Three fires turned half of the sky in the imperial capital red, and the siren of the fire truck had not stopped since dark. John, who was already asleep, was awakened from his sleep by Mark. The old man sat up a little irritably.
As you get older, you will spend more time sleeping, not because you want to sleep, but because your body's functions are rapidly declining, and your metabolism needs to be lowered to alleviate this decline process. Especially at night, after being awakened, the body will be in a very unhealthy state, and irritability is just one of the symptoms.
John has not been woken up in the middle of the night since Mark returned to the family. Mark will handle everything, and he can enjoy his old age in peace. Of course, he also understood that if Mark could wake him up regardless of his rest time, something big must have happened.
He rubbed his eyes, turned on the lamp on the bedside table, put his reading glasses on the quilt, looked at Mark and asked in a deep voice: "What happened?"
John has experienced too many things in his life, and his nerves have long been as tough as steel. His voice seemed to soothe Mark's frightened heart. Mark swallowed, lowered his head slightly, and said softly: "Our three feature agencies were Set on fire."
He didn't speak for a long time after saying this, and there was no other sound in the room. Only his own shallow breathing could be heard.
After a while, when Mark looked up, he saw Mr. John looking at him with wide eyes. His originally bloodless face had turned red. He opened his mouth and gasped, and his outstretched arms were trembling, "You... you What did you just say?"
"Features Press... was burned!"
The next second, if Mr. John could still wake up, he would definitely say that at that moment he felt something in his brain suddenly broke, and then the whole world fell into darkness.
Behind a lifelong winner is always a mountain of blood and swords that outsiders cannot see. John has been a lifelong winner, and he knows why he is a winner. People respected the George family and him, and even the top leaders of the two parties were his guests, not because of his great charisma and ability, but because of the George family's monopoly in the newspaper industry. Now that his weapon to monopolize the newspaper industry has been destroyed, one can imagine how those politicians who usually respect him on the surface will show their terrifying sharp teeth.
Mark exclaimed and rushed forward to support Mr. John, who was leaning slowly, and loudly called for a doctor. The whole manor was in chaos in an instant.
Mags, who was still thinking, was alerted by the ringing of the phone. In fact, he had already seen the fire in half of the sky, so he was waiting for this call. The call was made to him personally by the Chief of Police Investigation and he reported three things.
"Three major feature news agencies were set on fire at the same time. Judging from the current situation, there is no need to save the contents inside, as they were all completely devoured by the fire..."
"I'll interrupt, are there any casualties?" Maggs was concerned about this issue.
If there are no casualties, to the citizens of the imperial capital and even the entire empire, this is just a scar on someone else's body, and it is also a scar on the body of a big capitalist. Not only will they not be disgusted, but they will gloat about it. But if there are casualties, even serious casualties, it will cause a backlash from public opinion and public opinion. This is definitely not a good thing for the cabinet, which has just concluded the voting phase.
The former is just an accident, while the latter is an accident. Although someone also needs to shoulder this responsibility, the nature is completely different.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, this is what I want to say. There were no casualties in the three fire scenes. According to the information we collected from the scene, the other party had given enough warnings before setting the fire and dispersed all the staff. Of course it is possible There may be situations that we have not discovered, and we will have to wait until the fire is completely extinguished before we can draw a final conclusion.”
Mr. General Director paused for about five seconds. Maggs did not continue to ask questions. He continued: "The second thing I want to say is also related to this arson case. Just now, twenty-five young people arrived. The Imperial Police Department surrendered, claiming that they were the arsonists who caused these three arson cases, and took the initiative to provide evidence. They are currently in custody, and based on our understanding of their identity information, they should be..." Mr. Chief Director. After hesitating for a moment, he whispered: "Maybe it's Dulin's people."
"Is it him?" Mags's voice was filled with obvious surprise. There had been so many accidents during this period that he was a little numb. His nostrils dilated slightly, and a stream of air spurted out of his nasal cavity, lifting up an unpressed piece of letter paper on the table, "I know about this, please seal your mouth temporarily to prevent it from leaking out, and I will talk to Du Lin. "
Although Mr. General Director did not say how he discovered that these people might be Dulin's people, since he was able to speak out, it means that he must have obtained some ironclad evidence, otherwise he would never talk nonsense in front of him, the Prime Minister. Some things can be framed and framed, but some things are absolutely not allowed.
"The third thing is, someone just contacted me through a single line. Mr. John has fainted and has not woken up so far. He may be bedridden for a long time. Currently, all the affairs of the George family are taken over by Mark."
After listening, Maggs gave a few instructions and then hung up the phone. He was a little confused as to why Dulin would suddenly open fire on his "collaborator", making Old John unconscious. Maggs knew the situation of these capitalists well. Once John Sr. did not make a clear will, it was very likely that the George family would fall into internal strife. That careless guy Arthur and his uncles and aunts have long been salivating over the equity in John's hands. Maybe they will attack John in order to "reasonably" divide the George family's property.
As for Mark... He has only taken over the family affairs for a short time, and he has not lived in the family for a long time. His prestige is definitely not enough, and the family may fall because of this.
What does Dulin want to do
Maggs fell into deep thought. At this stage, Dulin's main opponent should be the Anthem Consortium headed by the Capet family. Why did he suddenly have such an unsolvable conflict with the George family and need to use such drastic means to retaliate?
Maggs made many guesses and inferences, but none of them were consistent with common sense. How could he know that all of this stemmed from "uncompromising".
The entire upper class society in the imperial capital was shaken by these three fires. Countless people immediately left the social scene and returned home. The occupancy rate of the telephone lines instantly reached a peak. Countless conspiracies were formed on the airwaves, and countless deals were concluded on both ends of the phone.
This is like a more advanced primitive evolutionary forest. Only by constantly devouring can it grow. When a creature grows to a certain extent, ordinary species can no longer meet their evolutionary requirements. There is only the same Big Mac. Only then can they get another chance to evolve.
Apparently, a Big Mac might be about to topple over.
And this was the signal Du Lin was about to release, but he didn't expect that the signal bomb did not shoot into the sky, but hit Mr. John straight away. He could only blame his bad life for igniting the sky with himself and illuminating the sky. Others' path forward.
The tycoons in the imperial capital were already busy working for uncertain interests, and the phone on Dulin's side also rang. The call came from Ilian, Nasha's phone.
After Mr. John fell, Mark immediately called Nasha and asked her to return to the imperial capital as quickly as possible. During the period before Mr. John woke up, he might not be able to carry Arthur and those people alone. Uncles and aunts. Although Nasha is only a girl, she represents the first person of the third generation of the family. Every family has rules that cannot be easily broken, and there are also rules in the George family.
As the first person of the third generation, Nasha has a considerable amount of power, so Mark needs her back.
Before returning, she called Dulin, "My father said that he and you were very unhappy, and then you set fire to the family's most important property, right?"
There was a questioning tone in the girl's tone, and Du Lin chuckled twice, "I don't deny the conflict with your father, but Ms. Nasha, please pay attention to your words. Defaming a mayor will lead to jail time. "
"So you really did it?" Nasha's gritted teeth could be heard by Dulin through the long phone line. "Why did you do this? Is there anything that cannot be negotiated? Even for the sake of it, For my sake, you should talk to me first. Do you know that my grandfather..."
Dulin grasped the core of this sentence in an instant and asked, "What happened to Mr. John?"
"He was so angry with you that he threw a lot of things!" Nasha had always regarded Dulin as her "good friend" before, but when Dulin asked, she realized that the world was not her. As imagined, she and Dulin, the George family and the Dulin Group were absolutely on two separate lines. She immediately lied and followed up the previous words well. But can Du Lin hear it
"You make me very sad and ugly. I misjudged you, Du Lin!"
The line in the receiver was cut, and he put the receiver back on the base and smiled.
I didn't expect that John would fall with such a simple blow. He was just releasing a signal, but he didn't expect that he would actually knock down the sun of the George family, so this matter would have many changes.
He had to help them, help Arthur.
(End of chapter)