Mercenary’s War
Chapter 1315: One Thousand Two Hundred Ninety-Eight: I'll Take Care of Him

Chapter 1315: Chapter One Thousand Two Hundred Ninety-Eight: I’ll Take Care of Him

Gao Yang’s face was already pale, but after being frightened by Morgan, there wasn’t a trace of blood left.

The fear lingered. Although it was indeed a passive choice, Morgan wasn’t wrong. As long as only Austria was on edge, it wasn’t too much of a problem, but now even the European Union’s rapid reaction mechanism was triggered. This was indeed serious.

The ski resort they visited was just a mountain away from Italy to the south, not far to the west was Switzerland, and just over a hundred kilometers north was Germany. They had hijacked a helicopter, and could go to any country they chose. If the casualty count wasn’t so high, or the people who died weren’t so important, there might not have been such a big reaction. But the victims were significant figures, and over a hundred people were dead. If this couldn’t spur these countries to action, they’d have truly fallen into chaos.

It was fortunate that the Austrian police hadn’t realized how severe the situation was at first. Although the air force was deployed, they didn’t shoot down Gao Yang and his group’s helicopter. If they had been frightened in Austria and then encountered the air force’s fighter jets, the outcome would have been unpredictable.

Thanks to Eileen’s father, although Gao Yang didn’t know what he did, he genuinely saved their lives. And thanks to Morgan, who threw a lot of money around, they managed to find a way out of Germany.

“How did you do it? It must have been tough, right?”

Morgan, looking annoyed, said, “Nonsense, do you think something like this could possibly be easy? The European Union is in an uproar. Who would dare send you out of the EU? I was out of options and offered 20 million USD per person! Nobody took it. Then I raised it to 40 million USD per person! Only to handle the five of you injured, eventually someone agreed to bring you back! The uninjured ones were easy, but you injured folks drew too much attention. You were placed in special insulated compartments mixed with cheese and wine shipments and then flown to America by cargo plane.”

Gao Yang stuck his tongue out slightly and said softly, “Just from the method of transportation, you can tell how challenging the process was.”

Morgan waved his hand and said impatiently, “You’re all back now, it’s pointless to talk about this. Let’s discuss something serious. A lot of money was spent this time, but it’s nothing to me because it was your money.”

Gao Yang gave a wry smile and said, “I didn’t even know I had that much money.”

Morgan said solemnly, “The situation is complicated now, so I decided to sell a batch of diamonds, netting us 260 million USD. Honestly, if I dared to release many diamonds at once, we could have sold 500 million!”

Gao Yang clicked his tongue and said, “That much?”

Morgan exhaled and said seriously, “Honestly, now I’m a bit scared. Our diamond mine is such a huge treasure, I’m starting to doubt if we can still own it.”

With a slight wave of his hand, Morgan said in a deep voice, “If Depp Group can’t handle it, we’ll have to liquidate all the extracted diamonds and quickly sell the diamond mine. I’m still negotiating with Depp Group’s CEO. They offered 2 billion, and with 2 billion from us, they would give up the diamond mine and keep our secret. Otherwise, they would make the secret public, ending things badly for everyone. We’re stalling now, and they’re still hopeful, but our time is running out. We must resolve this as quickly as possible.”

Gao Yang frowned and said, “2 billion, isn’t that too much?”

Morgan shook his hand and said, “This isn’t about the amount of money. Even if they asked for 200 million dollars, we couldn’t accept their terms. What use is an agreement without any enforceability if they turn around and sell the information after taking the money? What would we do then?”

Gao Yang raised his hand in a throat-slitting gesture and said in a deep voice, “Can’t we take him out? I refuse to believe he’s not afraid of death.”

Morgan shook his head and said, “No, how do we know how many people are privy to this information? Just the CEO of Depp Group? Or all the top executives? How do we know what backup plans they have? That’s not a solution.”

“Then what do we do? Is there no other way?”

Morgan sighed and said, “Oh the greed of man! Actually, I initially planned to sell the mine, split a billion or so between the two of us, and be done with it. You discovered the diamond mine, I did nothing, and I’d be content with acquiring several million dollars out of nowhere. But now it’s different. When I realized we had a mega-treasure worth tens or even hundreds of billions, I couldn’t just sell it. Why partner with others? Partnering would be worse than selling outright. Such wealth is dangerous; anyone with control can crush us like ants. And collaborating with powers we don’t have to worry about consuming us? Ha, we might as well manage it ourselves.”

After speaking, Morgan rubbed his forehead helplessly and said, “You know, I can’t even sleep well now. I’m worried that when I wake up, the diamond mine will be taken away, or Depp Group will leak the news. How long has it been? The diamond mine has already created several million dollars of wealth for us. This money feels like it’s fallen from the sky, and I’m now terrified of losing it.

Currently, we’re mining diamonds worth several million US dollars every day, but we can’t sell them in excess. The market is limited. If suddenly an unexplained source of diamonds floods in, I’m worried it will attract attention. However, mining one more day means one more day’s earnings, so I have to increase the mining volume while delaying time as much as possible. Even if the secret can’t be kept, it’s still our money gained.”

Gao Yang pondered for a moment and asked, “How much time do we have left? I mean, how long can we drag out the negotiations with Depp Group?”

Morgan thought for a while, then shook his head and said, “We can’t drag it out any longer. Depp Group demands a one-time payment of 5 billion, and I reached 2 billion. Now they request a one-time payment. I proposed paying 1 billion per year, which has delayed things for a while. The focus of the negotiation now is how many years to pay off the 2 billion dollars. They don’t want to lose a large sum of income, but they’re losing patience. I think the limit is at most two months!”

Gao Yang said in a deep voice, “The crux is Depp Group’s boss, right? Give me a month, wait until I’m fully recovered, and I’ll deal with this person.”

Morgan shook his head and said, “You can’t, I told you, this problem can’t be solved by violence.”

Gao Yang smiled and said softly, “This time it’s different. This time, I have professional people to handle this. We indeed can’t kill him, but we can scare him, force him to choose between life and wealth, and if his own life isn’t enough to make him yield, we’ll involve his family, everything he cherishes. Anyway, he will make a wise decision.”

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