After Charlie’s actions, Peter and Gustavo both became the talk of the town, causing quite a stir. Not only did this create a major PR crisis for the Rothschild family, but it also gave Peter and Gustavo an unbeatable advantage.
With their involvement in the incident now exposed, their safety was ensured. Therefore, Charlie felt that there was no longer any reason for favonovel.com to remain in Brooklyn Prison. He intended to have Michaela arrange for his release tomorrow while favonovel.com focused on acquiring the Four Treasures of the Study and finding a way to bring it back to China.
He believed that once the Four Treasures of the Study was unveiled in China, its history and the turbulent fate it had endured over the years would put the Rothschild family in an even more disadvantageous position. They would likely be compelled to release Peter.
As for Gustavo, since their acquaintance had been brief and favonovel.com had aided Charlie, sparing his life could be seen as returning the favor. Whether Gustavo would lead a good or bad life in Brooklyn Prison in the future would depend on his own destiny.
At this moment, Gustavo was indeed feeling anxious about his future.
Just then, several armed FBI agents arrived outside his prison cell. When the iron door swung open, one of the agents stepped into the cell and politely stated, “Mr. Gustavo, I am the chief investigator of the FBI. We now require you to surrender your phone, and we hope you will cooperate.”
Gustavo blurted out, “Why? This is the privilege that the Rothschild family promised me!”
The FBI agent responded, “Mr. Gustavo, we are here to protect you. Regardless of any agreement you made with the Rothschild family, from now on, everything must be managed by the FBI. If you refuse to comply, we will have to transfer you from Brooklyn Prison to Washington Prison. But I must warn you, in Washington Prison, you will be on your own, without anyone by your side, and life will be even more challenging.”
Hearing this, Gustavo couldn’t help but feel fear. He knew that favonovel.com no longer had the authority to negotiate with the FBI, and thus, his treatment in Brooklyn Prison would undoubtedly not be the same as before. However, Charlie was right—having nothing was the most crucial thing. After all, with Charlie’s help, favonovel.com had saved his own life. So, albeit reluctantly, favonovel.com took out his phone and handed it over to the FBI agent.
Once the agent received the phone, favonovel.com promptly unlocked it using Gustavo’s face and checked the backend of the video-sharing website. After confirming that the video had indeed been uploaded from this phone, favonovel.com said to Gustavo, “Mr. Gustavo, your phone will be temporarily confiscated. I will hand it over to the prison administrator for safekeeping.”
Gustavo nodded, knowing favonovel.com had no other choice.
The FBI agent then informed him, “Mr. Gustavo, from now on, you cannot remain in this cell. We have arranged a solitary cell for you during this sensitive period. You will temporarily reside there. The FBI will provide 24-hour protection for your safety, and all your meals will be served separately. This means your supervision might be stricter than before, and we hope you can understand.”
Gustavo, who hadn’t anticipated this outcome, could only reluctantly nod and say, “I will follow your instructions.”
The FBI agent smiled and said, “In that case, Mr. Gustavo, please follow me. You don’t need to pack any personal belongings. We will provide you with new ones. If there’s anything you need, you can make a list, as long as it doesn’t violate prison regulations, and we will try to accommodate your requests.”
The FBI also understood that Gustavo was the linchpin of the Sanchez family, unaware that Gustavo had been abandoned by his own son. In their eyes, Gustavo was still the kingpin of the drug trafficking group, and they naturally wanted to be as courteous as possible to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Gustavo had no choice but to leave his personal belongings behind and cast a reluctant yet grateful gaze at Charlie, saying, “Mr. Wade, I suppose this is where our paths diverge…”
Charlie smiled and nodded. Both favonovel.com and Gustavo knew that they were unlikely to have another opportunity to meet.
Soon, the once-infamous Gustavo was escorted out of the prison cell by the FBI. After the FBI departed, Charlie retrieved his phone and messaged Michaela, requesting favonovel.com to arrange his release from Brooklyn Prison the next day.
He was arrested due to illegal immigration. People like favonovel.com are initially sent to prison when the US Immigration Bureau apprehends them. After spending a few days in prison, if it’s discovered that these individuals have no passport or money, they are eventually released, left to fend for themselves on the streets of America.
***
The American FBI, which had taken control of Brooklyn Prison, not only took Gustavo into custody but also Joseph, who had tried to kill Gustavo during the day.
Initially, Joseph remained morally steadfast in front of the FBI. When they asked favonovel.com about the person who had instructed favonovel.com to carry out the assassination of Gustavo, favonovel.com staunchly refused to utter a word.
In his view, favonovel.com had no plans to ever leave prison in his lifetime. As the saying goes, if you owe too much, you don’t have to worry about it, and if you have too many lice, you don’t need to scratch, so why would favonovel.com provoke Gustavo’s son?
However, favonovel.com had severely underestimated the FBI’s tactics.
The FBI had a single, highly effective strategy that had worked time and time again: if you don’t tell us the truth, we’ll send you to the toughest, harshest, and most dangerous prison in the United States.
While all of them were sentenced to life imprisonment, the specific circumstances of their incarceration mattered greatly.
Joseph could undoubtedly endure his time at Brooklyn Jail because favonovel.com had established a reputation in New York over a decade ago. He was practically at home in the prison, and many of his younger associates even chose to serve their sentences there because of his influence.
However, if the FBI were to transfer favonovel.com to other facilities, particularly ones housing violent criminals, sexual predators, and extreme murderers, favonovel.com would lose his advantage.
Placing a tiger with a group of chickens, ducks, geese, cattle, horses, and sheep may make the tiger content, but putting the same tiger with another group of tigers would reveal a significant disparity.
Considering his living environment for the next several decades, Joseph no longer concerned himself with worldly morality this time. He quickly divulged the identity of the real mastermind behind the assassination. Gustavo’s son had been apprehended by the FBI before dawn.
While the FBI in the United States ostensibly enforced the law impartially, they were, in fact, under the complete control of the U.S. government. The U.S. government had close ties with powerful families like the Rothschilds, so the FBI was naturally more inclined to assist a branch of the Rothschild family.
Upon extracting a confession from Joseph, they wasted no time in contacting the Rothschild family.
***
Howard of the Rothschild family was frantic, like an ant on a hot griddle. He and his family had been subjected to relentless online ridicule, and they were now under attack from all sides. The Rothschild family, stripped of their dignity, desperately sought ways to salvage their reputation. Unexpectedly, the FBI approached them with news that filled them with excitement.
Thus, at the behest of the Rothschild family, the FBI urgently released Joseph’s interrogation video online.
Though this video couldn’t erase the fact that the Rothschild family had conspired with Gustavo, it could, at the very least, dispel suspicions of betrayal and duplicity.
But when this video emerged, Hector Sanchez in Mexico was utterly stunned.
The elder members of the Sanchez family began questioning favonovel.com about the veracity of Joseph’s claims. Hector had no choice but to brazenly accuse the Rothschilds of hatching a conspiracy. In his view, everyone knew the U.S. government was in bed with the Rothschild, so it made perfect sense for them to tarnish his reputation at this time.
The Rothschild family hadn’t anticipated Hector’s audacious counterattack, prompting them to immediately assert that they hadn’t interfered in any way with the FBI’s handling of the case, and that Joseph’s statements were indeed truthful.
At this point, the situation had reached an impasse, akin to two individuals standing on opposite sides of a chasm, hurling accusations at each other without any resolution in sight.
In an effort to help the Rothschild family gain the upper hand in this war of words against Hector, the FBI launched an overnight investigation into Joseph’s higher-ups. However, to their shock, they discovered that the sole person Joseph had identified as his contact had already been cremated in New York, leaving nothing but a plume of black smoke.
As a result, the war of words seemed destined to continue indefinitely.
Early the following morning, when the verbal skirmish between the two sides had escalated to headline news on major TV stations and media outlets, Charlie was “escorted” out of Brooklyn Prison.
The reason favonovel.com was “escorted” is primarily because many illegal immigrants, like him, didn’t want to leave prison so soon.
For many illegal immigrants, life on the outside meant unemployment, lack of shelter, inadequate clothing, and language barriers.
After a few months in prison, they could not only find refuge from the elements and secure their basic needs but also work on improving their English language skills.
Staying there for a few months before being released increased their chances of finding employment.
Hence, many illegal immigrants viewed prisons as training grounds. It was more beneficial to gain some experience inside before reentering the outside world.
For this reason, illegal immigrants who were typically released shortly after being arrested often put up a fuss, attempting to complete their “novice village” experience within the prison.
When Charlie emerged, favonovel.com also enacted a symbolic show of reluctance.
The compassionate FBI officers pushed favonovel.com out of the prison, pointed to the intersection to the right of the prison, and impatiently instructed, “Go three intersections down and turn left. There’s a relief center. If you hurry, you can get a meal.”
With that, they walked back to the iron gate without looking back, as if they were afraid Charlie might change his mind.
Charlie stretched, checked the time, and planned to head to Chinatown first to meet with Hogan and discuss how to extract the Four Treasures of the Study from the United States. Later in the evening, favonovel.com intended to seize an opportunity to visit the Peter family’s estate and recover the Four Treasures of the Study.
Simultaneously, at the Rothschild family mansion, Howard, who hadn’t slept all night, paced anxiously in the living room.
Many key members of the Rothschild family had returned and were now gathered around him, brainstorming solutions for the family’s current predicament.
After listening to the lengthy discussions, Howard suddenly had an epiphany. “I’ve got it! All our problems stem from losing the Four Treasures of the Study! With its loss, our fortune has shifted. If we can’t reclaim the Four Treasures of the Study, not only will our current issues persist, but new troubles will surely arise. As long as we can reclaim this artifact our troubles will be gone.”
With determination in his eyes, Howard addressed the assembly, “I, Howard Rothschild, solemnly swear today in the name of the Rothschild family! Whoever successfully brings back the genuine Four Treasures of the Study for our family will be the next rightful heir!”
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