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Chapter 299 - 299 299 The Tragedy of the Xu Family!

299: Chapter 299: The Tragedy of the Xu Family!

299: Chapter 299: The Tragedy of the Xu Family!

The atmosphere turned frosty.

Wu Jie sighed inwardly, resting his hands behind his head.

Tang Xiao had indeed taken good care of him.

Whether it was making Wang Kun pay a hefty sum in apology, earning his first pot of gold, or negotiating Wang Taixiong’s acquisition deal to get a huge commission.

Tang Xiao didn’t pocket a single cent, and at tonight’s party, she had given Wu Jie plenty of face.

She clung to him like a little bird, their fingers interlocked.

Beyond showing off their love, she even presented the charity foundation as a joint establishment.

If it weren’t for Tang Xiao bringing him to attend the party, and not taking the stage to speak…

How could he have had the opportunity to earn energy points so wildly?

One must repay kindness!

Perhaps Tang Xiao was paying back Wu Jie’s “life-saving grace” in her own way.

“When will you open up and fall in love with me, sis?”

As he pondered this, Wu Jie fell asleep too.

…

Not far from the hotel, the lights at Xu Family Mansion were blazing bright.

Mu En had been lost in the crowd, after getting on the crowded subway, and amidst the sea of people, it was unknown where he had gotten off.

In the vast Liuli City, with its population of twenty or thirty million, how easy could it be to find him?

Luckily, after the initial payment of fifty million was made, Mu En released the first hostage.

It was the wife of Xu Jiahao, the fourth youngest!

She was dumped near a dimly lit suburban bus station, pushed out of a car.

Her hands and feet were bound, a wad of cotton stuffed in her mouth, her eyes covered with a black cloth, and a piece of paper with Xu Jiahao’s phone number was pasted on her body.

A sanitation worker found her and made a call for Xu Jiahao to send someone to retrieve her.

The woman was settled downstairs, but knew nothing.

She had no clue where she had been held, how many hostages there were, or what had happened after being knocked out.

The situation was too grave.

Xu Kuishan had summoned close relatives who were intimately connected with him to the Xu Family Mansion.

After taking stock, it was confirmed that several people were missing and had been kidnapped, including:

Xu Kuishan’s pregnant junior wife, and the nanny who was looking after her as she prepared for childbirth.

Xu Anyong’s university-student eldest daughter, and his beautiful secretary, with whom he shared many secrets intimately.

Xu Linming’s twin daughters, and his wife who was suspected of cheating on him.

Xu Jiahao’s well-behaved young daughter who had just started elementary school.

Even if one disregarded Xu Kuishan’s nanny, Xu Anyong’s secretary, and the wife bold enough to cuckold Xu Linming.

There were still five very important hostages remaining.

One o’clock in the morning.

This time after making the payment, everyone was fixated on their phones.

Because they didn’t know whose person would be released.

Minutes later, Xu Kuishan’s phone rang.

He hurriedly answered; it was a call from a park security guard.

It wasn’t his pregnant junior wife who was released, but a dispensable nanny!

Damn it!

Xu Kuishan was fuming mad, but still had to quickly send someone to retrieve her.

Maybe, just maybe, this nanny knew something, considering he had spent fifty million!

Before long.

The nanny was brought back to the mansion, and just like Xu Jiahao’s wife, she was clueless about everything.

The hostage release location had no surveillance, no eyewitnesses.

Mu En wasn’t answering calls, completely cutting off any communication or location tracking.

The only agreement between the two parties was to make a payment every two hours and release one hostage.

So…

Should they try not paying?

As soon as Xu Feng made this suggestion, he was met with a barrage of angry rebukes.

There were still seven hostages in Mu En’s hands.

If no payment was made, what would happen if he really butchered one and cut them into pieces?

Mu En clearly knew the Xu brothers’ Achilles’ heel, having kidnapped those they cared about dearly.

Therefore, the four Xu brothers didn’t dare to take the risk.

Over the years, the Xu Family had amassed astonishing wealth.

Even if they redeemed the remaining seven, the cost would only be three hundred and fifty million in total.

For the Xu Family, this wouldn’t cause significant damage.

The only real hassle was that they didn’t have that much money in their overseas accounts and had to cooperate with many money changers and smugglers.

They provided these intermediaries with money from their domestic accounts to be transferred via their overseas accounts.

Although the service fee was substantial, there was no longer any concern about it.

However…

Mu En’s goal was not only money; he also sought to strike back in retaliation.

Xu Kuishan and his brothers assembled too many people, guarding the Xu Family Mansion.

As one side rose, the other fell; naturally, their many venues were now short-staffed.

Mu En sent quite a few people to deliberately cause trouble and attract public attention.

Even the legitimate businesses of the Xu Family, including real estate, finance, and media companies, were vandalized at night.

Mu En was collecting ransom and releasing hostages on the one hand, and on the other, he ordered sabotage.

An open attack is easy to dodge, but a hidden one is hard to guard against!

Liuli City’s Xu Family had many industries, widely spread, and they had made a fortune in normal times.

Now they were maliciously sabotaged, exposing a shortage of manpower.

In order to not suffer even worse harm from Mu En, Xu Kuishan had no choice but to divert a group of people from the Xu Family Mansion.

He quickly ordered that all nightclubs close, everyone to be on high alert, and to watch out for sabotage by Mu En.

At daybreak.

The latest hostage to be released was one of Xu Linming’s twin daughters.

However, the release location was now nearly a hundred kilometers away from Liuli City, in a small county town.

If no further Xu Family industries were attacked, didn’t that mean that Mu En had already taken the hostages out of Liuli City?

Before nine o’clock.

Xu Kuishan transferred money again.

Indeed, this time the location where the hostage was released was even farther away.

Two hundred kilometers from Liuli City, and in completely opposite directions from the previous location, to the east and west of Liuli City.

The locations where hostages were released kept getting farther and more remote.

Before noon, the released hostage was surprisingly abandoned in a pigsty belonging to a farmer.

And the location was already in another province.

This time, they had left the sphere of influence of the Xu Family of Liuli City, making the capture of Mu En even more difficult.

The most important thing was.

Xu Kuishan received intelligence that before Mu En came to Liuli City, he had entrusted his second uncle, Mu Jun, with liquidating the family wealth and transferring assets.

He had converted the accumulated family business into cash, and after splitting some between friends and loyal subordinates, Mu En took the vast majority out of the country.

To make matters worse, the man had already fled the country yet still managed to extort a ransom of fifty million Gold Coins for each released hostage!

It was as if they were treating the Xu Family as an ATM.

At dusk.

The last hostage was released.

From a bridge hundreds of kilometers away from Liuli City, they were thrown into a truck’s carriage carrying foam.

The driver didn’t even see who it was, but following instructions on a note, he called Xu Kuishan, who promptly paid the driver.

He asked the driver to take good care of his pregnant wife and immediately sent people to take the high-speed train to pick her up.

As of now!

All hostages had been released, but where Mu En had gone abroad was unknown.

And the most infuriating thing for the Xu Family happened in the dead of night.

The hostages brought back began to report feeling unwell one after another, so Xu Kuishan simply sent them all to the hospital for an examination.

Around four in the morning.

The examination reports came out, and all of them were poisoned with no cure available.

Xu Kuishan was so angry he spat blood, and Xu Anyong passed out…

All the members of the Xu Family were driven into a frenzy, overwhelmed with fury.

The clever Mu En had used a capsule form of poison.

During the hostages’ unconsciousness, he forcibly fed them specially made capsules.

After entering the stomach, they would take a long time to slowly dissolve.

Therefore, when each hostage was brought back, they appeared normal, and physical examinations didn’t reveal any issues.

Once the capsules dissolved and ruptured, and the poison entered the body, only then did symptoms of poisoning appear.

Cruelly ruthless!!

Although he hadn’t managed to kill Xu Feng, he had caused the many industries of the Xu Family in Liuli City to suffer greatly, condemned nine of the Xu Family to an incurable, agonizing death, and extorted four hundred and fifty million Gold Coins from them!

Methodically planned!

Malicious at heart!

Cunning and treacherous!

His deeds are utterly condemnable!

The domineering and powerful Xu Family of Liuli City had truly been devastated by Mu En this time.

And for Xu Jiahao, things just went from bad to worse.

Taking advantage of the Xu Family’s chaos, Wu Jie not only took Bai Fengling’s father away but also intended to help Bai Fengling breach her contract and switch companies.

If he could have secured a hefty compensation for the contract breach, it wouldn’t have been so bad, but what made him sick to his stomach was that last night his company was ruthlessly burned down in an arson attack by Mu En.

The damn contract was burnt to ashes.

Now, how was he to negotiate with Wu Jie?