"Wood ..."
Wood was having dinner with his friends when he heard someone call out to him, he froze for a moment and turned his head to see a former "alumnus".
Not many people knew about Wood's transfer to the Federation's secret police after attending the police academy, including his parents.
In the eyes of many people, Wood and ordinary people are actually not very different, in the Baylor Federation's current social background, the police academy is not even as good as some of the technical schools specializing in the training of workers.
The police itself is a very dangerous, but the pay is very low job, in the eyes of ordinary people, the police is not as promising as a plumber, probably only the police themselves think they are not bad.
Wood hadn't been drafted by the Sabine City Regional Police Department to become a Sabine cop, and his parents had even opened a bottle of wine to celebrate that.
Security was probably better than the dangerous job of a police officer.
So no one knew that Wood had actually become a Federation agent, including his nearest and dearest.
Even the salary that the Federation paid him was allocated to his chief through an activity earmark, who then paid it into a secret account.
This money is not activated until Wood's undercover work is successful or a complete failure, and trying to trace the source of the money through spending records isn't just within the capabilities of the police system, some crime syndicates have that capability as well.
An account was capable of revealing too much information, and Wood could only live on the money he earned during his time undercover.
In the eyes of the vast majority of people Wood had pretty much the same life as the vast majority of people, after wasting his best youth, he walked into society and started working without learning anything.
It was just his luck that he had accidentally become a brilliant businessman, or at least that's how he explained it to his family, who were stunned when he placed the bankbook of tens of thousands of dollars in front of their parents.
Their first thought was not how good Wood was at making so much money, but rather wondered if they should turn themselves in so that they could instruct their lawyers to ask the judge to be merciful in their sentencing.
This happens all the time in the bottom families, some kids suddenly come back with a bag of money and go on to a different life, eventually dying out in the dark night sky in the brightest years of their lives.
It was only when he explained himself and brought his family to meet his "followers" that Wood's family began to look up.
At this time in a barbecue restaurant, they just two days ago, the end of a Mobile auction, because of Richard's departure, has been good luck Wood successfully got the first place in this Mobile auction.
It was also possible that the local desire to consume second-hand goods was fading under the baking of the social consumerist enthusiasm (specifically public opinion), and the turnover of the Mobile auction two days ago had rapidly dropped to a little more than three hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Even for the first place NO.1 Wood, his gain was only three thousand dollars.
But even if it was only three thousand dollars, his income still made many, many people feel desperately high, probably because Lynch temporarily forgot about the carnival, or had other arrangements, the lads did not get the same opportunity as before.
Today, then Monday, everyone had time to spare, and Wood got the lads out and found a barbecue restaurant to "splurge" on.
He wasn't rich enough like Lynch to make everyone happy, he could only fill people's stomachs, but that was appreciated.
Many of these people were on the verge of starvation before they became Wood's followers.
Wood's face was more than a little genuinely smiling when a somewhat unfamiliar, soon to be faded voice came to him.
He glanced back and saw that it was his high school classmate, Terry, who had been a good friend at the time.
In school, there are always some students like this, they seem to have no friendship with the book knowledge, but on the contrary, they are very open in the society.
The vast majority of normal students actually look down on these students, they think that these students do not study well, in the future can only be engaged in the most lowly jobs, this is the whole society and teachers have been instilled in the students' views, but also the most correct universal values.
But in fact, when everyone enters society, they will realize that some things are completely different from what they learned when they were students.
Of course, this does not include those students who have gone to university, because these are the "students" in the perception of teachers and society, who are the elite of society upon graduation, but not those below the university level.
Most of the students who looked down on Terry were the ones who bowed down to serve him, as evidenced by the summer clothes he was wearing, which cost no less than a hundred dollars.
Wood stood up and two of the lads noticed something unusual and tried to join him, but he stopped them.
To a lot of people he was just an ordinary salesman, or Lynch's partner, young and not very special looking, but only he knew what kind of training he'd had and what kind of status he now had.
He wouldn't be afraid of Terry, who was mixed up in a gang, at all, but instead a very special, very strong feeling grew within him.
"Terry!"
Terry was wearing a nice summer dress and had two gold rings on his fingers, and Wood noticed that the ring of his gold ring had a seven-pointed star.
And Terry also had a seven-pointed star the size of a fingernail tattooed on the left side of his neck.
This was from a local gang in Sabine, the name of which was the Seven Stars, and they specialized in the leather business and had some men under them.
It was said that the police department and the Bureau of Investigation had investigated this gang, but didn't find any evidence that was too illegal, and with certain special social factors, they didn't end up taking action against them.
Many of the families of the girls who engaged in transactions with them were very poor and in need of money, and these girls were not found by the Seven Stars Gang using some illegal and immoral methods.
They only provided a platform, and even in some people's eyes, the Seven Stars Gang protected these girls who were engaged in personal charitable aid business, and helped them avoid some people's harm.
Officials were all acquiescing to the gang's existence for the time being, after all, with them around, some of the arguably poor innocent girls would at least be safe from accidents.
The reality of making people feel funny but not laugh out loud was so contrary to common sense and ironic.
Terry nodded as he looked Wood up and down and smiled as he pounded him in the hollow of the shoulder, not a heavy punch, but those followers of Wood's pranced to their feet.
This surprised Terry a bit, and he looked at Wood while Wood made a gesture for the heels to sit down again.
"Who are you talking to now?" , Terry thought with some emotion that Wood had gone down the same path.
In fact, people like Terry, who remembered their school, and their classmates a little more fondly than the average person, so fondly that they hadn't seen each other in years, but recognized Wood at first glance and called out his name.
"I'm working as a salesman now, how about you, how's it going?" , Wood pulled out a pack of cigarettes and handed over a smoke as the two walked outside the grill and chatted.
Terry was doing pretty well, and had gotten into a captain position in the Seven Stars Gang, and in a gang, a captain was basically a mid to high level person. And it was still the kind of person who had real power.
Terry, however, was a bit unimpressed with his own achievements, "Nowadays, all the days are not good, not much money is earned, but there is still a lot of trouble ..."
He lamented, originally did not want to talk about it deeply, but thinking of Wood, a former classmate and the school as well as the class that did not have much contact with him but gave him unforgettable memories, he decided to also say to remind the other party.
"You know, everyone is having a hard time right now, some people are already going crazy, it's best not to go to some out of the way places after dark ... ", he took a drag on his cigarette, "No, don't go out after dark! "
This made Wood a little strange, but he nodded and obliged.
A short time later a car pulled up on the side of the road, Terry dropped the cigarette in his hand, said goodbye to Wood and got into the car, quickly leaving.
Looking out the back window of the car as it faded away, Wood returned to the grill with a full heart.
A little later in the evening, Wood initiated a call to his chief about some of the topics he had talked about when he met up with Terry.
As an undercover agent, he had to report any information he had to his officer in a timely manner, this was the guideline for an undercover agent, unless he went rogue or it was inconvenient for a short period of time, he must contact his officer or contact every few days.
His officer didn't have much of an emotional outburst after hearing the news, and at the same time told him the answer.
"The economy is bad and these gangs are having a hard time, they can't collect any money, yet there are so many gang members to support."
"In fact, this situation is going to happen once every few years or ten years, soon these gangs are going to start a massive firefight, don't worry about them, someone will clean up the mess."
In a way, the Fox father and son had the FBI and the Federation Tax Bureau to thank for this, the two power bureaus helped them take care of a lot of their peers, so that they didn't have too many competitors, otherwise they would almost have to enter the firefighting session as well.
But this year, fewer counterparts, Lynch has come up with a set of "Lynch method" to teach the only remaining financial companies in Sabine, how to legalize their illegal business, which also led to the industry this year is very stable.
However, the other gangs are not having such a good time, the bigger the plate, the deeper the water, except for the firefighting to get more chassis and business that can be scavenged, they don't have a lot of good ways.
And a lot of new gangs are also popping up, in Sabine and even the entire Federation's underground world, it's also about to set off a big storm of a total reshuffle.
The economy not only determines the buildings above ground, but also the buildings below ground!