America's King of Poetry

Chapter 48 Nebraska

After taking Arthur home, Matthew drove away from Little Italy, stepped on the accelerator and drove down 22nd Avenue in the downtown area.

There is a pharmacy under the name of Wood, which is one of the places where Wood conducts illegal drug transactions.He was targeted by the FDA not because of drug trafficking, but because of illegal trafficking of narcotics and tranquilizers.Wood wasn't directly involved in the drug trade, he was a go-between for the Gandolfields, and Matthew knew that what he wanted was hidden in that pharmacy.

The huge eye in the sky still flashed in his mind, and Matthew shook his head while driving, letting himself clear the horrible hallucination.He thought to himself that it must be a side effect of the methadrax he had taken before. In order to get close to Wood and win his trust, he also became an addict.However, he hadn't taken his medicine for several days, so there was no reason for him to suddenly experience hallucinations, but it was good, he just gave him a chance.

The car drove very fast, heading north from Sixth Avenue, there was a green light ahead, Matthew accelerated and wanted to rush over.At this time, he noticed that Wood, who was sitting in the co-pilot, moved his body, as if he was about to wake up, so he slammed on the brakes, and the car suddenly stopped at the intersection.Wood, who was not wearing a seat belt, jumped out again, hit his head on the windshield again, bounced back to the seat with a "bang", and passed out again.

The green light turned into a red light.

Ten minutes later, Matthew parked the car in front of the New London Pharmacy on 10nd Avenue, which had already closed.Matthew got out of the car, opened the door of the passenger seat, and carried the unconscious Wood out of the car.Matthew looked thin, but he was strong. He hunched the heavy and heavy Wood on his back, slipped to the side door of the pharmacy, took out the key from Wood's pocket and opened the door, and the two entered the pharmacy together.

Kicking open the door of the pharmacy office, Matthew threw Wood onto the sofa panting, and then opened a cabinet next to the sofa, which contained a black safe.In addition to the password disk, the safe also has a fingerprint reader. This is the latest fingerprint password safe, which uses an optical fingerprint reader. It needs the password to be matched with the user's fingerprint to open it.

After learning the password of the safe, Matthew wanted to extract Wood's fingerprints many times, but Wood was always very careful, and Matthew never had a chance.In the safe, there is a roster of some drug bosses in Manhattan, which records a lot of important information.With this information, the FDA will be able to follow suit and root out a group of organizations that sell and use illegal drugs and drugs entrenched in New York.In this way, Matthew's undercover career for several years was not in vain.

Flying through his mind over the years of being undercover in gangs and the pain of his sister's death, Matthew felt his hands trembling slightly.But for some reason, that eye appeared in his mind again, that huge and terrifying eye suspended in the sky.

After calming down, Matthew turned the code dial of the safe. He had just recently extracted the code of the safe from Wood—when the two of them were taking methadra.The next step is to press Wood's finger on the fingerprint reader, and then twist the handle to open the safe.Matthew moved the sofa so that Wood was close to the safe, and then took his hand and pressed it on the latest optical fingerprint device of the safe.

Before the invention of the capacitive fingerprint device, the optical fingerprint device was the only fingerprint reading device. This kind of fingerprint device can be deceived by fake fingerprints copied, so Wood has always been very good at protecting his fingerprints.When Matthew held Wood's hand and moved towards the fingerprint reader, Wood's hand, which was originally as weak as a puddle of mud, suddenly grabbed Matthew's wrist, and the other hand strangled Matthew's neck, pulling him down on the sofa.

Wood is as strong as a bull, and Matthew is also strong, but he is unprepared to be restrained by Wood.It turned out that after the second collision of the traffic light, Wood did not faint again, and he gradually woke up.But Matthew's abnormal behavior made him vigilant. He resisted the pain in his head and wanted to see what Matthew wanted to do.It wasn't until he pulled himself into the pharmacy office and opened the safe that Wood realized that this kid who had a life-long relationship with him wanted to steal his roster?

He is an undercover agent.

Wood pretended to be unconscious. He knew that Matthew needed his fingerprints to open the safe, and he waited for the moment when Matthew held his hand and pressed it to the fingerprint reader.Matthew underestimated Wood's city skills and endurance, but if it wasn't for the accident on the road and the eye in the sky, Matthew would not take the chance to steal the roster on the spur of the moment.

His throat was tightly strangled by Wood's thick arms, and he couldn't breathe. The veins on his neck were swollen and red, and he was about to die.His brain started to lack oxygen, and he lost control of his hands and feet little by little. He felt that the muscles in his whole body were slowly weakening. This was the smell of death.Wood is going to kill him, he doesn't even want to leave a life to ask to understand.

Those who eat drugs are all licking blood on the knife head, either you die or I die.

Matthew's pupils began to dilate, life was passing by rapidly, and many pictures began to flow in front of his eyes.The barren grasslands of Nebraska, the endless blue sky and farmland, the huge cooling tower and the huge wind blowing mightily on the unsheltered plain, the white smoke from the cooling tower billows, floats into the air and then disappears with the wind, just like his soul that is about to die with the wind.Everything after he came to New York did not appear in his mind, the garage, his sister, the FDA, Palin, Quatra, Wood, Gandolfield, those things that haunted him and almost drove him crazy.

Several years of undercover career, darkness, drugs, guns, violence, gambling, sex without love, the pain of losing a loved one, and the fear of dancing on the edge of death, filled his life like thick oil paint, but erased all these, his background is still the boy who grew up in Nebraska, holding his sister's hand and walking on the farm wilderness.The sky was high there, the clouds were low, and he saw the wooden fence on the grass and the Aermotor pumping the windmill, and the windmill kept turning and turning, slower and slower, slower and slower...

The door of the office was knocked open, and a tall man in black sportswear appeared at the door. He saw Wood strangled Matthew, and Matthew was about to die of anger with his red face and eyes. He decisively raised the gun in his hand and shot Wood at the sofa.

With a "bang", the bullet flew out of the muffler barrel and shot accurately into the center of Wood's forehead.It's very difficult to hit a man in the head with a single shot from a pistol, even at close range.In a pistol shootout, the aim is always the torso and not the head.Only the top gunner, who is extremely familiar with firearms and ballistics, has the confidence to blow the opponent's head with a single shot.

The shooter was "Dead Gun" Russell, probably the best "person" in New York area shooting.

He received a call from Abramo 15 minutes ago. Abu told him Matthew's home address, contact number and license plate number. Russell called Matthew, but no one answered.He set off to squat him where Matthew lived, but Anna pestered Russell and refused to let go.Russell obeyed Arthur's instructions and took Anna with him. After getting into the car, he reached the first intersection. Russell wanted to go straight, but Anna grabbed his arm and pointed to the right to signal him to turn right.

Anna stared straight at Russell, the clear eyes made Russell unable to refuse, so Russell had to turn right.

Under Anna's guidance, within 10 minutes, Russell drove to 22nd Street and saw the Mazda 929 parked in front of the pharmacy.

Russell pulled over immediately, entered the pharmacy through the open side door with a gun, heard noises from the office, and saw Wood trying to kill Matthew when he entered.Russell didn't know Matthew, but on the phone Abu said it was a thin young man with long chestnut hair.Wood was blond and stout. Russell recognized the two at a glance and shot without hesitation, killing Wood.

The arms around Matthew's neck slowly loosened, and the windmill started to spin again.Russell stepped forward to push Wood's arm away, pulled Matthew up and patted his face.Matthew's face was flushed, and there were black and blue strangle marks on his neck. He was already on the verge of death, and his mind was confused due to lack of oxygen.As soon as Russell let go, he fell to the ground again.

After a while, he gradually woke up, feeling that his neck was almost broken, and the collarbone and cervical spine seemed to be bruised and dislocated, and the pain was excruciating.Wood really made a killing, which is enough to show how important the things in the safe are.Matthew glanced at Wood lying on the sofa, he was shot in the middle of the head, and he was dead.

The one who saved him was a tall man in black sportswear. He sat on a chair with a gun and looked at Matthew. Matthew remembered that he knew him. He was from the Luciano family.In the past, he was always by Tony Luciano's side, and it was said that he was a terrible killer, but it was only heard, and the two had no intersection.Judging from the fact that he killed Wood with one shot, the rumors are true.

"Thank you...thank you." Matthew's throat was sore, and his throat felt like it was being strangled. He squeezed out a thank you.He didn't know what Russell's purpose was to save him. His mind was on the safe, but he couldn't open it.He turned his mind quickly, trying to make up a reason, saying that he and Wood had a conflict because of some things, and he wanted to kill himself.Yes, it was to compete for drugs... No, why did he save himself?Is it also for the roster in the safe?

Matthew's mind was in chaos, and he felt very tired all of a sudden, and the lack of oxygen in his brain made him unable to think about it.He was tired, he was really tired, and for some reason he thought of Nebraska again, of the farms and windmills back home.He couldn't recall why he came to New York, why he went undercover, and what was he doing for it?For survival?For justice?For revenge?Still doing nothing.

He is homesick.

At this moment, Russell spoke up and said, "Godfather wants to see you, come with me."

(End of this chapter)