Shadow Empire

Chapter 575 There are always people experiencing suffering
In the room, Lance sat opposite Bendy, and the two looked at each other.

Of course there is no sweet atmosphere here, and of course the air is not that hot!

The meeting between the two was much more peaceful than others had imagined.

Lance crossed his legs and nodded slightly, answering Banditi's question, "Yes, it's just like you said."

"The Kodak family and you have grown up with this city during its most important thirty years. You and a part of it are highly overlapping."

“Good, bad, in the sun, in the shadows, people are going to be afraid.”

"If it were me, I would also be afraid of someone knowing my secrets, especially when I don't want anyone to know them."

"Will he reveal my secret and bring ruin to my reputation?"

"Or is he planning to use this secret to blackmail me and make me lose my status and self in front of him."

"I don't know what he'll do, but I know one thing—"

Lance leaned forward slightly and tilted his head, lowering his voice as if he were whispering, "If I kill him, no one will have the problems that bother me."

After he finished speaking, he sat back down with a smile on his face. The expression on his face quickly faded and became indifferent again. "I was originally planning to wait a little longer to see if there are more people who will be pushed over by you and actively or passively involved in this game."

"But when you took such a huge risk and made such a choice, I knew it was no longer necessary. We were all ready."

Bendy looked at Lance, who was younger than Fleming, but when facing Lance he didn't feel like he was facing a young man.

He knew what Lance meant by "all ready", and he was ready to accept the consequences of failure.

The two looked at each other for a moment. Bandy didn't want to admit defeat to a young man younger than his son, so he deliberately said, "Maybe that's just what you think?"

Lance spread his hands, "Some things don't matter 'you think' or 'I think'. They have already gone to find Fleming."

Bendy's expression tensed visibly. He wanted to pretend that he didn't care. He wanted to smile and laugh at Lance, saying that "this didn't work on him." But his smile just appeared and disappeared.

He couldn't maintain the smile that he didn't admit to having. He was afraid and worried, and he couldn't laugh.

His expression became somewhat panicked, "This is all my decision, they are innocent."

Lance shook his head and said, "No one is innocent."

This made the uneasiness in his heart even stronger. "What do you want?" He could only take the initiative to propose the basic conditions of "reconciliation" and let Lance make an offer.

Lance smiled as if he had thought of something, "I made an offer last time, but you refused."

A very ordinary sentence, used to hurt him, made Bandy really feel the regret like a sting!

If he had agreed at that time, would there have been so many twists and turns?
Could they leave safely together?

"I..." He lowered his head and rubbed his cheeks with his hands, "I accept your offer now."

Lance looked at him with eyes full of cheap pity, "Now it's a different price."

Bandy had no right to refuse.

While waiting for the lawyers and other relevant personnel, Bandy asked questions about Stone.

He was also very curious about why Stone would betray him, until Lance said he had been killed twice.

Bandy, who had always hated Stone in his heart no matter how he defended him, suddenly didn't hate him so much anymore, and even understood him a little.

The fear of dying twice in a row was enough to make many people collapse. Now that he thought about it, he could not blame Shi Dong for all this.

I felt relieved, and for a moment I seemed to calm down.

Not long after, in front of several lawyers and under the camera's filming, Bandy first confirmed his mental state, that he had not drunk alcohol and had not used any anesthetic or sedative injections.

Not under any threat and with full capacity to act and take responsibility.

He then signed a series of transfer agreements, transferring the remaining operating rights of five casino licenses to Lance.

The price is...one dollar.

Some documents were signed during the process, but these were not photographed as they belong to another part.

After confirming with his lawyer again and again that these things had legal effect, Lance slowly stood up.

He held out his hand, waiting for Bendy to come over and shake his hand, "You made the right choice this time, Bendy."

Bendy sighed, "I hope so."

He didn't seem to trust Lance, but Lance didn't care about this kind of thing at all. "Then there is one last thing. Are you mentally prepared?"

Bendy nodded, "I'm always ready."

Lance patted his arm, gave him an affirmative look, and left the room.

Bandy's lawyer didn't quite understand what their conversation meant, but Bandy had no desire to explain and just told him that he could leave.

Soon the lawyer left with his team, and he told Bandy that Stone didn't want to see him and couldn't come out.

He did not continue to force it. After he knew that Shi Dong did not owe him and the family anything, he felt very relaxed.

The news that Lance and Bandy talked in the interrogation room for more than 40 minutes was spread by someone. Director Blue was said to be furious about this, but strangely enough, he did not investigate who released the news.

However, some people will take the initiative to improve the news when spreading it, which is also what many rumor spreaders like to do most.

They will process the rumors they hear to make them seem more reasonable and more in line with their own understanding of the matter before spreading them again.

This also leads to the fact that many times the reason why rumors can spread quickly is because the person who makes it knows what people really want and can make things that people think are unreasonable become reasonable.

This news once again made the Bay Area feel uneasy, and it also made them hate Charlie again.

If Charlie hadn't lost law enforcement, they wouldn't be as passive as they are now.

As the most basic force in the city, the role and importance of law enforcement agencies are definitely beyond people's imagination.

They kept blaming Charlie, thinking that Charlie messed up everything, but they ignored the core reason for Charlie's downfall, which was caused by them.

Fortunately, they have gotten to know some police officers over the years. As the embodiment of the "evil" of capital, they always firmly believe that no one in this world cannot be bribed.

Even the President can be bribed by big capital chaebols, let alone they just want to bribe a small policeman.

In the evening, a police officer drove back home feeling a little tired. He had been in a bad condition recently.

Someone in the family was seriously ill and needed to see a doctor. He did make an appointment with the doctor, and he used a little trick.

As a policeman he also has some privileges, although these privileges may not seem like privileges to others.

Doctors told him his wife had a tumor, possibly more, and it was getting worse.

The hospital's suggestion was to surgically remove the tumors and then use some new drugs to see if they could save her from death.

But all this requires money, a lot of money.

The federal medical system has long been monopolized by medical capital groups. From doctors to hospitals to medicines, people at every link are seeking more profits!
The doctor gave him a favorable price of fifty thousand yuan.

With the advancement of medical equipment, more doctors have begun to devote themselves to cancer research.

Of course, they don't realize that this disease cannot be cured by humans, and there will be no effective means for at least a hundred or even two hundred years.

But they have also come up with some treatments, such as the most common ones, cutting and radiation exposure, which cost a lot of money.

And the patient will also feel very happy.

He loved his wife deeply and had to find a way to solve the problem. Even if he planned to sell the house, it was still a long way from the staggering astronomical figure.

Thinking of his wife lying on the bed with a painful expression on her face from time to time, thinking of her always telling him while crying not to waste more money on her.

He felt an indescribable pain and he wanted to save his wife no matter what the cost!
He had just parked the car and before anyone had time to get out, someone opened the passenger door and got in.

He looked at the young man sitting in the passenger seat in some astonishment, and reached out to grab the pistol in the armrest box.

In the Federation, a "paradise-like country", you have to be careful to deal with the problems that appear around you anytime and anywhere. You have to treat them with caution and use the most vicious thoughts to speculate on other people's intentions. This is the key to your survival.

It was just that his hand had already grasped the pistol, but in the end he was unable to take it out because the young man sitting in the passenger seat grabbed his wrist, and he tried to use force, but to no avail.

The young man looked at him and said, "If I were you, I would not do the stupid things you are doing until I get mad at you."

With these words he made clear his purpose, he was not here to hurt anyone, the two looked at each other for a moment, and the police officer let go of his hand.

The young man grabbed his wrist and slowly lifted it up until his hand was out of the armrest box.

Then the young man closed the armrest box, "See, it's not that difficult!"

The police officer withdrew his hands and placed them on the steering wheel, in this way telling the young man in the passenger seat that he did not intend to do anything dangerous.

In a terrible environment like the Federation, it is important to convince others that you have no ill intentions!
They'll empty the magazine because you just want to pull out your ID but can't see your hands.

They may also want to keep a distance from you, but if you take a few steps forward, they will make you "stop" forever.

So his approach is very textbook and correct.

"I do not know you."

The young man nodded and said, "Yes, actually I don't know you either, but I know what you need."

The officer asked, "What do I need?"

"Money!" The young man bluntly said the word he didn't want to hear but wanted very much in his heart, and added an adjective, "A lot of money!"

The officer said nothing, but looked away, and he began to struggle.

The young man seemed to sense his inner struggle, and a triumphant smile appeared on his face. "I can give you fifty thousand dollars if you do something for me."

The police officer turned around and looked at him. "Cash?"

“Cash!”, he affirmed.

The police officer took a deep breath and said, "Fifty thousand is not enough, one hundred thousand is needed."

The young man was a little confused by his initiative to offer a price. After two seconds, he said with a smile, "You are very greedy!"

He was a little annoyed. One hundred thousand dollars!
Although the money was not paid by him, if the masters knew that he came in person to negotiate and the result was 100,000 yuan, they would think he was a useless person.

Such a small thing actually cost so much money!
It’s not as simple as he thinks one hundred thousand yuan is too much, or that this guy is too greedy.

The police officer shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know what you want me to do, but I know that fifty thousand dollars is enough to buy a lot of people in the New Port area to work for you."

"It means you're going to do my thing, it's worth the price."

"There's a high probability that I won't be able to come back after I do this. I need to prepare for my wife's future life. Fifty thousand yuan, for a lifetime for me and her, I don't think it's too much."

The young man was silent after listening to this. He had to admit that what this guy said made sense.

As long as he does it, he will be caught, that's for sure.

Suddenly he felt that one hundred thousand yuan was not a lot of money.

He thought for a moment and then agreed, "I need you to bring Bendy a cup of coffee."

The officer instinctively wanted to say that he couldn't get in touch with Bandy, but before he opened his mouth, he thought of the hundred thousand dollars.

The young man also continued, "I asked around, he can usually just pass by his place, all you have to do is give him a cup of coffee."

“No one will notice this, it’s all you have to do.”

"Whether you turn yourself in or run away after doing these things is none of my business. I just want to see the result."

The officer nodded, "Okay."

He paused, "When will I get the money?"

The young man looked at his expression, confirmed that he at least did not look like a liar, and said, "Anytime, anywhere."

Inexplicably, a relaxed smile appeared on his face, "Then do it as soon as possible, I can't wait!"

His wife couldn't wait either!
He got out of the car, returned to the room, and called their attending physician directly.

He said he had already got the money and asked the doctor when he could have the surgery. The doctor told him within a week.

Many people are studying cancer now. Because cancer cells are very unique, people hope to discover more remarkable things from related research, such as business opportunities.

Vaccines and special surgeries are always one of the most profitable businesses for medical groups, followed by various types of chemical synthetic drugs that are highly dependent.

Low costs and explosive profits.

So when such a case arises, there will be doctors willing to perform the surgery.

The officer went to the bedroom and saw his wife lying on the bed. She was mentally depressed by cancer and her skin was an unhealthy, withered white.

He walked over, sat at the head of the bed, and gently stroked his wife's dry yellow hair. "There is good news."

His wife barely opened her eyes. "What is it?"

The police officer smiled and said, "You can be saved. The hospital said you are a rare case. They are willing to treat you for free and hope to do some research on your disease."

The wife smiled immediately, but soon turned into suspicion. "You didn't... do anything to lie to me that the hospital treated me for free, did you?"

She knew her husband too well.

The officer raised his hand and said, "Honey, what do you think I could do to get fifty thousand dollars in such a short time?"

“Even if we sell our house, we can only get half of that!”

His wife's eyes also showed some desire to live, "So... all this is true."

"real!"

"They will come to pick you up soon. You know, I'm very busy during this period, so I can't stay with you all the time."

"But I promise, I will come to see you as soon as you finish the surgery!"

His wife supported her frail body and sat up, hugging him and saying, "Thank the merciful and almighty God, my disease has been cured..."

That night, perhaps because the news was too good, in order to prepare for the surgery better and more proactively, she ate something and soon fell into a coma.

The officer was at the door and seized a suitcase and a small box from the officer's hands.

"There are pills in there. There are two pills. You have one chance to fail."

"The rest is your reward. I hope you can understand that we don't take our money lightly."

"We can get it back in a variety of ways, you know what I mean?"

The police officer opened the bag of money without hesitation, counted it, and then nodded, "The money is fine."

He didn't care what the young man said at all. The young man wanted to say something, but finally shut up and said, "Wait for your good news."

The officer nodded.

The next morning, the ambulance arrived and they put the officer's wife into the ambulance.

Both husband and wife were very reluctant, but they also made an agreement.

When the officer's current busy schedule is over, he will go visit her as soon as possible.

He took a day off and paid all the medical bills first, then divided the remaining money, using 40,000 yuan to buy four different, reputable investment funds.

They promised to give at least 5.5 percent of the investment amount as a return every year, which is about two thousand yuan in total.

Even if one or two families did not achieve the expected profit, as long as the other two, or even one, were satisfied, his wife would not be unable to live.

There is also another 10,000 yuan, which has been deposited in several anonymous accounts as a precautionary measure.

After doing all this, he packed himself up and returned to the police station with the small box given to him by the young man.

(End of this chapter)