The Protector

Iris frowned slightly as she uttered, “What’s wrong? Slow down and tell me what happened.”

The employee gabbled in panic, “Just now, a few of us were strolling around. All of a sudden, a group of people appeared and asked for money. We got into an altercation, and they started beating us up. Now, they have held some of our employees captive for ransom.”

All of them recalled the resort workers’ reminder — the locals were all two-fisted folks who liked to look for trouble.

However, none of them paid heed to the advice as they would never have expected something like this to happen on the island.

“Oh no! It must be Oliver Ross!” With a worried expression, one of the resort workers gibbered, “The bustle of the preparation work for the upcoming celebration must have caught his attention.”

“Who is this Oliver Ross?” Asked Levi.

worker explained, “He’s the local tyrant of the underworld; the lake and dozens of the surrounding islands were all his territories. We pay him huge sums of money every year so that he

as they don’t wander off the

and check

everyone arrived at the scene to see six Morris Group employees being tied to the trees. They were flanked by dozen of

6’2 feet tall, pot-bellied, menacing-looking man. His

men instantly fixed their gaze on Iris, Zoey and

of them

the ones engaged by the Joneses to get rid

is going on here?” Asked the

we caught them

guys appeared out of nowhere