A Bumpy Road to Power

This is not an ordinary room, but a funeral hall.

In the center, there is an offering table, and on it, a memorial photo.

The person in the photo is none other than Terrence Hall.

Next to it hang prayer flags and wreaths; the entire funeral hall's setup, you have to admit, looks quite detailed.

Braddock Yarbrough froze at the abrupt sight of such a scene.

He seemed to realize something.

Quickly turning around, he saw the face of a strange man.

"Who... who are you?"

Braddock Yarbrough asked, startled.

The man let out a cold chuckle.

And said, "The one who wants your life."

This man was none other than Cosimo Griffin, whom Dirk Carter invited from Serenity State.

Why him?

To begin with, Cosimo Griffin was unfamiliar to people like Braddock Yarbrough.

Secondly, the task ahead was something only Cosimo Griffin could do well; it was his expertise.

Upon hearing these concise words.

Braddock Yarbrough gulped and said, "Big... big brother, you... you might not fully understand the situation. I... I'm Braddock Yarbrough, the chief of the police station, I'm an officer. You... if you let me go now, I won't hold a grudge, but... but if you try anything, the consequences will be severe."

"Is that so?"

Cosimo Griffin coolly asked.

He flipped his palm.

A sharp, gleaming dagger appeared.

A flash of light.

With a puff sound, the dagger plunged into Braddock Yarbrough's thigh.

Of course, this stab perfectly avoided all the blood vessels, merely slicing the flesh.

"Ah..."

Braddock Yarbrough clearly didn't expect the assailant to be so swift.

The pain was excruciating.

His two other brothers in the adjacent room heard the sound and trembled with fear; had their mouths not been stuffed, they might have screamed along too.

Blood gushed from the thigh.

Cosimo Griffin asked, "More serious than killing someone?"

"Hiss..."

Braddock Yarbrough hissed sharply.

Clenching his teeth, he said, "You damn... remember this, I'll kill you, for sure!"

Cosimo Griffin had seen it all.

Would such threats work on him?

He smiled slightly, his hand on the dagger's hilt exerting gentle force, causing the sharp blade to loosen bit by bit, slicing more skin, and soaking the pants in crimson instantly.

The pain in the thigh spread out.

Almost making Braddock Yarbrough faint.

"Ah... bastard... kill me, just kill me..."

"Kill you? Isn't that too easy for you? But rest assured, you won't see tomorrow's sun, as today I'm here for revenge for Terrence Hall."

After saying this.

With a puff sound.

He withdrew the dagger.

And plunged it into the other leg.

This time, Braddock Yarbrough finally couldn't hold on.

He let out a miserable cry, tilted his head, and fainted.

Clatter...

A basin of cold water splashed onto his head.

Braddock Yarbrough woke up in a daze again.

The overwhelming pain swept over him once more.

"Damn it, I'll kill you..."

Clearly, he wasn't entirely 'tamed' yet.

No worries.

Cosimo Griffin has experience.

He was unhurried, like performing a trick, flipping his palm, revealing a packet of table salt.

He shook the salt bag in front of Braddock Yarbrough.

And said, "Know what this is? It's salt. In a moment, I'll open it and sprinkle it on your wounds in front of Aping, a pinch to the left, a pinch to the right, and tonight you're in for hell, I'll make Aping watch closely how you die in front of him from the pain..."

Initially.

Braddock Yarbrough had some backbone.

But now, seeing the salt.

He felt awful all over.

He knew exactly what it felt like to have salt sprinkled on an open wound.

Fear made him tremble all over.

"I... I'll tell you... I'll tell you who ordered me to kill Terrence Hall, I'll tell you, just don't... don't sprinkle the salt..."

"Sorry, I'm not interested in who ordered you to kill Terrence Hall, just that you're the one who did it, I'm only here for you."

Cosimo Griffin said lightly.

Upon hearing this.

Braddock Yarbrough became even more anxious.

He said, "Foul deeds have roots, debts have owners; I wasn't the one who wanted to kill Terrence Hall, it was Edgardo Houseman, Governor Jiang's secretary, he ordered it, I have evidence, I have evidence..."

"Evidence? What evidence could you have? You did it, don't drag others into it."

Cosimo Griffin deliberately replied.

The more he said so, the more intensely Braddock Yarbrough confessed.

After all, looking at the current situation, this stranger must be somehow related to Terrence Hall; he was here for blood, and things had reached this point, survival was the priority.

Dirk Carter's plan was that straightforward.

If he had handled Braddock Yarbrough himself, Braddock Yarbrough would have inherently believed Dirk Carter wouldn't dare take his life; but switch to Cosimo Griffin, and it's completely different.

Cosimo Griffin, soaked in the underworld for years, naturally exuded murderousness.

Secondly, when he took action, he showed no mercy; he clearly knew the ropes.

Braddock Yarbrough feared no beatings, no threats, but feared someone would indeed take his life.

It was for this reason.

That he dared to implicate Edgardo Houseman.

This is the classic case of the soft fearing the hard, the hard fearing the fierce, the fierce fearing the reckless, the reckless fearing the fearless.

"I... in my house safe, there's... the money he gave me, a... a total of six hundred thousand, and... there's surveillance footage of him coming to my house, all in there on a USB drive, you... you can find it now."

"Password?"

Cosimo Griffin asked.

Braddock Yarbrough gulped.

He gave a number.

After getting the password, Cosimo Griffin left the room.

Soon.

In Braddock Yarbrough's house across the way, he indeed found cash totaling six hundred thousand and the surveillance video of Edgardo Houseman visiting.

Unfortunately.

This surveillance video had no audio.

In other words, the video only proved Edgardo Houseman visited Braddock Yarbrough and gave him six hundred thousand, but not that Edgardo Houseman ordered Braddock Yarbrough to kill anyone.

In the subsequent interrogation.

Braddock Yarbrough spilled the beans, detailed the plot to kill Terrence Hall.

That day.

After Dirk Carter and Gwendolyn Lewis left.

He dispatched someone to create a false alarm, then the instructor led the on-duty officers to respond.

He took the opportunity to enter the station.

First, he turned off the surveillance, then sneaked into the detention room, first rendering Terrence Hall unconscious, then severing his pulse, creating a fake suicide by wrist-cutting.

Thus.

Terrence Hall perished in the detention room.

Of course.

The motive was simple.

To create chaos in Veridia City.

Thus pinning the blame on Dirk Carter.

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