At the entrance of the New Otani Hotel, the well-dressed guests left one after another.
Many people were flushed because they had signed a big deal, and many people were annoyed that Jiang Chen left too quickly. Under the street lights outside the main entrance, Mitsui Hiroto stood next to the black car like a sculpture, his eyes narrowed as he stared in the direction of Celestial Trade's departure.
The bodyguard opened the door for him and respectfully retreated to the side.
Standing behind Mitsui Hiroto, the assistant with black-rimmed glasses saw that his boss didn't move for a long time, so he stepped forward and reminded him softly.
"President, the car is ready for you."
The silence lasted for a while, until the few headlights disappeared at the end of the street, Mitsui Hiroto seemed to have made up his mind and slowly nodded.
"Mhmm."
…
[Targeted by the CIB?]
A look of interest appeared in Jiang Chen's eyes.
What was the reason for the CIB to waste energy on the eldest son of a consortium? Although the Sumitomo Consortium cooperated on the Global Power Grid project, it was purely on the economic level. He didn't think there was anything worthy of the UA's attention.
"Continue," Jiang Chen said softly as he leaned back in his seat.
Sumitomo Kenichi took a deep breath, sorted out the words in his mind, and said.
"Do you remember the disaster two and a half years ago?"
"Of course." Jiang Chen smiled and said softly, "I'm afraid no one in this world will forget the disaster that day."
Two and a half years ago, a biochemical crisis broke out in Shinagawa, and hundreds of thousands of people were directly or indirectly infected by the TT virus and turned into the living dead. After the tragedy in City K, it once again set off a global panic.
It was from then on that the word Takeda Pharmaceutical was pushed to the forefront of public opinion along with the Nippon authorities. Abe, who was still seeking to amend the constitution for re-election, was forced to step down and was imprisoned a year later. In particular, the speech of Kurofune leader Tanaka made the world recognize the word Kurofune, which also made the word surpass the Taliban and become the world's number one terrorist organization.
Later, that incident, together with the previous tragedy in City K, and the later Finnish nest incident, were widely regarded as the three unpleasant encounters between Earth civilization and extraterrestrial civilization. To a certain extent, it indirectly promoted the establishment of the Earth Defense Alliance.
"That's what I wanted to say." Sumitomo Kenichi looked at Jiang Chen solemnly and told the whole story. "Just two months ago …"
Here's what happened.
Just two months ago, a Sumitomo Group freighter that was about to depart from Nagasaki Port to Los Angeles was detained by customs at the port of Nagasaki Port. The reason was that goods suspected to be listed as prohibited items were found on board. At that time, Sumitomo Kenichi, who was responsible for handling this matter, felt very strange. Because he had been the president of Sumitomo Shipping for so many years, it was the first time he heard that his freighter was detained by the customs because of the transportation embargo.
It was not until he went to the scene to understand the situation that he realized the seriousness of the problem.
"What's inside the problematic container?" Jiang Chen asked thoughtfully.
"It's just a bunch of old servers, but the problem lies in these servers." At this point, Sumitomo Kenichi's expression was a bit dumbfounded. "Those servers are none other than one of the assets sold by the bank when Takeda Pharmaceutical went bankrupt. And according to reliable information, these servers came from a laboratory codenamed 'Dark'. I believe you should be able to guess where it is without me saying more. "
"The 'birthplace' of the T virus?" Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow.
"Yes." Sumitomo Kenichi nodded with difficulty.
At that time, the Kurofune declared war on all mankind. In order to prevent Takeda Pharmaceutical from making an antidote based on his research results, Tanaka took away the virus samples from the laboratory and formatted all the servers in the laboratory.
At that time, due to the chaotic management of the Tokyo municipal government, the fall of the ruling party, and many other reasons, after Takeda Pharmaceutical was seized, these servers were inexplicably labeled as auction assets along with other things. Two years ago, after they were bought by a company doing import and export trade, it was as if they had vanished from the face of the earth.
Sumitomo Kenichi did not expect these servers to appear on his freighter.
"But why did the CIB people target you?" Jiang Chen frowned.
"At that time, I thought it was better to avoid trouble, so I bribed the customs. Before the customs reported the goods involved, I swapped out the container and replaced it with a new server that had no problems. I was going to get rid of the old server that had sneaked in. However, I didn't expect … "Sumitomo Kenichi's smile had a hint of bitterness." I escaped the prosecution of the customs, but I didn't escape the eyes of the CIB. "
After listening to Sumitomo Kenichi's description, Jiang Chen fell into deep thought.
Strictly speaking, these servers were certainly harmless. After all, all the data had been formatted. However, there was still a hidden danger here. If someone used special technical means to try to restore the deleted data in the server, there was still a certain probability that the data could be recovered.
And now, someone mixed these servers on the Sumitomo Group's freighter to Los Santos, which was worth pondering.
The Kurofune had been reduced to small shrimps fighting on their own. Under the arrest of countries and Ghost Agents, they were like rats on the street, unable to protect themselves. Jiang Chen didn't think they had the ability to revive with the legacy left by Tanaka.
As for the other possibility …
This batch of servers that should have been sent to Los Santos was originally the work of the CIB.
"Where are these servers now?" Jiang Chen asked.
"They have been taken away by the CIB." Sumitomo Kenichi squeezed out a bitter smile on his face. "I thought they took away the servers, but it didn't take long for my bodyguards to find bugs and locators in my bedroom and car. I don't know what they want to do, but I dare say they definitely don't intend to do anything good … "
"Yes." Jiang Chen smiled and said in a mocking tone, "I bet that if you were just an unknown person, you would have been fished out by the Yoto police."
"This joke is not funny," Sumitomo Kenichi said with an ugly expression.
"I'm not joking with you." Jiang Chen shrugged and said with a smile, "If I were the CIB, you might have been killed … So, are there any other clues?"
"When I first discovered the bugs, I hired a private investigator to trace the source of those servers. I wanted to know who had mixed those things in my container. In the end, I found something unexpected."
"What did you find?"
"Luchuan Electronics sent these servers to the supplier in Los Santos." Sumitomo Kenichi took a deep breath. "When the private investigator I hired investigated their assets, he found that their behind-the-scenes investor is —"
"It's the Mitsui Consortium, right?" Jiang Chen grinned.
Sumitomo Kenichi's eyes widened and he looked at Jiang Chen in disbelief.
"Jiang Chen, you are —"
"You want to ask me how I know, right?" Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile, raised his chin, and gestured to him in the direction of the rearview mirror. "Don't think that I'm just a businessman. After experiencing so many things, I think my anti-detection ability is still quite strong."
Mitsui Hiroto's mentality was good enough. He dared to follow him?
As Jiang Chen spoke, he opened the holographic screen of his watch, edited a short message, and sent it to Hill, the head of Ghost Agents in Nippon. At the same time, he said to Sumitomo Kenichi, who was restless, "From tomorrow on, I will send someone to secretly protect your safety. As for the rest, I don't need you to do anything for the time being. When I need you, just cooperate with me."
"Thank you," Sumitomo Kenichi said gratefully.
"You're welcome." Jiang Chen smiled and said softly, "Where are you going? If it's not far, I can ask my driver to give you a ride. Of course, if I were you, I would choose to get off here immediately. "
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