Chapter 437 437: Daring Daddy.
The official didn't expect that when he opens the door, he would be greeted with two rather cold and indifferent faces. This apartment was rented in secret and nobody apart from him or the landlord who stayed in another country knew about it. How did these two men found it? This alone was enough to scare him. Just when he was thinking about pushing the door to close it, Leo took out a gun and placed the barrel right on the official's forehead. The official had already recognized Leo and that was why he was so scared.
Leo said, "Shall we have a chat inside the room?"
The man nodded, and Leo moved inside followed by Markus. Alpha had already hacked into the cameras and the security system, this was why the two of them had no worries about being detected. This was a rather high level society in the capital, there were many diplomats who lived in the neighborhood. Leo pushed the man to sit down on the couch and said, "Cancel the appointment with that woman and pay her in full, you have five seconds."
The official was shocked when Leo fired a shot on the side. The official was shocked, because he saw a flash of flame and a suppressed sound. Leo looked at Markus and said, "This is a rather good weapon. If I shoot him in the face, none would hear the sound."
Markus nodded with a smile and then Leo turned to look at the official before he asked, "So are you ready? Or shall I make things easier for you?"
The official quickly picked up his phone, paid the remaining amount of money and said, "The plans have changed, I will see you other time."
That was it, quick and clean, on the other side the lady didn't mind, if anything she was happy. Leo then asked, "So, what do you think I should do with you? Were you not threatening me and my family just a few hours ago?"
The official shivered and said, "Mister Cardinal, it was not me who was causing all this. I was commanded directly by the President, if I didn't do anything, I would have been dismissed from my job."
Leo nodded in understanding and said, "Then you would have been unable to support these escapades of yours, right? Well, how about we do the same. You can call your wife right now, tell her about everything wrong you have done, and then I will let you fly back home. Or you can refuse and I will put a bullet in your head, believe me in the capital of Clover Nation, I have enough resources to cover up even if I kill that pig of yours."
Ashley Cole was shocked, he had no idea how to continue with it. His eyes were tearing, because if he didn't do what Leo told him, he would die and if he did, then what would be the point of living, he would lose everything that he had.
Leo looked at him without any pity and said, "You have thirty seconds to think about it."
Ashley Cole no longer held back, he erupted in cries that echoed in the living room. Looking at him, Leo was thinking about how to gain proper leverage in this situation and just then it clicked to him, he reached over, shoved the barrel of the handgun inside Ashley's mouth and said, "I will give you a chance to redeem yourself. Are you ready to hear?"
Ashley nodded and Leo said, "You have to tell the world about the command that Krump gave you, and how you reacted about it. You have to sully his name and make sure that he becomes the shame of the Eagle Nation. Can you do that?"
Ashley Cole nodded forcefully without caring about the gun still stuck in his mouth.
After some consideration, Leo took out the gun and said, "Clean yourself, and then we are going to record things."
The man nodded, hurried to the washroom, he did think about locking himself in and calling the police but when he patted his pocket he found that his phone had been taken away by Leo earlier, Markus followed Ashley just to make sure that the man realizes he was not out of danger and doesn't try anything foolish. After a few minutes, they finished recording the video, Leo had already received the news that the Eagle Nation has disposed off Krumps as the president. However, this was far from what it would take to calm down the Cardinal Family.
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Snow finished settling the affair of compensating the daughter of the man who died in the bombing, then she returned directly to the office. The whole company was on alert, none of them left even in the late evening. They were calling all favors and they were calling all the businesses they were involved in. The Cardinal Group a massive organization that had countless businesses running today, called for a complete pull back from the Eagle Nation. They didn't even bother with the ongoing collaborations they had going on.
The people directly put the contracts and deliveries on hold and some people who were not willing to cooperate they were shut down with a load of money shoved onto their faces. Snow was showing why she was sitting in the command, her pull and tactics that seemed to naive in the past began to show the layers. All the benefits that she gave to others, she left small chinks and just now she was stabbing the sword directly into those chinks.
That was not the only thing that caused the people to stand and watch in awe. Elvin had also pulled his strings, the Eagle Nation stock market was clashing and the people didn't know how to handle that. Investors in the Gulf and the rest of the mediterranean were pulling back. Zion had reached out to the Clover Nation and offered to be a peacemaker, like it usually did, but the Clover Nation had been baptized and the King directly replied, "This is not something that needs to be negotiated. We didn't attack them, and so we are just protecting our self and our peace."
The Zion President didn't expect that he would be met with such a strong shut down. This statement left no room for negotiation, however, they were not playing the small game and it were not in a hurry at all.
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While Lily had rallied support from the masses of the Clover Nation, Snow had made big splash in the Eagle Nation business world, and Elvin had attacked the stocks. However, when the video of Ashley Cole went only the impact was significant, the foundations of the so called democratic shook when the people realized how big this shady diplomacy was spanned.
In the end, Ashley Cole became the whistleblower. Leo told him to live an honest life from now on, or he would die a death so painful that would make him a nightmare for others. Ashley Cole literally peed himself. Then Leo and Markus left the house.
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After coming out of the building, Markus asked, "What now?"
Leo took a deep breath and said, "Zion. I will go to Zion, and handle the bastards there. Do they think that they can do what they want and just because they are living in the shadows I will not target them? I will fucking kill them all in their homes."
Markus shivered, he realized that Leo was really going to infiltrate Zion. Although that country was small, but it was surrounded by high walls and had no exit on the surface. They had either tunnels or the air route. How will Leo go there? That was the question.
Leo called Alpha and asked, "All ready?"
Alpha replied, "Yes, Sir, it has all been prepared."
Leo nodded and then with a quick step he got on his bike, leaving Markus on the side of the road. The latter had not been told to follow, Leo was going in alone and while Markus was worried, he was aware that if he was to go missing the entire world will try and investigate if the Pinnacle Securities were involved in this mess. Since Leo was going ahead, then he must have the confidence.
That night, Leo boarded a flight heading to the Zion nation with fake identity. Alpha had given him the perfect cover, and even the Zion Nation system could not catch anything. They had the world's most advanced security systems, but they could not catch anything odd about Leo, the young man had used some micro prosthetics to disguise his face and at the moment, he looked completely different. His cheek bones were highly defined and his nose was slightly hooked. The color of his eyes had also changed into green.
None could tell that he was using contact lenses because on his nose sat a gold rim spectacle and on his eyes was an extremely thin graphene lens. Leo was going to contend with the top brass of the Morning Star Tower, and he was unarmed.
