The bearded man lowered his head slightly, and raised his hand to grab the arrow that had sunk into his throat, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"hehe."
He wanted to say something, but when the words reached his throat, his voice changed involuntarily, becoming a hoarse low laugh, full of weirdness and full of ferocity.
Feeling the rapid passing of life, the bearded man subconsciously wanted to pull the trigger and die with the target, but at this time, his fingers were already stiff, making it difficult to move at all.
grunt.
A series of black blood bubbles emerged from his mouth.
The bearded man froze, completely silent.
The blood bubbles pooled into a blood stream and flowed down the mouth.
It was as black as ink, making one's scalp tingle just looking at it.
There is poison on the arrow!
And it's some kind of poison!
Blood is death!
The old butler straightened up, looking at the corpse in the car with complicated eyes.
"Feel sorry."
"I don't want to die yet."
"At least, I can't die yet."
The old butler said so, and dragged the body out of the car.
Instead of throwing it away randomly, after pulling out the arrow on the neck of the corpse, he dug a hole in the soft soil with a shovel placed in the pickup manger, and dragged the corpse into it.
As for why there is a shovel in the pickup
The answer is self-evident.
The beard buried in the pit is the best answer.
It's just that the buried people are different.
After refilling the soil, the old butler returned to the side of the road with the shovel in hand, put the shovel back into the pickup manger, took out a bottle of water to wash his hands, wiped them, then put on his white gloves again, and got into the car.
Not far from Cherry City.
The old butler drove the car back to Cherry City.
No. 222 Yangyu Street, located in the South District of Cherry City.
The old butler drove straight to here.
Compared with the wealthy area, here are some assets but not the best choice for the truly wealthy.
Naturally, the environment here is very good. The rows of buildings are not only neat, but also have their own small gardens.
No. 222 is more delicate, not only the flower bed is more beautiful, but also a small fountain, but in the middle of the night, this fountain is not turned on.
And on the stone pillars on both sides of the gate, leaning on the top of the right-hand side, there is a squatting, palm-sized gargoyle.
The gargoyle is very small, but lifelike.
Of course, more importantly, there is a probe in the slightly opened mouth of the gargoyle that can see everything around it clearly.
Therefore, when the car stopped at the door and the old butler got out of the car, the iron door opened with a 'click'.
The old butler entered the small courtyard, turned around and closed the door, and entered the house familiarly.
Inside the house, someone was already waiting for him.
A slightly thin man with a dark face was sitting at the end of the corridor.
The other party was dressed in home clothes, which showed the true identity of the owner of the other party's room.
Looking at the old butler who walked in, the host showed great friendliness.
"Fendilt, good evening."
Saying such words, the other party also showed a smile in cooperation.
The smile was as friendly as possible, but to ordinary people, it looked like a jackal grinning.
Not only ferocious, but also full of greed, as if wanting to choose someone to devour at any time.
"Good evening, Toys."
After the old butler responded to the other party, hesitation and unnaturalness appeared on his face.
Such entanglement made Toys laugh.
Of course he knew why the old butler had such an expression.
Everything was as he expected.
So, the owner of the house came back to life, he patted the old butler on the shoulder, and said with concern:
"What's the matter, Fendert?"
"you can tell me."
"We are friends."
Toys looked at the old butler sincerely.
"I was discovered by Lord Dodd, and just now Pang Er sent a killer."
The old butler gritted his teeth and confessed what happened to him just now.
"Yeah?"
"It's more intense than we thought, but it's okay, didn't we plan for the worst before that?"
Toys comforted the old housekeeper.
Then, he paused and asked, "Did you bring anything?"
"Brought it."
"Here is Mr. Ahmed's ledger."
The old butler took out a USB flash drive from his close-fitting clothes, but he didn't hand it to Toys immediately. His face was full of guilt, he hesitated for a full two seconds, and then he stretched out his hand completely.
"Mr. Toys, please remember what you promised me."
The old housekeeper emphasized.
"certainly."
Toyes walked to the desk with the USB flash drive, and after checking the contents of the USB flash drive with the computer, a smile appeared on his face. He looked up at the old housekeeper and said, "About your former employer 'Edward' In fact, I already have some clues."
With these words in mind, Toys opened the side drawer and took out a brown paper bag from it.
"This is the information I collected."
Toys said.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
The old butler was so excited that his outstretched hand trembled a little, but he picked up the kraft paper bag on the table without hesitation.
At this time, Toys stood up from behind the desk again, and walked around behind the old butler. The old butler, who was focused on the kraft paper bag, did not pay attention to Toyes' movements until a dagger stabbed him. pierced his waist.
puff!
The old housekeeper who was opening the kraft paper bag trembled, and the kraft paper bag fell to the ground.
The old housekeeper turned his head to look at Toys in a daze, his eyes full of puzzlement.
"Sorry, Fendert."
"I don't want to either."
"But your existence will affect us, so I have to ask you to die—of course, we will not let you die in vain, your death will definitely be very valuable, just like Aimode, after all, killing The one who killed you was the killer sent by Pon, and Pon was Dodd’s butler, well, it’s just as you think, our goal from beginning to end is that Dodd.”
Toys said apologetically, but there was no apology on his face, only a kind of complacency.
However, at this time, the old butler didn't care what Toys said, and he couldn't stop murmuring.
"Love, Edward..."
"You mean Edward?"
"Of course we don't know where Edward is. He disappeared so strangely."
"Who can know where he is?"
"All this is to deceive you and make you our pawn."
Toys explained.
He didn't mind explaining more to a dead man.
Or... he was showing off.
You know, this is all his plan. After learning that Fendilt, a fool who has clearly terminated his contract, is still trying his best to find his missing former employer, he laid out the plan.
A plan that can get rid of both Dodd and Ahmed.
The former is the arch enemy of his older brother 'Todini'.
the latter
A gangster from the street also wants to climb to a high position
It is fantastic.
Originally, I hoped that the other party would be able to deal with some things that they couldn't come forward to, but the other party really didn't know what to do, so they were naturally the targets to be eradicated.
Of course, it is absolutely impossible for them to do it themselves.
His elder brother 'Todini' is already a member of the parliament and absolutely cannot bear such a bad reputation.
And him
It doesn't work either.
He is about to become a member of the parliament-replacing Amord's place, which has already been booked.
Without Dodd's hindrance, things like this are pretty sure.
For this, he is really grateful to the fool Fendilt.
Toys lowered his head, looked at the old butler who was struggling when he heard that he had been deceived, and started to turn his wrist, stabbing the dagger into the old butler's body, and immediately severing the old butler's kidney.
Then, pull out, and stick in again.
This time, it is the back heart.
puff!
The old housekeeper trembled, and the light in his eyes began to disappear.
thump!
As Toys let go, the old butler fell to his knees and slammed his head on the thick carpet.
Toys checked his breath, pulse, and heartbeat, and after confirming that the old butler was dead, he stabbed him again in the chest.
Then, he wrapped the old housekeeper with a thick blanket on the ground, resisted out of the house, and threw the body into the pickup.
The pickup starts up again.
Returned to the suburbs again.
In the position he had already chosen, Toyes put the old butler in the driver's seat, adjusted his sitting posture, put on the seat belt, and put the old butler's foot on the accelerator of the pickup truck that had not turned off.
hum!
boom!
With the roar of the engine, the pickup directly broke through the guardrail and fell towards the cliff.
Bang, bang, bang!
After the continuous crash, the pickup fell to the bottom of the cliff.
After taking a look at the burning pickup truck with his head, Toyes turned around and left.
This sinister man took out his mobile phone while walking and made a call.
"nailed it."
As soon as the call was connected, Toys said directly.
"No clue left?"
asked the voice on the other side.
"of course not."
"I handled everything very carefully, especially Fendilt, the biggest flaw—that guy was still thinking about finding his former employer, that guy named Edward until he died."
"I really don't know if this guy is stupid or stupid."
Toys let out a disdainful chuckle.
"But isn't it just for us to take advantage of?"
The other party's voice also laughed.
"yes."
"It's a pity that this is the only chess piece that is so useful."
"If there are a few more, the entire Cherry City will be ours."
Toys sighed.
"Come on! Come on!"
"One day, Cherry City will be ours!"
The voice on the other side said with certainty, and at this moment—
boom!
There was an explosion from the bottom of the cliff.
"Did you hear that?"
"It's a tribute to our coming victory."
The corner of Toys' mouth curled up and said.
"heard it."
"Hurry up and return to your residence, don't reveal any flaws, that guy is not someone to fool."
The voice on the other side reminded.
"clear!"
Toys replied.
He never complained about his brother's caution.
Because, so is he.
Even when the two of them were talking on the phone, they wouldn't call each other without any address, and his elder brother would still be using a voice changer.
Toyes speeded up, and when he turned a corner, he went straight into the woods on the side.
Moments later, Toyes appeared on a motorcycle.
Motorbikes are placed in advance at the beginning of the whole program.
For this moment.
When he returned to the city on his motorcycle, Toys crushed his mobile phone with one foot and threw it into the trash can. His last worry was gone.
After an hour, the garbage will be transported to the garbage station by garbage trucks for classification, recycling and destruction.
Perfect!
Everything is unnoticed!
Thinking of this, Toys unconsciously showed another smug smile.
But this self-satisfied middle-aged man did not realize that a pair of eyes were staring at him from beginning to end.
With a twist of the accelerator, Toys left quickly amidst the roar of the motorcycle.
From the shadows, a tall and strong figure came out and picked up the mobile phone fragments in the trash can.
"interesting."
With such a soliloquy, Jason's figure disappeared in a flash.
Jason didn't stay any longer, but returned directly to Apartment 3A-313.
At first, he was just curious about the old butler who survived the shootout. According to John and Brian's description, although the two did not take special care of him, the fact that the other party was safe and sound until the police appeared was enough to show that the other party should have Quite good skills, especially in terms of consciousness, is even more outstanding.
Otherwise, those grenades are deadly.
It's just that Jason didn't expect that the other party was far more worthy of attention than he had guessed, and it even involved the secret struggle between Cherry City Speaker Dodd and Congressman Todini.
There is no doubt that such a cold war can be called wonderful.
The dead Aimode probably didn't know until his death that the housekeeper beside him was actually arranged by the congressman he had been supporting, in order to make him charge forward and attract attention.
Undoubtedly, Ahmed has done a great job.
Now Dodd has stepped into the trap.
Everything is as that Toys expected.
only…
The old butler
Jason sat in the sofa chair, frowning unconsciously.
Unconsciously, the scene when he met the other party for the first time, bowed his head politely, the arrow shot out, and the blood turned black appeared in his mind.
A sense of contradiction arises involuntarily.
Although he, who has watched everything from the sidelines, should feel that everything is reasonable.
But this sense of contradiction lingers in my heart like a lingering shadow.
Moreover, the more he remembered, the more familiar Jason felt.
as if…
He returned to the 'city that never sleeps' and saw those cunning and vicious guys.
Jason has always been wary of those guys.
Because he didn't want to die without knowing it.
And the old butler just now gave him such a feeling in an instant.
Even stronger.
Therefore, he was watching from the beginning to the end and did not stand up.
But there is one difference, those guys in the 'Sleepless City' are absolutely greedy for life and afraid of death, they cannot die like the old butler.
Or to be more precise...
Is the old butler really dead
"Some kind of blindfold?"
Jason frowned, tapped the armrest of the sofa chair lightly, then shook his head.
No matter how ingenious the blindfold method was, it was impossible to fool the inspection and make-up knife just now, and he surpassed the perception of ordinary people, and he was sure that Fendilt's heart had already been pierced.
Still twice.
People, do you have no heart to live
Not to mention the explosion at the end.
He saw Fendilt smashed to pieces with his own eyes.
Unless Fendilt has the same "immortality" as him, otherwise, he will die.
Of course, it could be something else!
For example-
"Some kind of secret technique similar to my 'immortality'?"
Jason frowned and guessed.
In the world in front of him, he has only been here for a day, and there are no more sources of information, but there is no denying the existence of 'secret techniques'.
After all, 'food' has it all.
'Secret Technique' naturally exists with a high probability.
Jason's brows relaxed slightly, and his attention turned to another question.
What is Fendert going to do
Dodd, Todini and the dead Ahmed all have their own goals.
But Fendert didn't!
At least, until now, Jason hadn't noticed it.
Really looking for 'Edward'
Jason didn't believe this.
If Fendilt is really the same kind of people as those guys he knows, such people can't care about other people at all, they only care about themselves.
However, this does not prevent Jason from investigating this 'Edward'.
Such an investigation would naturally cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and it could not be solved simply by being powerful.
In other words, Jason didn't think he was strong enough.
Fortunately, he has another way.
Picking up the phone in the living room, Jason called John.
"John, can you check someone for me?"
"Edward, the former employer of Butler Aimode."
"Well, okay, waiting for your news."
After putting down the phone, Jason sat back on the sofa chair.
He drew the curtains and looked out the window.
A dazzling white line appeared on the horizon in the pitch black.
Dawn has come.
Tonight, the long night is over.
But Jason knew that the best time was after sunrise.
He will silently watch all this.
He doesn't mind intervening when necessary.
When is it necessary
Jason smiled.
He got up from the sofa chair, he walked out of the apartment, his nose already smelled the smell of breakfast from the street.
…
David, who hadn't closed his eyes all night, was sipping hot coffee brought by his assistant.
Although Fendilt was taken away unexpectedly, which made his original plan come to nothing, the investigation on Aimode did not stop.
Before that, he was investigating Aimode.
But, at that time, there were many obstacles.
And now
Naturally, no one would stand up for a dead person.
Everything went smoothly.
boom!
"Damn it!"
"This bastard is actually related to so many disappearances!"
"What does he want?"
"Trafficking..selling..people?"
On the desk beside him, the young assistant Hunter hammered the desk heavily and said angrily.
"Calm down, Hunter."
"Anger is useless at this time."
"On the contrary, your calmness is what allowed you to find these poor girls."
David reminded his assistant, but his fists had already been clenched, and his voice was even more sharp and cold.
He already knew that Ahmed was a jerk.
But I didn't expect that the other party's bastard had reached this level.
Damn it a hundred times!
The scum of hell!
David continued to flip through the interrogation materials.
The middle-aged sheriff frowned involuntarily.
The interrogation materials were all from Aimode's subordinates, but with the death of all the other party's confidantes, these interrogation materials were all provided by some peripheral subordinates.
Based on these alone, it is difficult for him to find substantial things.
"Hunter, who is still alive among those confidantes of Ahmed?"
asked the middle-aged sheriff.
"No, Sheriff."
"We found Ahmad's number one subordinate Asa and many henchmen in the ruined mansion."
"The remaining confidantes all died outside the mansion."
"The only fish that can be caught now are these small fish."
The young assistant obviously knew what his sheriff wanted to ask, and his words could not help but become full of helplessness.
"is that so?"
The middle-aged sheriff whispered to himself.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the office door.
A uniformed patrolman walked in.
The opponent has a package in his hand.
"Sheriff, your package!"
"The person who sent the package was a man named Fendert!"
Before the patrolman finished speaking, the middle-aged police chief rushed over and grabbed the boxy package.
Looking at the sender with 'Fendilt' clearly written on it, the middle-aged police chief took a deep breath.
He had a premonition that a turning point was coming.
However, he was not in a hurry.
"Hunter, get me a carving knife."
Saying such words, the middle-aged police chief carefully inspected the entire package, and after receiving the carving knife, he carefully cut open the outer package.
The mail bomb, he took it more than once.
The experience is naturally quite rich.
Soon, the entire package was cut open, revealing a notebook and a letter inside.
"Good luck this time."
Saying so, the middle-aged police chief opened the envelope and took out the letter paper.
Dear Sheriff David,
If you have received this letter, I am dead.
The person who killed me was probably Pang Er.
But who it is, I can't confirm.
After all, I'm a damned person.
I was just trying to undo the initial little mistake, but made more mistakes.
I'm sorry Mr. Edward.
I also let down Mr. Emold, although the latter lied to me to know the whereabouts of Mr. Edward, but as a housekeeper, I was negligent.
And as a normal person, I am also dereliction of duty.
I have witnessed so much darkness, but I didn't stand up when I was needed. I just blamed myself, felt guilty, and regretted.
I am a useless person.
To the end of my life, I would not want to face my mistakes.
hope…
That notebook can help you.
Sinner: Fendert
…
After reading the contents of the letter, a hint of doubt appeared in the eyes of the middle-aged police chief.
He had read the information about 'Edward'. It was a normal case of disappearance. According to his experience, Edward should have left on his own.
It's just that the letter in his hand told him that Edward's disappearance didn't seem to be simple.
Moreover, it seems to be related to Fendert.
However, the middle-aged sheriff didn't investigate the matter right away, instead he looked at the notebook inside the package.
When he opened the notebook and saw the contents clearly, excitement appeared on his face.
Emmaud's ledger!
Not only has Emmod's hidden property, but also has a detailed record!
More importantly, these records include the names of the traders.
There are many big names among them!
"What a windfall!"
The middle-aged sheriff took a deep breath.
He had a hunch that he would discover some big event, but he didn't expect it to be this big.
Just look at those names above!
Every one of them is a big shot!
And the aggregation of everything is enough to shake the entire Cherry City!
In front of them, he is really insignificant. If he makes a move like this, David can guarantee that he will disappear quietly. A car accident? A revenge
Or simply a suicide
As for his boss
The signing last night, as well as all the previous events, had already made him understand who his boss was.
He cannot rely on each other.
He couldn't even rely on the people in Cherry City.
It can be said that at this moment, he is the enemy of everyone.
Thinking of this, the middle-aged sheriff smiled.
difficult.
Like thorns all over the front.
He has been predictable.
He must have been stabbed bloody.
However, this does not mean that he will ignore the helplessness and despair represented by each transaction information.
He remembers the oath he made when he became a policeman—
I will maintain and respect everyone with the spirit of fairness, honesty, diligence and justice.
I will do my best to keep and preserve the peace and to prevent all crimes against persons and property.
I will stick to...
justice!
Now it's time for him to fulfill his vow.
The middle-aged police chief put away the notebook and put it in his pocket, which stunned the young assistant who was waiting to read it. He was about to read the contents of the notebook.
"You're not in time yet."
"Now... just me is enough."
"Hunter, how long have you been on vacation?"
"Go and rest, I will give you a day off!"
After David finished speaking, he walked out.
He knows exactly what he wants to do.
He also knows the consequences of doing so.
After that, he could no longer gain a foothold in Cherry City.
Even, death will go hand in hand.
Then stop dragging others down.
He alone is enough.
In the parking lot of the police station, David opened the car door. As soon as he got in, the co-pilot's door opened. Hunter stepped in, and the young assistant fastened his seat belt on his own.
"Let's go, together."
said the young assistant.
"Hunter?"
The middle-aged police chief was taken aback.
Then the sheriff sighed.
"Do you know what I'm going to do?"
"What will you face again?"
asked the middle-aged sheriff.
"I know, I'm not a fool, your expression tells me everything."
"That's why I don't allow you to be a hero alone."
"We're partners."
"If you become a hero, of course it will be two people!"
The young assistant turned his head and said with a smile.
In the morning light, the young face was still immature, but enthusiastic and determined.
"What a fool you are!"
David said softly.
"Fool? Don't you too?"
Hunter chuckled.
"Yeah, we're all fools."
The middle-aged sheriff took a deep breath, and he reached out to the assistant, as if meeting him for the first time, and reported himself.
"David."
"Hunter."
The young assistant took this palm.
The two palms are tightly held together.
Bathed in the brilliance of the sun.