Dragon Raja: I practiced Naruto ninjutsu next to Lu Mingfei.

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Richard looked like he was saying, "I'm doing this for your own good," with an expression that was both heartbroken and disappointed.

Gu Ran could roughly guess their tactics. Once they were on their territory, they would be at their mercy. They would be given a few charges, such as 'drug possession' or 'illegal possession of firearms,' and Su Xiaoqiang and Gu Ran would have no choice but to be deported back to China and never be allowed to return.

But such petty tricks are no match for him.

"Hey, you brought your phone, right?" Gu Ran noticed the phone in Richard's pocket. "Can I borrow it to make a call?"

His phone was left in Yuan Zhisheng's shop; he didn't take it out.

Richard was puzzled, but he still took out his phone, thinking that he was in charge here. What kind of storms could two kids from China, college students, have seen?

So he lent his phone to Gu Ran and said, "Want to call the police? The Mafia has a principle of silence and isn't afraid of the French security forces. Calling the embassy will only provide temporary relief; after all, distant water can't quench a fire..."

Just as Richard was speaking, Gu Ran dialed a number and said in Chinese, "Transfer me to Boss Caesar. I need to talk to him."

"Voiceprint recognition successful, please wait." Norma's emotionless voice came through the phone.

Gu Ran remembered Norma's emergency call; it was something every student at Kassel College would remember. As for Caesar's call, it was only saved in his phone.

"Boss Caesar?" Richard was taken aback, not understanding what Gu Ran meant.

He had done some research beforehand and knew that this son-in-law was studying abroad, but he couldn't find out about his background in China, so he assumed he was just a gigolo.

Could it be a classmate from abroad? But even if they are classmates and have connections, they probably wouldn't be able to control the Mafia.

While Richard was pondering, Gu Ran had already connected with Caesar on the phone.

"It's me. What's the matter?" Caesar asked bluntly.

“I’m currently traveling in Marseille, France, and my fiancée and I are on the beach getting ready to apply sunscreen when a group of thugs claiming to be from the Mafia came and started causing trouble. One of them had a tattoo of the number '17' on the back of his hand, so I thought maybe he was one of your family members, and I called to ask. You know, 'you have to consider the owner before you beat a dog'!”

Caesar understood Gu Ran's meaning; it was a sign of respect. So, before dealing with the troublemakers, he made a point of coming over to greet him.

It seems that I am still worthy of respect in Gu Ran's heart.

"Wait a moment." Caesar snapped his fingers, signaling Percy to come over, and explained the situation to him.

Then, Percy took the phone and said to Gu Ran, "Gu Ran, please put the phone on speakerphone."

Gu Ran did as instructed.

Then, Passy's voice came through the phone, speaking in old-fashioned Italian: "You're a representative of the Siberian family? You should be active around Forsela in Naples, so why are you in Marseille, France? The family has explicitly forbidden you from engaging in gang activities, so why are you causing trouble?"

The leader was clearly taken aback when he heard Percy's words, because the other party had directly revealed his family name.

The '17' tattoo on the back of his hand actually represents the letter 'S,' which is the first letter of the Siberian family name.

So, the other party is clearly also a member of the Mafia.

So he cautiously asked the other person about their identity.

“The Gattuso family,” Percy replied casually.

The other party was stunned for a moment upon hearing this.

The Mafia consists of many families, and most of the time the families do not interfere with each other. However, there is one family that is the head of all the families, and that is the Gattuso family.

In other words, the Mafia operates on a feudal system, with each family having its own territory, but all under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Emperor. They have to pay tribute to the Zhou Emperor, who also holds military power and is not afraid of outsiders rebelling. All Mafia members are under the control of the Gattuso family.

“Gu is our young master’s friend. You should apologize immediately and get his forgiveness. If he is willing to spare your life, then you can go back to your hometown and be confined for three years. If he is not willing to spare you, then you can die on the beach. I will plead with Gu to spare your life and your family will not be implicated.”

Percy's last words to the leader were very stern, then he switched to a more respectful tone and spoke to Gu Ran in Chinese:

“Gu Ran, you can deal with that person yourself. If they resist, you are free to use violence. The Gattuso family will handle the aftermath for you.”

"Okay, your guarantee is enough."

At this moment, Caesar said, "Gu Ran, you can come to Italy to visit when you have time. Although I will be away these few days, I will have someone take good care of you."

Is the eldest still at school?

"Yes, there are some follow-up matters that the student council needs to clarify."

"Have you decided to pass the chairmanship to Lu Mingfei?"

"I feel most at ease entrusting my White Silk Dance Troupe to him," Caesar said with a smile.

After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Gu Ran hung up the phone and looked at the people present.

The once arrogant leader knelt down in front of Gu Ran, his forehead lightly touching Gu Ran's feet, his posture one of utmost piety and submission.

This is the kneeling greeting from the Roman Empire. If Gu Ran were royalty, there would also be a tradition of kissing the instep.

Chapter 564 Money or life?

However, the honor of kissing the instep is reserved for the highest authority. For ordinary people, kneeling at the feet signifies extreme submission and complete subservience to the other party.

The other thugs standing around were a bit confused. Some of them understood Italian and followed their boss, kneeling down tremblingly before Gu Ran. The rest of them didn't understand Italian and just stood there at a loss.

The most confused person was Richard, whose Italian was rudimentary, and he could only understand a few sentences. However, Gu Ran used Chinese for the next few exchanges, and the meaning was very clear: Gu Ran could deal with these people at will.

Judging from their devout attitude, Richard understood that Gu Ran must know a major Mafia family. He never dreamed that his son-in-law, who was studying abroad, would actually know people from the Mafia!

Gu Ran was also a little confused. He didn't expect the Gattuso family name to be so useful in the Mafia. He thought this idiot would put up a fight and then beat up the leader.

Now that the other party is so compliant, Gu Ran can't find an excuse to beat him up.

"Tell me, why do you insist that I come to the party tonight?" Gu Ran asked the leader in English.

The leader knelt on the ground, slightly raising his head to look at Gu Ran, not daring to hide anything: "Richard gave me some money, saying he was going to treat you to a banquet tonight, and then slip something into your clothes so you could be deported..."

As Gu Ran had predicted, things went exactly as expected. So, Gu Ran and Su Xiaoqiang looked at Richard together.

“He…he’s talking nonsense, he’s spouting lies, I, I didn’t!” Richard shouted in Chinese.

At this moment, Richard was already regretting his actions, because he never expected that the two college students he thought he could easily control would actually be turned around and become the ones in control!

Gu Ran smiled and looked at the leader: "Richard won't admit it, but you have to find a way to make him admit it."

"Good, good!" The leader immediately stood up, gave a wink to his henchmen, and then several of them dragged Richard to the beach and pressed his head underwater.

This is a unique form of water torture used in interrogation, and these people even used seawater, which is quite cruel.

Sure enough, Richard couldn't take it. He swallowed two mouthfuls of bitter, salty, and astringent seawater, his eyes were irritated by the salt water, and he inhaled a lot of seawater through his nose.

As any normal person knows, seawater should not be drunk in large quantities, as it can cause organ failure and death from dehydration.

Therefore, after drinking about a bottle of seawater, Richard could not withstand the water torture at all and immediately choked and struggled to say, "I, I confess, I did it, it was all done by me and the other side together."

"So you're that afraid of us checking the accounts?" Su Xiaoqiang asked at this moment. "You've embezzled quite a bit, haven't you?"

“I…I…I, I…” Richard hesitated again and again, then suddenly became firm, “I have no deficit, our accounts are perfectly fine, I have no deficit.”

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoqiang and Gu Ran exchanged a glance.

It seems that Richard is colluding with people in other offices, and that he wasn't the only one doing the embezzlement; several office heads were involved as well.

Gu Ran stepped forward and used his Rinnegan to read Richard's memories, discovering that it was just as they had guessed.

Richard didn't know what Gu Ran had done, but he felt he had indeed been exposed, so he said menacingly, "You have no evidence, and without evidence you can't do anything to me! You have absolutely no evidence!"

“Yes, we have no evidence.” Gu Ran sneered, “But do you think the Mafia needs evidence to do their things? I think you’re more interested in money than your life!”

Richard was stunned for a moment before realizing that the people around him were not good people, and, judging from Gu Ran's words, did he mean... to kill him?

He hadn't expected that the young man in front of him was such a ruthless person, actually capable of killing someone.

But then he remembered the phone call from before, in which Gu Ran seemed to have the authority to do whatever he wanted with these Mafia members. If that's the case...

“You…you dare to kill someone?” Richard asked tentatively.

"What do you think?" Gu Ran said with a half-smile.

Richard's tongue was trembling, and he dared not make eye contact with Gu Ran. He could tell from Gu Ran's aura that he was not afraid to kill.

So he finally looked at Su Xiaoqiang: "Miss, Miss, save me! I, I didn't mean to! I have a three-year-old daughter and a twelve-year-old son at home. I love my wife very much, and I have a seventy-year-old father to support. Please spare my life, Miss!"

In his view, girls are gentle and wouldn't dare to kill.

But Su Xiaoqiang only considered practical matters and said to Gu Ran, "Why don't we just not kill him?"

Richard nodded. He had made the right bet. As expected, girls were afraid of blood and soft-hearted. He finally had a way out!

“Killing him won’t bring the money back, so it’s better to make him cough it up first,” Su Xiaoqiang said. “The five offices have a total deficit of 70 million US dollars. You need to make up 15 million US dollars for me first.”

Richard was taken aback: "Huh?"

“I’ve always felt that there are only two ways to make someone admit their mistakes: either kill them or make them lose everything,” Su Xiaoqiang said to Richard. “What do you choose?”

Richard understood Su Xiaoqiang's words; he hadn't expected this woman to be so vicious.

Asking him to give up all his possessions and go bankrupt is no different from killing him.

Moreover, he didn't actually embezzle that much.

“I… I only took eight million dollars, not fifteen million. The bigger chunk was taken by someone else,” Richard said with a mournful face.

"Who took it?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.

“Yes, yes, Lin Shengquan,” Richard said.

“Oh…” Gu Ran nodded. He had read the information and knew that Lin Shengquan was the head of the Amsterdam office in the Netherlands.

"Tell me, honestly confess your crimes." Gu Ran patted Richard's head.

There's really nothing to say about this; it's just submitting false accounts. There's no technical skill involved. The key is that they hid it well, so the withheld portion went undetected for a long time.

“Lin Shengquan, he, he’s a member of 14K!” Richard said the name of a gang, seemingly trying to intimidate Gu Ran.

"14K? The Dutch mafia?" Gu Ran usually watches the Young and Dangerous movies and knows that the Netherlands was once a paradise for gangsters because its geographical location in Europe is equivalent to the Golden Triangle of drug trafficking. It is close to the center of Europe and has multiple ports that allow for easy entry and exit.

Most importantly, the Netherlands has a very weak crackdown on drugs.

Before 1977, the Netherlands had a very strange law that stipulated a four-year prison sentence for drug trafficking.

Yes, you read that right. The Netherlands is really that peculiar. Whether you traffic one gram or a ton of drugs, the maximum sentence is four years.

In recent years, as the crackdown on drugs has intensified, prison sentences have also increased, but they are generally still within ten years.

That's why the movie "Young and Dangerous" says that the Netherlands is a paradise for gangsters. If it were China, they would have been shot hundreds of times over!

Another point is that the treatment in Dutch prisons is particularly good. In the 1990s, prisoners could live in single rooms equipped with TVs, air conditioning, and shower rooms, which was just like staying in a hotel.

In a few years, when the internet becomes popular, prisons will be equipped with game consoles and computers, and even have internet access. It will be a paradise for otaku!

Therefore, many gangsters are happy to serve their sentences in the Netherlands. If the Netherlands refuses to let them serve their sentences and deports them, they will appeal and insist on serving their sentences in the Netherlands.