It seems Chen Ye has also started to act. We need to speed up as well. Our territory expansion isn't fast enough yet," First Penggelei muttered to himself in annoyance.
First Penggelei and Chen Ye met when they were children at an orphanage in Hell's Kitchen. At that time, Chen Ye's deceased father passed away, and he was sent to the orphanage by the Federal Government. Chen Ye stayed at the orphanage for a year before Kingpin took him away.
The conditions at the orphanage were already poor, and in Hell's Kitchen, they were even worse.
The Federal Government withheld all the funds that should have gone to the orphanage, completely disregarding the lives of those orphans. People died every day in Hell's Kitchen anyway, and these orphans, without parents, were even more neglected.
Superficially, it was an orphanage, but in reality, it was a breeding ground for human trafficking and organ trafficking organizations.
The caregivers there didn't treat these orphans as humans at all. They would regularly sell promising young ones to gangs to provide them with fresh blood, or they would traffic the organs of these orphans to those in need.
When Chen Ye first arrived at the orphanage, First Penggelei was the children's leader there.
Because Chen Ye felt that First Penggelei resembled a character from a certain anime, he gave him this name. Later, First Penggelei also thought it was good and has continued to use it until now.
During that year, Chen Ye discovered something was wrong with the orphanage and secretly investigated the truth with First Penggelei.
Later, through a series of efforts and Kingpin's help, Chen Ye rescued the orphans there.
The Vongola Family was initially established by the orphanage children for self-preservation. Later, because the orphanage was burned down, First Penggelei had no choice but to lead the orphanage children to establish territory and survive in Hell's Kitchen.
The Vongola Family, including First Penggelei, has a total of seven Guardians, each representing seven attributes: Sky, Storm, Rain, Sun, Lightning, Cloud, and Mist.
This suggestion was also made by Chen Ye. Chen Ye was not among the Guardians, but merely held the position of an Elder, while First Penggelei represented the Sky Guardian and was the strongest person in the Vongola Family.
Although First Penggelei didn't understand the meaning of these attributes, he knew Chen Ye wouldn't harm him, and it sounded quite good, so he has continued to use it until now.
Of course, they don't have the abilities from that manga; most of the Vongola Family members are ordinary people.
Currently, the Vongola Family is a highly respected force in the central district of Hell's Kitchen.
"It seems my good friend needs my help. G, you come with me this weekend," First Penggelei said to a man with red hair and a tattoo on the right side of his face.
"No problem, Ieyasu. Anyone who wants to touch you must step over my corpse!" said the Storm Guardian, G.
The Storm Guardian, G, as First Penggelei's childhood friend and right-hand man, also co-founded the Peng Lie Family with First Penggelei. He is skilled in using firearms and bows and arrows.
"Relax, we're just going to support our old friend. No one can harm me, G," First Penggelei calmly replied.
"However, I don't think the other gangs see it that way. Perhaps we need to prepare in advance. You know, we're short-handed, and currently, we can only hold onto our territory," G said with a slightly solemn expression. Most of the Vongola Family members came from the orphanage. Because First Penggelei did not allow people with ill intentions to join, the group has been unable to expand its numbers.
"It's fine, just you and I will go. The rest don't need to. Hell's Kitchen must have its own school!" First Penggelei said decisively. As an orphan, First Penggelei understood too well the importance of Chen Ye's school to Hell's Kitchen. If there had been such a school back then, how much better would it have been? Would his and his companions' lives have changed? Perhaps he would have already finished college and be living an ordinary life with his friends now.
"Understood, I will make the arrangements." G did not object after hearing this. As long as it was First Penggelei's decision, G would support it with all his might!
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At this moment, Chen Ye was still leisurely sitting in the apartment lobby, eating watermelon and chatting with the security guard, John Wick, completely unaware that other gangs were harboring their own schemes on how to deal with him.
However, even if Chen Ye knew, he wouldn't take it seriously. After all, in this free country, danger unfolds every minute and second; it's just that Hell's Kitchen has relatively more of it.
On the contrary, if those gangs didn't act, Chen Ye would have a hard time finding an excuse to deal with them. Chen Ye had long wanted to eradicate gangs like the Mexican Gang, which had no bottom line.
Would these gangs unite to cause trouble? Chen Ye believed they would.
Even if they understood the huge disparity between friend and foe, who would be willing to give up their interests? Especially these ignorant gangs, who act like they are invincible every day. They wouldn't recognize the difference between friend and foe unless they paid the price with their lives.
Chen Ye was well aware that this meeting, on the surface, seemed to be discussing the student enrollment and opening issues of Hell's Kitchen Community College. In reality, it was Chen Ye secretly discerning who could still be saved and who was beyond redemption.
He wanted to see which gang leaders only cared about their own interests and disregarded the future of Hell's Kitchen. In Chen Ye's eyes, such people were inherently evil and beyond salvation; the only one who could save them was probably God.
And what Chen Ye could do was send them to meet God.
"Do you need me to accompany you to the meeting this weekend, boss?" John Wick asked Chen Ye. John Wick looked at Chen Ye, who was much younger than him, and sometimes found it hard to imagine that he had such great ambitions, even if it meant bearing such immense pressure, to change Hell's Kitchen. It was truly admirable.
"Do you have something planned for the weekend? Could it be that you have a crush and need to go on a date this weekend?" Chen Ye asked with a gossipy expression.
John Wick: ....
"Don't be shy, we're all men, I completely understand. After all, your wife has been gone for so long. Look at Deadpool, he goes out to find girls to relax every day, even if others look down on him."
Thinking of John Wick always having a grim and troubled expression, Chen Ye couldn't help but tease him.
John Wick shook his head and said with a wry smile, "I just saw Deadpool recently, and I'm thinking of getting another dog. It could keep Deadpool company." John Wick had been working as a security guard at the apartment lately and kept seeing Deadpool, which made him think of the dog he used to have, and he suddenly felt the urge to buy a dog.
"Alright, just remember not to buy a female dog. I'm afraid Deadpool will corrupt her," Chen Ye said with a helpless expression.