Chapter 198: Frustrated (Medium Cup) (Ch 823334510)

Liu Tonghai hurried back home.
He felt terrible and was sitting restlessly in the study. Suddenly he remembered something and quickly picked up the phone. However, just as he was about to make the call, he was suddenly awakened.
“Huff…I was acting impulsively! Huff…” He was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. He then slumped down on the sofa, breathing rapidly, his eyes lost in thought.
After a while, Liu Tonghai finally calmed down a little after calming down his restless mood: “Is this an accident? Is it just a simple murder for money? No…”
He thought of Ruth Brooks’ security situation. He had visited his villa the day before yesterday and there were two bodyguards there, plus the strong driver. Liu Tonghai didn’t think that an ordinary robber could do such a thing.
“What force is behind this?” Liu Tonghai was a little uncertain for a moment.
As he was thinking, he suddenly realized something, his pupils instantly dilated, he swallowed a mouthful of water subconsciously, and then muttered to himself: “Could it be… No way? The plan for that matter hasn’t been completed yet, and not many people know about it, so it shouldn’t be leaked…”
With a dry mouth, he unbuttoned the two collar buttons of his shirt, picked up the kettle of boiled water in the study, poured a glass of water and drank it all in one gulp.
“Huhu… It shouldn’t be this. Maybe I’m overthinking it. But what should I do next? That bastard Lute died suddenly. Should I continue with the plan?”
“Forget it, let’s just wait and see! If the other party wants to continue with this plan, they will definitely arrange a new contact person. Anyway, the other party is in charge of this matter…”
Liu Tonghai suddenly felt something was wrong. His chest ached violently and cold sweat broke out on his face. He covered his chest and tried to stand up to get the quick-acting heart pills from the medicine box: “Ah!… Huhu…”
He had just stood up and hadn’t taken two steps when he couldn’t hold on any longer. He fell to the ground dizzy, his whole body twitched slightly a few times, and then he became motionless.
In a villa opposite.
A laser glass vibration sound restoration machine is facing the glass of Liu Tonghai’s study.
“The target fell to the ground, and no other obvious sounds were heard.”
“continue.”
“yes.”
The middle-aged man sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window looked at his watch and phone, picked up a mobile phone, used the number disguise software on the phone, and made a call.
When the call was connected, he said in a fluent Hong Kong English accent: “Hello, is this Miss Lisa?”
“Eh? Who are you?”
“Are you interested in buying insurance? Or investing?”
“Not interested.”
“Are you sure?”
“Neuropathy!”
“Kaile Gold Store.”
The Filipino maid who was about to hang up the phone suddenly panicked.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Haha, 156,791 yuan. Do you understand now?”
The Filipino maid froze: “What do you want…”
“I’ll be at XX soon. As long as you give me 500,000…”
“Why don’t you go and rob…” the Filipino maid said in a low voice with gritted teeth.
“Compared to what Miss Lisa has gained in the past few years, this is nothing, right?”
Thinking of this, Lisa gritted her teeth and said, “I agree, but you have to give me some time…”
“It’s eight o’clock tonight, or you will suffer the consequences.”
“good.”
Half an hour later.
Lisa, sneaking around, quickly left the villa with her passport and various valuables, and headed for the airport.
“Haha, that’s human nature.”
As night fell, the other Filipino maid had no idea where Lisa had gone, so she had to frantically prepare dinner by herself and didn’t dare to go to the study to call Liu Tonghai to eat.
As time goes by, the contents of the cup of water and the kettle decompose into common components. They are no longer toxic and cannot be detected.
…
Strait of Malacca.
A small fishing boat was drifting slowly in the shallow sea nearby.
As the sun sets, old man Jimmy looks at the time and starts to reel in his line, preparing to end today’s sea fishing.
Right at this moment.
A small yacht slowly passed by the nearby sea.
On the yacht deck, several young people were laughing and chatting.
Until the two ships were very close.
One of the young men shouted in English: “Old man, it’s so late, why are you still fishing? Be careful!”
Old man Jimmy put away a few fishing rods, took off his sun hat, and responded with a smile like a neighbor’s uncle: “I’m ready to go back. Have a nice evening, boys.”
“Hahahaha…” Several young people on the small yacht laughed loudly, temporarily covering up some of the sound of the waves.
“Haha…” Old man Jimmy also laughed, but he didn’t notice that there was a pair of hands grabbing the side of the other fishing boat.
The young man on the yacht raised his lips slightly and threw out a can of beer: “Old man, please drink.”
The moment he took the can of beer, old man Jimmy smiled and said, “Thank you…”
However, the next moment, a rapid force suddenly erupted at the back of his neck, his eyes bulged for a moment, and then he collapsed.
The yacht approached quickly, and the frogmen wearing diving suits and oxygen tanks quickly dragged old man Jimmy onto the yacht, and then the yacht sailed away.
Half an hour later.
Night falls.
The yacht is moored in a port.
At this time, we were in a cabin that had been soundproofed.
Old man Jimmy woke up from his coma, opened his eyes slightly, looked around carefully, and tried to move his hands and feet, but found that they were tied up tightly.
“Wake up, Mr. Jimmy.”
Hearing this, old man Jimmy finally stopped playing dead, looked directly at the young man opposite him, and asked slowly: “Who are you?”
“You don’t need to know.”
“…” Faced with this kind of answer, old man Jimmy’s heart sank. It was obvious that this man was not after money, but his life.
“Do you know this person?” The young man said as he took out a missing person notice from a pile of documents and placed it on the table in front of old man Jimmy.
Seeing the portrait and some information in the photo, old man Jimmy narrowed his eyes slightly. He naturally recognized it. This was a business deal he had taken five years ago.
However, knowing that he was doomed to die, Jimmy did not intend to answer the other party’s questions.
“It doesn’t matter. It’s normal for you not to answer. After all, you are going to die. But I’m curious, are you so confident in your ability to keep secrets?” The young man said with a smile instead of being angry.
Old man Jimmy still responded with silence.
“What do you think of the town of Jokkmokk in northern Sweden?”
Instantly, Jimmy’s hair stood on end. His inner defenses were instantly breached. He asked anxiously, “How did you know? I didn’t even tell my subordinates.”
“I told you, I won’t answer your questions. You need to tell me everything you know, or you’ll regret your silence.”
Old man Jimmy, whose psychological defenses were completely broken, confessed many things in detail, especially some hidden things. He tried to mislead and conceal them at first, but after being pointed out by the young man one by one, he finally honestly confessed everything he knew.
As old man Jimmy handed out most of the information about the Ferryman Organization, plus the information secretly provided by Jiang Miao.
The entire Ferryman organization was uprooted overnight; members either committed suicide by shooting themselves seven times in the back, drowned, or took poison.
The Ferryman Organization, which had been rampant in Asia for more than 20 years, disappeared quietly.
This is the sadness of chess pieces.
They thought they could control their own lives, but they didn’t know that they were just insignificant pieces on the chessboard, pieces without even an official identity. If they intervened in the confrontation between such top forces, the end would be death without a burial place.
Except that the Ferryman Organization was destroyed.
The various secret organizations entrenched in eastern Asia also suffered varying degrees of severe damage overnight.
Organizations with better luck may be able to have some small shrimps escape.
An organization with bad luck will have all its members get their lunch boxes.
This is just a secret cleansing.
The actions overtly are equally significant.
The America Consortium, headed by the Morgan Consortium, and especially the various forces secretly colluding with them, have also suffered bad luck in the past week.
Or the company founder is sent to jail for a crime.
Or they would commit suicide directly.
Or quickly flee from all over Southeast Asia.
The Morgan family, who had previously thought that the Locke family was vulnerable, also suffered a similar experience.
Amelica.
Inside an office building in New York.
Listening to his men’s reports, John Morgan’s face became extremely gloomy.
Time passed by minute by minute, but the reporting work continued. Every minute of reporting content almost meant that one or two pawns affiliated with their family were strangled.
“Father, are we just going to watch?” Carl Morgan could no longer sit still.
“Carl, calm down.” Old Morgan remained calm. Although he was also sad that a corner of his own layout was destroyed, the Morgan family had not yet reached the point of desperation.
“But…”
Old Morgan waved his hand and said, “It’s just that we lost pawns in East Asia and Lucia. As long as our power in North America and Europe remains, the family will be fine. And this time it’s not just us who suffered.”
Carl Morgan finally calmed down a little and listened to his subordinates continue to report.
“All 87 core senior executives who had close ties with us have been cleared out…”
“Two secretly controlled financial institutions in Malacca have been investigated by the local authorities for illegal insider trading…”
“Goldfish Oil Company was fined 2 billion yuan by the local government for suspected market manipulation…”
“Japan…”
As he recounted his losses one by one, Carl Morgan looked extremely ugly.
It took a full two and a half hours just to report the relevant losses, and this was just a brief report without a detailed report of all the details.
Yet old Morgan remained calm.
In this confrontation, he knew that he and other consortiums were not well prepared and were caught off guard.
What is more important is that the opponent has too many secrets, and they are almost accurate in knowing the key points of every chess piece. One strike is a fatal blow, and these chess pieces have no chance to struggle or even have time to escape.
Gently rubbing the pen between his fingers, old Morgan was very suspicious that there might be a traitor among the top management of the consortium.
Otherwise, how could the opponent have such a large amount of precise confidential intelligence?
Old Morgan looked at his eldest son seriously and said, “Karl, you personally select family members you can trust and conduct a comprehensive investigation of our internal affairs, especially those who have access to confidential information. No one can be left out.”
Carl Morgan reacted immediately: “Father, do you suspect that there are enemy pawns among our executives, or that someone has been turned against us?”
“Well, I’ll leave this matter to you. You don’t have to worry about other things. Just focus on this matter. This matter is very important to the family. Leave the other matters to me.”
Carl Morgan clenched his fists, his eyes were extremely vicious: “Okay, I will definitely find the traitor.”
Looking at his son’s hurried back, old Morgan fell into deep thought again.
He knew that his eldest son was ruthless and sometimes did not know the seriousness of the matter. That was why he put him in charge of investigating the traitor. This kind of personality was not suitable for handling external affairs.
Especially in the current situation, America no longer has an absolute advantage, and even serious problems have arisen in the industrial and agricultural fields.
However, the opponent made rapid progress at this time and his strength underwent a huge transformation.
As one side gains strength while the other loses strength, the eldest son’s vicious and reckless character is likely to cause the Morgan Consortium to be specifically targeted by the enemy.
It’s so frustrating to be inferior to others.
Now America’s financial group does not have many leverages to deal with the other party.
Just then, the secretary knocked on the door hurriedly.
“Mr. Chairman, Gaul has just announced that he will re-investigate all the information we have on the Alstom acquisition.”
Hearing this, Old Morgan laughed in anger: “Haha, who gave these black chickens the courage?”
“I was bullied by Seris because I was not as skilled as him. You old Europeans are half buried in the ground, but you are still daydreaming. Do you really think I am easy to bully?”
Then old Morgan gave the order to teach the Gauls a severe lesson.
After dealing with this matter, he did not continue to sit idly by, but arranged various response strategies to minimize the losses, while at the same time allowing the Asian forces to shrink or hide first.
But he didn’t know it.
In this attack, more than half of the targets on the list were actually not affected.
On the one hand, some of the pawns are well hidden, and there is no substantial evidence. Although these pawns can be made to disappear directly, if there are too many of them at once, it is easy to cause panic among the people inside.
On the other hand, it is about knowing when to stop, maintaining a suitable intensity, and focusing on fighting without breaking.
Finally, it is necessary to continue to keep some chess pieces so as to observe their various small movements, so as to judge some of the actions of the America Group. When necessary, we can even consider using these chess pieces to reversely output wrong information.
Anyway, we already know that they are America’s pawns, so the threat posed by these pawns is not that serious.
After dealing with these matters, old Morgan did not even have time to rest before quickly convening an online video conference within the consortium.
The heads of the top ten financial groups appeared on the video conference screen one after another.
“This incident is very similar to what happened to the Locke Consortium last time. Many of our Morgan Consortium’s layouts in East Asia have been destroyed. How are you doing?”
After hearing what old Morgan said, everyone started to complain bitterly.
However, the new chairman of the Locke Group, Noah A. Locke, was silent. Their family’s power had collapsed long ago in Asia, and now only a small number of pawns left from the past are still struggling to survive.
In this series of events in which the Morgan Consortium was raided, the Locke Consortium suffered little loss.
But listening to old Morgan’s description and the additions from others, Noah frowned, and his heart was not as calm as he appeared.
This secret meeting still did not produce any effective response plan. They had already played the cards that should be played, and the effects were seen. The only card left was the card of mutual destruction, which was also the trump card that the behind-the-scenes controllers of the consortium were unwilling to use.
As for the oil card, America’s control over the global oil market is not as strong as imagined.
Especially after America’s military skin was torn off, OPEC member countries have not paid much attention to America, and this performance has become increasingly obvious.
Unless a regional conflict breaks out in the South Pacific Islands and core waterways such as the Malacca Strait and the Lombok Strait are destroyed, oil and natural gas from West Asia will continue to flow into East Asia.
Moreover, their strategic think tank has conducted relevant deductions and found that the success rate of doing so is very low, unless America takes action personally, but the consequence of taking action personally is accelerated decline.
What’s more, strategic think tanks have also analyzed that even if the Nanyang unrest plan is successful, it is difficult to produce much effect.
This is because the industrial structure has changed.
Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular and are almost on par with fuel-powered vehicles.
In addition to its huge oil and natural gas reserves, its own oil and natural gas production capacity is not small, and it is supplemented by coal chemical industry, green hydrogen, green alcohol, solar energy and wind power.
If you are desperate, you can also plant all the deserts with Senzu soybeans, and then use the Senzu soybeans to make biodiesel to replace a large part of traditional diesel.
Unable to discuss effective countermeasures, Morgan and others could only choose to stick together and shrink their influence in Asia to avoid being further eliminated.
But at the last moment of the meeting.
Noah asked old Morgan for an internal intelligence report, which contained detailed information about the various affiliated forces and pawns that were targeted for elimination in this incident.
In the study room late at night.
Looking at the thick intelligence materials in his hand, Noah’s face was uncertain: “It’s like this again… Is that guy really that lucky?”
He obviously saw the relevant information about Jiang Miao.
Noah had felt that something was wrong with Jiang Miao before, but because his family’s influence in Asia had been severely damaged and he had to keep a low profile during that period, he did not take any action against Jiang Miao.
But after the Morgan consortium took action, something went wrong soon after.
This made him doubt the problem.

Người mua: TheAn, 13/01/2025 10:15