Shadow Empire

Chapter 468 Listen to my advice [666+15 (supplement)]
Steven looked at the young man sitting in the back seat and watched him take out a pistol from his pocket, but he showed no fear or emotion.

"Listen, young man, I don't care what your name is, put your weapon away."

"I know the boss of the Black Blood Gang, and I know the bosses of many gangs in this city. If you hurt me, I promise that every one of them will find a way to find you and make you pay the price!"

The young man sitting behind him did not put away his weapon or speak, but just looked at him.

Steven was silent for a few seconds. He looked back at the street that was still stuck in traffic and picked up the clothes that were thrown on the passenger seat.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw that the young man seemed a little nervous, with the muzzle of the gun pointed at him, whereas just now it had been pointed roughly at him.

He said casually and nonchalantly, "Relax, I'll get you some money."

He took out a wallet from his pocket, which was filled with twenty or thirty twenty-dollar bills.

He took them all out, then counted out one, of course not giving one to the young man, but keeping this one for himself, and handed the others to the young man, "Here, there are at least three or four hundred here."

"Take this money, your weapons, and get out of my car. This is the end of it!"

Steven is not a high-ranking director on the board, but he is an important director.

He's like... the dark side of the company, and when the company needs someone to do a dirty job, he's the one who gets his hands dirty.

There's nothing he can do, this is his job and he can't change the nature of his job.

Compared to the chairman of the board, the executive president, the vice president, the department heads, the supervisors, and those shareholders.

They all have various backgrounds, some are the founding families of the companies, and some represent the investment capital involved. Everyone has the value of existing and being valued and respected.

Only he, no.

He is just an ordinary person. He became a director only because he is familiar with the gangs in this city and he himself has some gang background.

Before he became a director of the company, he thought gangsters were great, just like the young man he was facing now.

As long as he has a gun in his hand, he is the king of this world!

But after entering the company, he gradually realized that the gang was just a link in the entire operation of society, and a not-so-important one at that.

So he actually... looked down on young people who were involved in gangs from the bottom of his heart, even though he had been involved in gangs before.

He is not afraid of these people, like he said, smart people will not mess with him, it's not worth it.

The young man got into his car with a gun, just wanting to get some money from him. He gave him the money, and the matter ended there.

He would remember what the young man looked like and have someone find him.

Not only will the lost money be recovered, but this young man will also learn to respect him!
The two looked at each other for about ten seconds, and then the young man spoke, "Drive."

This sentence made Steven vaguely aware that something was wrong. He felt a little uneasy and wanted to turn around more dramatically.

"You'd better not do that." With the creaking sound of mechanical gears being turned, he knew that the hammer had been pulled open.

It was a revolver. He didn't pay much attention to what model it was, but even a small-caliber defensive revolver could easily kill him at such a close distance.

After thinking for more than ten seconds, Steven stopped turning around, threw the money on the passenger seat, and sat up straight.

"Who do you belong to?"

The two drivers who were arguing in front suddenly stopped arguing and returned to their cars. Steven noticed that they both looked at him as they went back.

The man behind him didn't say anything, but just ordered him, "Drive forward and follow the blue car in front."

“Are you from the Atharv family?”

Steven was driving carefully, following the blue car. He noticed that the other car, which was arguing with the driver of the blue car, suddenly slowed down and followed him.

As the three cars drove forward in a line, his heart began to beat faster and he realized that he might have been kidnapped.

Many gang leaders appeared in his mind, thinking about the businesses they ran and whether he had done anything to offend them recently.

But I have absolutely no idea!
The Liji Group is so big that no one knows if anyone is doing bad things under his name.

After he mentioned the names of several families or gangs, the young man behind him still did not admit it, which made him wonder if this young man was from another place?

"Can you tell me where I have offended you or your boss?"

"Tell me your boss's name, maybe the misunderstanding between us can be cleared up."

He glanced through the rearview mirror at the young man sitting in the back seat, only to see a mocking smile on the other's face.

"You want to know?"

He suddenly spoke, and Steven swallowed, "Of course, I like making friends. If I have offended you, I apologize to you. You can make any conditions, and I will accept them."

"If you or your boss want to make friends with me, I'd also be happy to make friends with you. I like people who have ways."

Beautiful words, but it didn't impress the young man in the back seat, who said, "Mr. Lance wants to see you, Mr. Johnson." "Lance?"

"Who is..." He didn't react at first, but then his pupils dilated slightly!
He remembered, Lance, Lance White, there was no way he could forget that name.

This made his breathing become more rapid, and his heart began to beat violently.

His palms were full of sweat, which made the steering wheel wet.

"Mr. Lance...he came in person?"

The young man nodded and smiled, "You respect him so much, he should also show respect to you, Mr. Steven."

Steven didn't say anything else, but just followed the car in silence. Now he knew that even if he wanted to say something, he shouldn't say it to the young man behind him, but to Lance whom he was going to meet later.

The car soon entered a dilapidated old factory building on the outskirts of Xinjin City.

Even in the most prosperous metropolises, there are such desolate places, but the desolation here is not because it has no value.

On the contrary, there is value here. Every expansion of the urban circle means that a new batch of land will become expensive.

The developer did not operate this place, but built a lot of unoccupied factories here just to keep the land in his hands.

Perhaps ten years later, the land price and added value here will be several times or even more than it is now, so premature development will only cause profits to escape.

By employing a group of people to look after the warehouse and the gate, you can keep the land and wait for the right time to develop it.

The capitalists have already had a plan to deal with this.

Whenever large-scale land enclosure begins around a city, it means that the urban circle will be expanded. It also means that those who can get the news in advance have begun their new round of journey to wealth.

Three cars stopped in a dilapidated factory building. The empty factory building, overgrown with half-human-high weeds, looked a little eerie. The sky was getting dark, and it got dark especially early in winter.

Steven saw Lance.

Lance was sitting in the car, smoking a cigarette, and when they arrived, the young man behind him waved his weapon and told him to get out of the car.

After he got out of the car, a young man got out of the car that had been parked for who knows how long.

This young man gave him a feeling as if he had met those senior gangster family leaders, but the difference was that he had a touch of youthfulness and the arrogance to challenge authority!

"Mr. Steven, I'm sorry to ask you to come here because there has been some unpleasantness between us recently."

Someone brought a chair and placed it behind Steven, motioning for him to sit down.

He had to sit down because he didn't have the final say now.

"You are so urgent that I have to come to Xinjin City to meet you."

"But it seems that you are not so happy to see me!"

Countless thoughts flashed through Steven's mind. He has forgotten a lot of things now. He just wants to actively save himself!

"Listen, Lance, or Mr. White, I'm just an executor. All the instructions related to you were not issued by me. I am just responsible for helping them find an organization that is willing to accept it."

He was sweating and he was beginning to feel scared.

Lance nodded and said, "I know, you are just an executor..." He paused, "Tell me about the responsible people and the powerful people on the board. How can I get them to solve our direct problems?"

Steven swallowed and introduced the main members of the Liji Group's board of directors.

Lance listened very carefully, because since he came this time, he not only wanted to make an example of someone, but also wanted to solve the problem of his share of the money.

Seeing Lance fall into deep thought, Steven quickly said, "Actually, there is a way to reconcile between us, Mr. White."

Lance came back to his senses from his thoughts and looked at Steven, motioning him to continue.

"We are taking such a tough stance now only to prevent the emergence of the next 'challenger'."

"You know, the bigger the company is, the more hungry wolves there are around us, so we have to be very careful."

"If the company admits defeat and that you have successfully blackmailed us, we will face many new challengers, each of whom will want to take a piece of our flesh!"

"If you can take the initiative to publicly announce that you are giving up your claim and give the company enough face, I can guarantee that I will do my best to lobby the board of directors to transfer the money to you privately, but you cannot tell anyone about our transaction!"

This is also a solution.

In fact, many people on the board had this idea, but they did not do it.

Because they felt that a character like Lance White was not worthy of them bowing their heads first!

Lance smiled and shook his head after listening to it. "Not so good, but I also have a solution, maybe you will be interested..."

(End of this chapter)