Everything that happened today had been a perfect day for Mr. Patu! Not only had he obtained an oil field worth hundreds of millions without spending a cent, but he had also perfectly completed his own "mission."
He had destroyed the oil field, dealt the Duncan Family a heavy blow, and put pressure on their liquid funds.
As for what he had gained... that was merely what he deserved!
Yet no one had expected the oil field's destruction to be like the starting pistol at a racetrack. It wasn't the end, but the beginning! Immediately afterward, the Duncan Family's businesses in every industry began running into trouble. In some cases, others breached their contracts; in others, people found ways to force them into breach of contract.
Only when an entire country turned against you could you truly feel the overwhelming power of a nation!
That kind of power was not something any one person or family could withstand!
Perhaps in the past, the Duncan Family could have managed it, because back then they had not yet been exposed for possessing so many black materials.
But now, they couldn't. The will of the entire nation had gathered against them. No matter what they did—or didn't do—they were wrong!
Watching the legal procedures conclude so quickly, Mr. Patu was in an excellent mood as he gave Mr. Jieluno some advice—
"If I were you, I'd come here right now..."
On the way back, Mr. Jieluno kept thinking about that question. Once the public opinion he controlled could no longer withstand the entire Federation's hostility toward the Duncan Family, he had developed the faintest desire to flee.
But he had always suppressed that impulse, because if he and the Duncan Family left, they would lose all their halos.
Given their current reputation in