Chapter 91 Muddy the Water (Medium! More updates)
Lucia is in the warmest season of the year.
At this time, suddenly, a bloody storm broke out internally.
On the outskirts of Kalinin in the dead of night, in a small forest near the border.
"Huhu..." The sound of breathing, like a bellows, became more and more rapid.
Woof woof woof…
I heard sporadic barking from behind, and the rapid breathing became heavier. At the same time, the figure making the sound covered the bleeding wound on his arm:
‘Damn it, why is my identity exposed? We can’t go on like this. We are still four or five kilometers away from the border. We must persevere...’
Woof woof woof…
The barking of dogs behind him was getting closer and closer, and beads of sweat kept popping up on the man's forehead. He was about to take out a grenade and make a simple trap.
Suddenly there was a slight breeze above my head.
‘Damn it! It's a drone! ’ There was a trace of despair on the man’s face.
"Suspected target found in area block 36."
"Team 5 and Team 6, immediately outflank the suspect from both sides. If the suspect resists, beat his hands and feet as much as possible. The higher-ups demand that he be captured alive..."
"Received..."
"Action..."
The messy and low Lucian language echoed in the surrounding woods.
Although he couldn't hear clearly, the man was already in despair because the thermal imaging surveillance drone above his head was staring at his position.
The hand holding the grenade tried to pull the safety tab several times, but he was obviously not the kind of soldier who was willing to die. He was just a corrupted man corrupted by money.
In fact, if he had wanted to commit suicide, he would have had the opportunity to shoot himself long ago and would not have tried to escape at all.
After a while.
From the trees in all directions, there were soft rustling sounds, and the barking of dogs became more and more intense.
Worried about being mistaken for resistance, he could only shout loudly: "I surrender...don't shoot..."
"Throw down your weapons and put your head in your hands..."
Soon five or six dazzling flashlight lights shone on him.
Under the light, a curly bearded Slav man was trembling, holding his head in his hands, with blood dripping from his arms. At his feet was a pistol and two grenades: "Don't shoot..."
"Come on, be careful."
"Yes."
Two agents quickly approached from behind.
One person cuffs the target.
One person carefully checked the pistols and grenades on the ground to avoid traps set by the other party.
"Head, there is no danger."
"Take it away."
"Huh... Can you help me stop the bleeding... I feel so dizzy..." After the target surrendered, the adrenaline rushing in his body also quickly subsided, which made him feel pain and weakness in his body.
The agent captain glanced at him and pulled open the shirt near the wound. After looking at the wound, he sneered and said: "Don't worry! Mr. Antonio, your injury will not kill you. I will naturally stop your bleeding later."
"...Huhu..." Antonio could only breathe silently at this time.
Antonio, who was like a dead dog, was supported by two agents and came to a road near the woods.
Then he was stuffed into an SUV.
After twisting and turning for half an hour, we finally arrived at a secluded villa in the suburbs.
During the half hour in the car, an agent had already stopped the bleeding on Antonio's arm wound to prevent him from losing too much blood and falling off.
After being taken into the basement of the villa.
Antonio saw his supermodel lover in the cell next door, and she looked even more miserable than him.
At this time, the dozen or so cells in the basement were overcrowded, with five or six people being held in each cell.
"Haha, I didn't expect you to be caught too, Antonio..." A pig head in the same cell was looking at him feebly.
Antonio looked at the other person's face, which was blackened and severely red and swollen. It wasn't until he saw the tattoo on the other person's wrist that he recognized the other person's identity: "Nikolai Ivanov? Why are you in here too?"
"Haha, these hounds got the information from somewhere and raided my office directly."
"You are not related to that person..."
"Haha, why do you think I didn't receive the notification?" A weak Nikolai Ivanov asked with a wry smile.
"Uh..." Antonio has obviously come to his senses. The relationship network they have worked so hard to build for decades may have been wiped out from top to bottom.
Antonio couldn't accept this result for a while, but now he was no longer in the mood to care about any connections, and could only hope that these hounds could spare his life.
Another young man with a big back leaning against the corner hugged his knees with a look of fear on his face and shrank up like an overstressed snail.
Suddenly, the iron door was opened again.
"Alexey Ivanov Ukovsky, come with me!"
"No...I don't know anything..." the young man in the corner shouted in horror.
In an instant, the young man's collar was pulled up.
The next second.
Snap!
A loud slap hit Alexey Ivanov Ukovsky's face so hard that his eyes were filled with stars and his ears were ringing.
Within a moment, Alexie's face became red and swollen.
Antonio finally understood why Nicholas looked like a pig's head.
The agent smiled and patted Alexie's face, and then said lightly: "You don't know, right? Well, we'll shoot him tomorrow."
"No! How can you do this? I want to see my lawyer..."
Snap!
Another slap hit Alexie on the other side of the face, this time a tooth was knocked out and a trace of blood was left at the corner of his mouth.
"Lawyer? Do you know how many people go missing in the Baltic Sea every year? My dear Mr. Alexey Ivanov Ukovsky? The moment you chose to betray, why didn't you think about what happened after you were discovered? What will happen?”
"Huhu... don't kill me! I said, I said..."
"I didn't even exert any force, and you knelt down. It's really disappointing! I hope you will explain it honestly. Don't try to hide it. Look at the other people around you. If you don't tell them, they will say no. You need to be tough.”
"I'll tell you everything, please spare me!" Alexie begged with tears in her eyes.
The other weaklings in the cell were also frightened at this time.
Soon, under interrogation by the agents overnight, these weaklings explained everything clearly.
Although they were just pawns of the Locke Consortium, these guys did more than just sell Lucia's business secrets.
After all, there are few pure business secrets in this world. The larger the enterprise, the more in-depth it involves all aspects.
This is why agents need to be dispatched to raid these people.
……
at the same time.
Jiang Miao was sitting on a mountain in Magong Town watching the fight between tigers and tigers.
Although he didn't know the internal arrangements of the various forces, he didn't need to know the internal resolutions of these forces, because those confidential documents were sent by him. He only needed to look at the current situation of the target person to know something about the situation.
First, I took a look at today’s international news.
He went directly to the external network to search for relevant news.
Sure enough, in the news section of each region, more or less relevant information appeared.
For example, at a Gaul military base in North Africa, a dozen officers boarded a helicopter and plunged into the Sahara Desert, leaving no trace of their bodies.
Another example is that an oil company's offshore drilling platform in the Persian Gulf suddenly exploded, and more than a dozen company executives who were inspecting the incident were directly blamed.
There is also the boss of a media company in Siam who committed suicide by jumping off a building last night; the CEO of a railway company in Annan died of a heart attack last night; and more than two dozen managers of a communications company in the EU suffered bomb threats during a company meeting. Attack... News like this appeared overnight in hundreds of cases around the world.
Jiang Miao showed a smile when he saw the names of these people. These people were only on the list he provided, less than one-fifth of the number. There was still a lot to watch.
These capitalists are really ruthless. In order to clean out the insiders, they directly blew up the drilling platform and the workers on it.
The reason why Jiang Miao did not use other means to slowly deal with these insiders is that the other party thought that they would alert the enemy, and these insiders have formed an intricate network of relationships within the company. If these insiders reacted, they would give the company causing more serious losses.
Therefore, sacrificing a drilling platform to eliminate these insiders can cut the knot quickly.
In fact, there is also Jiang Miao’s pot here.
After all, after he sent these confidential documents, all forces thought that only he had received them, and they did not know that many forces around the world had received them.
This resulted in misjudgment.
After all, the Locke Consortium is very powerful. They dare not clean up the secrets of the Locke Consortium openly. They can only use "accidents" to clean up these secrets.
If they knew that other forces had received similar confidential information, they probably would not choose to do it secretly, but would use fair and aboveboard means.
Overnight.
The Locke Consortium has lost almost one-third of its various secrets deployed around the world.
This situation surprised Noah A. Locke, who had just arrived at the Locke Manor in Los Angeles and was preparing to take over the Locke Consortium.
Butler Bain looked panicked: "Mr. Noah, this is news from major branches around the world this morning, and some of them have even lost contact directly."
"Fake oil! Are these guys going to kill us all?" Noah A. Locke gritted his teeth: "Bain, strengthen the security of the manor. If you want to eliminate my Locke consortium, I won't make it easy for you."< br>
Apparently he managed to be misled.
In fact, it is not surprising that Noah A. Locke would think so. After all, when it comes to understanding the Locke Consortium, only the other nine large consortiums within America can know everything about it.
Now the Locke Consortium's power around the world has suffered a devastating blow almost overnight.
Noah A. Locke's first thought was that America's other consortiums were up to something, and they had even joined forces to completely destroy the Locke consortium.
Just when he was thinking wildly and preparing to die together.
Ring ring ring…
The landline phone in the study room rang.
Bain quickly reminded: "Mr. Noah, this is a hidden line call. It may be from the behind-the-scenes controller of other consortiums."
Hearing this, Noah A. Locke frowned, thought for a moment, and then picked up the phone: "Hello, who is this?"
"Is it little Noah? I'm your Uncle James."
Hearing the voice and tone on the other side of the phone, Noah A. Locke remembered who it was, but he was in a very bad mood at this time and said coldly: "Uncle? I don't dare to have an uncle like you. What are you planning? Time to take action?”
"Noah, did you misunderstand something?"
"Misunderstanding? Hahaha...are you telling me this is a misunderstanding?"
"Noah, I know you are very angry at this time, but I and others have not done this, and David's death has nothing to do with us."
Noah A. Locke laughed angrily: "Haha, then tell me, why has the Locke Consortium's power around the world been severely damaged almost overnight? There is no one in this world who understands the Locke Consortium better than you. The power of the situation? ”
"..." The man on the other side of the phone was silent for a moment: "Noah, calm down. Even if you lose power around the world, your family is still a first-class consortium in the mainland and the Americas. I promise that I will never target you. You will also convince others.”
Obviously James is also worried that the Locke consortium will be destroyed.
In fact, James and others had an internal video conference more than an hour ago, and some of them did propose to join forces to eat up the Locke Consortium.
But it was rejected by James and two other top five consortiums.
After all, the Locke Consortium is not so weak that it can't lift the knife. If it is pushed to the limit, it would be a real trouble.
Therefore, James quickly called, hoping to appease Noah A. Locke.
"I can't believe you."
"Noah, don't be impulsive. I will go to Locke Manor to visit you tonight. If other consortiums really want to take action, they must get through me first."
"..." Noah A. Locke was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that James would do this. This made his idea of perishing together disappear a lot in an instant: "Uncle James, do you really plan to come over?"
"I said, this matter has nothing to do with the major local financial groups. I know you don't believe it in your heart, so I can only go and see you in person."
"Okay, I'll wait for Uncle James at Locke Manor."
Hang up the phone.
Noah A. Locke frowned again, with a trace of self-doubt in his eyes: ‘Is it really not the major financial groups in North America? If so, who is behind the attack on the Locke Consortium? ’
Thinking of this, he raised his head and asked seriously: "Bain, has the consortium offended major forces in other regions recently?"
"This?" Bain began to think, going through all the recent events in his mind, but he found that the consortium had not made any big moves recently.
After a while, Bain suggested with some uncertainty: "Mr. Noah, when I am here, I will mark some daily arrangements on the memo every day. Maybe you can check it."
"Memo? Where is it?"
"It's in the safe in the study, but only the master knows the password."
Noah A. Locke looked at the oil painting behind him. He knew that his father's safe was behind the oil painting, but he didn't know the password. He didn't want to waste his brain, so he directly ordered: "Bain, find a professional locksmith." Someone, open this safe ”
"Okay."
An hour later.
In the study, an old man with a white beard held a special stethoscope, attached it to the safe, and then turned the code dial little by little.
Fortunately, this safe only has a simple five-digit combination.
After about forty minutes, the master locksmith finally opened the safe. The butler Bain gave the other party ten thousand dollars and sent him away.
Noah A. Locke, on the other hand, carefully looked at the contents of the safe. In addition to various industrial certification documents, bank safe storage accounts and passwords, there were also some gold and silver jewelry and more than a dozen memo notebooks.
Find a recent memo.
Turn to the records of the last six months.
Noah A. Locke looked at it page by page, and then circled the targets who might have the strength to deal with the Locke Consortium.
Watching from the last few days.
‘…repurchased 0.6% of Standard Oil’s shares…’
‘…support the environmental organization Blue Atlantic, funding 30 million…’
‘…Replace the person in charge of Greater China, with the former person in charge of Southeast Asia, Wien, taking over, and eliminate his former person in charge, Li Rongrong…’
‘…ordered Wayne to acquire an eel farming company…’
‘…meeting Ryan Dupont in Orleans…’
Noah A. Locke looked at it for a long time and found no trace of any major force that might threaten the family.
After all, a small business like Halufon Company was not worth mentioning in the eyes of Noah A. Locke. If the person in charge of Greater China hadn’t visited Halufon Company and something had happened, David would not have mentioned it. Record this little shrimp.
Therefore, he was the first to rule out the possibility that Hailufeng Company was up to something evil.
After eliminating the correct answers.
He continued to check the remaining recent affairs for more than an hour and found only three major forces that might take action.
But seeing that the three major forces were involved in the matter, it felt a bit far-fetched.
For example, his father funded several media outlets in Xiangjiang, something his family and other large consortiums do every year. If it was just because of this, it would be a bit of a big deal to attack the Locke Consortium.
There was also the acquisition of an agricultural company in Lucia with the help of Anzi. In this kind of commercial acquisition, some off-market tricks were used, so the other party would not use such drastic measures.
After thinking about it, Noah A. Locke still couldn't figure it out.
He couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't imagine that the real mastermind behind this was the Hailufeng Company that he looked down upon.
Before I knew it, night had fallen outside.
And James' motorcade slowly arrived at the gate of Locke Manor.
(End of chapter)