Chapter 858 Ocean Black Opal (1/2)

Elson showed Li Du what it meant to be ”rage decisive.” Within a few days, all eight people involved in the electrical current incident with Steve were sent to prison. However, while they went to prison for different reasons, they all shared the same fate.

Elson had contacted lawyers, private investigators, banks, and the tax office, and sent the mine owners first to court and then to jail. Of the nine mines surrounding Li Du's mine, eight of the mine owners were found guilty, and their mines were taken back by the government. The other owner was lucky. That mine owner had not been involved in the conflict with Li Du, so Elson let him go. Together with Blanchett's mine, 12 mines were taken back from eight mine owners. Elson then bought all the mines. Li Du had no idea how Elson had done it.

After a series of dazzling operations, the matter was over.

Steve had been the victim of mine owners' revenge against Li Du. Elson used his family's energy against them, so this meant Li Du was involved, too.

The story spread through the town, but because the details were somehow kept secret, the big guys just knew the surface of the matter but not the whole truth. Both the owners and the miners assumed that Li Du was the mastermind. Not only were they shocked that Li Du had such great resources, but they were also more than a little afraid of him. In their view, Li Du's act was total annihilation. Blanchett and the others had been thrown into jail, and their mines were taken away. They had nothing left.

Subconsciously, they were awed by Li Du. They did not dare provoke him. That was the mine's owners' strategy. However, many of the mine owners had had good feelings about the man who had saved Marcos and Aubrey.

Now, after supposedly destroying Blanchett, Lennon, and his gang, they were no longer fond of him. It was back to how it had been in the beginning, where no one came to his mine at night, and no one talked to him during the day.

Li Du used to go to the pub in town and often someone would buy him a drink. Now whenever he went to the bar, no one would even have a drink with him. Li Du was very helpless, but he could not explain. He could only help Steve and Elson to carry the blame.

When he was free, he called Hans, who had been in touch with him several times during the week. However, he had been too busy with Elson's vengeance to call him every day.

The phone rang three times before it was answered. Listening to Hans' lazy, ”Hello,” Li Du couldn't help laughing and asked, ”You answered my call after so many rings. Are you angry with me?”

Hans hummed. ”Sh*t, why should I be angry with you? You are not my beloved little lover. Cut the long story short. What's the matter?”

”I miss you so much, so I gave you a call.” Li Du sighed.

”Go away.”

Li Du said, ”Well, to tell you the truth, a few days ago I was busy, so I did not call. The matter was very troublesome. I'll talk to you in detail when we meet.”

”Ah.”

After a few more words, Hans snorted, clearly not wanting to talk.