Empire of Shadows

What does it mean… the whole family is here?

The younger brother-in-law was suddenly a little unhappy. The words sounded fine, but they gave people an uncomfortable feeling.

It was like everyone believed in God, but not everyone was willing to return to God’s embrace!

He let out a “hey,” but before he could say anything more, his older sister nodded. “My family is all here.”

He glanced at his older sister and finally did not continue to speak.

However, he remembered these people in his heart. When his Police Captain brother-in-law returned, he would complain to Matthew and have them find trouble with these impolite police officers!

Elvin smiled. He squatted down, looked at the little girl and the little boy in front of him, and placed his hands on their shoulders. “Children, I invite you to be my guests at the theme park in Likalai State. How about it?”

“It has the most fun and advanced amusement equipment in the Federation. Do you know what a roller coaster is?”

“And a huge Ferris wheel…”

The little girl might have been more mature in all aspects. She had already felt that something was not right. Although the person in front of her was a police officer, the same profession as her father, he did not give her a good feeling.She took a step back and held tightly to Matthew’s wife’s arm, then looked up at the woman.

And her younger brother was shouting “okay, okay.” He also looked back at Matthew’s wife, his face full of an impatient expression. “Mom, when are we leaving?”

If at this moment, there were still people who didn’t know what was happening, then they must be fools!

Elvin was standing right next to Matthew’s wife and children. The thugs, the police, also did not dare to act rashly, and they couldn’t.

When a thug’s hand reached for his chest, a police officer who had been standing behind him at some point directly took out a dagger and cut open his carotid artery.

The rupture of the carotid artery was extremely horrifying. Blood “splashed” out in sheets, not flowing, not squirting, but splashing!

He first tilted his head and glanced at the splashed blood, as if he hadn’t yet associated it with what it was.

Then he reached out and touched it, and only then did he suddenly realize something, and quickly used his hands to cover it!

One hand was not enough, two hands, but how could this kind of wound be stopped with just hands?

Even at the entrance of a hospital, if the carotid artery was ruptured, there was a high probability that it could not be saved.

In just a few seconds, he collapsed on the ground. The blood made the ground slippery. He tried to get up, but his hands and feet slipped on the bloodstains, and with no strength, he kept falling.

His movements also made his blood flow very fast. Gradually, after one fall, he never got up again.

The blood went from splashing, to gushing, and finally slowly flowing. In just twenty or thirty seconds, he was completely still.

The children seemed to have only just reacted. Their twisted faces were full of terror!

Just as they were about to scream, Elvin made a shushing motion. “Don’t disturb the others.”

He smiled, and then stood up. “Madam, do you need to pack some luggage?”

The younger brother-in-law next to him was no longer speaking. His whole person seemed to have fallen into a special state. The… toughness he had shown before was replaced by weakness at this moment.

He lowered his head and didn’t even want these people to notice him. At the same time, he also felt some shame, because he should have stood up and stood in front of his older sister.

But now, he didn’t dare to do so.

“I… no, I don’t know…”

Elvin shook his head. “Since that’s the case, we won’t pack. We will prepare brand-new clothes for you to change into.”

As he spoke, he made a gesture to start. Soon the other people in the room began to make their move.

The four members of the Lance Family who were pretending to be police officers outside the courtyard heard a faint gunshot, but they didn’t care. These gunshots actually couldn’t travel very far, and the sound was not loud.

There was a long distance between the villas in the rich people’s district, and there were also various vegetations as cover. The richer a person was, the more they cared about their personal privacy.

As long as you don’t shoot in the open, if you shoot in a room with the door closed, the sound outside will not be too loud.

After a burst of gunshots, Elvin led his men out from inside. The younger brother-in-law’s expression also became twisted, terrified, and his lips were still trembling.

He was lucky to have saved his own life, while the others were all left inside.

Elvin would not let them pass on the news.

When they got in the car, Alan asked, “They still have another child. Should we grab him too?”

“We still have a little time.”

Elvin glanced at the watch on his wrist and considered for a moment. “Are you going?”

Alan nodded. “I can try. If there’s no chance, I’ll leave.”

Elvin considered for a few more seconds. “Alright, but be careful.”

Alan walked to the side of another police car. He looked at Police Captain Matthew’s wife. “I’d like to borrow your necklace.”

Without waiting for the woman to agree, he had already torn the necklace from her neck.

It was a very popular necklace now, made of gold, with a pendant. The front of the pendant was a surface made of some crushed gems, surrounded by some fine diamonds as embellishment.

And on its back, there was a lid that could be opened, and inside were photos of Police Captain Matthew and her, as well as photos of their three children—

It might sound large, but it was actually not. With the photo scaling technology, it was not difficult to gather the heads of three people together, and it was only the head shots.

The woman did not know why this person wanted to snatch her necklace, but considering that her children were still by her side, she chose to remain silent.

The convoy arrived at the main gate. Alan’s car was still in the first place. At this time, he had already taken off his sunglasses. One of his hands was resting on the open car door window. He said to the security guard who had walked over with a smile on his face, “Another false alarm. Did you guys offend someone?”

The security guard glanced at the police cars behind, and before he could get a good look, Alan said again, “Can you help open the gate?”

“We still have other things to do!”

The security guard’s gaze withdrew from the back. While signaling his colleague at the security station to open the gate, he asked casually, “Where is my colleague?”

“He, he said he was going for a walk, to see who was playing the prank.”

There was this possibility. The security guard at the gate didn’t think too much about it, nodded, and returned to the security room.

The convoy drove out in single file. Elvin led his men and drove directly out of the city from the east, while Alan headed for Red Rock University.

“There are so many people at the university. How can we find him?”

In the car, one of Alan’s subordinates asked this question.

In fact, he didn’t know how many people were in Red Rock University, but he was right.

There were many people in Red Rock University, at least more than six thousand.

To find a certain person among more than six thousand people was probably not that easy.

The subordinate who was driving said again, “And we have to take him away in front of so many people. If just one person thinks this is not right, an accident might happen.”

Alan looked at the young man who was driving. “Are you afraid?”

The young man squeezed the steering wheel. “I’m not afraid. I just feel that if we just go over like this, we might not be able to do what you want to do.”

Alan, while thinking, shook his head. “We don’t necessarily have to take him away. We can also find a corner and kill him.”

“When you have ten dollars, you will not hesitate to spend one, because you still have nine.”

“But when you only have one dollar left, you have to consider how to spend this one dollar.”

“Or maybe if one dies, he will pay more attention to the other two and his family, and will also understand that we are not just scaring him!”

The subordinate did not say any more, but he repeated, “I’m not afraid.”

Alan smiled and patted his shoulder. “I know, brother.”

The car soon merged into the traffic.

Red Rock University was on the edge of Red Rock City, and was also the pride of this city.

It was already 6:30 in the evening when they arrived at Red Rock University. This was the time when the people of the Federation had their dinner, and now Elvin and his group should have already left the city.

The police department’s side had already discovered that a large number of their police uniforms had been stolen, but it had not attracted much attention. They just thought that this might be some petty thieves who had their eyes on them.

The branch director, in a fit of rage, had his officers go and catch those thieves. They did not realize what would happen when these police uniforms were combined with the several unmanned police cars.

At 6:50, Elvin and the other two arrived at Red Rock University. Standing outside the huge stone gate of Red Rock University, they inexplicably also felt a kind of indescribable sense of awe.

Maybe it was awe for knowledge, but definitely not for people.

When a person has killed another person, they will lose their awe for their own kind, for life.

But for knowledge, for the things they don’t understand, there is still some awe.

Alan had thought that there would be a security room or something, and that a security guard would stop him from going in, but the fact was that he had thought too much.

There was no security room or security guard on the inside of the main gate, and no one cared what they were here for. Some students just glanced at them and then hurried away.

The three of them soon arrived inside the university. To be honest, the fact that no one had interfered with them made Alan a little at a loss, but fortunately, the people of this era were still relatively simple.

He asked around a little, found the faculty office building, and here, he found a staff member.

“There is a student named… His family has had some problems. We have some news to inform him, but we don’t know how to find him.”

A lady in her forties with glasses looked at Alan in disbelief. “God, is it something bad?”

Alan’s expression seemed serious and grave as he nodded. “I’m afraid so.”

The lady let out a heavy sigh. “Come with us. I’ll take you to the broadcasting room…”

Soon they had arrived at the broadcasting room. On the way, Alan had also asked the lady not to say anything about his family’s trouble, but just to have him come over. The lady had also expressed her understanding.

Soon, the broadcast sounded on the campus. A big boy who was passionately kissing a girl looked up at the broadcast speaker. He showed what he thought was a very charming smile. “Damn it, I’ll be right back!”

The girl nodded and kissed him again. He stood up, straightened himself, and then ran out.

He had to get back as soon as possible to continue to explore the limits of human physiology with his girlfriend.

Matthew’s eldest son was very ordinary-looking, but his family was rich. Unlike the others who had gone to college on a loan, he had directly paid the full tuition fees.

This sum of money was nothing to his family. Police Captain Matthew was also quite fond of this eldest son.

After all, the eldest son had been with him for the longest time. Usually, he was away for a long time, so he was not so close to his two younger children.

The thing about feelings is that you only have them when you are together. With a little bit of distance, it will soon cool down.

Seven or eight minutes later, Matthew’s eldest son, at the bottom of the office building, saw Alan.

He hadn’t realized at first that these police officers were here to find him, but Alan had seen his photo in the villa, so he had called out to him at once.

He stood there and frowned. “Are you my father’s subordinates?”

When he said these words, his tone carried a hint of arrogance. For a state police captain, this level was actually not low. It had already surpassed most of the police, so for him to say so was not too excessive.

It could be seen that in the past, Police Captain Matthew had also had people come to find him.

It was just that his tone would make people feel uncomfortable, a kind of a young master of a landlord’s family feeling, which gave people an uncomfortable, being ordered around feeling.

Alan had originally intended to shake his head, but he suddenly thought of something, and a smile appeared on his face. “Police Captain Matthew asked us to come. He has run into some trouble and has asked us to take you to reunite with your mother and the others.”

The young man frowned. “It’s very safe in the school. I can stay here and not go anywhere.”

Alan persuaded again, “Police Captain Matthew has asked us to do this. Don’t make it difficult for us, okay?”

The young man’s gaze lingered on Alan and the others. He felt that the police officers who had come this time were all too young.

He had seen the police officers under his father. Basically, most of them were in their late twenties. It wasn’t that there were no one in their early twenties, there were, but they had almost never come over.

Police Captain Matthew had already reached the second half of his life. He no longer had the heart to continue to cultivate and accept the young people who had just entered the branch.

And with the introduction of some reports, people were getting to know more and more about the situation of the highway patrol. It was no longer so easy to deceive young people to come here to suffer.

On the contrary, it was some of the adults who had a harder time finding a job in society. They would come over after training and treat this as a way out in their life. So even if new police officers came in, they would not be the kind who were seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen, just graduated from high school, or in their early twenties.

They had not yet been beaten bloody by society. It was impossible for them to bow their heads and endure hardship.

Alan took out the necklace from his pocket. “Your mother knows we’re coming for you. She was afraid we couldn’t persuade you, so she gave us her necklace.”

Seeing his mother’s necklace, the young man believed them a little. “I need to give her a call. I don’t have to go back.”

Alan said again, “Madam has already taken your younger brother and sister to a safe house. There is no phone there. When we came, she told us that we could take you away by force if necessary.”

It was very late, and the young man had not studied the uniforms of the city police and the highway police in detail. Although he was a little reluctant, he still agreed.

“I need to say goodbye to my classmates, and I also need to take some personal belongings.”

Alan, forcing back the urge to kill him here, still nodded. “We’ll go with you.”

Soon they had arrived outside the young man’s dormitory. After he had packed some things, he left with Alan and the others.

As they were walking towards the main gate, he asked, “What on earth happened that we all have to hide?”

Alan, as if he were really a subordinate of Police Captain Matthew, explained the current situation to him.

Hearing that the situation was so tense, the young man did not dare to be too presumptuous. “These gangs are so rampant!”

He complained, and then the group of people came to the parking lot and got on the car.

For some reason, the young man sitting in the car always felt that something was not right, but for a moment he couldn’t say what it was.

When the car was about to completely leave the university, he suddenly realized.

When he had just gotten in the car, the police car had “Red Rock City Police” written on it, not “Indeno State Police.”

His father was a police officer of the state police and could not mobilize the local police to do private work. These people were not sent by his father!

But he was not yet sure, and he still wanted to find out if he had made a mistake. With his scalp tingling a little, he asked in a low, trembling voice that he himself did not notice, “How is Leon recently?”

“That’s the assistant by my father’s side.”

Alan was stunned for a moment, and then he said with a smile, “Leon is fine, and has always been fine.”

The young man was now sure that these people were not sent by his father, because there was simply no one named Leon by his father’s side.

These people were fake. They were the members of those gangs!

Thinking of this, he had already started to sweat all over. Alan, who was sitting next to him, felt that he was a little off. He was constantly wiping his sweat.

Now it was early November. The weather had already cooled down. How could he be sweating so much?

To say that a young man is prone to sweating, he was also a young man, and he was not sweating.

“Can you… open the window a little?”

“I feel a little suffocated.”

Alan nodded and rolled down the window a little to let the cold wind from outside blow in.

The young man looked at the road outside the window, and the relatively large number of students who were walking on both sides of the road. He suddenly lunged at the window and shouted loudly—

“Help!”

“Fuck!”

Alan immediately grabbed his hair and pulled him back. “If you don’t want to die, you fucking sit back!”

At the same time, he also shouted, “Accelerate.”

The driver slammed on the gas pedal. The car tires screeched as it shot out. The surrounding pedestrians were still a little astonished, not knowing what on earth had happened.

The young man had not given up hope of escaping and calling for help. He was still shouting, “Help…”

However, Alan did not give him a chance to continue to call for help. He drew the dagger from his waist and stabbed him in the neck a few times…

While pushing the young man under the seat, he continued to open a skylight for him. “Get out of here, quickly get out!”

(End of a Chapter)