Been told in a nutshell.
Qin Hai narrowed his eyes.
While Zhao Ke did not move and made a gesture to continue, Qin Dahai still used Zhao You’s voice, with a few trembles, imitating for Myriad for Pretty, and said, “What the hell are you?”
However, what came over the phone was a lifetime of miserable screams.
This voice was more than familiar to Zhao You, it was his daughter, Zhao Chen Chen.
He grabbed the phone in a panic: “Don’t you hurt her! What the hell do you want!”
“That’s what I need.” The voice on the phone was still elegant, but with a touch of cruelty, like a vampire: “Seriously, you seem to be misbehaving oh, Mr. Cho-You.”
Zhao Ke frowned.
Lin Feng instructed his men to investigate the outside of the house, while Yan Bei had his men sweep the inside.
It was very likely that this place was under the other side’s surveillance since the other side had identified it so easily.
Zhao You couldn’t care about any of this as he said anxiously, “Don’t hurt my daughter, I’ll pay whatever money you want.”
“I like hearing that tone of voice.” The other party said quietly, “Because it means, money, you have a lot of it, Mr. Zhao, your wealth is estimated by us to be around twelve billion.”
Zhao You’s eyelids jumped.
This figure was very afraid to say that it was accurate, but Zhao You estimated that it was about the same, guessing that the other party had touched himself well, including some unknown industries, he said, “How much do you want!”
The other party was calm and said, “The cash you can use is around two billion.”
“That’s not possible!”
Zhao You said anxiously, “Even if you are investigating a high value, you should know that there is no way I can be coming up with two billion in cash!”
“No, no, no.”
The other man said slowly, “I think men will always do what they think is impossible in front of the lives of their closest relatives, this is after our tightly circumscribed calculations, and, I only want a billion, and by God, I’m being merciful, this will be the lowest I’ve ever made in my career.”
Having said that.
He had hung up the phone.
Zhao You shouted anxiously a few times and was calling, only to be prompted that the other party had an empty number.
Zhao Ke said, “It looks like this Count Cologne knows you well.”
“Count?” Qin Hai asked.
Zhao Ke nodded and said, “Count Cologne, one of the most active professional kidnappers in the Scarlet Tulip, there is no way to know the exact identity, but every operation is bound to investigate the target very well, thirteen hours and fourteen minutes, Mr. Zhao needs to prepare one billion Huaxia dollars now.”
Zhao You laughed bitterly, “It’s simply too late.”
“It has to be too late.” Zhao Ke said.
Yan Bei frowned and said, “Aren’t we trying to compromise the criminals?”
“The necessary compromise can save lives.” Zhao Ke said seriously, “Life, it’s priceless.”
Lin Feng said, “That’s right, the safety of the hostages must be guaranteed.”
Zhao You nodded, then took out his mobile phone and started calling from all sides, finally the call went to Tian Shanhe, the boss of the White Mountain Group, who directly contacted the White Mountain Group’s internal bank and urgently drew off a billion dollars in cash, and it was thirteen hours and fourteen minutes later that Count Cologne’s phone rang again.
This time Zhao You didn’t ask Qin Hai to take his place and answered the phone himself, “I’ve got the money ready!”
“Very good.”
This Count Cologne said with great satisfaction, “But I don’t like to take cash today.”
“What exactly do you want?”
Zhao You was anxious.
“Relax, my customer.” Count Cologne said with a smile, “I’m into art these days, Mr. Zhao You try oh so hard.”
The phone hung up once again.
Qin Hai looked at Zhao Ke and said, “Are the people of the Scarlet Tulip so boring?”
Zhao Ke said, “Maybe it’s too much cash? Thirteen hours, fourteen minutes and a billion dollars worth of art.”
Zhao You nodded impotently.
For the sake of his wife and daughter, he had to obey orders.
Yan Bei, on the other hand, hammered the table in exasperation and said, “This damned b*****d, which time did he hang up the phone when the satellite was about to lock.”
“They’re very good at counter-surveillance.” Zhao Ke said, “Otherwise they wouldn’t have gotten away with it for so long in the international criminal market, a phone lock is of little use.”
Lin Feng echoed, “I’ll continue to have people interrogate suspicious characters who have recently entered the country.”
The investigation still continued.
Zhao You, on the other hand, was holding a billion dollars in cash to acquire a billion dollars worth of art from his many friends, and it was thirteen hours and fourteen minutes later that Count Cologne’s call came once again, and this time, he said he didn’t like art anymore, he liked shiny things.
A reluctant Zhao You had to exchange the artwork from his friend for diamond jewellery.
Yet after another thirteen hours and fourteen minutes, Count Cologne called to say that he liked Chinese antiques.
This time without waiting for him to hang up, Qin Hai picked up the phone and said, “You have a wide range of hobbies.”
The other party laughed, “I suppose this is the person who impersonated Zhao You for the first time? I wonder what your name is, sir?”
Qin Dahai said indifferently, “Free of guilt, surnamed Qin.”
“Mr. Qin.” Count Cologne laughed, “I have to say that your oral skills are very impressive, I am willing to pay homage to you.”
“But it’s still exposed.” Qin Hai said indifferently.
Count Cologne laughed, “You know what? Over the years, something like this has happened more than a dozen times, and I’ve been so chagrined that I’ll always report the first person who answers the phone as questionable; I’ll automatically a*sume that the first two sentences are fake from an outsider, and it’s only from the third onwards that I’ll choose to believe.”
“Not a bad habit when it comes to that.” Qin Hai said in a cold voice.
Count Cologne said with satisfaction, “Do you think so too? In fact, it has saved me a lot of unnecessary detours with my customers.”
“But you are slipping in circles right now.” Qin Hai said in a deep voice.
Count Cologne did not care about the words, but said, “Mr. Qin knows that I have always been unfriendly to people who impersonate my customers because it affects my performance, but I have always been very fraternal, so I very much enjoy turning imposters into real customers, and oh, this Ms. Su, no, Mrs. Qin, is really beautiful.”
Qin Hai narrowed his eyes.
A murderous aura slowly began to emerge if nothing else.
“Like it?” Count Cologne asked with a smile.
Qin Hai laughed, his laughter reaching the other man’s ears as he said, “Then you had better have prepared a coffin for yourself already.”
The Count of Cologne laughed, “I have already prepared it, in golden silk wood, and I have also picked out the tomb, in the words of your Chinese feng shui masters, it is a treasure cave.”
“It doesn’t take that much.” Qin Hai said, “You won’t be able to lie in it.”
“Mr. Qin doesn’t want to kill me me?” Cologne asked with interest.
Qin Hai said indifferently, “No, I will leave your corpse without any bones.”
“I’ll wait.”
Cologne said with a smirk.
