Chapter 217: Incubation
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At the same time, Antonio once again walked into the underground laboratory in his sterile overalls, but his arrival attracted the disgruntled eyes of Professor Kevin Nell, the director of the laboratory, and Speaker Cressy Jakes.
"You shouldn't be here, Antonio!"
Cressy Jakes frowned, "I don't know if the people from the Nathan Athletic Group are staring at you? Jamie Burt, the newly hired head of the information department of the Rising Sun Company, is not a guy to mess with, that is the former pillar of the Skyeye Detective Agency." β
"Of course, how could I not notice? You know? Now when I travel every day, there are at least two teams of people following behind, a dozen people, and they don't even cover it up, that's a bunch of shit! But it's only a hundred meters away from my club, and it's easy to hide from them. β
Antonio shook his head, "Alright, Cressie, I'm here to find out how we're doing? I heard that our illusionist is already in place, right?
"It's been a good progress. β
The answer, Professor Kevin Nel: "Her negative emotions have reached the threshold for three days in a row. It only takes about seven more days for the resurrected eggs in her body to hatch. β
"So we'll have to wait another seven days?"
Antonio suddenly frowned: "Cressie, it's not a way to wait like this. I think we'd better take action, that Andrey, we can't afford to ignore it anymore. I hope that the headquarters side would be better off sending one or two top-level Shadow Magicians over to cooperate with my side of the operation. β
"Action, Antonio, you want to kill that lucky Andre, don't you?"
Cressy Jakes said lightly: "It's not as simple as you think, Antonio. A top sponsor like him who can bring great benefits to the Nathan Athletic Group will definitely provide him with the 'Emergency Teleportation' and 'Holy Guardian' scrolls. Also, if I were Dwight Payton, I'd even ask a legendary mage to put a coordinate anchor on him if possible, and if that lucky Andre was in danger, a high-level outlaw would be present at any time. β
"Are you suspicious? The Nathan Movement Group has the resources, and the power, and Dwight Payton, his influence is not limited to Nathan. Don't you know? That guy had already been a field supervisor in the FBI before joining Nathan, and he was a C4-level senior officer, only three levels away from the D4-level FBI director. In fact, I've already received word that Dwight Payton had already placed an order with the legendary alchemist Schroeder a week ago, and they spent a lot of money to create a ring for that kid, which is constantly immune to most dimensional anchor spells, the 'Directional Teleportation', and the legendary 'Holy Guardian'. This thing will be delivered to him within a day or two at most. β
Antonio was slightly stunned, and then his face showed anger: "This matter, you should have told me about Cressy earlier!"
If he had known that this ring existed, he wouldn't have waited until now to do it. As for the high-level outlaw, maybe Cressy Jakes was right, but he still wanted to give it a try.
"What can you do? Will you kill that kid in advance then? You won't, Antonio, the reason why you have such thoughts now is because you've been hurt by that kid, right?"
Cressy Jakes shook her head disapprovingly, "I know the consequences, Antonio. After all, he was the registered heir to the Wildenstein family, and it is said that his mother, who was once favored by Consely Wildenstein. If he were to die in an abnormal way, who knows what the consequences would be? We can offend Dwight Peyton, but we can't afford to offend Conseus Wiltenstein. If you still want to be in the city, continue your career. β
"But I can't always be so passive. β
Edwin Antonio couldn't help but snort softly, "You know where I'm now, Cressie? Of the 37 combat groups in my hands, 13 have been destroyed, and more than 20 outlaws have been killed in the battle. The guys below me were already on the move, staring at the spot below me. Do you know why that bastard boy's men are stirring up trouble in the east of the city? The bastards, they want to see our jokes. β
"You don't want to see me taken down, do you? Without the help of the Bloody Hand as a peripheral force, it would be difficult for me to provide effective cover here. β
"Don't be so pessimistic, Antonio. β
Cressy Jakes couldn't help but laugh: "They can't shake you, can they? We can make up for you in a month with the thirteen combat teams you lost." You've got Richard the Black Axe, and Aonzo the Blood, and as long as they're there, you'll be as secure as the Alps in the Bloody Hand Party. Even if they're gone, won't there be me? I won't allow the Bloodhand to change leaders unless they don't want to gain a foothold in the city. β
"You?"
Antonio looked at him with suspicion: "Mr. Speaker Cressie, you did have such power in the past. But now, the newspapers are full of scandals about you. I've heard that within the Conservative Party, there is also rejection of you right now. In the past two days, I have stuffed more than 7 million gold guilders into the Eastern District Police Station, but I have not been able to feed those greedy jackals. They've long since stopped buying your face, Mr. Speaker Cressie. β
"It's just a small trick by that Mr. Peyton, and there is no basis for those so-called scandals, and he is just using it to undermine my political prestige. But as long as the seventy-nine farms in the eastern suburbs, and the black poor people in the southern suburbs, still support me, then my position in Atlanta is unshakable, and this is my rootβ"
"Wow, our Speaker is still so naΓ―ve?"
Antonio sneered: "The point is that the FBI and the Cathedral of Light are also investigating this matter." And you're going to need seven days! After seven days, who knows what it's going to be like? Maybe my head has been cut off and stuffed in some toilet bowl, just like I did to other people before. I think if they know the truth, then whether it's you Cressy or me, we'll be swept into the trash! Even I have plans to give up the Atlanta territory, and you still have such naΓ―ve thoughts. β
"You're right, but Antonio, life has more allure than you can imagine. So even if the FBI and the Cathedral of Light get involved, the political situation in Atlanta will not be completely unbalanced, who do the few places you give away from us belong to?Antonio, I promise that as long as the Dragon Lady of Calamity is successfully resurrected, everything that belongs to you in Atlanta will still belong to you. As long as the FBI doesn't have evidence, they can't help you, but now it's a society governed by the rule of law, isn't it? And everything at the moment is just a small trouble. β
Cressy Jakes shook her head, disapproving: "Also, don't forget that Halloween is in two days, and we have an alternative." This may reduce the completion of the resurrected egg. But if we have no choice, Her Highness the Calamity Dragon Maiden can still return from this girl's body. β
"So there's no need to worry, Antonio, haven't we already arranged it? Thursday afternoon to ruin him. That kid was able to go to war with you because of the support of the Nexon Movement Group and his ability to carry goods, but if all this is gone, he is an ant at your disposal. I promise, by Thursday, he'll be able to get his hands dirty. His fighting talent is extremely high, but after all, he is only a fifth-level magic swordsman, you know what I am preparing, right? Poor Andre will be smashed by a sword from Kadio Rhodes. β
Seeing that Antonio had been convinced, Cressy Jakes turned his eyes to Professor Kevin Nell again: "I just listened to you, it seems that I was hesitating?
"It can't be said to be a nuisance. β
Kevin Nell smiled wryly: "Theoretically, we only need to keep her negative emotions up to the threshold, right? But as I said to Mr. Antonio a week ago, there is still a glimmer of hope in her heart, an unrealistic fantasy. This Hazel, she hopes she can be saved. I thought that with the arrival of the illusionist, I would be able to solve this problem. But the current situation only forcibly suppressed her hope, and did not completely shatter it as I expected. β