Ethan's journey to find his team members went very smoothly.
In other words, it was a little too smooth.
He found computer masters and guys with great energy all at once.
Then he just boasted about the other party's invasion of the NATO headquarters information network, and the other party's mouth immediately became more difficult to suppress than AK.
Then he stated the goal this time and said that the challenge was more difficult than last time. The computer expert immediately agreed to participate in this operation.
Another guy, although he said he was extremely unwilling to participate at the beginning, he immediately agreed when he learned that the information about the theft in this operation had been reserved by a buyer in advance, and his personal share was very high.
After identifying the team members, Ethan and others naturally started an action plan.
Ethan didn't know whether it was to prevent Zhang Pin from participating in the operation and possibly stealing information, or whether he was really not needed. Anyway, Zhang Pin was not arranged for the final response.
Zhang Pin, who did not participate in the action, was not idle either.
Because he received an invitation to a cocktail party.
The inviter was not America's company, but the company from Xiaozhi.
They did not invite Sir Zhang at the beginning. This company cooperates with the Bridge Bank, and Sir Zhang is one of the shareholders of the Bank.
After Chen Tianqiao learned that Zhang Pin was in Luoji Mountain, he forwarded the invitation to him.
The reason why Sir Zhang became a shareholder of Daqiao Bank is of course because he has deposited a lot of money in Daqiao Bank over the years.
He usually used the money sparingly, and slowly turned it into shares of the Bridge Bank.
Regarding this invitation to the banquet, Sir Zhang originally did not want to attend, but the people from Xiaoben had very sinister intentions. The other party said that this banquet was their annual meeting and they would invite many popular stars from Xiaoben.
Come and perform.
After the performance, these stars will also accompany the distinguished guests of their companies.
Sir Zhang doesn't care if popular actors are not actors, but Bridge Bank has just loaned a sum of money to this group. Naturally, he, as a shareholder of the bank, needs to inspect the qualifications of this group.
By the way, this company is called Zhongfu Group.
The banquet was held at the Fox Building.
A plane from New York to Luojishan is about to land at the airport.
He has an ordinary appearance, with no muscle lines on his body. On the contrary, he is a bit overworked and fat, but his temperament is tough and a bit rough.
But at this moment, the strong man was obviously a little nervous, especially when he saw that the plane had landed. His left hand, which was wearing a wedding ring, was tightly grasping the seat rail, and his breathing became rapid.
His nervousness naturally attracted the attention of the man riding next to him.
The other party was dressed as a business elite and was obviously not surprised by this situation. He smiled kindly and then took the initiative to strike up a conversation with the man.
"You don't like flying, do you?"
"Why do you think so?"
The tough man obviously has a strong personality. At this moment, his first reaction is not to answer, but to startle the other person instead.
"Do you want to know how to survive a flight?"
The elite man smiled knowingly at the strong man's show of strength, then took the initiative to ignore the topic and instead talked to the other party about ways to relieve tension.
"After you get off the plane, you should take off your shoes and walk around. It's best to curl your toes into a fist shape, so that you won't be so nervous when you get on a plane next time."
"Curl your toes into fists?"
The tough man was obviously confused about what the other party said.
"It sounds a little crazy, but you have to believe it is true, because this is an experience trip that I gained after nine years of flying. It is much better than other things like taking a bath or drinking coffee."
"Okay, although I'm a little nervous, thank you anyway. My name is John."
Although a tough man has a strong personality, he is not the kind of person who can't tell a good guy from a bad guy.
So he naturally felt that the other party had good intentions.
Just at this time, the plane stopped, so John got up to get his luggage from the luggage rack above.
When the elite man heard John's thanks, he smiled and was about to respond politely. When he looked up, he saw the pistol carried under John's arm. This made his originally elegant face suddenly turn pale. What he wanted to say was,
I couldn't say anything at this time.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen. I'm the police!"
John's eyes were very keen, and he naturally discovered the reason for the change in the elite man's expression.
After hearing John's words, the elite man forced a smile on his face, but did not speak.
"Believe me, I've been a police officer for eleven years!"
John smiled and replied to the elite man, then hugged a huge brown stuffed toy, looked at the space, and got off the plane smoothly.
John was not actually nervous about flying.
John works for the New York Police Department. He is strong in business and has a bad temper. He is a headache for his bosses and colleagues. He can be regarded as an enhanced version of Luojishan Carter.
What troubles him is not his career, but his family.
John's wife, Holly, was originally just an ordinary employee, but over the years, foreign capital has conquered America.
Especially since the 1980s, small consortiums have been waving their money and clamoring to buy out the entire America. Naturally, they have expanded their business here.
Holly has always had a good eye for marriage, and she took a fancy to John as a potential stock in her marriage.
The two have had a pair of children over the years.
In her career, she also decisively joined Xiaobenzi’s company when it first entered America.
In fact, the development was the same as her choice. The small business she joined was barely stable in America, and because Holly joined early, she was naturally promoted to become a group executive.
Originally, if they developed normally, John and Holly would definitely be typical examples of achieving double success in life and career.
But the reality is often far from satisfactory.
Because although there are certain differences between relationship management and partnership business, they are actually very similar.
When John has been unable to get promoted in the police station for many years due to his bad temper, while Holly has been promoted step by step in the America branch of Zhongfu Group and reached the ranks of senior executives, the original small family began to shine brightly.
lamp.
Especially since Holly was transferred from New York to Luojishan six months ago due to work reasons, and she brought her two children with her. Later, for the convenience of work, Holly took it upon herself to change the two children to her own surname.
From then on, their marriage seemed to be coming to an end.
This time coincided with the annual meeting held by Holly's company in America. Holly changed her past habit of never inviting John to get to know her colleagues in order to avoid looking down on married women in her childhood, and abnormally extended an invitation to John.
After receiving this invitation, John judged based on his more than ten years of experience as a police officer that the reason why Holly allowed herself to appear in front of colleagues and leaders of the other company so generously this time was obviously not to repair the relationship with him.
More likely, the other person wants to completely end their long marriage.
John had already been mentally prepared for divorcing Holly.
But when he thought that after divorcing Holly, the two children no longer belonged to him, and it would be difficult to even get visitation rights in the future, John was so nervous that his body trembled.
Obviously he is not willing to give up this marriage.
"Mr. John?"
John got off the plane with a headache, but a black man stood in front of him.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Argyle! Mr. Aoki asked me to pick you up."
Holly's status in Zhongfu Group seemed to be good. When she learned that John was coming, Aoki, the head of the America branch of Zhongfu Group, specially arranged a luxury car to pick him up.
On the way, the black boy Argyle also noticed John's discomfort, and the other party went out of his way to comfort him, but unfortunately the effect was obviously ineffective.
"Hey, sir, why don't I wait for you in the underground garage, so that even if you are not used to staying at banquets, there will still be a car to take you to the destination you want to go to. Otherwise, this place will not be so easy to get to.
Get to the car."
Argyle is obviously an enthusiastic young man.
After knowing that there was a problem in the relationship between John and his wife, and that this trip might even be for divorce, he decided to help John within his ability.
"Thanks!"
John nodded. He looked down at his plaid shirt and old jacket. It was indeed incompatible with the banquet of suits and leather shoes or gorgeous dresses.
Argyle obviously saw this and felt that he would be uncomfortable at the banquet.
However, things were somewhat different from what Argyle expected.
Following the guidance from the front desk, John took the elevator to the 31st floor where the banquet was located.
The elevator opened, and there happened to be two Asians standing at the entrance of the elevator chatting.
Zhongfu Group is a small company. Although due to America's bill and the level of xenophobia, most of the executives and employees of the America branch are Americans, the presence of oriental faces is naturally indispensable.
"Mr. Zhang"
John heard that the white-haired Asian seemed to want to say something to the young and handsome Asian.
"Hello Mr. Aoki, I'm just taking a walk, you can entertain your friends first."
However, because of John's appearance, the young Asian interrupted the white-haired Asian.
"Hey, you are Officer John McClain. I am Aoki. That car is okay. I believe Holly has told you about me."
Seeing John appear, Aoki recognized him at a glance.
As the person in charge of the group in America, Aoki is one of the few insiders in the group who knows that Holly is married and has a son and a daughter.
Due to customs, Xiaobenzi has always advocated that as soon as a woman gets married, she must quit her job and stay at home to support her husband and raise children.
Even when I come to America, it seems that it is no longer the same as in China due to cultural customs, laws and regulations and other issues.
But in actual performance, in the companies controlled or established by Xiaorili, although there are many female employees among the employees due to America's regulations, there are very few women among the company's senior executives, especially those who have already
Married women with children.
Holly is among the very few.
It was precisely in order to avoid unnecessary trouble and distress that Holly hid John's existence from other colleagues and even changed the child's surname.
"You arranged it very well, thank you very much."
John naturally knew Qingmu. Although this trip to Luoji Mountain did not have a good result, John did not take his anger out on Qingmu.
Even though he guessed that Holly chose to divorce him and might have been influenced by Aoki, he still tried his best to maintain his grace.
"This is the best I can do."
Aoki does seem to be personable. The guy in his childhood is not too bad at simple etiquette. He can be regarded as a model of paying attention to small things and observing small etiquette but lacking in great virtues.
"This building is also very beautiful."
John was not interested in Aoki's polite words, but since the other party invited him to the banquet this time, of course he also wanted to praise him.
"It will be even more beautiful when it is completed. There are still some floors that are not finished yet. Please follow me. Holly happens to have some work and she will return to the banquet soon."
Aoki actually had no intention of chatting too much with John either.
He has another important guest to receive tonight.
It’s different from the situation in the 1980s when people just waved their money and entered America’s scenery.
Since the Plaza Accord, America's wealth has been harvested in one fell swoop.
And as the economy was harvested, small-life companies like Zhongfu Group, which had started business operations in America, began to have a hard time in America.
In order to maintain the development of the company, these companies naturally began to seek some external funding support.
They obviously also know that if they directly introduce America's funds, it will be no different from inviting a wolf into the house.
I don’t know how many large companies and groups have invested huge amounts of money in this area, and finally learned a lesson of blood and tears.
In order not to fall into this trap, Zhongfu Group chose capital other than America.
In the end, we hit it off with the Bridge Bank on Hong Kong Island and borrowed a large amount of funds from the Bank using the company's shares.
Originally, the people of Zhongfu Group had a good idea. Anyway, America and Hong Kong Island are separated by the Pacific Ocean.
When the time comes for them to mess around casually, Daqiao Bank will definitely be thrown around by them, and the money will become a piece of meat to beat the dog. I guarantee it will never come back.
Like this time, for the annual meeting held by their branch in America, Aoki followed the rules and sent an invitation to Chen Tianqiao of Ohashi Bank.
Originally, based on past experience, it was absolutely impossible for anyone from the other party to participate in something like this.
After all, it was just an internal banquet, and there was nothing major going on during it, so it was not worth the trouble.
As a result, who knows, this time the Bridge Bank did not know whether it received some rumors or for other reasons, but a shareholder actually participated.
And this shareholder is quite famous.
The distance between Xiaoli and Hong Kong Island is not far. Especially in the past few years, many advantageous industries on Hong Kong Island have also achieved good results in Xiaoli.
Coupled with some other exchanges between the two parties, the news between the two parties is not closed.
Not to mention that Sir Zhang himself has been there in his childhood. It is naturally impossible for a large consortium like Zhongfu Group to not know Zhang Pin's reputation.
Aoki was caught off guard by Zhang Pin's appearance, and because of this, he was actually frightened to death at this moment.
Because tonight's banquet is not just a simple banquet, there is also Aoki's other plan in it.
At this moment, he couldn't care about John and Holly's affairs at all. He just wanted to quickly find an opportunity to contact the group of people he invited before and ask them to postpone their actions for a while.
But Aoki didn't know that the development of the situation at this moment was no longer under his control.
