Shadow Empire

Chapter 510 Another Punch

“Here’s your money!”

In the office, a guy with a slicked-back hair was sitting on a chair with a stack of money in his hand.

The man opposite him had stood up, with a flattering expression on his face, his head lowered and his waist bent.

The nameplate on the desk reads "Pepe Financial Company", a loan shark company.

Loan sharking is also illegal federally, but many people operate it, especially gangs.

The profits from usury are very high, and the risks are not high. Anyone with a little ability is very fond of this business.

Even among ordinary people there is some usury.

Like lending money to a friend or relative and then asking them to pay an interest rate significantly higher than the maximum interest rate supported by federal law.

However, borrowing and paying interest from one person to another is a personal behavior and cannot be considered as complete usury.

The illegal part of federal law refers to corporate behavior that specifically seeks to profit from usury.

The man with the slicked-back hair stared into the other person's eyes. "In a week, I want to see the money appear in front of me, including the principal and interest. Otherwise, you know the consequences!"

The person who borrowed the money nodded and bowed his head, "I know, I know, don't worry, I will definitely pay back the money with interest!"

The man with the slicked-back hair nodded with satisfaction, put the money on the table and let the other party take it away.

On the surface, he is the boss of this financial company, but in fact he is just a small role.

Behind the financial company stood the Kodak family, Stone and Gowrie.

Bandy has always been committed to whitewashing his family, so they certainly cannot do these illegal businesses themselves, at least not directly.

They firmly control many financial companies through indirect control. The main job of these financial companies is to provide funds for gamblers who have lost money and are eager to make up for their losses to continue gambling.

They sat in the lounge of the casino, and the old gamblers who needed money knew where to find them.

And those new gamblers also know where to borrow money with the help of the dealers or staff.

If the gamblers want to borrow a large amount of money, or even have collateral, then these financial companies will drive them to the financial company to get the money, and then drive them back to the casino, waiting for the money they just got to eventually return to the Kodak family.

This is a reincarnation, a circle, constantly reaping every penny of wealth in the pockets of all gamblers.

If they can't pay it back, don't worry too much. As long as they have a house or other things at home, there is always a way to squeeze some out of it.

Even if nothing can be squeezed out of it, isn't a person himself a sum of money?
Still a lot of money!
Eventually gamblers will find themselves penniless, and some will choose to end their lives to pay for their mistakes.

Some people may never recover from this and become one of the homeless people you can see everywhere.

The Koda family has never been kind, but Bandy is very cunning. He knows how to hide their evil and make them look like they are not white, but not black either.

The phone on the table rang at the right moment, and when he picked it up, the casual expression on his face turned a little more serious.

"Yes... yes... I know. I will report it immediately if I encounter any trouble."

"Okay, I get it. Okay, okay... okay, bye."

The call was from Stone's assistant, asking them to be careful recently. Bendy guessed that Lance might continue to attack them.

But now the defense of their casino is very strong, and they can mobilize hundreds of militants at any time to protect the safety of the casino.

As long as the casino doesn't collapse, the Kodak family will not collapse.

Correspondingly, the defensive capabilities of other industries are a little weaker, but it doesn’t matter. Unless these industries are completely cut off, they will not cause too much problem to the family.

Shi Dong's assistant told him to be careful of strangers and to seek help immediately when encountering trouble, and not to think he could solve it on his own.

After hanging up the phone, he shook his head. He was not very interested in the fighting at the upper level. He just wanted to run his business well.

Although the bulk of the profits were eventually taken by the Kodak family, he was still able to earn a considerable amount of money from this job.

He pressed a button and asked his secretary to notify the next borrower to come in.

Their financial company only lends for a maximum of two weeks, and usually only for one week.

The principal and interest must be repaid after a week, otherwise they have plenty of ways to make those who cannot or are unwilling to repay the money agree to repay the money.

Two young men walked in from outside the door, and the man with the slicked-back hair looked at them a few more times.

In fact, most of the people who continue to gamble after losing in a casino are middle-aged people, while there are fewer young people.

Now there were two young men, which surprised the man with the slicked-back hair a little.

But now that I'm here, I must do business.

"Did they tell you how to calculate the interest before you came in?"

One of them nodded and said, "I know. Five percent per day. Ten percent per day after the deadline."

The man with the slicked-back hair showed a satisfied smile, "How much do you plan to borrow?"

"Any collateral?"

Another young man nodded, "Yes." The man with the slicked-back hair immediately became curious, "What is it?"

"If it's good stuff, I can give you more money!"

"It would be best if it were a gold watch, gold gemstones, or something like that. These are easier to sell and have a high rate of retaining their value. I can give you a good price."

The other young man smiled and put his hands into his pockets. The man with the slicked-back hair also poked his head out with a curious look. It was not until he saw a black thing pointing at him that he cursed "Shit" and slowly raised his hands!
The phone kept ringing, stinging his scalp. He just glanced at it and let it continue to ring.

Shi Dong hung up the phone. He felt something was wrong, so he called another financial company, but still no one answered.

Even the financial company whose call I had just made and someone answered the phone, no one answered at this moment.

No matter how stupid he was, he knew something must have happened.

He hung up the phone, walked back and forth a few steps, and decided to go out and take a look himself.

He told Gao Li about this matter, and Gao Li did not object. Although it might be a bit risky, as a person whose family manages a gray industry, he cannot always be in a safe environment.

Gao Li thought it was appropriate to let him experience the danger appropriately.

The car soon arrived at the nearest financial company, and the person who was supposed to be guarding the door was gone.

Shi Dong cursed, parked the car, took out his gun, walked to the door and pushed it gently, and the door opened.

There was a smell of blood in the room and his face turned very bad. After checking the room with his men, they found some dead bodies in the lounge and the manager's office.

Everyone in the finance company was killed, and what’s even more troublesome is that all the cash and loan certificates are gone!

He kicked the man with a slicked-back hair who was lying dead on the chair, picked up the phone and dialed Gao Li's number.

"how's it going?"

"Did you find anything?"

Shi Dong suppressed the fire in his heart and said, "The people are dead, and the money and IOU are gone."

Gao Li was silent for a long time before he said, "I know."

"Got it?" Stone repeated, but it was a question, "Shouldn't we do something?"

"We have more than a dozen financial companies in total. We have lost a lot of money because of this. Everyone is laughing at us!"

"Give me a group of people, and I will go to the Empire District and kill Lance now and put an end to this matter."

"And then?" Gao Li asked, "I'll take people to get your body back?"

Shi Dong had a ferocious expression on his face. It was the first time in his life that he felt so aggrieved!
"What should I do?"

"We do nothing and just watch that worm that came out of nowhere eat away our building bit by bit?"

Gao Li frowned. He felt that Shi Dong was not in a good state. "Come back first, and we will discuss it first."

"Don't worry, we won't do nothing. This is just a part of our experience. When you recall these things in the future, you will find your impulsiveness funny!"

Shi Dong wanted to curse, but the person on the other end was his father. In the end, he slammed the phone, said "Let's go", and left with his men.

As for calling the police?

Someone will help him deal with it.

After returning to the villa, Bandy, Gowrie, Fleming and some core members of the family were all there.

They were discussing how to deal with the situation when Stone came in, and they had not yet recovered from Lance's reckless punch.

This also made them realize that the names of the five major families or the Kodak family were not very useful to Lance.

In the past, just taking out these things was enough to make some small gangs compromise, but now, they have been met with a more fierce counterattack.

Stone walked over and sat down next to Fleming. He was not very convinced by the somewhat "cowardly" Uncle Bandy, and was quite dissatisfied with his father who had no opinion of his own.

In the family, he only admired Fleming because Fleming was very smart and could always think of solutions to problems.

Fleming patted Stone's leg, "We were just talking about the next revenge plan."

"We have roughly found the location of the Lance Family Bar. I also got a very important piece of information. Their wine comes from an abandoned ranch outside the city."

Shi Dong was stunned for a moment, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face, "What are we going to do?"

Bandy didn't say a word throughout the whole process, allowing his son to play. His original intention was to keep Fleming out of it.

But now it seems that the successor he chose has different ideas from him on this matter.

"We are legitimate businessmen. If we encounter something illegal, the best option is to call the police!"

Stone was stunned for a moment. He had even taken off his pants, and Fleming said this?
He was a little depressed, "We can take revenge ourselves."

Fleming laughed and said, "We can't give up the use of violence, but we can't rely solely on violence either."

"Hazardous materials management has a lot of authority. Lance can handle the police department, but he can't handle them!"

(End of this chapter)