North America 1849, from Gold Rush to Warlord

Chapter 27: Cleaning Up the Mayor's Plan (Please Read)

How can we describe A-Zu’s mood at this moment?

It's like a Go master who takes great pains to set up the game, waiting for his opponent to make a clever move to break the deadlock.

Unexpectedly, the opponent who looked aggressive turned out to be a terrible chess player who couldn't even understand the game he had set!

Not to mention breaking your own game!
It's simply, boring!
At that time, in the mayor's office, when Mayor Cameron talked about the city cleanup plan, in A Zu's heart, this high and mighty mayor was already doomed to die!
When the mayor asked for eighty dollars for each cabin, A-Zu already had murderous intentions in his heart!
Finally, when the mayor threatened to invalidate all patents and company registrations, in A Zu's heart, Mayor Cameron was already a dead man!
From the moment he walked out of the mayor's office, A-Zu was planning this murder.

He put out his unfinished cigar and put it in his pocket. He walked slowly in the city hall, observing everything.

After that, he went out for two days and found wild castor beans in the suburbs not far from San Francisco.

He returned to the shipyard, locked himself in a room, crushed castor beans, and extracted ricin with alcohol.

Because ricin is purely hand-rubbed and not pure enough, there is still a residual smell of alcohol in it. Therefore, Cameron can taste a faint aroma of alcohol when smoking a cigar.

Ricin is one of the most toxic poisons in nature! Just one milligram is enough to kill an adult.

Moreover, castor oil plant can grow in most parts of the world and is widely distributed.

What’s even more terrifying is that even in the 21st century, more than a hundred years later, there is still no antidote for ricin!

It's simply the perfect killing tool!
Even the two great leaders of the Meo Sect and the Mete Sect in later generations were threatened with assassination using ricin.

After preparing ricin, A-Zu got makeup clothes, gloves, false beard, glasses, foundation, etc., and hand-rubbed extra-thick soles that were two sizes larger than his own.

After sticking the extra-thick soles on his own shoes and putting on makeup, A-Zu transformed himself into a skinny white man of about 1.8 meters tall, with a beard, glasses and a pale face!

Even if Vivian, Vic and other people who are most familiar to him are standing in front of him, they probably won’t recognize him as A-Zu!

After changing his appearance, based on the half cigar he deliberately left behind, A Zu found the only store in San Francisco that sold high-end Cuban cigars and bought a box of exactly the same Partagas cigars.

This might be the only clue left for the police, so A-Zu not only put on makeup to disguise himself, but also chose the darkest evening to buy cigars, making it impossible for people to see his face.

Inject ricin into the cigar, then dry it to the appropriate dryness and humidity, and the tools for committing the crime are ready.

After several secret reconnaissances, we found out the working hours and room layout of the municipal building, and confirmed that there was only one night guard on duty.

The day before Mayor Cameron died, A-Zu sneaked into the city hall building with various people before the office closed, and hid in a toilet cubicle on the fifth floor where the mayor's office was located.

A Zu only started to act after everyone had finished get off work and night had fallen, and the night watchman had closed the door of the municipal building and fallen asleep.

He used the prepared blade and wire to easily pry open the old-fashioned door lock of the mayor's office.

The mayor's cigars were replaced one-on-one with Partagas cigars injected with ricin.

Then, he locked the mayor's office and walked out, hiding in the toilet cubicle on the fifth floor again.

What follows is a long wait!
After daybreak, when screams were heard and chaos broke out outside, he took advantage of the chaos to sneak out and enter the deserted mayor's office.

He replaced all the poisonous cigars with the original non-toxic cigars and picked up the half-smoked poisonous cigar that fell on the ground...!
A-Zu even cleaned up the ashtray and the ashes that fell on the ground!

Then, he disappeared silently in the chaotic crowd.

Finally, destroy the body and all evidence.

Ah Zu thought he was being very cautious. Even if the police knew the mayor had been poisoned, they would not be able to find the source of the poisoning. If they could not find the source of the mayor's poisoning, they would lose most of the clues.

Even the most brilliant detective might guess that there was something wrong with the mayor's cigars and follow the clues to the shop that sold Cuban cigars. At most, he would only find out that it was a tall, thin white man who bought a box of expensive Partagas cigars.

But what does this have to do with his grandfather, a yellow-skinned Chinese?
A-Zu made every possible calculation and was extremely cautious.

But he didn't expect that he had overestimated the times and overestimated the police's IQ and bottom line.

The police couldn't find any clues, so they created clues very quickly and used memory recovery techniques to torture the man into confessing and framed the black servant.

All the performances I did were performed for the blind!
But his intuition told him that this matter was not over yet.

The Cameron family has stood firm for decades in this jungle where the strong prey on the weak. I'm afraid they are not so easy to deal with!
A-Zu put down the newspaper and looked up to meet several pairs of burning gazes.

A Zu said calmly, "So what? I told you the mayor's death had nothing to do with me, but you still don't believe me!"

Jason shrugged. "Although the real murderer was hanged, you have to admit, Lee, you once thought about killing that greedy jackal. Am I right?"

"That's not the case at all. Who do you think I am?"

Jason nodded. "Lee, don't think I don't understand you! You're not the type to swallow your anger. Even though you're polite to everyone, the rebellious look in your eyes can't fool me!"

"Being blackmailed and threatened openly by that jackal, Li, I don't believe you haven't thought about killing him. It just happened that someone else got there first."

Vic stared at A Zu and said, "Li, is it really such a coincidence?"

After spending so much time together on the boat, Vic undoubtedly understood the young man in front of him better.

That night, if I really wanted to kill him, I would most likely be the one to die!

The moment A-Zu grabbed the knife and rode on him, Captain Vic truly felt that death was at hand.

Vic was very sure that this young man from the Far East, who was polite to everyone, was quite dangerous and would definitely dare to kill people!
And Vic also firmly believed that this young Chinese man definitely had the ability and means to kill someone without anyone noticing!

Even if that person is the mayor!

"Alright, alright!" A-Zu said with a helpless smile, "I admit that I used the mysterious witchcraft of the East to curse the mayor to death. Is that alright?"

"Really?" Vic and Jason's eyes widened instantly.

"Of course it's fake! Don't listen to his nonsense!" Vivian punched A-Zu in anger. "I've lived in China for over a decade and have never seen any witchcraft, let alone something as terrifying as cursing someone to death."

"Okay, okay, let's get down to business!"

A Zu said to Daisy, "Miss Daisy, half a month has passed. Please tell us about the company's business performance during this period!"

"Okay!" Daisy said seriously, holding the account book.

"I believe everyone is eager to know how much money our company has made in the past half month, right?"

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