America's Greatest Villain: I Defeat Magic with Magic

Faced with Martin's aggressive questioning, Attorney Walker forced himself to remain calm and immediately retorted:

"Mr. Chen, you have a vivid imagination. But in America, all accusations require evidence. If you have no evidence, it's malicious defamation. I can still immediately apply to the court to freeze all the assets of this restaurant."

"Evidence?" Chen Yuan leaned back in his boss's chair and sneered.

"Now that I know Dr. Weiss and Dr. Harker accepted cash bribes from you, I naturally have solid evidence. Or shall I call them here now for a face-to-face confrontation and see if they dare to take the blame for you for a mere tens of thousands of dollars, a federal felony of perjury?"

Attorney Walker's expression grew increasingly grim. Deep down, he didn't believe Chen Yuan actually had any evidence.

But how did the other party know the names of Dr. Weiss and Dr. Harker so accurately?

Although he initially suspected that his assistant, Davis, had leaked the information, the assistant clearly had no reason to betray him.

After all, Chen Yuan is just a bankrupt, poor student on the surface, and probably can't even pay the restaurant staff's wages next month.

What did he use to bribe his assistant?

However, both Dr. Weiss and Dr. Harker are respectable individuals. Although they received money to issue false medical and laboratory reports, if they were actually summoned and questioned in court, they would absolutely deny the authenticity of these reports in order to protect their jobs and reputations!

After all, these two reports were not issued through formal medical procedures and cannot withstand scrutiny in a judicial process!

At this moment, Martin, standing to the side, added in perfect unison:

"Mr. Walker, you should know that once a formal judicial investigation is launched, this case will drag on for a long time. Even if we ultimately lose, the wrangling could take two years or even longer. Can you afford to wait that long?"

Although Martin usually seems carefree, he has often defended lowlifes and knows how to accurately find his opponents' weaknesses.

Since Attorney Walker has not reported or sued Rongdingge Restaurant, it proves that he does not want to go through legal channels for some reason and just wants to get compensation directly.

Therefore, his words struck at the heart of Attorney Walker's weakness.

The reason he targeted Rongdingge Restaurant was that he had investigated beforehand and found that the original owner, Huang Fugui, had a sum of spare money.

As long as he can extort this money from Boss Huang, he can immediately make up for the millions of dollars he has lost elsewhere.

The reason he didn't choose to report Rongdingge Restaurant directly to the FDA, nor did he immediately file a lawsuit for compensation, was because going through formal legal channels would take at least a year and a half to obtain a judgment and compensation.

But he didn't expect that the old fox Huang Fugui would actually run away, and might have already returned to China to retire by now.

Although the new boss Chen Yuan owns an apartment, with the knowledgeable lawyer in front of him protecting him, it is almost impossible to extort cash from him in the short term.

Moreover, the forgery of medical reports and the assistance provided to the gangsters in passing top-secret information were not fabrications by Chen Yuan, but actual facts that had occurred.

Although Chen Yuan has not produced any substantial written evidence to date, Attorney Walker is not willing to take the risk.

As Martin stated, if either of these two incidents were to come to light and attract the attention of the Bar Association, his legal career would be over, and he might even have to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Attorney Walker came here to make money, not to confront an unknown adversary head-on.

Chen Yuan knew everything he had done, but he knew nothing about Chen Yuan's true background. This extreme information asymmetry made Attorney Walker feel very uncomfortable.

After quickly weighing the pros and cons in his mind, Attorney Walker wisely took two steps back and raised his hands in a gesture of compromise:

"Alright, I understand what you mean. This case is closed. Let's pretend we were never here today, how about that?"

However, the young new boss sneered again and said:

"Your fabricated food poisoning incident has not only damaged our restaurant's reputation but also caused immense psychological trauma to my employees. Do you really think you can just let it go with a casual 'that's it'?"

Attorney Walker was even more surprised to see that Chen Yuan actually wanted to retaliate and demand compensation.

The other party is so confident, does he really have some solid evidence?

But he wasn't going to be easily manipulated by a young man, and immediately responded firmly:

"Mr. Chen, my client is still lying in a hospital bed. Many passersby witnessed him vomiting and collapsing after eating your fried chicken. Based on this established fact alone, I can file a formal complaint with the FDA and have your restaurant shut down!"

Faced with Walker's blatant and veiled threats, Chen Yuan remained unfazed, calmly stating:

"I have reviewed the surveillance video of the incident. Although your client, Mr. Beckman, collapsed after eating fried chicken, his unusual vomiting and convulsions suggest that he may have taken some kind of hallucinogenic or neurotoxin-based illegal drug."

Then, Chen Yuan stared intently into Attorney Walker's eyes and said:

"Although several days have passed, Mr. Beckman's condition was very bad at the time. I think if we were to give him a thorough examination now, we would definitely be able to find any traces of the relevant drugs in his body."

Attorney Walker was completely stunned.

He never expected that Chen Yuan would know exactly what drugs Fatty Beckman had taken!

As Chen Yuan stated, in order to ensure that Beckman's "food poisoning" appeared realistic and severe enough, Attorney Walker specifically arranged for him to be given a large dose of banned drugs.

Fortunately, Beckman was large enough to be resistant to the drug, and he was also rushed to the hospital for gastric lavage, which saved his life.

If this incident is exposed, Walker's charges will likely include "personal injury."

At this point, Attorney Walker finally panicked completely.

He even began to suspect that Chen Yuan's true background and identity were definitely not as simple as they appeared on the surface.

Even FBI agents couldn't possibly investigate him in such detail in such a short time!

Thinking of this, Attorney Walker swallowed hard, his face pale, and asked:

What do you want?

"One hundred thousand dollars."

Chen Yuan tapped a finger on the table.

"This is compensation for the reputational and sales losses suffered by our store over the past few days. Isn't that reasonable?"

Although the other party had already backed down, Chen Yuan was well aware that if he didn't act tough enough or knew when to stop, this old fox would likely immediately realize he was bluffing.

After all, Chen Yuan didn't actually have any substantial evidence. Everything he knew came from the system's information panel.

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A dozen minutes later.

Under pressure from Chen Yuan, Attorney Walker had no choice but to make a humiliating promise: he would deliver $100,000 in cash to Chen Yuan within three days. Only then did he slink away from Rongdingge Restaurant with his assistant.

As soon as he got back into the Mercedes parked on the street corner, his assistant, Davis, wiped away cold sweat and asked cautiously:

"Boss, are we really going to give that kid $100,000? We don't have any extra money in our account."

Attorney Walker's face was grim, and he said through gritted teeth:

"Go contact Black Snake of the Sinaloa gang and tell him that a whole million dollars of the money he entrusted to us was embezzled by that kid surnamed Chen."

Davis's expression changed. He knew very well what the consequences would be if Black Snake thought that Chen Yuan had embezzled the money.

At this moment, Attorney Walker said viciously again:

"He knows too much!"