491: Chapter 491: Fighting with Brother?
Be Careful or You’ll Be Tricked into Coughing Up Blood!
491: Chapter 491: Fighting with Brother?
Be Careful or You’ll Be Tricked into Coughing Up Blood!
As cunning as a fox!
Unparalleled in deceit!
The three international giants had originally prepared ticulously and conspired together on two strategies.
They thought they could play a double act and trap Wu Jie.
Not signing the secret agreent?
Well then, as a fallback, a strategic cooperation agreent should suffice, right?
But what happened?
Wu Jie singlehandedly faced all three companies, completely unphased.
He wasn’t even willing to form an alliance with them through sharing technology, cross-shareholding with these three behemoths.
Instead, he put forward an extrely harsh condition!
A protection fee of fifty billion Gold Coins a month—utterly ruthless!
Just when everyone was at their wits’ end…
Wu Jie stood up.
“There’s less than half an hour until I get off work, and I’m getting married this weekend, there’s no way I’ll have ti next week!”
“So make up your minds quickly, or I can’t guarantee when I might leak so data!”
No sooner had he spoken than…
Thomson glared furiously.
“Mr.
Wu, don’t push us too far.
Each of us previously gave two billion Gold Coins as a token of sincerity!”
Joseph also said with an outraged expression:
“Mr.
Wu, are you in such a hurry to drive our three companies into the ground?”
Heinter loudly asked, “Four months is too short a ti.
Can we do ten months?
With a paynt of twenty billion Gold Coins each month!”
Wu Jie picked up the Broad-bladed Combat Knife and gave a teasing laugh:
“You may not look like much, but you sure dream big!
Keep haggling, and see if I don’t give you just three months and up the amount to thirty billion Gold Coins per company!”
“You!”
Thomson was almost infuriated to the point of slamming the table.
“What ‘you’?”
Wu Jie asked with a sneer:
“Thinking of calling it a robbery, are you?
Well, no need to shout—this is a robbery!”
“We have a saying, ‘Where there’s life, there’s hope!'”
“If I didn’t get blown up by your serial blasts, it must an it’s my ti to hit the jackpot!”
Thomson said through gritted teeth:
“Don’t you have another saying?
‘Always leave yourself an out, so you can et happily again in future!'”
“We’ve sincerely apologized.
What more do you want?
Can’t you just let bygones be bygones?”
“Let bygones be bygones?
For that, you’d actually need to be human!”
Wu Jie chuckled, “Better save your energy and start discussing.
I’m going to grab a smoke.
When I get back, I hope you guys can give a clear response.
Otherwise, don’t bla for not leaving you a way out!”
Under their various looks of resentnt and fury, Wu Jie turned and left.
As he opened the door, Wu Jie didn’t forget to look back and remind them:
“Don’t forget the impact of ti zones.
It’s after 5 PM here—we’re off work.
But it’s not the case back in your country!”
“Should those criminal evidences against your companies leak out, I suspect your stocks will plumt tragically!”
“And don’t even think about striking back.
Aside from cyberattacks, I have countless ways to make your lives hell!”
“Our country isn’t what it used to be, weak and impoverished.
We’re not the ‘Yellow-skinned Monkeys’ or the ‘Sick n of East Asia’ that you can bully and exploit anymore!”
After making a strong statent, Wu Jie left with a laugh.
Hatred, oh!
Anger, ah!
Each one an international giant, an elite at the top.
Sure enough, the amount of hate was astonishing!
Especially Heinter, who as chairman of Langsi CSA,
based on yesterday’s closing price of the U.S.
stock market, still had a market value of over seven hundred billion Gold Coins.
With a twenty percent stake in the company, Heinter’s net worth was naturally over a hundred billion Gold Coins.
Besides, how could a businessman like him, the Old Fox, only own stocks in his own company?
He undoubtedly had other investnts, so his wealth was not to be underestimated.
Moreover, due to the higher value of Gold Coins, Heinter was naturally wealthier than Xu Kuishan, Xu Anyong, and the other four brothers combined.
This is the typical ‘invisible billionaire.’
They didn’t choose to run for public office, otherwise, they would certainly be well-known on the wealth rankings.
Hatred after hatred!
Wu Jie left the conference room and went downstairs to the Supervision Departnt for a smoke.
Along the way, system notifications kept coming.
Ding!
[System: Harvested Jake Heinter’s hatred 250,000]
Ding!
[System: Harvested Enso Thomson’s hatred 120,000]
Ding!
[System: Harvested Joseph Dakuo’s hatred 115,000]
…
Thrilling!
Wave after wave of hatred.
The presidents and chairn of the three international giants have truly unusual wealth!
And such a negotiation eting, absolutely thrilling!
Whatever the final outco of the conversation, one thing is for sure—in this negotiation eting, I’ve made a killing on energy points.
Went upstairs with the smoke, back to the conference room.
The representatives of the three companies who were in the midst of a heated discussion abruptly fell silent at his return.
No sooner had Wu Jie taken his seat than Heinter took the initiative to speak.
“After discussion, the three of us fundantally agree to the conditions President Tang previously proposed!”
“We won’t sign any agreents anymore.
We only ask for one thing, and that is the paynt thod!”
Thomson added, “Today is June 1st, so according to the agreent, from now on, on the first day of every month, we should transfer fifty billion Gold Coins to the account designated by President Tang.”
“But fifty billion Gold Coins, after all, is not a small amount, and we all know financial regulation is strict.
Moving such a large sum so frequently is too risky!”
“So, we suggest that paynts be made by transferring stocks instead!
Say, the stocks transferred today would be calculated based on last month’s average stock price, and slightly inflated to ensure the value is not less than fifty billion Gold Coins!”
“This would reduce the financial pressure on our three companies, while allowing you to sell stocks for potential profits, and it builds more trust among our four companies!”
…
Here we go again!
Wu Jie knew that the three rogues would not capitulate that easily.
They offer stocks instead of cash.
Actually, they just wanted to indirectly bind themselves with Tanglong Industrial Group.
Because once their scandals were exposed and they collapsed with a loud bang,
the massive amount of stocks they received each month would beco worthless, right?
Therefore, to ensure the stocks remained valuable, Tanglong Industrial Group certainly wouldn’t expose themselves easily.
Very crafty!
Such a cunning strategy!
After listening, Wu Jie chuckled and said,
“You really put a lot of thought into this, not willing to suffer the slightest loss!”
Joseph laughed, “We are forced by circumstances, with not enough cash reserves, so we can only use stocks to settle debts!”
Wu Jie nodded slightly and said, “Since that’s the case, I won’t take advantage of you!
Today, all three of your companies will first transfer 50 billion Gold Coins in cash, and then on the first of every month, you can transfer stocks, but the total value of the stocks must not be less than 60 billion Gold Coins!”
“60 billion…
That’s too high!” Thomson shook his head repeatedly.
Wu Jie sneered, “Not high at all!
With your thods, you can definitely inflate the stock prices.
Compared to 50 billion Gold Coins in cash, paying with stocks is already quite a bargain for you!”
Joseph gritted his teeth and then asked, “Fine!
That’s not a problem, but what about the system vulnerabilities?
Previously, your wife quoted 200 million Gold Coins for each system vulnerability!”
“I just want to know how many vulnerabilities there are in my Nuoxin NSN’s security defense system.
I might as well buy them all in a package.
Can I get a discount?”
“Buying in a package ans wholesale price, of course there’s a discount!” Wu Jie slightly frowned and smiled, “But your company’s vulnerabilities are not few, there are over three hundred.
Are you sure you want to spend 600 billion Gold Coins to buy them all?”
“What??”
Joseph suddenly stood up.
He thought his own security defense system would at most have a few vulnerabilities.
More than three hundred?
What does that an?
Could it be that the Nuoxin NSN system, the hard work of thousands of engineers over many years, is so riddled with vulnerabilities like a sieve?
“Don’t be so surprised!
Love信TLM has over four hundred vulnerabilities, how co Thomson isn’t panicking?”
With that, Thomson beca dumbfounded too.
What does that an?
My system has so many vulnerabilities?
Heinter playfully asked, “Mr.
Wu, does that an our Langsike CSA is the best among the three?”
Wu Jie sincerely nodded.
“Hmm!
Indeed, it’s worthy of recognition.
Your family only has just over two hundred!”
Pfft!
Heinter almost spit blood on the spot.
Over two hundred, each one costing 200 million Gold Coins.
Even at a package price, that’s still four to five hundred billion!
And to say it’s ‘worthy of recognition’—is this really praise?
The three n looked at each other.
In an instant, they all understood!
Today’s negotiation didn’t see Wu Jie changing Tang Xiao’s terms because his focus was actually on the system vulnerabilities.
The appearance of two to three hundred vulnerabilities seed to give them plenty of ti over the four months.
But the security defense system is an incredibly large piece of software, with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, countless sub-programs.
Starting from the system architecture, they would have to systematically check and test.
Lord knows how long it would take to find and patch them all.
So…
Wu Jie was betting they couldn’t complete the task in four months.
And once the ti was exceeded, he would still hold the vulnerabilities and confidential information, which he could use to continue extorting them!
So then…
Didn’t that make the three giant companies Wu Jie’s three big ATMs?
A total rip-off!
Way too much of a rip-off!
They were being driven into a corner!
“Don’t all of you look at with such resentnt!”
“You need to have enough confidence!
Four months is definitely enough ti for you to complete self-inspections and repairs!”
“Even if you can’t fix the system vulnerabilities, it’s still enough ti for you to destroy the criminal evidence, right?”
“As long as the thought doesn’t slip, there are always more solutions than problems!
Aren’t you all quite sneaky and cunning?
Why can’t you figure this out?”
Wu Jie lit a cigarette, glancing at the ti.
“Friendly reminder, you have the last ten minutes!”
“Miss this opportunity, and many of you will probably only see each other in prison, right?” Wu Jie asked with a smile.
Looking at that seemingly harmless, sunny face,
Heinter and the others felt like they were staring into the face of a devil.
“Can you give us one more hour in consideration of the 600 million Gold Coins earnest money we gave you?” Heinter pleaded.
Wu Jie frowned slightly, “You want to keep working overti?
Sure!
I make millions a minute, but I won’t rip you off; let’s just say a million a minute, alright?”
Thomson lowered his head, clenched his fists through gritted teeth.
He really wanted to punch soone!
However…
Dare he punch soone?
Wu Jie was a butcher with a knife in hand, not soone to provoke!
There was no other way!
The representatives of the three companies had to quickly huddle together and discuss in hushed tones.
Overti would cost a million per minute!
This might just be the most expensive overti in human history.
But what they didn’t know was…
Wu Jie didn’t want money; he wanted energy points!
Energy points could be exchanged for a variety of goods and skills, but money couldn’t buy them!
So, Wu Jie was quite happy for them to keep the resentnt coming.
And these shrewd foreigners really were very efficient.
Fearing Wu Jie’s overti, they quickly made a decision after a short discussion and unanimously decided to only buy three system vulnerabilities.
They didn’t believe their carefully crafted security defense systems were so flawed.
They thought Wu Jie was deceiving them, trying to scam their money.
But they still bought three vulnerabilities to verify Wu Jie did indeed hold their company’s vulnerabilities.
They were indeed shrewd!
Wu Jie couldn’t possibly refuse such a request.
Nine vulnerabilities ant 18 billion Gold Coins!
Imdiately taking out his phone, Wu Jie called Tang Xiao:
“Spendthrift wife, co down and collect the money!”
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