The Legendary Man novel Chapter 482

Chapter 482 Only Death Can Keep Us Alive

Back at the Yaeger residence, Hayes’ face paled to a ghastly white as the line was cut off out of the clear blue sky. He staggered a couple of steps backward before slumping onto the couch.

One of the soldiers was busy drafting a report at the side but became a nervous wreck the second he caught sight of Hayes’ demeanor. “What’s the matter, Commander?” came his query as he stepped forward.

“Go and investigate it…” muttered Hayes.

His whole body was trembling involuntarily.

Being Hayes’ personal bodyguard, that soldier was also thunderstruck, gawking blankly at Hayes’ bearing at that point in time.

“What do you want me to investigate, Commander?”

“Summon everybody back. I want every single one of them to get their butts over to the proving ground!”

Hayes leaped up and sent the table in front of him tumbling to the floor with a hard kick.

“Make sure the entire army of Lumonburg is present, be it the ones in the mess hall or anyone who’s currently on a mission. No one shall be excused from the assembly!”

He quickly added, “Also, fetch me the whole batch of charters of the general’s armory, especially those that involved sniper rifles of the model M03. Leave nothing behind, including the accompanying bullets. Compare them one by one and submit the results to me. I expect zero errors.”

“On it!”

The soldier gave a loud and firm response after receiving the instruction from Hayes. With that, he spun on his heels.

Hayes, in turn, secretly gnashed his teeth.

“F*ck! Some nerve they have taking my gun to deal with Mr. Goldstein. Once I get to know who that fellow is, there will be hell for that person to pay!”

In the meantime, the father-and-son duo, Philip and Zane, were sitting face to face in the garden at the Gomez residence.

“Dad, I think something cropped up on Dark Web,” uttered Zane in a deep tone.

He was holding the satellite phone while breaking that piece of news to his father.

That satellite phone was the one-and-only medium for Zane to stay in contact with Dark Web. Despite the phone’s awkward, bulky appearance, the primary strength of using it was that the conversation would never be susceptible to any forms of wiretaps.

At first, Philip was helping himself to some tea. The moment the words “Dark Web” reached his ears, however, his hands froze temporarily before he eventually gulped down the drink in one go.

“What happened?”

“I received a private message from Dark Web, saying that they were attacked by a horde of hackers a few days ago. And they’ve been tracing the source of interception to pinpoint the hackers’ location, but it had all been in vain.”

Zane continued, “Just a minute ago, one of them from Dark Web successfully cracked the hackers’ scheme. After a round of in-depth digging, it was found that the hackers merely wanted to check out the bounty list.”

Speaking of which, Zane flashed Philip a worried gaze.

“Among the forty-five records that have been snooped on, the bounty placed by us, the Gomez family, on Jonathan’s head has also been read. I’m not very sure about whether we have been exposed, but Dark Web is going to remit us the reward of the bounty. They even cautioned us to stay on guard. Danger may be coming to knock on our doors at any time.”

After dropping the words, Zane fell silent straight away. All he could do was look at his father with a concerned visage.

At that very juncture, Philip was staring at the cup on the table, his face as grim as death.

After infiltrating the core of Dark Web like that, not even in a million years would the other party wash their dirty linens in public.

Yet, despite the extremely slim probability of the Gomez family being the target—one out of all forty-five issuances of bounty—it was still better for the Gomez family to not be at risk at all.

If the other party was indeed going after the Gomez family, the latter might really be in the soup.

After all, the other party had the courage to go head-on with Dark Web yet managed to withdraw unscathed. They were definitely not the sort of individuals whom an ordinary family like the Gomez family could compete against.

“Could it be Jonathan himself?

A glint flitted across Philip’s eyes on that note.

“Zane, contact the Osborne family at once. Tell them we’ve been exposed.”

“The Osborne family have always belittled us. What makes you think that they’ll even care about us, Dad?” A sigh escaped from Zane’s lips as he spoke.