Chapter 1647 - 84: Secrets

Chapter 1647: Chapter 84: Secrets

The battle in the Central District quickly entered a white?hot state.

As Hei Ge, who had always been blocked outside the Central District, suddenly made his move, a sense of panic began to spread among the Miller and other families.

That middle?aged man, like a javelin, had never intended to enter the Central District. He stayed on the outskirts all along, like a fisherman who only pulls in the net at the last moment!

This was a carefully planned trap.

Using Fatty and the twenty Judgers under his command, the Hei Family poured all the strength they had saved from the Central area into the outer battle. Not only were they concealed in the dark, they had more ample time, more accurate intelligence, and they struck faster and more viciously.

Soldiers in black uniforms, moving in squads, appeared within a one?kilometer radius centered on Alaska Space City, ruthlessly gunning down the various family armed personnel who were in a state of panic.

The armed forces of the major families suffered a devastating blow in an instant. Some families’ armed men were ambushed on the march; some families saw their assembly strongholds encircled; some families even had their lairs wiped out directly, with key family members either taken away or killed.

This stroke of Hei Ge’s stabbed straight into the heart!

In the meeting room of Muma Mountain Villa, the atmosphere was tense to the extreme.

If earlier in the fighting the morale of the major families could still be considered high,

then with the appearance of the twenty Rampages, with Fatty’s crazy performance of single?handedly taking on fifteen snipers, killing Flaischer and capturing Friedrich, the morale of these family armed forces had already been crushed to powder along with their comrades’ bodies under the mechanical feet of the Rampages.

In less than half an hour, the armed forces of the major families that had originally controlled the 9th District and its surroundings had already fallen into fighting on their own. They were simply unable to form a united resistance.

And what was even more chilling was that, according to reliable intelligence, the Shen Family, the Kelly family, the McCarthy family and other families had all already dispatched their own family armed forces at the same time.

What do these hungry wolves intend to do? The people in the meeting room could figure it out with their asses!

Old foxes like Old Kelly were not lacking the courage to kick a dog when it’s down, nor lacking the wisdom to exterminate to the last. As weaker families in terms of strength, once they made up their minds, they were in fact even more dangerous than the Hastings family and the bandit army!

If the situation could not be reversed quickly, it wouldn’t be long before the whole Feiyang would form a Mount Tai?crushing tide. Under the sweep of that tide, every family here in the Miller family’s meeting room, without exception, would be doomed!

"We’re already at the point where the map is exhausted and the dagger is revealed—we must make a decision!" a middle?aged man said slowly.

In the silent meeting room, an invisible disturbance rippled. Clearly, everyone present knew exactly what decision the middle?aged man was referring to.

"If we launch a military coup, then we’ll have absolutely no way out!" After a long silence, Old Miller voiced the words that everyone kept in their hearts but did not dare to say.

Deploying the army and immediately launching a coup seemed to be the only way to resolve the current crisis.

"Right! At worst we just go for fish?die?net?break!" a young man burst out impulsively.

"Fish?die?net?break?" An old man’s face turned iron?blue. "I’m afraid only the fish will die, and the net won’t break at all."

He looked around. "Hastings has controlled the Military Department for thirty years—do you really think he’s unprepared? Once we launch a coup, it will immediately end in the annihilation of the entire army. Otherwise, why would we have waited for him to die, why would we have gone to assassinate President Francis, instead of just staging a coup right away?"

"Times are different now." The first middle?aged man to speak had a dangerous gleam in his eyes. "If we don’t claw our way back tonight, once day breaks, we’ll be nailed with the label of losers, our presidential candidate will be abandoned, the troops we control will be redeployed, our officials will be demoted, our partners will turn into enemies!"

He said to them coldly, "Who wants to see all that happen?"

After a long while, a pale?faced blond man said, "But General Leefer is still on the road—who can take his place to command, who has any confidence in going up against Hastings?"

"......."

The meeting room sank once more into a terrifying silence.

Suddenly, a member of the Miller family rushed into the meeting room. "The TV—quick, turn on the TV!"

He shouted, panting heavily.

Under the surprised and nervous gazes of everyone, the staff at the information terminal console fumbled to turn on the television.

Acting President Gambier’s figure appeared on the screen.

The Congress Chairman sat upright in the President’s office, delivering a televised speech with a solemn expression. While fiercely condemning the fierce fighting that had broken out in Hydefield tonight, he had already ordered the Capital Garrison to deploy, imposing martial law across the city, arresting those involved in this armed conflict, and quelling the riot.

Everyone was dumbstruck.

Though they all knew that the battle was taking place right under the citizens’ noses in the Central District and couldn’t possibly leave the public blind and deaf, and they also knew Gambier would give a televised address to explain the matter, none of them had expected him to choose this moment to speak.

Wasn’t this openly helping these families who were already being beaten to the point of having no strength to fight back?

Gambier turned out to be on their side!

That kind?looking, cultured man, who had always opposed military interference in politics and was known as the evergreen tree of the Feiyang Political Arena, turned out to be one of the members of the group hidden in the dark!

Everyone’s horrified gaze, as if by prior agreement, shifted to the terrace outside the meeting room.

It was obvious that woman had made her move. After committing a near?fatal mistake, she was still forcefully keeping everything under control. For ten years, she had silently woven a great web. No one would ever know just how poisonous this brilliantly colored Black Widow really was.

Gambier was a major card. Under his orders, the garrison, the National Security Bureau, and the special units of the Military Intelligence Bureau would all be drawn into this struggle.

What did this mean?

It meant a perfectly legitimate pretext! A chance to turn the tide of the battle!

It was foreseeable that among the garrison, the National Security Bureau, and the Military Intelligence Bureau, none of those who accepted the pacification order would be members of the rival families, and no unit loyal to the other side would get the order. Meanwhile, their own members could lead their subordinates and launch attacks on the enemy in the name of a presidential order.

Hecker would be granted authority, and Suozzi might also be named.

If the other side had even a shred of sense, they should immediately choose to withdraw, instead of exchanging fire with the pacification forces and getting nailed to the cross as rebels!

And once they chose to deploy their troops, the label of "rebel army" would land squarely on their heads!

The atmosphere in the conference room grew heated in an instant.

Even though everyone knew that with all the major families now openly siding with Hastings, not even the President could touch that Military God in the wheelchair who couldn’t even stand up.

Even though they all understood that if Fatty and Margaret made it safely home and the opponents withdrew intact, without changing the facts of tonight, their side would still have suffered a crushing defeat.

Yet they all believed this was a signal.

Barbara still had cards up her sleeve!

The night wind was bone-chilling. Barbara stood on the terrace, looking at the silhouette of Muma Mountain in the dark, a faint gleam flickering in her phoenix eyes.

By now, those ten deep-purple Mecha that set out with the garrison should have reached the Central District, right?

Who would know that those were the true Judgers.

The greatest trump card for the revival of the Nademick Dynasty!

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Devil’s Paradise Nightclub was still brilliantly lit. Only the music had long since stopped, and the stage was empty. If not for the hundreds of young people clustering in little circles, whispering to each other, anyone walking into the hall might have thought it was closing time.

People couldn’t help glancing at the tightly shut door of Private Room No. 1.

After savagely beating and torturing Friedrich, leaving him covered in bruises without getting a single word out of him, Fatty seemed unwilling to make things too bloody in front of everyone, so he dragged Friedrich into the private room. Margaret and Ann Lei went in with them.

Twenty full minutes had passed, yet the imagined screams of Friedrich were nowhere to be heard from inside. On the contrary, it had been utterly quiet in there, as if everyone had fallen asleep.

This struck everyone present as odd. The room was soundproof, yes, but if it were screams of the same intensity as before, they would still leak out; it should never be this dead silent.

What on earth was Fatty doing in there?

Fatty hadn’t done anything.

Right now, he was sitting blankly on the sofa, clutching Margaret’s necklace, his mind a total blank.

The necklace, hanging toward the floor, swayed gently like the pendulum of a clock. The blue diamond pendant refracted fractured, hazy light under the lamp. Margaret was on the phone, while Ann Lei sat beside Fatty, her beautiful eyes brimming with shock that was about to spill over.

Opposite them, Friedrich had his head bowed, as if he had fallen asleep.

"How is that possible?"

Only after a long while did Ann Lei manage to speak, and then she shut her mouth again.

They already knew the truth behind the crash of the ship carrying Fatty’s parents, but what shocked them wasn’t the tragedy itself—it was everything lurking behind it!

"Little Jian, you’re sure your hypnotism..."

Before Ann Lei could finish, Fatty shook his head. "In a situation like this, there’s no way his words could be false!"

He lit a cigarette and looked at Friedrich.

"When I beat him, I never expected him to confess. He’s had interrogation resistance training; even if I beat him to death, I might still never get what I want. So I needed to use physical pain to push him, drive his mind to the brink of collapse. Hypnotizing him in that state works best..."

"Fatty!" Margaret’s urgent voice cut off his explanation.

"Grandfather says we have to leave immediately! He’s ordered everyone in the family to cover us. We go now!"

.Now that the secret’s been lifted, you’ve probably guessed most of it. Of course, there are still a few secrets that won’t be revealed until the very end of the novel.

.Also, about ’tomato stewed Fat Cat’—I only got to eat the tomato, no cat meat at all. Could you guys turn up the heat a bit and let me have some meat?

I’m begging you.

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