“Pay attention to your safety!”
Watching Ted and his men board the train to Indeno State, Robin waited for a while before leaving the platform.
He returned to the manor and went to see Frank at the first opportunity.
“They’ve left?” Frank motioned for Robin to close the door, then pointed to the chair opposite him.
Robin walked over and sat down. “Yes, I watched them get on the train.”
As long as you paid, the railway company didn’t mind sending out an extra train.
Almost all the railways in the Federation were privately operated. After all, they had paid to build the railways, so how to operate them was certainly up to them.
The federal government basically couldn’t get a hand in this aspect. Congress had once tried to pass legislation to allow the federal government to have, if not complete control over these railways, at least a certain degree of decision-making power, but it had not been able to take effect.
Under the lobbying and sniping of capital, the proposal was passed around among a few people, and then there was no follow-up.
In fact, this was also an alternative way for the senators to extort. They could publicly claim that they were drafting a proposal that would have a huge negative impact on certain enterprises.
In order not to let this proposal become a reality, the capitalists would start to stop him.
Mainly by means of throwing money.
In order to have Ted start this great war as soon as possible, Frank had specially coordinated and had spent a little more money to get this temporary special train.
After all, it was wartime now. A large amount of industrial materials and products were continuously gathering from the north to the south, and then being sent to the front lines.
The chain effect of temporarily adding a train was not small. It might lead to the delay of some scheduled trains, and for the major railway companies of the Federation now, it was a time when they could not make a mistake.
However, for Frank’s sake, they still added it.
Frank was a little emotional at this time. “What kind of surprise do you think they will bring us this time?”
Robin was born in the most prosperous period of the Perez family, so for him, the Perez family was always the strongest in his heart!
Even if they sometimes encountered small setbacks, they would eventually overcome them.
“Ted has been working for the family for all these years. His personal ability, his experience, in all these aspects, I have never worried.”
“He should be able to achieve victory. This time he has brought at least two or three hundred people. Even if he can’t severely damage the Lance Family, he can let them understand that they are just a minor character in a remote area!”
When Robin said these words, he barely paused. His strong confidence made even Frank couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “I like your idea, Robin.”
“Did you know?”
“Your grandfather left me a sentence when he left, which has great significance for me. Now I give it to you!”
Frank’s father could also be considered a legendary character, the one who had pushed the Perez family to its peak!
Robin also greatly admired this grandfather, whom he had not had much impression of.
He had liked to come into contact with the stories of the family elders since he was a child, such as how a few people, a few horses, a few guns, could rob a special train carrying gold.
Or how a dozen or so people from the family had robbed a post office convoy.
At that time, the banks were not yet convenient. The main way of capital flow was the post office. The convoy of the post office meant that there was a huge amount of wealth hidden, but it was also very dangerous.
He liked to listen to these legendary stories, as if he were in a fantasy adventure of a great era. He felt that if he could have been born a few decades, a hundred years earlier, perhaps he would also have become a legendary figure in the Perez family!
Instead of now, where many people felt that his success, everything he had, was all because of his birth.
Watching his son sit up straight and even check his appearance, Frank couldn’t control himself from laughing out loud. This was also the reason why he liked this son.
On the one hand, he was very much like him, and had always been with him, very close.
On the other hand, while he had the fashion of a young man, he also paid great attention to tradition.
At his age, his status, he had only then realized that “tradition” did not refer to the things that had happened in the past and the people of the past, but referred to him!
“Your grandfather was lying in bed. He asked everyone else to leave, leaving only me.”
“He said to me—”
“Never lose the courage to be the first to open fire, and don’t forget to think when you are in a difficult situation.”
“Family is always our strongest backing and strength!”
He imitated what his father had said to him vividly. “His words have taught me a lot, and the more things I have been through, the deeper my understanding!”
“Today I teach you these words. This is also a responsibility placed on you, Robin.”
“Don’t let me down!”
Robin nodded. “I will become a remarkable person, Father.”
To become a “legendary character” was his mission to himself!
After a journey of four days, Ted finally arrived at the place where Milo’s body was stored.
A morgue, inside which was a high-power freezer. A state police officer was handing over some legal issues with his lawyer here.
In any case, the person was dead now. As a victim, in the situation where they had not obtained any evidence of Milo’s crime, and it was impossible to obtain it, the state police department had not made things difficult for Ted, who wanted to see his son again.
When he had signed the last document, the police captain in charge of this case looked at Ted, whose eyes were red, and said to him with some hesitation, “I have a suggestion for you.”
Ted nodded. “Please speak.”
The police captain pursed his lips. “Don’t go in to see him. Taking his ashes back is the greatest respect for him.”
Tears instantly welled up in Ted’s eyes. He looked at the police captain with wide eyes. “Thank you for the reminder, but that’s my son.”
“I will take him back, not a handful of ashes!”
When he said these words, he was gritting his teeth. Although his religious beliefs did not mind him taking back a handful of ashes, he did not want to do so.
The police captain looked at Ted and finally sighed. “You’d better be mentally prepared before you go in. I won’t go in.”
He patted Ted’s arm, which was a kind of comfort, a kind of encouragement.
Ted took out a handkerchief and wiped his eyes. Although “a tough man crying” would make people think that he was very weak, the people around him did not think so.
They all knew how much Ted doted on his son, and also understood the despair and pain after this emotional collapse.
The lawyer put away the documents. “You can go in. You can be alone with him for a while first. If you need anything, call us.”
Ted nodded. He put away the handkerchief and then came to the morgue next to the state police department, and then walked in.
Milo’s body had already been taken out. To be honest, when his body had come over, even the medical examiner of the state police department had thrown up.
You know, what big scenes haven’t these medical examiners seen?
The murder cases on the interstate highway are the most numerous, the most dangerous, and the most terrible!
The bodies they had to deal with were all strange and varied. For example, a pile of bones that had been gnawed by wild dogs or wolves?
Or a “big shot” who had been thrown into a rotten ditch and had swelled up, and would leak water with a touch.
They had dealt with all kinds of bodies, but Milo’s body was definitely the most impactful, and also the body that made them feel how much malice this profession was filled with.
Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, that’s the only way to describe it.
And it was very difficult to handle. The outer shell was already hard and crispy, and would break with a touch.
This also led to the fact that he couldn’t be put into the freezer at all. In the end, there was no other way. They could only dismember and then reassemble him, taking him apart and then putting him back together.
So the moment Ted saw Milo, he began to vomit. He didn’t even dare to look, couldn’t look at the body!
He couldn’t believe that this was his son!
After vomiting for a long while, he had almost nothing to throw up, just some mucus from his stomach.
He could also be considered a person who had seen big scenes. He had killed god knows how many people, and all kinds of tragic scenes had long had no effect on him, but…
He told himself that that was Milo, his son. He took a few deep breaths, turned around again, and then turned back again and began to dry heave.
After being tormented for more than ten minutes, he was finally mentally prepared.
Looking at the pieces of meat that looked like they had been cooked, the crispy leather, and the orange-yellow fat, he could only close his eyes in the end.
He touched Milo’s cheek with his hand.
It was not the same feeling as before. It was uneven. His mind was full of that terrifying face. He immediately turned and left. He had decided to take Milo’s ashes back, not his body.
This body would make Milo a laughingstock of the Perez family!
He would not allow his son to not only not get any honor after his death, but also to become a topic of conversation for people!
He found the medical examiner and explained the situation. The medical examiner did not refuse. Anyway, they would have a special person do this kind of thing.
Ted had paid double the money, so the people from the crematorium came very quickly.
They, on the other hand, went in with a calm face. They were not overly uncomfortable with Milo’s body. After all, they had seen this kind of situation too many times in this job.
Sometimes, after burning halfway, the fire would go out, or a certain hole would be blocked and not completely burned. You would always have to pull it out, have a look, and then process it again.
So much so that if you burned too much on the right hand at once, you would also have to pull it out, turn it over, and then stuff it back in.
So it was just a… crispy shell.
Ted stood outside the morgue, smoking. He couldn’t help but look into the morgue again. He saw a young man from the crematorium, who was actually tapping Milo’s crispy shell with his finger.
In an instant, a violent emotion began to spread from the bottom of his heart. He directly crushed the cigarette he had just lit and hadn’t taken a few puffs of in his hand. Even the hot cigarette butt was directly crushed out by him.
He looked at the smiles on the faces of the two crematorium workers who were talking, and his face became more and more cold.
Soon, with the effect of the money, Milo directly entered a cremator that had already been preheated. One of the staff members even said to Ted with a smile, “Sir, you will need to wait for two hours now. I personally suggest that you… go for a walk in the vicinity.”
Ted nodded slightly. After taking a deep breath, he turned and left with his men.
He did not leave the crematorium, but just from inside, came to the car outside.
He just sat there, occasionally glancing at the chimney of the crematorium, at the black smoke coming out of it.
No one dared to talk to him. He must be extremely angry now. No one wanted to be uncomfortable.
Two hours later, he had smoked more than half a pack of cigarettes in the car, and then he left the car with a cold face, not forgetting to take his dagger with him.
Soon he saw the two workers by the side of the cremator. They were pulling Milo out of the cremator.
On top of it, you could still see that there were some things. Not everything could be burned, for example, the bones.
The bones that had been calcined by the great fire were already pale white, but on the iron plate under the bones was a piece of black and white fluffy dirt.
Seeing Ted come back at this time, the two workers were a little embarrassed, but they did not explain much.
They took a special tool and, while wiping the floating ash on the iron plate, they also broke the remaining bones.
In the end, these things were mixed together and put into an urn by them.
“All of him is in here.”
Ted reached out and stroked the urn. Although it was very cold, it was better than before.
He glanced at the young man who had “offended” Milo in the morgue and beckoned to him with his finger.
The young man was at a loss. He knew that these people must be big shots, so he obediently walked over.
The next second, just as he was still thinking what this gentleman wanted to say to him, a dagger was directly plunged into his neck, and then swiped outwards.
Half of his neck was directly cut open. The young man turned his head in terror. His head, having lost a part of the traction of its muscles and skin, was at a surprising angle.
The other employee looked at all this in terror. Before he had time to run, he was stabbed in the chest by one of Ted’s subordinates.
“Deal with it, motherfucker!” He bent down and wiped the dagger on the young man’s body, wiping off the bloodstains before sheathing it, and then left with the urn in his arms.
His subordinates lifted the two people and threw them both onto the cremation platform, and then pushed them back into the cremator, and in accordance with their previous operation, they directly lit the fire.
The fire, in an instant, blocked everyone’s line of sight and burned fiercely.
An hour or so later, when the other two employees came to take over, they didn’t see anyone, but only the fresh blood on the ground, and the still burning cremator.
The two thought that the blood on the ground was from when the corpse was being handled, and they cursed while cleaning the ground.
Another forty minutes or so passed. They pulled out the cremation platform and looked at the obviously abnormal ashes on it, and were stunned for a moment.
“Burned a fat man. No wonder the smoke is so black.”
The two looked at each other and smiled, and began to handle it…
From this day on, no one knew where the two workers had gone, and why they had disappeared.
On the day Ted had taken Milo away, Lance had already known this news.
Just as Christopher had arranged for people to guard Alberto’s body, Lance had also arranged for people to guard near the state police department.
When they had seen Ted’s men take the body away, they had called Lance, and then had been following them all along.
“It doesn’t take so many people to pick up a body. The news that Bolton told me is that they have brought at least two hundred people.”
Lance sat in his chair smoking. “So besides taking Milo away, they are also coming to find trouble with us.”
A warmonger always knows how to show himself at this moment. “Fuck him!”
Hiram waved his fist and shouted, which brought laughter from everyone. They were used to it.
A submachine gun had not only opened someone else’s skull, but had also opened Hiram’s soul!
He was a free, unrestrained soul!
Lance nodded in agreement. “Yes, as long as they come in, we’ll fuck them!”
“The problem now is, are they planning to drive into Likalai State, or are they planning to take a train here?”
“If they plan to drive, we will have to wait a while before we can meet them. After all, there is still quite a long way to go.”
“If they plan to take a train…”
Lance shrugged. “No matter how they plan to come, we will prepare a super surprise for them.”
“Have the brothers get ready. As long as they dare to come, they can’t leave alive!”
At this time, Ted was also considering this problem, whether to drive, or to take a train.
“If we drive, it will be very difficult for us not to run into the state police. they will reveal our information, and we may be ambushed on the way.”
“Taking a train is relatively safer. We have cover, and the speed of the train is very fast. Unless they blow up a section of the road, otherwise they simply cannot stop us.”
In the hotel, Ted’s trusted subordinate was discussing with him how to go.
This was undoubtedly two not-so-smart methods, because no matter how they went, they would be discovered in advance.
Because of the temporary special train, the major railway companies on the Likalai State side would definitely know the news in advance.
Golden Port City, as one of the most important ports, Lance definitely had a good relationship with these railway companies.
After all, to offend Lance meant that their trains would not be able to continue to do business on this route.
So as long as Lance inquired, they would definitely be exposed.
Ted licked his lips. “There is another way. Take a boat.”
“We need some little tricks. Arrange for some people to drive, and put some dummies in the car, to find a way to attract the attention of the Lance Family.”
“The others will take a boat with me. Lance and their headquarters are not far from the port. By the time they react, we will already be on their faces!”
Ted, with his decades of wisdom, gave what he thought was a very perfect choice. After the others had discussed for a while, they also felt that there was no problem, so they soon decided to execute it this way.
They had gotten several large buses in the city, and they had not hidden from anyone, and had done it with a great fanfare.
After dawn, everyone got on the bus and headed in the direction of Likalai State. This scene fell into the eyes of the informant that Bolton had developed.
For ten dollars, he had decisively called Bolton.
But what they didn’t know was that these cars, after leaving the city, had directly turned and headed for a small town by the sea. The ship that the Perez family had contacted was already waiting at the docks.
Along the way, Ted was very calm and did not show any complacency for his wisdom.
He now just wanted to avenge his son!
(End of a Chapter)