Chapter 1186
Suddenly, a cone of ice cream was put in front of him. “Would you like to have some ice cream?”
Derek looked up to find that the corners of his mouth tasted salty; only then did hee to his senses
and realize that his face was wet with tears. He wiped his tears away, saying, “Thank you.”
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Derek nced at Quinton without saying a word as they ate ice cream silently.
His mind seemed to have recovered its bnce when he looked at Quinton. At the very least, he didn’t
go astray, and somebody was still caring about him.
After eating the ice cream, Derek pulled himself together. Having a decision in mind, he looked firmly at
Quinton before saying, “Let’s leave the mountain tomorrow.”
Quinton had lied down after eating his ice cream. ying with his cell phone, he replied, “Okay.”
It had been seven days since Derek ‘died’.
Over thest seven days, Sandra and Alex yed up Derek’s death as much as possible. They seemed
to have concluded that Derek must have been killed by either Sophia or Michael.
Sit-in protests had been staged downstairs at Dragon Technology’s premises from time to time, for many
urged the relevant departments to find the actual murderer to avenge Derek.
The police repeatedly asserted that the murderers had been found, and Sophia actually had nothing to
do with the homicide. Even so, the public refused to believe this. To them, even the victim’s family
couldn’t be fooled by this story, let alone the outsiders. Moreover, Dragon Technology hadn’t handed
over Derek’s remains even now, so there must be something terribly wrong behind this!
There were huge crowds of people downstairs at Dragon Technology’s premises on the seventh day
after Derek’s death. Sandra and Alex showed up downstairs together; leading many of the Mitchells, they
upied the entrance and burned offerings for Derek.
As they burned the offerings, they cried with great sadness.
Sandra knew that the longer the matter dragged on, the worse it would be for her. She must make a big
deal out of this incident as soon as possible to benefit from this.
“My poor brother, pleasee out and meet me if you can see us. Tell Dad and me who killed you! Don’t
be afraid, for Dad and I will certainly speak up for you. You have the entire Mitchell Family at your back!
Oh, my brother! My poor, poor brother…”
Not only Sandra and Alex were wailing downstairs; a group of Mitchells who ranked as Derek’s junior in
the family hierarchy were even forced to wear deep mourning and kneel downstairs; they wailed for the
dead while burning offerings.
Standing in the mushroom-shaped building, Cooper couldn’t help going ballistic at the sight of the scene.
“This is so embarrassing! What a shame this is!”
However, this scene wasn’t embarrassing in Alex’s eyes. To him, this was the golden opportunity to make
Cooper fall from power, so he had to continue what he was doing no matter how embarrassing this was.
Since people were wailing for the dead downstairs and sitting in from time to time, the hotel’s business
was seriously affected, so even the hotel received manyints.
Cooper didn’t expect to witness such a spectacle in his lifetime.
He simply pulled the curtains and stopped looking at the scene, for he really didn’t want to spare a
nce at these people.
It never urred to him that the Mitchells had sunk to such a level 20 years after he left. Such a way of
doing things was no different from that of the upstarts who shouted abuses in public! They couldn’t care
less about the honor and dignity of the nobility.
Holding Derek’s ck-and-white photo in her arms, Sandra stood downstairs while wailing as the
reporters pointed their cameras at her. Her face was streaming with tears as she cried pitifully while
saying, “We don’t want to stir up trouble; I just want to get my younger brother’s remains back! Today is
the seventh day after his death, yet I can’t even find his remains! Oh, God! How could you treat my
brother like this? My poor brother!”
Sandra Mitchell, the former Universal Games champion, publicly demanded to redress the wrong done
to her younger brother, creating a great stir.
Derek died, but his remains went missing. What an utter injustice!
There must be some secrets behind Derek’s death.
Sophia was also watching them in the building, for she wanted to see when they would stop making a
scene.
Sandra seemed to be certain that Derek had died and that Sophia had hidden his remains away. If
Sophia handed over his remains, it could then be determined that she had murdered him; if she couldn’t
hand over his remains, it would be proven that something was wrong with Dragon Technology, and they
were the ones who killed Derek!
Derek had gone missing, and the people involved were dead. The three murderers who killed him had
died, and the oil tanker that rammed into their car had exploded on the spot, killing the oil tanker’s driver.
Since there were no witnesses to testify, Sophia and Cooper were caught in a no-win situation, and both
of them could never turn the tables.
Some even made Michael the target of their attack; they forcibly dragged him into the case by seeing
him as an aplice.
It’s really impressive of them to raise such a ruckus from early in the morning until noon! It’s such a cold
day, and it’s snowing. Aren’t they bothered by the cold? thought Sophia to herself.
It was already noon, and the reporters had left for lunch, but the Mitchells still refused to leave. They
kneeled on the floor and warmed their hands with their breaths while shivering, whereas Sandra and
Alex had returned to their van to have lunch.
Sophia uttered, “It’s okay. Just let them make trouble while we have lunch first. I shall treat everyone to
lunch today.”
They had to eat their fill to have the strength to confront these people.
Cooper didn’t want to go out because he thought that this scene was too embarrassing. Sophia,
however, was seething with rage; for Derek’s sake, she must go downstairs and raise merry hell with the
Mitchells on this day!
Michael sneaked into the building from the parking lot at noon to deliver sautéed lobster and nourishing
mutton soup to her.
Celine, who came with him as well, was carrying a few boxes carefully. The instant she entered the
company, she searched everywhere for Quinton. “Where’s my brother? Where’s my little brother?”
After finding Quinton—who was sleeping in a corner—she pulled at him like a kid, urging, “Get up and
have lunch, Quinton!”
Quinton rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up to have lunch.
Seeing Quinton’s decadent appearance, Michael was exasperated, for the former failed to meet his
expectations. He reproved with amanding look, “Just look at you! You never change your clothes,
wash your pants, shave your beard,b your hair, or even smarten yourself up! All you do every day is
eat and sleep, and you never tidy your room. Do you think it’s cool to only know to y games and y
with your cell phone every day…”
Quinton’s eyes were heavy with sleep, and his unkempt hair hung above his eyebrows, making him look
a bit wild and uninhibited. He opened the lunchbox Celine gave him while Michael rattled on in
exasperation.
Celine loved him dearly, though. She kept picking up food for him, saying, “Here, Quinton, eat this. This
is delicious.”
Michael stared at Quinton with a look of exasperation in his eyes, but he could do nothing else with the
latter. He couldn’t help thinking to himself, What’s the point of the existence of something inhuman like a
younger brother?
Quinton thought to himself, This brother of mine is so annoying.
The Mitchells had intended to hold their annual year-end meeting here on this day, so there were many
people in thepany. The Mitchells were all here, and even Linus—who didn’t have the surname
Mitchell—was present. Everyone didn’t expect Alex toe and make trouble, so they were prepared to
go out and put up a vigorous fight with him after eating their fill.
It could be said that this day was the first time they would rip each other in public like this ever since the
Mitchells were split up, so everyone really looked forward to it.
Family scandals shouldn’t be made public. Since someone as famous as Sandra could risk losing face
by putting up a fight in public, they could only fulfil her wish!
Everyone had spent the entire morning having the meeting. As the head of the Mitchell Family, Cooper
made a speech and voiced his ns for the new year.
Filled with enthusiasm, everyone was ready to roll up their sleeves under Cooper’s leadership.
Everyone then had lunch after the meeting ended.
The sight of the current size of this branch family of the Mitchells filled Cooper with gratification.
Currently, the branch family owned many properties of different sizes apart from Dragon Technology and
Mitchell International Energy and Technology. Thesepanies had expanded to a very considerable
scale over the past two years, which was even faster than he had expected.
The younger generation is to be regarded with respect!
Cooper waved his hand after lunch, saying, “I hereby dere this meeting adjourned.”
Everyone gave a cheer and gathered up their stuff before going downstairs, ready to fight with Alex and
his men.
Cooper shook his head in resignation while looking at the group of high-spirited young people.