Empire of Shadows

The atmosphere was a little tense.

This police captain was not an easy guy to get along with. Those who knew him well understood this.

It was said that he was the first to propose and implement the extortion of passing trucks. At that time, he was not yet a captain, and some people had opposed him doing so. Someone had reported him to the disciplinary department.

But soon, after the investigation team came down, they did not find any problems. On the contrary, the person who had reported him had met with a disaster during a police call.

Some said that he had shot his own colleague in the back, but others said that it was just that guy’s bad luck.

In short, he had smoothly climbed to his current position. There were definitely not only positive stories in this.

Once a person has established their own authority, there will definitely be some messy rumors.

In these messy rumors, the police captain had killed many people.

Those real criminals, those innocent truck drivers, and even the police.

He looked very easy to communicate with, but no one in the section branch was not afraid of him. Seeing him ask such a question with a smile on his face, the two police officers were so scared that they could almost not hold in their farts!The smile on the police captain’s face gradually faded. The shorter of the two police officers had already started to sweat. While wiping his sweat, he did his best to control his constantly twitching eyelids. “This month, this month we will definitely be able to exceed fifty thousand…”

“I swear on my grandmother!”

The atmosphere in the room seemed to have solidified in an instant. Sometimes they were very suspicious, whether this police captain was a police captain or a gang leader.

They also suspected whether they were state police or gang members under this leader.

In fact, they had not waited for long, maybe just seven or eight seconds, but these seven or eight seconds had felt exceptionally long for them.

The two were highly nervous. They looked at the police captain, a hint of pleading in their eyes.

However, the next second, the police captain suddenly made a gun shape with both hands and said “bang bang” twice, which scared the two police officers so much that they almost collapsed from their chairs!

Looking at their comical and ugly state, the police captain couldn’t help but laugh. “Alright, just a joke with you. You can’t even take a joke?”

At this time, the hearts of the two police officers were definitely beating at over one hundred and fifty, beating wildly. While they forced a smile and said they didn’t mind, they sat up straight again.

The police captain laughed for a while, took a deep breath, and stopped laughing.

“Safety is important, but the speed of our sales is also very important. I don’t want the owner of this batch of goods to come looking for us, understand?”

“You are selling too slowly, which will only increase our chances of being exposed. So sell as soon as possible, even if the price is a little lower.”

“Sell the things, exchange them for cash, and then we will go home with our own money in silence, okay?”

He looked at the two police officers. “You know me. I am never stingy in sharing with you, but you should not let me down either!”

“If the amount of wine you sell is very small, but you get the same money as others, do you think that is fair?”

“So you’d better work hard to sell those wines, so that even if I give you a little more, others won’t be able to say anything!”

The two police officers could only nod and say, “I promise I can do better!”

The police captain nodded noncommittally, and then clapped his hands. “Okay, I believe you. Now, lads, go and do your thing, and run!”

Although he had used a slightly stiff and commanding tone to tell the two to get the hell out of here, the two police officers still breathed a sigh of relief, immediately stood up, and after a polite farewell, they pushed open the door.

The moment the door was pushed open, two police officers with backpacks stood up from the bench next to them. The eight eyes of the four met. After the two had released a “you’d better be careful” look, they moved past them and left the office.

Soon the office door was closed. A new “cycle” had begun. Of course, it was also possible that this was not the same as the previous cycles. For example, these two people would work a little harder.

Their backpacks were bulging, and they looked like they could definitely hold a lot of things.

“That scared the shit out of me just now!” the big police officer couldn’t help but exclaim.

The shorter one was wiping his sweat. He cursed a few times, but it was unknown who he was cursing.

It was possible that he was cursing himself, and it was also possible that he was cursing his partner, cursing the people who sold the wine for them.

There was also another possibility, that he was cursing the police captain, but he himself would definitely not admit this.

The two of them changed into their police uniforms in the parking lot and then began their work for the day.

“He’s a little anxious,” the shorter police officer took out the donuts he had prepared, carefully using his other hand to catch them from below, and put them into his mouth.

These donuts looked very “spectacular.” It was unknown how many layers of syrup and chocolate chips, and all kinds of other things, were wrapped around them, but the people of the Federation liked these.

Sweetness is the cheapest “medicine” that ordinary people can come into contact with. Besides making you age faster, making your brain slower and more stupid, and your body being gradually destroyed, there are actually no major side effects.

The tall guy, while driving, replied, “He seems to be under a lot of pressure. What is the origin of this wine?”

It wasn’t that they hadn’t done similar things before, but never like now, where not only the labels were torn off, but the caps were also changed, and a chemical reagent was used to wipe off the gold-plated things on the surface.

All of this pointed to one reason—pressure!

The origin of this batch of goods must be extraordinary. The shorter one recalled, “I remember it seems to be ‘Golden Lion Wine.’ Do you know this brand?”

Let alone things that happened in another state, even if it happened in another city, they might not know. So they had not heard of Golden Lion Wine, and naturally, they did not know where this wine came from.

But they all knew that the owner of this wine was definitely not simple.

The two of them did not discuss these wines on the way, but just completed their work.

According to the normal work rules, they had to stay on the highway for at least three to five days, but because they were now shouldering other responsibilities, they were just going through the motions.

It could be seen that the police captain was a very rule-abiding person. Even if they had other important things to do, they still had to show up when they should.

In the evening, after the two had changed their car, they returned to New Birmingham. They came to the appointed restaurant and ordered two set meals.

They and their distributors had all agreed to meet here.

It wasn’t just the two of them who were selling these wines in this city. There were also other colleagues, who also had their own distributors.

Besides work hours, they rarely met with other colleagues.

As they were eating, a man in a knitted hat with his hands in his pockets pushed open the door with his shoulder and walked in.

He looked around, found the two in the corner, and then walked over and sat down.

Then he took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it over. “Today’s three hundred and seventy.”

The slightly shorter of the two police officers took out the money from the envelope, counted it, and was a little displeased. “It’s even less than yesterday.”

The guy in the knitted hat immediately complained, “Come on, this is fucking whiskey, not beer, not mixed fruit wine. And this is not a place like New Golden City. Do you think there are many people here who can afford a whole bottle of whiskey every day?”

“Even if someone really can afford a whole bottle of whiskey every day, are you sure they can drink it?”

“This is strong liquor. The sales will only get better when there are queues, for example, during the Harvest Festival.”

“To be able to sell so much now, I’m already very surprised. And you don’t allow me to keep doing business with old customers, and you don’t allow us to sell to the bars.”

If you could sell it to a bar… actually, you don’t have to sell it in a bar. As long as you sell it to the operator of a bar, this wine can definitely be sold immediately.

But the police captain didn’t want this matter to be discovered. In the end, it was still that his “pressure” was too great, so he could only sell it secretly.

The tall guy frowned and said, “Watch your mouth.”

He stared at the guy in the knitted hat. A fierce light flashed in the latter’s eyes, but he quickly took his hands out of his pockets, and then raised them. “Alright, my attitude is the problem.”

“But you can’t blame me. Your requirements are too fucking strange. If it’s still like this in the future, I don’t even know if I want to cooperate with you!”

In the past, when they had sold small electrical appliances and the like, there were not so many rules. They would just pull them to the second-hand market and sell them as brand new second-hand.

Something that cost a hundred would be sold for sixty or seventy. They simply couldn’t get enough of them.

Now, to have to sell them secretly, it was definitely not as fast as selling them openly.

The shorter police officer drew out thirty-five dollars and handed it over. “Alright, find a way to sell more. You can use some promotional means, for example, if you buy two bottles, you can charge a little less.”

The guy in the knitted hat couldn’t help it anymore. “The quality of this wine is very high. It can actually be sold for a high price!”

“If you are willing to talk to the bars, or if it’s not convenient for you to show your face, I can go and talk. I can get the price for each bottle to be at least sixty or more!”

He looked at the two police officers with some expectation, but what he got in return was just that cold stare.

The three looked at each other for a moment. He shook his head. “Forget it. you’re the boss. you have the final say!”

He patted his butt and stood up. “I still have some of the last batch of goods. Give me a new address after I’ve sold them tomorrow.”

“I’m fucking done with you people!”

After saying that, he left with some profanity in his mouth.

Not long after, another person came. The same rambling, the same handing over of money, and then the same complaining before leaving.

If it weren’t for the fact that they had cooperated well in the past, these people wouldn’t want to do it now!

In a short while, the two of them had received more than five thousand. The shorter police officer watched as the taller police officer gathered the last of the food scraps on his plate into a corner, and then, with a spoon, he scooped it all up, put it in his mouth, and showed an expression of enjoyment.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but say with a laugh, “I just don’t get it. Is this last bite so delicious?”

The taller police officer smiled and said nothing. He left two fifty-cent coins on the table, and then the two of them stood up and walked outside.

Their car was parked in the parking lot next door. The shorter one, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, came to a corner, unzipped his pants, and while relaxing against the wall, a hand suddenly rested on his shoulder.

“Don’t mess with me, brother. You don’t want me to piss all over you, do you?”

He said with a laugh.

(End of a Chapter)