1855 United States Tycoon

Stanford regrets it very much now, very regret it. He didn't understand how he was blinded by hatred, jealousy and greed, and actually colluded with the DuPont gang. Now, although Scrooge is dead, the Macdonald consortium seems to be in the midst of the storm, but this big The power of the consortium is still not comparable to him and DuPont. Compared with them, the Macdonald Consortium is like a legendary giant. Even if such a giant is eventually knocked down in a battle with other giants, it can easily rely on the weight of the fallen corpse. Crush an outdated ground snake like Stanford.

The only relief for Stanford is that one of his sons is now far away in Europe. "He might be able to escape this disaster." Stanford thought. He also thought about fleeing, but he also understood that he was mostly targeted. Killing him and his family during the journey was too simple for the people in Heishui. Perhaps halfway through the journey, he and his family will disappear inexplicably. Fleeing is necessary, but it is definitely not feasible now. Now he can only pin his hopes on the policemen whom he paid a fortune. Stanford does not believe that these police officers have the ability to repel Blackwater's commandos. Stanford knows that even if Blackwater's commandos are placed in any country in the world, even those first-class powers in Europe, they can be regarded as the best. Elite combat troops are now, and the potbellied police lords he hires now have combat effectiveness, to be honest, compared with his own guards, they are all vulnerable.

But in any case, these police, at least represent the official, the state apparatus. No matter how crazy the Macdonald Consortium is, it will not directly launch a blatant attack on the police representing the state apparatus. Of course, Stanford also understands that it can transfer the police over to protect itself, and the richer Macdonald Consortium can also transfer these police away by means. But it will take some time, and now, Stanford can only take a day off. I hope that during these times, something beneficial to me can happen.

It was late at night, and Stanford and his family came to the basement as a refuge. Who knows if the houses on the ground will suddenly be attacked by shells? Compared to the DuPont guys, Heishui has more and more terrifying cannons. The appearance of trucks made it easy to move even the large and heavy 155mm cannons. If necessary, the guys in Blackwater can drag out ten 155mm cannons at one go and face Stanford’s manor. Covered by gunfire. Well, the lunatics in Heishui really did something like this. In fact, at a tactical seminar discussing how to eliminate the Stanford family, someone proposed this plan. The reason is that it is both simple and shocking.

"God, please help me, protect me..." Stanford closed his eyes on the bed in the basement after praying to God for a day, in fact, the last prayer of his life.

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Several policemen came along a path paved with stones to an inconspicuous flower bed. There is a place that looks like the water inlet of the sewer.

"This is the air intake in the basement?" asked one of the fatter police officers.

"Yes, according to the information we have learned, it is here." Another policeman replied.

One policeman lit a cigarette, and another policeman turned on the flashlight in his hand—a new gadget from McDonald's Electric. They stretched the cigarette to the place that looked like the water inlet of the sewer, and then they saw that the smoke from the cigarette ascending was sucked into this "water inlet".

"It really is here." The policeman nodded and said, then dropped the cigarette to the ground, and stepped on a foot to extinguish the fire. Because, for their actions below, any point of Mars may bring fatal consequences. Several policemen looked at each other, then each took out a gas mask from their own pocket and put them on their heads.

At this time, a policeman carrying a satchel took out a small cylinder from his own satchel. The cylinder was unscrewed in the direction of the vent, and a burst of gas was immediately sprayed out of the cylinder.

The gas in this cylinder is actually quite average. Just some carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas, and it has another name called coal gas. It can bind to human hemoglobin, causing hemoglobin to lose its ability to carry oxygen. Therefore, once a person inhales too much carbon monoxide, the blood's ability to carry oxygen will be greatly reduced, and the human body will experience symptoms of intoxication caused by hypoxia such as chest tightness, dizziness, and weakness. As the inhalation continues to increase, people Will fall into a coma until Death.

Carbon monoxide can be produced by incomplete combustion of carbon. Therefore, coal stoves and braziers can produce this toxic gas. What's more, it is colorless and tasteless. People will not notice it immediately after inhaling it. It will take a long time to find out when the symptoms become more and more serious. At this time, the poisoned person will often be unable to save himself because of the weakness of the limbs. In the history of mankind, carbon monoxide may be the poisonous gas that caused the largest number of deaths. It killed far more people than things like mustard gas, Louis morale, sarin, soman, and VX.

The environment in the basement is quite closed, and the only way to exchange indoor air is by intermittently automatically opening the exhaust and intake systems. After the carbon monoxide gas is put in from the air inlet, it will not take long for it to reach a lethal concentration in the basement. And because carbon monoxide is colorless and tasteless, the Stanford family in the basement will never find it. So, until tomorrow morning, when people find that the Stanford family hasn’t gotten up very late and find the basement, there shouldn’t be much carbon monoxide in the basement because of the forced exhaust air exchange, but by this time, Stanford The corpses of the family should have been cold. Stanford thought he could use money to pull the police to make himself a life-saving talisman. Why did he not think that since the police could take his money, he would naturally be able to take McDonald's money.

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A day later, the New York Sun, a tabloid famous for reporting on unfounded sensational rumors, published this piece of news:

"Two days ago, the Stanford family was found dead in the basement of the own manor. According to the doctors' inference, he and his family should have died of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is what we know as gas poisoning. But the strange thing is, Why does the Stanford family sleep in the basement at night, and there is nothing in this basement that may produce carbon monoxide gas. In fact, Mr. Stanford seems to have a hunch about own death. According to the reporter, these days Here, Stanford strengthened the protection of the manor and even asked the local police to send a small team of police to protect him on the grounds that his life was threatened.

According to an unnamed source, Mr. Stanford and those who died on the Golden Lake passenger ship a few days ago are in contact. They are likely to have been involved in the murder of Mr. Scrooge McDonald a month ago. Now it has been retaliated by the MacDonald consortium.

This gentleman told me that there is a security company called ‘Blackwater’ in the hands of the McDonald family. This is the sharpest and most powerful mercenary organization in the world today. If Stanford and the dead on the Golden Lake passenger ship a few days ago were really involved in the murder of Mr. Scrooge McDonald, then the person who attacked and killed them is indeed very likely from the McDonald consortium.

This gentleman also told me that long before Mr. Scrooge McDonald was assassinated, Ms. Avery Dupont, one of the dead on the Golden Lake, had frequent contacts with Stanford. It is said that the assassin who planted the bomb in the training class regularly met with a certain news reporter before the assassination, and this news reporter was recommended to the newspaper by Mr. Stanford. After the assassination, the reporter quickly left the newspaper and appeared among the victims on the Golden Lake. As for Avery DuPont, who also died on board, some people said that she had appeared on Morgan's yacht many times before.

On this issue, we interviewed Mr. Sahaf, the spokesperson of Heishui Security Company. Mr. Sahaf said that Heishui is a legally operated enterprise and will never do anything that violates laws and disciplines. Neither the Golden Lake incident nor the death of the Stanford family have anything to do with the Blackwater Security Company.

‘I don’t know if you want to believe it, I believe it anyway. "Mr. Sahaf said to us like this.

But in our interview with Mr. Scrooge McDonald’s wife, Ms. Dorothea McDonald, we got a completely different statement. When we told her that there were rumors that those people were killed for participating in the assassination of her husband, Ms. Dorothea said this:

‘I don’t know if your rumor is true. If so, then they deserve it! ’

So I asked her: ‘what would you do if you knew for sure that someone was a murderer, but you didn’t have enough evidence to accuse him? ’

Ms. Dorothea did not hesitate to tell me: ‘I’m a southerner, and I will deal with this issue in accordance with southern customs. I will take revenge by all means. No one can escape my revenge after hurting my loved ones. That's it, we southerners are so self-willed. ’"

Putting down the newspaper, Morgan frowned. Of course it would be nice to not have an opponent like Scrooge. Well, if Scrooge was still there, he would never attack the McDonald's consortium. However, changing to a guy who is more impulsive and doesn't think about the consequences is also a headache. At least for now, he feels that he should strengthen his own security work. Scrooge's family has too few weaknesses, he has the same, and it is more serious. Scrooge also had a brother, but his father had only one son, and his grandfather had only his father. Mimi's health is not very good, she almost died last time she gave birth. Fortunately, he gave birth to a legal son. However, considering Mimi's situation, it is estimated that he will not have a second legal son.

"I want to send Mimi and Little John to Rhode Island first." Morgan thought, where he has a well-defended manor and refuge. "Secondly, my important allies and I must reduce our appearance in public. The number of times. Well, fortunately, I have already prepared a few substitutes for myself."

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