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"As you all know, I was born in Heywood. I was born on the streets. Because of my poverty and humble background, I was bullied and humiliated since I was a child."

"From then on, I secretly swore that if I had a child, I would definitely give him a safe and comfortable life. If he was born into this world with poverty like me..."

"Then I would rather not marry and have children."

Jack nodded.

He could understand Dante's thoughts very well, because he had the same thoughts half a year ago.

Born in the shit basin of Heywood, as long as there is even a chance, we must try our best to climb up.

Jack knew that not only him, but almost everyone born in Haywood, whether Mexican or white, thought so too.

"So, after I had my child, I put a lot of effort, energy, time and money into him. Not only did I hope that he would have a happy childhood, but I also hope that he would achieve something. Grow up to be a jerk in a suit sitting in an office, not a hustler selling bling on the street.”

Dante's idea coincides with the Seris people's hope that their children will become successful, but it is quite rare in Europe and the United States.

Because Europe and the United States pursue happy education, many parents who grew up under happy education provide their children with the same happy education. Few people realize that "education changes destiny" and "reading is not the only way out, but it is the best way." way out".

Although Dante is a basketball star, he has never read any books after all. People like him mostly like to advocate the futility of reading - "What's the use of reading so many books? I haven't graduated from elementary school yet." A part-time job?"

But Dante was not like this. He realized the importance of education.

Instead of being self-righteous and letting his children follow their own path, he hopes that his sons will go to school and receive higher education.

This is really valuable.

"Jose is also very successful. He was admitted to New York University."

Jose is Dante Gonzalez's son.

Although America collapsed, it did not affect NYU.

Until 2077, New York University was still the new American school with the largest number of international students and overseas students.

"But not long after he entered the school, he had an accident."

"What accident?"

Lidya Su raised her eyebrows.

He felt that the reason why the Salamanca Group kidnapped Dante's son was probably related to this accident.

"He hit someone, a child."

Dante seemed not to want to remember, with a look on his face

With a painful expression, "The child is younger than him and rides a brand new black motorcycle. It should be a gift his family bought him."

"At that time, Jose wanted to get his phone - he put it on the passenger seat. He grabbed the steering wheel with one hand and went to get the phone with the other hand. When he finally grabbed the phone, he suddenly felt something in the car. My head hit something, and then I felt like the thing flew over my head.”

V and Lucy both covered their mouths with shocked expressions on their faces.

Lidya Su's face also darkened: "The kid who was hit was the kid riding the motorcycle?"

Dante didn't speak, but he nodded slowly.

Jack suddenly said: "Then what? Did Jose escape?"

Dante nodded dejectedly.

"Jose was going to call 911, but the kid died while Jose was still on the phone, and Jose freaked out and ... he fled the scene."

No one in the VIP room spoke, only Dante's voice continued.

"Later, he called me. I was in Washington, D.C., because of some company matters. Although he didn't say clearly what happened on the phone, I still heard something was wrong in his tone. After appeasing him, I hurriedly dropped everything, took a private plane and flew to New York."

"When I saw him, I almost couldn't believe my eyes. A big boy who was supposed to be sunny and lively turned into what I least wanted to see, as if he had absorbed glitter. Looks like trash.”

"If it were anyone else, I might have turned around and left, or beaten him up severely. But after all, it was my child. No matter what he did wrong, he was still my child."

"So I suppressed my anger and slowly asked him what happened. I was afraid that if I didn't control it, I would scare him and he would be unable to say anything."

"When he finally told me everything about the collision and death of the man, I just felt like a bolt from the blue, as if the world would end tomorrow."

At this time, Dante suddenly changed the subject and looked at Jack.

"Jack, are you married?"

Jack didn't know why Dante suddenly brought the topic to this. He immediately shook his head: "Me? Not... not yet."

"What about Mr. Su?"

Lidya Su said lightly.

"I'm still a single nobleman for the time being."

Dante looked up to the sky and sighed: "It's so good. It's so good to be young. If you give me the chance to start over again, I won't get married."

Jack looked at Su Xiao, and Su Xiao shook her head gently, signaling Jack to calm down.

"People always like to say that raising children will protect you from old age, but why do I have to worry about raising children when it's my turn? I suspect that my son was my enemy in the previous life, and he is seeking revenge from me in this life."

"Otherwise why can't he be like a man, after doing something wrong, stay where he is and wait for the police to come, and then accept the lesson honestly. Instead, like a child who has not grown up, he calls me and hopes that I will Wipe his butt, like you did when he was little.”

Su Xiao coughed: "Mr. Gonzalez, what did you do next?"

Dante wiped his face and his expression changed a little: "Sorry, I lost my temper... It took me about ten minutes or twenty minutes to finally accept the facts, and then I chose to take him to the police station. .”

"Police station?"

Everyone else in the room had surprised expressions.

Instead of trying every means to help his son cover it up, he actually took his son to surrender himself?

Dante said proudly.

"I know what you are thinking. Although I am a rich man, I don't have the bad habits of those rich people. Looking for someone to support me? Humph, what I, Dante Gonzalez, hate the most are those rich people. , relying on one’s own money to do whatever one wants.”

V suddenly said.

"Mr. Gonzalez, I don't know if you have noticed that after all you have said, it seems that it has no connection whatsoever with why your son was kidnapped."

Dante waved his hand.

"Don't worry, Miss V, I'll talk about it soon... When I took my son to the police station, I didn't ask him to go in with me right away. Instead, I asked him to wait in the car while I was alone. Let’s go in and observe the situation first.”

He smiled bitterly and continued.

"It's ironic. Logically speaking, for a person of color like me, entering the police station is no different than going home. However, although I am Mexican and was born in Haywood, I have basically never entered the police station. Bureau."

"Even though it has been several years, looking back now, I still remember it clearly. There was no one else in the police station at that time, only a couple who were sad and collapsed."

"I asked the police to find out. They were not here to report the crime, but the police station asked them to come and claim the body. Their son had a car accident a few hours ago and was hit and killed on the street."

"But that street belongs to a black community. As we all know, the black community is poor, dirty, messy, and poor. They can't pay much tax, so there are no police officers sent to patrol there, and there are no surveillance cameras on the street."

"By the time the police found the couple's son, the child's body was already cold and the perpetrator was missing. And because there were no surveillance cameras at the place where the incident occurred, the police did not know who did it."

"I first

I immediately realized that they must be the parents of the poor child that Jose killed. Judging from the clothes of the parents, they didn’t look like an ordinary family. I didn’t know how much it would cost to compensate them, but after hesitating, Go towards them. "

"I wanted to confess to them and tell them that I would do everything I could to compensate them, even if I sold my tire company, which was on the rise..."

"But when I walked up to them, I was so frightened that I almost fainted on the spot and couldn't stand still. Because it was only then that I recognized that the couple were indeed not ordinary people. Even a Mexican would be familiar with them. The surname…Salamanca.”

Jack took a breath when he heard this: "Salamanca? Isn't that the one who kidnapped your son?"

He seemed to understand something, with a look of realization on his face: "That's why you...that's why your son...they..."

Dante nodded slowly.

"I originally planned to take my son to surrender, but after seeing the Salamanca couple at the police station, I changed my mind."

"If they find out that it was my son who killed their son, then the Salamanca Group will not let Jose go, nor will they let me go."

"Jack, you are also of Mexican origin. Although you were born in Night City, you also know the bloody and cruel rumors about the Mexican Group, right?"

"They are no different from the gangs in the city. The difference is that the group's strength, influence and other aspects far exceed those of the gangs in Night City, so their behavior is more cruel, perverse and violent."

Chapter 229: Going to listen to the scriptures on the 2nd and staying in a hotel at night (3K)

Jack also said with a stern face: "The Mexican Group can do business and manage a city well. They are more efficient than the government, but all this has a prerequisite."

"The premise is that you don't offend them. They are a criminal organization after all, not a charity. If you offend them, they will show their brutal side and let those who offend them pay with their blood and brains."

What Dante did was not only an offense, but also caused the group boss's son to be killed.

This is like playing an FPS game, beating someone to death, and then standing up and squatting on their corpse. It would be strange if they don't go crazy.

Moreover, if Jack remembers correctly, Hector, the boss of the Salamanca Group, seems to be the only son.

This son is not only Hector's only son, but also a son of old age.

Although I don’t know why that day, the young master of the Salamanca Group went to a black community with poor security without a bodyguard.

But it is conceivable that once Hector knew that his son was killed by Dante's son, then as Dante thought, both Dante and his son would not have to live anymore.

"I said why...no wonder...it turns out to be like this..."

Tijuana, ruled by the Salamanca Group, is not far from the border, and some middle-class people from Night City also like to travel to Tijuana and travel there.

Even Misty had told Jack that she wanted to travel to Tijuana.

Therefore, Jack also became interested in the Salamanca Group, intentionally or unintentionally learning about the news there.

Salamanca Group has been in decline in recent years.

Hector's wife commits suicide.

The boss of the group, Hector, is also acting more and more crazy.

People within the group gradually began to feel unstable, and some people began to feel dissatisfied with Hector, but they did not dare to raise questions publicly because of Hector's strength.

Before that, Jack had found it strange.

After being the boss for so many years, Hector knew how to manage the group even with his eyes closed. How could it be that he seemed to be a different person, and the more he managed, the worse he got.

So that's it.

"So at that time, after I recognized the couple, I pretended to be calm and left the police station, got back in the car, and drove back to the apartment as fast as possible."

"I told Jose to forget everything that happened today. The fact that he killed the only son of the Salamanca Group must be rotten in his stomach, otherwise we, father and son, will have to be buried with him."

"Then, I made a call and asked someone I trusted to help clean up my son's car, the one that caused the accident."

"Then, the next day, I took my son with me to a restaurant near New York University for dinner, pretending to be Jose and showing me around their school."

"Every month after that, I would go to a restaurant near their school and deliberately mentioned that my son had taken me to visit the school before."

Jack's mind was filled with questions.

"Why are you doing this?"

Su Xiao said calmly: "On the 2nd, I will go to listen to the scriptures and stay in a hotel at night. On the 3rd, I will go to a restaurant and then watch a movie."

Everyone looked at Lidya Su: "What did you say?"

"It's nothing." Sure enough, no one in this world could understand this joke. Su Xiao made a gesture, "Please continue."

Dante just thought that what Su Xiao just said was Siris' slang, so he didn't hesitate and continued.

"The day my son hit someone and killed him was October 9th, and the day I took my son to a restaurant near the school was October 10th."

"

People's concept of time is not that reliable. After a while, they will not remember clearly whether it was October 9th or October 10th, but they will remember that my son took me to visit their school. . "

"Only with an alibi can my son be cleared of suspicion and let the Salamanca group suspect others."

"Since then, nothing that worried me has happened. Killers from the Salamanca Group did not suddenly break into my house, and there were no suspicious cars following Jose."

"Everything was as if nothing had happened. Later, Jose successfully obtained a bachelor's degree from New York University, entered the company "Qilu Division Optical", and got a young and beautiful girlfriend. My girlfriend Business is also getting better, and more and more branches have been opened. "

“I thought this was the end of the matter, that this nightmare would be over, that the Salamanca Group would never know who did it, and would never harass me and my son, but I didn't expect... you will know what happened next."

There was silence in the VIP room.

Su Xiao stroked the cup.

He knew that it couldn't be a low-level gangster plotting against Dante's son.

His guess was indeed correct.

His son killed someone else's son. No wonder someone kidnapped Dante's son.

However, there is still a problem that Lidya Su cannot figure out.