Chapter 1944
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Even if they'd verbally agreed to cooperate.
But Chen Zhao still wouldn't agree to Demi's strange request easily.
Even if it was a verbal agreement, Chen Zhao wouldn't accept it if he wasn't sure.
"If you can't tell me your request first, I definitely won't agree."
Demi took a deep breath. She was angry at Chen Zhao's stubbornness.
He wasn't willing to expose even the slightest flaw.
From the beginning to the end, Demi couldn't take the initiative. She could only wait for Chen Zhao's answer.
"On behalf of the military, I hope to pay you 30 million US dollars, not 20 million US dollars."
Chen Zhao was stunned, but he quickly understood Demi's intentions.
"Even so, you won't get the money, right?" Chen Zhao looked at Demi.
Chen Zhao didn't care if Demi cooperated or not.
In fact, he was more willing for her to do so.
That way, Demi would give Chen Zhao even more leverage.
If Demi's previous promise was only for her to lose her position and job, then what she did now would be illegal.
Now what she did was illegal, and a felony.
She would even be court-martialed.
Demi looked at Chen Zhao with some mockery in her eyes. "I really don't understand how you earned such a large fortune."
"Then tell me how you're going to get the money."
"I don't need you to transfer the money directly to my account. What I need is for you to open two anonymous overseas accounts and prepare them in advance. You don't need to wait for the military to transfer the money to your account before you carry out a series of operations."
"What's the point of that?"
"If the military transfers the money to the account under your name, the military can track the account through financial channels and know the short-term flow of funds in your account. However, if you prepare the money in advance, the military can't track it. Of course, these two anonymous accounts will be handed to me after the money is in hand."
"That's a simple procedure," Demi said coolly.
Chen Zhao got the gist of it. It was indeed very simple.
But if he wanted to take the money, Demi wouldn't be able to do anything.
This involved the issue of trust.
Demi had suggested this mostly because she was confident in her own value.
In this regard, Chen Zhao indeed wouldn't ruin his cooperation with Demi for ten million dollars.
Chen Zhao didn't want to make a powerful enemy for ten million dollars.
With this in hand, Demi would no longer be a threat.
"I never thought that the proud Miss Demi would have such an unknown side to her."
Demi glanced at Chen Zhao. "It's all because of you. Because of you, my father owes a lot of money. Some of it is from loan sharks. Most of it is to pay off the loan sharks. The rest is for my father to pay off his bank debt." Demi looked at Chen Zhao.
Because Sonnenfeld had filed for bankruptcy protection, he didn't have to worry about his bank debt for the time being.
But it also made his life extremely inconvenient.
Sonnenfeld couldn't even have his own credit card.
His credit rating in the bank had completely collapsed.
In the United States, if one's credit went bankrupt, it would be hard for one to do anything.
Although Demi was a mid-level general in the military, she was facing millions of dollars in debt.
She was also powerless.
It was precisely because of this that she decided to take the risk.
Of course she knew it was wrong to do so.
But now, she had no other choice.
She felt that she deserved it.
This was no longer about right or wrong. If she didn't do this, she would lose her father.
Chen Zhao laughed.
He didn't feel guilty or regretful at all.
"Miss Demi, if you're willing to sign a contract to sell yourself, I'll be happy to help your father pay off his debt."
Demi ignored Chen Zhao's words and pretended that she didn't hear anything.
Was it that easy to sign a contract to sell herself?
Her identity was so sensitive. If she really did sign a contract to sell herself …
Even if there wouldn't be any legal consequences, once it was exposed, she might be judged as a traitor.
Of course, Chen Zhao was just saying it casually.
He didn't really expect Demi to agree.
After all, Demi wasn't at the end of her rope yet.
"The operation will start in a week. You should prepare. We need to do some preparations too. I'll participate too," Demi said. "Oh, since you're the military's special consultant, you can give me some suggestions."
"It's best for your soldiers to wear portable weapons with strong penetration and incendiary bombs. Regular grenades won't be very effective. Also, your soldiers need to prepare protective clothing."
"Anything else?"
"What I'm saying now is based on what I've seen on the artificial island in Lake Ponchartrain. However, the incident on the artificial island in Lake Ponchartrain was caused by an attack by Sara's laboratory. Sara's laboratory itself is definitely more dangerous than the artificial island in Lake Ponchartrain. I know nothing about Sara's laboratory, so I'm not sure what kind of danger we'll encounter."
"Also, if Sara Lab uses a super bomb like last time, I won't be able to do anything. We'll all die together."
Hearing that, Demi couldn't help but reveal a serious expression.
After all, the explosion on Lake Ponchartrain's artificial island had left a deep impression on Demi.
The artificial island had completely disappeared because of that, and a large portion of the Lake Ponchartrain Bridge had also been destroyed.
"If we want to carry out this mission, the first thing we need to do is to be secretive," Chen Zhao said. "We can't use military identities. All of us have to disguise ourselves as tourists. Also, the operation has to be completed in one night. We can't give them time to prepare. If the people from Sara Lab find out that they've been targeted by the American military, they might abandon the lab and prepare a huge gift for us."
Demi nodded. Chen Zhao's words made sense.
But this way, they couldn't hide the people they brought.
After all, it would be too obvious if more than a hundred burly Americans appeared in Akali.
"How does the military transport weapons to other countries?" Chen Zhao asked.
"We have our own channels. We have arms dealers all over the world. As long as we provide them with what we need, they can prepare the weapons locally. We don't need to transport them."
"By the way, can I buy firearms if I want?"
"No. Only the military can use those channels. Even I can't contact them. I can only send information and requests through the higher-ups in the military."
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