Indonesia, in a very nice villa compound by the sea in the north of Jakarta.
After going through the hardships of the past few months, Shen Lin, who thought her nerves were strong enough, woke up again from a nightmare. She turned over in a daze, and the bright sunlight that penetrated through the gap in the curtains made her feel much more comfortable.
I touched the watch on the bedside table and looked at it. It was almost eight o'clock.
I had something to do in the morning, and I had to fly to Kuala Lumpur in the afternoon for a more important meeting, so I cheered up and sat up.
After dressing and washing, we went to the restaurant downstairs, where people were already dining.
The 'Black Phoenix' Cao Minyuan, whose Korean name actually comes from China, and her two followers, Nora, whose tattoos spread from her body to her neck, and Lin Zhiya, who has a ponytail.
If there were only three people, Shen Lin could still calm down. However, when he saw two other short-haired girls with similar appearances who were obviously less than fourteen years old at the dining table, his scalp suddenly felt numb, and he even felt a faint feeling. Desire to vomit.
Both girls are Indonesian Chinese and orphans. They were taken in by Cao Minyuan some time ago and taught as apprentices.
If that's all, it's nothing.
The key is last night.
Let’s start from the beginning. In recent days, Shen Lin has been trying to put a large shoe factory in Jakarta back into operation. The factory originally belonged to an Indonesian Chinese businessman. After the incident two years ago, the Chinese businessman sold the assets at a low price. , the family immigrated to Australia, and the factory fell into the hands of the Westeros system.
The original price of the factory, which can employ more than a thousand workers at full capacity, was less than US$30 million. It had received an order from Nike before 1998. When it was purchased here, it only cost US$3 million, which was a rock-bottom price.
Shen Lin’s plan is to reintegrate a total of 7 shoe factories of different sizes located in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and other countries in the asset list, form a company, unified management, and then jointly sell top international brands such as Adidas and Nike. Obtaining OEM orders, and with his background in the Westeros system, this matter will not be too difficult.
After several trips, several factories in the Philippines, Malaysia and other places have been completed, leaving only the one in Jakarta.
Unlike several other places, the factory here has been shut down. Fortunately, Shen Lin led a professional team to conduct an assessment and confirmed that the factory equipment is in good condition, and the management and production teams that the original Chinese factory owner has built over many years are also complete. , a group of people are looking forward to restarting work.
The only problem was that a senior official in East Jakarta, where the factory was located, took a fancy to the factory and wanted to buy it. The asking price was less than US$100,000.
It's no different to grab it.
Of course, it was impossible to agree here, so the factory was targeted by a local gang and harassed day and night. A few days ago, if a security team had not been sent in advance to guard it day and night, it was almost set on fire.
Within a few months of taking this job, Shen Lin gradually figured out many things. For example, in Indonesia, due to extremely uneven social development and a large population, the result was that a large number of people at the bottom who had no way out could only mix black, and then black and white. Intertwined. As an electoral country, some gang leaders who want to clean up their reputation often mobilize a large number of subordinates to forcibly ask for votes from voters in order to compete for the position of regional governor. When encountering similar competitors, large-scale armed fights will occur.
This kind of thing, let alone the civilized West that most people yearn for, even in his own country, Shen's neighbors rarely heard of it.
However, these things actually happened in this area, and Shen Lin even read about a primitive cannibal tribe in eastern Indonesia in the local newspaper during this time.
It's simply a different world.
No matter what, problems must be solved.
Months of various destructive encounters have completely worn away the last trace of Shen Lin's idealism. You must know that Chen Qing sent her four bodyguards, and she made it clear at the beginning that the kind that had killed people, During this period, among the four veterans who had participated in some military operations and seen blood, one died, one was disabled, and only two were usable.
So I had to ask for help.
The response received was from Cao Minyuan and his party.
When he first saw a few women, Shen Lin was a little worried. How could Miss Chen send women here to do dirty work? Unexpectedly, compared to the four veterans who had some mental disorders, the woman who quickly learned the nickname "Dark Phoenix" was a she-devil.
Now, the female devil has brought out two more little devils.
Just last night, Cao Minyuan took a group of people out to do some errands. When they returned late at night, Shen Lin, who had been waiting, followed him to a nearby small pier out of curiosity.
This was newly built by the Chinese who gathered nearby in the past two years to facilitate emergency evacuation at sea if something happens.
Then, in the cabin of an inconspicuous small fishing boat by the dock, Shen Lin saw two little devils dismembering the body, covered in blood.
Inside the restaurant.
Forcibly calming down his thoughts, Shen Lin greeted a group of women, both young and old, who were not very friendly. He walked to the dining table and sat down. He instinctively did not dare to sit next to the two little girls. Instead, he squeezed next to Lin Zhiya and silently served himself a cup. I got a bowl of rice, some vegetables, and started eating.
The other girls obviously did not have the psychological burden of Shen Lin. Cao Minyuan waited for Shen Lin to eat a few mouthfuls of food before she took the initiative to speak: "The matter has been resolved. Our people will take over the area near the shoe factory. Mr. Vikana will also take over the area." Promise to get along well with us, and you can make arrangements to start work in the morning."
Shen Lin nodded in agreement, paused, and didn't ask any more questions.
Everything went smoothly in the morning. The gangsters who used to hang around the shoe factory disappeared. Even Mr. Vikana, who had considerable influence in East Jakarta, showed up on his own initiative. He seemed tough on the surface, but after interacting with his neighbor Shen During the conversation, there was a very obvious expression of sternness and internal distress. Basically, he came over in person and confirmed from Shen Lin that both parties would be fine.
It was obvious that this local snake, who was originally considered a black and white man, was quite frightened last night.
Shen Lin was still not very curious about what happened.
Because one thing that is very certain is that she herself was very frightened, let alone the other party
After being busy until about twelve o'clock, Shen Lin had a simple lunch directly in the factory and left, rushing to the airport in the western suburbs of Jakarta.
It was all because of the women, who were regarded as bodyguards. The Eastern European girl Nora drove us off, the co-pilot was Lin Zhiya, and Shen Lin and Cao Minyuan sat in the back seat together.
After the car had driven for a while, Shen Lin still couldn't hold it back. She said to Cao Minyuan, who was holding an English vocabulary booklet and silently reading beside her, which was a bit inconsistent with her status: "You... I think you shouldn't let that person." Two kids doing that.”
Without raising her head, Cao Minyuan turned over a page in the word manual in front of her and asked, "Why not?"
"This kind of thing..." Shen Lin hesitated, and then said: "Don't you think it's too cruel? Moreover, they are still children."
"Cruel?" Cao Minyuan finally raised her head, glanced at her, lowered her head again, and said calmly: "Do you want to hear how their mother died two years ago, which one was more cruel?"
Shen Lin suddenly remembered some reports about those things two years ago, shook his head subconsciously, as if shuddering, and then said: "But of course I know, I mean, if you pity them, or help them leave Indonesia, that's it." .”
Cao Minyuan's tone was still cold: "Why should I pity them? I never pity those who dare not take five steps with blood even if they are forced to death. I just give them a chance for revenge. If they can seize it, seize it. If they don’t live there, I will just throw them into the slums to fend for themselves.”
"You..." Shen Lin was finally a little angry. He wanted to scold the girl next to him for being too cold-blooded, but after thinking about it, he changed his words: "How old are they? You... I mean, can you do this when you are so old?"
"About that. I killed seven people, a family of seven."
“…”
Seeing that Shen Lin had nothing to say, Cao Minyuan glanced over and suddenly said: "You know, if you go over this time, the big shot will praise you."
Shen Lin didn't want to talk to her anymore, but after hearing this, he couldn't help but be curious: "Why?"
Cao Minyuan said: "Because you have done a great job during this period, better than some other teams."
Shen Lin really didn't know what other teams were like, so he felt a little happy and a little suspicious: "How do you know?"
Cao Minyuan did not answer the question, but said: "Do you know what this means?"
"Um?"
"This means that you are the same kind of people as us, otherwise, we would not cooperate so well."
Shen Lin: "..."
"You understand," Cao Minyuan then added: "For example, if others saw what happened last night, they would probably go crazy with fright. You just vomited, and it's not normal for you to return to normal in just one night. .”
Shen Lin couldn't help but raise his voice to deny: "Stop talking, I'm not the one."
Cao Minyuan shrugged and said no more.