Shadow Empire

Chapter 770: Crunch, the Disappearance of Two People, and Shedding
"be careful!"

Robin waited for a while before coming out of the platform after watching Ted and his men board the train to Indenno State.

He returned to the manor and went to see Fran first.

"Has the person left?" Fran motioned to Robin to close the door, then pointed to the chair opposite him.

Robin walked over and sat down, "Yeah, I watched them get on the train."

The railway company doesn't mind running an extra train as long as it costs money.

Almost all railways in the federation are currently operated by private individuals. After all, they are the ones who spent their own money to build the railways, so they have the final say on how to operate them.

The federal government basically has no say in this regard. Congress once tried to pass legislation to allow the federal government to have, if not complete control over these railways, at least a certain degree of decision-making power, but it did not take effect.

Under the lobbying and sniping of capital, the proposal was passed among a few people and then there was no further news.

In fact, this is also an alternative way for senators to blackmail. They can claim that they are drafting a proposal that will have a huge negative impact on certain companies.

In order to prevent this proposal from becoming a reality, the capitalists will begin to stop him.

Mainly by spending money.

In order to get Ted to start the war as soon as possible, Fran made some special coordination and spent a little extra money to get this temporary special train.

After all, it is war time now, and a large amount of industrial materials and products are continuously gathered from the north to the south and then sent to the front line.

The chain reaction of adding a train temporarily is not small and may cause delays of some trains. For the major federal railway companies, this is the time when they cannot afford to make any mistakes.

But for Fran's sake, they still added it.

Fran was a little emotional and disappointed at this time, "What kind of surprise do you think they will bring us this time?"

Robin was born during the heyday of the Perez family, so for him, the Perez family will always be the strongest in his mind!

Even if they encounter small setbacks sometimes, they will eventually overcome them.

"Ted has been working for the family for many years. I have never worried about his personal ability and experience."

"He should be able to win. This time he brought at least two to three hundred people. Even if he can't inflict heavy damage on the Lance family, he can at least make them understand that they are just a small player in a remote area!"

Robin barely paused as he spoke these words. His strong confidence made Fran burst out laughing. "I like your idea, Robin."

"do you know?"

"Your grandfather left me a message before he left. It means a lot to me. Now I give it to you!"

Fran's father is also a legendary character. He was the one who pushed the Perez family to the pinnacle!
Robin also has great respect for this grandfather, about whom he does not have much impression.

Since he was a child, he liked to read the stories of his family elders, such as how a few people, horses and guns were able to rob a special train transporting gold.

Or maybe a dozen people in the family robbed a post office convoy.

At that time, banks were not yet convenient, and the main way of money transfer was through the post office. The post office's fleet meant huge wealth, but it was also very dangerous.

He liked listening to these legendary stories, as if he was in a fantasy adventure of a great era. He felt that if he could be born decades or hundreds of years earlier, perhaps he would also become a legend in the Perez family!
Instead of being like it is now, many people think that his success and everything he has comes from his background.

Fran couldn't help but laugh as he watched his son sit up straight and check his appearance. That was why he liked his son.

On the one hand, he is very similar to me, and I have always been with him and we are very close.

On the other hand, while he has the fashion sense of young people, he also pays great attention to tradition.

At his age and status, he realized that "tradition" does not refer to things and people in the past, but to him!

"Your grandfather is lying in bed, so let everyone else go and leave me alone."

"He said to me—"

“Never lose the courage to shoot first, and never forget to think when faced with difficult situations.”

"Family will always be our strongest support and strength!"

He imitated his father's words to him vividly, with emotion on his face, "I learned a lot from his words, and the more things I experience, the deeper my understanding becomes!"

"I teach you these words today, and this is also a responsibility imposed on you, Robin."

"do not let me down!"

Robin nodded, "I'm going to be an amazing man, father."

Becoming a "legendary character" is his mission!
After four days of traveling, Ted finally arrived at the place where Milo had placed the body.

A morgue with a high-powered freezer where the state police were discussing some legal issues with his attorney.

In any case, the person is dead now, and as a victim, the State Police Department did not make things difficult for Ted who wanted to see his son again since they had no evidence of Miro's crime and it was impossible for them to have any evidence.

After signing the last document, the sheriff in charge of the case looked at Ted with red eyes and said to him hesitantly, "I have a suggestion for you."

Ted nodded. "Go ahead."

The sheriff pursed his lips and said, "Don't go in to see him. Taking his ashes back is the greatest respect for him."

Tears welled up in Ted's eyes in an instant, and he stared at the sheriff with wide eyes, "Thank you for your reminder, but that's my son."

"I'll take him back with me, not a handful of ashes!"

He said these words with gritted teeth. Although his religious faith didn't mind him taking back a handful of ashes, he didn't want to do it.

The sheriff looked at Ted and finally sighed, "Be prepared before you go in. I won't go in."

He patted Ted's arm as a comfort and encouragement.

Ted took out a handkerchief and wiped his eyes. Although "a tough man crying" would make people think he was weak, people around him didn't think so.

They all knew how much Ted loved his son, and they also understood the despair and pain that followed the breakdown of this relationship.

The lawyer put the documents away and said, "You may go in now. You can be alone with him for a while. If you need anything, call us."

Ted nodded, put away his handkerchief, and walked to the morgue next to the State Police Department and went in.

Milo's body had been extracted, and to be honest, the State Police Coroner vomited when his body arrived.

You know, what big scenes haven't these coroners seen?
The number of homicides on interstate highways is the highest, most dangerous, and most terrifying!

The corpses they have to deal with are all kinds of strange, such as a pile of bones gnawed by wild dogs or wolves?
Or maybe a “big shot” that is thrown into a rotten ditch, swells up, and flows out when touched.

They had dealt with all kinds of corpses, but Milo's was definitely the most shocking, and it was also the corpse that made them feel how much malice this profession was filled with.

Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, that's all I can say.

It is also difficult to handle because the outer shell is already hard and brittle and will break at the slightest touch.

This also meant that he couldn't fit into the freezer at all. In the end, they had no choice but to dismember and reassemble him, taking him apart and putting him back together.

So the moment Ted saw Milo, he started vomiting. He didn't even dare to look at the corpse!

He couldn't believe this was his son!

I vomited for a long time, but almost nothing came out, just some mucus from the stomach.

He was a man who had seen a lot of things. He had killed countless people. All kinds of tragic scenes had no effect on him, but...

He told himself that it was Milo, his son, and he took a few deep breaths, turned around again, then looked back and began to retch.

After struggling for more than ten minutes, he was finally mentally prepared.

Looking at the pieces of meat that looked like they were cooked, the crispy leather, and the orange-yellow fat, he could only close his eyes in the end.

He touched Milo's cheek with his hand.

It didn't feel the same as before, it was bumpy and uneven, and the terrifying face was in his mind. He turned around and left immediately. He decided to take Milo's ashes back instead of the body. This body would make Milo a joke to the Perez family!
He would not allow his son to not only not receive any honor after his death, but also become a topic of conversation among people!

He found the coroner and explained the situation. The coroner did not refuse. Anyway, they would leave this kind of thing to specialized people.

Ted paid double the money, so the crematorium was crowded with people.

They went in with calm expressions and did not feel too uncomfortable about Milo's body. After all, they had seen too many such situations in their job.

Sometimes the fire runs out halfway through burning, or a hole is blocked and not burned cleanly, so you have to pull it out and check it and then process it.

Even if the right hand burns too much in one breath, it will be pulled out, turned over and put back.

So it's just a... crispy shell.

Ted stood outside the morgue smoking a cigarette. He couldn't help but look into the morgue again. He saw a young man from the crematorium actually tapping on Milo's crispy shell with his fingers.

In an instant, a violent emotion began to spread from the bottom of his heart. He directly clenched the cigarette that he had just lit and taken a few puffs of into his palm, and even the hot cigarette butt was extinguished by him.

He looked at the smiles on the faces of the two crematorium workers who were talking, and his expression became increasingly cold.

Soon, after spending the money, Milo entered an incinerator that had already been heated to a certain temperature. One of the staff members smiled and said to Ted, "Sir, you will need to wait for two hours. I personally suggest that you... go for a walk around the area."

Ted nodded, took a deep breath, and turned away with his men.

He did not leave the crematorium, but walked from inside to the car outside.

He just sat there, occasionally glancing at the chimney of the crematorium and watching the black smoke coming out of it.

No one dared to talk to him, he must be extremely angry now, and no one wanted to make things uncomfortable.

More than two hours later, he smoked half a pack of cigarettes in the car, then left the car with a cold face, and did not forget to take his dagger with him.

Soon he saw the two workers at the incinerator, who were pulling Milo out of the incinerator.

In fact, you can see from the above that there are some things, not everything can be burned, such as bones.

The bones had turned pale after being calcined in a high fire, but on the iron plate underneath the bones was a patch of fluffy black and white dirt.

Seeing Ted coming back at this time, the two workers were a little embarrassed, but they didn't explain much.

They used a special tool to scrape off the dust on the iron plate and crush the remaining bones.

Eventually these things were mixed together and put into an urn.

“That’s all he has.”

Ted reached out and touched the urn. Although it was cold, it was better than before.

He glanced at the young man who had "offended" Milo in the morgue and hooked his finger at him.

The young man didn't understand, but he knew these people must be important people, so he walked over obediently.

The next second, while he was still thinking about what this gentleman wanted to say to him, a dagger pierced directly into his neck and then slashed outwards.

Half of his neck was cut open. The young man turned his head in horror. His head had lost some of the muscle and skin support, and the angle was somewhat shocking.

Another employee watched all this in horror. Before he could run away, he was stabbed in the chest by one of Ted's men.

"Deal with it, damn it!" He bent down and rubbed the dagger on the young man's body, wiped off the blood, put it back into the sheath, and left with the urn in his hand.

His men lifted the two men up and threw them onto the incinerator, then pushed them back into the incinerator and ignited them directly as they had done before.

The fire blocked everyone's view in an instant, burning fiercely.

More than an hour later, when two other employees came to take over, they saw no one, only blood on the ground and the incinerator was still burning.

The two men thought that the blood on the ground was spilled when the body was being handled, and they cleaned the ground while cursing.

More than forty minutes later, they pulled out the incinerator and were stunned for a moment when they looked at the ashes on it that were obviously abnormal.

"I burned a fat man, no wonder the smoke is so black."

The two smiled at each other and began to deal with it...

From that day on, no one knew where the two workers went or why they disappeared.

Lance learned the news the day Ted took Milo away.

Just as Christopher arranged for people to guard Alberto's body, Lance also arranged for people to guard near the State Police Department.

When they saw Ted's men taking the body away, they called Lance and followed them.

"We don't need so many people to take the body back. Bolton told me that they came with at least two hundred people."

Lance sat in a chair and smoked a cigarette, "So in addition to taking Milo away, they also want to cause trouble for us."

Militants always know how to behave at this moment, "Fuck it!"

Hiram waved his fist and shouted, which was met with laughter from everyone, as they were already used to it.

The submachine gun not only opened other people's heads, but also opened Hiram's soul!
He is a free, unfettered soul!
Lance nodded his head in agreement, "Yeah, as soon as they come in, fuck them!"

“The question now is, are they going to drive into Likale or are they going to come here by train?”

"If they plan to drive, we will have to wait a while before we can meet them, after all, there is still a lot of road here."

"If they're going to come by train..."

Lance shrugged, "No matter how they plan to come, we will prepare a super surprise for them."

"Brothers, be prepared. If they dare to come, we will not let them leave alive!"

At this time, Ted was also considering this question: whether to drive or take the train.

"It would be hard for us to drive there without running into state troopers, who would give out our information and we could be ambushed along the way."

"It's relatively safe to take the train. We have shelters, and the trains are very fast. Unless they blow up the road, they can't stop us at all."

In the hotel, Ted's confidant was discussing with him how to go.

These are undoubtedly two unwise methods, because no matter which way you go, you will be discovered in advance.

Because it is a temporary special train, the major railway companies in Likale State will definitely know the news in advance.

As Jingang City is one of the most important ports, Lance must have a good relationship with these railway companies.

After all, offending Lance means that their train will not be able to continue doing business on this route.

So as long as Lance asks, they will be exposed.

Ted licked his lips. "There is another way. Take a boat."

"We need some tricks. We can arrange some people to drive a car and put some dummies on the car to attract the attention of the Lance family."

"The rest of you and I will take the boat over there. Lance and his group's headquarters is not far from the port. By the time they realize what's happening, we'll be right in their faces!"

Ted used his decades of wisdom to come up with an option that he thought was perfect. After discussing it for a while, the others also felt that there was no problem, so they quickly decided to implement it.

They got several buses in the city, and did it in a very ostentatious manner without hiding it from anyone.

After daybreak, everyone got on the bus and headed towards Likalai Province. This scene fell into the eyes of Bolton's spies.

For ten dollars, he decisively called Burton.

But what they didn't know was that after leaving the city, these cars turned around and headed directly towards a small town on the seaside. The ship that the Perez family had contacted was already waiting at the dock.

Ted was very calm along the way and did not show any pride in his wisdom.

All he wants now is to avenge his son!
(End of this chapter)