Shadow Empire

Chapter 285 Aftermath [666+20 last month's monthly ticket added]
The mayor was holding a meeting. As his control over the city grew, the capitalists who had been driven away by local forces, as well as capitalists from the capital and other places, began to gather again.

If they can uproot the local stubborn forces, they will not only be able to obtain a part of the profits from Jingang Wharf, but also obtain future profits from Xingang Wharf.

Capital is always chasing profits. Even if there are risks, as long as the profits are large enough, they are willing to take risks!
Even if there is only a one percent chance of winning!
His personal secretary interrupted his meeting and whispered in his ear, "John is dead, his partner is dead, and there are some others."

The mayor was a little dazed. He turned to look at his secretary. The distrust and disbelief in his eyes made him think that this might just be a joke.

But his reason told him that his secretary would not joke with him about such things, especially at this time!
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and then the mayor stood up and said, "Sorry, I have an important call..."

Others said they could understand, after all, he was the mayor!
He pursed his lips, picked up the things he needed to take with him, turned around and went to another room with his secretary.

"John was shot while dining in a restaurant. Witnesses said at least three gunmen stood outside the restaurant and shot him with submachine guns..."

The mayor lit a cigarette. His facial expression was on the verge of being out of control. He needed to use cigarettes to cover up his inner feelings.

"Lance Family," he said.

The secretary did not agree or disagree. "The style is very similar, but we cannot rule out that it was done by someone else."

"go on."

"His partner died outside the precinct. He was trying to buy donuts on the side of the road, and a car pulled up. Two gunmen shot him, pistols, a total of 22 shots, and hit him seven times."

"When the ambulance arrived, he was already dead. Almost all the bullets hit his lungs."

"Some people who were related to John were shot and killed. There are rumors outside that the five major families took action."

The mayor smoked his cigarette, one puff after another. In fact, this was the thing he least wanted to see. He had been using some means to continuously disintegrate the five major families.

For example, the Kodak family's withdrawal this time was because they gave up part of their interests to people in the state legislature.

The State House of Representatives and the Kodak family have a deeper relationship, and the two sides have reached some compromises. They will not take away the actual results of the Kodak family's monopoly on the Golden Port City license.

On the surface, in order to avoid being accused of monopoly, these casino licenses are all under the names of different companies, but ultimately, these companies are all controlled by the Kodak family.

The federals know how to make monopolies look reasonable and legal, and antitrust is often just a joke.

He used this method to turn the five major families into three major families. Under the dual pressure of the Immigration Bureau and the law enforcement system, the Cassia family could not withstand the pressure.

Everything was moving in a good direction. He would first deal with these three troublesome families, and then deal with Congressman Wade.

He has contacted some people through the Mike Party representative, and they will nominate Councilman Wade to succeed the mayor of another city. The mayor of that city had a minor accident, and they are currently selecting a temporary successor.

In this way, the only ones left in Jingang City were two timid gangsters and Congressman Williams.

With his means, it is not difficult to deal with Councilman Williams and his lackeys. After all, he is just a city councilor. Even if he is very prestigious locally, he cannot pry open the entire city and confront the mayor!

In the past, they were able to get the mayor to do nothing because these interest networks were so intertwined that to deal with any one of them would be tantamount to challenging the city.

But with the emergence of the Hazardous Materials Administration, a hole was torn in the entire city's defense circle. Taking advantage of their anxiety to silence witnesses, Charlie took the initiative to resign.

He is using all his strength to pry open this city bit by bit!
Just as the dawn of victory was about to dawn, it suddenly... dimmed again.

"Do you think they killed Eric?" the mayor asked.

The secretary frowned. "I don't know. I've met Lance, but I can't quite figure him out. He doesn't act like a young man."

The mayor rubbed his temple. "Their actions were decisive. Now that John is gone, our control over the police system has been weakened to the lowest point. What I am more worried about is..."

He paused. “It’s hard for us to find people who can work for us anymore.”

The secretary had the same opinion, "John is dead."

"Yeah, now that John is dead, they're going to be scared that they'll be next!"

The mayor hammered the handrail, "They found a good breakthrough point, find a way to investigate!"

Losing John is not the scary thing; what is scary is losing control of the police system.

The police can intervene in everything.

Even if you speak a little loudly, others can call the police and the police can handle it.

Not only that, it can be said that as long as someone calls the police, the police have the right to investigate, even if it is just a trivial matter.

But the Hazardous Materials Administration is not in charge of this matter, so when John became the last piece of the mayor's puzzle, he felt he had won!

But what he didn't expect was that the local gangs were so tough and unreasonable!

He took a final drag on his cigarette and looked at his secretary, "Tell them to take out Lance. I've had enough of him jumping around under our noses."

"I have a feeling they were the ones who killed Eric!"

“Although I don’t have any evidence.”

The secretary nodded and said, "I'll arrange it now." The mayor suddenly stopped him and said, "Let Wolfe's people go too. I want to see them completely disappear from Jingang City!"

The secretary knew that this was a manifestation of his extreme anger.

Gangs assassinate politicians, politicians assassinate gangs, or they assassinate capitalists, or capitalists assassinate them.

This kind of thing is very normal in the Federation, but politicians do not make such decisions easily because federal people hate "dictators" and "tyrants", and terror rule is the characteristic of these two types of people.

Once a politician is found to have used unconventional means, or even without being discovered, as long as someone speculates so, his support rate will drop.

In a country where approval ratings are so important, physical means are always the worst option for politicians.

The mayor still hopes to use some political means to force them into a desperate situation step by step.

But now it seems that he is still too idealistic!

He adjusted his mood and returned to the conference room with a calm and confident smile on his face. "Where were we just talking about?"

Someone took the initiative to bring up the topic they had just discussed, and the discussion in the meeting room started again.

It was at this time that the professor received a call.

He felt a little surprised by the call, but at the same time he realized that it must be related to what happened today.

"I see...Okay, I'll do it right away...No problem!"

After hanging up the phone, the professor came to Wolfe's office, where Wolfe was reading a newspaper.

He raised the "Tide News" in his hand. This is really interesting. Why doesn't Fides have such a newspaper?

The professor's expression was serious, which made him sit up straight again and throw the newspaper on the table, "What's wrong?"

The professor looked at him for a moment and sighed, "They made us go to war against the Lance family."

"Now?" Wolfe's voice was much higher. "We haven't dealt with those little bastards yet, and we haven't digested the territory we have!"

"The remaining forces of the Red Dog Gang have not been cleared out yet. If we attack the Lance Family now, we may suffer heavy losses!"

The professor pushed up his glasses and said, "This is a decision from above."

"Fuck!" Wolfe slammed the table, he stood up, unable to sit still, turning back and forth, "Fuck!" he cursed again.

"Is this the only thing we can do?"

The professor nodded. "That's the only way. But I believe we are not the only ones going out. There must be others cooperating with us."

"Also, let me talk to those small gangs. Let's pretend we're going to go to war with the Lance family so that the guy above can feel that we're not stalling for time."

"Once I've dealt with them, we can start."

After listening to this, Wolf could only nod, "There is no other choice."

He was a little confused, "Why do you want to do it all of a sudden?"

The professor took off his glasses and rubbed his stiff face. "Because John is dead!"

"The mayor is losing his power to enforce the law again. Once the power to enforce the law falls into the hands of the five major families or the two councillors, he will become passive again."

"I don't know what role the Lans family played in the whole thing, but it must be an important role."

"In fact, no matter what role he plays, it has nothing to do with what we are going to do. We just need to find a way to kill him and his people, that's enough!"

John's death has brought about a far greater change in things than people could have imagined!

John died in the morning and Hunter returned to the office in the afternoon.

Many people looked at him with something a little strange in their expressions, because everyone knew that John was dead.

In fact, not only John died, but several police officers promoted by John also died.

For example, the rookie police officer in the criminal case team probably received a clue from his informant, and then he followed the clue and found a place where Eric might have been imprisoned.

Including him, four people were shot to pieces as soon as they got out of the car.

There was also a sheriff who was found drowned in the toilet.

Now that Hunter has suddenly returned, everyone seems to realize that the flames of the high-level war have finally begun to spread downwards!

"Charlie has been missing you guys lately. If we have time, we can go over. He has something he wants to tell you!"

(End of this chapter)