The surface of such a large city appeared to be calm, but within, there was already surging turmoil.
Upstairs, Kevin sits at the chess table, playing against an opponent. He places the chess piece on the board with his fingertips.
The changes on the chess board are silent.
Downstairs, a group of people are being whipped and tortured, their cries of pain never ceasing.
“You are still the one who can stay calm,”
says the man in his fifties sitting across from Kevin. He has a fierce look between his brows, a rigid body, and a style of playing chess that charges forward.
“My family has been in this business for generations, so I just don’t dare to act rashly,” Kevin said with a faint smile.
Suddenly, the sound of torture downstairs stopped.
Soon after, the butler hurried up with a corner of the robe in his hand, bowing to the two men and reporting, “My lords, they still refuse to confess. It’s as if they’ve been drugged. If we continue to beat them, I’m afraid we’ll kill them.”
That night, JT was knocked unconscious by Paige. Paige didn’t care about Santiago or JT’s men anymore, but the family head ordered him to secretly silence JT’s men and bring them here for interrogation.
He interrogated JT’s men about how many people there were, what they were doing, and whether there were any other small clans besides the Wilkie family that were his men… Unfortunately, he couldn’t get anything out of them.
On hearing this, Kevin frowned and looked down. He saw that some people had obviously been beaten to the point of their skin being split open, and despite being delirious, they still refused to reveal anything.
“Recently, there has been something fishy going on in The Capital. These people are exceptionally loyal to JT,”
He put down his chess piece and said, “The second is that the Davis family disappeared overnight and became JT’s territory. The third is the personnel changes at the four city gates. I always feel like a big net is closing in on us.”
The head of the The Gustin family’s villa across the street listened intently, reached out and played his piece, “You the Folsom family have always had a good relationship with the Davis family. They suddenly disappeared without a trace, and you haven’t heard a thing?”
“No,” Kevin shook his head. ‘Now that there are only two families left, we must cooperate.”
“If you ask me, you’re just looking for trouble. No matter how strange it is, it only points to one person. Instead of interrogating these people, you should interrogate JT,’ said the owner of The Gustin family’s villa. “And he is in your hands.”
That was true.
“I have promised my cousin that I will not touch him. He is not in his right mind, so he must not be the real person behind the scenes. Someone has pushed him into our sights,” Kevin said.
Upon hearing this, the person across the table laughed, ‘Leonard, after being so wise all your life, how could you not understand this?”
“What?’ Kevin paused in his move.
The Gustin family’s villa’s owner glanced downstairs, “These people would rather die than give up any information about JT. Do you think JT is just a puppet?”
Kevin’s gaze froze.
“Your cousin lied to you,” The Gustin family’s villa’s owner said.
The piece in Kevin’s hand fell onto the chessboard with a crisp sound. The Gustin family’s villa’s owner looked at him and said, “Leonard, although we didn’t get any useful information from interrogating these people today, I am now convinced that JT is the person stirring up trouble under The Capital. Only someone who can do such a big thing can train his subordinates like this.”
Even they, they cannot guarantee the absolute loyalty of each and every one of their subordinates.
JT has managed to do so, but I don’t know what methods he used.
“…”
Kevin didn’t refute.
In fact, he could also see that JT’s actions were so mysterious that ordinary people could not achieve them.
“Recently, the movement of food in the city has been so abnormal that I’m afraid it will be too late if we don’t do something.” The Gustin family’s villa owner said with a grave face, ‘If there is something you can’t do, I’ll do it.”
“What do you want to do?’ Kevin asked.
“Interrogate him. If everything is as we suspect,”
The Gustin family’s villa owner pressed his son hard against the chessboard, his voice falling with the rain outside, “then kill JT and purge the world.”
Kevin sat in silence in his wheelchair. He suddenly thought of the way Paige had stood by the lotus pond and begged him, and the way she had suddenly turned around to save him…
Two thoughts pulled at his heart.
He didn’t want to hurt Paige, but if JT died, would that mean he…
Kevin closed his eyes, rubbing a chess piece in his hands, unable to make up his mind.
The rain outside the building continued.
…
It was almost late at night before Paige finally saw Kevin, who had been delayed.
She sat on the doorstep, looking up at the bright, clear moon in the sky.
Kevin did not avoid her as he had in the morning, but instead, he took the initiative to turn his wheelchair to her side and looked up at the moon just like she did.
“What are you thinking?” he asked in a low voice.
“I’m wondering if my ancestors were so troubled that they sat in the courtyard and looked at the moon over and over again,” Paige said indifferently.
The real Leonard liked Hazel, and he also knew about JT’s misdeeds. He stood on the side of justice and wanted to deal with JT, so there was nothing wrong with that. What did he do?
Kevin laughed lightly, “Why do you think so strangely?”
Strange?
Paige vaguely sensed one thing: no matter how much she wished to change things, the plot that should unfold in this city was still unfolding.
This feeling was really powerless.
She looked at Kevin and said in a very light voice, ‘The granaries of the three major families must be kept an eye on these days, and there must not be any slip-ups.”
Upon hearing this, Kevin’s eyes darkened, ‘Granaries? Paige, how much do you know?”
“I probably don’t know any more than you.”
Paige smiled, and then, slowly standing up from the ground, she stared at the front courtyard gate and said, word by word, “But I won’t let anyone take Enrico away from me.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the courtyard gate opened.
The butler led the men in, and they froze when they saw Paige as soon as they entered.
Paige looked at their hands, and there were guns and clubs, as well as anesthesia powder, and even sacks were ready.
Kevin sat in a wheelchair with a frozen expression. He didn’t expect that Paige had seen through his thoughts. He lowered his eyes and said, “Paige, there is a problem with the food in the city. I must hurry and interrogate him. This concerns the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the city.”
“I promise, no matter what evil deeds he has done, as long as he cooperates, I will not harm him. I will wait for you to find someone to heal him.”
These were the terms he had negotiated from the head of the Gustin family’s villa.
JT was in his hands, and he could at least guarantee JT’s life.
“I still say the same thing, I won’t let anyone take Enrico away,”
Paige said expressionlessly, taking two steps forward and standing under the cold moonlight.
She reached down and untied the thin whip wrapped around her waist, her fingers tightening with each one. She swung it on the ground, and the courtyard immediately rang with a crisp sound.
Kevin frowned at her stubbornness.
The butler stood there, looking at Paige like this, and couldn’t help but say, “Miss, this is the Folsom family.”
She’s only the young lady of the house, it’s not good to hit like this in the master’s house, is it?
“I know, but I also know that as soon as I go out, someone from The Gustin family’s villa will come up and arrest someone. I don’t want to fight with them again, so Enrico has to stay with the Folsom family.”
Paige stood there with a thin whip in her hand, her eyes cold. “Don’t worry, I’ll try not to seriously injure you, but if you can step over my dead body, you can interrogate Enrico.”