Chapter 549: 545. Rich Man! (Please subscribe and vote for monthly tickets!)

Zhang Ran took out his mobile phone and made a call; he had originally thought that if he could avoid making this call, he would, as he did not want to involve his family in these troubles.

But it was very clear that not making it this time would not work.

"Hello, who is this?" An aged voice came from the other end.

"Hyena?" Zhang Ran asked.

"It is me." The reply from the other side was also very concise.

"Didn't you tell me back then that Whale was already dead? How has the Whale Shark Organization appeared again?" Zhang Ran asked.

The person on the other end was clearly stunned upon hearing this; the Whale Shark Organization had reappeared for over twenty years, so why ask this question?

However, very quickly, the person on the other end seemed to think of something, and their tone was somewhat agitated as they said: "Rich Man?"

Zhang Ran said calmly: "It is me."

"I thought you had died long ago; I didn't expect you to actually appear again." The tone on the other end held an indescribable complexity.

Zhang Ran said: "I didn't pay a single cent less than the agreed amount back then, but haven't you been acting a bit dishonorably?"

"Rich Man, you saw the footage back then; Whale was indeed dead. As for why the Whale Shark Organization has resurfaced, I am not very clear on that either. I have been out of this circle for many years," Hyena said in a deep voice.

"I don't care whether you've retired or not, but you owe me an explanation. I want to know the current situation of this Whale Shark Organization," Zhang Ran said.

After a long silence on the other end, the person finally said: "Fine, consider this after-sales service."

"Mm." After saying this, Zhang Ran hung up the phone, immediately threw away the SIM card he had just inserted, and switched back to his own.

He Yong had prepared many such SIM cards and carried them with him at all times, just for emergencies.

"Brother Zhang, do you think this Whale Shark Organization is related to the one from back then?" He Yong asked.

Zhang Ran said: "I don't want to admit it either, but I have an intuition that this should be the same Whale Shark Organization from back then, only I don't know how he managed it."

As he spoke, Zhang Ran looked out the window, his gaze deep.

Back then, Zhang Ran had always been very law-abiding in Huaxia, but it was not like that when he was abroad.

Of course, the main reason was that the environment and circumstances back then did not allow him to be law-abiding.

There would always be people coveting vast wealth, especially when it belonged to a Huaxia person at that time who had such vast wealth, no support, and no background.

That Zhang Ran was able to keep so much wealth, and even increase it, was not by relying on kindness, nor by what he said, but by genuinely using his own methods to prove that he could possess this wealth.

"Starting from today, increase the number of bodyguards around Sicheng and the others," Zhang Ran said.

He Yong nodded, indicating he understood.

Zhang Sicheng and Zhang Siyan had actually always had bodyguards around them; this was something Zhang Ran had started doing ever since Zhang Siyan encountered danger last time.

It was just that they had never discovered it, or perhaps they had, but didn't say anything.

Not just them, even when the two little ones went to school, there were people guarding the perimeter of the school, only it was done very covertly.

Returning home, Zhang Ran did not show anything, still acting as he had before, doing what needed to be done.

Meanwhile, in the secret base of Whale Shark.

Whale stared fixedly at a photograph, muttering to himself: "This must be you, it must be you, you have finally appeared again, Rich Man!"

He had been looking at this photo for several days, and he had been constantly muttering these words.

And the figure in this photo was exactly Zhang Ran from his interview on CCTV!

Whale took out an old photograph; on it were two brothers who looked exactly the same.

"Little brother, don't worry, I will definitely avenge you, definitely," Whale said.

Ever since he suffered annihilation last time, Whale had been hiding, and even after resurfacing, he did not dare to use the name Whale Shark again.

But when his strength accumulated to a certain point, he began to restore the name Whale Shark.

He knew that doing this would immediately make him a target, but he was not afraid; his only goal was to lure the Rich Man out.

He believed that if the Rich Man knew that Whale Shark had resurfaced, he would never let him go, and he was waiting for the Rich Man.

But he was disappointed; for twenty years, the Rich Man seemed to have disappeared from this world, without the slightest movement.

He had searched countless times, but still could not find any trace.

It was as if the person known as the Rich Man had never appeared in this world at all.

Now he understood; if the person in the photo in front of him was the Rich Man, then everything could be explained.

"Hahaha, I have finally waited for you," Whale laughed wildly, his laughter filled with hatred; he would never forget that moment.

Whale was only using this method to convince himself that this person was the Rich Man; in truth, deep in his heart, he still dared not be certain.

However, very quickly, he became certain.

"Boss, the person we were told to keep an eye on has started asking about our information," a subordinate came to report.

"Are you sure?" Whale stood up with a start, his tone very agitated.

"Yes, I am sure."

"It must be the Rich Man who asked him to inquire, it must be," Whale began to mutter to himself again.

The subordinates were somewhat accustomed to seeing their boss like this; that their boss was a lunatic was a consensus among them all.

But this did not hinder them from working under a lunatic; among those who did the things they did, who wasn't a lunatic?

"Has anything happened in Huaxia recently? Regarding our side?" Although Whale was a lunatic and was crazy about wanting revenge, he still dared not provoke a wealthy tycoon casually.

Before confirming that this person was the Rich Man, he still needed to be a bit cautious.

"It seems there really is; just yesterday, news came from below that one of our channels in Huaxia was cut off and people were caught," the subordinate thought for a moment and said.

Now Whale was one hundred percent sure that this person was the Rich Man; otherwise, everything was too coincidental, so coincidental that it was hard to believe.

Whale was very agitated, but at this moment he became calm instead; he waved his hand to dismiss the subordinate, and he began to think about how to lure the Rich Man out.

As long as the Rich Man was in Huaxia, he could not take his revenge and could only watch, so he had to lure the Rich Man out.

But what method should he use?

With the Rich Man's cautious personality, even if he knew that he was the Whale who hadn't died back then, he would not easily come out.

At worst, I'll just spend some money to find someone to deal with him; anyway, if a Rich Man has nothing else, he certainly has plenty of money.

Slowly, Whale saw Zhang Ran's information, and a plan formed in his heart—no, not a plan, but something to tell the Rich Man plainly.

Whale was also very clear that when it came to playing with schemes and tricks, he was far behind the Rich Man.

PS: There is one more chapter coming later!