Late night, a building on the roadside in northern Pick.
Merrick Lucas sat at the dining table, leisurely eating delicate dishes alone, drinking strong baijiu.
About ten-plus minutes later, the second-floor living room door pulled open from outside. A twenty-plus youth led a middle-aged heavy into the room.
The two were core members of the Montgomery Holloway family. The youth was Aaron Holloway—his father the family number two. Behind him the middle-aged Bennett Pike—Aaron's uncle.
The Holloway family started trafficking Third District permanent residency rights, later trade company—but dark side specialized tight goods trafficking: guns, grain, cotton, crude oil etc—they all operated. Recent seven eight years—family snowballed, completed qualitative capital accumulation. But this ble
