paranoianovel Chapter 238
Chapter 238
: Both Ends of the Balance 23
“Attention, the communication line is encrypted, but if you talk to the other party for too long, it is likely to be reverse traced.” Adam’s voice sounded in Kai Xin’s hidden headset, “Although I have I am more confident in my ability, but it is still best to be cautious.”
Kui Xin didn’t answer Adam, but asked Paulina: “Ms. Paulina, if you can guess who I am, then you might as well guess my reason for coming.”
“For money.” Every sentence of Paulina felt like a hammer hitting a nail. She was used to being the one who gave orders, and there was an obvious unquestionable taste in her tone.
“You guessed it right, Ms. Paulina.” Kai Xin said unhurriedly, “Since you guessed it, let’s stop wasting each other’s time and make a deal.”
Paulina said: “Before making a deal, please answer me a question.”
“Please speak.” Kui Xin said politely.
“Why did Wuguang deal with the Popov family?” Polina asked, “You must have chosen your targets purposefully, not randomly. I’m curious, our family, or a member of our family has offended Are you?”
“That’s a good question.”
Paulina heard a hoarse laughter from the microphone, and the voice said: “I can only say that you are not so lucky, you just hit the muzzle of our guns.”
Answering is equivalent to not answering.
Paulina looked away slightly and raised her eyelids. The door of the office opened silently, and the technician from the special affairs department walked into the office, put a metal box gently on the ground, took out a wire from it and connected it to Paulina’s communication line.
The technician gestured to Paulina, signaling her to continue delaying time.
Paulina said calmly into the microphone again: “That’s all? Your answer is too perfunctory.”
“This is my answer.” The other party said, “Does Ms. Paulina have any questions?”
“Are you Black Snake, the leader of the Darkness?” Polina said.
“No.” The other party pondered for a moment, “I haven’t introduced myself to you yet, I’m sorry. My code name is Spearhead Viper, and I’m in charge of organizing external affairs.”
“Okay, Spearhead.” Paulina looked at the technician of the special situation department, and the technician signaled to Paulina to continue delaying the time. Such a short time is not enough for him to trace the source of the communication signal.
So she asked: “Tell me, is my son still alive?”
The member of the dull organization named “Spearhead Viper” was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly hung up the communication.
“Communication has been disconnected.” An automatic prompt sounded from the receiver.
Paulina frowned, this communication was really caught off guard.
“Have you tracked it down?” She asked.
The technician replied: “No… Wuguang’s technical level is definitely not bad. I followed the communication signal to trace it to a place outside of Beluga City. I went around a long circle and couldn’t find the source. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have enough time.”
Paulina said firmly: “The other party will call again.”
Sure enough, in less than a minute, another strange communication came in.
After Paulina answered the call, she heard a familiar voice again, and Spearhead said, “I’m surprised that you take the initiative to care about your son.”
“He is my son after all.” Paulina said coldly.
“There’s no need to say hypocritical words, Paulina, I know you don’t care about your family.” Spearhead Viper said, “We’d better get straight to the point.”
Out of the corner of Paulina’s eyes, she looked at the technician. The technician frowned, because he found that the caller had switched to another encrypted line, and he had to trace and locate the signal source again.
“We are an organization that keeps its promises. YouGive us the money, and we will stop exposing your black material, and we will do what we say. ”
Paulina stalled for time, “I thought your goal was not money, but something else. After all, what you’ve been doing all along doesn’t seem like you’re simply begging for money.”
“Money is a good thing, everyone wants it, and money can buy most things in the world.” Spearhead said, “Stop talking nonsense, Ms. Paulina, I know you are trying to stall for time to locate my bearings. You just need to give an answer, yes or no.”
Polina was rarely irritated. She didn’t care about most things in the world, except for the family’s reputation and face. The laughing stock of high society!
“You want 20 billion?” Paulina took a deep breath and tried her best to keep calm.
Spearhead Viper: “Yes.”
Polina said: “With 20 billion in hand, can you stop dealing with the Popov family?”
Spearhead Viper said: “Yes.”
“What if I don’t agree?” Paulina said.
“Then Wuguang doesn’t mind making you the laughing stock of the entire plutocratic circle again, believe me, we have the ability to do it.” Lancet smiled, “You don’t want a third kidnapping case, Paulina 20 billion to buy a safe, very cost-effective.”
“Afterwards, whether it is public opinion attacks or death threats, can it be stopped?” Paulina said.
Spearhead Viper said: “Of course, we will keep the promise we made.”
“The Popov family actually wanted to spend 20 billion to buy a promise that Wu Zhuang Miao could betray at any time.” Polina almost sneered.
“If you don’t want to, then we will continue to spend with you.” Spearhead Viper finished speaking, and reported a series of numbers, “You can have time to think about it, Paulina, please remember our account number. Call the account, the money arrives, and this is the end of the matter.”
“Beep—”
Tong Xu hung up, but the other party hung up.
Paulina looked at the technician with an ugly expression, and when the technician shook his head at her, Paulina’s expression became even worse.
money! money! money!
The Wuguang organization never leaves money, but if they were really short of money, why didn’t they take any money when they kidnapped Abra? Do you think that money is just small profits? But the property in Abra’s private house is worth several billions, which is not a small number.
Polina always felt that the other party was not coming for money, but at this time, the Wuguang organization proposed a truce, and the condition of the truce was to give money. This made her suddenly waver, and she was unable to judge the real purpose of the other party.
The most important thing is that Paulina is afraid that paying 20 billion won’t make the Wuguang organization truce. She suspects that this is a trap.
20 billion is a small number. Any company under the Popov family has a market value of 20 billion. Polina’s private property is far more than this figure.
She quickly weighed it in her heart.
Giving money can be exchanged for the promise of a truce from the Wuguang organization. If they don’t give money, the spearhead even made a blatant threat. They will continue to target the Popov family. At that time, I am afraid that some members will be kidnapped again, and a series of scandals will arise. People in the Popov family can’t all be like turtles and hide in the house. Even if they hide in the house, the Duguang organization can come to the door to kidnap people. Abra is staying well in his private house. Still got kidnapped.
The promise of the truce may be a lie, but Paulina can see it. The Special Affairs Department can’t do anything about it for a while.
Technology tracking? The Wuguang organization also has not weak network technology.
Forced arrest? The Special Intelligence Department doesn’t even know where their organizational stronghold is.
Paulina rubbed her forehead, and her irritated face calmed down in an instant. She said to the technician from the Special Affairs Department in a gentle manner, “Please come here temporarily.”
“It’s a pity that no useful information can be found.” The technician said regretfully, “I recorded the audio and will take it back for analysis later. We will continue to track the account provided by the other party. Contact you, please notify us in time.”
Paulina watched him leave while maintaining a smiling face.
As soon as the technician left, Paulina contacted her personal secretary.
“Take 20 billion funds from the family bank and transfer them to this number…” Paulina reported the number.
The secretary quickly followed Paulina’s instructions.
Polina tore off the bow tie of her formal suit, leaned back against the chair, and tapped her fingers on the armrest one by one.
She looked calm on the surface, but actually she was filled with anger.
She is used to threatening others. Even in the vortex of family power, she has never been manipulated to death like this. This is the first time that she has been completely controlled by others from beginning to end.
Paulina has always thought that she has no weaknesses. She doesn’t have those weak feelings. Few people and things can become her entanglements. She has always had a clear mind and knows what she wants to do. After this incident, Paulina clearly realized that she had a weakness…
Her weakness comes from her family.
Because her glory comes from the family, her foundation comes from the family, and everything she has won cannot be separated from the support of the Popov family as a whole. So the family cannot fail, and she cannot let the family become the object of ridicule and discussion.
She felt ashamed, an unprecedented shame.
Paulina closed her eyes to calm down her throbbing temples.
Then she heard the messageHe raised his voice, opened his eyes and saw that it was not the secretary who sent the message, but the spearhead.
There are a few words on the mastermind interface in the office: “As you wish, a truce. But sorry, Dimitri is dead, you must have guessed it, but Abra is still alive, we will send him back to Popo Husband’s family.”
Send it back? How to send it back?
Paulina subconsciously began to think about whether there might be any room for operation, such as reaching an agreement on the exchange of hostages on the spot, maybe they can cooperate with the Special Intelligence Department to arrest the members of the Wuguang organization…
She lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then contacted the Special Intelligence Department and the Investigation Department, hoping to obtain the support of these armed forces.
The exhausting day did not pass like this. Half an hour later, the secretary suddenly called an urgent call.
“Chairman, look outside!” The secretary’s voice was a little incoherent.
Paulina raised her head subconsciously, looking at the French windows of her office.
Her office is located on the upper floors of a skyscraper, with a wide view, and she can see the outside scene very well. Facing the sky through her floor-to-ceiling windows, there is a gaudy advertising airship slowly flying towards the skyscraper.
Polina took a closer look and saw a long rope hanging from the lower end of the advertising airship, and a person was tied to the rope. That person was Abra Popov.
Abra was hung on the rope, his face was pale, he didn’t dare to move at a high altitude, he could only let the airship fly slowly while hanging in the air, his whole body swayed in the wind, like swinging, Embarrassed and ridiculous.
What’s more terrible is that the airship dropped advertising papers while flying, and the electronic signs hanging on them were constantly changing words.
The electronic sign reads: “I, Abra Popov, a traitor to the chaebol.”
As soon as the colored font changed, another line of cursive characters appeared.
“I belong to the Resistance Army.”
The secretary said tremblingly: “The airship is constantly dropping advertising paper, and the words written on the paper are the same as those displayed on the electronic card…”
Polina’s eyes darkened, and she almost lost her balance.
At this moment, she thought of the terrible consequences.
Paulina, the name of the Resistance Army organization, knows it. This is the political red line of the Federation. Whoever gets involved will be in bad luck, and whoever gets involved will be the key targets. Regardless of whether Abra is a member of the rebels, the Popov family will face a huge trouble because of this, a trouble much bigger than the kidnapping of family members.