Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 919 - 502

Chapter 919: 502

However, the visitor didn’t interfere with anything of his own, and there wasn’t anything in his own activities that needed to be hidden—of course, those things he wanted to keep secret wouldn’t be known to anyone—who would think the little black bird often seen flying in the sky, unafraid of the Golden Eagles, could be a transformed human!

In fact, this deputy director named Pi Zhendong hadn’t intended to hide the purpose of his visit. In the early days of his arrival, every time Yan Fei returned from the Provincial City, he would, intentionally or not, run into the guy.

Every time he saw Yan Fei, he would grin broadly, with an expression that said, "You know and I know, and we both understand."

In fact, some have analyzed for Yan Fei that he’s still young, yet his business is growing larger and larger—entering November, after another large advance payment arrived, Boss Yan made a grand gesture and released four or five hundred calves.

Counting them up, he had put out about one thousand five hundred calves in the Sancha River township. This meant that already more than seven hundred households in the township were raising cattle for him.

So it was normal for some people to feel uneasy about him, probably just watching him for a while. The person who told him this tried to suggest that he shouldn’t worry, but Yan Fei really didn’t care much about it at all.

After all, when one’s own conscience is clear, there’s no need to fear a shadow askew, and no need to overthink it.

Every day was still the usual routine: going to school, raising cattle, feeding tigers and Golden Eagles, and reading the newspaper.

Especially reading the newspaper, Boss Yan had developed a habit and simply had to read it daily, particularly enjoying the international section, which always amused him.

Since it wasn’t easy to subscribe to newspapers in the Sancha River area, he had specifically asked Guo Jingya to help him order a few newspapers from Hong Kong; and every time they came to bring the beef truck over, they would bring the newspapers with them.

With these newspapers, Yan Fei’s ’horizon’ became even broader.

There wasn’t much good news related to Yan Fei in the newspapers, and even less that could make him happy. Still, there was some, such as the mysterious disappearance events in Japan that could no longer be concealed.

Initially, the thefts only occurred on ranches, which are generally closed off, making it easy to suppress the news. But later on, as Yan Fei was pressed for time during each visit, and considering that ’collecting debts’ becomes numbing when done too much, sometimes he would just take whatever he found useful and bring it back with him.

After a few such disruptions, if Japan could still keep the news under wraps, that would indeed be a miracle.

Speaking of the items he took, they weren’t all that many, particularly since he didn’t exclusively target the big company that had offended him; it didn’t seem like much when spread out.

However, the problem was that he only aimed for the nearest little island named Aipao City, and now that these incidents had gradually been exposed, they had already caused panic locally.

To say that there was panic didn’t seem all that bad, given that Japan was currently economically developed and still had some control over its situation.

But the timing was off—now there was an economic crisis brewing, with half the continent in unrest, let alone Japan, right in the middle of the turmoil!

Some things are just helpless. The agricultural company Yan Fei had first targeted, because it was the first to suffer the mysterious thefts, was already in dire straits. In the subsequent visits by Yan Fei, he inadvertently ’took’ from the company’s ranch again.

If it were normal times, it wouldn’t matter much, but currently, during a tense economic situation, the economic crisis had been raging for a while and the entire country was on edge, caught in the sound of the wind and the cry of the stork.

In fact, since entering the 1990s, Japan’s economic situation had never been great. From the previous two years, the situation had become increasingly serious, especially this year, with a series of events leaving Japan overwhelmed.

Not to mention the minor incidents, just the major ones. First, a large insurance company went bankrupt, followed by the suicide of a well-known bank’s former chairman, and then the bankruptcy of a company managing trillions in securities—this securities company had just marked its one hundredth anniversary this year and had once been one of Japan’s big four securities firms.

There were other notable bankrupt banks and insurance companies as well as various big and small companies folding, and so on.

In this context, the company that had annoyed Yan Fei, after losing two ranches, was glad to find its internal funds severed. With no hope for external funding, the company went straight to the brink of bankruptcy.

What was worse, other companies began to ’suffer disasters’ afterward.

In economic society, everything is actually interconnected, and sometimes pulling one thing leads to a whole series of consequences.

The collapse of a large company means the smaller enterprises that depended on it had to look for other means of survival. But with the overall situation not looking good, these smaller enterprises were out of options. The domino effect at least made the overall economic situation on the island even worse.

Then South Korea’s financial crisis broke out, adding insult to injury for Japan’s finance industry already in disaster.

People often like to talk about the financial industry, saying that manufacturing can’t compete with finance. And most people prefer the financial sector over manufacturing because of the inherent advantages finance has over manufacturing in terms of capital investment, return on investment timing, and liquidity.

But no matter how prosperous the economy, there’s always one problem: industry is the foundation of finance.

So Yan Fei’s repeated meddling, although seemingly trivial in what he took, comprised wholly the work of undermining the foundation.

Take, for example, the beef jerky in his cold storage. He priced it at the regular beef value for his own ranch, which was just in the hundreds of thousands—a mere trifle.

However, if the leaders of that big company knew this price, they would definitely hang themselves on the gate of Yan Fei’s cattle ranch.

These cows were accounted for in the company’s total assets and were the foundation of the entire ranch. Based on this, the company could borrow the maximum amount from banks for expansion or use these loans for financial operations to earn profits, etc.

But now, with the cows gone from the ranch, the entire establishment was suddenly worth nothing. Coupled with the banks also being affected by the economic crisis and the public panic caused by the mysterious incidents, the company’s bankruptcy was inevitable.

In any case, in Yan Fei’s mischievous joy, the more Japan fell on hard times, the happier he was, delighting in the newspapers with a smile he couldn’t close.

While he was enjoying his merriment daily, with the passage of days, the day for Xu Xiaoyan to participate in the sports event was approaching.

For Yan Fei, this was a matter of utmost importance, and everything else had to take a back seat.