Standalone Tokyo

Chapter 275: Continue
On the evening of the second day after receiving the news, Roger, Margery and their subordinates boarded a direct flight to Paris. After about seven hours of flight, they arrived at the city at the center of the storm.

After landing, Roger and Margery did not rush to contact the Japanese branch, but went to look for three safe houses.

The two knew that the poker organization had no influence in Europe, so they decided to be self-reliant and find a safe base on their own.

Unlike Bellamy, who is a local but has no safe place to live, Roger, a former FBI director, is an old agent. He knows better than the former how to find a safe house in an unfamiliar environment...the kind that will not be visited by the police and gangsters.

Before coming to Paris, Roger used his connections in the United States to find American businessmen who had fixed properties in Paris. He then spent money to rent or buy houses from them. He did not transfer the properties, but only obtained the right to use them.

In such a situation, unless the owner of the house is desperate and dies by himself to report to the Paris Police Department or the local mafia, such a house is very safe.

After securing the three safe houses and making sure that they would not be exposed in the short term, the two officers began to gather intelligence.

As I said, knowing that the organization had little influence in Paris, Margery and Roger were prepared to be self-reliant.

To complete the mission, we must first find out what happened in Paris.

Intelligence gathering is naturally a very technical job. Coincidentally, both Margery and Roger are veterans in this field.

What Bellamy was afraid of was not a problem at all for the two cadres. They easily found the intelligence dealer and spent a little money to find out what had happened in Paris during this period.

Then the two of them combined the intelligence given to them by the organization, and they figured out what Bellamy and other Japanese executives had done in Paris, and what the shareholders' meeting that the Shiad Group was going to hold was all about.

At this point, Margery and Roger knew what they should do. There were still two days before the shareholders' meeting, which was enough time for them to do something.

Before taking action, the two used the contact information given by the boss to send several messages to the Japanese cadres, briefly explaining their own situation and action plan, and reminding the latter.

How did Bellamy react when he received the news?
He was happy at first and thought it was a good thing, but soon, after Bellamy thought things through, he fell into an unhappy mood.

The support from the United States is aimed at the European poker position that has not yet been established!
Bellamy was very unhappy, but he was powerless to interfere with this fact because no matter how he sent messages, the cadres from the United States just ignored him.

Roger and Margery carried out their activities step by step according to their plan.

In preparation for the upcoming shareholders' meeting, the Shiad Group spent a lot of money to hire many French mercenary groups. The two cadres asked people to collect intelligence and learned the names and sizes of those mercenary teams.

Hellhound, Ripper, and Jungle Hunter are three more capable mercenary groups with more than 20 members.

Roger used the funds given to him by the organization and started working.

In this world, although the exchange rates between the US dollar and the euro are slightly different, for mercenaries, both are money, and neither is more noble or more despicable.

Don't get me wrong, Rogier was not using money to bribe these three mercenary groups. On the contrary, he was using money to hire people to attack the latter.

If Bellamy could be found, the Shiyad Group would certainly be willing to spend money to hire an assassin or a skilled killer to kill people, but the problem is that the former is hiding very well.

Secondly, the three appearances of the Poker Organization in Paris, especially the third bombing of the Leib Detective Agency, were really scary.

Well-informed people and groups are not willing to mess with the poker cards, and those who don't have this ability will not be able to find where the former is hiding even if they look hard.

Because from the beginning, the searchers were looking in the wrong direction. They were searching on the scale of a dozen armed men, and ignored the countless houses in the city of Paris that could only accommodate one family.

Thanks to the Western world's pursuit of freedom and democracy, there are not many cameras in public places. Otherwise, Bellamy would not have been able to hide for almost ten days without being found.

The Shiad Group couldn't find Bellamy, but it was easy for Rogier to find the three mercenary groups because the latter were in the suburbs of Paris. With the number of people and weapons and equipment of the three groups, they could not hide.

After deducting the safe house and intelligence costs from the five million dollars, there was still about four million dollars left. Roger spent all of this money and offered a reward to the three mercenary groups through a middleman in Paris.

As long as you kill an ordinary member of the three mercenary groups and use videos, human body parts, or other personal items as evidence, you can get a reward of 50,000 US dollars.

If you can kill one of the leaders of the three mercenary groups, you can get a bounty of 200,000 US dollars. Anyone can claim the bounty, just send the evidence of the killing and the account number, and after confirmation, the money will be transferred to you, even the police can get this bounty.

In order to prevent the bounty from being insufficient, Roger and Margery discussed that they could donate their own savings, which would be enough to make up about 5 million US dollars.

If you are an ordinary worker, spending your own money to do things for the company would definitely be a very stupid thing to do.

However, the relationship between a poker organization and its cadres is not just that between a company and its employees, but more like that between a company and its small shareholders.

Cadres are entitled to share dividends.

Roger and Margery own all the dividends from the poker organization's assets in New York. Even if they do nothing for a year, they can still become millionaires by relying on the dividends.

And the most important thing is that these dividend shares can be passed on to future generations. As long as they join the poker organization after their parents retire and successfully accept their parents' subordinates and work for the organization, the dividend shares will continue to be valid.

On the contrary, if you feel that retirement is not thorough enough and you do not want to have anything to do with the organization, the organization will use cash to repurchase dividend shares and at the same time eliminate the files of the withdrawers. After that, you will have nothing to do with the organization, whether you are dead or alive.

It is precisely because of this mechanism that the two New York cadres are so motivated.

As for whether such rules will cause the poker organization to become bloated and the operating costs to become difficult to maintain in the future, that is a matter for the future, and Fujiwara Masato is not considering it now.

Once the news got out, the underworld of Paris and nearby French cities became lively, with many gangsters, mercenaries, and killers trying to make a quick buck.

You can get 50,000 US dollars for killing someone. Is this a lot of money?

Maybe not a lot, but definitely a lot.

The money that mercenaries earn is actually not as high as ordinary people imagine. Except for a small group at the top, there is no possibility for others to get rich quickly in this industry.

Therefore, getting 50,000 US dollars for killing a mercenary is very attractive to many people.

Within a short period of time, in just two days, more than a dozen small-scale gun battles broke out in the suburbs of Paris, and the Cerberus, a group of thirty mercenary groups, was wiped out by an Eastern European gang in Paris.

No one escaped, from the team leader to the lowest-level members.

Don't think that mercenaries are great. Sometimes, they may not be better than gangsters, especially those from poor and war-torn areas. The latter are very likely to be made up of deserters and bandits, and their combat effectiveness is not much worse than the former.

An internal conflict broke out among the Ripper Sabre. The leader was killed in the chaos. His own people filmed the corpse and exchanged it for money. The other members either died or ran away, disappearing on the spot.

The last jungle hunters were smarter. After they found out that they were wanted, their leader disbanded the mercenary group that day. The leader and other members fled everywhere like birds and beasts.

It’s already like this, why bother to complete the mission? The most important thing is to escape.

Even so, fifteen of the disbanded jungle hunters were killed by bounty hunters who came after hearing the news, causing Roger to lose US$750,000.

Before the shareholders' meeting of the Shiyad Group was held, the three mercenary teams that were supposed to help were gone. This frightened the small mercenary groups that had originally planned to take on the former mission and terminated the contract, or took the opportunity to increase the hiring fee and blackmail the Shiyad Group.

This made someone who was the major shareholder and part-time president of the Shiyad Group start to feel fearful.

Things are like this before they even start. Will the shareholders' meeting continue tomorrow?

No, it has to be done quickly and has to be held. If the shareholders' meeting is cancelled, the stock market will get the news and the share price of the Shiyad Group will plummet. The big players in the financial market will smell blood, so will they still be polite?

Mercenaries need extra money?

No problem, add it.

Not only that, I also spent a huge sum of money to invite the famous European mercenary group over. I want both the elite and cannon fodder. I want to use the money to ensure the smooth conduct of the shareholders' meeting. If any member of the damn poker organization dares to show up, he will be shot to death!
(End of this chapter)