Chapter 567: Chapter 567 Leocadia Family Outraged_1
The people present, including Beckett Carmichael, were all stunned.
Was this a threat?
They didn’t think so.
Beckett Carmichael had seen with his own eyes how Julius Reed, alone with his sword, had wiped out the Shadow Warrior group hired by the Roosevelt family for a hefty sum.
But this was the Leocadia Family!
A colossal existence!
Even Beckett Carmichael himself didn’t dare to speak to Natalia Leocadia like that.
The four major families kept each other in check and used one another.
But no one had ever dared to issue such an assertive notice.
“After the New Year, I will make a trip to the capital. To kill one person, to save another.”
Julius Reed looked at Beckett Carmichael, “Prepare my plane ticket and hotel, thank you very much.”
Having said this, he glanced at Itai Huntington, then turned around and strode away.
…
At that mont, in the Leocadia Family’s conference room.
Nearly a hundred people filled the seats.
“For the first ti in many years, the Leocadia Family has been threatened.”
Natalia Leocadia slamd her phone hard onto the floor, shoved her hands in her pockets, took a deep breath and said, “Call Winona Leocadia’s phone for !”
“No one is answering, we’ve already called hundreds of tis.”
Inside the conference room, a man holding a phone shook his head helplessly.
“Then keep calling! Nearly a hundred Leocadia Family mbers went to Gonzalez City, are you telling they all died!”
Natalia Leocadia roared, pointing at the man, “If you can’t get through on the phone, then you take a plane there! I don’t care by what ans, or how you do it, but I want to see people alive or bring their bodies!”
“Yes, Manager Leocadia!”
The man lowered his head, continuing to dial Winona Leocadia’s number.
“Manager Leocadia, we have surveillance caras installed in Gonzalez City, I suggest we retrieve the recordings.”
A woman in her forties raised her hand and spoke up.
Slap!
Natalia Leocadia smacked her forehead, frowning, “How could I have forgotten about this! Hurry up, imdiately retrieve the surveillance footage and project it onto the big screen!”
After she had spoken, she grabbed a chair, sat down, and stared straight at the information on the big screen.
About three minutes later, the video ca up.
At the sight of the image on the big screen, everyone’s eyes widened.
The whole room fell silent.
You could hear a pin drop.
“How could this happen!”
Whoosh!
Natalia Leocadia slamd her fist on the table, pointing at the screen, “Look! Look at this! This is a great disgrace to the Leocadia Family!”
She angrily circled the conference room, pointing at the images on the screen, “This isn’t just my disgrace or yours, it is a disgrace for all Leocadia Family mbers! All these generations, who has ever been humiliated like I have been today!”
On the screen, the scene was a ss.
The display cases of the Leocadia Family were so broken they were barely recognizable.
Shards of glass were scattered everywhere.
“Manager Leocadia, we should call the police. This is no different than robbery. The goods we have in Gonzalez City are worth several billion yuan, almost reaching ten billion. Such a huge loss must be investigated for responsibility.”
A clerk with glasses stood up, offering a suggestion.
“Your idea isn’t bad, say it again so I can hear it.”
Natalia Leocadia quickly walked over to the man with glasses, placing her hand on her ear.
“Manager Leocadia, I suggest we involve the police. With such a significant loss, as long as the police get involved, they will surely give us a satisfactory explanation.”
The man adjusted his glasses, looking ecstatic.
He had been employed by the Leocadia Family for so long, yet this was the first ti he had earned the appreciation of Natalia Leocadia.
Even in his heart, he had already been contemplating whether he was about to be promoted.
Snap!
A heavy slap pulled him back to reality.
Natalia Leocadia slapped the glasses off his face, even causing his nose to bleed.
“Have you lost your mind? Report to the police?”
Natalia Leocadia stood in front of the bespectacled man, coldly saying, “Do you think the Leocadia Family hasn’t been humiliated enough? Or are you eager for everyone to know that the Leocadia Family’s exhibition in Gonzalez City was smashed?”
He turned around, roaring angrily, “The Old Master might have fallen, but I am still standing here! The Leocadia Family is the Leocadia Family, no matter who becos the Family Head, it remains a lion that nobody can provoke!”
With Old Master Leocadia being seriously ill and hospitalized, Natalia Leocadia naturally took over the managent rights of the Leocadia Family.
At this critical juncture of the old and new transition, even when Natalia Leocadia’s position had not yet been consolidated, an incident where the Leocadia Family’s exhibition was smashed occurred. How would this be perceived by others when it got out?
Was Natalia Leocadia incompetent?
Old Master Leocadia had controlled the family for so long without a single incident.
Now, only a few months after he had taken charge of the Leocadia Family, such a huge scandal had occurred?
“Investigate this imdiately! Find out who owns that number! It’s three in the afternoon now—I want all the information on this person by three-thirty! If anybody has a problem with that, step forward now.”
Natalia Leocadia scanned the room and found that everyone remained silent.
“Get to it now!”
With a roar of anger, the people in the eting room dissipated in an instant.
After everyone had left, only three people remained in the room.
These three were the trusted followers of Natalia Leocadia.
One of them was even an expert in poison.
The illness of Old Master Leocadia was the work of this person’s hands.
“Karen, what do you think?”
Natalia Leocadia sat in the chair, continuously massaging his temples.
The smashing of the exhibition was a great humiliation!
He had to give everyone an answer.
Otherwise, how would the Capitol view the Leocadia Family, how would the world view the Leocadia Family?
“I believe that soone daring to smash your exhibition and even call to blackmail you, must have a backer behind them,” said the man nad Karen, speaking at a leisurely pace.
“First, not many people are aware of your phone number; it’s only known among the upper echelons in the Capitol. How could an insignificant person from Gonzalez City get your number?”
“That’s right! Few people know my number. In the Capitol, it’s known only to the people of the first-tier families. Gonzalez City doesn’t stand a chance of knowing it, not even Winona Leocadia knows my number.”
Natalia Leocadia nodded, sinking into deep thought.
The Leocadia Family enforced a strict hierarchy; each person was accountable to their imdiate superior.
Winona Leocadia, being a mber of a branch of the Leocadia Family, simply wasn’t entitled to know his phone number.
This ti, being one of the heads in charge of the exhibition, was more an action from Natalia Leocadia to win over people’s hearts.
So who leaked his number?
“Second. The world knows the na of the Leocadia Family, one of the four major families. In Gonzalez City, it’s probably as well-known as thunderous applause.”
Karen continued, “Considering that everyone knows crossing the Leocadia Family ans a dead end, how could soone withstand such trendous pressure and pull together so many people to march towards death?”
As if worried Natalia Leocadia had not understood, he explained, “The act of smashing the exhibition venue absolutely couldn’t be a one-man job—it simply can’t be done alone.”
“That makes sense!”
Natalia Leocadia raised a finger, waving it incessantly in the air.
“Such a small place as Gonzalez City, and yet soone dares to smash our venue! It seems the person behind this, must be soone with quite a background!”
“Also, you could ask Itai Huntington, the manager of Five-state International, where our exhibition took place. See if you can learn anything from her.”
After speaking, Karen retrieved a number from his phone: “This is Miss Huntington’s number.”
“Karen, you’ve beco more and more attentive,” said Natalia Leocadia, revealing a rare smile.
He took Karen’s phone and dialed the number.
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