Chapter 325



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Leon looked up with difficulty and glanced at the chair that was only three feet away from him.

He couldn’t make out what the chair was made of. But it had a silver reflection and its backrest was linked to multiple colored circuits. In addition, there were two tubes installed to his right that were attached to a bucket of water.

Her expression suddenly changed and she asked, “What are you doing?”

“You’re a model, aren’t you, what will you be able to do if you have no legs?”.

Looking at him seriously and angrily, Magnus grabbed his shirt to drag him to the chair.

“Let go of me!” Leon screamed and struggled violently. But he could barely move as he was wrapped in a sack and ropes. He could only be dragged by Magnus.

“I’ll tell you…I’ll tell you everything…”. Leon screamed in fear. The entire basement was filled with the echo of his shrieks.

“It was Franklin! He ordered me to get close to Hayden and take some pictures of us sleeping together. But nothing happened between us, I just drugged her to make her pass out. Then… then I took the pictures and gave them to Franklin.”

Magnus frowned and looked at Joseph.

Joseph didn’t even have to ask Leon why Franklin would need those pictures.

All he wanted from Hayden was his Downey Group stock.

Joseph’s face froze in the darkness.

Walking forward, he stepped on Leon’s face, “You won’t be able to talk now if you really did something.”

“Let me go, please. They made me do it.”

“Mr. Beckham.”

Fearful that things would get messy if Leon died, Magnus said, “Now that we’re done with him, should we let him go?”

Withdrawing his foot, Joseph said coldly, “You don’t need to finish this. Those two thugs outside will know what to do.”

Magnus let out a sigh of relief. He didn’t really care what happened to Leon as long as he didn’t have to punish him himself.

Leon was a shitty person anyway.

Then they came out of the basement and told those two thugs to go inside. After a minute, Magnus could hear miserable screaming, but that sound quickly disappeared.

Magnus couldn’t even think about what these two thugs were doing.

“What should we do now, Mr. Beckham?”.

“We’ll see.” Said Joseph sitting in the back seat.

For Old Master Beckham’s sake, Joseph hadn’t cared much about what Franklin did before. What’s more, he hadn’t had time to manage the company lately, so Franklin ‘helped’ him with that. But now, everything had changed, because he messed with the wrong person.

As the new year approached, there was a drill at the University of Public Safety.

Receiving his license plate number, Benjamin pinned it to the inside of his battle suit, it was so that other people could identify him in case something dangerous happened to him during the drill.

“Hey, dummy.”

Andrea called out to Benjamin and slapped him hard on the shoulder before he could respond.

Ignoring his cough, Andrea told him seriously, “Follow me later.”

Benjamin did his best to push her away and said, “Follow you? Not in a million years. What did you call me? You should call me by my code name, yes? I’m Phoenix.”

Andrea glared at him and slung the drill rifle over her shoulder.

“Bullshit, you’re nothing but a wimp. My weighted cross-country running score when I’m on the ruler is even higher than your best score. To be honest, in this kind of drill, your intelligence unit doesn’t really matter. City N isn’t big, so we can do a sweep search.”

Livid with anger, Benjamin said, “You can conduct a sweep search in N City, but when it’s really wartime, you certainly won’t be able to search the whole world without the help of our intelligence unit.”

Raising her eyebrows, Andrea said, “Well, it’s I won’t deny it, but you have to follow me this time.”

“No.” Shaking her off, Benjamin said, “I have my own plan, besides you don’t need a member of the intelligence unit. I’ll do my own.”

“What, no.” Andrea chased after him and said, “You can’t leave the squadron without permission.”

“You need a sweep search, right? I’ll be responsible for the eastern part of N City. You can have other people to search other places.”

“East N City is too crowded, you won’t be able to find anything. Let’s go to the western part of N City.”

“I have to go there.”

Sensing his insistence, Andrea asked puzzled, “Why are you so eager to go there? Is there anything I don’t know about in eastern N City?”

“Of course.” Benjamin raised his eyebrows, “A drug manufacturing and sales hideout. Do you believe me or not?”

“Bullshit. Why didn’t you report it that’s true?”.

“They may have personal connections to the narcotics squad. So I decided to investigate it myself and arrest them all.”

Hearing his words, Andrea thought he was joking, but realizing he was serious, her face changed.

“Enough of this nonsense.”

“It’s not nonsense!”

“No, I have to report it.”

“You can’t do that.” Benjamin immediately dragged Andrea over and said, “I’ll do it myself, you can’t report it.”

“Are you crazy?” Andrea’s face darkened, “This is just a drill, remember? All the hideouts are prepared beforehand. What’s more, all our mistresses are out of bullets. What if something goes wrong? Besides, there are other members in our team. What if they run into you and assume it’s just the prearranged hideout?”

“That’s why I asked you to let me take over the east of N City.” Benjamin looked quite serious, “Team members will not encroach on other members’ territory once the area is clearly divided. Besides, I’m confident I can apprehend the person responsible. I don’t want to receive a medal or anything, I just want to stop them all.”

Andrea paused slightly. Whenever Benjamin talked about this sort of thing, she followed his train of thought. Really, she started to notice this man when he delivered that speech at the opening ceremony at the university.

To her, Benjamin was quite weak and couldn’t even fight a girl, but he was a real man.

“Right.” Andrea frowned, “But I have one condition.”

“Go ahead.”

Andrea was the commander of this team, so getting her approval was an advantage for Benjamin. He really hadn’t expected Andrea to be so easily persuaded.

“I’ll go there with you.”

Hearing her words, Benjamin paused.

Andrea spoke again. “Your every move must have my approval when we get there. Absolute obedience is in the blood of our soldiers.”

Although Benjamin was displeased, he had to listen to her.

After the morale-boosting meeting, Andrea divided the search territories in her team and asked two people to follow her. They then headed together to the eastern part of N City.

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