Chapter 497



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“Mm! Mmm…”

Louis, whose head had been covered with a black bag and his mouth gagged, was led into a room by four men.

His eyes widened in horror. He wanted to speak, but could say nothing. All he could do was utter muffled screams. The four bodyguards standing next to him stood their ground. It was obvious at a glance that they were trained in martial arts.

There was also another man holding his weak, thin arm. It was as if he could twist and break it with a little force!

Louis was terrified. It wasn’t until they forced him to sit down and tied him tightly with ropes that the other party finally removed what they were using to gag him from his mouth.

Louis gasped for breath.

The four strong, muscular bodyguards looked at him. The skinny guy was a coward. He had been trembling the whole time on the road after he had been kidnapped.

His behavior made them despise him.

At first they thought he would beg for mercy immediately after the gag was removed. Considering that the young master hated those people very much, they calculated that he would probably order them to kill him immediately.

But in the end…

The terrified Louis was still trembling with fear, but instead said, “Can you loosen the ropes a little? They’re cutting me on that spot.”

The bodyguards: “???”

Louis wanted to move, but the ropes were too tight, preventing him from moving.

The kidnappers on either side of him didn’t seem to have any intention of untying him. From the looks of it, they weren’t going to help him. Sigh, how uncomfortable.

But soon after, I hear a slightly squeaky voice say, “Loosen the ropes a little. Don’t hurt him.”

Louis was overjoyed. As the bodyguards loosened his ropes, he smiled in the direction of the voice and said, “Thank you very much! I didn’t expect kidnappers to be so nice these days. Everyone understands the rules of the industry, don’t they, family members must not be involved! Even though I don’t have a wife yet, you can’t endanger my future child either, can you?”

When he finished speaking, the room fell silent again for a moment. Because he had been blindfolded, Louis could not see what the person speaking to him looked like. He cocked his head to one side and thought about it, but in the end could only break the silence again. He asked, “Good men here, what are you kidnapping me for? Let me say it first – I have no money. I am the poorest of all the Smiths.”

His words made Trueman choke on his breath. Then he snorted and said, “There’s no way Q is poor. Doesn’t the Smith Corporation pay him any salary?”

¿Q?

Why were they talking about Q again? Louis was speechless. “I’m not Q!”

Trueman sneered, “Stop acting, I’ve already checked you out!”.

Besides, he had been shaking when he was brought into the room by the kidnappers a moment ago, but he had suddenly stopped shaking. Moreover, the first thing he had said was to loosen the ropes around him. It was obvious that the fear he had just displayed was fake. The guy had great mental toughness!

Louis: “?”

He looked sheepishly in the direction of the voice. “Uh, who are you? Even if it’s Q, what do you want from me, are you Q’s enemy?”

Trueman said slowly, “I wouldn’t say there’s an enmity between the two of us.”

“So does that mean you’re after my money and good looks?”

Louis cringed. “Surely my looks aren’t worth kidnapping me for, are they? Besides, judging by your voice, you’re probably a man. I’m a man too… holy cow, you sure don’t have some kind of fetish, do you?”

Trueman: “!”

Trueman was seriously annoyed by Louis. He also began to ramble. “Even if I like men, I won’t be interested in someone like you!”

Hearing this, Louis became indignant. “What’s wrong with me, what part of me is bad?”

Trueman: “???”

He replied disdainfully, “Your dirty blonde hair is enough to turn you down!”.

“Fuck you, I’m one of the best, okay?!”

“Fuck, I’m the one who’s one of the best!”

Seeing that the two weirdos were rambling more and more, Louis suddenly heard a violent cough. “That’s enough of that. Let’s talk business.”

As soon as he is heard the voice, Trueman returned to the matter at hand. “You got me sidetracked from what I wanted to talk about! I don’t like men! Don’t think too much about it!”

Louis said, “… So, does that mean you’re after money? Geez, don’t you know I’m the poorest son in the family? I only get $15,000 a month! I literally spend all my money at the end of the month! I have $4,508.51 right now. If you want, I’ll give it to you. Why bother going that far and even damaging my car? You have to pay the cost of repairing my car.”

Trueman replied, “Who would want that kind of money from you?”

Louis said, “Then why kidnap me if you’re not interested? Are you planning to hold Joel for ransom? Geez!”

With tears in his eyes, Louis said, “I’m the most unpopular person among the Smiths. Everyone at home treats me like I don’t exist! If you ask Joel for $15,000, he might give it to you. But if you ask him for more, he’d probably abandon me. Sob…”

Trueman smiled as he listened to Louis. “You are so pitiful, hahaha-“.

Louis got angry. “What are you laughing at if you think I’m pitiful? Don’t you have any sympathy for others?”

“Sympathy? What’s that? No, I haven’t.” Trueman got chatting with him again.

This time, the coughing person didn’t even have to say anything. Louis reminded him directly and said, “Come on, speak up. What the hell did you kidnap me for?”

Trueman replied, “Ha, right, it’s because you helped the Smiths! Your identity as Q means there are irreconcilable differences between the two of us! But if you agree to join us and betray the Smiths, I can pay you big time!”

Louis was a little startled to hear the first half of her words. He was about to explain that it really wasn’t Q when he heard the remuneration part at the end. His blindfolded eyes lit up immediately.

Remuneration meant money, which was what she was missing the most at the moment.

Louis coughed, “How much can you give me?”

Seeing him betray the Smiths so easily, Trueman scoffed, “The Smiths are simply too greedy. They refuse to pay you much, yet they want you to work for them. But our organization is different-we definitely appreciate top-notch hacks like you! Name your price.”

Name your price?

Louis said cautiously, “Seventy-five…”

Before he could finish the rest of the ‘seventy-five thousand dollars’ he was about to say, Trueman interrupted him. “Seventy-five million dollars to never work for the Smiths again? No problem!”

Louis: “!!!!”

He was dumbfounded. In fact, he was even somewhat incredulous. “Really?”

He was offering him so much?!

Trueman said, “More than my own name!”

Louis gulped. “I don’t think you’d give me that much money!”

Trueman immediately said, “I can give you a deposit!”

After speaking, he looked aside and said, “Transfer $15 million to your bank account!”

“Yes, sir.”

Trueman rested his chin on his hand and said, “This way, you can’t go back to the Smiths. Heh, you can call this a way to sow discord between you guys!”

Louis: “…”

As the bodyguards spaced out, faint footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door. Then, with a loud bang, someone opened the door!

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