A young man who was leaning on a telephone pole in the distance saw what was happening on the other side of the road. He straightened the peaked cap on his head, lowered the brim of the cap, and walked slowly on the sidewalk.
He didn't cross the road to follow Mr. Pitt, he just followed him from a distance on the other side of the road.
In movies, there are often interesting plots in which the stalker and the stalked barely touch each other and are unable to discover each other. However, in real life, it only takes a little suspicion to completely fail a stalking activity.
People will have a less serious delusion of persecution that cannot be explained clearly. This is not a mental illness, but an instinct of self-protection. Only when this instinct seriously affects a person's thinking can it be called a mental illness. That is mental illness.
But before that, protecting one's own personal safety is the most basic instinct, need or desire of people. When people find something suspicious hovering around them, even if they are just overly sensitive, they will think that someone may Targeting yourself.
The friendly smiles of newly moved neighbors every day will become suspicious under this sense of self-protection. The unfamiliar security guards who have just joined the job will abide by their duties and patrol diligently and become sneaky, so tracking is never an easy task. , especially when a person needs to be followed, then he will definitely become more sensitive.
Because he must have done something that will be targeted!
If he were just an ordinary person, with no sins against anyone, no grudges, and very simple social relations, he would not suspect that someone was plotting against him, nor would he be so sensitive that he would become a thief.
Only those who have done certain things will become more careful, more vigilant, and more sensitive, so sensitive that even small details like a ring will be remembered by him.
Unaware that he was being targeted and that he was still a child, Mr. Pitt walked toward his business.
Companies registered on the east coast are basically either in the entertainment industry or in the international trade industry. His company is a small import and export company, formally registered, and with a dedicated office.
In order to ensure that his identity is legal, has no loopholes, and can withstand the scrutiny of others, Peter has spent a lot of effort to perfect the identity he is currently using.
Starting about seven or eight years ago, he had consciously planned a way out for himself. He knew very well that the organizational forces with extraordinary social status and fame behind the scenes would not come to save him when he was unlucky. Instead, they would want him more than the empire. He wanted to let him die early, so he began to think about his own retreat.
The more prosperous he is, the more investors he has, and the more loyal believers he has within the Earth God Religion, the more cautious he is, not only on guard against detection from the empire, but also on guard against malice from within.
Everything now proves that there is nothing wrong with his caution, including the fact that he always wears a mask on his face in the Tushen Cult. In this society with relatively backward technology, as long as no clear photos flow into the hands of the authorities, , it can be said that he is absolutely safe.
As for the first group of people who knew what he looked like, they had either encountered an accident or disappeared inexplicably a few years ago.
Now he is a legitimate and outstanding citizen of the empire. His company not only provides more than thirty stable jobs for the local city hall, but he also pays a full amount of various taxes every year.
Adding up the money - the wages paid to workers and the taxes paid, he must contribute at least 200,000 to the local economic development within a year. This amount of money is enough to make the mayor, the police chief, and Those people know who should be protected and who should be praised.
After walking for about twenty minutes, I arrived at his office before getting off work at noon. It was an office not far from the pier, with a sign "Shuguang Yuanhang Import and Export Trading Company" hanging on the door.
Pushing the door open, the little girl at the front desk stood up habitually after hearing the doorbell, and then came out from behind the counter with a cheerful smile.
Everyone knows that Mr. Peter is very amiable. He has no pretensions. He is not like the bosses of some companies next door. Just because they pay their employees tens of dollars in salary every month, they feel that they are those employees. 's dad.
Not only does he have a bad and arrogant attitude, but he sometimes uses very dirty language to attack those people when they are lazy.
In comparison, Mr. Peter is simply an angel!
He smiled and took off his coat and handed it to the little girl, then walked inside without stopping, "Is there any work information I need to know today?"
This company is not just an empty shell like a leather company. In fact, it is really working and operating.
There are a total of thirty-three people in the company. In addition to myself, the chairman of the company, and the little girl at the front desk, there is also a warehouse manager. In addition, the others are information collectors, and they also work as salesmen. Work.
Before the empire's economy improved in the past few years, this company did some import and export trade, placing orders within the empire and selling the goods abroad.
But in fact, those buyers were actually companies registered abroad by Peter. By selling the left hand to the right hand, he supported the company's turnover and profits. At least he ensured that the books and statements were very good-looking.
Those overseas goods will be half sold and half given away at very low prices, so you don't have to worry about not being able to sell them, and you can slightly subsidize some of the losses.
Nowadays, there are some differences. With the rise of international trade, all kinds of businesses that do not use the word "transnational" seem to be unable to keep up with the times. There is no problem in starting a large-scale trade and transnational business.
The customs at each port will not only take the initiative to help these merchants arrange the timing of cargo ships and entry and exit of the port, but will also help them apply for preferential policies such as tax refund subsidies. Basically, it can be said that their rights and interests will fall into their hands. .
But there are also some small-scale import and export trades that are more troublesome. For example, a factory receives an embarrassing order from abroad for a hundred blankets.
Is this deal a good deal or not
Large enterprises will never make such scattered orders, so these orders will eventually flow into small factories or even workshops. For these small and micro enterprises, as long as there is profit, they are willing to do it.
When they are ready to deliver these things to the buyer, they will find a problem. It is difficult for them to send the goods out and deliver them.
For now, basically most of the shipping capacity has been taken over by major group companies and large-scale transactions. Even if there may be some surplus in this shipping capacity, they would rather leave it empty than put on a hundred blankets, or one hundred blankets. A hundred kettles, or a hundred teacups.
This involves more procedures, more review processes and approval processes. Do you waste the same time going through the process for a profit that is not even a fraction
Rest, this is absolutely impossible.
Therefore, these scattered small batches of exported goods must wait. When the scattered parts have accumulated to a certain extent and can be assembled to fill a freighter, the customs will arrange the export schedule.
There are some problems here, commercial fraud, or routine fraud.
Many international orders are time-sensitive. For example, from the time the order is received, everything must be delivered within a certain number of days. There are standards for how to deliver and so on.
Nowadays, the empire's tight transportation capacity makes it difficult for many small and micro enterprises to send out scattered goods in time. As long as the deadline for orders is slightly exceeded, those foreign companies will initiate international trade claims and lawsuits to the World Financial and Trade Organization. These small and micro enterprises will Companies are required to pay them large amounts of cash compensation on the grounds that they are unable to complete orders in accordance with the contract.
This kind of thing has happened more than once, and it seems to have become a new way for some foreign businessmen to make money, and it is gradually spreading.
Peter saw the opportunity in this. He took advantage of his good relationship with the customs and the shipping kings, and got three freighters to start international shipping, especially for scattered goods.
All his salesmen are scattered all over the East Coast. These people look for small and micro business people who need help outside the customs every day, and then sign transportation contracts with them at relatively reasonable prices. The main reason why he can do this is that he The ship will go around all the ports on the east coast, pulling some things on board at each place, and it will be almost full by the time it completes the entire east coast.
Peter originally thought this was a not very profitable business, and his purpose in doing this was not to make money, but to gain more and better social network resources. Now he has got rid of his identity as an angel and has become a return man. himself.
He plans to maintain this identity until there are no further plans. If he wants to withstand the investigation and scrutiny of others, complex social relationships are the most critical link.
But what people didn’t expect is that this business not only did not lose money, but kept making money. For those small and micro enterprises, as long as they can transfer the risks, spending a little more money is not a problem at all, it is just making less money - after signing the contract After the transportation contract is concluded, the transportation party becomes the first defendant once a delay claim lawsuit occurs.
This allowed Peter to make some money and maintain very good relationships with these small and micro businesses, including customs and domestic transportation companies. This was something he did not expect.
The two of them entered the office while they were talking. The girl at the front desk often played the role of Peter's secretary. She took a few documents and put them on the desk in front of Peter, "Here are the customs approval documents, Nalis The Queen will leave the port the day after tomorrow and needs your signature... "
Peter smiled and took out a pen from his arms. The platinum pen body was engraved with many complex but beautiful and mysterious questions. The top of the pen cap was inlaid with a blue square gemstone the size of a little fingernail, indicating that wisdom.
The cost price of this pen has exceeded one thousand yuan. Considering its craftsmanship and design, as well as the added value of the master who made this pen, this pen can rival the first-class brands in some second-tier cities. A house of one hundred square meters.
At the same time, in a phone booth across the road, the boy took out coins and stuffed them into the phone booth. While looking at the door of the store across the road, he quickly reported the address and then left the phone booth. , I found a corner where people wouldn’t notice easily and took it quietly.
About seventeen or eight minutes later, three cars parked at the corner of the street, and several young men wearing round felt hats and black turtleneck trench coats approached.
After discussing for a while, they dispersed and disappeared completely on this lively street.
As early as more than two months ago, Dulin's people in the west captured Mr. Charles, the senior leader of the Tushen Cult who wanted to drag Dulin into the Tushen Cult and sent a girl to Dulin for this purpose. Priests can also be said to be elders.
He was very lucky to escape the destruction of the Tushen Cult, and then returned to his hometown and continued to be a farmer.
But he had no idea that Dulin's influence in the west was so terrible. His neighbor of more than thirty years went to the police station in the middle of the night to report him. When he was arrested, he was sleeping naked on the bed.
Soon after catching this high-ranking official, some information within the Tushen Cult was leaked. The Military Intelligence Department and the Security Committee took over the subsequent arrest work. Among Charles' many confessions, the most valuable one was Characteristics of "God's Envoy".
Because Peter always wore a robe and a mask, no one had seen what he looked like, so Charles didn't know either, but his desire to live saved him.
He told the interrogators at the time that the divine messenger wore two very special rings on his left index and middle fingers. One was very wide and had some so-called scriptures of the Tushen religion engraved on it. The other ring had a normal ring but had A large gemstone holder holds a head of Odela, the Mother Earth, made of various gemstones.
In addition, he also told about the pocket watch he found accidentally.
This information is very important. After Dulin knew it, he immediately asked people to spread these characteristics internally. Anyone who found someone with these three characteristics should report it immediately, even if it was wrong.
You can make a wrong report a thousand times, but you can never miss it once.
Before Peter was noticed, more than 80 people had been illegally abducted for a period of time and then released. Although many wrong people were arrested and there was no substantial progress, the Gods Association and the Guart people in various places The group was useless, so we relaxed and still took it as seriously as at the beginning.
So much so that just two obvious ring marks on his fingers exposed Peter to the eyes of these people.
The time soon pointed to lunch time. Peter declined the invitation of the girl at the front desk to have dinner together, signed a few documents and left first.
He knows what the girl is thinking, but his situation is not very suitable for romance. There are too many secrets in him. He is really afraid that he will say something terrible when he dreams, and he will have to kill him with his own hands. bed partner.
He put on his coat and walked out of the door silently. The girl looked at Peter's back with some sadness, but the next second, her eyes widened and she watched Peter being pushed into a car by several young people, and then quickly leave.
This... is kidnapping!
She picked up the phone angrily and excitedly and was about to fulfill her duty as an empire citizen and call the police station, but at the moment when the call was about to be dialed, a hand pressed on the hand that dialed the last number. .
"Shh..."
(End of chapter)