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Chapter 684 - 572 Blood Filled Room
Chapter 684: Chapter 572 Blood Filled Room
Servers made their way across the exquisitely embroidered carpet, expensive perfume wafted through the air, and the lighting changed from a pale hue to a warm yellow.
The musical band reserved by Aledy had arrived, taking their place on an octagonal stage in the corner of the banquet hall, and began energetically playing their string instruments and singing.
The music was melodious, yet everyone’s hearts were tense.
"I must go. The manager is calling for me," Rosa said upon seeing that the dish had been served, ready to leave the scene.
"Do you dance?" Aledy suddenly asked.
"I do," Rosa nodded.
"Go dance over there on the stage, and don’t leave," Aledy commanded.
Having no choice, Rosa walked to the stage, took off her shoes, tapped her feet lightly to the rhythm, and when the music seemed right, she slowly started to dance.
Aledy watched the song and dance while eating the prestigious food they had brought her, unrecognizable to her; she arbitrarily named them ultra-tender fish, colossal lobsters, and ultra-fresh gigantic crabs.
"Have they already brought over all the delicious food?" Aledy asked, looking toward Manager Ramali, who sat not far from her.
"Definitely," Ramali replied, eyeing the plate of Zhenpin Sumai fish in front of Aledy with envy.
Amidst the feast, Halsan received an urgent message. His stamp plantation company was under attack, people were being butchered quickly, and his villa, park, and stamp manufacturing factory had also been assaulted by unknown assailants!
He excused himself and rose from his seat, hurriedly making for the outside to handle the emergency, only to be knocked back inside by a soldier using a rifle butt at the entrance.
At the door, Halsan’s thirty-plus elite bodyguards immediately engaged in combat, but the Nestor soldiers were prepared and fired rapidly.
A barrage of gunshots rang out!
People inside the banquet hall began screaming, the music stopped instantly, and after roughly a dozen seconds, the corridor outside was strewn with the bodies of thugs and bodyguards.
Halsan looked out and saw his confidants, who had followed him for over a decade, lying dead in pools of blood. His reliable lieutenant since the start of his business was now riddled with bullet holes. Rage filled Halsan’s chest, and he roared at Aledy, "What in the world do you want to do!"
"To play," Aledy said, propping her cheek with one hand while aiming the gun in her other hand toward Halsan and pulling the trigger.
Bang!
Halsan’s leg was immediately hit, and he screamed in agony, falling to his knees. The nanobot emergency medical kit on his body, worth over a million, began working rapidly to repair the wound. He lay on the ground, groaning painfully and gasping for air, but not fatally wounded.
Others watched in stunned silence.
Halsan, the largest stamp supplier in Charo Island, a man of great prestige commanding an army of several thousand and occupying hundreds of villages, boasted over a hundred family members and acted with impunity. In the eyes of other businessmen, he was an undisputed tyrant... now felled by a single shot!
Seeing his plight, Aledy laughed.
"Let’s take a look at your resume," Aledy said as she swiped on the handheld terminal, speaking in a mocking tone, "You have traded stamps worth 52 billion in funds, adding 33 million stamp addicts to this world. Those who have tried stamps could come together and start a big company."
"Huff... huff..." Halsan panted heavily in pain.
"You enjoy rounding up those who oppose you, those who try to stop you from peddling stamps, and burning them alive with flame throwers, then capturing their families, chopping up their limbs, and throwing them into the jungle to die, and then taking their wives and daughters. You really have a taste for evil. Do you think your stamp empire is so powerful? You know, in the eyes of a real enterprise, your business is as frail as a potato farmer’s... Otherwise, why weren’t you saved by Blackfire Innovation? So powerless..."
All the others present were frozen in fear, and the accompanying singing girls began to wail, terrified of being affected by the chaos.
"It seems like everyone came to the banquet for collaboration with Nestor Corporation, right? I forgot, who was first?" Aledy rubbed her eyes.
"I’m willing to collaborate with Nestor Corporation!" a middle-aged man immediately declared and knelt down, crawling on his knees to Aledy’s side.
"Who is he?" Aledy turned to Manager Ramali beside her.
"Chairman of the largest local agricultural produce market, Mr. Gonsalez," Ramali quickly explained.
"A portion of the money you earned became the bullets of Blackfire Innovation, didn’t it? Many Nestor soldiers died because of your indirect contributions," Aledy assessed the man.
"Ah... how to explain..." Mr. Gonsalez groaned in misery, "We were forced by Blackfire Innovation as well."
"Your pledge of loyalty came way too fast, perfect score. Now tell me, what can you bring to Nestor Corporation?" Aledy turned to eat.
"I, I... I have 25 agricultural markets under my name, I can import Nestor Corporation’s food! I can help Nestor Corporation’s agricultural products to penetrate the market in Charo Island! Even reach a 100% market share!" Gonsalez shouted.
"I can become the best sugar cane supplier!"
"I own 7 electronics factories! I can manufacture goods for Nestor Corporation!"
"I want to donate 2 million to Nestor Corporation!"
"I own 2 shipping companies!"
"Insignificant entrepreneurs!" Aledy lamented, "All of you tied together could only provide over 30 billion in output. That’s less than the one lying on the ground selling stamps."
Upon hearing this, they were indeed on the verge of tears.
In terms of business scale, not to mention the small businessmen at this bloody banquet, even if all the people of Charo Island were combined, they were no match for Nestor Corporation, which dominated the Northern Archipelago!
There was a gap between Nestor Corporation and other behemoth enterprises, but compared to these ordinary businessmen in Charo Island, it was like comparing giants to dwarves!
Seeing their distressed, confused, and anxious expressions, Aledy nodded.
"Nestor Corporation will be good friends with you, but someone needs to kill that scum crawling on the ground first~ Whoever kills him, I assure you they will survive," Aledy casually remarked.
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Huang Yunxuan, upon hearing this, immediately pulled out the gun he was carrying and shot Halsan in the back of the head before anyone else could react.
"I pledge my loyalty to Nestor Corporation on behalf of the local Xia People Chamber of Commerce," Huang Yunxuan said obsequiously.
"Oh, you? You don’t matter because you will die tomorrow," Aledy said with a laugh.
"What?" Huang Yunxuan’s heart tightened.
"When the troops from Xia land tomorrow, you will be captured and taken back," Aledy said as she had the dancer Rosa pour her a drink.
"..." Huang Yunxuan frowned deeply.
"You previously colluded with Black Fire Innovation to kill countless Xia businessmen, and your blood debts have yet to be settled. They’ll probably hang you from a tree and beat you to death tomorrow," Aledy said with a laugh.
"I am well aware that as soon as Kyushu High Pavilion or Heavenly Cardinal Manufacturing lands, I would have no chance of survival. That’s why I didn’t run off in disguise but came to see you, brazenly requesting the Nestor Corporation’s protection. Black Fire Innovation is treacherous, and Xia’s massive corporations are insatiable in their greed. Only Nestor Corporation will dominate the Eastern Hemisphere in the future," Huang Yunxuan said solemnly.
Afterward, he looked at Aledy earnestly, his expression sincere and resolute.
Aledy shot him in the leg, and it was Huang Yunxuan’s turn to lie on the ground screaming, next to the body of Halsan, whose eyes were still wide open in death.
"An ant trying to provoke a fight with an elephant!" Aledy mocked, "Finding and crushing you is too easy for us or for Xia."
The surviving businessmen looked toward the last person of status among them, Pragya from the Southern Territory Rubber Company.
His face was tense, almost desperate, as he sat frozen in his seat.
"Stop looking at him. With Black Fire Innovation pulling out, the Southern Region will also fall under Xia’s control. Why else would they have fought with Black Fire Innovation? Right now, his company is probably being forcefully taken over," Aledy said with disdain.
For the other surviving businessmen, this was perhaps the most despairing banquet in history.
The small business owners and merchants of Charo Island were completely crushed, and now they clearly understood their place.
Aside from Aledy, who continued to listen to music, watch dancing, and eat, everyone else was wrought with anxiety. The small merchant group of Charo Island had been wiped out, living in constant dread.
After eating her fill, Aledy took Rosa with her.
"Hotel Witch, what’s your Magic Power?" Aledy inquired as she looked at her.
"Since birth, my Magic Power has been nullified," Rosa said softly.
"A chip?"
"A chip and drugs," Rosa pointed first to her forehead and then to her heart. Her status as a Witch had only granted her eternal beauty and figure.
"If you stay here, you’ll just be a piece of meat to be slept with. I’ll buy you from the manager and take you to live at the Nestor Headquarters," Aledy walked out.
"Yes!" Rosa felt a surge of joy in her heart. Could it be that even a life that resembled a nightmare could come to an end?
Outside the door, the hotel manager Kabalin was at a loss for words.
He had never imagined that the banquet would end like this, with Aledy playing with others like toys, completely disregarding them.
Kabalin was overwhelmed with emotions and clueless about how to report to his superiors.
"You... there must be no killing in the Junyue Hotel..." Kabalin looked at Aledy, struggling to say a single sentence.
"The stamp dealer wasn’t killed by me," Aledy replied innocently, "it was Huang Yunxuan who fired the shot."
"But you can’t shoot either..."
"Those thugs attacked first. Our people were just defending themselves," Aledy emphasized.
"Ah!" That was the only way Kabalin could explain it to his superiors.
"Thanks for the hospitality. Watching trash twitch on the floor is one of life’s great pleasures," Aledy waved her hand and then pointed to Rosa behind her. "How much for her life?"
Kabalin pained to see the hotel’s headline Witch being taken away.
But then he thought, Black Fire Innovation had been expelled; no longer would they have to share the hotel’s profits with the arms dealers. The Qinwang Fortress was destroyed too, so there was no fear of Black Fire troops continuing to use Charo Island as a base.
Halsan, the stamp dealer who had poisoned Charo Island for twenty years and caused countless families to be shattered and lives lost, was dead. The addicts on the streets would be forced to leave Charo Island and look elsewhere for their ’stamps,’ significantly improving the public safety.
Looking at the situation, with the Southern Territory Rubber Company being acquired and Xia’s troops moving in, Xia’s businessmen would feel safe investing in Charo Island without fear of being harvested by Black Fire Innovation after growing big.
With these new investments and development projects, Charo Island was set for a renewal. The barriers hindering the normal life of Charo Island residents were being swept away one after another. Despite Aledy’s playful and frivolous methods, they were meaningful.
On this celebratory day, why should he be upset over a slave Witch?
"It’s a gift to your company," Kabalin hurriedly said.
After all, to rear a Witch stripped of her Magic Circuit cost very little.
"Well then, the fish was delicious. Send some over," Aledy said as she took the delighted Rosa away from the hotel.
The next morning, Xu Yang sent a message to Aledy.
"Charo Island’s small and medium-sized companies are scrambling to work with us. Do you have any idea why?"
"How would I know!" Aledy replied.
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