Chapter 429

The strength of a young man and that of a man in his thirties are different, even if they look similar in build.

Zaccaro was not knocked down by a single hammer blow. His eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets as he stared at the nephew behind him.

In a state of emergency, his body was in a state of high tension. One hand gripped his pants tightly, while the other gripped the back of the sofa.

His whole body seemed to be about to fall backwards, but because it had stiffened, it did not fall.

He had never thought that a young man who had almost never been involved in family affairs could be so ruthless to his uncle.

His thoughts had frozen. After the severe trauma to his brain, his ability to think had come to a halt. He just stared at Francisco, using this glare to express the anger and terror in his heart at this moment.

Blood flowed down from the top of his head, flowing quickly. In the blink of an eye, it had covered a part of his face, even hanging on his eyelashes.

Perhaps unable to bear his glare, Francisco, having come to his senses, swung the hammer and hit him twice more. The skull was obviously dented, and his body twitched as he slowly fell onto the sofa.

His whole body was like a wooden man, his joints unable to move.

“Is he dead?” Francisco, holding the hammer, asked Alberto. “He should be dead, right?”

“But why is he still twitching?”

Alberto gave him an appreciative look, then took out a towel, covered Zaccaro’s face, took the hammer from Francisco’s hand, and hammered a few more times. He stopped moving.

The thud thud sound was a bit like forging iron. The sound of the hammer hitting the bone was not particularly dull; a slight crispness could be heard.

“Now he’s dead.”

Alberto looked at Francisco with an inquiring gaze. “You’ve killed someone now. How do you feel?”

Francisco thought seriously for a moment. “Simpler than doing math homework.”

This answer was something Alberto had not expected. He thought Francisco would say “a little scared,” “couldn’t bring myself to do it,” “needed to mentally prepare,” or something like that.

He then laughed. “I hope your math teacher can relax a little after knowing your feelings.”

He searched Zaccaro’s pockets and took out the keys, some of which were for a safe.

Zaccaro had some properties here that the family needed to take over. This part of the property would also become Francisco’s property, to be used to recruit subordinates or for other things.

By the time the two of them left the room, the people in this house were basically all killed.

Originally, Alberto wanted to disguise the scene as an attack by Yalanese people. Even if everyone understood they weren’t killed by Yalanese, at least leaving some clues related to the Yalanese at the scene would forcefully frame them.

However, Francisco proposed a different view. He felt there was no need to do this. Since they had decided to get rid of these two people, let people know who did it, and why.

Looking at Francisco’s naive face, Alberto seemed to vaguely see, through this face, that man!

After this incident, at least those people would not easily bully him again.

After the Cassia family is destroyed, his prestige will also be enough to make his uncles and aunts no longer easily breed the thought of replacing him.

When a smart hunter wants to not be threatened by those ferocious predators, the most common and simplest effective method is to sprinkle the feces of a stronger animal around.

In fact, humans and animals are the same. When people feel threatened, feel afraid, they will also choose to avoid.

Just like the President at this moment. He continued to issue orders in his presidential palace, but because of some of his actions, some changes had occurred in the seats of Congress.

The newly appointed congressmen also understood the work they needed to do and began to exercise the power in their hands.

The chain of interest transfer, like the blood vessels of this super-giant, the Federation, began to travel through the newborn flesh, being born.

During this period, besides solving the problem of mutual opposition between the Five Families in the city, Bandy also had to solve some troubles in Congress.

A portion of the Social-Democratic Party senators had stepped down due to interest exchange. Although the Social-Democratic Party was still the majority party in the Senate, anyone could see that they could not hold on for too long.

Four years later, to be precise, three years later, the Liberal Party would definitely push a very charismatic candidate to run for election. At that time, the number of seats for the Liberal Party in the Senate was expected to exceed that of the Social-Democratic Party, becoming the majority party in the Senate again after many years.

These changes at the top might be a small change for the people at the top. Some of them lost their “jobs,” and some got new “jobs.”

But for the people in the middle and lower classes, this represented a huge change. Not only a change in positions, a change in power, but also a change in the interest network.

Gory answered the phone and then came to Bandy’s office. Bandy glanced at him and pointed to the chair in front of him. He was holding the receiver of the phone, communicating with the person on the other end.

“…I know, I’m already on it. This part of the funds will be operated through those few foundations soon…”

“Okay, I know, I’ll handle it. Okay, goodbye, Mr. Senator.”

He put down the receiver as he spoke, then looked at Gory.

“One piece of good news, one piece of bad news.”

“The good news is that starting this quarter, the funds we hand over will be a little less. Some people have already left Congress, so we no longer need to transfer funds to them.”

“And the bad news is, we might be targeted.”

Gory looked at him, a little confused. “We’ve already given so much money out, why would we still be targeted?”

Bandy shook his head. “The Liberal Party, the Social-Democratic Party, the Federalist Party, they all want to become the king of the new era. When we give a blood transfusion to the Social-Democratic Party, it might disrupt some balance.”

He moved his left and right hands up and down. “It’s a very complicated matter. I’m not too clear on it myself, but at least for the next three years, we are generally safe.”

“Then what about after three years?” Gory was a little worried.

A smile appeared on Bandy’s face. “We’ll see how things are after three years. As long as Likalai State doesn’t change color, if we let some interests out, maybe we can continue to be stable.”

In Golden Port, in Likalai State, the Kodak family was one of the esteemed Five Families. They controlled countless wealth.

People often say that the Kodak family supports all the civil servants in Likalai State, because the salaries they receive from the government all come from the Kodak family’s annual gaming tax.

Of course, this is actually an exaggeration, but it’s not completely without logic, because the taxes they pay are indeed a lot.

In Golden Port, even the mayor needs to be mindful of their feelings.

But at a higher level, they are actually not that significant.

Bandy had encountered this kind of crisis more than once. This time, he believed they could still get through it safely.

“Alright, let’s not talk about this. Is there anything else?”

“I just saw you looked a little nervous.”

Gory came back to his senses, his expression slightly complicated. “There’s been a little accident.”

“What?” Bandy asked.

“Sarif’s son is dead. The Yalanese did it.”

“And Vittorio and Zaccaro are also dead. Francisco did it.”

Bandy was taken aback for a moment. “Didn’t I tell them to stop now?” The “they” here referred to the Cassia family.

Gory shook his head. “I called to ask. They all said they didn’t do it, but there were also mutual accusations. They are all saying that someone doesn’t want things to stabilize.”

Bandy cursed a few times. “Then Francisco’s side…”

“They say they still want revenge, unless one side is permanently down.”

Bandy couldn’t take it anymore and slammed his fist on the table. “These sons of bitches…”

He pursed his lips tightly, thinking of a countermeasure, but it was clear that the two families had rejected his proposal.

Gory, on the side, also suggested, “If it really doesn’t work, then let’s just give up on the Cassia family.”

“Figal has already come over to our side. If it’s two against two, we still have a big advantage.”

“These Yalanese people are filled with a kind of unwillingness in their bones. Even if we can press them down now, they will cause trouble again in the future.”

“And, I’m worried that Sarif’s son wasn’t killed by the Yalanese. They used this method to stop our plan.”

“You need to consider these problems.”

“Our goal is just to make the city stabilize quickly. If sacrificing one family can achieve this, then it’s also an acceptable thing.”

Gory saw things differently from Bandy. Gory had always been in charge of the dirty work, while Bandy was mainly responsible for the clean work. The two brothers had a clear division of labor, just like the Fleming and Stone brothers.

One was the general manager of a legal gaming company, and the other was the enforcer of a criminal family.

So Gory leaned more towards pragmatism.

“After everything stabilizes, if we want to support some small gangs to develop and grow, won’t it be an easy matter?”

Bandy thought for a moment and finally agreed.

When Gory said that Sarif’s son was dead, his first thought was “it wasn’t the Cassia family who did it.” Someone was pushing the city to continue to be in chaos. Now the matter was not just a problem of the Five Families’ opposition, but also the speculators hidden behind the scenes.

At this time, Bandy, who had already made a decision, immediately made a decision. “We have all underestimated Francisco, and also overestimated our own influence on them.”

“Find him, and also the current person in charge of the Tita family. Call Figal too.”

“The city can’t continue to be in chaos.”

“Before November, I want to see it quiet down.”

(End of chapter)