Shadow Empire

Chapter 567 Big Joke [666+21]
There are fewer guests in Jingang Casino these days, and there are more and more rumors in the city, with all kinds of stories.

But all the rumors have only one core——

The underground world of Jingang City is about to undergo tremendous changes.

People don't know when the casino will be attacked, and they don't dare to take the risk of gambling here.

The bad business was like fate telling Bandy in another way that he had to do something.

Gao Li has been very depressed these days and has been getting drunk at home.

After all, as a father, at such a critical moment, not only did he fail to help Stone, but he forced Stone to make a terrible choice.

He knew that what he did was the most correct, but it also made him more painful!
Only alcohol, nicotine, and even maple iris can soothe his current pain.

"Go see your uncle, comfort him, and bring him back."

"Remember to tell him that you, me, and all of us need him."

Fleming nodded. Gao Li also lived in the manor, in a separate house, and it would take a few minutes to get there.

When Fleming pushed open the door, he could smell the strong smell of tobacco and alcohol in the room, as well as some strange smells.

Gao Li sat on the floor, leaning against the sofa leg, looking extremely haggard.

He heard footsteps, glanced up at Fleming, forced a smile, and raised his glass shakily, "Come and have a drink with me."

Fleming looked at him for about ten seconds before walking over, snatching the bottle from his hand, unscrewing the cap, and pouring it over his head.

There is actually no difference between pouring wine that costs hundreds of dollars a bottle on a person's head and those cheap wines. Gao Li closed his eyes, kept breathing through his mouth, and kept blowing the wine away.

When one bottle of wine was finished, Fleming picked up another one, unscrewed it, and poured it in.

The crackling wine fell on Gao Li's wet scalp, gradually reducing his drunkenness.

"The family is facing the biggest crisis in history. I know you are in pain after losing Shi Dong, and I am in pain too!"

"He has been my good brother since I was a child and has always taken care of me. I am more angry and sad than you!"

"But I know that now is not the time to let anger and sadness overwhelm us!"

"We still have challenges and responsibilities to face. There are still many things waiting for us, Uncle Gaoli."

"You should cheer up. We are going to defeat Lance and then get Stone back from them."

"If he were still alive, he wouldn't want you to be like this now."

Gao Li's eyes were red, "I killed him." In his last words that day, he almost told his son in blunt language "You shouldn't continue to live." It was cruel!

Fleming bent down, grabbed his collar and lifted him up. "So, he was sacrificed just for the miserable state you are in now?"

"Can you please make his death less of a fucking waste?"

"Can you think about how we can get revenge on Lance?"

"Will you do anything for revenge by sitting here and getting yourself drunk?"

"Are you planning to let him die in vain?"

A series of questions made Gao Li's mentality change slightly. He looked at Fleming's angry eyes, and the two stared at each other, neither giving in.

After a while, he stood up and wiped the remaining alcohol on his face. "You are right. I should cheer up and at least not let his death be meaningless."

"I'm going to change my clothes."

Fleming nodded, walked over to the sofa and sat down, while asking someone to clear the garbage off the table.

What he just said was not a completely artificial tone, it was also his real thoughts.

He had a better relationship with Stone than he had with anyone else, because Bendy and Gowrie were very good brothers, and their children naturally played together since they were young.

Shi Dong may not be so good at studying, but for children from their background, it doesn’t matter whether they have good learning ability or not.

Stone took good care of Fleming and always protected him.

He was also very sad when he heard the news of Shi Dong's death.

But he knew that now was definitely not the time to be sad!
More than ten minutes later, Gao Li, who had changed his clothes, came down from upstairs. His wet hair draped behind his head made him look a lot more energetic.

"I'm going to his villa to get some things back."

Stone also has his own villa in the Bay Area. He also lives in the manor, but sometimes he also lives in the villa.

After all, he is still a "young man" and he has his own needs and private life. He can't just bring a new girl or several girls to the manor every few days.

This is where his elders, Bandi, Gawri, and other family members live, and this place is "sacred".

So he would do all those things in his own villa. Most other people also had such villas, including Fleming. Fleming nodded, "No problem, I'll go with you."

The two men got in the car and quickly drove out of the manor. At first, they were a little worried about whether there would be a sudden attack on them, but after a careful search over the past few days, they found that Lance didn't even have anyone following him.

They were safe, but that wasn't good news, it meant that Lance thought he could take out the Kodak family without resorting to extreme measures.

The more confident Lance appeared, the more depressed they became. That kind of visible confidence was as if he was saying "You're dead!"
Despite the ridiculous situations where those seemingly powerful enemies could only deliver a light punch in the end, Bendy always believed that Lance would not be like that.

When Fleming's convoy arrived at Gowrie's villa, he went straight to the study, where there was a safe and he knew the password.

Fleming was waiting for Gao Li in the living room.

He thought it might take a while, but after Gowrie entered the study, he came out with an expression on his face that Fleming couldn't describe clearly.

"They were here and took something from the safe!"

Fleming didn't react at first, but he soon realized that the "they" that Gowry was talking about might be Stone and Lance's people. He didn't believe it at first, but soon chose to believe Gowry's judgment.

"How did you confirm that?"

Fleming quickly went up to the second floor and saw the opened safe in Stone's study.

"Only Stone and I know where this safe is, and we are the only ones who know the combination."

"It was opened, the contents were gone, and you see, it didn't look like it had been broken into by force."

Fleming took a look at the safe door. There was no sign of it being pried open, not even a scratch!

The safe is hidden behind the bookshelf. You need to open the bookcase first, then trigger two mechanisms, and then you can pull open the bookshelf to reveal the safe behind it.

If they didn't know how to find it, they would have messed up the place, but it looks very tidy here.

They weren't sure if Stone was dead or not, but he definitely said something.

"I'm going to kill him!" His expression was a little distorted. He had been depressed for so long these days because of Shi Dong's "death", but now he found out that Shi Dong might not be dead and had even confessed!

Fleming also realized that something was wrong and immediately asked him to go back with him.

More than twenty minutes later, the two entered Bandy's office, where Bandy was on the phone.

This was the only thing he could do for his family in the past few days. He used to be proud of knowing those celebrities and politicians. He knew this congressman and that representative.

He even knew the senator.

But now, it turns out that these people are of no use at all when a huge disaster breaks out.

When he saw the two of them, he raised his hand and motioned them to sit down first, but his attention was still focused on the phone, "…The presidential campaign only costs 30 million, and I get at least 20 million into your hands every fucking year."

"This amount of money is enough for a person to run for president in two years, but now you are abandoning me!"

"…That's your business. My only request now is…"

Fleming sat in the chair opposite him. He knew that this was a call with Golden State and that there must be a senator on the other end of the line.

He was still thinking about Stone's matter, when he suddenly noticed an obvious change in Bandy's expression. He then said gloomily, "I understand, you guys think about it again," and hung up the phone.

He took a deep breath, but his mind was processing a lot of complicated information. Now he knew that Senator Cleveland was using the profits from his casino license to do some money-for-money socializing in advance.

So his backers were under a lot of pressure, and he said it very bluntly on the phone, it's not that he didn't want to help, it's that he was completely unable to help.

Moreover, it is not only the Likalai State that is providing benefits to that senator. The socialist states throughout the federation are also providing benefits to Congress.

It’s just that he distributed more to some states and less to some states.

Even if Bandy was finished, he would still be able to share this part of the profits, but he would no longer be the one who got the biggest share.

It is impossible to get rid of Lance from Congress.

Thinking of this, he became furious. The funds he had raised over the years were really wasted.

Then he looked at Fleming and Gorrie who were sitting opposite him, took a deep breath, and was about to say something to comfort Gorrie when Fleming said, "Shi Dong is not dead."

Bendy was stunned for a moment, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face. He and Stone had real feelings for each other, and it would definitely be best if his nephew could survive.

"How did you know this news?" He took out a cigarette, and the ashtray in front of him was full of cigarette butts and ashes. "Do you have an informant in the Lance family?"

Gao Li said with a grim expression, "He took Lance's people back to his villa and took away some things."

Bandy, who had already lit a cigarette, maintained the posture of lighting it. If the flame was not shaking slightly, some people might have thought it was still.

He stared at Gao Li with wide eyes, as if asking -

"Are you fucking kidding me?"

(End of this chapter)