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However, the police still issued an arrest warrant directly, targeting Lyndon Schneider.

Then they were in an awkward situation; not long after leaving Emery's villa, they were spotted by the police.

During this process, their companion Cody risked everything to distract the police, allowing Lyndon Schneider and Dix to escape and run into Josie, who was trying to take a detour home.

During his account, Lyndon Schneider reiterated that he had a very good relationship with Josie's father.

He even helped Josh's family come to the United States back then.

Josie neither confirmed nor denied this, since there was no way to verify it anyway.

However, since the other party could describe his father in detail and was willing to give him a large amount of diamonds, it shows that there was indeed a relationship between them.

So, if I'm able to help out a little, that wouldn't be a bad idea.

Moreover, there is indeed a lot of room for maneuver in this matter.

“If you trust me, you might as well turn yourself in now,” Josie said to Lyndon Schneider after a moment of contemplation.

"Why?" Lyndon Schneider asked, puzzled.

“Because, according to what you’ve said, Emery played a significant role in this matter. In that case, why don’t you all agree on a story and put all the blame on him? Besides, I know Mr. John Leibler. If he knows that his legal counsel is behind this, I believe he won’t hesitate to help you and pin the blame on Emery. Then, you’ll just be accomplices, and you’ll even have the mitigating circumstance of turning yourself in. As long as I get you a good lawyer, you won’t get a long sentence. I can also pull some strings and get you medical parole or something. You might not even have to go to jail… Isn’t that better than being on the run right now?” Josie said. “Anyway, in the process, apart from killing one of Emery’s henchmen in self-defense, you didn’t cause any serious injuries.”

Lyndon Schneider fell silent upon hearing Josie's words.

That's right, Josie's suggestion is actually quite reasonable.

However, he couldn't help but tighten his grip on the jeweled backpack, still feeling a little reluctant to part with it.

“Sir, I’m afraid things aren’t that simple. We didn’t cause any serious injuries or deaths in this case, but I don’t want to hide it from you. Just half a month ago, my brothers and I accidentally killed a tennis player, and we also have several other criminal records. I’m afraid this can’t be easily resolved by turning ourselves in.” Just as Lyndon Schneider was tempted, Dix spoke up from the side.

Upon hearing his words, Josie choked on her own breath and coughed loudly.

Chapter 39 John Leibler's Surprise

"Mr. Kahn, are you alright?" Lyndon Schneider and Dix asked with concern when they saw Josie coughing violently.

After all, Josie has almost become their only hope.

"Cough cough, it's nothing, I just choked on my saliva." After waving her hand to indicate that she was fine, Josie turned her attention to Dix and looked him up and down.

Oh, you're a good guy after all.

Forgive me for not recognizing him before.

There was no way around it; the place where he was hiding that night was dozens of meters away from the group, and it was the middle of the night. The streetlights of that era were extremely dim, so it was impossible for Josh to see their faces. It was perfectly normal that he didn't recognize them.

“Sir, is my situation causing you trouble? It’s alright, I can leave now. Mr. Lyndon Schneider has nothing to do with my previous case, let him turn himself in!” Dix couldn’t help but stand up and say when he saw Josie staring at him.

“No need for that,” Josie said thoughtfully. “If you have other cases on your record, it will indeed be a bit troublesome, but it’s not a big problem. If all else fails, I can get you a boat so you can go to Canada to hide for a while and wait until things calm down.”

In the past, Josie wouldn't have bothered with this big man named Dix, and he wouldn't have bothered with him either if Lyndon Schneider hadn't known his father, let alone the fact that the man had once pointed a gun at him.

However, the fact that the other party was a kind guy who took the blame for him slightly won back Josh's goodwill, and his words defending Lyndon Schneider just now surprised Josh even more.

As Lyndon Schneider just said, although he and Dix's group were accomplices in this case, they had actually only known each other for less than a week.

It was simply an employment relationship—according to their agreement, the jewelry, worth hundreds of dollars, belonged entirely to Lyndon Schneider, and Dix and his team only received a fixed fee of $20,000 per person.

However, despite the fixed fee of 20,000, Dix and his companions not only did not covet the jewels in the slightest, but also risked their lives to protect Lyndon Schneider, who was just an old man.

They are still defending Lyndon Snyder even now.

This was completely beyond Josie's imagination.

Damn, are all the ruthless bandits of this era so loyal?

Shouldn't the correct course of action for these ruthless bandits be to kill the burdensome old man, Lyndon, and run away with the jewels?

"Wouldn't that be too much trouble?" Dix was also surprised to hear Josie's words.

“Normally, it would be quite troublesome, but you’re not the focus of this case. The focus is on Mr. Schneider and the jewelry he has. Once he turns himself in, without the pressure from the Leibler family and the insurance company, the police will be eager to close the case immediately. Then the curfew in the city will be lifted, and things will be simple. So until then, you still need to hide for a while,” Josie explained.

“If that’s the case, then thank you so much, Mr. Kahn.” Hearing Josie’s words, Dix, who had been on edge for a day and a night, finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat back down on the sofa.

He had just sat down when he clutched his lower back and kept hissing for breath.

"Are you injured?" Upon seeing this, Josie raised an eyebrow, and then saw that the other person had lifted up their coat, and the waist of their shirt was already soaked in red.

"It's nothing, just a graze from a bullet, it's already been bandaged up," Dix said, shaking his head.

Josie didn't believe a word he said.

How could a mere scratch bleed so badly? And how could it hurt so much that someone was sweating profusely?

"Your injury can't be left untreated any longer. If you don't stop the bleeding, it will cause serious problems," Josie said, looking at the other person's wound. "But you're lucky."

Then Josh went into the bedroom and came out with a medicine box shortly afterward... Of course, only Josh knew that he had actually taken the medicine box from the system space.

As a time traveler, valuing one's life is a basic requirement.

Especially in this chaotic and turbulent era, who knows what might happen?

Even in the relatively stable United States, it's never a bad thing to be more prepared.

Especially since I have my own system space, I'm not afraid of having too much stuff or it expiring.

Opening the medicine box, you'll find some basic equipment and gauze, as well as some medications, including morphine and sulfonamides.

There is no penicillin.

Although Alexander Fleming had invented penicillin in 1928, it was not taken seriously at first.

The pathological effects of penicillin were not truly confirmed until 1940.

It was only last year, in 1942, that it was actually included in the production plans of American pharmaceutical companies.

Even now, penicillin is still in the clinical trial stage.

When penicillin became available on the market, it was immediately included in the list of controlled drugs by the federal government.

Therefore, the only relatively good antibacterial drug currently available on the market is sulfonamide.

The three men in the room were not professional doctors, so their treatment of Dix's wound was simple and crude: they made him bite down on a rag, sprinkled sulfanilamide powder on it, injected him with 5 milligrams of morphine to relieve the pain, and then wrapped it with gauze.

There is no doubt that morphine is highly addictive, but dosage is very important.

According to later research, a dosage of five milligrams or less is considered relatively safe.

The reason why so many soldiers became addicted during World War I and World War II was mainly because they injected large amounts of several tens of milligrams at a time in order to save their lives.

“This is the only way to handle it for now. You should stay here and rest. I’ll try to find a doctor later. Mr. Schneider, why don’t you come with me to see Mr. Leibler?” Josie said after treating Dix’s wound.

He had done all he could; the rest was up to Dix's fate.

“Thank you, sir!” Dix said with great sincerity.

"Hehe, thank yourself!" Josie smiled slightly, leaving Dix completely bewildered.

Josie didn't explain, and left with Schneider.

Before leaving, however, Josh made a phone call to confirm John Leibler's location.

After all, this was no ordinary theft case. It involved Emery, a top lawyer renowned in Chicago, and the Leibler family had been partners for decades. Therefore, it was quite necessary to inform Mr. Leibler in advance.

In particular, Leibile's attitude is crucial in getting Linden Schneider to reduce his sentence.

Meanwhile, John Leibler was still busy with the theft from the previous night.

Although the direct losses caused by the theft of jewelry will be covered by insurance, those gems are a significant part of Leibler's jewelry group's reserves, and replenishing them is not an easy task, especially during times of war.

So when he first heard from his secretary that Josie wanted to meet him, he wasn't really keen on it.

However, considering the limelight Josh had in last night and the contents of the newspaper this morning, it's clear that Josh has been hailed as an anti-French hero, and the die is cast.

After a little consideration, he agreed to meet with Josie.

He just didn't expect that Josie would bring him such a huge surprise.

Chapter 40 A small accident

Two hours later, Josh and John Leibler stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in Leibler's office, watching Lyndon Schneider being escorted into a police car.

At this point, Lyndon Schneider had already received John Leibler's forgiveness.

However, since this case has a significant impact, some necessary procedures still need to be followed. Lyndon Schneider will need to spend some time in the police station's detention center, but he will likely not need to go to prison.

"Josh, thank you so much for this!" John Leibler said to Josh with unusual kindness.

His words of thanks were truly heartfelt.

Lyndon Schneider's surrender can be said to have helped him get out of a lot of trouble.

This trouble is not just because of the stolen jewelry.

Although those jewels are said to be worth millions, anyone with even a little knowledge of the jewelry industry knows that the actual cost is no more than 30%.

This loss is really not a big deal for the large and wealthy Leibile family.

At most, it will be a little troublesome to restock, and there will be some indirect losses.

What pleased John Leibler the most was actually uncovering Emery, the big mole, especially since the police knew about it before the police did.

It's important to know that Emery, as a senior lawyer who has worked with the Leibler family for decades, actually possesses a considerable amount of confidential information about the Leibler Group.