Chapter 416, Digging the Foot of the Wall and Active Spy
Remus-Byrne's story is not complicated, and under Alice's various targeted and detailed interrogations, he quickly explained the details of the steel tongs pinching the little Tintin. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoA mysterious stalker is suddenly welcomed to the architectural design office in the middle of the night, and this kind of topic is more interesting than any story, not to mention that the other party's question is directly related to the audience itself.
"So, you didn't see the woman's face from beginning to end?"
Remus-Byrne replied honestly, "yes, I don't know how she broke into the company." As you know, our design office is not a large company with high secrets, and at most it relies on probes in the public hallways. However, the director found the property staff afterwards, but did not find any clues from the video. ”
"Oh, that's a lot of fun. Turning her head to look at the enchanting night sky outside the window, Alice said in a long voice: "Could it be that woman who would sneak in through the window with a hook gun?" Wow, not to mention the feasibility of this James Bond Fan approach, you can't be unaware, right?"
Alice actually already has a score in her heart, after all, there have been so many things in the past few days, how can it be possible to say that she can't guess the target person. But since he is a former victim, the design institute will definitely have some investigation into this woman, and someone should just listen to it and be prepared.
"In fact, it's really possible to perceive ...... No. Since the secret in his heart was seen through by the owner, of course Bourne would not hide anything, and he was very embarrassed, he said honestly: "You also know the strength of our firm, and you also know how much area you have rented in that entire office building. So, there are a lot of empty offices that the woman can break into, after all, we do have a lot of materials to store, and functional storage rooms alone are not enough. ”
This is the characteristic of an elite company, the number of people does not need to be particularly large, but the performance is definitely not bad, obviously renting an office at a high price in a skyscraper in the CBD of the City of London, but it can also use a large office with good lighting as a data storage room. Alice is somewhat gloating about this, otherwise how can it be said that Xiu'en loves to die quickly, and the extravagant behavior of Foster Design for many years can be regarded as retribution for them today.
"Understand," she said, "so the woman knocked you unconscious, and then stole my blueprint all the way?"
"Yes...... I think so. Byrne's embarrassment was no longer ordinary, and he even wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Our director also wants to inform you, but we have checked the building's surveillance and have not found the woman." It was night, there was almost no one in the hallway, Payne in the archives was sleeping, and I couldn't see the woman directly, so ......"
"So this matter can only be put to rest for the time being, your director wants to suppress the matter first, and then have to poke it out when something really happens...... Isn't that what it is? ”
The sweat on Bourne's forehead was already flowing downward, and he was obviously more face-saving, and while lowering his voice, he didn't forget to look around. Fortunately, this flight was a night flight after all, and few passengers in the business class had the leisure to eavesdrop, and even an elderly man had already fallen asleep.
"Miss Wang, today's incident ......"
"It's a bit of a hassle to deal with...... Alice sat quite calmly, trying not to laugh too proudly, for she knew that she had caught Remus-Byrne's little life by accident. The boss asked the employees not to leak secrets for the time being, but who would have thought that the protagonist of the incident would actually meet by chance on the plane, and Bourne would show his stuff because of his weak heart?
"Miss Wang......"
"Theoretically, I could take your company to court right now. And then you're going to lose the case anyway, and even though you're one of the top senior designers in the institute, it's hard to say that you won't be fired. ”
"Wang, Wang, Miss Wang......"
"But I'm not that unreasonable. You've just designed the blueprint for my research institute in Exeter, and I must admit that while I came up with the idea for the whole building, it's you who paint the whole picture in one stroke, and it's quite a masterpiece. If I really sue you and cause you to be fired, although it can't be regarded as unloading the mill and killing the donkey, it is too unreasonable...... Right?"
"Whew...... Miss Wang, I'm glad you think so. Byrne hurriedly wiped the last of his sweat.
"So, I have a compromise here. Alice had the urge to laugh at the thief, but in order to keep the ugly face of the evil capitalist, she still tried her best to keep a straight face.
Byrne asked cautiously, "What way?"
"How about you resign from Foster from now on and work exclusively for me?"
The answer was not shocking and endless, which made Remus-Byrne stunned fiercely.
"Resign, and then work exclusively for you? Miss Wang, you, you, you...... What do you mean by that?"
Byrne was completely confused, and he couldn't imagine that the famous Silicon Valley entrepreneur could do anything for himself. If she wants to profit from her own mistakes, all Alice Wang can do is to take the design firm to court and make a fortune on the grounds that the other party has lost customer information. But now, what she proposed is to let herself resign and follow her, what kind of mess is this?
"Well, to put it simply, I'm also planning to go in the direction of real estate. Alice said: "It's not just about speculating on the price difference, it's about investing in real estate construction on a large scale. In a process like this, if I can have a great architectural design team, I will definitely save a lot of time and money, right?"
So it was, and Byrne understood right away.
Among the three types of industries, the service industry is of course the one with the highest output value, and the profit rate of the knowledge-based industry is infinitely high. Architectural design, fashion design, graphic design, corporate identity and logo design are the most typical examples. The high profit margin of the industry naturally means that the proportion of customers spending "unjustly money" is also increasing, and Bourne, as an industry insider, really can't understand it.
Of course, Alice knows this all too well.
Think of the newly built World Trade Center after the 911 incident, just a logo, a letter "W" composed of several black skyscrapers, and it was actually asked by the firm for more than 3 million US dollars!
Is there any worse wronged money than this?
Alice is rich, but she's not a fat sheep.
Now Cisco has gone public, Microsoft's is also selling well, Oscar & Hannah in Chinese mainland is also developing well, and the companies in which she has invested are regularly feeding themselves. Only some really inconspicuous poor creatures, such as a certain EA game company and a certain funny PS company, are almost completely ignored by her.
But in any case, coupled with the round of fishing during the "87 stock market crash", Alice has hundreds of millions of dollars in personal cash that can be mobilized at any time. If you count the share of Japanese real estate that you don't want to get rid of, it is not worth much at the moment, and the cash you can grasp on hand alone is as high as two billion US dollars!
It can be said that if she contacts Forbes magazine now and shakes out all the capital in hand, at least half of Silicon Valley will be shocked.
Furthermore, the concept of two billion dollars naturally means that she has too many large projects on the agenda.
Take real estate, for example.
"My mother just called this morning, and she told me about Oscar, my brother's dream, the Stark Building, or something. ”
"There's a saying I often say to my family, and that's that there's no need, we can create it ourselves," she said to Byrne slowly. You just asked me if you want to rent out a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles or use it for yourself, right?"
Byrne nodded slowly, "Looks like you're going to use it for yourself?"
Alice smiled and nodded, "Exactly." ”
The conversation didn't attract much attention from the crowd, because it was late at night, and the passengers either started to take a nap early or entertained themselves, and no one cared what the other passengers were doing. The same can be said for Alice, who stopped talking to Remus-Byrne and started doing something she loved when the timeline of the plane had only passed an hour and a half.
For example, a certain gentleman left a business card for himself a few days ago.
Alice forgave Forster's office for its negligence, but that doesn't mean she'll ignore everything related to the female spy. It was now clear that the Draken business representative was indeed interested in her institute, but it wasn't on the list to infiltrate the investigation. So this also means that Alice has plenty of time and energy to conduct a counter-investigation.
Mr. Anderson, whose office is in Rome, is clearly in league with Miss Spy, but Alice's preliminary investigation of him has not yielded much from him. So now it seems that I can also make appropriate use of the previous encounter in the party and get in touch with him a little?
"Wealthy German businessmen who have companies in Italy don't see anything worth paying attention to on the surface. Alice looked at the modest business card and fell into deep thought, and she certainly hadn't forgotten what she had heard when she sneaked into the man's study on the night of the party. But the question is, what is hidden behind the ambiguous three or two sentences of dialogue between this man and the bodyguard?
"If you find a programmer with that algorithm, you can do everything, and you can write code that I can't even understand in an instant, how can this kind of master be spared?"
Smiling softly and looking out the window at the night, Alice put away her business card again. (To be continued.) )