997: Chapter 968: Cunning and Sly!
Asking for a Sky-High Price!
997: Chapter 968: Cunning and Sly!
Asking for a Sky-High Price!
“Buy!
Why not buy?
No matter how much it costs, I want them all!”
Wu Jie declared decisively.
Beside him, Du’s eyes shone with imnse eagerness.
This statent from Xu Kuishan was fantastic news indeed!
Because regardless of whether the deal was struck, whether the nuclear warheads were purchased at a high price, it at least represented that the Xu family of Liuli City could make contact with the international forces that dismantled and stole the nuclear warheads.
Unlike various national intelligence agencies, which were still clueless about this mysterious force and had no idea where the nuclear warheads were.
The chance to turn guilt into rit was right before them—how could Du not be thrilled?
But he did not make a sound, suppressing his excitent and joy deep within, showing neither happiness nor anger on his face.
As for Xu Kuishan and his son, they naturally couldn’t contain their excitent.
This wasn’t so small deal!
Nuclear warheads!
Three of them!
Just one was enough to flatten a dium-sized city.
On Earth today, with its highly dense population centers, it could easily wipe out millions, bringing a horrifyingly severe impact.
Thus, it was truly a weapon of mass destruction, a final armant that could instill fear in many.
And the transaction for it, could it be cheap?
A dud nuclear bomb in the past had dared to ask for a billion Gold Coins!
So, what about now, with the large-scale lethal and fiercely powerful nuclear warheads?
How much would they be worth?
At least tens of billions to start, with no upper limit.
What could the Xu family of Liuli City, acting as the middleman, stand to gain?
It was almost unimaginable!
Just like that.
After a glance between father and son, the excitent and joy were unmistakable on their faces.
Xu Kuishan, a man in his fifties, even respectfully referred to Wu Jie as ‘Jie’—it was indeed shaless.
But for the sake of making money, what was calling him ‘Jie’?
Even calling him ‘Dad’ wouldn’t matter!
“Great!
That’s fantastic!
With you saying that, Jie, I can rest a lot easier now!”
Xu Kuishan couldn’t help but slap his thigh and laugh.
Wu Jie sneered, “You might be reassured, but what about ?
Where is the stuff?
Who do I buy it from?
About how much will it cost?
You…”
Before he could finish, Xu Kuishan waved his hand.
“Jie, don’t worry, I understand your feelings!
I know you’re purchasing nuclear weapons not for personal amusent but for the sake of humanity!”
“This righteous act, I respect it from the bottom of my heart and fervently support it.
After all, criminals possessing nuclear weapons pose a major threat to anyone on Earth!”
“I also believe that with you and your wife’s wealth, any amount of billions isn’t an issue; you two are certainly not short on money, but I am even more eager to know the details of the transaction!”
“Currently, I’ve just made contact with them and expressed our wish to buy the nuclear warheads.
They agreed to talk but haven’t revealed more details!”
He paused slightly, and then Xu Feng took out a tablet he carried with him.
“To prove they really have nuclear warheads and to reassure the buyers, look, they’ve made so videos!”
Without prompting, Du quickly reached out to take it and examined it closely.
It was a windowless room that appeared airtight.
The walls were lined with tal, giving a sowhat silvery appearance.
Naturally, this was to effectively isolate electromagnetic and radiation signals.
And in the center of the room, there was a standard warhead for an intercontinental ballistic missile.
It featured a large disk, shaped like a cone, and once the sealed casing was lifted, inside were three bullet-shaped nuclear war zones.
If the missile were launched, this warhead would be boosted step by step by rockets, accelerating gradually.
After reaching outer space, it would violently reenter the atmosphere, explode at the designated location and altitude, and the three nuclear war zones would separate, plumting down at terrifying speeds, twenty to thirty tis the speed of sound.
So advanced intercontinental missiles could not only carry more nuclear war zones but also mix in so decoy targets, suddenly separating like scattering flowers from the sky, making it impossible for enemies to intercept effectively.
The outer shell of the warhead, not only printed with a serial number, also displayed a “nuclear radiation” skull symbol, and those three nuclear war zones were marked with a long string of codes.
For any nuclear-ard country, nuclear warheads are extrely rare and valuable, each certainly having a unique identification code for ease of maintenance, loading, transport, dismantling, and destruction.
Whether it’s genuine or not, these codes give so clues.
Of course.
These masked individuals could not possibly treat the buyers as fools; to demonstrate their power and professionalism, they prepared so specialized equipnt to test the nuclear warheads, confirming they were real combat components.
Moreover, a professional even ca at the end, opened the protective casing on site, and the cara was brought close enough to see the rather uncomplicated interior structure.
To ensure accuracy, there certainly would be navigation systems within the combat components.
If intercontinental missiles were used in war, it would already an a world war or major conflict between great powers.
At that ti, satellites in outer space would surely be destroyed, so there’s no need for unstable satellite guidance, vulnerable to strong electromagnetic interference.
Instead, traditional inertial navigation, though not as precise, is the most stable performance-wise and won’t deviate significantly from the target due to external interference.
With high-precision lasers and microchanical gyroscopes, the circular error probability of inertial navigation isn’t big, and given a nuclear warhead’s destructive power extends tens of kiloters, what does an error of a re hundred or two hundred ters count for?
The high-definition, close-up footage allowed one to see the internal structure and components of the combat part clearly.
For experts in nuclear weaponry, by this stage, they could already discern the authenticity of the combat part.
Navigation systems, nuclear charges, detonation chanisms, radiation paraters…
Faking all these aspects is undoubtedly very difficult, costly, and requires high expertise.
After all, those unfamiliar with nuclear warheads couldn’t even manage a forgery.
Layn enjoy the show, but professionals look for the subtleties.
Real or fake, this video was sufficient to reveal the truth.
At the end of the video, a man wearing a headset spoke in chanically altered English, expressing their “Dark Knight Order’s” invitation to organizations and individuals worldwide with sufficient strength to fund and bid.
The argunt was truly unusual.
Anyone can buy as long as they see money?
And using “auction” as a thod, was it intended to organize an auction?
The highest bidder wins?
It seed that this so-called new international power, the Dark Knight Order, probably learned from Wu Jie’s experience.
When the Detox Pill was first released, it was a secretive auction limited to twenty-nine countries.
The first auction sold each pill at the staggering price of four hundred thousand yuan, earning billions in just one day.
Monkey see, monkey do, truly putting learned skills to practical use.
Detox Pills were for curing people, whereas nuclear warheads were for destroying masses.
Two vastly different things ended up using the sa auction thod.
…
After watching the video, Wu Jie smirked coldly.
Du couldn’t hold back his curiosity and imdiately asked,
“When and where is this auction by the Dark Knight Order happening?
What will they trade?
Gold or currency?
Surely, they must have revealed this information to you!”
Xu Kuishan hurriedly said, “They ntioned the end of the month, the exact location to be notified later, and the transaction has to be in cash!”
Du nodded slightly, glanced at Wu Jie, and laughed,
“Cash is definitely no problem, but this auction isn’t for a small amount; I guess it must be at least several hundred billion!
They’ve put so much effort into making such a big scene; they can’t possibly be selling at the price of cabbages!”
“One billion in cash weighs about one ton; several hundred billion would be hundreds of tons!
Transporting so much cash would require at least a dozen large cargo planes, not to ntion how long it would take to gather such an amount.”
“Whereas, one ton of gold is worth three to four hundred million yuan, but one to two hundred tons of gold isn’t a small figure either.
There aren’t many countries globally that could bring out so many reserves of gold, and transportation remains an issue!”
Xu Kuishan smiled and said, “I’ve considered this issue too.
Whether it’s gold or cash, both are not minor in terms of volu and weight, and it really wouldn’t be easy for us to transport, but since they insist on this, there’s nothing I can do.”
Wu Jie blew a smoke ring and directly asked,
“The things you just ntioned and the video you showed us are worth the two million you got earlier!”
“You definitely know more, so speak up; how much more money do you want before you’re willing to disclose!”
Pie doesn’t fall from the sky.
Wu Jie knew that Xu Kuishan stating half, keeping half back, was just to drive a hard bargain.
This information was no trivial matter, naturally riting so scheming.
Rather than beating around the bush, better to be direct.
Seeing Wu Jie so straightforward, the father and son exchanged glances, and Xu Feng, with a smile plastered across his face, said,
“Actually, money is a trivial matter, Jie, you should be well aware of our family’s situation.
These debts exceeding ninety billion yuan, even if we sold off everyone in our family, we wouldn’t be able to pay it back…”
Wu Jie swept his cold gaze without making a sound, and Xu Feng imdiately added with an appeasing laugh,
“Alright, no more nonsense, we’d like Jie to help us arrange for our family to move to Nabiya in the Jiazhou Continent, just to get us there is fine, how we settle down and survive is not your concern!”
Wu Jie didn’t agree but glanced at Du.
Du clenched his teeth, his brows furrowed deeply.
This was a difficult matter indeed!
Liuli City’s Xu family owed nearly a hundred billion and currently, Xu Anyong, Xu Jiahao, and others were entangled in lawsuits, being chased down for debts.
If he helped them escape, wouldn’t that be using power for personal gain?
Nabiya, their intended destination, was notoriously chaotic.
With ongoing tribal conflicts and warlord battles, those with power ruled.
Once the people from Liuli City’s Xu family arrived there, getting back in touch, let alone capturing them, would be difficult.
However, since Xu Feng had put it that way, it was clearly a must to help them, this was a prerequisite for cooperation.
If this wasn’t fulfilled, then subsequent issues such as the cost of buying intelligence and specific details of cooperation clearly didn’t need to be discussed.
After pondering for a mont, Du gave Wu Jie a firm look.
“Alright, just going to the Jiazhou Continent?
It’s not like landing on the moon or wandering on Mars; such a small request can certainly be fulfilled!
Also, if there are any other demands, just say them, no need to beat around the bush!”
As soon as Wu Jie finished speaking, Xu Kuishan held up two fingers.
“We need two hundred million for the intelligence fee, one hundred million to be paid today, and another hundred million after you successfully negotiate and confirm with the Dark Knight Order that the nuclear warheads you seek are in their possession, and after escorting us to Jiazhou, to be paid in cash!”
Two hundred million?
Wu Jie chuckled lightly.
“Although two hundred million is a lot, more than an ordinary family could earn in a lifeti, compared to the seriousness of this matter, the asking price isn’t too high!”
Xu Feng explained, “It’s quite simple actually, just give us one hundred million as a deposit, and after you successfully negotiate, we collect another hundred million as the final paynt, which is good for everyone!”
Du couldn’t help but murmur curiously, “Even if you receive both hundreds of millions, with that amount of money, planted in such a chaotic place as Nabiya, it obviously wouldn’t be enough!”
“With constant turmoil and war, once you get there, you’ll definitely need to hire rcenaries, purchase weapons and ammunition, and arm yourselves for protection, right?
Two hundred million…
it probably won’t last long!”
Xu Kuishan smiled subtly, “To be honest, we have other ways to gather so funds, so as long as we can get there, self-preservation won’t be a problem!”
Wu Jie mockingly retorted, “Selling one piece of intelligence to several parties, earning two hundred million on average per family, that must have made you quite a bit already, hasn’t it?”
“This…”
Xu Kuishan smiled sowhat awkwardly.
It was a clear tacit acknowledgnt.
Wu Jie and the others exchanged a knowing smile, having anticipated this.
In fact.
Phantom had been secretly following Xu Feng; these past few days, he had made a killing as an intelligence broker.
The scandalous materials of high-ranking officials sold to Wu Jie for eight million had been successively sold at even higher prices to two other powerful families yesterday, and more sales were expected!
This was truly playing a clever ga to crack the whole heaven, so damn cunning and crafty…
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