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Chapter 80 The Ruthless Kingpin
According to Kingpin’s explanation, all of this was his minion’s acting on his own accord, unable to communicate and ill-mannered.
In fact, Kingpin was prattling nonsense. His initial plan was to forcefully buy El Tech Company’s shares. Otherwise without his approval, how would his minion act so recklessly?
However, after seeing Leo’s skillful and proficient combat skills, Kingpin gave up his initial intention and prepared to employ another approach.
This was not the first time Kingpin heard of El Tech Company. Several months earlier, he had taken notice of this newly created company in Hell’s Kitchen. All of this retraced back to when Leo asked Ol’ Tom to launder money from an oversea account.
The channel Ol’ Tom used was a channel set up by Kingpin’s subordinate. At that time, his subordinate had informed Kingpin a large amount of money had flowed into Hell’s Kitchen. Ultimately, the final flow was verified to be El Tech Company after some investigation.
But Kingpin dismissed it at that time since Leo had paid the commission according to the ratio.
Although the amount Leo laundered was huge, Kingpin was a magnate and it was pointless for him to break his principles for just this amount of money.
It just happened the venue of El Tech Company’s product launch was located at Flushing, it was near Kingpin’s lair, the Fisk Industries. After some consideration, Kingpin chose to join the fun uninvitedly.
After seeing the El Tech Company’s product, he was unable to remain composed.
Judging from El Gen-1’s performance, it would be a hot demand in the current market of the computer industry. It would be laughable if he could not see the brilliant future of El Tech Company.
At that time, the amount El Tech Company could profit was hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. This amount of money was not a small amount for Kingpin, it was even legal and clean money.
Thus, Kingpin had the idea of ‘investing’ in El Tech Company. From his perspective, as long as possess a little number of shares, there would be a million ways for him to own El Tech Company ultimately.
However, in what way would Leo give his shares to someone else? Naturally, it was infeasible for him to agree with Kingpin’s investment.
“Mr. Fisk, since today’s matter is a misunderstanding, then let bygones be bygones. As for you hoping to invest in our company, I’m very afraid our company is not facing any financial issues right now. So, I’ll decline it.”
Smiling, Kingpin didn’t force it, directly agreeing with Leo’s statement before leading his minions to leave. While leaving, Hodor was supported by the others as though unable to walk properly.
The conflict arrived and left like a hurricane.
Before the crowd could sit tight to watch the drama, it ended right away. Seeing there was no more drama, the crowd soon dispersed. Besides the employees of El Tech Company, Otto and Peter were the only ones left.
“What just happened?” After hanging around in the company for some days, Peter was rather concerned about the company’s matters.
Moreover, the past few days he had been cooperating with Heather, so their relationship was pretty good. Thus, he hurriedly asked, “Heather, are you alright?”
With Leo here, Heather’s spine grew back. Right now, she had steadied herself and shook her head, indicating she was fine. Leo also waved his hand hinting everything was fine. Seeing this, Peter finally eased down.
The conflict was resolved and Leo also recalled the investment matter with Otto.
Speaking of coincidence, just as Leo was about to invest in Otto, Kingpin surprisingly wanted to invest in Leo. However, Otto was in dire need of money while Leo was not. Therefore, Leo’s money can be invested but Kingpin was out of the question.
Leo could roughly guess the real motive for Kingpin to invest in El Tech Company. But Leo was counting on making a fortune through El Gen-1, accumulating sufficient capital for preparing for the upcoming chaotic world.
Thus, it was impossible for Leo to spit out the delicious meat in his mouth.
Although Kingpin left just like that, Leo suspected he wouldn’t throw in the towel that easily. Moreover, Kingpin might look like a generous person but in reality, he was a vindictive person. It seemed that in the future, Leo had to be vigilant of Kingpin.
Casting the matters with KIngpin aside, Leo began discussing with Otto, after all, this matter was more urgent than making money.
Money couldn’t allow Leo to achieve his ultimate goal. For him to grow stronger, he still had to rely on his Mechanic System and the Marvel Universe’s various black technologies.
“I’m really sorry, Dr. Octavius. There was some delay just now, so we can continue heading to your laboratory for a tour. I hope I didn’t cause you to wait in anxiety.”
“I’m not in a hurry at all. If Mr. Erwin is free right now, we indeed can go now.” Although Otto stated he was not anxious, he was.
In fact, Leo was quite looking forward to what kind of black technologies the legendary Doc Ock owned.
Hence, according to the initial plan, Leo drove Peter and Otto to the company to pick up Bucky, then headed to Otto’s laboratory.
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On another end.
After leaving the product launch venue, Kingpin got into his private car and directly returned to Fisk Tower.
Presently, he was sitting in his office with a cigar in his mouth. His initial smiling face was replaced by a cold expression.
“Nordril, go and get Hodor over.”
Nordril was the butler who was always by Kingpin’s side. Hearing Kingpin’s order, he left the room.
Soon, the shivering Hodor entered the office while Nordril, who was following behind Hodor didn’t, instead, he closed the door for Hodor.
The door snapped shut and Hodor also jumped out of fright.
“Hodor, come, sit here.” Taking a puff of the cigar, Kingpin pointed at the seat in front of him.
Hodor responded intensely, he didn’t dare to take the seat but immediately knelt on the ground in front of Kingpin. Without daring to raise his head, he shouted tremblingly, “Mr. Fisk, please spare me. Everything I did today was according to Mr. Nodril’s orders to crack the whip on El Tech Company!”
“Did Nordril ask you to threaten? Did Nordril ask you to make a move? Did Nordril ask you to defame me?” Three questions, each with a higher pitch than the previous one, each with a harsher tone than the previous one.
Sitting on his chair with a cigar in his hand, Kingpin grabbed Hodor’s blonde hair with another hand, lifting Hodor’s face up.
“Hodor, if as per usual, you can solve the problem with your vicious attitude, I wouldn’t blame you. It’s such a shame you are unlucky to have met a tough fight today. And because of your unluckiness, you’ll die right now.”
Releasing Hodor’s hair, Kingpin abruptly grabbed Hodor’s neck. At the same time, he stood up, with his hand raised high, leaving Hodor’s legs dangling in midair.
Hodor’s face flushed, with both of his legs kicking and stomping on Kingpin, he struggled to pry open Kingpin’s finger.
However, Kingpin remained motionless, as immovable as a mountain.
Soon enough, Hodor lost his strength, dying of suffocation.
Kingpin exerted force on his hand and a snapping sound came from Hodor’s drooping neck, causing it to droop even further.
This was the true Kingpin, ruthless, murderous, treating himself as an emperor controlling the life and death of the people.
The sound of a heavy object hitting the ground rang out, startling the butler, Nordril, who was standing guard outside the door.
Entering the room, Nordril ignored the body on the floor.
“Nordril, clean the room later.”
Nordril glanced at the dead Hodor with disdain on his face. However, Nordril did not clean the garbage immediately, he was waiting for Kingpin’s further commands.
Kingpin said to clean it later, which meant he hadn’t finished his words. And Nordril would never ask, the previous butler, who was constantly questioning, was in a grave already.
For those who followed Kingpin, their life could be as perilous as lying with a tiger.
As expected, soon enough, the pondering Kingpin suddenly spoke, “We still need El Tech Company’s chip technology. Since investing is impossible, we won’t cooperate. Call the abroad Bullseye back and let him take care of getting the chip manufacturing technology over. Besides, remind him that El Tech Company’s Leo Erwin isn’t a simple person, lest he capsized in the gutter.”