"He's quite handsome!" Amanda whispered to Kimmy, watching the guy sitting in the front seat of the taxi.
They had just gotten off the plane and were about to hail a cab when this guy, who introduced himself as Peter, approached them.
Admittedly, because he was somewhat handsome, Amanda agreed to his request to share a taxi without even thinking about it. The three of them then rode together to the building where Amanda's aunt lived.
Amanda's aunt and her family had already gone to Spain for a vacation, leaving only the two girls in the apartment.
Having obtained this information, Peter happily departed, sending the two girls' information and address to his superior.
He specialized in surveillance at the airport. With his young and handsome appearance, Peter could usually get the information he wanted!
This was a criminal gang from Albania. Their previous business involved using the pretext of offering jobs to lure women from their hometown in Eastern Europe to Western Europe. Once the women were tricked into coming, they were forced into prostitution.
But later, they found that doing things this way was incredibly inefficient!
Mainly because most Eastern European countries strictly controlled immigration. Plus, deceiving women was time-consuming and labor-intensive. Considering the cost of plane tickets, visa fees, and the time and effort involved, they were basically just earning a meager living; it was exhausting.
So, they opened up a new avenue for making money.
First, they specifically stationed people at the airport, and also bribed the airport ground staff, who could identify potential targets.
Paris, also known as the City of Romance, saw tens of thousands of young women arrive there with passion every day. Many came with family or lovers, and these people were naturally not their targets.
Their targets were women like Amanda and Kimmy, solo travelers or pairs of girlfriends traveling together.
And just like that, while Amanda was dancing in her room, the professional gang had already arrived!
The group opened the apartment door with practiced ease, and then stuffed Amanda, who was dancing, directly into a sack.
Kimmy, who was in the bathroom, was terrified while on the phone with her dad, trying to report that she was safe. Fortunately, she managed to calm down at the last moment. She put the phone on speaker and shouted out everything she had seen, including the appearance of the person who grabbed her and the tattoo on his arm.
Leaving aside how Bryan Mills, who was thousands of miles away, was desperately trying to find out all the details of his daughter's kidnapping, let's talk about Paris.
"Is it already this chaotic in Paris?" Jill said with a sense of loss, looking at the mess in the room.
This apartment, whether in terms of location or interior design, could be considered a high-end residential area. To think that a criminal gang would dare to directly break in and abduct two girls in broad daylight! It was simply lawless!
Even in New York, which was known for having the highest crime rate in the world, gangsters only dared to target the slums and didn't even dare to go to ordinary residential areas, let alone high-end communities like this.
"This is still good. Wait a few years, when France becomes Francistan, not only will they abduct people in broad daylight, they could even burn down Notre Dame!" Li Qingyuan shrugged. After all, this was the invincible France; whatever they did would seem normal.
Their flight was half an hour slower than Kimmy's. When they got off the plane, the other party had already left the airport. Although the Red Queen immediately retrieved the driving records of the airport taxis and found out where Kimmy and her best friend Amanda were staying, it was already empty when they arrived.
That Albanian criminal gang was quite fast. From receiving the information to successfully abducting the girls, it probably took less than fifteen minutes. They were really professional.
It's also possible there are just too many people in this line of work, and if they don't move fast, they won't even get a sip of soup.
After all, low-level criminal gangs like theirs are just like those miserable assassins at the Continental Hotel – they sound high-class but are actually living a hard life.
For example, the two girls they just kidnapped. If they were virgins or particularly beautiful, they could be sold at a high price to Mr. Cary, who specializes in selling high-quality female slaves. But if they were just average, they'd only be sent to a construction site.
After factoring in the cost of injecting the girls with drugs, plus the protection money paid to the local police, they'd only make a few thousand dollars per girl. Two girls together would bring in at most twenty thousand.
You could say that these days, even human trafficking is just a job that barely allows you to feed yourself!
"Twenty thousand dollars, what were those people thinking?" Li Qingyuan was puzzled after accessing the criminal gang's information through the Red Queen.
Bryan didn't have much money, but the man his wife later found was very wealthy. That man was very generous to Kimmy. The box of brand-name clothing and bags Kimmy brought to Paris alone was worth at least thirty to forty thousand dollars.
Furthermore, the two girls lived in a high-end apartment. If they were to be blackmailed, they could have gotten at least four to five hundred thousand. But instead, that group only wanted a mere twenty thousand, which truly baffled him.
"Transnational extortion is too risky; these low-level criminal gangs aren't capable of handling such a big case!"
Fortunately, Jill had been a SWAT officer for several years, so she was very familiar with these messy matters. She took a pack of cigarettes from Amanda's suitcase and lit one.
"As for selling these things, that would break the rules. Each underground gang has strict regional divisions for their businesses. If those Albanians rashly interfere in other industries, they'll be begging for a fight!"
So, the underworld isn't as easy as it seems. Don't let the daily feasting, drinking, and womanizing fool you; in reality, they don't make much money after a month of hard work. Plus, they risk getting their heads blown off every day, making it a truly high-risk profession.
"Didn't you say you were quitting smoking?" The person in question asked with a stern face, pulling the cigarette from Jill's mouth.
"You forced me to quit; I never said I would!" Jill was so angry she wanted to jump up and beat someone. Back when she was a SWAT officer, she liked to smoke a cigarette to calm down after completing a mission. But that good habit was broken by a certain jerk.
Now, she finally found a cigarette and it was pinched by the other person. It was too much!
"Alright, we're not discussing this topic!" Li Qingyuan stomped on the cigarette box, then looked at Amanda's backpack. Besides the cigarettes, there were several boxes of condoms. He couldn't help but shake his head.
"If you were bringing one box, you could say it's a single girl's essential, but why did you bring four or five boxes at once?"
"Are you trying to trigger an Achievement Collection System?"
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