Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 424 Spyro Shooting Club
"Being a member and entering the shooting range requires a sum of money for gun rental and another sum of money for bullet consumption. Mr. Murgwin told me at the time that the business he negotiated with the client at the club this time was not enough for a sum of money. An afternoon spent at the shooting range!"

Jack Baldo held out three fingers in a serious manner: "It's three pounds! One afternoon! Three pounds! Mr. Mergwynn said he would never go there again in his life!"

He complained: "Later, some private military factories appeared among the people, and the guns and bullets became cheaper. Shooting clubs also appeared in the old city and the lower city, but the operation method is still the same as that of the upper city, although it is not so expensive. Yes, but it’s not something normal people can afford. Its target customers are some gang members who have made a lot of money, and some unlucky ghosts who come to practice shooting for duels after being greened..."

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

Jake Baldo: "Hmmm... how expensive is the shooting club ammunition?"

Chen Yan reminded: "The last sentence."

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

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

Jack Baldo hesitated for a moment, and said, "Then we have to take the guy with us. The downtown area is a bit messy these days, you know."

Chen Yan gave him the pistol he had seized from the powder keg gang.

"There are only two bullets left in this gun. Wait until the shooting club to see if I can buy some bullets."

Jack Baldo glanced at the body of the gun, opened the clip, glanced at the caliber of the bullet, and nodded:
"This is [Little Chieftain], and it uses 5.56mm bullets. The sales volume of this gun is not small. Almost every gang leader with a little background has one, and the bullets should be easy to buy."

Chen Yan was originally worried that if he used this gun outside, it would be seen that he was related to the Gunpowder Keg Gang.

Hearing what Jack Baldo said now, he let go of his doubts.

Jack Baldo hesitated, but said:

"If you really want to go to the shooting club, I can introduce you to a coach. He is a very powerful person. He has touched guns since he was a child. He has never lost a bounty duel with people in the downtown area."

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

Before the duel, the dealer opened the market and bet on winning or losing. After buying and leaving the hand, the two duelists stood face to face at a certain distance, and whoever drew the gun faster and shot more accurately than the one who killed the opponent would win.

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

There is an unwritten rule in bounty duels:
Draw out the gun first and kill the opponent, which represents shame;

Finally, he drew his gun and killed his opponent, which represented honor.

When Chen Yan knew this rule at the beginning, he scolded "you should stand and stand again".

They all came out to risk their lives to make money, so what "honor" is they talking about?
Three bullets each until one is wounded or dead.

But if the two shooters are not killed 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 Then participate in the bounty duel market with these two people participating.

This means that the bounty duel career of these two gunmen is coming to an end.

Therefore, the words Jack Baldo said, "I have touched guns since I was a child, and I have never lost a bounty duel with people in the downtown area" are very important to a gunman, which means that the gunman's The ability must be very strong.

Chen Yan is looking forward to this, but also very nervous. If a gunner of this level is to be a coach, he must pay a lot of employment money...

When he voiced 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 rate-perhaps more than 30 per hour if things can be negotiated. The pennies are much lower.

Chen Yan was very happy about this.

It is almost noon now, there is no one else in the apartment except Chen Yan, Jack Baldo and the construction team of the decoration company, Ogami has not come back so far, the four children go to school, Marina went to textile The factory, this is her first day of work today, I don't know if she can adapt to that kind of work intensity.

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

Fortunately, the spherical Tunguska is not big, and the body is still in a state of hibernation. The curled up volume is only one size larger than the stretched palm. Jack Baldo carried a thick backpack and easily stuffed the spherical Tunguska into it. It's also not obvious from the outside.

The two left the apartment and headed for Lower 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 mouth, and the other part was blown by the cold wind and turned into a slippery ice surface.

There are several days of clear weather in the lower city every winter, and such weather is often worse than snowstorms, and the ice hidden under the snow often causes unexpected harm to people.

People are very fragile creatures, especially in the lower city where the per capita alcoholism is high. Once you fall and hurt your head in winter, you may never get up again.

The number of deaths and injuries skyrocketed on a clear winter day, but people did not stop working because of it. Hunger is something 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 on this day, and the merchants who sell shoes don’t care that such an approach will cause public outrage. They support the street police department , thus being protected by the Street Police Department.

And Capone Lane is always different from other neighborhoods. This is the birthplace of the oldest gang in Yanan City. The place where the first pot of gold was earned.

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

"I heard some old people say that when Yanan City was still a small town, just after the train passed, a gang of idle ruffians formed a gang and robbed the train on horseback.

This is how the first pot of gold for the Capone Gang came.

Later, Yanan City gradually expanded, and the Capone Gang caught up with the good times. Relying on the first pot of gold and unapproachable means to continue to expand, they entered the upper city and became powerful businessmen.

It is said that there have been several members of the round table in their family, but the information on the surface cannot be found, because they changed their surnames, and the relationship between those big figures and the Capone Gang cannot be seen from the surnames alone. "

After nearly a week of idleness, Jack Baldo has become a mature street sneaker. He knows where to find news that sounds very eye-catching, and he can also distinguish the truth of these news 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. It looks even busier than most blocks in the Old Town.

"The 'Capone Gang' in Capone Lane is no longer the Capone Gang.

Back then, the Capone Gang had been completely cleansed, and they looked down on this kind of place for a long time, and they would not collect such low-level things as protection fees.

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

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

Chen Yan looked at the oversized neon billboard on the top of the shooting club and said:
"Capone himself would have hated the title."

Jack Baldo shrugged:

"Who knows."

Chen Yan found it interesting that the neon billboard, before the phrase "Shooting Club," had the prefix "Spyro."

Spyro Shooting Club.

He thought to himself, since it was a shooting club opened by pirates, it might have something to do with the underground Spyro Industries?
He and Jack Baldo entered the club one after the other, and a smell of smoky smoke filled his nostrils. When Chen Yan didn't react, he was startled, thinking that there was a fire in the club.

The proliferation of tobacco in the lower urban area is no longer news. A large number of corner buildings with a height of [-] floors are doomed to hide dirt and evil. It is impossible for police officers from the Street Police Department to climb dozens of floors to arrest people without elevators. Criminals, against this background many incredible things were born.

Jack Baldo told Chen Yan that the reason why everyone can afford tobacco here is not because everyone is rich, but because some people in the lower city invented the method of planting tobacco leaves on a large scale in corner buildings. The method does not seem to be soil cultivation, but some kind of strange hydroponics.

Tobacco thus became cheap.

Although the quality of the tobacco leaves cultivated in this way is not high, and it can even be said to be inferior, most of the poor in the lower urban area will not pick and choose. There are many people picking up cigarette butts and smoking on the street.

The shooting club was full of smog, and the pungent smell of inferior tobacco combined with the sweaty smell of most people who hadn't bathed in half a winter, formed an indescribable "fishy smell".

The smell that can be described as "fishy" is so strong 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 Lane on Walker Street. At least there was alcohol in the tavern to cover up other pungent smells, but the Sparrow Shooting Club did not sell alcohol. Most people in the Empire don't drink very well, and no one wants to see a gunman in a club like this drunk and rioting.

The condensed body odors mixed together in the air, creating 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 didn't feel so pungent anymore!

"It's also possible that my nose is broken..." Chen Yan thought pessimistically.

(End of this chapter)