Chapter 99: The Prophecy Comes True

"How is this possible?"

"How is it possible?"

Smith said blankly.

He couldn't understand why Dongda actually still had footage.

This was footage; weren't they just a weak rabbit?

How could they bite back when pushed?

Just at this moment, a phone call interrupted his thoughts.

"Hello, Secretary Smith."

"Please come back quickly!"

"There's a group of reporters surrounding the place!"

"We can't hold them off much longer!"

Smith hung up the phone in a daze.

The person who called him was his secretary at the Department of Defense.

He hailed a taxi on the side of the road and rushed to the Department of Defense immediately.

What he didn't know was that

inside his Department of Defense,

there were also undercurrents surging.

His adjutant, Tony, knew everything.

But at this moment, seeing that Secretary Smith was about to be in big trouble,

once Smith fell,

as Smith's confidant,

Tony wouldn't fare any better.

Looking at it this way,

the only option right now was...

Tony looked at a business card of a friend from the Donkey Party.

He struggled as he picked up the phone.

He had his own backing in the Elephant Party.

The key to getting out unscathed right now

was to find someone from the Donkey Party.

Through an exchange of interests,

he would let the Donkey Party focus all their fire on Secretary Smith,

while he himself would successfully land through his connections in the Elephant Party.

As it currently stood, this was the only way.

Tony gripped the business card,

feeling pain in his palm.

"How can there be any right or wrong in this kind of thing?"

"Wasn't Smith like this back then?"

"Wasn't even the president like this back then?"

Thinking this through, Tony finally relaxed.

He dialed the number on the business card.

"Congressman William."

"Yes, it's Tony."

After some time of wheeling and dealing,

William finally agreed to Tony.

Tony put down his phone,

picked up a cup of coffee,

and looked at the photo of Secretary Smith on the table.

He gently blew on the steam of the coffee.

"This is heaven's will, Secretary Smith."

At the entrance of the Department of Defense,

the group of reporters clamoring to get in to interview him suddenly went silent as if a mute button had been pressed.

They all picked up their phones and started looking.

A moment later, they started blocking the door again.

"We want the truth!"

"We want the truth!"

After Smith arrived,

seeing the group of reporters blocking the door,

he was scared and didn't know what to do.

"Quick, go that way!"

Smith knew of a small door

that could bypass the main gate and enter the Department of Defense directly.

The driver dropped him off.

He rushed into the bushes in a hurry.

He rushed in and saw it was actually a dog hole.

Smith no longer cared about what dignity was.

He lay directly on the ground and crawled through bit by bit.

After crawling in, he rushed directly into his office in the Department of Defense.

"Tony!"

"Tony!"

But he suddenly realized

there was no one there.

Tony had always been in the secretary's office;

it had never happened that he was nowhere to be found.

At this moment, Smith's heart was incomparably panicked.

He hurriedly pulled someone over from the side.

"Where did Tony go? Where did he go?!"

The person who was scared said in a panic: "I just saw him a moment ago, now I don't know where he is either."

At this moment, the Deputy Secretary came over.

Seeing Smith,

he said: "Smith,"

"things have reached this point."

"You'd better solve it as soon as possible."

"Otherwise, it won't be good if the president finds out."

The Deputy Secretary said with schadenfreude.

Upon hearing this, Smith froze in place.

"No, I can't go out."

You can wheel and deal in private,

but you cannot appear in front of the public; your image in front of the public must be pure and flawless. This is the political rule of Eagle Country.

"Secretary Smith, of course, I suggest you face it."

The Deputy Secretary said.

At this moment, other people also came over.

Smith saw the Deputy Secretary and various department heads who used to flatter him all surrounding him,

with faces that were at odds with him.

It was a posture of forcing him to abdicate.

"Fine. I'll go."

Smith closed his eyes, his expression one of resignation.

He slowly stood up.

No one helped him.

He moved step by step to the door,

took one look at the Department of Defense emblem,

and then opened the main door.

A group of reporters saw Smith appear at the door

and immediately ran up,

aiming their cameras at him.

"Secretary Smith!"

"How do you explain the news released by Dongda?"

"Secretary Smith!"

"According to informed sources, that F-35 fighter jet involved has become wreckage."

"It is currently placed inside the Eagle Country military base stationed in Xiao Ri Zi."

"What is your view on this?"

"Secretary Smith."

"It is reported that Congress has received news."

"Numerous congressmen are impeaching you."

"They plan to form an independent investigation team."

"What do you think?"

A series of questions completely destroyed Smith's psychological defense line.

"Enough!"

"Fake news!"

"It's all fake news! It's all fake news!"

It could be said that Smith, who was so arrogant in his speech in Congress before,

was now just as miserable.

"I won't say a word until my lawyer arrives!"

Smith stepped down in a miserable state.

And the hurricane regarding all of this had already taken flight.

Smith fled home in a miserable state,

took out bottles of his prized wine,

and smashed them open without a care,

pouring them into a glass.

He knew

he was finished.

At this moment,

Smith received a phone call.

"Smith."

"In this situation right now!"

"Do you have anything to explain to me?"

"There is news about you everywhere now."

"They have even made a scene at the White House."

On the other side, the president spoke in a calm but suppressed angry tone.

"Mr. President, I... I..."

Before Smith could finish,

he was interrupted by the president's angry tone.

"Enough! Smith!"

"You have wasted the precious trust I placed in you again and again!"

"Is my trust so cheap?!"

"Tomorrow morning, I want to see your resignation!"

Then, the president hung up the phone.

Smith put down the phone in a daze.

A few days ago, he was the Secretary of Defense, one of the people the president trusted most.

He was even told by the president in public that he was the next president.

He even traveled in the president's backup plane.

A few days later, he became a person whom everyone kicked while he was down.

Great pain engulfed him.

A pain came from his heart.

He struggled to get up to get medicine,

but he found that he couldn't stand up anymore.

At the moment of his death,

he seemed to return to that high-spirited self.

Talking on stage about the despair the F-35 brought to the enemy.

A reporter off-stage asked:

When will Dongda be able to build a fifth-generation aircraft?

He remembered his answer was:

After I die.

His hands dropped powerlessly.

The next day,

the front-page headline in Eagle Country was:

"Secretary of Defense Smith Commits Suicide to Escape Punishment!" ===== CHAPTER 100 =====