Chapter 3541 Want to Replace

After his mind was empty for five minutes, the first question that came to the mind of the young and energetic Bruce Brown was who in this neighborhood was more cruel and bad than himself!

He was now in the same state of extreme rage as before, but there was no Ye Chen as the target of his anger, so he had to find his next opponent.

Soon, a face appeared in his mind. The man's name was Liam, the person he was most afraid of meeting in this neighborhood.

Liam is three years older than Bruce Brown, but he entered society much earlier than him. In his early years, he was also an idle street thug, occasionally robbing passers-by or small convenience stores on the street.

But in the last two or three years, Liam joined a small gang that was well-known in the nearby blocks and became a gang member.

The gang structure in Australia is very similar to that in Europe and the United States. Although their organizational structure is not strict enough, the hierarchy is very clear.

In a city, the most powerful gangs must control the most profitable businesses, such as the most profitable contraband and gambling industries.

However, even the most powerful gang cannot dominate the world. There will often be several players of the same level who divide the territory and compete with each other.

In areas that the top gangs disdain to pay attention to, there are also a large number of other gangs, such as some that make a living in the sex industry, and others that make a living by extortion and collecting protection fees.

Further down, there are gangs like the one Liam belongs to. They don't have a truly systematic industry, so they hide in various corners and eat some scraps and leftovers. For example, the top gang distributes contraband to some middle-level distributors, and these distributors take the contraband and mix in a lot of impurities before repackaging it into retail versions of a small package of dozens of dollars, which are then sold to low-level users.

These retail versions are sold on the streets by small gangs below.

Take methamphetamine, the most prevalent drug in Australia, for example. Its high-end audience includes wealthy people, white-collar workers, internet celebrities and nightclub prostitutes. These customers have high profit margins and can drive their other consumption. Each of them is a cash cow for the gang. Such customers are simply out of reach for small gangs like Liam. If they dare to go to high-end hotels and nightclubs to sell inferior products, high-level gangs will destroy them in minutes.

This is the concept of territory.

A territory with high-end users is equivalent to a fertile land or even a gold mine. The territory owner will do his utmost to defend his own interests. Once someone dares to touch their core interests, they will definitely fight back.

Because of this, Liam's gang can only hang out on the streets and sell drugs to poor drug addicts who can only get a few dozen dollars by stealing and cheating.

But even so, the profit margin is very generous.

A small package of contraband worth one hundred Australian dollars can bring them at least forty Australian dollars in profit. As long as their small gang can control a slum area and cover a few hundred drug addicts, they can make at least tens of thousands of Australian dollars in net profit every day relying on these drug addicts. Although Liam is just a small brother at the bottom of the gang, it is not difficult for him to get a few hundred Australian dollars every day.

In Melbourne's slums, a few hundred Australian dollars a day is already a very good income level, because the median income in Melbourne is around a hundred Australian dollars a day, and Liam earns a few hundred Australian dollars a day, 360 days a year without a break, so he can earn at least 100,000 Australian dollars a year, which exceeds most white-collar workers in Melbourne.

In contrast, Bruce Brown was far worse. He wanted to join such a gang, but he never had the chance. His small group did not have its own territory and did not dare to engage in contraband business. Therefore, he had no stable source of income. Occasionally robbing some money on the street was almost his only source of income.

A few months ago, Bruce Brown saved up a few hundred Australian dollars and said a lot of nice things to get Liam to have dinner with him.

At the dinner table, Bruce Brown gave all the expensive food he ordered to Liam, and he was hungry and humbly begged Liam to introduce him to the gang. But after Liam finished eating and drinking, he wiped his mouth and told Bruce Brown that a small scoundrel like him was not qualified to join his gang, and that eating his food was already lowering his own status.

After saying that, Liam stood up and walked away.

At that moment, Bruce Brown felt humiliated.

But even so, he didn't dare to go and settle the score with Liam. He could only swallow this loss silently. At the same time, he made a great ambition in his heart that he must climb higher than Liam in the future and then step on him.

Ye Chen now gave him the courage he didn't have before.

So, he weighed the baseball bat in his hand and said to his fellow thugs with a devilish urge, "Let's go find Liam and kill him. From now on, I'll be the most powerful newcomer in all of South Melbourne. Maybe his boss will appreciate me and let me take his place. Then we'll really be on the rise!"

Psychological suggestion is equivalent to a mental stamp, which will make people believe in the content of the suggestion and even forget or ignore reality.

Bruce Brown was originally a gangster with low cultural level and even lower quality than his cultural level. His understanding of the world was extremely superficial. In addition, he had watched too many gangster movies, and he always felt that maybe with some special opportunity, he would be appreciated by the big guys and soar to the sky.

The psychological hint given to him by Ye Chen prompted him to come up with the first idea of ​​replacing Liam with Ruthless.

Seeing the group marching towards the next block, Ye Chen asked Chen Zekai to drive and follow them from a distance.

The next block was even dirtier and messier than the previous one.

There are also similar safe injection houses here, and there are two of them. Around the injection houses and under the nearby overpass, there are a large number of drug addicts, at least nearly a hundred people.

Because there is an overpass passing through this neighborhood, many drug addicts set up tents directly under the overpass. The tents are densely packed, at least forty or fifty in number.

The reason why so many people gather here to set up tents is that although it cannot block the wind, it can block the sun and rain. For the homeless, setting up tents here is the best choice.

Around these drug addicts, there are always some young people moving back and forth in the crowd. Unlike these ragged drug addicts, these young people are dressed brightly and even wear exaggerated gold jewelry. These people are gang members who specialize in selling contraband to drug addicts.

Among them, a curly-haired young man who was half black was smoking a homemade cigarette and moving among the group of drug addicts.

He stared at the hands of a female drug addict who was counting money. After counting a pile of small bills, she said pleadingly, "Liam, I'm still short of thirty Australian dollars. Can I give it to you tomorrow?"

The female drug addict was the streetwalker who had approached Chen Zekai earlier.

Liam said with disdain: “If you don’t have any money, go sell it. It’s not even noon yet, so there’s plenty of time. Come back to me when you’ve sold enough.”

The woman begged humbly, "I haven't smoked Liam for a day. If this continues, I won't have the strength to serve customers. Please give it to me first. I can do anything for you! Didn't you like me serving you in the past?"

Liam said disdainfully, "I'm now an official member of the Holy Blue Gang. If I continue to accept your services, will my reputation in the gang still be ruined? You'd better stop talking nonsense and go make money."

The woman looked desperate. She wanted to continue begging, but was afraid of angering the other party, so she was caught in a dilemma.

Liam glanced at her, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Well, don't say I don't take care of you. I can give you the things first, but after you finish smoking, you have to work hard and try to get more work. I'll come to you at eight o'clock tonight, and then you have to pay me fifty Australian dollars with interest."

"Fifty?" The woman looked shocked. She owed thirty Australian dollars and had to pay back fifty in just one day. The interest was almost double. She had been hanging around the streets for so many years and had never seen such a black-hearted gang member.

However, she had no choice at the moment. Her body and mind were suffering tremendously, so she could only bite the bullet and agree: "Okay, fifty is fifty!"

Liam skillfully handed her a small bag of contraband and warned her, "We've got a deal. If you don't give me fifty Australian dollars by eight o'clock tonight, it will become eighty tomorrow!"

The woman nodded rapidly: "No problem!"

After saying that, he quickly took the contraband and went into a tattered tent.

Liam sneered twice and was about to find the next customer when he suddenly heard someone shouting, "Liam!"

As soon as he turned around, he saw a black shadow flash towards his head.

Bruce Brown's baseball bat was heading straight for Liam's head, just like when he attacked Ye Chen just now, he was ready to take the other's life.

Liam was lucky and had rich experience in the underworld. Seeing the black shadow coming, he didn't bother to figure out what was coming and subconsciously turned his head to the side.

Then I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder and my legs went limp.

It turned out that the baseball bat brushed past his face and hit his shoulder directly, smashing his right shoulder into pieces.

Liam felt excruciating pain. After seeing who was coming, he immediately became furious and cursed: "Bruce Brown, you little punk, how dare you hit me?"

Liam's eyes were bloodshot: "Hit you? You underestimate me too much, Liam. I want you to die today!"

After saying that, he immediately swung the baseball bat and hit Liam again.

Liam had no weapon in his hand, and seeing the other party's deadly posture, he could only stagger away, while Bruce Brown flew up with a baseball bat and caught up with him.

Another group of young people also rushed after them like crazy, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a while.

At this time, several other gang members saw what had happened and immediately rushed over.

Liam had a serious shoulder injury and stumbled as he ran. He lost his balance and fell to the ground after just two steps.

Bruce Brown seized the opportunity and rushed forward, about to smash Liam's leg with a club, when someone pointed a gun at him and shouted, "Put down the baseball bat!"

Bruce Brown's eyes were red with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "No one can stop me today!"

Just as he finished speaking, he heard two loud bangs, and two bloody holes appeared on his right leg. Then his right leg lost control in an instant and he fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a group of gang members rushed up, beat him half to death, and pinned the other guys to the ground and beat them up.

After all, this is the territory of Liam's gang and where they make money. Many younger brothers gather here and around, and they immediately surround it when they see something happening.

Seeing Bruce Brown beaten beyond recognition and howling uncontrollably, Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh and shook his head, saying, "I thought this guy could be a tough guy and play a loser's counterattack for a few episodes, but I didn't expect him to be beaten into this state right from the start. What a loser!"