“…”
Paige watched silently. Well, sure enough, he was more decisive.
It was just a bit bloody.
She pressed her ears, which were hurting from the gunshots. Bryan, who was standing nearby, was a little excited and wanted to go up to Enrico, “Enrico, you…”
Enrico sat on the sofa, playing with the gun in his hand. Upon hearing this, he looked up at Bryan with contempt and asked, “What do you think?”
“…”
Bryan’s eyebrows were knitted together, glaring at him but not daring to speak angrily. He could only stand there stiffly.
Seeing this, Enrico’s smile became even more contemptuous.
Useless trash.
“The head of the Smiths family has fainted and can no longer lead you.”
Enrico glanced at Jason on the ground and asked lightly, “Jaden, who is the next in line to succeed Jason?”
“I have just looked through the Smiths family documents and found that the eldest son should succeed, but he has now contracted the Ferris Wheel virus and is definitely unable to work, so it will be the second son,” Jaden said as he stood there, giving a detailed account.
“Oh?” Enrico raised an eyebrow.
The two bodyguards understood what was going on and stepped forward, pushing out a slightly plump young man from the Smiths family. Bryan looked at him nervously, “Enrico…”
“Mr. Gustin.”
The young man stood on the gleaming floor, both legs shaking and trembling, looking at Enrico with fear.
“Sir, if you are to become the head of the Smiths family, can you disclose the specific itinerary of the infected person? Be a patriotic chaebol?” Enrico asked slowly, twirling the gun in his hands.
“…”
Patriotic and loving the people, why does this sound so creepy coming from your mouth?
Jaden silently glanced at his boss, his face showing no emotion at all.
“I, I…”
The man was already scared out of his wits, his face pale with nervousness. He didn’t know where to put his hands, and he simply didn’t dare to agree. Agreeing would be a sin for the Smiths family, but if he didn’t agree…
In the brief moment of hesitation, the bullet shot straight into his knee.
“Ahhh…”
The man screamed heartrendingly, falling to the ground clutching his leg and wailing desperately.
The Smiths family huddled even closer together. Most of them couldn’t bear the scene in the Hades Hall and began to cry and sob desperately.
Paige looked at them and saw that they were dressed in fine clothes, but they were full of fear and panic. Their usual bearing was gone, and they looked a little pitiful. But in fact, if they were pitiful, what about the infected crowd?
If the Smiths family weren’t so selfish, they wouldn’t have gotten to this point.
“Next.”
Enrico waved his wrist casually, as if ordering the next dish.
“The next one should be…”
Jaden stood aside, silently looking at Bryan, who was standing in the front row. Yes, the next heir of the Smiths family should be him.
On hearing this, Enrico followed the gaze and glanced at Bryan’s white suit.
He vaguely remembered that Bryan seemed to like wearing white.
Time and time again, he had seen this man standing next to Paige, dressed in white.
How did Paige first get involved with this person, attracted to this white elegance? Haha, he doesn’t look as good in white as he does.
He sneered, his finger already on the trigger.
“Bang…”
Bryan’s knee was also pierced by the bullet, and he immediately fell straight to the ground, crying out in pain in a low, broken voice.
“…”
Paige stood by, looking down at Bryan, who had suddenly collapsed, her brow furrowed. She turned to Enrico.
“He said he didn’t want to be a good person,”
he replied, serious, meeting her gaze.
“…”
Bryan didn’t have time to say anything else.
Paige’s eyes hardened a little. Enrico sat there, looking like a rebellious teenager being scolded by his parents. He pushed the tip of his tongue against his cheek a little defiantly and said, “The Smiths family amassed wealth and fled the country, taking with them a lot of core secrets to curry favour with other countries. This is treason. Sending infected patients abroad affects relations between the two countries. Such people don’t deserve to die. I just can’t stand to see it as a patriotic businessman, so I’m imposing a little punishment.”
He has monopolized the moral high ground, so what can she say?
In fact, in her opinion, the Smiths family’s disregard for the lives of the people of Country A and their obsession with self-preservation, as well as their failure to disclose the specific itinerary, are indeed inexcusable. But Bryan is just a spoiled brat who has never had a mind of his own. He can’t be bad, but of course, he can’t be good either.
Paige looked at the bloody wound on Bryan’s leg, pursed her lips, and turned to the trembling Smiths family, “Who’s next?”
“…”
Are you two a demon couple?
Just ask one by one, and if they don’t comply, they get a bullet?
The Smiths family members looked at them fearfully, looking at me, looking at you, no one dared to speak.
One of the men, a thin and weak man, stood there trembling, and the fear in his eyes gradually gave way to greed.
He swallowed, suddenly rushed out from inside, and fell to his knees directly in front of Enrico, grabbed his trouser leg and begged, “Mr. Gustin, I am Jason’s nephew. As long as you let me be the head of the Smiths family, I am willing to disclose the Smiths family’s itinerary of infected patients, and I will do whatever you tell me to do in the future!”
Enrico kicked him away with disgust.
The man dared not say a word after being kicked, and hurriedly knelt down, “Mr. Gustin, I promise that in the future, the Smiths family will be at your disposal.”
On hearing this, Enrico looked down at him and saw greed in his eyes, and couldn’t help but smile.
It was true, normally, the head of the Smiths family would never let a nephew take the job. Today was a chance.
Bryan fell to the ground, unable to imagine that his cousin, who was usually so honest in front of his father, would suddenly turn his back on him. He felt that this was just how cold-hearted people were, and when he thought about what Paige had just said about treason, he realized that they, the Smiths, were all the same, all cold-hearted people…
Suddenly, he closed his eyes with a sense of sadness.
“Mr. Gustin…”
The man still looked at Enrico intently, fearful and greedy, with sweat pouring from his head.
Enrico looked at him mockingly, “You really do look like a dog when you do that.”
The man froze for a moment, and then quickly forced a smile that was even uglier than crying. “Yes, yes, Mr. Gustin is right, I will be Mr. Gustin’s dog from now on, woof, woof, woof.”
“…”
In the entire lobby, apart from the wailing, all that could be heard was the man’s barking.
Enrico listened and laughed, slowly putting away the gun in his hand and pressing it against the sofa. His eyes were full of evil intent as he said, word by word, “You really are an interesting person, this CEO.”
Upon hearing this, the man first froze for a moment, and then understood.
CEO.
He called him CEO.
Enrico had agreed!
Suddenly, the man barked even more enthusiastically.
“…”
Everyone looked at this extremely ironic scene with various expressions.
Paige felt a little helpless. If this were a TV show, Enrico would be the villain.