Xu Yun and Lin Ge took Baldwin to the parking lot and threw him into their escort van. Natasha and Courtney could not stop them at all. Although there were hundreds of people outside, they did not dare to act rashly because of Baldwin's safety.
Baldwin also gave them orders to calm down and deal with the current situation calmly. The current situation was already out of their control.
"Now, we've done as you said. Are you satisfied?" Baldwin said, "The list you want is indeed in the computer of my villa in New York. I just put it back before I came to see you. If I knew you wanted it so much, I would have brought it here."
"If you knew we wanted it, I'm afraid you would have hidden it even more tightly," Lin Ge said. "If you were not afraid of death, would you be so cooperative?"
"If I were afraid of death, I wouldn't have achieved what I have today," Baldwin said to Lin Ge with some pride.
Xu Yun motioned for Lin Ge to drive carefully and not be distracted. Baldwin's people could definitely appear at any time to rob the van. It was better to be careful.
"Mr. Baldwin, I admit that you are a person who is not afraid of death. A person who is afraid of death cannot establish his own 'empire.'" Xu Yun nodded. "But once you establish your own 'empire,' will you still not be afraid of death?"
Baldwin was stunned for a moment.
"Our Hua Xia has gone through many dynasties. The founding emperors of each dynasty were not afraid of death. If they were afraid of death, they would not play this kind of power game," Xu Yun said. "But once they establish their own empire, no one wants to die."
Baldwin had actually never thought about this question. Perhaps now that he was "successful and famous," no one could threaten him, so he did not think about whether he would still be afraid. Then, he thought that he was the same as before. He was not afraid of things like death at all.
Now that he heard Xu Yun say this, Baldwin really did have a slight feeling. He realized that he did not want to die. Dying was equivalent to losing everything. This was a very painful realization.
When people were alive, the poor would always envy the rich. Because they were rich, they could enjoy themselves.
However, when it was time for people to leave this world, all the rich would envy the poor. The wishes of the poor before they died were usually easily satisfied. They did not have much, so there was nothing to regret when they left this world.
But it was different for rich people. Once he died, he would lose the courtyard house in the 2nd Ring Road, the villa in Diaoyutai, and he would not have the chance to spend his hundreds of billions of savings. The beautiful women around him, the luxury cars, and everything else would be gone.
How could he not be depressed?
Therefore, the richer a person was, the more painful their death would be. This was also the reason why the richer a person was, the more afraid they would be of losing and the more afraid they would be of death!
Baldwin hadn't thought about it before, so he didn't think too much about it. Today, Xu Yun exposed him, and he realized that he had become very afraid of death.
"Immortality, immortality, indestructibility, eternal youth." Xu Yun smiled slightly. "If such a legend really existed, Mr. Baldwin would definitely go crazy for it."
Immortality was something that people yearned for. Even ordinary people were like this, let alone the emperors who were above everyone else.
Baldwin now had his own criminal empire.
One had to know that the emperors who founded their own empires in Hua Xia had all dreamed of something impossible. They all wanted to live forever, and they had been pursuing it tirelessly. However, no one had ever realized it. If it could be realized, the world would have been in chaos long ago.
Speaking of which, Qin Shi Huang was a person who fanatically pursued the art of immortality. Not only was he the first emperor in Hua Xia to become an emperor, but he was also the first person in Hua Xia to pursue the elixir of immortality.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the art of medicine had gradually matured, and the trend of alchemy was prevalent. Among them, Xu Fu was the most important. Qin Shi Huang asked him to refine the elixir of immortality. However, refining the elixir of immortality required a medicinal primer, and this primer had to be the blood of the phoenix. Therefore, Qin Shi Huang sent people all over the country to search for the phoenix's whereabouts.
Xu Fu had some skills, but he knew better than anyone whether the elixir of immortality really existed. However, in order to save his life, he could only talk nonsense. However, there was also a limit. Xu Fu knew better than anyone else that if he couldn't produce the elixir, he would lose his head.
However, he also had a way. He knew how to fool people, and at least he was good with words. He suggested to Qin Shi Huang that he choose five hundred virgin boys and girls from Dongdu Immortal Island to ask for the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang.
Of course, this was just a pretense. This was a way to escape. Reality proved that it was a good idea. Although Li Si said that all the land in the world belonged to the emperor, at that time, the overseas dynasties couldn't care less.
In the end, Qin Shi Huang was still alive and well in Shaanxi's mausoleum. However, the pursuit of the elixir of immortality didn't stop there. Instead, it became more and more intense. The development of the elixir of immortality started with Qin Shi Huang.
Emperor Wu of Han was also a pursuer of the elixir of immortality. He had a palace that refined elixirs, and would often eat the so-called immortal elixirs. However, no one who ate the immortal elixirs had a long lifespan. Originally, they wanted to eat the immortal elixirs to live longer. In the end, they could have lived to the end of their natural lifespan. However, eating the so-called immortal elixirs for a long time didn't allow them to live for more than a few years.
The mortality rate of eating the immortal elixirs was extremely high. However, it didn't affect the emperor's pursuit of immortality. Even Li Shiming, who was called the Heavenly Khan by the people, had eaten the so-called immortal elixirs before. This was especially so during Li Zhi's reign. He worshipped the art of medicine and ate the immortal elixirs almost every day. In a few years, he passed away.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were also people who were even weirder. For example, Zhu Yijun, who was obsessed with the path of immortality. This brother was even more unimaginable. If there was someone who wrote immortal cultivation novels, he would definitely reward that person with tens of thousands of gold taels, right?
Anyway, this brother cultivated in seclusion all day long and didn't go to court. He even built a Taoist temple in the palace and cultivated in seclusion every day!
He only had one dream, which was to ascend to immortality. He was also a person who often ate the immortal elixirs. He even ate the immortal elixirs until his body was corroded by poison and covered with poisonous sores. However, he didn't think that it was because of the immortal elixirs, so he continued to eat them. In the end, he passed away a few years later.
To put it bluntly, those so-called immortal elixirs back then were just poisons after a chemical reaction.
The immortal elixirs were filled with heavy metals. They were all poisonous metals, and some even contained mercury. How could one not die after eating them? Science wasn't in place, and ignorance killed people. Those emperors were just deceiving themselves and others. However, why did they still enjoy it? Wasn't it because they wanted to be immortal and to be able to hold on to the power in their hands?
In any case, once a person had a supreme status, they definitely didn't want to die. This wasn't a lie!
Therefore, it was impossible for Baldwin to say that he wasn't afraid of death. He just hadn't faced this problem head-on. If the threat of death was really placed in front of him and he still said that he wasn't afraid of death, that would be really strange.
"If you die, everything you have will be for naught. Don't you think you're betting a little too much on whether we really dare to kill you?" Xu Yun smirked as he hammered Baldwin's words.
Baldwin's expression became uglier and uglier, and more and more unnatural.
However, Baldwin didn't want to show weakness in front of Xu Yun. "Have you seen the real New York mafia …?"
Xu Yun shook his head.
"I believe that you don't want to see it," Baldwin said.
"Yes, I really don't want to see it," Xu Yun said. "This is also the only reason you believe that I don't dare to kill you, right? Although I haven't seen the mafia in New York, I know the history of the world. I also know that the most serious riots in the history of the American Empire, the conscription riots, were inextricably linked to the mafia. "
Baldwin nodded. "You can say that they are related, but you can also say that they aren't. This … no one can say for sure."
Back then, the New York riots were indeed very serious. It was said that it was because the president issued a conscription law that required all able-bodied men to enlist in the army unless they paid three hundred dollars. This seriously unfair conscription system ignited the anger of the poor. Tens of thousands of people burned, killed, and looted in the streets.
To put it bluntly, this policy was equivalent to giving the rich and privileged classes immunity from military service. The poor who couldn't pay three hundred dollars had to go to the frontlines of the Civil War as cannon fodder!
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