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Chapter 71 The Hand-Way Society's Operation, Nobu Yoshioka!

Shortly afterward, a financial news story sent shockwaves through the American real estate industry.

Carter Investment Group, based in the UK, acquired part of Stark Group's real estate business, officially entering the New York real estate industry. It has begun negotiations with the New York City government and the RAND Corporation, attempting to acquire the land ownership of Hell's Kitchen and cooperate with the government to renovate Hell's Kitchen, a long-standing "thorn in the side" of the New York City government, on behalf of the RAND Corporation.

This news quickly attracted the interest of industry professionals.

However, this interest is more of a spectator's mentality.

Because New York real estate companies are generally aware that there's something unusual about the Hell's Kitchen site.

Basically, once you get involved, it rarely ends well.

For example, the family of the former chairman of the RAND Group is a typical case.

After that, other real estate companies also had their eyes on this place.

But all of these efforts ended abruptly after a short time.

Otherwise, this area wouldn't have become a major headache for the New York City government.

Now, an outsider who has never been heard of wants to get his hands on this land.

Industry insiders naturally wanted to see the joke made.

Sure enough, Carter Investment Group soon encountered its first difficulty.

That is, the RAND Corporation didn't even look at the Carter Group's acquisition offer and chose to reject it outright.

Even intervention from the New York City government was to no avail.

Although the RAND Group had signed a cooperation agreement with the municipal government when it acquired the land.

However, the agreement did not specify when the RAND Corporation should start construction or when it should be completed.

So even if the RAND Corporation occupies a position without doing anything, the municipal government can't do anything about it.

After all, the United States is a money-driven society, where financial groups are the real power holders.

However, just when industry insiders thought that Carter Investment Group would soon end in failure like those real estate companies before it, the situation changed.

The RAND Group's business in all aspects has encountered strong resistance.

A barrage of negative news caused the stock price to plummet.

And there is a large amount of capital accumulating shares regardless of cost.

It seems they intend to forcibly acquire the RAND Corporation.

Harold Mitcham, the current head of the RAND Corporation, immediately panicked.

Although Harold Mitcham took control of the Rand Corporation, the Rand family, which has always held absolute control, has always been the largest shareholder of the Rand Corporation.

Although the current head of the Rand family and his heirs have "disappeared" due to a plane crash.

However, the Rand family has a trust, so even if all the Rand family members die, the actual shares of the Rand Corporation will not fall into Harold's hands—which is why Danny Rand was still able to reclaim his family fortune after returning to New York in the original storyline, even though he had been missing for 15 years.

Therefore, in recent years, Harold has only acted as the second largest shareholder and managed the RAND Corporation on behalf of others.

Moreover, it is because the RAND Corporation has developed well under Harold's control in recent years that the trust has continued to acknowledge his control.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, it is unlikely that the RAND Group would be acquired by foreign capital.

However, if the group is poorly managed, the trust institution has the right to decide whether to sell the shares of the company it manages or the company's leaders in order to protect the safety of the clients' assets.

However, under normal circumstances, very few people would do this.

Because it's not worth the risk. Why forcefully turn healthy assets into non-performing assets and then acquire them?
That's absolutely insane!

However, it is clear that this force opposing the RAND Corporation intends to act like this lunatic.

Upon investigation, Harold discovered that all the funds originated from the previous Carter Investment Group—although the actual funds came from the Stark Group, they were all transferred to the Carter Investment Group through offshore operations by Stark Group's overseas companies, so the funds could not be traced back to the Stark Group itself.

Harold could only say that Carter Investment Group's actions were just like those of the Hand and the Society of Psychiatrists—they were all insane.

They'll stop at nothing to get this piece of land in Hell's Kitchen.

He was also puzzled by this. What was so special about this land that attracted them to fight over it? As a puppeteer, he didn't know the purpose of the dragon bones, otherwise he could understand.

However, despite not understanding it, he couldn't just sit idly by and watch Carter Investment Group continue to suppress Rand Group like this.

After failing to get help from some of his former business partners, he had no choice but to pass the buck to his backers and associates.

"What do you think about the Carter Group thing?" A slightly deep female voice asked from inside a dark room.

However, it was Alexandra, who had one of the five fingers on her hand.

“What’s there to say? Just deal with them like the Rand family!” said a man with a distinct Japanese accent, who was none other than Murakami, the Japanese leader.

“I’m afraid it’s not that easy. I suspect that the Carter Group is related to the disappearance of the Bottom…” another slightly softer female voice said. This time, it was Mrs. Gao who spoke.

"You mean, the other side is after the dragon bones?" Alexandra's voice became serious. Of the five fingers in her hand and the hand she held, she was the strongest in terms of both strength and influence.

But this strength comes at a price.

She obtained all of these by sacrificing dragon bones.

Therefore, among her five fingers, she has the fewest dragon bones, which is why she values ​​the dragon bones below Hell's Kitchen the most.

"Otherwise, how could such a coincidence happen? No sooner had Bottom disappeared than his lair was wiped out, and then the Carter Group, which is determined to take over Hell's Kitchen, suddenly appeared?" Mrs. Gao sneered. "Moreover, the fact that they were able to kidnap Bottom so easily means that their background is probably not so simple!"

"Where do you think they come from? Kunlun? Or some other city?" Alexandra asked.

"It shouldn't be... They don't have that much wealth in the secular world, and judging from their actions, they probably didn't know about the existence of the Dragon Bone before kidnapping the gambler... So I think it must be that the idiot gambler's actions provoked some unknown force!" Madam Gao analyzed.

“You’re right…that idiot definitely sold us all out!” Alexandra cursed angrily after hearing Mrs. Gao’s analysis.

“Then we need to take action even more, otherwise how will we excavate the dragon bones once they really acquire Hell’s Kitchen?” Murakami snorted and said, “It just so happens that Shin is ready to graduate, so why not let him test the waters and see what kind of people they are?”

"Oh? You've finally decided to let your precious apprentice graduate?" Madam Gao said sarcastically.

"Hmph, it's just a container. It's good that it failed, so we can welcome the Black Sky!" Murakami didn't take Madam Gao's sarcasm seriously.

“Then we’ll wait and see!” Alexandra said.

Then, the room fell silent once again.

After a long while, candles were lit in the room.

An elderly man dressed in a kimono sat upright in the room.

A young Japanese man came to the door and knelt down respectfully before the old man.

“Go to New York, and Mrs. Gao will tell you what to do!” the old man ordered.

"Yes, Master!" The young man bowed respectfully.

This old man was none other than Murakami.

The young man outside the door was his disciple, Yoshioka Shin!

(End of this chapter)