The Legendary Man novel Chapter 245

The Legendary Man Chapter 245

You Have Three Days

Jonathan picked his phone up and took the call. “Hello? What is it?”

“Mr. Goldstein? It’s me, Randall,” Randall greeted him, but his voice sounded a bit hoarse. “I have looked into this matter. The man called Derrick took all the compensation meant for the villagers of Greendale Village. He is also the leader of a local gang, and they have caused a lot of trouble for the villagers. Suffice to say, they are a local menace. The total recompense for the village is around a hundred million, and Derrick took it all for himself.”

A hundred million? Jonathan’s face fell the moment he heard how much money was involved in the corruption. A village chief alone took a hundred million that is meant for the villagers. The corruption must be worse in the higher echelons then.

The chief of a small village is already taking this much money, so what about the chief of a bigger one? Are they involved in more severe corruption? If that is true, the mayors must be involved in even more egregious transactions. There is no doubt that the chief is involved as well.

“I want you to get to the bottom of this, no matter what,” Jonathan ordered coldly, “Drag all these parasites into the sunlight. Find everyone who is corrupted. Leave no stone unturned. I do not care even if Zachary himself is involved. Punish all the corrupted officers, and I mean all of them. Severely, if I may add.”

“Yes, sir!”

Even though they were only talking through the phone, Randall could still feel Jonathan’s sheer, unbridled fury in his voice.

How could Jonathan not be furious? By all accounts, he should have gone on a rampage. Even he was shocked to hear that the chief of a small village was involved in a corruption case that involved a hundred million.

“I hope you are not involved in this matter, Randall. For your sake, I hope you are clean,” Jonathan growled calmly. Despite that, Randall was scared out of his wits. He quickly defended himself, “I have nothing to do with this, sir! I swear.”

“You better not, Randall,” Jonathan replied coldly. “Because if you are somehow involved, losing your mayoralty will be the least of your worries. If you do not understand what I am saying, let me put it in plainer terms. You will lose your head.”

“I understand, sir. I guarantee that I am not even the least bit involved in this matter,” Randall quickly clarified again.

“Look into this in Jadeborough as well. You might have left a lot of stones unturned, and I want them to be brought into the sun,” Jonathan commanded, his voice as freezing as the winds of Helheim. This case was only exposed because I stumbled upon it. Simply put, by pure luck. Had I not come across this, who knows how much more the people would have to suffer?

This might only be the tip of a titanic iceberg in Jadeborough. Who knows how many people in power are involved in this? Who knows how many corruption cases there are in the nation? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? Perhaps more.

“Yes, sir! We will be getting to the bottom of this in Jadeborough tonight! I promise nothing of the sort will ever happen again under my leadership! If I somehow fail, I shall bow down before you and accept any punishment you deem fit to dole out, sir!” After that, Randall issued an order to look into all the public servants in Jadeborough and see if they were involved in any corruption cases.

After Randall had given his promise, Jonathan said, “You have three days. I want you to clean up this mess, and I do not want to see even a speck of dust remaining. Do you hear me?”

“Crystal, sir!” Randall did not dare to hesitate when it came to this point, for his own head was on the line.

After he hung up, Jonathan looked at Alice and her family. “I have the results. It is direr than I thought. Derrick has taken all of the compensation meant for you and the other villagers. The grand total is a hundred million. Give or take a few dozen million.”

“He took more than a hundred million all for himself?”

The Renners were even more shocked than Jonathan was when they received the news.

A hundred million was a lot of money. They had never seen so much money before in their whole lives, but Derrick kept it all for himself when it was supposed to be the villagers’ money.

“The money belongs to you and the villagers.” Everyone was still dumbfounded as they tried to process what they had just heard. “The staff from the military commander’s residence will transfer your compensation to you in three days. Maybe less than that. You could potentially receive the money by tomorrow morning.”