Empire of Shadows

Chapter 469: I Once Sold My Life for the Company [666+16 (Bonus)]

In the morning, the Vice President strode towards Steven Jenson's office, his secretary immediately standing up.

“Vice President…”

The Vice President, as if not seeing the secretary, directly pushed open the office door. The lights were already on, and coffee was brewing in the living area.

Newspapers and breakfast were laid out on the table, but no one was using them.

Only then did he seem to notice the blonde woman behind him.

He turned to Steven's secretary and asked, "Steven hasn't arrived yet?"

The secretary forced a somewhat awkward smile, "Yes, Director Jenson hasn't arrived yet. Should I give him a call?"

The Vice President nodded, "Call him now."

The secretary returned to her desk outside the door, picked up the phone, and dialed Steven's home number.

He lived alone, having been married and divorced.

On the surface, he had no contact with his wife and children, but some senior members of the board knew the truth.

About one-third of his income was deposited into an anonymous account, which was then withdrawn and transferred in another state.

His ex-wife and children lived there.

To protect his family, he chose to divorce.

So, Steven lived alone with several dogs. In the photo frame on his desk, there was a picture of him with three dogs.

Fierce, large breeds. According to Steven himself, these dogs could take down a wild boar!

The phone rang, but no one answered. The secretary glanced at the Vice President, who said nothing. She could only let the phone continue ringing.

In Steven's villa, several dogs were circling the living room uneasily. Their master hadn't returned all night, and they were hungry!

Two minutes later, the secretary held the receiver with both hands, looking at the Vice President. "No answer. Maybe he's on his way?"

The Vice President stood there for a while, then tapped his finger twice on the secretary's desk, "Tell him to come to my office when he arrives."

The CEO contacted a senior judge to discuss the lawsuit, and the company also dispatched a new legal team to King's Port City.

They had to keep an eye on the case, after all, the huge penalty for breach of contract was hurting them badly!

Within the board of directors, some less-than-friendly voices emerged. These people believed that if they had fulfilled the grape order from King's Port City last time, they would have made a profit anyway, and wouldn't have created so much trouble!

The result was that they didn't earn more money by tearing up the agreement. Lance and his people handed the bonds to the bank, and they still paid the money to Parkway Bank at the market price.

They didn't get any benefits, and the Lance family didn't get any benefits either. A successful investment turned into an unsuccessful one. It could be said that they suffered a “lose-lose” situation!

This led to the current obviously retaliatory commercial extortion. If they hadn't done those things before, there wouldn't be the current problem.

It was not surprising that there were such voices in the board of directors. This was the result of private contact between directors and shareholders.

They wanted to use this method to force the directors and shareholders who made the decision to bear the losses.

Or bear most of the losses, for example, the chairman of the board, the CEO, the vice president, and some other people who played important roles, bear three million or even more of the four million.

And others bear a small portion.

They were no longer very hopeful about winning the lawsuit, so reducing their losses was what they should do most right now.

The President intended to show these people a lesson, and Steven was very good at this!

But what dissatisfied the Vice President was that Steven was actually late!

He returned to his office. The secretary was signing for some emails and packages. When she saw him coming, she immediately stood up, "Mr. Vice President, here are some things for you…"

The Vice President wasn't in the mood to look at these, "Bring them in."

He said, walking behind his desk and sitting down, picking up the phone, and calling the President through the internal line, talking about work matters.

When people are not so focused on one thing, they will find something else to do.

Just like…reading a book while taking a dump, so while making a phone call, he also had some small movements.

While talking to the President on the phone, he picked up a few emails on the table and looked at them.

Apart from some letters of condemnation from local agricultural committees, there was basically nothing else.

He would hand over these letters to the public relations team to handle. Of course, this was also within his scope of work.

Soon his gaze focused on the box that looked about the size of a basketball.

“…I mean, just in case, if these people want to hold a shareholders meeting to discuss this matter, it will become very passive for us.”

“We need to solve…”

The President's words echoed in his ears through the receiver, and he gradually became a little absent-minded.

He glanced at the package. There were no obvious markings on it, only a note that said, "This is a package for Mr. Vice President…from your followers!"

Steven's package?

What's inside?

He held the receiver with his shoulder, shook the package with both hands, and something seemed to be thumping inside, and the weight was unclear.

“Okay, I have other things to do. You solve the things I told you first, and we'll discuss the rest later.”, The President made the final summary of this call.

The Vice President stopped the movement in his hand, "Okay, I will stare at Steven and let him go to work when he comes. I guarantee there will be no accidents this time, talk to you later."

He hung up the phone, then picked up the scissors, cut the ribbon on it, and opened the lid.

Inside were some…white fillings, some of which were pink. He didn't quite understand this, reached in and touched it, because he had just heard that there was something inside.

Then, he touched something that might be rubber or something. It had no temperature and felt a bit gelatinous. He took it out.

Almost at the moment when that thing showed its original appearance from the filling, he suddenly cursed "Fuck" and threw the thing back in his hand, jumping up as if frightened and hiding far away!

He walked back and forth by the wall, rubbing his face with both hands, but suddenly, as if thinking of something, he smelled the palm of his right hand, and then a strong urge to vomit appeared!

While cursing, he felt nauseous. The secretary outside the door heard the movement inside and knocked on the door, poking her head in.

He took a deep breath, "Call…call the security guards, and then call the police!"

At the same time, there was also a box in front of the President, with the words "Dedicated to…Mr., your loyal followers".

He would sometimes receive these things. Looking at the decent packaging, he decided to give this follower a chance!

“I hope your loyalty and fanaticism to me can satisfy me!”

He quickly cut the ribbon, opened the box, and lifted it up, pouring it towards the table.

“Holy shit!”, the moment the thing inside appeared, he stood up, staggering backwards as if electrocuted.

The chair knocked over the bookcase behind him, shattering the glass, but his entire attention was focused on the human hand on his desk!

The door of the Chairman of the Board was also knocked on. His secretary stood at the door, holding a box in her hand, "Someone just sent this package, saying there is a way inside to solve the troubles the company is currently encountering."

The Chairman of the Board curled his lips, "Boring tricks!"

“Then I'll throw it away?”, the secretary knew what the old man meant, so she deliberately asked this question.

“Come on, you know, open it and let me see what's inside…”

A few seconds later, a curse also came from the Chairman of the Board's office. The entire company's security was activated. They began to search for packages everywhere, and five minutes later, seven or eight police cars arrived downstairs in the company.

Director Steven Jenson is dead.

Not only did he die, but he was also chopped into pieces here and there!

The New King State Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division, which specializes in major cases, is responsible for this case.

In a short period of time, nothing could be a bigger case than the dismemberment of a director of a listed company worth billions and mailing it back to the company!

The entire building was quickly locked down, more police arrived at the scene, and he also appeared in the company's conference room.

In front of him, there were three trays, containing the three pieces of corpse that triggered the alarm this time.

Two hands, one foot.

“How did you determine that this person is Steven?”

The head of the investigation section is the police chief. If he were in other places, the police chief would have been able to be the director, but here, he is only a middle-level officer in the police station.

The Vice President was still sitting there in shock. He dared not look at the remains, he could only look out the window, trying to calm his mood, "That…emerald ring, I recognize that emerald ring, it's Steven's favorite ring, he never took it off except when sleeping."

The police chief did find an emerald ring on the left hand, and the description was basically consistent with the Vice President's description.

Being able to confirm the identity of the corpse with a high probability has greatly promoted the solving of the case.

Soon, more information was gathered. Many board members had received similar body fragments, but they were missing the head and torso.

The entire company was shrouded in unease.

These fragments were quickly taken away and sent back to the police station, where they would be examined by forensic experts and pieced together.

Next was the interrogation.

The sheriff took out a pen and a notebook. "Has your company offended any powerful figures recently?"

Last month I calculated that I owed 6 chapters out of 24, and I will try to make them up as soon as possible.

Also, the competition is really good.