As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present except the Smiths family couldn’t help but laugh secretly.
The Smiths family members instantly looked even more dispirited.
Paige walked step by step to the box, bent down, grabbed a handful of jewelry, and released her fingers. Seven or eight rings fell, and the diamonds were very large and beautiful.
She couldn’t help but laugh, “The reason why the top of the pyramid is dazzling and eye-catching is because there is a solid foundation at the bottom supporting it. The Smiths family relied on countless people in Country A to have a huge family business. The Smiths family should have some responsibility to the people and the country…”
“I’m just a businessman,” Jason gritted his teeth.
If the situation wasn’t so inappropriate, he really wanted to laugh at Paige’s naivety. Where in the world does one find so much patriotism and a desire to save the world!
“When the Smiths family used their power to do whatever they wanted, how come you didn’t say they were just a merchant family?”
Paige sneered and said, “Jason, what you are doing is… treason.”
She then looked up at Jason in front of her, her eyes sharp and piercing like the cold light of a blade.
Treason.
A very heavy word.
Among the Smiths family, some disagreed, some frowned, and some looked down in silence with guilty consciences.
“Don’t lecture me about morality. The Smiths family has the current family business because of the efforts of the Smiths family members. Today’s national crisis was neither caused by me nor am I responsible for it!” Jason gritted his teeth in a displeased expression.
What does it matter to him whether country A perishes or not? How many people will die because of the Ferris Wheel virus? What does it have to do with him? He has to protect the Smiths family for generations to come.
“Jason is really a first-class sophist,” Paige sneered.
“You are naive, with your ideals and morals. I can’t talk to you,”
Jason said coldly, ignoring Paige and walking straight ahead. “Mr. Gustin, the entire population of Country A is hundreds of millions of people, but the economy is in the hands of one percent of the people. They are the plutocrats, the families that have been passed down for generations. Why do you think it is ridiculous to talk about equality and saving the country and the crisis for a bunch of nobodies?”
Paige is too idealistic, but Enrico is one of his kind, and he should understand what he means.
Enrico sat leisurely on the sofa, one hand resting on the back of the sofa, his trench coat open. Upon hearing this, he raised the corner of his lips in a half smile, unable to tell what emotion he was feeling.
Paige stood to the side, her eyes looking at Jason, and asked seriously, “Where’s the ridiculous part?”
She didn’t find it funny.
“The most despicable thing in the world is grass. It can grow back after being cut, and it’s absurd to ask one percent of the people to work for the 99 percent of the weeds!”
Jason was not as smooth as usual when he mingled with the upper class, and his words were extremely offensive.
Paige’s eyes grew colder and colder, and suddenly she lifted her leg and kicked Jason in the knee.
Jason was not at all prepared for this kick, and he immediately fell to the ground in pain, hugging his knee with one hand while pointing at her with the other, “You-”
Jaden immediately drew his gun and aimed it at him.
“…”
Jason withdrew his hand.
Enrico sat on the sofa, sneering.
“Father-”
Jason’s sons were excited to come up to him, but were stopped by the guns in the hands of the bodyguards.
Bryan stood to the side, frowned, looked at Paige sadly, and said, “Paige.”
Paige turned to look at him.
Enrico’s smile froze at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes looked coldly over.
“I know what we are doing is immoral, but my father has no choice. Your people just tested us, and my eldest brother’s family has all been infected with the Ferris Wheel virus. My father is afraid that our family will die here.”
Bryan looked at Paige almost pleadingly, hoping that she would show leniency.
Since the Ferris wheel virus broke out, Enrico’s people have been keeping an eye on the major conglomerates, using their clout to force them to disclose the number of infected people and names. My eldest brother was originally the sure successor to the Smiths family, and if this news gets out, the Smiths family business will definitely be in chaos.
So instead of waiting for things to get worse, it’s better to escape from Country A as soon as possible.
Paige found this quite ridiculous, and laughed. “You hid the exact whereabouts of the infected people, which resulted in the failure to isolate the relevant contacts as soon as possible, causing the Ferris Wheel virus to break out all over the country. Hospitals were full of people, funeral parlors were full of corpses, but in your mouth, it became the love of a father?”
“I-”
Bryan was at a loss for words, looking at her with a saddened gaze, “Paige, we just want to protect ourselves. Please let us go.”
Paige was about to speak when an angry voice came from behind her.
“Paige.”
She turned around and saw Enrico sitting on the sofa staring at her. He reached out and patted next to him, “Sit over here.”
He’s still chatting with him.
What’s there to chat about.
“…”
Paige withdrew her gaze and looked at Jason, who was lying on the ground, “Jason, I want you to disclose the number of people infected in the Smiths family and all their movements after the dinner.”
Jason’s escape this time must have been reported to many chaebols.
It was just as well that she was using the Smiths family as an example to show the other chaebols that they could not escape.
“If we make this public, we will never be able to set foot in Country A again.”
Bryan didn’t know much, but he knew that if the Smiths family was made public, it would be like helping them trample on the faces of all the other chaebols. Even if the national crisis was over, they would still be unable to survive.
Thinking this, he anxiously tried to grab Paige’s hand. “Paige, let’s discuss it some more, there must be another way, we’re willing to donate money, willing…”
“Paige!”
Enrico’s tone was already a little angry.
Paige put her hand back, avoiding Bryan’s touch, turned to Enrico, and silently took a few steps back.
It’s actually so easy to be jealous.
Just soak in the vinegar.
Enrico had already put down his crossed legs and his face was even more gloomy. “This matter is very easy to solve, why waste time talking to him?”
He said, and then he gave Jaden a wink, “Give me the gun.”
Paige looked at Enrico sitting on the sofa in an uninhibited manner. She wondered if it was because of the ink-black trench coat that he felt a black aura beginning to emanate from him, like the smoke from a burning match, ready to ignite at any moment.
Enrico took the gun Jaden handed him and sat there twirling it around and playing with it. His long, slender legs were slightly spread apart, and a corner of the trench coat was draped over his knees.
After playing with it for a while, he lifted his long eyelashes and looked at Jason, who was slowly standing up, “Jason, my woman told you the specific itinerary of the infected person in public.”
“…”
Jason frowned and didn’t say anything.
“Bang!”
Enrico held the gun without hesitation and shot him in the knee.
A bloody hole exploded on Jason’s leg, and Jason let out a scream before passing out.
The Smiths family members were all startled, huddling together and looking at Enrico as if he were the devil.