According to the DEA's original plan, Sydney would help Tapia launder money. After reaching a certain number of times, Tapia would not be afraid of not having contact with Sydney. Because according to the DEA's intelligence, Tapia is now facing a problem that must be solved by professionals.
That means he has too much money!
For the average person, money is never too much. But for drug lords, they will never be short of money. The real problem is what to do with the money.
Because of improved financial controls, it is difficult for drug lords to conduct transactions through the banking system. It would be too easy to leave clues and clearly expose oneself to the eyes of the state machinery. So in the world of drug lords, cash transactions are always the mainstream.
But after getting the money, there is still a huge problem. That's what to do with that money. Deposit in the bank? I just said, no. And there is another problem, that is paying taxes!
You make a bunch of drug dealers pay taxes? Regardless of whether they are willing to pay taxes or not, there must be a name for it, right? Should we report the 'income from drug trafficking' directly? No normal country in the world would be able to tolerate these things, right?
What's more, Tapia is still an American citizen. If he dares to deposit money in a bank, the IRS will come to his door the next day. How did the famous Chicago godfather Al Capone stumble? Isn't it because he didn't pay taxes and was caught? That's why he was thrown into jail. Back then, everyone in Chicago, including five- and six-year-old children, knew that Al Capone was a gangster godfather, but no one could try him. As a result, such a person ended up in front of the IRS. (Al Capone was betrayed for 11 years because of tax evasion. Because he was isolated from the influence, he became weak and finally died in depression)
Naturally, Tapia will not repeat the same mistakes.
But the problem is that drug dealers make money too quickly and make too much profit. This resulted in Tapia having more money than he could hold, and the three cellars in his estate were now full. The attic is even more packed.
The thing that bothers him most every day now is that those damn rats destroy his banknotes every day.
According to Tapia's past practice, he transported drugs to Chicago by air and then sent the money back to Cuba by water. As long as the money goes into Cuba, it doesn't matter. Cuba doesn't care where the dollars come from. Even Cuba knows what Tapia is doing. It's just that he doesn't harm the Cubans, so they don't bother. No matter, as long as Tapia hands over the benefits, they will pretend they don't see it.
It's just that drug smuggling through the air and water has been so rampant in recent years that the coast police have blocked the waters too tightly, and there is a problem of insufficient air transportation capacity. One thousand kilograms of banknotes takes up more space than one thousand kilograms of drugs. (They can only use private planes for transportation, and the regulations on large aircraft are too strict)
In other words, Tapia is now making money much faster than transporting it.
In short, he must find a way to launder the money or simply send it back to Cuba.
This is why the DEA asked Sydney to pretend to be a money launderer. As long as Sydney gains Tapia's trust and lets her handle the situation, they will be able to know the whereabouts of a large amount of drug money. Then one of them will get the stolen goods and throw Tapia into prison in one fell swoop.
Although this robbery by the Haitians was very dangerous and almost ruined the DEA's plan, looking back now, I have to say that the Haitians did a good job!
Sydney was pursued by a gang of Haitian gangsters and managed to save Tapia's money and information. This is undoubtedly a big plus, allowing Sydney to get closer to Tapia faster.
This is what the DEA and Chicago police estimate.
But something weird happened. Tapia was unusually quiet. He didn't take any action. He even stayed in his lair motionless, as if he was afraid of the Haitian gang.
Tapia was quiet, but the Chicago police became busy.
Because Chicago has become a battlefield!
Just one day after the robbery, the Haitian gang's station was bloodbathed!
A total of more than seventy Haitians were massacred! The scene was extremely bloody.
After that, people continued to be killed in the Chicago underground world, including Russians, Italians, Eastern European gangs, Latin American gangs, local black gangs and white gangs. In short, people kept being killed. The Chicago police were baffled.
These people have nothing in common, the only thing they have in common is that they are on the path. Especially the condition of their death. Everyone suffered from excessive blood loss, but there was not much blood traces found at the scene.
At first, the Chicago police thought it was so, and the gang war started again. According to the informant's information, the road has been calm recently. No gangster is doing anything big.
Before the Chicago police could figure it out, the gang war broke out again.
No way, most of the people who died had some identity. Although these people's gangs and their younger brothers don't know who the murderer is, people in their profession don't need evidence. Anyway, all they need to do is identify their enemy, and the gang vendetta begins.
Once a vendetta starts, it is difficult to control it. It is all done by gangsters. No one will stop because of this kind of thing, unless they lose face and admit defeat directly.
So the vendetta escalated into a fight within a few days.
When night falls, many communities with poor security immediately turn into battlefields, with gunfire one after another.
During this time, the Chicago police were almost exhausted. If a shootout broke out, the police would have to be dispatched.
In fact, gang wars are not a problem for the police. As long as they are not excessive, the police rarely care about them. The city of Chicago has been around for hundreds of years. Rules have been formed for many things. For example, if two gangs fight, it's okay, but don't do it in public, and don't leave corpses and bloodstains. Then the world will be peaceful. Anyway, for the public and the police, the death of a gang member is not worth feeling sad about.
But the problem is that this time it is not two gangs merging, but a dozen or more gangs, which is too much. The last time the GD Gang collapsed, leading to a struggle for hegemony between princes, why was there such a big fuss? It's not because it's too much. In order to calm down the chaos, the Chicago police spent a lot of effort to balance the originally chaotic situation. As a result, less than two years later, the balance that had just been formed in Chicago was broken again!
While this made the Chicago police angry, they also began to reflect on whether there was something wrong with their previous balancing policy. They must give an explanation to the people and the government, otherwise the big bosses in the police department will not be able to live with it.
…
Kai took Matthew into a scene, which was the residence of Vincent Carter, the leader of the Carter Gang in the north of the city. The gangster with the same name as the famous basketball player died yesterday, and his family was also killed...
Although foreign gangs are not as strict about rules as East Asian gangs and do not harm wives and children, they rarely kill entire families due to gang conflicts. There is no need for it. They don't pay much attention to the death of the father and the succession of the son. Secondly, who of us doesn’t have a family? Today you kill someone else's whole family, and tomorrow it's your turn, what will you do?
Kai and Matthew walked around the scene and found that although there were signs of forced entry, no useful information was left behind. There were no fingerprints, no footprints, and even the surveillance equipment had been cleared. The murderer was very professional and neat. After the murder, he immediately retreated without any sloppiness.
There was no property missing from the victim's home, and there was no sign that the house had been disturbed. It seems that the murderer's goal is very clear, which is to simply kill people.
The only thing that surprised Kai was the way the victims died. These people all died from excessive blood loss, but there were no obvious external injuries on the body. Although there was blood at the scene, it was very little.
"How's it going? Did you see anything?"
Sometimes Kai has to admit that people are different. Kai considers himself a qualified policeman. If he is a little cheekier, it would not be too shameful to say he is excellent. But when it comes to handling cases, he still thinks he can't compare to Matthew.
He has extremely sharp and powerful observation, judgment and logical reasoning abilities, and many difficult and complicated cases can be easily solved once he gets his hands on them.
"It's not the same murderer." Matthew said firmly.
This is the third scene the two of them have run. In the three scenes, the victims died in similar ways. But in Matthew's view, despite this, the methods and habits of committing crimes are quite different. This is definitely not by the same person. For example, at the first scene they visited, although there was also excessive blood loss, there were very few blood stains left on the scene. However, the deceased was killed when he was alone, and there were no signs of violent intrusion at the scene.
In the second place, the method of death was the same, but the deceased was obviously tortured before death. But no innocents were implicated, only the target was killed.
But here, although the method of death was the same, it was a violent break-in, and then the whole family was killed!
Three scenes, the same way of death, but three different ways of committing the crime.
This was definitely not done by one person.
"That's interesting."
Kai touched his chin and suddenly felt a very strong sense of familiarity. After Kai saw the way the victims died for the first time, Kai felt that the way these dead people died gave him a sense of familiarity. But he wasn't sure, after all, something was missing. And Kai wasn't sure whether those things still existed.
Now after what Matthew said and after he personally inspected the scene, Kai became more and more sure that it was those things.
A series of murders, different murderers, but the blood of the deceased had been drained, and coupled with the familiar smell left at the scene, Kai basically was sure that those things had not escaped!
"I didn't expect that these guys still exist." Kai muttered to himself.
"What?" Matthew asked curiously.
Kai smiled, shook his head, and said, "It's nothing, I just heard people say similar things before."
"Huh?" Matthew was immediately interested. "Then the murderer was caught?"
"I don't know. I was still a soldier at the time and didn't care much about it." Kai shrugged.
Matthew was doubtful, but he couldn't see anything from Kai's expression, so he put the matter down again. He felt that Kai didn't say something, but it was hard for him to ask. Who hasn’t ordered a secret yet? Besides, it was obvious that the murders in front of him couldn't have anything to do with Kai, so he didn't ask any more questions.
But the moment Matthew turned around, Kai's body suddenly shook rapidly, so fast that most people would think they were dazzled.
At the same time, in a dark alley not far from the scene, a tall and handsome man who pretended to be well-dressed appeared from the shadows.
"I didn't expect that these vampires haven't been exterminated yet. Were all those European countries living on dry food back then?"
Yes, this is Kai's clone technique, and now this person is Kai's true body. What remained in place was his clone. Currently, the level of Kai's clone technique is still too low to allow the clone to have qualified strength, so Kai usually leaves the clone behind and then uses the main body.
"Come out and find the location of those vampires. Let's go hunting!"
Following Kai's words, countless blood-red eyes immediately opened in the shadows behind him, accompanied by waves of impatient growls.
Then Kai disappeared and calm returned to the alley.
…
In an abandoned factory in the south of the city near Lake Michigan, a group of people in black gathered together. Each of these people had pale faces and wore sunglasses in the middle of the night. They looked like a group of fellow Taoists who were taking drugs to stun their nerves.
"Why should we help a human? I hate this."
An Asian guy said very unhappy. He is the only Asian here. In the American social ecology, the status of Asians has never been very high. It can even be said that in terms of political status, they are at the bottom. This is not an exaggeration. The status of Asians is really low. On the contrary, black people always say that some people discriminate against them, but in fact, the status of black people is much higher than that of Asians. But here, this Asian guy is the only one who dares to complain.
On the contrary, everyone else remained silent and watched this little brother perform alone.
"Because Dickon Faith needs it!"
A female voice suddenly came from the darkness, and the people in black immediately turned their heads to look. Raquel, who had appeared at Tapia's house before, walked out of the darkness. This time, she was no longer wearing the lady's clothes. It's a tight-fitting leather jacket that makes people's blood swell when they see it.
And behind her, there were three people.
Two tall and strong men were holding a man with a chain, who was wearing a huge old-fashioned metal diving helmet. The man was skinny and had sharp nails. When he walked, he walked like a lizard with a straight toe. It looks ridiculous.
"Tapia is our important supplier, we can't lose him!" Raquel walked up to the Asian guy and looked down at the muscular subordinate in front of him. The aura on his body made the Asian guy inexplicable. took a step back.
"I know you don't like working with food, but he is helpful to Dickon Faith's career, so we must tolerate his presence. Are you satisfied with this reason, Zhen?"
It seems that this Asian guy’s surname is Zhen.
"I understand." Although the Asian guy was a little unconvinced, he was lower than Raquel in terms of strength and status, so he had to give in.
Raquel also doesn't like this Asian. First of all, it's because of deep-rooted racial discrimination. She came to Europe a hundred years ago and has no favorable impression of Asians. Secondly, it is the unruly Asian guy. Although this guy has talents that are difficult for ordinary people to match, he is a thorn in the side. If it weren't for his fanatical belief in the idea that he was Dickon Faith, I believe even Raquel wouldn't be able to suppress him.
"As long as you understand, then I hope you won't complain anymore."
After speaking, he looked at the others.
Zhen is special here, not only because of his talent, but also because he has a good brother. It was precisely because of this that he was so unruly among vampires with strict hierarchies but was not killed. Dickon Faith has always hoped to bring Zhen's brother, the Death Walker codenamed Snowman, into his camp. Therefore, Zhen has always been treated favorably.
Raquel knew very well that most of these people were unconvinced, and Zhen was just the one they pushed out. Now that Zhen was suppressed, others naturally did not dare to show disobedience.
Seeing everyone's submission, Raquel nodded with satisfaction. But at this moment, the hunky weirdo behind Raquel suddenly turned his head to a shadow in the factory building, and kept making sounds similar to frogs.
Raquel immediately made a fighting stance and shouted in that direction: "Who?!!"
Others immediately took the same defensive stance.
"Ah? Have you been discovered?" A handsome, well-dressed man slowly walked out of the shadows, but he didn't panic at all: "It seems that you vampires have made some progress over the years."
This person is naturally Kai.
