Chapter 358: Disappearing Permanently

Once the extras were settled, the main event was about to begin.

A few days later, Frank spent his own money to host a banquet for those wealthy individuals from Japan.

"Hey, everyone, I've relayed your requests to my friend. He is very interested in this and has formed an inspection team with an investment firm to come over," Frank said to the wealthy individuals with a face full of smiles.

One of the wealthy individuals said with some concern: "Frank, I don't mean to question you, but is this investment firm really reliable?"

Frank smiled and said: "My friend, you don't need to worry about that at all. It's the internet age now; everything can be looked up. And I believe that with your status, investigating an investment firm shouldn't be a difficult task, right?"

Hearing Frank's words, many of the wealthy individuals set their minds at ease.

Then, someone else asked: "But which sector does this investment firm invest in?"

"It seems to be in medical equipment, but once they arrive, you can look into the details yourselves. As I said, everyone can think it over before investing," Frank said very sincerely.

Yet, little did they know, whenever Frank put on this expression, it meant someone was about to be unlucky.

Although after saying this, Frank did not interject again for the rest of the time.

But there was still the equally formidable Cao Weicai.

Although Cao Weicai was not good at lying, as a former fund manager, he was very skilled at painting a rosy picture.

He directly showed these Japanese wealthy individuals deposit slips, such as deposit slips from major institutions like Guofu Bank, Merrill Lynch, and so on, as well as some past records, all of which demonstrated his reliability.

However, it was not as if no one questioned him: "Mr. Cao, since you say your investment fund is so reliable, why aren't there other large investment banks cooperating with you?"

This question was also one that many Japanese wealthy individuals wanted to ask.

After all, without a large company backing them, he always felt uneasy.

Facing this situation, Cao Weicai had long been prepared and directly brought out the cooperation documents from Citibank.

This thing belonged to Chen Jiajun before; bringing it out now to bluff people was not bad.

Seeing that there was Citibank backing them, these Japanese wealthy individuals all felt relieved.

Subsequently, Cao Weicai began his performance.

First, he boasted about how high the investment returns were, focusing on that medical equipment company of Dr. Marvin.

These were not fake; Dr. Marvin's medical equipment company, as he constantly appeared in public, declared his research projects to the media.

He even published his research results in The Lancet.

Although Dr. Marvin's project failed, it was not a scam; his research project had results, it just couldn't be replicated on a large scale.

Therefore, under the support of both sides, the stock price of Dr. Marvin's company continued to climb.

The investment return rate once reached the terrifying level of 79%.

"I have heard of this medical equipment company in the United States; I didn't expect you to have actually obtained an entry ticket," a rather knowledgeable Japanese wealthy individual said with a surprised look.

Cao Weicai said reservedly: "If we didn't have some means, how would we dare to come to Japan to absorb investments?"

Hearing Cao Weicai's words, these Japanese wealthy individuals nodded one after another.

Watching their expressions, Cao Weicai struck while the iron was hot and continued: "I can't guarantee anything else, but I can still call the shots on an annual investment return rate of 25%. It just depends on whether everyone is willing to co-invest."

"Are you sure it's investing in this 'Blood and Detection' company?" the Japanese wealthy individuals confirmed once more.

After all, the momentum of this company was really quite good, growing at 25% in market value every year.

And this was still with Dr. Marvin not having put his research results into clinical trials; otherwise, the stock price would likely have surged even more.

Cao Weicai smiled and said: "Of course, this can be written into the contract."

"Good. I'm in. Ten million US dollars," the very knowledgeable wealthy individual said, clapping his hands immediately.

With the first person as an example, other wealthy individuals immediately followed suit to invest.

The remaining ones cautiously said to Cao Weicai: "I heard from Mr. Frank that your company also accepts some fixed assets as investment?"

Cao Weicai nodded and said: "That's right, fixed assets can be used for physical investment, but the procedures are a bit troublesome. First, the items must be sent to an asset management company for appraisal, and then the asset management company will allocate funds for investment."

Hearing Cao Weicai's string of explanations, mosquito-coil eyes appeared in the eyes of many wealthy individuals.

But fortunately, they heard Cao Weicai's last sentence clearly: he could handle it entirely by proxy.

At this, several wealthy individuals immediately felt relieved and prepared to use their own physical assets to invest.

The two sides talked for several hours and finally reached an agreement.

Those who invested cash directly signed the contract on the spot, while those who intended to invest with physical assets would have to wait a while, needing to wait until the people from the appraisal company and the asset management company arrived.

After a busy day, Cao Weicai and Frank finally had the energy to catch their breath.

After seeing these wealthy individuals off, Frank smiled and said: "I didn't expect you to be so good at lying, too."

Cao Weicai pushed up his glasses and said: "No, this isn't lying; it's just finance. Because we are legal."

Frank curled his lips: "Isn't it the same thing? Have you already found the appraiser?"

Cao Weicai nodded: "The Big Boss contacted a professional auction house over there and hired a team of experts to come over; we don't need to worry about this."

"Hahaha, there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world; these Japanese runts are going to be unlucky," Frank laughed quite wickedly: "When it all blows up, I wonder how many people will jump off buildings."

Like Cao Weicai, Frank had no good feelings toward the Japanese, which was why he could strike so ruthlessly.

Cao Weicai sneered and said: "Who told them to be Japanese? Anyway, it's making money; whose money is it if not theirs? Besides, ordinary people can't participate in this level of investment."

"Yes, yes, yes, what you said makes a lot of sense. We are pitting those damn capitalists," Frank nodded repeatedly, putting his arm around Cao Weicai's shoulder and saying: "For that remark of yours, I've decided, how about we go for a drink in a bit?"

At this moment, in another room of the hotel.

The extras who came to Japan with Cao Weicai were gathered here.

It wasn't that Cao Weicai was stingy and didn't book separate rooms for them, but they seemed to have something they intended to discuss.

"Hey, guys, you all heard clearly before, right?" the leader of the extras, a guy with inverted triangle eyes, said to the group.

The others nodded and chimed in: "Good grief, an investment of ten million dollars right off the bat; it scared me so much I didn't dare to speak."

"Damn it, these Japanese runts are really rich."

"What kind of money? Isn't it just sucking blood from our United States?"

Everyone said a word or two, and they immediately started discussing the net worth of these Japanese wealthy individuals.

The triangular-eyed man tapped the table and said, "Stop chatting for a moment, let's talk business."

The group stopped and looked at the triangular-eyed man with surprised expressions, saying, "Huh? What business?"

The triangular-eyed man said with a greedy look, "It's obvious that this Cao is a swindler; they want to scam money from those Japan runts."

The group remained confused, not understanding what he meant.

The triangular-eyed man grew anxious and said directly, "They scam millions and tens of millions at a time; don't you think the fifty thousand we got is too little?"

Hearing the triangular-eyed man's words, the group finally reacted.

"That's right. Damn it, we're involved too, why should they only give us fifty thousand?"

"Exactly, this is fucking unfair."

"Yeah, we need to go find that guy and ask for more money."

But at this moment, the triangular-eyed man blocked the group and said, "Are you idiots? These guys are out here scamming people; they must be craftier than monkeys. If you go find them like this, they might not only refuse to pay, but also plot against us."

Hearing the triangular-eyed man say this, the group couldn't help but nod.

Then, an extra asked, "Then what should we do? Are we just going to let it go like this?"

The triangular-eyed man sneered and said, "Of course we can't just let it go. After this matter is finished, we'll find an excuse to stay behind and say we're sightseeing. Once these scammers give us the money, we'll go find those wealthy men."

"Tell them we have important information, squeeze another sum out of those Japan wealthy men, and then sell these scammers out to them while we're at it."

Hearing the triangular-eyed man's words, the group's eyes lit up: "This is a good plan. We get money twice in one go; there's definitely profit to be made. Plus, since we helped these wealthy men recover so much in losses, asking them for a few hundred thousand shouldn't be a problem."

The triangular-eyed man nodded: "Exactly, that's the logic. What does everyone think?"

"Let's do it."

"Count me in."

"Scammer's money, it'd be a waste not to take it."

"Exactly, a scammer getting scammed—just thinking about it is exciting."

Just as the triangular-eyed man and the others were having their pipe dreams, inside the hotel room next door.

Cao Weicai and Frank were both wearing monitoring headphones.

And the targets of the monitoring were the triangular-eyed man and his group.

After they finished speaking, Cao Weicai put down the headphones with an ugly expression, gritting his teeth as he said, "These white-skinned Gweilo, they really are fucking damned. They took our money and still thought about double-crossing us."

Cao Weicai still felt a lingering fear looking back; he hadn't expected these damn extras to be so bold. If it weren't for Frank's reminder, they might have been in big trouble this time.

Japan is easy enough to deal with, but how should he explain it to the Big Boss?

Frank waved his hand to comfort Cao Weicai, saying, "You haven't spent time in the underbelly of the United States, so it's normal that you don't know the character of these scumbags."

"Phew, thank you so much, Frank." Cao Weicai bumped fists with Frank.

Frank smiled and said, "I am curious about one thing, though. These guys know we're scammers, so how do they think they can scam us? In your Huaxia terms, it's like 'wielding a broadsword in front of Guan Gong,' right?"

Cao Weicai looked at Frank and said, "What should we do with these guys?"

"Normally, I'd have an interest in toying with these guys to see what kind of expression they'd have when they fail to steal the chicken and lose the rice, but since I'm working for the Boss now, I think it's better to be simple and brutal." Although Frank had a smile on his face, his eyes were cold.

Cao Weicai was silent for a moment, then nodded and took out his phone to dial a number.

This number was given to him by Chen Jiajun, who said that if he encountered trouble in Japan, he could call him for help.

"Hello, who is this?"

A hoarse voice came from the other end of the line.

Cao Weicai said, "Shanjige, the Big Boss told me that if I have any trouble in Japan, I can call you."

"What is it?" Shanjie paused for a moment, then said.

Cao Weicai gritted his teeth and said, "There are a few people who aren't very obedient; I need them to disappear."

Shanjie asked again, "Temporarily or permanently?"

Cao Weicai said viciously, "Permanently. If these people are left alive, it might affect the Big Boss's plan. And it needs to be done discreetly."

"Fine, send me their photos." Shanjie hung up the phone directly after saying that.

After finishing the call, Cao Weicai acted as if nothing had happened, called the extras out, and went to a Restaurant to eat.

These extras, led by the triangular-eyed man, were all harboring evil intentions, unaware that Cao Weicai had already developed the intent to kill them.

After dinner, Cao Weicai called them over, used the excuse of needing to make identification documents to take photos of them, and then gave them a sum of money to go out and have fun.

The extras didn't notice a thing; hearing there was such a good deal, they were all incredibly happy.

After all, the largest red-light district in Asia is in Japan.

Watching these guys happily take the money and go out to fool around, a cold smile appeared on the corner of Cao Weicai's mouth.

He then handed the developed photos to his assistant to send to Shanjie, and also told him the location of these extras.

The following matters were no longer Cao Weicai's concern.

He needed to go revise the subsequent plans with Frank to drag more wealthy men of the Japan nation into the water. (End of chapter)