Shadow Empire

Chapter 504 Huge losses
Roger walked up the stairs carrying his suitcase, led by the staff. Those guys who looked like greeters and security guards only sent him to the end of the red carpet.

Any further inside is no longer within their scope of work.

Although these people exist not only to welcome guests but also to protect the safety of the casino, for the wealthy, seeing people who do not belong to them wandering around with weapons will make them feel uneasy.

Inside the entire casino, where there are gambling tables, there are no security guards, only waiters, dealers, and escort girls.

The moment Roger's first foot stepped into the hall, a sweet-looking girl who looked only twenty-three or twenty-four years old, wearing a red dress, naturally took Roger's arm and led him to the counter.

The main job of these escort girls is to accompany guests to spend a pleasant evening. The casino will tell guests that they do not provide escort services.

But at the same time, guests are also told that if they use their charm to impress the escort girls, they can take them away.

There is nothing more gratifying for these middle-aged men than winning money and getting a beautiful young girl who admires them very much!
The income of escort girls mainly comes from this aspect.

Tips, and overnight stay fees.

It is said that the most money a girl received in one incident was 20,000 yuan for an overnight stay just for sleeping with her client in a hotel!
This also makes the quality of the escort girls here higher and higher. They may be college students, white-collar elites in corporate management, or middle-class housewives who need some extra income...

Before he even got close to the counter, the two girls inside the counter bowed to Roger.

"Good evening, sir, how can I help you?"

They were standing, always standing.

There was no reason for distinguished customers to stand while humble staff sat in such an occasion, so there were no chairs inside the counter and everyone had to stand, and stand for six hours.

Standing for six hours a day earns them about fifty yuan a month. It seems to be a very hard job but the income is not high.

But this is not the case. The salary income from working here is only the most insignificant part, and the real income comes from tips.

From the ten or twenty yuan bills that the guests carry with them, to the chips with a minimum denomination of one hundred yuan, if they are lucky, the amount of consumption they earn every month is ten or even dozens of times their income.

If they are willing to pay a little extra, their income will be even higher.

Without anyone urging them, they will truly treat every guest as if they were God!
The gentleman who came in was carrying a suitcase in his hand. He put the suitcase on the counter and pushed it in. "Change it into chips."

The girl at the counter quickly opened the suitcase, which was filled with twenty-dollar bills. Each stack had a hundred bills, which equaled two thousand dollars.

There are a total of... twenty stacks here, which is 40,000 yuan.

Forty thousand dollars is a lot of gambling money in other places, but not here.

Soon the chips were exchanged as Roger had requested, and Roger noticed that they had put the empty suitcases aside and numbered them with "membership numbers", and there were quite a lot of suitcases there!
"It looks like there are a lot of people here tonight."

The girl at the counter spread out the counted chips on the red velvet mat and put them into the chip box after the customer confirmed them. "Yes, today is the weekend, and there are a lot of people at night!"

“Here’s your leverage.”

The guest left a twenty-dollar tip and entered the casino carrying the chip box as the girl thanked him.

He came to the window on the second floor and lit a cigarette...

Lance, who was in the distance, saw Roger smoking by the window through the telescope. He pulled his hood down and patted the driver's seat.

The modified convoy broke through the curtain of shadows from the dark alley and rushed into the moonlight. There were still cars on the street at night, just as lively as during the day. This somewhat strange convoy attracted the attention of some passers-by.

But once they entered the Kodak Club, the attention they received dropped significantly.

Rich people are always like this, doing unexpected things.

Five cars were lined up outside the club's gate. The welcoming staff was stunned for a moment, but still went to greet them responsibly.

Before he could get close, the car doors were all opened at once. Before he could react, his face was full of surprise. After getting out of the car, Lance raised his hand and fired a shot.

The weapon was equipped with a silencer, and the person on the stairs was hit repeatedly with low-decibel gunshots and rolled down the stairs.

Lance glanced at his watch as he walked up the steps, tapping the face.

Seven minutes from now!
He walked in front, taking two or three steps forward, and the others followed closely behind, each holding a weapon with a silencer in his hand.

The purpose of carrying a weapon with a silencer is to delay as much as possible the possibility of being discovered and calling the police.

In this situation, even if you can buy ten or twenty more seconds, it may be enough to run one more street corner than the police and the Kodak family's pursuers.

A street corner might be the key to escaping pursuit.

Several security guards in casino uniforms were walking towards this side from the majestic and tall gate. When they saw the hooded people rushing over, they were stunned for a moment. Before their hands touched the corners of their clothes, let alone the weapons at their waists, they fell to the ground and rolled down.

When Lance rushed into the main gate, although some staff members were looking outside, they did not feel any sense of crisis and did not notice anything.

This is the Kodak family's casino. No one would be so blind as to come here and cause trouble!
Until they saw these thugs rushing in with guns.

Alan rushed to the counter, stuck the explosives to the glass wall, turned on the switch, and everyone else hid.

Before the staff at the counter realized what was happening, an explosion suddenly occurred!

The customized bulletproof glass curtain wall was instantly shattered into a white wall by the shock wave generated by the explosion, and a big hole was blown directly into the place where the bomb was stuck!
Shards of glass flew everywhere.

At the same time, the alarm sounded suddenly.

This is not an underground casino, this is a licensed, legal federal casino that pays taxes.

It has a very reliable alarm system like a bank -

The alarm system had been developed when the telephone was invented. All it took was pressing a button and the electrical signal would be sent to a dedicated duty office at the police station.

They will call to ask if it was an accidental trigger, and if it was, the person on duty will cancel the alarm.

If it is not an accidental touch, the police station will dispatch officers to the scene.

If the call cannot be connected, they will also arrange for police officers to check.

Banks, financial institutions, and places where large amounts of cash may flow in and out are all connected to such alarm systems.

The moment the alarm sounded, the police station had received the call and they would arrive here soon!
Lance had a thick glove on his left hand. After tearing off a piece of glass that could fall at any time, he took the lead and entered the counter.

The people inside the counter and in the safe behind the counter reacted quickly and someone immediately tried to push the door of the safe to close it, but it was a little too late. Lance raised his hand and shot, and everyone fell down after being shot.

Many people always choose the wrong behavior at the wrong time, and for some companies, it is actually not worth it.

In just a few seconds, the door of the safe was controlled.

At the same time, the people outside opened the door of the counter and ran in pushing two carts.

Lance grabbed a travel bag from the cart, unzipped it and threw it at his feet. He held the travel bag in one hand and used the other hand to put the neatly piled money on the table into the bag.

The young people who came in right after him were all shocked by this scene: a room full of money and gold bricks!
They immediately joined the team to grab money!

Upstairs, Shi Dong was checking this month's account book when suddenly he felt the house beneath his feet shake.

The room was well soundproofed and he didn't hear the explosion, but he immediately frowned.

He walked to the window and took a look. Many people in the casino hall were moving towards the door, as if something had happened.

But he couldn't see where he was, so he immediately picked up the phone and asked, "What happened down there?"

The voice in the receiver was full of panic and anxiety, and some gunshots could be heard. "Someone blew up the counter with a bomb..."

"Fuck!" "Stop them!"

The person who answered the phone was stunned for a moment. How to stop it?
Use your body to stop it?
“We’re trying!”

"Fuck!" Stone felt terrible. He ran back to his desk, took out the spare pistol and magazine from the drawer, broke open the door and ran towards the stairs.

The elevator will take a while, so we might as well run fast now.

The hall was already in chaos, and the sound of gunfire was the most frightening thing for these rich people!

They have money, power and social status, and they live in this world just to enjoy life!

And bullets can take away everything from them!
Looking at the customers who were frightened and panicked by the commotion, and then looking at the door where the gunfire was going on, Stone could only grit his teeth and start to comfort these customers.

He knew very well that even if he went to the door, it would not change anything.

He's not some superhero who can stand up to a bullet that could kill him.

He is not a super sharpshooter who can take out an enemy with every bullet.

He is just an ordinary gang leader, his shooting skills are not very accurate, and he can withstand one or two bullets. His joining the battlefield will not only fail to bring direct changes, but may make the situation worse.

Those security guards and gunmen need to be distracted to take care of him, after all, if he dies, Gowri and Bandy will go crazy!

At this time, the travel bag under Lance's feet was almost full. He zipped it up and threw it back into the car, followed by the second bag.

There are tables filled with neatly stacked banknotes in the safe, and the whole space is filled with the smell of corrupt money!
He took a moment to check his watch. There was still one and a half minutes left for the security incident...

Four police cars came out of the police station and sped towards the club. They sounded the sirens and many cars on the road pulled over.

This actually has nothing to do with the quality of the federal people. They just don't want to cause trouble.

If the crime is not stopped because they do not voluntarily give way, the prosecutor or the victim may bring them to court.

They are afraid of becoming defendants and having to pay a large amount of money to defend themselves, so they actively avoid the situation. It is not because they have a high spiritual level.

But in the world outside the Federation, they would say that the noble sentiments here are fostered by the sweet air.

A thin man took a big gulp of wine. He looked like a bamboo pole, so thin that he was unrecognizable.

But he had a very large belly, and the skin inside his belly was so tight that the blood vessels could be clearly seen.

As the alcohol went down his throat, his eyes turned slightly red. He looked at the police lights approaching from afar and stepped on the accelerator to the limit.

When the truck and the police car were about to pass each other, he suddenly turned the steering wheel!

The front of the truck turned sharply and crashed into the first police car with a heavy load.

The driver of the police car was too late to react and was hit face to face.

The carriage began to compress and squeeze in an instant, sparks flashed on the ground, and several police cars at the back rear-ended each other and stopped together.

Finally, the train crashed into a telephone booth on the roadside, hitting the first police car. Even so, the front wheels kept turning...

The two young men on the roadside took a look and left quietly, leaving behind a few policemen who came out of the police car with blood on their heads, looking shocked and confused, and asking for help.

The police officers quickly reported the news to the police station, and the police radio immediately began dispatching. Some police officers went to support the car accident scene, while others went to support the casino.

Obviously, these things are most likely related!
In the casino, several large bags of money were piled on a cart, and another cart was piled with a lot of gold bars. Lance looked at his watch and it was almost time.

When he said "retreat", everyone stopped immediately, threw their things into the carts and walked outside.

Lance walked last. He stood at the door, picked up a Molotov cocktail placed at the door, lit it, and threw it into the safe. Then he threw the second one, the third one...

A huge fire broke out in the entire safe in an instant, and the raging flames ignited all the banknotes and even some works of art that had not been taken away in time!

Some gamblers, when they lose so much money and get so angry that they exchange the artworks at home for chips.

The casino offers art collateral services, but the price won’t be very high.

The raging flames devoured everything inside. Lance took one last look, then left without looking back, pushing the cart away.

Finally, Lance took out two grenades and threw them into the hall, blocking the pursuers.

The loud explosion finally made people realize that the casino was being robbed!
They rushed down the steps, threw the travel bags into the car, and pushed the cart with gold bars directly into the car. The five cars turned around and drove outside immediately.

At this time, the big iron gate had been closed, but it had no practical significance against these modified cars, so it was directly knocked open. After the five cars rushed into the driveway, they drove out of the city...

Hunter had just finished his evening socializing when he received a call from the police station. He asked the police officer to drive him to Kodak's casino, where the scene was already in a state of chaos.

About ten minutes after he arrived here, Bandy and Gaoli also came here, also reeking of alcohol.

By the time Bandy got out of the car, the fire in the safe had been put out.

Three fire trucks poured water into the vault and the flames did not last long before being extinguished.

Bendy looked down at the water running down the steps and at a piece of banknote debris the size of his thumb.

Everything around it had been burned to ashes, leaving only a "20" clearly visible. He bent down and picked up the twenty-dollar "remaining coin" from the water. "How much did we lose?"

For the first time, Shi Dong felt a little scared and he didn't know how to answer this question.

Another car also stopped nearby. Fleming also came over drunk. He looked at what he saw and couldn't believe it. "What happened?"

But now, no one could answer his question.

Shi Dong lowered his head and said, "About five or six million, and some artworks and gold..."

Bandy's body staggered a bit, and Gao Li immediately supported him to prevent him from falling. If he measured his blood pressure now, he would find that his blood pressure was off the charts!

In fact, the money that Lance and his men robbed was not a large part of the total loss. The real loss was the fire that Lance set before he left, which almost burned all the remaining banknotes and artworks.

This is not just a simple matter of losing seven or eight or eight or nine million. They have lost the money, which means that the money has already been lost.

At the same time, they also need to pay at least two to three million in "gambling money" tonight. Those guests who have exchanged money for chips will definitely ask to exchange the chips back into cash soon!

They have to pay extra money to redeem these chips, and their losses are huge!
After more than ten seconds, Bendy's condition improved a little, "Who did this?"

Hunter, who was standing nearby, also refocused his attention and listened with his ears perked up.

"It's unclear, they were wearing hoods, no one spoke, and no one saw who they were."

"But I suspect..." Stone glanced at Bendy, "...it might be Lance and the others who did it."

Bendy frowned and understood the whole story. He already had a guess. In fact, everyone had a guess - the Lance family.

They are the only ones most likely to do so. The Kodak family has been established in Jingang City for so many years. Except for the early days when some people dared to challenge them, no one has tried to challenge them for many years.

If there is anyone who can break the rules of this city, there is only one possibility, Lance and his people!

Bandy turned to look at Hunter, who was a little embarrassed because he was very close to the group and was obviously eavesdropping.

"Did you hear that?"

"We have a suspect. The most important thing you should do now is to arrest him!"

(End of this chapter)