Manhattan Reborn 1978

On a road in New Jersey.

A motorcade was speeding towards New York in the heavy rain with its headlights flashing.

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The company's small building.

Ludy was standing by the window in the office, looking at the waterfall-like rain curtain that had washed away the glass.

"Ring~ring~ring~"

He turned around, took a big step and answered the phone: "I'm Ludy."

"I'm Hardman..."

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Inside the xx restaurant.

Black Mike looked at Lavis, who was feasting on the restaurant's signature dish, and wordlessly picked up the drink and drank it.

The restaurant manager not far away couldn't help but feel a little suspicious when he looked at Lavis' eating appearance.

The waiter just told him that two customers were talking about chefs, being on shows, etc. Maybe they were. .From the TV station?

Or which film and television company is it from?

The manager glanced around at the guests in the restaurant, adjusted his suit, and slowly walked to Black Mike's table.

"Gentlemen, are you satisfied with the food in our restaurant?"

Black Mike smiled and nodded at him, putting his foot under the table and kicking Lavis.

Ravis chewed the food in his mouth, glanced sideways at Black Mike, raised his head, swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "Who are you?"

"I am the manager of this restaurant, my name is..."

"Oh~ Hello manager!"

"Um...what do you think of these dishes in our restaurant...?"

"Satisfied! Very satisfied, especially this cheesecake, it tastes amazing~"

"Thank you, sir!"

"That's right, when our waiter was serving you just now, he overheard your conversation and mentioned the food show...? I wonder who you two are?"

Ravis wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin and turned to look at Black Mike with a questioning look in his eyes.

Black Mike thought for a moment and pointed in the direction of David: "That's my boss!"

"Do you know HBO?"

The manager looked up and looked in the direction Black Mike was pointing: "Of course, I have a subscription to their TV program at home."

"Ok!"

"My boss acquired HBO's shares a few days ago and is planning to film a food show. Today he is taking us to taste dishes and find chefs suitable for filming the TV show."

"Yesterday we went to Jincheng Restaurant in Chinatown. The chef in their restaurant made our boss very satisfied."

"Oh?"

As a restaurant manager who works as a professional, he bowed politely after hearing Black Mike's words.

"Then...can you recommend it to me? I believe our chef's specialty dishes will definitely satisfy your boss."

Lavis was holding a drink, looking at the rain outside the door, baring his sixteen white teeth, and listened to Black Mike continue to fool around.

Black Mike shrugged: "I'll ask first, please wait a moment."

He stood up decently, straightened his coat, and walked to David's side.

When David and others saw Black Mike coming, they all looked at him with smiles.

David smiled and said: "That boy Lavis ordered a big meal, how about it? Are you satisfied with it?"

Black Mike smiled and nodded, bent down and whispered to David and others what he had just said to the restaurant manager.

Susan burst out laughing when she heard this, and patted David's thigh under the table: "Black Mike, you have learned bad things from following David!"

Likert knew about the food show. He leaned back, trying to imitate Pine and wait quietly to watch the show.

He finally understood why Pine and Giles liked the David boy in front of them so much!

That's right, it's the boy!

David is only 21 years old!

When Likert thought of this, he suddenly felt a little confused. What was he doing when he was 21 years old?

At that time. .I had just graduated from college. I took the company number that my seniors helped me contact, and I was fully prepared to go to Wall Street to work hard.

. . .

Youth~ is just gone?

The Nash couple didn't know what Black Mike was talking about, and they looked back and forth at the few people with curious faces.

David looked at Black Mike with a strange look on his face, who looked like he was waiting for orders: "Uh... man! We're not here to have a meal~"

Black Mike spread his hands and asked everyone: "Is the cheesecake in this restaurant delicious?"

Mr. and Mrs. Nash and Susan both glanced at the few cakes left on the table and nodded.

Likert crossed his arms on his chest and continued to watch the show with a smile.

David glanced at the restaurant manager in the distance speechlessly.

"Okay, let me talk to him, man, help me get a chair."

Black Mike smiled and moved a chair from the side, placed it next to David and Likert, waved to the restaurant manager, and made a gesture to sit down.

When the manager saw the wave, he came over, nodded and thanked Black Mike, and introduced himself to David and the others with a smile.

"I'm.."

Black Mike turned around and looked around, and after the manager sat down, he walked back to his seat.

Lavis has been paying attention here. When he saw Black Mike coming back, he smiled and raised his eyebrows at him: "You can have another free meal today, man~"

"Yep~ Remember not to drink later, we..." Black Mike looked out the door.

Lavis put away his smile: "I know! When will Mike Bai arrive?"

"I don't know. Our responsibility is to keep an eye on the front door. It's raining too much now and we can't see what's going on in the restaurant from outside. But people outside should have seen David and the others at the window before we did."

"Black Mike, if I were asked to kill David, I would definitely find an opportunity to approach the window right now, take a good look at the target, and just shoot~"

Black Mike ignored the nervous Lavis, put down the cup in his hand, and looked back and forth at the door of the restaurant and several windows.

Lavis looked at the overly nervous Black Mike and shook his head. Today was not the last sudden encounter at the hotel door. Today Lavis brought new equipment and enough magazines.

If anyone wants to play a gun battle, Lavis is very confident and lets them see the special skill of using a pistol to produce the effect of a machine gun: True Firepower - Bullet Storm 2.0 version. .

Lavis was eating his cake happily, flexing his knuckles and stroking. .Um. .A mess.

The back door of the restaurant.

Mike Bai led the three people, put away their umbrellas and walked in. They arranged the umbrellas and clothes in their hands, ignored the obstruction of several staff members, walked through the kitchen in a few strides, and walked into the restaurant. .

The last person who came in showed his ID to the staff, which was NYPD (New York Police Department), and then pulled the staff together and whispered a few words.

White Mike stood in the restaurant, glanced around and saw Black Mike, Ravis, and David's table at the door.

He nodded to Auston behind him and walked towards Black Mike's table.

Auston looked around, found an empty table, took off his windbreaker, asked his waiter to sit down, and began to observe the layout of the restaurant.

He frowned and tightened the holster under his arm with his elbow, hoping nothing would happen today!

White Mike walked through the restaurant in a low-key manner, walked to the opposite side of Black Mike, pulled out a chair, sat down, took a drink, and drank it.

Black Mike glanced at him and continued to stare at the door: "Did you come here by yourself?"

Mike Bai glanced at the two of them, said nothing, and looked in the direction of David not far away.

Lavis saw the waiter coming over and bringing a tableware.

He endured it, and after sending the waiter away, he said: "You..."

Mike Bai interrupted him, pulled his collar with his hand and said, "You two are in charge of the front door. I'll go to David's side and be in charge of the window. Auston and his people are at the back door."

"Ludy is taking care of the things outside. We just need to stabilize ourselves before we get his call."

He looked back at the door of the restaurant: "This rain shouldn't last long."

Black Mike stared at him and asked, "Who's out there?"

Mike Bai waved his hand: "I don't know!"

After saying that, he stood up and nodded with the two of them, took his cutlery, and walked to David's table.

Lavis looked back and saw the police gangster Auston and his men, pretending to be looking around with menus in their hands.

Black Mike directly pulled out the gun from his waist, placed the loaded gun on the table, and covered it with a napkin.

And holding the other gun in his hand, he covered his hand with another napkin and stared at the door of the restaurant.

Lavis also looked around, took out his weapons, lowered his head to check, and placed them in the most suitable position.

David's side.

He was having a lively chat with the restaurant manager when he saw Mike Bai walking over and nodded to the other party.

He continued to talk to the manager: "Our food program requires many outstanding chefs to shoot together. The cheesecake here is very good. If possible, I would like to invite this chef to participate in our program."

"No problem, Mr. David."

"I have a phone number here. Please remember it. It is the number of General Manager Harvey's office of our Da Film and Television Company. He will contact you about the filming of the food program."

"Okay! Please tell me..."

Mike Bai moved a chair, walked to the window, squeezed in next to Professor Nash and Likert, and sat down. He placed the tableware in his hands on the table, showed his big yellow teeth, and smiled and nodded with a few people.

Likert took the initiative to move his chair to make room for Mike Bai, and asked with a smile: "What do you...?"

Mike Bai shook his head with a smile, waved his hand, and tilted his head towards David who was talking.

Likert blinked, shrugged, smiled and continued watching David's performance.

Mr. and Mrs. Nash both smiled and nodded to Mike Bai, and continued to pay attention to David.

Susan noticed Mike Bai's move, but she didn't think much about it. She leaned towards David and hugged his whole arm.

Mike Bai glanced out the window when few people were paying attention.

The rain screen still obstructed the view.

From indoors, I can only barely and vaguely see the road outside, with a visual distance of less than five meters.

The water on the road was almost up to the steps and gushing onto the sidewalk.

It seems that this heavy rain has put New York City's drainage system to the test.

As for the result. . .

It’s a waterlogged mess!

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Not far from the restaurant, inside the xx store.

The shop owner took a roll of rice knives and went home happily in the heavy rain. .

Alto stood by the phone not far away, looking at Ludy and Matthews standing by the window, listening to their conversation.

Lu Di held a cigarette in his mouth and looked out the window: "Mike Bai and the others have already gone in."

"Have your people looked around?"

Matthews lit one for himself and nodded irritably: "Look, there should be only the brown car and the two people in the car on the surrounding streets."

"Should?" These two words came out of Lu Di's nose.

Matthews said nothing, puffing heavily on his cigarette.

"Ring~Ring~"

Alto answered the phone.

"Matthews, here for you!"

Matthews tore his tie a few times and strode to the phone: "I am..."

"You all watched it?"

"you sure?"

Matthews took a breath and glanced at Alto, who was staring at him.

"What time is that?"

"What about this morning?"

"Okay! Go check these two cars! Be fast, I'll be waiting for your call here!"

Putting down the phone, Matthews took another long drag on his cigarette and walked over to Ludy.

"We found some surveillance and found that a green car was parked below the apartment last night. They should not have left until David returned to the apartment to rest."

"This morning, at dawn, this brown car parked under David's apartment. He waited for him to go out and then followed him."

Ludy narrowed his eyes and looked at him: "I have to thank you for your high efficiency in such a short period of time, man."

Alto sneered beside him.

Matthews ignored Ludy's taunt: "We can catch them now."

"Then what? Let the people behind them escape on a plane to Miami?"

"fxxx!"

Matthews turned around twice in circles even more irritably.

"Then what do you say?"

Ludy took out another cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and threw away the cigarette butt in his hand.

"Wait!"

"Wait for what?"

"Waiting for news! Waiting for their next move! Waiting for the rain to stop!"

"Then if they do something to David..."

Ludy turned his head suddenly and stared at Matthews.

"If David is hurt, then I will ask everyone who has anything to do with this matter, no matter who he is or where he is, I will let them see God!"

"fxxxyou! Ludy! Now what do you mean by telling me this?"

Ludy exhaled a cloud of smoke: "It means, I have people, I have a gun, I can kill people in New York."

"What? Are you arresting me, Officer Matthews?"

"You fucking ****! Damn it!" Matthews forced himself to say. .The urge to draw a gun. .

David hasn't even lost a hair yet.

This damn bastard Ludy, what is he going to do?

"Ring~Ring~"

Alto glanced at the two of them and silently picked up the phone.

"Ludy, it's old Malkin who's looking for you."

Ludy stamped out the cigarette butt in his hand, walked over and took the phone.

"I'm Ludy."

Old Malkin's voice came from the phone.

"Polly told me, someone is following David?"

"Yes."

"Is there anyone with you?"

"Alto is with me."

"Have you found Hardman? Is there any news from him?"

"They found some clues and there was a car there last night..."

Old Malkin listened quietly.

"I contacted people in the family and asked them to help."

"Are they coming?"

"Well, they should have arrived a few streets near you, and someone will be looking for you in the store later."

"Ok."

"If anything happens, don't do anything and let them do it."

"I know!"

"Where's Cohen?"

"Cohen and the others are on their way to New York. They will be on standby at the company's small building."

Old Malkin was silent for a while again.

"Let Cohen and the others go back."

"Cohen, they will not go back! David established a security company to protect the safety of the company's bosses, which is its greatest responsibility and significance."

Old Malkin's breathing came from the other end of the phone.

He whispered: "Alto..."

"I know!"

"Okay, you...let me know the results over there."

This time it was Ludy's turn to be silent. He paused for a while and said: "David will be fine! I promise!"

"Ah."

Put down the phone.

Ludy walked back to the window and stood there, looking out the window.

Matthews didn't speak either, and the store fell silent.

After a few minutes.

Three people walked in outside the store.

The leader was a representative of the Sidrich family who participated in the signing of the Ponini Agreement, a distant cousin of Ludi.

behind the three.

Black Franky also walked in. He shook off his umbrella and the rainwater on his body, and nodded to Ludy.

Ludy and his cousin hugged each other and whispered a few words in their ears.

Then, he waved to Black Franky and took out the pistol from his arms.

After checking the pistol and loading the bullet, Ludi walked up to Alto and put the gun on his head: "Alto, were you involved in this David matter?"

The atmosphere in the store suddenly became tense.

Matthews was going to step forward and say something.

Black Franky took a step across to block him and stopped him with his eyes.

The two men who followed Ludy's cousin in, both took out their pistols and looked at Ludy and Alto in silence.

Alto looked at the black muzzle of the gun in front of him and swallowed. A muscle under his eyes twitched twice unconsciously.

"I didn't, this matter has nothing to do with me!"

Rudy looked directly into Alto's eyes: "Sidric, never lie to your family, Alto."

"I'll ask you again!"

"Does David's matter have anything to do with you today?"

Alto looked at Ludy, and then at the silent people behind him.

"I don't know about this! It has nothing to do with me!"

"but.."

Ludy put his finger on the trigger and pulled lightly.

"go on!"

Alto's sweat continued to break out from his forehead and everywhere on his body.

"But I mentioned David when I was chatting with someone. I don't know if this matter has anything to do with him."

"Don't challenge my patience again! Boy!" Ludy's voice started to become hoarse, and he looked at Alto as if he were looking at a dead person.

In an instant, large beads of sweat slowly flowed down from Alto's head.

He tried to keep his voice steady and said quickly.

"His name is Chep Santacruz Londono, a drug lord from the Cali Cartel in Colombia. I only met him by chance when I returned to Italy.

He promised that I would give him the news from New York and he would pay me, so I mentioned David to him. "

"I didn't expect that he would send someone to follow David."

"Rudy, believe me, I don't know anything about this!"

"I just told him about the informant on the street. By the way, I told him about the security company. He asked me who the security company was, and I just..."

As Alto spoke, his lips began to tremble.

Ludy stared into his eyes and slowly lowered his pistol.

Under Alto's nervous gaze, he ejected the magazine from the gun and checked the inside of the barrel again.

Alto looked down at Ludy's movements and found that there were no bullets in his gun.

This is a blank gun! !

The men next to him came up and took out the gun from Alto's body, and then restrained one of Alto's arms on both sides.

Ludy looked at Alto with disappointment.

His performance deceived the young boy in front of him.

But this is really not the result he wants!

Aalto never dreamed that his idol Ludy would perform a wonderful performance in front of him with an empty gun.

He almost thought he was going to die today.

"Bring him back to the family. After this matter is over, old Malkin and I will come to discuss how to deal with him."

"No! I didn't betray the family, and I didn't do anything that harmed the family's interests!"

"Rudy! I..."

Ludy's cousin couldn't stand hearing it anymore. He strode up to Alto and kicked him hard several times, knocking him to the ground.

He shouted to him in a low voice: "Ludi is saving you, silly x boy! Where did you get such nonsense! fxxx!"

"Take him away from the back door!"

The cousin and Ludy nodded, and let their men lead Alto, who was somewhat limp and silent, out of the back door of the store.

Matthews took several deep breaths after Ludy put down his pistol just now.

Ludy's performance really shocked him.

His xx~!

Today is definitely an unlucky day for his dog xx!