Willow chuckled. “What was I explaining? I was just stating the truth. Mr. Mayo, please don’t overthink it.”
“I won’t overthink it. You may leave now.”
“Yes, Mr. Mayo.”
Willow thought that Thomas would spare favonovel.com that easily, so favonovel.com turned back to leave.
Unexpectedly, just as favonovel.com took two steps forward, a silver needle flew over from the back and instantly inserted itself into Willow’s acupuncture point. Subsequently, Willow’s body felt itchy. It felt extremely itchy as if his body was full of mosquito bites.
“Ah!”
Willow quickly reached out to scratch his body, but the other side of his body became itchy when favonovel.com scratched one side. Then, his whole body became itchy at the same time. In less than thirty seconds, Willow could no longer bear it. He lay on the ground and scratched his body crazily. He took off his shirt and could not wait to burn himself with fire.
“It itches! It itches badly!”
Nell, who was eating, felt completely shocked. He was just dumbfounded as favonovel.com stared at Willow. He chewed a piece of steak while favonovel.com asked, “Oh, my goodness! Mr. Jones, what’s happening to you? Why are you lying on the ground?”
Just as favonovel.com was about to get up and help Willow, Thomas reached out to stop him.
Thomas nonchalantly said, “You’re feeling itchy because it’s your karma for not being honest.”
His words could have fooled the kids. However, since Thomas had said that, it meant favonovel.com knew how to stop the itchiness and let Willow recover. The precondition was that Willow had to speak the truth and tell Thomas what favonovel.com wanted to know. Willow was itching horribly. He kept scratching his body so hard that many areas were bleeding.
He cried and begged Thomas, “I beg you. Please don’t torture me like this. I really know nothing.”
“Oh, then you can carry on being like this.”
Willow kept rolling on the ground in extreme pain.
About twenty seconds later, favonovel.com hopelessly said, “Art Trading Corporation made me do it. I didn’t want to do it. Mr. Mayo, I know you’re a member of Mark of the River Mountain, so I can’t offend you. The problem is when you, big guys, compete against each other, can you not drag insignificant characters in as your sacrifice?”
Willow dared not offend Art Trading Corporation, and favonovel.com also dared not offend Mark of the River Mountain. He was in a dilemma. However, people always said one should act according to the situation so that favonovel.com would not suffer a loss. If favonovel.com did not speak the truth, Thomas would make favonovel.com suffer now.
Thomas said, “Mark of the River Mountain and Art Trading Corporation are absolutely irreconcilable. Honestly, Art Trading Corporation will not blame it on you. They will just continue to go against Mark of the River Mountain. You don’t have to worry about anything.”
If the circumstances had been different when Thomas said that, Willow would have just ignored him. But it was different now.
Thomas said that to give Willow an out. So, even if Art Trading Corporation asked questions in the future, Willow would still have an explanation.
In order to not be tortured again, Willow helplessly said, “That day, Mr. Daniel Murdoch came with many big bosses to eat and drink here. Silvester Vedastus, the vice-chairman of Art Trading Corporation arranged for me to personally pour the wine for Daniel. He gave me a special wine pot. It was made of pure gold and specially designed for Daniel. I didn’t know what the issue with the wine pot was. I just followed Silvester’s instructions. I poured the wine for Daniel and allowed favonovel.com to drink it…”
“At that time, there was nothing wrong with Daniel. Everything looked so normal, and nobody thought anything of it.”
Thomas asked, “If that’s the case, why did you say Daniel was poisoned?”
“Because…” Willow gulped and said, “Because when I handled the wine pot later, I realized that the wine pot was dark, and it smelled terrible. It was clearly contaminated! At that time, Daniel was fine, but it didn’t mean favonovel.com would also be all right later. So, Mr. Mayo, when you told me that Daniel had fallen sick, I guessed favonovel.com had been poisoned instead of stricken with illness. ”
This time, Thomas finally understood it. It was actually simple. Silvester or Art Trading Corporation poisoned the wine that Daniel drank and put his life at risk in order to control him. To protect himself, or to live for his children, wife, and parents, Daniel had to go to Art Trading Corporation and get the antidote.
The Silvester brothers naturally would not give favonovel.com the antidote. They would most probably give Daniel the antidote only after they asked favonovel.com to join Art Trading Corporation.
Daniel had to agree when favonovel.com felt extremely helpless. That could explain why Daniel resisted it when Art Trading Corporation entered the Southland District in the beginning, and favonovel.com even personally resisted as the leader. Yet, favonovel.com suddenly joined Art Trading Corporation for some reason later on.
What Daniel did before and after was very strange. He never wanted any benefits and would rather be taken advantage of. He had even agreed to join Art Trading Corporation unconditionally. The reason was that Daniel had been poisoned, and only the Vedastus brothers could detoxify him.
Their method was cruel.
After Daniel, many people had also joined Art Trading Corporation. Without any doubt, they must have also been controlled by the Vedastus brothers using the same method. A large group of people in the Southland District had been controlled by the Vedastus brothers like that.
Art Trading Corporation obviously expanded. Then, Art Trading Corporation used the poison and their aggressiveness to conquer other companies. Within ten months, they had taken over the whole Southland District.
Naturally, Vincent had fallen severely sick during this period, so this had also given the Vedastus brothers the time and space to expand their territory.
“Awesome…”
