2079

"Tell me, did you send anyone to kill Mr. Trueman?"

There were no furnishings in the closed room, only a few ordinary chairs and a table.

For most wealthy people's rooms, carpets and decorations are almost indispensable.

But here, there is nothing.

This is a "secret room". Its function is not to keep things secret, but to give people a place where they can talk about private things.

The walls, ceiling, and floor are so simple that you can't find any decorations, and the chairs and tables are so simple that you can see through them at a glance. No one will suspect that there is any recording equipment hidden here, or anything else.

After the former president explained his transactions with those big capitalists, the Security Council temporarily asked him to leave there.

Judging from the evidence currently available to the Security Council, he is just a mouthpiece, not a specific planner or executor.

Leaving him in the Security Committee will not only not bring any assistance in the investigation, but will also cause some unnecessary troubles because he stays too long!

In this world, when a person is qualified to master other people's secrets, he must master more than one secret!

During the tenure of the previous president, he had close cooperation with many capitalists.

If you don't let him out, some people may find ways to fish him out, or simply make him shut up.

As soon as he left the Security Committee, the former president found a good friend who had entrusted him with the task at the time, a big capitalist.

The two were in the former president's secret room, and he asked the question he cared about most——

"Have you really done that?"

Until this moment, the former president had some belief that these people might actually be involved in the assassination of President Trueman!

This is something he also finds difficult to accept!

You must know that the relationship between him and Mr. Trueman is not a simple superior-subordinate relationship, but a very complicated relationship.

They are superiors and subordinates, friends, and even close "comrades-in-arms."

When he encountered a scandal, Mr. Trueman was the first to stand up and support him, which largely prevented him from leaving early and preserved his dignity.

And after that, Mr. Trueman, as his political successor in a sense, gave him a lot of credit.

The relationship between the two parties is very delicate.

The current former president knew that he might have been assassinated by these people, and he also felt some dissatisfaction and anger in his heart!

If Mr. Trueman survives and successfully leaves office, his influence will far exceed that of all previous presidents after leaving office!

Even in the first four years, his influence was greater than that of the victorious president!

All these things that could have been used to help the former president himself are now dead.

When he didn't know about it before, he didn't feel much about it, but now he realized that these things might be done by his good friends.

He thought these people were evil and stupid.

Facing the questioning of the former president, his friend sat in his chair feeling a little embarrassed.

The fingers of his hands were intertwined randomly, and after he let go, he made some small movements in his hands to add some context, but he opened his mouth, clasped his hands together again, and closed his mouth.

He didn't know what to say.

And this attitude also made the former president realize that they might have really done that!

"You are too brave and too stupid to do such a thing?"

The former president was very disappointed. In fact, most of the time, the vast majority of the truth is disappointing.

The good friend had to speak at this time. He pursed his lips and said, "We did consider doing that, but it was not our doing!"

The former president's tone was somewhat mocking, "You don't have as much confidence when you speak as you do when you lie!"

The good friend was scolded for a while, and now he was a little angry. He raised his voice and said, "Then what do you want me to say?"

"To tell you, 'Yes, Mr. President, we killed Trueman'?"

"I said, we considered doing it, but we didn't do it!"

"At least I don't know anyone did that. This matter has nothing to do with us. Someone wants to frame us!"

Sometimes the voice is loud and it does sound righteous.

The former president took a few steps back and forth, "This matter is a big deal. I asked about it, and they and the justices all support getting to the bottom of it."

"My relationship with them isn't as close as the two of us are, I mean if you're not really more involved..."

When he said this, he paused for a while, silent, as if weighing the pros and cons.

After a while, twenty or thirty seconds, he glanced at his good friend and then continued, "...Then you'd better cooperate with the investigation of the Security Committee."

"They'll find you soon!"

My good friend, the big capitalist, suddenly stood up in shock, "You told me to go out?"

The former president was also a little annoyed, "I'm just a fucking old man, you know their methods, I don't want to pee my pants in it, and I don't think I should keep any secrets for your stupid plans!"

"Since you are not involved, you must get out of it as soon as possible!"

"This is good for you and me!"

"And soon more agencies will join the investigation, and you think no one will know about the damn secret things you do."

"But in fact everyone will know soon, and you will never know their methods."

"No one can truly guard anything, not even God!"

The good friends fell into silence again, this time for a longer period of time.

After a while, he stood up and prepared to leave. At the same time, he said, "I will seriously consider it. Before that, I will first get more information that I may not know."

"If you have any ideas, I will contact you as soon as possible."

The former president knew he had not yet made a decision, after all he allegedly plotted and carried out a plan to assassinate the president, and succeeded.

If this were revealed, it would be the first major incident in the past twenty years. The federal government has not abolished the death penalty. Except for a very few states with a strong religious atmosphere, all other states have retained the power of the death penalty.

In other words, as long as the evidence of the crime is confirmed, he will really die!

The lifelong justices will not compromise with capital on such a deal, they will eagerly send the capitalists to the execution stand!

After his good friend, the big capitalist, left, he immediately sent someone back to his home. He poured himself a glass of wine and then dialed a number.

The phone was picked up quickly, and neither of them spoke immediately, and there was silence for a while.

Monopoly asked at this time, "The person who did it...is one of ours?"

The person on the other side of the phone suddenly became a little manic, "You shouldn't talk about this on the phone!"

Monopoly was not so nervous, "As long as you don't tell the specific content, even if these conversations are recorded, they won't be used as evidence in court."

"I just want to know now, is he one of ours?"

Mr. Trueman was pressing too hard. He only had one week left to sign the privilege order. Once he signed, the amendments to the antitrust law would take effect.

In other words, with only one week left, most big capitalists are pushed to the edge of the cliff.

Either they will be brutally dismembered by the federal government, or they will all join together in silence.

At this time, the federal finance is unprecedentedly prosperous. Once those large groups, large consortiums, and companies with actual market monopoly behavior are broken up, it will be difficult to continue to be manipulated through some means as before!

International hot money and new forces will swallow everything they can, so some of them do arrange assassins.

This matter was originally a very secretive matter and it was impossible for everyone to know, so they entrusted it to a reliable person to be responsible for it.

Others only offer money and facilities, but absolutely no more knowledge about the entire content, so that massive leaks don't happen.

So Monopoly himself doesn't actually know whether the person who assassinated the president was the person they arranged.

After the person in charge on the opposite side was silent, he denied Monopoly's question, "If you want to hear the truth, then I can only tell you that it was over before we had time to take action."

"It looks like there are others who thought the same as us and were ahead of us, so it's not our doing."

Monopoly rubbed his temples, "Are our players still there?"

"Is he safe now?"

The person on the other end of the phone answered quickly this time, but the content of the answer was different from what the rich man wanted.

"what are you up to?"

The guy on the other end of the phone asked. He was keenly aware of something and became a little nervous.

Monopoly could only explain, "We can cause an accident and walk away, you know what I mean."

"Now that we're being targeted, maybe give them something they want and it'll be over."

"What do you think?"

The call was hung up, but Monopoly breathed a sigh of relief. This was good news, at least for him.

It was not their people who took action, which meant that they only had premeditation but no concrete implementation.

If an accident happens to a specific "tool man", they may not even have premeditated it.

At the same time, he was also a little curious, who was it that took action so quickly that they didn't even have a chance to do it?

But now these things are not so important. At this time, he feels more and more that his good friend and former president is right, it seems that he has been taken out.

Otherwise, it will only become more and more troublesome later, especially if the military also intervenes in the investigation, it will be a disaster!

But how to make these things have nothing to do with yourself, how to do this, is particularly important.

It can't be too abrupt, and it can't be too passive. This is a bit nerve-wracking.

Maybe his good friend and former president will give him some help for the sake of our friendship over the years!