Chapter 465, The Measure of Friendship
Brooklyn now understands what it means to be alone and wrecked. He didn't dare tell Winston and Frank about the breakdown with Burke and Anthony.
At this point, he suddenly found that the only trustworthy people who went around and around were David and Ray.
Winston and Frank each have their own concerns, and he is not sure if the two of them will go crazy with him.
He felt like he was being cornered. Brooklyn walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet, picked up the water and slapped his cheeks, sobering himself up from his anger at the destruction.
Eventually, he propped his hands on the sink and lowered his head deeply. Squeak - squeak - the door to the bathroom was opened, and someone walked in.
"Brooklyn?" Heather Gerken stood against the wall with her chest crossed, looking at a depressed Brooklyn.
"Get out!" Brooklyn said calmly. Heather Gerken didn't roll, he lowered his hand, pulled out the pocket towel on his chest and handed it over.
"A few years ago, John Manning had a secret pact with me." Seeing that Brooklyn didn't answer, Heather Gerken put the pocket towel on the sink, returned to the wall, and said slowly
"We're going to help him get rid of the organization that Lyley Crewe is with."
"And then divide the FBI together."
"There are many details and extensions to this agreement, but because of John Manning's physical reasons, as well as Burke Forsman's sabotage, it has not been successful."
"We only carved up the FBI." At this point, Heather Gerken paused slightly, and then suddenly changed his words and said
"I've heard about your ideas."
"You're a lot like Lyry Crewe. In fact, I have never been able to understand why John Manning is looking for a successor like Lyleigh Crewe. ”
"But it doesn't matter." Heather Gerken asked and answered as if he were talking to himself. He continued
"In fact, for some people, it doesn't matter what kind of ideology or ideology, the important thing is to get enough profit from it."
"I think you're a good idea to bring Harvard together and restore or even surpass the brilliance that John Manning created."
"What do you want to say?" Brooklyn looked up, grabbed the pocket towel on the sink and wiped it on his face, and asked coldly
"Recruit me? Think I'm pathetic? Think I'm a lost dog? Heather Gerken said, shaking his head
"Yale is different from Harvard, we focus on realistic results." Brooklyn wiped the water from his face, wiped his hands, threw the pocket towel into the trash, and sneered
"You want to see Harvard infighting, feel like I'm falling into the bottom line now, and you want to help me and continue to fight with the two of them."
"It's better to get involved, huh?"
"You think I'm the right opportunity."
"I don't really have much affection for Harvard, but Heather Gerken, I haven't counted the twenty shots in the chest. Do you think I'll work with you? ”
"I want a complete Harvard that I have complete control. Otherwise, I'd rather not. Heather Gerken's kind face calmed down, he stared at Brooklyn for a moment, shook his head and sighed, and turned to leave.
Brooklyn stood there for a moment, sneering. Instead of immediately returning to the venue, he went to the next room, where Winston and Frank were waiting.
He had come to his senses of anger and destruction, and he needed to continue to play the role of being dominated by such emotions, to mobilize the power in his hands, to show something.
"How?"
"Is there a result?" The door opened, and Winston and Frank greeted him, asking in a loud voice.
Brooklyn shook his head and described the situation in the room, without involving the negotiations in the stairwell.
"Frank, I'll ask Bob to send you a list later, get their information as soon as possible, you can go to Mark Mie to help, I'll say hello to him in advance." Brooklyn doesn't talk much nonsense, directly assigns tasks.
"Winston, contact Will McWayin and get Frank's investigation out there." The two looked at each other and did not act immediately.
"Brooklyn." Winston squealed with some concern. Frank asked directly
"Is there anything you didn't tell us?" Brooklyn shook his head and said solemnly
"I suspect the two of them will join forces again, and they will have to be prepared first."
"It's not like it's a preparation to sabotage their union." Winston was a little more experienced, he said, shaking his head
"By doing so, you're treating them as political enemies." Every election, whether it is a presidential election, a gubernatorial race, or a congressional election...... In order to win, the candidates will spare no effort to dig up the black material of their opponents, and if there is no black material, they will also publicize it.
Therefore, every time there is a campaign, the news of the federation is full of black materials, and the people who eat melons and the major media are too busy.
Winston, the most experienced politician of the three, was keenly aware of Brooklyn's purpose.
This is not the attitude that cooperation should have, nor is it the preparation to sabotage cooperation.
"I'll try not to get them to cooperate, that's for the best." Brooklyn said as usual
"But we want to prevent them from really cooperating, preparing for one-on-two." Nominally, the two of them were called in to celebrate the breakthrough.
But in reality, they don't naively think that their only mission here is to celebrate with champagne.
They were mentally prepared to help. But there is a limit to everything. What Brooklyn is going to do is target the entire Harvard School.
No one dared to do that. Brooklyn can do this because he's a Harvard insider, and it's an internal struggle that he's doing it.
Winston and Frank are not Harvard insiders. In the face of the 'foreign invasion', no one dares to say that Harvard will not retaliate.
Helping Brooklyn tide over the storm and become Speaker, Harvard will naturally not retaliate. But what if it fails?
They're already in trouble. Brooklyn also lost the talisman of Harvard. Brooklyn looked at Frank and Winston calmly, and did not say anything.
Once they did, they were completely tied to him. In this environment, it's a very, very, very deliberate choice.
Brooklyn understands the two men's hesitation and is willing to give them time to think about it. He could even promise on the spot that even if the two didn't, Brooklyn would understand, and swore that it wouldn't affect their partnership and friendship.
But in an age where the average person hears three lies every ten minutes, Brooklyn doesn't believe that promise himself.
Winston and Frank finally made a decision. They tapped Brooklyn on the shoulder and picked up the phone.
Brooklyn stood in the doorway for a moment, whispered a 'thank you,' and turned to leave. On the other side, the security door to the stairwell was pushed open again, and Heather Gerken coughed twice and stood still fanning his hands.
By this time the stairwell was full of smoke, and Anthony and Burke were piled with cigarette butts at their feet.
"Burke, hi." Heather Gerken greeted him warmly, but Burke's attitude towards him was very cold.
This framing ploy was not enough to get Burke to be tricked. Heather Gerken didn't expect Burke to be so easily attacked, he reached out to Anthony for a cigarette, and then asked with a friendly smile on his face
"What are you discussing?"
"What a shame John's death."
"The last time we met, John looked healthy." Heather Gerken chattered, and Burke and Anthony reacted calmly.
After smoking a cigarette, he looked left and right, put his arm around Burke's shoulder, patted him the back, and waved at Anthony.
"You've got to hurry, and when the Speaker is elected, remember to inform me that we have something to talk to Harvard." Heather Gerken didn't say anything special the whole time, but he expressed an attitude as if he had said everything.
The sound of Burke's cell phone vibrating broke the silence in the stairwell. He picked up his phone and looked at it, raising an eyebrow.
He heeds Brooklyn's warning before leaving, and in order to figure out the next step for the madman Brooklyn, Burke asks someone to investigate Brooklyn's childhood.
Surprisingly, they only got a small amount of information about what happened to the three Brooklyn people after they left the orphanage, and they couldn't investigate what happened in the orphanage.
It's a blank space there! The three of them seemed to pop out of thin air. Burke carefully flipped through the investigative materials, which noted how the three brothers stole food and how they struggled to get by.
But such examples are everywhere. Most of the descriptions in the material focus on Ray and David, and there are not many descriptions of Brooklyn.
The few descriptions that exist are only about his academic performance and his time at school. Excellent performance and excellent grades.
It's just an ordinary Asian American honor student treatment. I don't see the meaning of madness at all. He sent the information to Anthony and said
"We may have messed with a madman." Anthony was quick to browse the material, mainly because he had already read the Brooklyn material, and now a lot of the content on it was repetitive.
Soon he finished reading it and looked up
"You provoked it." Burke frowned slightly, and secretly cursed in his heart, 'Anthony is a big stupid donkey'.
He knew that with Anthony's words, Heather Gerken's plan had succeeded. Heather Gerken is like a-stirring stick, stirring up east and west, in fact, it is very simple to deal with this kind of person, just treat him as air.
But it's such a simple method, but few people can do it. Burke Forsman smiled self-deprecatingly.
Saying that Anthony is stupid, when I first heard the news of Heather Gerken's appearance, didn't I also suspect that Anthony did it?
Thinking so, Burke took out his phone and logged into a strange web page, and said without raising his head
"Anthony, the cooperation still works, kick out Brooklyn, we're going to do what we can. What do you think? Anthony didn't make a sound, but took a cigarette butt in his mouth and chewed it slowly.
Speaking of which, he is not young anymore. The quarrel in the conference room just now gave him a headache, and he liked to sit on the sofa, holding coffee, and discuss slowly, and he didn't like or adapt to the intensity of the face-to-face conflict.
He simply can't keep up! This forced Anthony to admit that he was not that young anymore. At first, he was able to keep up, but later, most of the time, it was Brooklyn who was fighting Burke, and he only opened his mouth once in a while to give Brooklyn ideas.
They still cooperate quite tacitly. Anthony couldn't help but start reminiscing about the past. Ever since John Manning's death, he has often begun to reminisce about the past.
When was the first time he recalled the past, he couldn't remember it anymore. It's just that it's become more frequent lately.
He was just in the conference room, and for a while, he sat there, watching Brooklyn and Burke debate, and as he watched, he suddenly remembered the debate he had participated in in college.
Then Brooklyn and Burke's figures began to slowly overlap with the people he knew. This again reminded Anthony of Brooklyn.
Burke said Brooklyn was crazy. Actually, Anthony feels okay. He felt that it was understandable for Brooklyn to do anything.
After all, what they asked was, 'I'm going to kill you, so please don't struggle to resist to avoid trouble.'"
In order to survive, even if it is to hire a murderer, Anthony thinks it is understandable. He was a little envious of Brooklyn again.
After such a long period of high-intensity debate, Brooklyn's exhaustion was evident, but his mind was still clear.
Unlike him, his brain is still empty, and he can't concentrate at all.
"Anthony?" Burke's voice rang out, waking Anthony out of his world. Looking at the dazed Anthony, Burke frowned.
After exiting the conference room, Burke realized that something was wrong with Anthony. He's been wandering his mind.
This is not at the level that Anthony Kennedy should have. This made Burke very worried that the ally he had chosen would be a problem for him.
More allies are not always better, and they are not all kinds of goods. A good ally can give you a great boost, fighting your enemies alongside you and making the sum of its parts greater than its parts.
A bad ally will only drag you back, create all sorts of trouble for you, and then go crazy to collaborate with the enemy.
Now Burke fears that Anthony will take the initiative to collaborate with the enemy and send a handle to Brooklyn's hands. But it's also a good opportunity.
A madman and a fool are more likely to provoke, and he can just sit back and reap the benefits. Burke looked at Anthony in a daze, and quickly had an idea.
"Anthony, are you alright?" Burke asked. His tone and expression of concern were the same as when he first met Brooklyn.
Anthony shook his head, spat out the saliva-soaked cigarette butt in his mouth, and sneered at Burke's face with a warm smile.
"Put away your disgusting smile."
"The way you look now, it reminds me of Angela, I'm going to vomit with nausea!" As he spoke, Anthony spat on the ground.
Angela, a female student they met in college, a fat woman of more than 90 kilograms, with thick fingers, arms thicker than his thighs, two thick braids, a big cake face, a nose facing the sky, ears to the wind, and a rough voice...... For some reason, Angela is madly obsessed with Anthony and chases Anthony every day, which makes Anthony disgusting.
Later, in a bet, Anthony loses and has to accept punishment and spend Spring Festival with Angela. After that night, Anthony hadn't touched a woman for three years......