"After becoming a member and entering the shooting range, it costs a sum of money to rent firearms and another sum of money to consume bullets. Mr. Mogwen told me at the time that the money he made from the business negotiated by the club when he accompanied his clients to the club was not enough.

The cost of the afternoon at the shooting range!”

Jack Baldo held out three fingers seriously: "Three pounds in total! One afternoon! Three pounds! Mr. Mogwen said he would never go there again in his life!"

He complained: "Later on, some private military factories appeared among the people, making guns and bullets cheaper. Shooting clubs also appeared in the old city and lower city, but the operation method was still the same as that in the upper city, although it was not that expensive.

It’s available, but it’s not something normal people can afford. Its target customers are some gang members who have made a fortune, and some unlucky guys who have been cheated and come to practice shooting for duels..."

Chen Yan was stunned for a few seconds and said, "What did you just say?"

Jack Baldo: "Hmm...bullets are expensive at shooting clubs?"

Chen Yan reminded: "The previous sentence."

Jack Bardo hesitated: "The shooting club run by pirates in the lower city costs 30 pence for an hour. Compared with other clubs, bullets seem to be free?"

Chen Yan snapped his fingers: "Okay! That's it! Just this afternoon, you will take me there!"

Jack Baldo hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Then we have to take the guys with us. There is some chaos in the lower city during this time, as you know."

Chen Yan gave him the pistol that he had previously seized from the Gunpowder Keg Gang.

"There are only two bullets left in this gun. I'll see if I can buy some bullets when I get to the shooting club."

Jack Baldo took a look at the gun body, opened the magazine, looked at the caliber of the bullet, and nodded:

"This is [Little Toast]. It uses 5.56mm bullets. The sales volume of this kind of gun is not small. Almost every gang leader with a little background has one. The bullets should be easy to buy."

Chen Yan was originally worried that if he used the gun outside, he would be found to be associated with the Powder Keg Gang.

Now that Jack Baldo said this, he put aside his doubts.

Jack Baldo hesitated for a moment, then said:

"If you really want to go to the shooting club, I can introduce you to a coach. He is a very good person. He has been using guns since he was a child. He has never lost a bounty duel with anyone in the lower city."

Bounty duel, Chen Yan has heard of this term, it is similar to the "cowboy duel" he knew in his previous life, but it is different:

Before the duel, the dealer opens the market and places bets on winning or losing. After the bets are taken away, the two duellists stand face to face at a certain distance apart. They compete with each other to see who can draw a gun faster and who can shoot more accurately. Whoever kills his opponent wins.

The winner will not only win the bounty, but also win 5% of the total money.

There is an unwritten rule in bounty duels:

Drawing a gun and killing your opponent first represents shame;

Then he takes out his gun and kills his opponent, which represents honor.

When Chen Yan first learned about this rule, he scolded him, "You should act and stand up at the same time."

You've already risked your life to make money, so what's the point of "honor"?

Each person fires three bullets until one party is injured or dead.

But if neither gunman is dead or injured, then the reputation of these two people will be bad, and they will be called "blind man", "clown" and other insulting titles, and no one will do it in the future.

Then participate in the bounty duel with these two people.

This means that the bounty duel career of these two gunmen has come to an end.

Therefore, what Jack Baldo said, "I have been using guns since I was a child, and I have never lost a bounty duel with people in the downtown area." This sentence is very heavy for a gunman, which means that the gunman's

The ability must be very strong.

Chen Yan is looking forward to this, but he is also very nervous. For a gunman of this level to be a coach, the employment fee must be a lot...

When he expressed his doubts, Jack Baldo reassured him and said that he had a good relationship with the man and should be able to get a very low friendship price-perhaps more than 30 per hour if the matter can be negotiated.

Pennies are much lower.

Chen Yan was extremely happy about this.

It is now close to noon. Except for Chen Yan, Jack Baldo and the construction team of the decoration company, there is no one else in the apartment. Ogami has not come back yet. The four children have gone to school and Malina has gone to textile.

Factory, this is her first day at work today, I don’t know if she can adapt to the intensity of work.

After Chen Yan explained to the foreman of the decoration company's construction team, he locked the kitchen door and went out with Jack Baldo, who was carrying the spherical Tunguska with him.

Fortunately, the spherical Tunguska is not big, and its body is still in hibernation. Its curled-up volume is only one size larger than an outstretched hand. Jack Baldo carried a thick backpack and easily stuffed the spherical Tunguska inside.

It's not obvious from the outside either.

The two left the apartment and headed to downtown Walker Street.

After nearly an hour's journey, Chen Yan and Jack Baldo arrived at a neighborhood called "Capone Lane" in the lower city.

The weather is good today. After the snow that fell last night was melted by the sun, part of it flowed into the unfrozen sewer outlet, and the other part was blown by the cold wind and turned into smooth ice.

Xiacheng District has several sunny days every winter, and such weather is often worse than snowstorms. The ice hidden under the snow often causes unexpected harm to people.

Human beings are very fragile creatures, especially in lower urban areas where everyone is drunk. Once you fall down in winter and hurt your head, you will probably never get up again.

The number of casualties rises sharply on sunny winter days, but people will not stop working because of this. Hunger is more terrible than sudden death.

This kind of winter day has become a carnival day for certain groups of people - the price of non-slip snow boots has doubled several times on this day, and the merchants who sell shoes do not care that this will cause public outrage. They support the street police department.

, and therefore are protected by the street police department.

Capone Lane is always different from other neighborhoods. It is the birthplace of the oldest gang in Yanan City. It is a lawless place that has existed since long ago when Yanan City was still a small town. It is also an ancient white-skinned gangster.

A place to earn the first pot of gold to make a fortune.

Chen Yan and Jack Baldo were walking on the streets of Capone Lane, and the latter kept telling the former about the rumors he had heard these days.

“I heard some old people say that when Yanan City was still a small town, as soon as the train opened, there were gangs of idle ruffians who rode horses and robbed the train.

This is how the Capone Gang made its first pot of gold.

Later, Yanan City gradually expanded, and the Capone Gang caught up with the good times, relying on the first pot of gold and unscrupulous means to expand, entered the upper city, and became a powerful businessman.

It is said that there have been several Round Table members in their family, but the official information cannot be found because they have changed their surnames, and the relationship between those big shots and the Capone Gang cannot be seen from the surnames alone."

After nearly a week of idleness, Jack Baldo has become a mature street hustler. He knows where to find information that sounds very eye-catching, and he can also distinguish the authenticity of such information to a certain extent.

Fake.

The shooting club he described before is located in the center of Capone Lane. This part of the block has been sheltered by the Capone Gang all year round. The merchants have paid enough protection fees and their safety has been guaranteed. From the outside, the various shops in the row make this place look so different.

It looks even busier than most neighborhoods in the old city.

“The ‘Capone Gang’ in Capone Alley now is actually no longer the Capone Gang back then.

The Capone Gang back then had been completely cleansed. They had long looked down on this kind of place and would not collect low-level things like protection money.

The "Capone Gang" in Capone Alley is a gang formed by latecomers in the name of "Capone".

This fake Capone gang is under the banner of "Capone", and most gang members refer to Capone himself as the "Godfather"."

Chen Yan looked at the oversized neon sign on top of the shooting club and said:

"Capone himself probably hated that title."

Jack Bardo shrugged:

"Who knows."

Chen Yan found that what was interesting was that on the neon billboard, before the phrase "Shooting Club", there was the prefix "Sparrow".

Sparrow Shooting Club.

He thought to himself that since it was a shooting club opened by pirates, it might have something to do with the underground Sparrow Industries?

Entering the club one after another with Jack Baldo, a foul smell of smoke assaulted his nostrils. Chen Yan was startled before he could react, thinking that there was a fire inside the club.

The proliferation of tobacco in Xiacheng District is no longer news. The height of a large number of fifty-story corner buildings is destined to harbor filth and evil. It is impossible for police officers from the street police department to climb dozens of floors to arrest people without elevators.

Criminals, many incredible things were born in this context.

Jack Baldo told Chen Yan that the reason why everyone here can afford to smoke tobacco is not because everyone is rich, but because some people in the lower city have invented the method of growing tobacco leaves on a large scale in corner buildings.

The method seems not to be soil cultivation, but some kind of strange hydroponics method.

Tobacco became cheap.

Although the quality of the tobacco leaves cultivated in this way is not high, and can even be said to be inferior, most of the poor people in Xiacheng District are not picky. It is already good to have cigarettes to smoke. Before this inferior tobacco appeared, even

There are many people picking up cigarette butts and smoking on the street.

There was a smoky atmosphere in the shooting club. The pungent smell of low-quality tobacco combined with the smell of sweat from most people who had not taken a shower for half the winter formed an indescribable "smell".

The smell, which can be described as "fishy", is so overpowering that even if you hold your breath, you can't stop it from entering the nasal cavity.

For Chen Yan, these smells were more painful than the tavern in Mouse Alley on Walker Street. The tavern still had the smell of alcohol to cover up other pungent smells, but Sparrow Shooting Club did not sell alcohol.

Most people in the Empire don't drink well, and no one wants to see a gunman causing drunken trouble in a club like this.

The various body odors condensed together mixed together in the air, causing a wonderful chemical reaction.

Chen Yan once again lamented people's ability to adapt, because when he went down to the basement, he had already adapted to the smell and it was no longer so pungent!

'Maybe my nose is broken...' Chen Yan thought pessimistically.
Chapter completed!