Chapter 504: Quietly Expanding (Part I)

Sanford Weir, this name is very ordinary, but it is also very unusual, whether you are standing on the street of any city in the world, you say this name to an ordinary person, 99% of people will look at you with a confused face, who is this person?

But if you stand in a certain group and say this name, there will definitely be a lot of people who will tell you who this person really is!

As the chairman of Citibank, Sanford Weir has stepped down as CEO, mainly because his age is no longer allowed, and Sanford, who is 84 years old this year, has suffered from some geriatric diseases that most old people will have, which is inevitable.

Whether it is him or any great man in history, time will not give them special favor, and everyone will face the final result, which is death.

Sanford has been a successful financial person all his life, a politician, a capitalist, and the shopping mall is sometimes more terrible than the battlefield, Sanford has been able to go all the way from many financial consortia to today, leading Citigroup to today's position, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has experienced a sea of corpses and blood.

Like such a person, he may have taken death very lightly, he has his own offspring, family, so he can also face this matter very calmly. Although the desire for power, money, etc. is extremely nostalgic, but no matter how nostalgic you are, you can't resist time, you can't resist death.

But in the dead of night, when he thinks that with his death, you will lose consciousness, lose everything, you will not even have the right to dream, and the whole person will disappear into this world, and your body will be buried in the earth with the coffin, or simply cremated into a handful of ashes first.

You will be completely reduced to dust and no longer exist, no matter how glorious and dazzling you are in front of you, after you die, at most you will be buried in a different place.

When he didn't think about this, Sanford had a heartfelt fear that it had nothing to do with a person's status, experience, or rights. It is an instinctive fear that comes from the face of death.

Of course, everyone is scared in the dead of night, but when the day dawns, everyone still goes their own way. If nothing ever changes.

But all this was broken by the simplest beef jerky! Indeed, Sanford never imagined that such an unwell-made, even somewhat rough beef jerky would arouse his great interest, and of course he would not admit that so much interest came from another meaning of the food itself.

His body is a little obese, and at this age, his blood lipids, blood sugar, and blood pressure are all a little high, and there are even some embolisms in his head.

Originally, these were ordinary at his age of 84, but what he didn't expect was that when this kind of beef jerky appeared in his sight by coincidence, it would usher in a partial turnaround.

To be honest, he can't eat meat anymore, the cholesterol is too high, and it's not good for his body, but this kind of beef **** can be eaten, not only that, the unique energy contained in this beef jerky and some of its own nutrients are actually very beneficial to the human body.

For example, his blood vessels have softened a lot compared to before, embolism has shown some signs of reduction, and blood sugar and blood lipids are decreasing, although the magnitude is not large, only the most advanced machines can detect these small changes, but these no longer show the magic of these beef.

In the end, after finding out the source of these beef, Sanford simply found many people in his circle who had the same problem as him, so everyone entrusted Zhao Chen.

They didn't spread the news, because they didn't know how much such beef there was, although the other party was so extravagant that it was used to make beef jerky and sold it to many ordinary tourists, although they also asked someone to buy a considerable part of it, but the quantity was not too large, and these beef jerky, which was only bought for more than twenty dollars and 500 grams, flew over a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers and was delivered to them on an expensive special plane that far exceeded their value.

It wasn't until Howles passed the news to Sanford that he breathed a sigh of relief, the other party knew what this beef was for, although it was a bit unexpected for them, but he was also very satisfied, because he had no other ideas, his idea was simple, let himself live a little longer, that's all.

The desire to survive was not very strong, but because of the sudden appearance of beef, it exploded in an instant.

When he learned from Hals, although Zhao Chen did not agree to become a member of the Citi consortium and did not join the Citi consortium, he told them that there were other ways to eat this beef, and that was enough.

Inform Howles to come back, Sanford is also relieved, his body can still hold on, although he is 84 years old, but it is not a problem to live two more years, so he still has a chance.

"Old Will, there is your courier that you need to sign for." Sanford remembered a not very old voice in his phone, this was the voice of the baby software he had set up, and the voice came from a good friend of his, a good friend who had passed away.

"Express? I? Sanford was slightly stunned, when did he need to sign for the delivery? And he hadn't bought anything, and even if he had, it wouldn't have been mailed to him. But now his smart assistant prompts him to have a courier signature, how is this possible?

"Yes, a courier from headquarters." His smart program tells him exactly where the delivery came from.

Sanford was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized, at this time, a butler walked into the hall and said respectfully: "Mr. Sanford, there is a courier who insists on saying that there is your courier, and you need to sign for it in person, saying that it is your belongings." ”

"Yes, let him in." Sanford had been reminded by his assistant, and immediately said happily, although he didn't know what it was, but it seemed that Howles had just left China, right? No, Howles hasn't even taken a flight out of China at this point in time, and he has a courier here?

The old butler was a little surprised, but he didn't say anything, but immediately turned and walked out, and in less than ten minutes, a young man of about twenty-five or sixteen years old walked in quickly, he was wearing very ordinary overalls, and the black uniform was somewhat like that of most courier companies.

It's just that there are four Chinese characters written on his overalls, and one line in English: Thunder Express.

Whether it's Chinese or English, Sanford knows it, and he understands this meaning, but when did there be such a courier company?

But he didn't bother, the young man walked directly in front of him, and then directly opened a box in his hand, revealing a safe, and the top of the safe was an LCD screen.

At this time, Sanford's mobile phone assistant spoke again: "Old Will, I received a message from the Digital Storm Headquarters, do you receive it?" ”

"Receive." Sanford said dryly.

"Yes, the message is played directly, Mr. Sanford Weir, you are now invited to join the Thunder, if you want, please allow your personal intelligent assistant to upload your personal fingerprints, pupils and other related data, after the upload is successful, please use your fingerprints to open the box in front of you, if you refuse, please let the box return by itself, after refusing once, there is a chance to regret it, after two refusals, you are not allowed to join the Thunder for life."

A crisp female voice came out of it, and it was impossible to tell who it was by listening to the voice, but the information inside was a little inexplicable, but Sanford understood that this thing definitely had a lot to do with Zhao Chen.

Thinking of what Mansions said, Sanford probably understood what it meant, "Old Mike, upload my personal data. Sanford said directly.

"Old Will, I must remind you that although this is the highest-level data upload invitation from Digital Storm Company, if you upload it, it will still cause your personal confidential information to be leaked, please confirm it again." Sanford's personal assistant asked again.

"I'll confirm, old Will upload it." Sanford smiled slightly, and said very dryly, these data may be important, but in fact they are not that important, and Digital Storm has no use for it in reality.

"The information has been uploaded, and the countdown is expected to be 10 seconds, 10 ......." When the countdown was over, Sanford immediately looked up at the young man and said, "Can I put my hand on this?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Sanford, please put your hand on this LCD screen and look at this LCD screen at the same time." The young man smiled directly, bent down slightly and said respectfully.

Sanford immediately did so, and when the data was entered, the box in front of him immediately opened, and the contents were simple, only two things, a black, unidentified crystal card, with a unique number on it, the number was 18 digits, the first 8 digits were the same, and there were numbers and numbers at the back.

But after the middle letters, the last digits, A0001. Sanford looked at this series of numbers a little unclear, but this card starts, the cold material is a bit like pure crystal, but such a crystal clear black crystal doesn't seem to be an ordinary substance, right?

In addition to this card, there was also a ring, Sanford took out this ring, it seemed that the size of the ring matched his finger, Sanford tried, only on his left and right index finger or ring finger, it was inlaid with an unknown white transparent crystal, not like a diamond.

Because this crystal looks like it was naturally generated. At this time, the crisp female voice he had just heard sounded in this box: "Mr. Sanford, when you open this box means that you have chosen to join Thunder, the card is one of your identification, and the ring will be the most important proof of your membership, if it is lost, please be sure to report it to Thunder, and it will be remade for you." Please ask your smart assistant to scan that card. ”