68: Chapter 68 This mission is practically a bonus! The Qin and Shen families launch a powerful siege!

"Boss, now that the mission is posted, we need some hype squad members to set the mood and make it look real." Zhou Ye sat on his swivel chair and rubbed his hands together.

Lin Zhe sat on the sofa, not replying.

Taking this as tacit consent, Zhou Ye immediately began typing away on his keyboard.

In the Extraordinary Club communication channel, which had just been forcefully cleared, several avatars lit up again.

[Queen of Hearts]: Destroying a small local enterprise? And we even have to bring them back alive? Is Sir handing out freebies?

[Cleaner]: For a job of this level, I can just send any field squad over, and they'd reduce their entire family to ashes in half a day.

[Shepherd]: A reward of one year of lifespan really makes one envious. Too bad the Xia Kingdom region isn't my turf; acting across regions would break the rules.

[Blacksmith]: Obviously, this is an introductory trial for the two newcomers in the Xia Kingdom region. Everyone, let's not fight over this piece of meat. If they can't even handle this, those two newcomers might as well be expelled directly.

When these messages appeared, Shen Changshan's breath hitched for a few seconds.

"Nianwei, did you see that!" Shen Changshan held the phone up in front of his granddaughter.

Shen Nianwei quickly scanned the lines of text, her heart skipping a beat.

The sheer confidence exuding between the lines written by these hidden powerhouses behind the scenes was immense.

The Chu family, with a market value of tens of billions, was not even a tiny puddle in their eyes.

"These overseas members don't care for this mission at all," Shen Nianwei lowered her voice.

"It's not a matter of whether they care for it or not!" Shen Changshan slapped the stone table. "This is Sir handing us a golden opportunity!"

Shen Changshan paced back and forth in the pavilion, his steps extremely rapid.

"Blacksmith is right. This is our introductory trial, but it's also a newcomer benefit! Sir restricted the mission's scope to Jiangcheng, which clearly means he's giving us a chance. One year of lifespan! If we can't grasp this, I, Shen Changshan, might as well just run headfirst into a block of tofu and end it all!"

Shen Nianwei completely understood the logic.

Indeed.

If Mr. Lin really wanted to destroy the Chu family, he could have just assigned that person named Cleaner, and a squad of mercenaries would have wrapped it up.

Or, if he acted personally to deal with the Chu family just like he did with the Wanhao Group, no one would even notice.

Yet, he chose to post it in the mission hall.

"Grandpa, I understand. For this test, our only competitor is the Qin Family." Shen Nianwei reacted extremely quickly.

"Exactly! There is only one reward slot!" Shen Changshan stopped in his tracks. "Notify the finance department immediately. Withdraw all the liquid funds we have on our books."

Shen Nianwei immediately picked up her phone.

"I'll arrange for the traders right away. As soon as the stock market opens tomorrow, we will short Changsheng Real Estate at all costs."

"Just crashing the stock isn't enough," Shen Changshan added. "Send people to cause trouble at the sales offices under the Chu family's name and blow things out of proportion. I want to deny the Chu family even a single breath of air."

At the same time.

In the main hall of the Qin Family's ancestral home.

Qin Zhenhua looked at the chat logs on the screen, laughing so hard that he began to cough violently.

Qin Tianming hurriedly stepped forward to pat his back.

"Dad, take it easy."

"I'm fine!" Qin Zhenhua pushed his son's hand away. "Tianming, take a good look. This is the scale of Sir's vision!"

Qin Tianming leaned in to take a look and gasped as well.

"These monsters think the mission is too easy and disdain to compete with us. This is a giveaway round that Sir set up specifically for us!" Qin Zhenhua stood up and paced around the main hall, looking as if he had suddenly aged backward by over a decade.

One year of lifespan.

As long as they brought down the Chu family and captured Chu Shaojie, he could live for another year.

He had previously spent a whopping three billion just to buy one year of life.

Now, he only needed to lift a finger to deal with the Chu family, who were already at the end of their rope, to gain another year of lifespan out of thin air. Such a good deal was something one couldn't find even if they searched with a lantern!

"Tianming, that old fogey from the Shen Family must have seen it too. They will absolutely play dirty." Qin Zhenhua's face glowed with health. "We cannot lose to the Shen Family. This mission reward must fall into the hands of our Qin Family."

"I'll arrange it right away." Qin Tianming immediately took out his phone. "I'll have people from the underworld keep an eye outside the Chu family's villa. As soon as the Chu family goes bankrupt and loses their protective umbrella, I'll have someone capture Chu Shaojie and bring him back to complete the job."

"What's the damn use of just watching!" Qin Zhenhua interrupted him. "Didn't that old fox Chairman Chu Changfeng borrow two billion today to buy some time? Go investigate! Find out which banks issued the loans."

"And after we find out?"

"Use our Qin Family's reputation to pressure those bank presidents and force them to recall the loans early! Whoever dares to extend the Chu family's life is making an enemy of our Qin Family!" Qin Zhenhua slapped the square table.

"This will offend those bank presidents to death," Qin Tianming expressed some concern.

"So what if we offend them! If the Qin Family hitches our wagon to Sir's massive mountain, why would we care about a few branch presidents? Only a head office president would be worth our concern!" Qin Zhenhua glared. "I will give you twenty-four hours at most to completely overturn the Chu family's foundations. If you let the Shen Family beat us to it, you can forget about being the president!"

In the second-floor study of Yunding Mansion.

Lin Zhe leaned back on the sofa and took a sip of water.

Zhou Ye switched through several screens, showing the flow of funds being mobilized by the major companies under the Shen and Qin Families.

"Boss, these two families have gone crazy. The cash flows are terrifyingly huge, and they're all transferring money into stock market brokerage accounts. Also, all the suppliers cooperating with the Chu family have been given strict ultimatums by these two families." Zhou Ye pointed at the data on the screen. "The Chu family is truly besieged on all sides now."

Lin Zhe put down his water cup.

This was the benefit of establishing the club.

He didn't need to step forward to deal with Chairman Chu Changfeng himself at all. He only needed to throw out a piece of bait, and countless people would naturally scramble to tear the Chu family to shreds.

...

At 9:30 AM.

In the penthouse office of Changsheng Real Estate.

Chairman Chu Changfeng propped his hands on the desk, staring intently at the stock market board on the wall.

Just thirty seconds after the market opened, Changsheng Real Estate's green candlestick plunged straight to the bottom.

The sell orders piled up on the limit-down board instantly surged from one million lots to eight million lots.

A tenth of its tens of billions in market value evaporated in less than a minute.

The office door was burst open.

The vice president didn't even knock, stumbling inside. He ran so fast that he even tripped on the carpet.

"Chairman Chu! Something terrible has happened!" The vice president scrambled to his feet, clutching a stack of documents, his face entirely devoid of color. "All eight of our construction projects in Jiangcheng have completely halted!"

Chairman Chu Changfeng snapped his head up.

"Who told them to stop?" Veins bulged on Chairman Chu Changfeng's forehead as he grabbed the vice president by the collar. "Didn't we just appease the materials suppliers yesterday?"

"It's not the materials suppliers." The vice president swallowed hard, his voice trembling. "It's the supply of sand, gravel, and cement that has been cut off. The three largest logistics parks in Jiangcheng issued notices at the same time this morning for vehicle maintenance, shutting down all of Changsheng's dedicated freight lines! Those trucks carrying construction materials are all stuck in the logistics parks, unable to even pass through the main gates!"