nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 82 The idea of ​​a drive-in theater

Culos Araka skillfully grabbed Batllo Adessa with both hands on his back and escorted him to the police car on the first floor.

Batllo Adessa was no longer as arrogant as he was half an hour ago. Batllo, with a slumped face, tried to struggle to get rid of the big black hand behind him with an expression of disbelief.

"Little guy, I warn you, be honest!"

Bartello, who walked to the side of the police car, was handcuffed to his chest. Before he could react, Bartello was thrown into the car.

Kuros, who was sitting in the back seat, tore off the underage boy's thick fleece: "Red Totem? Blood Gang?"

"Hmph!" Bartello turned his head out of the window angrily and didn't look at Kuros, who took the $2900 in his hand and put it in his butt pocket first.

"Bartello! I advise you to respect your mother in the future. Your mother has my pager number. She can call me to teach you a lesson at any time!"

Bartello, who heard the warning, stared at Koulos and replied: "Don't think that you have moved from the black area, you are white, and now you are just a garbage policeman wearing a skin!"

"Whether I'm trash or not, I can teach you a lesson!"

Kullos, waving his fists, tried to bring him into submission by force, but Bartello instead closed his eyes and waited for the trial without fighting back.

How could it be impossible for Kuros, who saw the tattoo of the Blood Gang, to know about the [small square incident] that happened in the Akita community?
Although this incident was privately referred to as a "dog bite dog incident" by the police station, who knows that nearly 40 people were admitted to the hospital, and 3 people died of serious injuries due to ineffective treatment!
But how difficult it is for a black man to stand out in a white society, wouldn't he, a black policeman, know?
Although the three people who died were all Japanese, many black people who joined other gangs also died!
With a long sigh, Koulos pulled a blue booklet out of the driver's seat: "Look at my catch, little guy! This is the [hippie] from the Columbia Gang, who died last January; this is hell [King] of knights, he was killed in March of this year; and this."

When Kuros gradually finished reading the little blue booklet in his hand, Bartello's face also slowly turned pale.

"Listen, little one! I know your mother, she will be very sad if you die, and you will not be much better off than these people! I advise you to go to school or become a cook! "

His face turned pale from fright, and Bartello suppressed the fear in his heart and replied in a low voice: "They didn't know that people my age also went, and they rewarded me with this money."

The more he talked, the tone in Bartello's mouth became stronger and louder, as if the "they" in Bartello's mouth were not very bad, and he became more and more confident!

"They even drove me out of the Blood Gang! Our eldest brother asked me that if I really don't want to go to school, I can go to the training school they run to learn how to cook!"

"In the future, they will reissue the chef certificate for me. They will find a way for the school's qualifications. They are also poor, and they will find a way to help poor people like me get ahead!"

"They don't beat up civilians in the street like you bloody American cops!"

Julia Wilson stood in front of Batllo's mother with red and swollen eyes holding a notebook, registering and asking various questions.

"Has Batllo Adessa been engaging in gang crimes lately?"

"I don't know, he was doing his homework on time every day until 3 months ago."

"Has Batllo Adessa ever had a night out?"

"I don't know, he was doing his homework on time every day until 3 months ago."

"Bartro Adessa."

"I don't know, he was doing his homework on time every day until 3 months ago."

The pen in Yulia Wilson's hand suddenly stopped on the notebook. Helplessly, she pushed her forehead with her left hand, and Yulia, who took a deep breath, leaned on the wall with one hand and looked serious. He said to Bartello's mother: "Mrs. Adessa, I hope you can know that everything I ask now is for the good of your child, if you keep doing this."

Batllo's mother saw Kuros approaching, and the slightly burly Mrs. Adessa pushed Yulia away, crying and pleading to Kuros: "$2900! I really don't know what to do That's good! He was always a good boy, and his father left early, I hope you can help me take good care of him!"

Kuros patted his old neighbor and sighed helplessly looking at the crowded corridor environment: "Okay, okay, don't worry, leave it to me!"

After walking down the dangerous building in the slum, Yulia kept yelling at Kuros as if a powder keg had been ignited.

"Oh! Damn it! Kolos, do you know that we are performing missions across regions?"

"If our superiors find out that we will all be punished, and that little boy is only a minor, don't you want to be sued by the procuratorate for bankruptcy?" When Yulia sat in the car and saw that Bartello was wearing After taking off the handcuffs, Yulia directly slammed Kuros on the shoulder.

Kuros, who was always smiling, just kept repeating a sentence: "OK, OK, I will explain to my superiors, it's all my problem, it's all my problem."

"Damn it! You've already taken two punishments this year, don't you want to take another one?"

Kolos Araka drove the police car skillfully but kept recalling the name of [Neil's Fast Food Chain] in his mind, and he didn't hear what his partner said at all.

"Kulos! If you take another punishment, you will definitely be sued by the procuratorate to throw away your clothes!"

Bartello, however, was like a pitiful victim curled up in the back seat looking out of the window in a daze, while Kuros and Yulia were like a couple sitting in the front seat flirting and whistling.

The police car was in a hurry on the highway, and just as Kuros drove the police car to the North Hollywood highway, their intercom rang.

"211!"

"211!"

"Attention police cars around North Hollywood. Attention police cars around North Hollywood. There is a robbery at the Bank of America in North Hollywood. The number of people is unknown. The number of people is unknown. Please go to the surrounding police cars for support."

When Yulia heard the police code "211" on the station, she glanced at her companion in astonishment, picked up the walkie-talkie and replied to the main station: "The alarm number 313241 has been received, and we are heading to our destination! "

Kuros lowered his head and checked his Glock 17 neatly, and also wiped Yulia's gun.
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Tao Xi hugged the camera in his arms with a distressed expression and stared at the opposite [Car Cinema] in a daze.

The busiest time of business in the morning has finally passed. As the NO.24 store opened 15 hours a day, Issa River also quickly gave a few words to the night shift waiter, and then sent them to the temporary building in the parking lot. dormitory.

Because of the particularity of NO.15, there are many female waiters here, so only female employees can be provided with free accommodation here.

As for men?Issa River had no choice but to give each male employee a subsidy of US$50 a month. After all, there are not many restaurants that can manage food like them.

"Issa! How about moving our store's business model to another place?"

Issa River immediately became energetic when he heard it: "Boss! We have also taken a fancy to a location on Fifth Avenue in Hollywood, but the business of that newsstand is very good, and the owner doesn't really want to sell the store to us."

"Oh!" Tao Xi lost the desire to chat with him instantly when he heard Isa River's words.

In fact, Tao Xi's idea is very simple. He wants to use the model of "Drive-In Theater" to reduce his store opening costs and try to participate in the box office of "007: Thunderbolt".

In fact, the biggest contradiction of the 007 crew is nothing more than the box office!

But when Neil's Hot Dog No. 15 was rebroadcasting the movie "Once Upon a Time in America", Tao Xi found that this movie with a very good reputation was actually very popular among people like them.

On the one hand, the rebroadcast of "Once Upon a Time in the United States" has made the sales of NO.15 stores increase day by day, and every Saturday and Sunday, the sales of a single store can surpass the sales of the previous store from Monday to Thursday. Among them, the fruit drink developed by Nielsen is the most profitable; the other aspect is the sale of pirated video tapes!
In the past, Tao Xi did not find that pirated video tapes could make so much money.

When Old West operated the hot dog chain store as a corporate property, the old video tapes they found from Hong Kong, India, Europe and other places accounted for 30% of the entire store's turnover!

When Tao Xi learned that this matter was illegal, he wanted to cancel it immediately, but Old Werther let the sales of all pirated video tapes out and said to Tao Xi: "In the United States, although pirated Hollywood Videotapes are illegal, but it doesn't matter to us if pirated videos from certain countries are sold!"

That’s what Old West said, Neil’s Hot Dog Shop added a special column [Video Tape Sales] next to the newspapers they sell.

It is said to be a chain fast food, but there are newspapers, video tapes, and a lot of messy things in the store, so that Tao Xi doesn't know what his store is selling.

Talking about [Car Cinema], Tao Xi has actually understood it seriously.

[Car Theater] If this thing was placed in the late 70s, it would definitely be a very fashionable thing, because the basic transportation in the United States is not very convenient, so the car penetration rate in the United States is very high in the United States.

However, with the popularity of Hollywood capital and the influx of some capital giants, [Car Cinema], a low-level thing, was gradually abandoned by the metropolis.

The originally popular [Automotive Theater] gradually disappeared in major cities, but Tao Xi, who was frowning, looked at the income statement in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Because the [Drive-in Cinema] he operated was formerly a parking lot. After he paid the rent of 1.2 US dollars and the license to play the movie "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​for 2 US dollars, this [Drive-in Cinema] let This store earned the income of the previous 3 months in just half a month!
This business can be said to be a huge profit. If Tao Xi applies for a [Ticket Vending Machine] from the Film Association, his simple [Drive-In Theater] will be a movie theater that has been recognized by the American Film Association as a box office. Yes!

Why can't we rely on [Car Cinema] to talk about [007: Thunderbolt] and sell it?
If it is done well, maybe he, Tao Xi, can make a movie that belongs to him and let everyone know him!

And Tao Xi remembers very clearly that the chairman of the Cannes Film Festival can add a lot of houses to his name with a single word, and no one dislikes less money-making business.

Tao Xi scratched the back of his head and looked at the opposite [Car Cinema], still in a daze.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

"It's really troublesome to settle accounts!"

Thinking of it, Tao Xi, whose brain was about to explode, roared while holding the camera in his arms. The sound shocked the saleswoman who just came to the morning shift.

Seeing the situation here, Tao Xi took the camera out of the store and took out the newly charged police recorder and walked towards the sewer in the distance.

Seeing that his boss was still the same, Issa River couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "What kind of good people don't walk on the big road, and drill into the sewer every day!"

Hollywood is just a code name for a region in the traditional sense, and its real location is in the outskirts of the northwest corner of Los Angeles.

Surrounded by the cities of Burbank, Beverly Hills, and Glendale, those large and small studios are located in the centers of these cities. A few wealthy film crews will be here for the convenience of travel. Several cities chose to build their own studios.

Because of Hollywood's high terrain, his sewers are cleaner, but because the sewers here are not used very often, it is not very convenient for each manhole cover to be opened.

Tao Xi often needs to pass several manhole covers before he finds a manhole cover that can be pushed away manually.

But there are not many people living in the sewers here. Maybe you can see one or two "actors" who are gorgeously dressed but very down-and-out in the sewers here.

"Hey, Tao Xi, long time no see, I heard you let some little guys come to us to find someone to work on the ground, right?"

An old man hiding in a dark corner was eating a piece of moldy bread and showing his big yellow teeth and greeted Tao Xi. When Tao Xi saw this old man, he was not afraid but squatted in front of him with a smile and replied: " That’s right! I heard that many people in the sewers have recently gone to the ground to become street entrepreneurs, maybe they don’t like my money.”

"Oh! No, no, no, Tao Xi, everyone's choice is different, I will help you persuade them, and I heard you have enough hot dogs, don't you?"

"Hahahahaha, yes, my job is very easy, I just need them to deliver the food, just record and record the information!"

(End of this chapter)