick.
Originally, Kyle thought that he would go to the territory of the All Souls next, but he turned around Monterey Street and went back to the FAC station.
"Huh? Uncle Seven, isn't there still a Ten Thousand Souls Society? ”
"All Souls - they're just a group of losers and waste, all of them sign up in the sewers to keep warm, and they even like to engage in religion, basically brainless young people who want to join the gang will not choose All Souls. So they pose the least threat to us. However, as long as they are gangsters who have joined gangs, they are basically not good people, and they must not be treated with any mercy. ”
I see, it seems that these are the four gangsters of the syndicate.