There were fewer customers in the restaurant, and Leo felt that the pain in his body was almost gone, so he moved to the restaurant and found a place to sit.

"Haven't eaten yet, have you? Something? Smith asked.

"The old rules."

"Okay."

Looking at Smith's back, Leo couldn't help but sigh in his heart. His parents disappeared, and he didn't have any real feelings, maybe because they had been separated for too long. The feelings for his father seem to be deeper than those for Smith.

After all, it was a lifesaver, and it was he who ended Leo's journey to hell.

The Snake Shadow's election, also known as the "Unrestricted Election", was founded by the second generation leader, Brian Caton. This man laid down a total of 43 basic provisions, which came to be known as the "Brian Rule", which are to the snake shadow what the constitution is to the state.

Unrestricted elections are one of them.

The so-called unlimited is reflected in two aspects, one is that there is no special restriction on the identity of the candidate, as long as it is a person in the snake shadow, even if it is a sweeper, he is also eligible to sign up for the election. In addition, the current leader is usually a candidate by default unless he gives up.

The second is the means by which candidates are not restricted in elections. To be precise, there is only one principle: the impact of any means must be controlled within the organization and within the scope related to the candidate, and if it exceeds this range, all the consequences that occur will be borne by the candidate. The Senate is responsible for monitoring the candidates' conduct in accordance with the principles and can warn, punish, or disqualify candidates if they do not.

As long as this principle is met, the candidate may resort to any means he deems necessary. Yes, by any means.

You can solicit votes at will, or coerce or induce. You can bribe the Senate to give each of them 20 votes, or make them turn a blind eye to you. You can deliberately sabotage other candidates' industries and companies to make them unskilled and uncompetitive. You can create some nasty incident and then plant it on the candidate you want to bring down.

If you're not interested in any of the above, you can try the most direct option: kill all the candidates. Rest assured, this is very much in line with the rules. The eighth generation leader of the snake shadow, Fengyin Shenghua, was elected in this way.

Also, if you find the Senate to be in the way, you can also try to eliminate them, provided you have that strength, and remember to add to the Senate when you are elected. The Eleventh Leader of Serpent Shadow, Skoyol Caton, did just that.

This is an unrestricted election.

Elections generally last for a month, and it is no exaggeration to say that during this month, the snake shadow will become a place outside the law, just like fighting a civil war. Each candidate does everything, and the leaders who are born are either skilled or ruthless.

Although after the election, Snake Shadow's financial and manpower will drop a lot, but it will not affect the overall situation. It can even be said that it is precisely because of the leaders elected by this election method that the snake shadow has prospered for more than a hundred years.

Looking at it this way, Leo really has nothing to do with this environment.

He had lived in peace for a long time and had lost his sensitivity to the crisis. As long as the election begins, the entire snake shadow will be in the wind, and the grass and trees will be soldiers, and any mistake and a lack of attention can bring about death.

What's more, no matter how you look at it, Leo is not an opponent of Gunaveld, and every time like this, someone will choose to stand on the side of the dominant side and fall into the ground.

Payne reminded him more than once that he should not trust his friends and relatives too much now. But Leo couldn't have listened, and it was even more impossible to get him to believe Payne's men.

Not long after he returned to China, his former friends and relatives came to him one after another, cheering him on, and some people offered advice in the hope of helping him. Regardless of whether he had any intention of becoming a leader or not, Leo still received this intention.

One night, his friends drove to Leo's lodgings and invited him to dinner. Leo spent more than a week in Arandel, confined to an unknown villa all day, and Payne arranged for Leo's most elite men to keep him safe, restricting his freedom by the way.

Leo had enough of these days. In fact, the election was arranged by Payne, and Leo was just showing his face and speaking on the necessary occasions. He has also read history and knows that he is in this state, which is called a "puppet".

He didn't question Payne's loyalty to his father, but that was a different matter to himself. So, when his friends asked him to go out to dinner, Leo insisted on going despite repeated obstructions from his bodyguards. As a last resort, the bodyguards accompanied while reporting to Payne.

As a result, on the way to the hotel, the group of friends showed their true colors.

When the convoy reached a certain intersection, it was caught off guard, and countless vehicles rushed from all directions, surrounding the convoy. And several cars in the convoy were also turned around, and everyone's goal was the same - Leo.

"There is an ambush! Gather all and protect Tahori-sama! ”

The bodyguards noticed the bad momentum earlier than Leo, they had a total of three cars, forming a triangular position, and I don't know how many cars and people outside, among them, Leo's friends.

They had long been on the side of Gooneveld, planning to kill Leo in order to curry favor with Gooneveld. They knew Leo was easy to deceive, but they didn't expect it to be so easy to deceive.

It was already murderous outside, but Leo was still stunned. Didn't you say that it was better to eat together and catch up on the old days? Why do you suddenly have to pull out a gun and shoot at it?

Without thinking much about it, the attackers gathered fire towards the triangular position. The bodyguards fought back, and one of the bodyguards reminded Leo that he had just woken up from a dream and hurriedly called Payne. But the signal was blocked, and the group thought it through.

No matter how elite the bodyguards are, their fists are no match for their four hands. Leo, hiding in the middle of the triangle, held his head, and every bullet killed him, and the bullets flew right above his head.

"Why? Why me!? ”

The pale roar was quickly drowned out by the sound of gunfire, and Leo watched as the bodyguards around him fell one by one, and the attackers must have inevitably died, but the encirclement was still not broken.

On the contrary, the bodyguards are understaffed, and the defense line is about to collapse.

Death, as if standing in front of Leo. At that moment, he no longer thought crankily in his heart, as if he had given up thinking.

It's all this damn organization, the damn people, the damn regulations, the damn elections. All damn it.

But there is no reason for him to die in such a place. In what he later told Akeya, he simply made a simple choice between life and death. This is probably the cruelty and courage of the Caton family, a family that made a fortune from the war and dominated the snake shadow for hundreds of years.

Leo silently put on the forest, pulled out the sandalwood dragon, and lit the fire of the forest. Caught off guard, an assailant appeared from his left and raised his gun to shoot.

Jingle Bell –

Leo's shield protected by the firelight of the forest, and he lunged forward, picking up the sandalwood dragon and striking it head-on, as the attacker was stunned. The blow was so powerful that the attacker was so stunned that before he could fall, he was stabbed in the temple again. Now he was not only unconscious, but also dead.

At this time, Leo found himself untying a chain, a chain that bound reason, bound morality. There was one more thought in his desire to survive - revenge.

Let these people live, and sooner or later they will come back to kill themselves. No, they can't be spared. This is not the same as an attempted robbery, but an attempted murder, which must be cut down to the root in order to prevent future troubles!

Leo let Canglin melt into his body, into his brain, so that his mood calmed down, and even his blood seemed to freeze, and he completely put aside superfluous thoughts.

Then, go on a killing spree.

The bullets couldn't penetrate the flames of the forest, and the attackers couldn't keep up with Leo's speed. The hunter and the prey had swapped places, and now it was a raging wolf that had broken into the poor flock.

In a few minutes, the sheep were wiped out. Holding the sandalwood dragon and looking at the blade and the blood on the ground, Leo realized what a terrible thing he had done. He was unusually calm just now, but he was also uneasy at the moment.

The guilt cannot be erased in the heart. He stared at the corpses of his friends, and when he did, they seemed to beg to begin, but Leo didn't remember.

He didn't have time to dwell on it. The shootout lasted for a long time, and there would be more and more witnesses, and maybe the police would come later. Although Payne told him more than once that the battle between the candidates, as long as it does not hurt the innocent, the snake shadow can settle down. But Leo still couldn't stop being afraid, afraid that others would see his face.

The bodyguards were all dead, and the enemy didn't know if there were any, so Leo jumped into the car and fled. When there was no one around, he contacted Payne and told him what had just happened.

"I see, Lord Taheri, please don't leave there, we'll go right over!"

Leo breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't dare to park his car on the avenue like this, so he drove to the bottom of a high-rise building, turned off all the lights, and lowered his body.

The lights were bright outside, but the inside of the car was pitch black, and from the outside it looked like a dead car with no one in there. That wouldn't go unnoticed, Leo hinted to himself.

He didn't know how long Payne would be to come, but he hoped it would be soon. The ruthlessness that I had when I killed just now was gone. Fear and uneasiness haunted him, and his body trembled. The eyes are looking straight ahead, and the nose is atmospheric and dare not breathe.

Leo trembled in the car, and it didn't take long for a familiar person to appear in front of him, but it was not Payne, but his uncle, Hadava Caton.

Hadava parked his car not far in front of Leo, got out of the car with his briefcase, and stretched, he must have just gotten off work. Rubbing his eyes a little worriedly, he walked towards Leo's car.

Leo recognized him at a glance, and then his eyes could no longer take his eyes off and just stared. As Hadava approached Leo's car, he noticed that someone seemed to be staring at him in the car next to him, so he stood up in fright and squinted his eyes inside.

"Uncle? Uncle Hadava? ”

"Yes, Doholi?"

Looking at the car window rolled down, Hadava realized that he had guessed correctly, and the person in the car was his nephew. Just this frightened look, and the blood stains on his body, Hadava frowned.

"Are you being hunted down?"

"Yes."

"Then you ...... Killed? ”

Leo didn't answer, didn't dare to answer, leaned on the steering wheel, and buried his head. Looking at the way he looks, not to mention, Hadava also understands.

"What to do, Doheli? Are you going to hide? My home is nearby. ”

"I told Payne, and he's coming to pick me up."

"Oh, let's go to my house and hide first."

With a sentence in the snow, Leo finally relaxed.

"Thank you, uncle, but won't it affect you?"

"Hey, what are you afraid of?" Hadava smiled nonchalantly and said, "I heard that you came back to participate in the election, and I haven't taken the time to see you, but our family supports you, and there is nothing that is not involved, isn't that what the election is all about." ”

With his uncle's assurance, Leo put aside his worries and followed Hadava home.

Hadawa's house is in a nearby high-rise building, and the family is usually a husband and wife, and there is a boarding sister, who is Leo's aunt. Both women were startled to see Hadava lead Leo, covered in blood, in.

"Don't be afraid, Duoheli is just being plotted." Hadava said.

After hearing Leo's story, his aunt and aunt came to persuade Leo to rest assured. His aunt helped him change into new clothes, piled them up on the balcony, and prepared a sumptuous dinner for Leo to devour.

"Slow down, don't choke," said my aunt with a smile, "just stay here, don't worry, if someone you don't know comes, we won't open the door." ”

"Hmm."

Leo nodded, slowly eating the last bit of food on his plate, and just hide from it until Payne came.

Leo, who had eaten, sat on the sofa resting in a daze, and after some time, someone knocked on the door.

"It must be Payne, I'm going to open the door." Hadava smiled and opened the door and walked past Leo.

It was at this moment that Leo suddenly felt a bitter chill.

It was Hadawa's eyes, as if to express something, and briefly looked at his aunt and aunt, and the eyes of the two seemed to be talking.

Surrounded by a sense of disobedience, Leo became nervous again. As Hadawa's hand reached for the doorknob, he finally discovered the source of the disobedience.

From the time he entered the house until now, he only cared about eating, changing clothes, and resting, and he never called Payne, and Payne never called.

So, is it possible for Payne to find this position?

The answer is, no!

Click-

The moment the door opened, Leo's eyes focused on the corner of the balcony, where his changed clothes and weapons were still on the ground, and he jumped to the ground.

However, his aunt noticed his move and ran over first, picking up Canglin and Sandalwood Dragon!

Click-

It wasn't the sound of the door opening, but the sound of the gun, and four or five people rushed in from the outside, drew their pistols and aimed them at Leo as soon as they entered the house.

Without hesitation, Leo grabbed his aunt's hand, broke it behind him, and moved her in front of him as a meat shield, and by the way, he recaptured the forest, but the sandalwood dragon fell to the ground!

Bang bang bang –

The crazy bullets knocked his aunt into a sieve, spurting blood all over her body, and Leo took the opportunity to put on the forest and quickly luck. When the fire lit up, he kicked his aunt's corpse open and used the forest to fend off the attack.

But there was a jet lag in between, as he grazed two bullets in his right shoulder and the window behind him rattled.

"Uncle, no, Hadava!"

Leo yelled at Hadava, who was still smiling, but cold.

"My dear nephew, didn't I say that? That's what the election is all about. I just contacted Gunnavild, and with your life, you can get a lot of money! Then I won't have to work from 9 to 5 in the morning, and I will be able to live a good life! ”

The gunmen pointed at Leo and slowly approached. Hadawa and his wife widened their eyes and grinned, and they walked over step by step with kitchen knives in hand. Hadava was even more ecstatic, looking at Leo like looking at a money bag.

"Your father became the leader, so he didn't care about my brother at all, I asked him to give me a company several times, but he refused! I also have Caton's surname, but I haven't been touched at all, so I can only be an office worker! So good nephew, you can fulfill your uncle for your unconscionable father! ”

So it was, Leo understood that these two people had long since fallen like those friends.

Enough, it's enough, it's all about money and power, as if you can't live without these two things. Could it be that all of Arandel is like that? There are no normal people in the whole snake shadow?

Like, there really isn't, so what you should do at a glance.

The cold feeling from before came back to Leo. He picked up the sandalwood dragon and held it tightly.

"You brought it on yourself!"

*****

This dinner, Rolov ate very comfortably, Luna's craft is still very young, but as a beginner, it is quite good. Rolov drunkenly walked to the door, burping, Christie dressed him, and the others came to see him off.

"And then?" Luna asked.

"As you can guess, Leo killed his uncle, his aunt, and everyone who stood in his way, robbed the car, escaped from Arandel, and went all the way south, fleeing for three days and three nights before arriving in Akiyama City. During this period, he was chased and killed twice, no, counting the old Henry Market, it should be three times. ”

This process, Luna can imagine. What she couldn't imagine was what Leo was in to spend those hellish days.

"Haven't the Gunavelde faction given up on hunting him down now?" Kane asked him what he was most concerned about.

Rolov had already put on his clothes and bent over to put on his shoes.

"In my city, they don't dare to mess around, and as for whether they give up or not, I can't say. You can protect him, though, right? ”

"Oh, almost."

"So, when he comes back, I hope everyone will still call him Leo as before, and I will bury these words in your hearts. Today, let's act as if nothing happened. ”

With that, Rolov smiled and pushed open the door and left with Christie, leaving a room of silence. Everyone quietly returned to the table and continued to eat. But soon, they all put down the dishes.

"Andora, do you know that, too?" Akya asked first, he had been wanting to ask since he heard Andora say those words in Lantian Town.

"Yes, I listened to Leo." Andora replied blandly, "I think you should understand at this point, whether it was Langetta or Rogarshan, why did Leo always take the danger on himself?" ”

Luna was puzzled, "Isn't it because he's confident?" ”

"No, he's just afraid that he won't be able to live with you, that you'll hate him, and leave him, just like those people."

Akya and Kane bowed their heads and remained silent, perhaps because they had had a similar experience. Listening to Andora's words, Tarini felt a little uneasy in her heart, and she quietly grabbed Kane's arm.

"How can you hate him? He saved me! Luna loudly rejects Andora's words, "He's always taking risks like this, it's too late for an accident!" ”

Andora smiled wryly, "That kid is so blessed to have Luna you care so much. But seriously, as his friend, I also want to ask everyone to take care of him more. ”

"Does that need to be said?"

Luna put away her plates and cutlery and picked them up.

"I'm not going to let him die."