Section 196 Consequences of Kidnapping [I]
Qin Lang, Yi Shui, and Elizabeth were sitting around the dining table, chatting while drinking coffee, while waiting for the maid to bring dinner, when Rachel walked into the dining room, but instead of sitting down, she walked to Qin Lang's side and placed a newspaper in front of him. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info "Did you make it happen?" She asked.
Qin Lang glanced at the newspaper casually, and the huge news headline on the front page seemed a little sensational: "Toxic chemical leak, hundreds of people poured into the hospital for treatment". He raised an eyebrow. "Mr. Fisborne is really going to cause me trouble."
"So, that's exactly what you asked Fisborne to do...... Hell, what the hell! Rachel was annoyed, "How do you get him to deliver lab scrap during the day?" She almost fainted when she first read the newspaper - a toxic leak, and even if it was an accident, if the public knew who those things belonged to, the image of the whole company would inevitably suffer.
Of course, Qin Lang and Yi Shui's personal images will definitely be completely ruined, and if they are unlucky, one of them will have to face prosecution. Although she didn't care about Qin Lang, she cared about Yi Shui and didn't want him to get into any trouble; And Elizabeth, and Rachel doesn't want her to get into trouble: someone knows her role in the company, and this accident will put her in a very awkward position.
Things were so bad that she scolded loudly, "And I really don't know why you're putting the security department in charge of transporting the scrap, Qin." Don't you know they've never done anything like that......"
"Calm down, Rachel." Qin Lang gently tapped on the table. Although the voice was not loud, his request was as valid as ever. Rachel pulled out a chair and sat down, while he continued, "I didn't send Fisborne out on the street to cause a chemical spill, I just had him kidnap a Japanese spy." β
"You just let them kidnap Japanese spies?" She will be skeptical, "Does the kidnapping of a Japanese spy require a few barrels of chemicals to be dumped on the street?" β
"It depends on Fisborne's plan." He shrugged, "Obviously, he overlooked some very important issues. β
"He's going to be ...... Stupidity? Or crazy ......"
"Wait!" Yi Shui suddenly interjected, he was obviously confused by the conversation between Qin Lang and Rachel - of course, he hadn't heard anything about the Japanese spies. "Can anyone tell me what's going on? Japanese spies? What does this mean? Could it be that there are Japanese spies in the company? He asked several questions in quick succession, anxious to figure out the situation.
Elizabeth, who was browsing the report, also looked up curiously. "You made Fisborne create a kidnapping, Qin?"
"This is Qin Lang's usual style, isn't it, my dear?" Rachel smiled at Yi Shui as an answer to Elizabeth's question, but Yi Shui hadn't gotten the answers he needed yet.
He asked, "What the hell is the matter with Japanese spies?" β
"I'll explain to you separately in a moment." Now is not the time to talk about Japanese spies, and as for the kidnapping, in fact, no one here will keep it at all, not even Elizabeth. Although there are not many illegal activities that Qin Lang secretly conducts, there are some, kidnapping, which is just a trivial matter.
And he had Fisborne kidnap not a good law-abiding citizen, but a spy - in any country, foreign spies are not protected by law, let alone human rights, and can be attacked by any means - and it is always easy to convince himself of a certain fact, and excuses can always be found.
But Rachel was concerned about the barrels of highly toxic chemicals that Fisborne had dumped on the street. At first, when she thought it was an accident, she was already very worried about the harm they might bring, but now, the accident has become a deliberate conspiracy, and the level of trouble has increased by orders of magnitude. "This matter must be kept strictly secret," her eyebrows almost twisted, "and if the truth is known to the public, we will all be in big trouble." β
"As long as no one is holding a newspaper and shouting loudly, the public will not know the truth." Qin Lang tactfully reproached. He worries more about the negative consequences of things than she does: others will only lose their image, but as the chairman of the company, and as a Chinese, he is in trouble several times greater.
What is certain, though, is that no one sitting in this restaurant will reveal secrets, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and the danger lies with Fisborne.
"I will seriously discuss his actions with Mr. Fisborne."
"I'll go to the lab and check it out to see what they've gotten." Elizabeth put down the newspaper, "Based on the description in the news, I don't feel like those buckets are highly toxic waste from my lab. She hesitated, then added, "I don't think it's like toxic waste." β
"Better they weren't," Rachel muttered, then shook his head, "but it doesn't make much sense, panic has already been generated." β
The situation is actually much worse than she said. Panic is not only growing, but it is spreading rapidly, and a variety of subjective and objective factors are complicating the situation.
One of the most basic problems is that the vast majority of people love their lives, so no one likes to be exposed to toxic things unless they have toβdespite the fact that many people are exposed to highly toxic substances on a daily basis, and the air and water in every industrial city are heavily polluted. No one mentions these problems, but it's because no one knows that the items they are exposed to are poisonous or that they are suffering from some kind of poison, not because they don't care.
Now the situation is the opposite, everyone knows that the chemicals leaked in the morning accident are so toxic that one hapless Chinese faints on the spot, and hundreds of people go to the hospital for examination under the doctor's warning - this is enough to cause people to worry; Even if the results of the examination show that no one has been poisoned, out of instinctive skepticism, this worry will not lessen for some time.
Then, as with any similar event, the richness of the human imagination comes into play, and rumors emerge automatically, and spread everywhere, while constantly distorting and finally completely deviating from the truth; The exaggerated reports concocted by the tabloid reporters under their own whims also played a role. Driven by both forces, anxiety grows and then panics.
Even so, of course, the situation has not completely deteriorated, as long as the municipality, the police and the hospital issue an announcement indicating that the leaked chemical is not highly toxic...... But sadly, this is not possible. Municipalities, police and hospitals are not yet able to draw conclusions on what exactly the leaked chemical is and whether it is highly toxic, and certainly cannot make an announcement.
To make matters worse, the police in San Diego also took the wrong action by blocking the street where the accident occurred. In the eyes of onlookers, this practice is tantamount to declaring that what has been leaked is indeed highly toxic, and therefore ...... Yes, more and more San Diego residents are starting to panic.
The situation has completely deteriorated.
Of course, there are other factors, such as the fact that some citizens who live near the place of the accident and who "seem" to smell a foul smell happen - or not, depending on the angle of view - have a cold, or some other illness that has a sudden attack and has to go to the hospital for examination......
First of all, the citizens themselves will feel that this is a sign of poisoning, then their neighbors and other citizens who hear the news will involuntarily think so, and finally, due to the backward medical technology of this era, the doctor will also think that the patient is indeed poisoned if he happens not to be able to detect the cause.
As a result, the panic is spreading, more and more citizens are flocking to hospitals for check-ups, the public's mood and social situation are getting worse and worse, and the chemical spill caused by Mr. Fisborne is turning into a small public crisis.
At least that's the trend.
However, Mr. Fisborne and his men do not yet know the consequences of their abductions. All day, they were busy dodging possible mass police searches, driving horse-drawn wagons aimlessly around desert areas near the border. And by the time they finally stopped this boring move and went to the beach to rendezvous with the "Agile", it was already the middle of the night.
Since this is the case, there is only one consequence: seeing Qin Lang and Yi Shui on the boat, Fisborne and his men are all very surprised.
"Mr. Qin, why are you on the boat?"
"Because of your actions, Mr. Fisborne." Qin Lang snorted, "Now the city of San Diego is about to be in chaos. β
"How is that possible?" Fisborne and the agents shouted. Together, they looked at the mummy-like Japanese spy in disbelief. "How is this guy possibly going to have the police all over the city search for him?"
Qin Lang had a straight face, as if he was not ready to speak, so everyone turned their eyes to Yi Shui. He sighed. "It's not this Japanese spy who is causing trouble, it's the chemical waste you dump on the streets. Now at least a thousand people think they have been poisoned. β
For a moment, Fisborne and the agents just opened their mouths wide, but couldn't say anything. It wasn't until nearly a minute had passed that a low grunt came out. "God, I didn't know that thing was so powerful."
"What exactly did you get out of the lab?" Yi Shui asked.
"I don't know, Mr. Yi." Fisborne made an apologetic gesture, "The lab guys just gave us some scrap, maybe only God knows what." β
"I'll figure this out." Qin Lang frowned and announced, "But for now, let's deal with this Japanese first. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )