Chapter 24: Originally Chapter 24: Originally Back then, the Brown Brothers made their fortune by panning for gold and then turned to the jewelry and clothing business. At that time, Metropolis was in a period of rapid development. After several discussions, the brothers decided that Gerald Brown and his wife would stay in Metropolis, while Turner Brown and his wife would go to Zone Country to find suitable mines to buy for a steady supply of resources for their business in Metropolis.
During the last transaction, Gerald Brown transferred two hundred million to Turner Brown. This was all of the liquid funds available for the Brown family at the time, even requiring them to take out a bank loan.
After the transfer, Turner Brown and his wife disappeared like they had evaporated from the Earth, and they could no longer be contacted.
Eventually, Gerald Brown couldn’t bear worrying about his brother and sister-in-law any longer, so he decided to personally go to the Zone Country to find them, and Amiyah Martinez, Victoria Garcia’s grandmother, insisted on accompanying him.
After searching for two months with no success, just as Gerald Brown and his wife decided that Turner and his wife might have encountered danger and booked their tickets back to Metropolis, they stumbled upon a clue that led them to Turner and his wife.
Unexpectedly, they were kidnapped by local gang members.
In the end, Gerald Brown and his wife were killed by the gangsters while Turner Brown and his wife escaped unscathed. This was all a part of the plan conceived by Turner and his wife to get rid of Gerald and his wife, then return to Metropolis with an explanation for the others.
However, they never expected a cruel joke from fate – the flight they booked had gone missing, which inadvertently saved Turner and his wife from even having to explain themselves.
Driven by greed for the two mines and the Brown Group, they killed their own brother and sister-in-law, devoid of any humanity. Eventually, Victoria thought, they would pay the price for their choices.
“Are my grandparents’ ashes still there?” Victoria Garcia asked, her cold eyes filled with sorrow.
Suo Men nodded and said, “I buried their ashes in a secret location. Now I have only one request – I can die, but please let my family go, they are innocent.”
Arnold Johnson did not respond; instead, he turned his gaze to Victoria Garcia, leaving the decision of how to deal with Suo Men up to her.
Victoria said, “As long as I am sure your family has not been involved in anything, I will not harm them. Now take me to my grandparents’ ashes.”
As for Suo Men’s fate, he would go wherever he was supposed to go.
When Victoria Garcia saw her grandparents’ urns, she couldn’t help but shed tears. Their lonely souls had been wandering in a foreign land for twelve years.
“I will take you back home and bury you in your favorite forest. In spring every year, the mountains there will be covered with the Red Jade Flower that my grandmother loved.”
During their trip to Zone Country, Victoria thought that Arnold Johnson was just taking her there to uncover the truth behind her grandparents’ deaths and to bring their ashes back. However, she never expected that he would take her to another place.
There, she met the officials from Zone Country Ore Town who were auctioning off ores.
Even more surprising to her, she signed an agreement. It was about the mining rights to three mines; two of them were owned by Turner Brown and his wife, and the other one nearby was a mine rich in crystals.
When facing the Zone Country representatives, of course, she didn’t ask Arnold Johnson what was going on.
It seemed like Arnold wasn’t prepared to explain either.
Due to the urgency of the situation and concern for her sisters who were still in Metropolis, Victoria and Arnold Johnson returned to Metropolis on a private plane as soon as they finished handling all the matters.