"Of course I can't do it alone, but with you, it's a whole different story, isn't it?"

Dirk Carter said.

Jaden Lawson waved his hand dismissively and said, "Dirk Carter, you're a madman, you're amazing, I promise not to hassle you anymore. It's my bad luck I got involved with someone like you, The Reaper. Just go, hurry up and leave, I never want to see you again."

With that said.

Jaden Lawson was about to get up to see him off.

Dirk Carter let out a sigh.

He said, "Alright, since you don't want to, I won't force you. But you did say one thing right, you won't see me again."

"Why?"

Jaden Lawson asked nonchalantly.

Dirk Carter chuckled and said, "It's not me who's coming after you, it's someone else. You've been around him for so many years, in this world, it seems only a dead man's mouth stays shut, right?"

"There's no need for scare tactics. Benson Caldwell, no matter how bold, wouldn't dare touch me. You don't need to worry about that."

"Is that so? Aren't you feeling guilty about saying that? If you weren't, why did you go all out to elevate Chadric Gates? Isn't it just for a shield? You know better than I do what Benson Caldwell will do to you, but you just don't want to admit it."

This one sentence of the month.

Made Jaden Lawson's expression calm down.

He stood there.

Just as Dirk Carter was about to open the door to the private room to leave, he asked, "Wait a minute, you said we could work together, can you guarantee I won't be harmed?"

"You won't die, but everything you've done before will eventually face legal consequences."

Dirk Carter said with a solemn face.

Jaden Lawson sneered a bit, "So you're saying, whether I cooperate with you or not, the outcome won't be good?"

"I told you, I can keep you alive, but I can't guarantee anything else."

Dirk Carter didn't back down a bit.

At this point, Jaden Lawson's face no longer showed any arrogance or obstinacy.

Even though when he left, Benson Caldwell had spoken many "kind" words, Jaden knew too well the kind of person Benson Caldwell was, and that anyone who betrayed him would not end well.

The fact that Ardmore City Customs could use Dirk Carter against him had already proven this point.

For someone like him, naturally, he was afraid of death.

After hesitating for a while.

He said, "I can help you, but the resources you and I have aren't enough to go against Benson Caldwell. His connections reach the very top, even before you can touch him, the big trees behind him could crush you. What are you planning to do?"

"Then we need to capture him directly before those big trees behind him can react."

Dirk Carter said.

Jaden Lawson looked at Dirk Carter like he was a child.

Laughing, he said, "Benson Caldwell is extremely vigilant, and he would never show up as soon as he senses something unusual. Plus, he's a representative of the National People's Congress, do you think you can catch him?"

"Whether I can catch him is my business, not yours. You do two things: first, write down all the illegal activities you know about Aether Group, and provide evidence if possible; second, write down all the categories, times, locations, and methods of smuggled goods of Aether Group at Ardmore City's port."

Benson Caldwell, who is he?

Dirk Carter, however, seemed relaxed.

This left Jaden Lawson with no confidence at all.

But having chosen to cooperate with Dirk Carter, he had no better option, so he had to take the gamble.

After knowing the truth, after all.

Jaden Lawson also sensed that Benson Caldwell might make a move against him soon.

Gritting his teeth, he said, "Okay, I'll tell you."

By the time they left the nearby hotel, it was already dawn.

In other words, Dirk Carter and Arlo Yarbrough had spent the entire night with Jaden Lawson.

Arlo Yarbrough was holding a bulging briefcase, containing a lengthy 105-page confession document.

This document.

Exposed details about a major smuggling case involving Aether Group.

Just the implicated officials mentioned by Jaden Lawson numbered more than 70, leaving people utterly stupefied.

From ordinary agency officials to leading officials in some ministries and commissions, it was all-inclusive.

Benson Caldwell's way of corrupting officials involved two methods.

The first was money, relentlessly throwing money at them. Some people started with principles, but seeing one pile of money followed by another, they eventually couldn't resist and succumbed to temptation.

The other way was women.

In Jaden Lawson's confession, he mentioned a place called Lake and Sea Manor.

This place is located by Goose Lake in Ronan City and appears from the outside to be just an ordinary manor, yet inside, it's a man's paradise.

Not a single man who ever entered Lake and Sea Manor wasn't completely carried away by it.

The women who get to enter are all meticulously selected; first, their height must be at least 165 cm, and their education must be at least a bachelor's degree. No matter how beautiful a woman with a diploma might be, she wouldn't be accepted.

Every woman not only undergoes training in "bedroom skills," but also all kinds of physical and conversational training to the point where it's said they are accomplished in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

Of course.

The smuggled goods included a wide variety.

Ranging from industrial raw materials to refined oil, vegetable oil, electronic products, automobiles, cigarettes, home appliances, luxury goods, and so forth.

In between the records.

Dirk Carter inquired about the category of smuggled cigarettes.

Jaden Lawson told him.

Cigarette smuggling was a significant operation within Aether Group.

He collaborated with some officials from Serenity State's Tobacco Bureau to smuggle tobacco through certain ports in Ardmore City, and then distributed it to various retail outlets via the Tobacco Bureau.

In other words, the sales of these cigarettes were conducted through legitimate and compliant channels.

This is the reason cigarette smuggling was so rampant, yet left unchecked.

From long ago, Benson Caldwell had been collaborating with Helen Fletcher's father-in-law, Chad Perry. Later, Chad Perry used various connections to place his son, Easton Perry, in the Provincial Tobacco Bureau.

In other words, The Perry Family was in charge of Aether Group's tobacco smuggling line.

Of course, the profits from cigarettes were astronomically high.

Aside from smuggling, they also used the Tobacco Bureau's related technology for counterfeiting, seizing vast wealth over the years.

Regarding the death of Benton Fletcher back then, Jaden Lawson also knew a bit.

But he said it wasn't Benson Caldwell who acted back then, it was Chad Perry.

Meaning, Helen Fletcher's suspicion was true, Chad Perry was indeed her father's murderer.

All along.

The major cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting case in Kenton County had been a vexing issue for Dirk Carter.

As of today, it finally seemed clear.

Now, with the insider information about Aether Group, as long as they followed this line, they were sure to discover problems.

But Dirk Carter knew that even if he submitted these materials, nobody would investigate.

Furthermore.

The corrupt officials that Jaden Lawson provided were only a part of what he knew.

If these materials fell into Benson Caldwell's hands, both he and Jaden Lawson would be doomed.

So, this matter could only be done by himself, and only by his own hands.

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