Standalone Tokyo

Chapter 249 The Power of Poker Cards
Fujiwara Masato felt like laughing.

This was his first reaction when he learned what his cheap uncle was doing.

It seems that Uehara Kazuto was forced into a panic, otherwise he would never do such a stupid thing.

No one knows the defense strength of the Red Heart J Hotel better than Fujiwara Masato. Needless to say, as long as the hotel is attacked, the security guards and waiters are ready to pick up weapons, put on bulletproof vests, become qualified soldiers, and turn the hotel into a fortress.

But this is not the most fatal thing. The most fatal thing is the proactive attack capability of the poker organization behind the hotel.

Yes, Fujiwara Masato didn't want any large-scale fight to break out in the hotel from the beginning.

He would never allow any big scene like in a movie to happen. Once it broke out, even if the Red J Hotel won in the end, the price they paid would be heavy.

A high-intensity gunfight broke out in a hotel that claimed to be safe. Even if the hotel’s security personnel won, the hotel’s accumulated reputation would naturally be ruined.

It would be even more disastrous if a guest was unfortunately injured or even died during this period.

The purpose of staying in a hotel is safety, but the Red Heart J Hotel cannot even provide such safety, so naturally no one is willing to spend a lot of money to stay here.

Well, no, there is a possibility that a gunfight will break out, and if the Red J Hotel wins, it will gain a better reputation... You see, even if a large number of gunmen attack, they cannot break through the protection of the hotel's security personnel, which proves the safety of the hotel.

However, even if such a possibility exists, Fujiwara Masato does not want to gamble.

Anyone who wants to attack the hotel will most likely appear as a hostile unit on the mini-map.

Once such a hostile group appears, it will be discovered by Fujiwara Masato, who opens the small map every day when he has nothing to do.

Once discovered, they will be wiped out by the poker cleaners.

Believe me, such an attack will definitely be more timely and deadly than that of the Japanese police.

Due to the law and police rules and regulations, law enforcers will shout a few times before taking action to give the criminals a chance to launch a sneak attack. But the cleaners will not do that. Once they take action, they will be as swift and fierce as thunder, leaving no room for any chance.

Now that Fujiwara Masato knew what his cheap uncle had done, he naturally would not sit and wait for the enemy to appear.

"Come here, give the intelligence personnel below a mission and ask them to find out who my cheap uncle hired to cause trouble for the Red Heart J Hotel."

"Yes, boss."

……

Zhonghe really doesn't like Tokyo.

This city is very inclusive, but also very xenophobic.

When we say it is inclusive, we mean that Tokyo welcomes anyone to live, work, and pursue their dreams and pursuits.

The reason for xenophobia is that the prices here are very high, while the wages are only a little bit and have remained unchanged for thousands of years, so that ordinary people can only survive here and can hardly talk about living.

Although survival and life are only one word apart, their meanings are very different.

Zhonghe Zhen is a worker trying to make a living in Tokyo. Although he has a stable job, the low salary has always been one of his regular worries at the end of every month.

Because of this trouble, Zhong Hezhen, who is quite good-looking, has never dared to find a girlfriend, for fear that his salary would not be able to meet his girlfriend's spending needs.

Although the consumption demands of Japanese girlfriends are much lower than those of women in a certain Eastern country, Japan's economic level is worse!

After adding one thing and subtracting another, the pressure on Japanese men is actually higher than that on men in a certain Eastern country.

This embarrassing situation continued until Zhong Hezhen "accidentally" came into contact with and got acquainted with a peripheral member of the poker organization, and then "even more accidentally" saved his life when the latter was being chased by a gang member.

Relying on the life-saving grace, Zhong Hezhen was successfully recommended to join the poker organization and became an outer member who was paid for doing things.

Although he is an external member, Zhong Hezhen, who has just joined, finds that the benefits of the poker organization are really good.

First of all, as an external member, Zhonghe Zhen can get an external allowance from the organization every month. The money is not much, only 100,000 yen.

However, this 100,000 yen was transferred into Zhonghezhen's bank card in the form of salary through a company, and this amount of money was after-tax income... In other words, this 100,000 yen was real white income, not black money.

Such 100,000 yen is really important to Zhonghezhen.

For gangsters, it doesn't matter whether 100,000 yen is black money or white money, or whether it is income before or after tax, because they spend the money as soon as they get it, buying cigarettes, alcohol, and technician services. They can never save it, and they won't spend it on serious matters.

Zhonghe really can't follow their example. He has many dreams that he wants to realize. He wants to buy a car, have a house of his own, and even more importantly, he wants to marry a wife he loves and have a son and a daughter.

So, Zhonghe really needs to save money.

If you want to save money, then the money you really get must be clean money, and you must pay taxes on time and be a "law-abiding citizen" who does not evade taxes.

Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how much Zhong Hezhen values ​​the 100,000 yen income provided by the poker organization, and this 100,000 yen is just a basis, and peripheral members can get this money without doing anything.

Although they get paid for nothing, peripheral members will be expelled if they do not work for three months.

In addition to the 100,000 yen allowance, every peripheral member can receive tasks every day that are paid based on the number of times as long as they are willing to work. They have one chance every month to refuse a task. After refusing, the organization will not assign any tasks to this member within a month.

This one-month window period for tasks is a punishment but also a benefit. If you don't accept tasks, it's either because you're afraid of death or because you're stuck in real life and can't take action. A month is enough time for you to handle things.

If a member refuses a mission more than three times within a year, he or she will enter a review period. Formal members will review the character of this peripheral member to see whether he or she is afraid of death or has encountered some difficulties in life. The organization will then decide whether to expel him or her from the peripheral member status.

The tasks of poker peripheral members are usually not very dangerous.

For example, delivering a letter, giving something slightly dangerous or not dangerous to the clients of a poker organization, or intimidating or beating an ordinary citizen to make him do/not do something.

They are all people who may be dangerous, but not very dangerous. Even if they are caught by the police, they will at most stay in the police station for a few days, and there will be no files left. The poker organization never asks peripheral members to kill people.

As long as it is not a killing mission, the executor of the mission will not be in great danger. If you encounter the police investigating the case, run if you can. If you cannot, raise your hands and surrender. The lawyer will come forward to rescue you.

Zhong Hezhen had completed many missions, and for some unspeakable reasons, he was deliberately caught by the police once. At that time, he was prepared to stay in the detention room for ten days to half a month.

As a result, one day later, a well-dressed lawyer appeared outside Zhong Hezhen's cell, pointed at him and threatened to release him on bail.

The person who was released on bail was not Rintaro Nojiri. A small-time scofflaw like the former was not worthy of a big lawyer’s personal intervention.

The person who came to bail him out was a trainee lawyer under Rintaro Nojiri.

Despite this, the local police station that detained Zhong Hezhen released him after collecting a bail. Even though he was a trainee lawyer, he was affiliated with a large law firm and was not someone the local police station was willing to take on.

The crime Zhonghe committed was not serious, so there was no need to go against the lawyer.

Of course, if Zhonghe really killed someone, the matter would definitely not be able to leave the police station so easily.

So is there no danger in being a peripheral member of a poker organization?
That’s not the case. The poker organization is a criminal organization after all.

The prerequisite for an external member to perform a dangerous task is that he is willing to do so, not that he is forced by the organization.

When an external member joins the poker organization and passes a three-month probation period without failing a single mission during that period, he or she will get a chance... the chance to apply for assessment to become a full member.

The poker organization is very short of manpower, but it would rather have no formal members than have unqualified ones. Therefore, during the assessment period, peripheral members will receive tasks that are somewhat dangerous.

Within one year, if you complete one to ten assessment tasks assigned by the organization, you can become a formal member. The danger of the tasks varies, and there is one chance to refuse.

However, if you refuse, you will lose your qualifications and will never have another chance... The poker organization is not a play-house organization. It does not need cowards who are afraid of death and have no courage.

You will only get a second chance if you have special skills and connections that the organization cannot ignore.

The assessment conditions were very simple and clear. After Zhong Hezhen completed the three-month probation period with good performance, he immediately applied for assessment as a full member.

Then, after waiting for a month and a half, the person in charge of Zhonghe Zhen gave him an assessment task... to investigate a mercenary team that came to Tokyo, to learn about their specific weapons and equipment, number of people, and what their mission objectives were.

If possible, it would be best to obtain their attack plan and the official identities of these mercenary group members.

The more detailed the information, the better. If the assessor feels that he cannot complete the task, he can give up this task. However, as long as he completes the task, he can immediately become an official member of the poker organization.

Even if you cannot complete the entire task, you can still settle the task by completing half of it. However, the task reward will be discounted.

Is this mission dangerous?
Zhonghe really felt that it was very dangerous. If he was discovered while exploring the intelligence of a mercenary team, he would definitely be hunted down by the latter.

As a peaceful country, Japan has many mercenary gangs for various reasons. Most members of these teams are ordinary citizens who hide on weekdays. They only gather together when there is a mission and use guns to make money.

However, the mission that Zhong Hezhen received required collecting their official identities. Once the mercenaries discovered this, it would definitely anger them.

Even so, Zhong Hezhen will still do this mission, and decides to go a step further and complete this mission more perfectly, just because...

"Tuk Tuk Tuk!"

"Open the door and check the water meter!"

One morning, Zhong Hezhen, dressed in a suit, and another middle-aged man dressed in the same way, knocked on the door of a hotel in Tokyo. The knocking was so loud that several big men sleeping in the room couldn't sleep at all.

The door was opened roughly, and a naked man with a muscular upper body appeared in front of Zhong Hezhen, shouting angrily.

"Go away, we don't..."

"I'm very sorry, please accept our investigation. Here is my ID." Zhong Hezhen bowed slightly and showed his evidence to the big man with one hand.

After just one glance, the big man swallowed back the curse that was about to burst out, only because the document that Zhong Hezhen showed had a special mark on it...Japanese Public Security.

All individuals and groups who make a living by using force in Japan must clearly understand one thing: the Japanese police and the public security are two different things. Although the latter is part of the former, the public security never investigates ordinary cases.

Rather than law enforcement officers, Japan's public security should actually be considered a secret service agency.

The big man was well aware of this fact, so after seeing the ID, cold sweat began to appear on his forehead, and he did not have the courage to refuse Zhong Hezhen and the others entry.

Zhong Hezhen and another companion therefore easily entered the temporary hiding place of this unknown mercenary team.

Looking around at the four or five big men who stood up in the room, Zhong Hezhen nodded seriously, first showed them his ID, and then the middle-aged man next to him began to call out their names.

"Shunsuke Matsue, Kota Okuchi, Rin Kawamura..."

Every time the middle-aged man read out a name, someone in the room began to sweat. When he finished reading out all five names, the hostility that had been in the air disappeared, and was replaced by five ordinary people with slightly bent backs.

Zhonghe was really satisfied with the reactions of these five people.

Judging from their appearance, except for the big man who opened the door, the other four people are no different from ordinary people: a young fat man with glasses, an old man in a plaid shirt, a gorgeously dressed woman, and a handsome guy with a sweet smile who looks harmless.

However, Zhong Hezhen, who had read the public security files, knew very well that these five people were very famous in the Japanese mercenary circle. They belonged to the top mercenary gang and were particularly good at collecting intelligence and carrying out assassinations, with a mission completion rate of about 90%.

Out of ten missions, only one failed.

Even for the Japanese public security, it was not easy to find out their true identities. Zhonghe really took a lot of effort to convince his immediate superior to allocate resources to support this operation.

"Okay, in order to save both of our time and to prevent you from becoming socially dead and ending up in jail, tell me now, what are you planning to do in Tokyo?"

(End of this chapter)