Terry Scales is very aware of the timeliness of the chips in his hand. Once William Hester III's plan is implemented, everything will be irreversible, and he must get in touch with the other party before this point in time.
The next day is Saturday, the last day of April.
After a shift, Terry Scales invited his partner Chris Wenden to go to Manhattan to buy some gifts for his family. Of course he wants to travel alone, but during the mission, solo action is not allowed. The Westeros family intelligence team is more demanding than the professional national intelligence department in many aspects, and is even unabashedly disrespectful. Close to humanity.
The two drove to Manhattan and spent a few hours shopping in some well-known shopping malls. Until almost noon, Terry Scales finally found an opportunity. On a sparsely populated street corner in Hell's Kitchen, Midtown, he took advantage of his partner to go shopping. While borrowing the restroom at Starbucks, Scales quickly walked to a public phone on the street, inserted coins, and dialed.
This is the phone number of an executive of the Hearst Group who has a good personal relationship with William III and whose personal position is not very conspicuous. The number comes from the information previously collected by the intelligence team. Terry Scales confirmed that the executive is not in the maintenance department. The Stroh family intelligence team is within the monitoring range, and through the other party, they can directly contact William III as quickly as possible.
There was a beeping tone from the phone, and Terry Scales felt that his heartbeat had inexplicably accelerated a little, and he even felt a sense of panic in his heart.
Professional agents who hide in the dark often have a very keen sixth sense, and the same is true for Terry Scales. Therefore, he quickly judged that this sense of panic did not come from his betrayal of the Westeros family, but from his betrayal of the Westeros family. Yes, dangerous!
The agent subconsciously looked behind him, his eyes widening suddenly.
At some point, two white men in ordinary clothes had approached. When they noticed that Terry Scales had turned around, the two of them suddenly accelerated and pounced forward. One of them skillfully restrained Scales, while the other stabbed him with a syringe in his hand. To his neck.
On the street, a black van drove over, and the door was opened from the inside.
The two men quickly carried Terry Scales, who was unconscious, into the car, and the van quickly left without stopping.
At the entrance of the street, a young couple who were shopping on weekends saw all this with their own eyes. The girl subconsciously took the boy's arm, and the boy simply put his arm around his girlfriend's waist without hesitation. The two turned around together, pretending not to see anything. Go in the opposite direction.
Near the phone booth, the middle-aged owner of the thrift store suddenly felt that it was not a good day for business. He turned over the 'OPEN' sign, locked the store door, and walked to his private residence behind the store.
Across the street from the residents upstairs, a young man who was working out picked up the phone and dialed 911. He stared at the black Ford van that was speeding away on the street and reported the license plate number to the police on the opposite side.
On the other side of the street, the van turned, accelerated, turned through several streets, and then entered an alley. A rolling shutter door on the side of the alley opened, and the van drove in. The group of people came out again, and had already changed into a van on the other side of the street. White Chevrolet SUV.
Several police cars drove around the area as usual, but found no trace of the black van, so they naturally regarded the warning as another common false alarm.
The phone booth used by Terry Scales. After the van disappeared, a middle-aged man picked up the hanging microphone and listened. There was already a busy tone on the other side. He hung up and walked to a nearby bench to sit down. , took out the cigarette with some sadness, hesitated and put it back.
Chris Wenden walked out of the Starbucks on the street with two cups of coffee, sat down next to the middle-aged man, handed him a cup, was silent for a moment, and asked: "Boss, what will happen to Terry?"
Martin Dinham had no intention of drinking coffee, so he put it aside and said, "If he didn't make the call just now, it would just be expulsion."
Chris Wenden paused, did not ask any more questions, and asked instead: "Where is his family?"
Martin Dinham said: "We found out the matter ourselves. Terry's family... As long as we can forget about him, everything will be fine. After the matter here is over, I will go back to Melbourne to talk to them in person, Terry He will be killed in the line of duty, and part of each person's annual salary will be deducted to collect US$1 million to give to them as a pension."
As Martin Dinham said, he turned to look at Chris Wenden and said: "The boss said it's only this time, so I don't want you to have any problems again, because next time, it won't be so simple. "
Chris Wenden took a sip of coffee, shook his head and said: "I don't understand why Terry is like this. Everyone now has a generous salary and the most complete security, and their children are also studying in private schools that only the upper class can enter. Why would he ruin it all?"
Martin Dinham said: "Actually, there is something better. In the future, our children will become the core Westerosians, and can be trained and promoted with the highest priority by the Westeros system, and become the ones who control the political, economic, and cultural trends of this era. of true aristocracy."
Westerosian, even though it was just the first time he heard it, Chris Wenden immediately understood what this word meant.
Looking at Martin Dinham with surprise and a little excitement, Chris Wenden confirmed: "Westerosian, is this the boss's promise?"
Martin Dinham nodded and said: "Of course, haven't you noticed? The boss is already making many similar arrangements. With the development of the Westeros system, it has become a business empire that can compete with the strength of many countries. In this way A huge economic system will definitely require a large number of direct descendants to control it. Our children, as long as they are not too mediocre in the future, will get the highest priority in the Westeros system because of us."
Chris Wenden understood the subtext of Martin not continuing.
All this is provided that they must pay enough loyalty to the Westeros system,
After a moment, Chris Wenden said: "I wonder if Terry will regret it."
Martin Dinham did not answer, but said: "My boss just asked me to tell everyone that I have already talked to you. One last thing, if one day you feel that you can't stand this job, you can always Apply for retirement, and the Westeros system will arrange another legitimate job for everyone, and the children's upward channels will not be cut off. The only thing not to do is betrayal."
Chris Wenden nodded solemnly.
Martin Dinham looked up at the midday sky, stood up and said, "Let's go, there are still many things to do today."
Chris Wenden stood up and walked to a car on the street with Martin Dinham. When they got in the car, they took one last look at the phone booth and sighed.
If Terry Scales hadn't been completely confused, with his professional qualities as a professional agent, he should have been able to easily detect anomalies. For example, when there were so many opportunities when he was just shopping in the mall, why did he choose such a deserted street to borrow money from a roadside Starbucks? bathroom.
A phone call without any follow-up did not change the direction of some things.
When a betrayer of the Westeros family's intelligence team quietly disappeared from the world, Roger Halls, assistant to William Hearst III, re-engaged in a $12 million lawsuit against the Westeros family. Doris Fitcher, the former Wei family maid who was almost collapsed.
After hearing about Roger Halls's plan to gain public sympathy by using the "bitter meat trick", Doris Fitcher, who was desperate, decisively agreed.
Because she never expected Roger Halls' other intentions, Doris Fetcher just invited her own lawyer to watch over her, and swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills around eight o'clock on Saturday night.
Then the ambulance arrived late.
Some people didn’t know that all of this was captured by a secret camera installed by the Westeros family intelligence team. The next day, many mainstream newspapers under the Hearst family rushed to report on the former Wei family daughter. News of the death of Doris Fetcher, a chambermaid, who was driven to suicide due to the malicious lawsuits filed by the Westeros family.
The public always tends to sympathize with the weak.
Not only that, Sunday happens to be May 1st, International Labor Day.
Although Labor Day in the United States is the first Monday in September each year and International Labor Day is not a federal statutory holiday, domestic labor unions in the United States still organize some activities on this day.
Incited by the Hearst Group's media, many union members across the United States directly blocked the headquarters of many subsidiaries of the Westeros system that day, condemning Simon Westeros' ruthlessness. Some even petitioned to demand that the Federation The authorities investigated Simon Westeros for murder because they did not believe that Doris Fitcher had committed suicide and that there must be some ulterior secret.
The sudden uproar of public opinion did indeed turn public attention away from the racist genocide in Rwanda, just as William III wanted.
Just when the Hearst Group was planning to launch a larger public opinion offensive to force the Westeros system to give up its comprehensive blockade and lawsuit bombing against the Hearst family, early on Monday morning, May 2, accompanied by Hearst, There were many articles in the media under the Stern Group, and a headline suddenly appeared on the Igret portal. The title was very simple: "The so-called truth about 'Citizen Kane'."
The core of the news content is only a video, a video of William Hearst III telling his assistant Roger Halls to arrange the 'suicide' of Doris Fitcher.
At the end of the article, a classic line from Citizen Kane, which is currently being re-screened, was modified: You create death, and I am responsible for fooling the public.
The sudden revelation of the truth stirred up waves.
Not only that, the Ygrit portal also released another video of William Hearst III planning to put pressure on the Westeros system by closing three newspapers and putting a large number of workers out of work.
The two videos are like two public opinion nuclear bombs.
Realizing that they had been fooled, the public immediately pointed the finger at the Hearst family. By noon that day, the Hearst Corporation headquarters building in Manhattan was surrounded by thousands of people.
Because it involved murder and had a very bad public impact, the FBI responded quickly and arrested William Hearst III and his assistant Roger Halls on Monday afternoon. Subsequently, William Hester III was released after paying a huge bail of US$10 million, and to everyone's surprise, he boarded a plane and fled to Europe.
The news broke and once again triggered public anger.
Some of the media who originally had doubts about this matter were completely unable to speak to each other after William III fled.
If the Hearst Group can barely survive in the face of a comprehensive blockade and lawsuit bombardment from the Westeros system, such a huge scandal of trying to use murder to manipulate public opinion will directly push the Hearst Group into the abyss.
In the following days, many advertisers who had not been affected by the Westeros system before quickly announced the termination of various cooperation with the Hearst Group in order to draw a clear line with the Hearst Group. The American public was even more concerned. Under the guidance of Hearst Group, there was a wave of unsubscriptions from newspapers and magazines owned by Hearst Group.
At the same time that the FBI officially launched the investigation into the murder of Doris Fetcher, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) also launched an investigation into the Hearst Group's suspected actions of manufacturing false news to mislead public opinion.
More than 1,100 employees of the three newspapers that were shut down in April also launched a class action lawsuit against Hearst Group with the support of major newspaper industry unions in the United States, demanding huge compensation.
If the wind and rain are like darkness, the building will collapse.
Starting from William Randolph Hearst, the Hearst family has been inherited for four generations. William Randolph Hearst has six children. In the generation of William Hearst III, there are more direct children of the family. There were as many as a dozen people.
Internal strife had already occurred within the Hearst family when they were targeted by the Westeros system. Several other family members once asked William Hearst III to give up control of the family business.
Now, William Hearst III has fled to Europe, and the control of the Hearst Group has become a hot potato. After several deliberations within the family, the burden finally fell on the 79-year-old Randolph Hearst. This is William. The fourth of Randolph Hearst's six children and the only surviving member of the second generation of Hearsts.
Over the years, Randolph Hearst, who had been enjoying a pampered life because he was unable to gain control of the family business, simply did not know how to manage a company.
Now, a murder scandal, six huge lawsuits totaling $370 million, family strife, union-backed class-action lawsuits by workers, a crackdown on Westeros, and an overwhelming public unsubscription from Hearst newspapers and magazines ... It was a messy mess that Randolph Hearst, who was already in his twilight years, could not handle.
However, after some discussion, the Hearst family accurately grasped the key to the matter.
Simon Westeros.
The only way for the Hearst family to gain a chance of survival in this chaos is to reconcile with Simon Westeros.
So, on May 5, Randolph Hearst flew from New York to Los Angeles in person, hoping to meet Simon.
In order to ease the relationship with Westeros as much as possible, Randolph Hearst also brought his daughter Patty Hearst and granddaughter Lydia Hearst. It is said that Simon Westeros is very I like Lydia and originally invited the little girl to participate in a movie under Daenerys Entertainment.
Although, during the discussion of this matter, some people within the family also hinted that Westeros is more likely to be interested in Patty Hearst, but they can't care about that much now.
After asking some contacts for introductions, Simon Westeros did not respond until May 7, but only invited Patty Hearst and Lydia Hearst and their daughter to join Dani at noon. Dinner at Liz Cinema, completely ignoring Randolph Hearst's intentions.
It was a good thing that they were not rejected at last. Randolph Hearst personally explained to his daughter, and sent the mother and daughter to Daenerys Studios on time at noon.