Chapter 20: Silverbow Town

Solang chooses neutrality, which is not the outcome that Jill wants.

"Why?" Jill asked.

"I'm a businessman and I'll always be on the side of interests. If you remember correctly, you majored in engineering design in college, and you have never actually participated in group management after graduation, so frankly, I don't believe you will be better than Beckett in terms of company management ability. Supporting you means expanding the company's business risk, which is not what I want to see. Solang said.

Solang's answer was within Jill's expectations. Needless to say, Beckett's major is economic management, and he has been exposed to the group's business since his internship, although he is not very successful in terms of experience, favors or means, but he is also prepared.

"Perhaps, there are some things that are not written on the information. If I promised that you would become the largest shareholder of JA and that the market value of the company's stock would rise by at least 10 points in three days, would you change your mind? ”

"There must be some agreement between you and Gram, right? He has always regarded me as a thorn in his side, and wants to press me in turn, if I become the largest shareholder, then he may not be able to sit still. How are you going to convince him? Also, can you really be willing to hand over your Rockefeller family to me to control? Solang asked.

"If he is the second largest shareholder, and there are some attractive enough benefits, Grim should not say anything more. As for me, I have forced myself to understand the saying 'there is something to give, there is something to gain'. Jill raised his glass to Salon in salute, then took a sip of the remaining red wine, "I have two questions that I need your answers. ”

Solang acquiesced.

"You mean that I will take over as manager of Sidon, right? Did Beckett call you an hour ago? ”

"One yes, one not."

"Thank you. If you have an answer here, please let me know in time. Jill got up and left.

As soon as Jill left, Janis walked in and handed over a red wooden cane to Solang's hands.

"Dennis, keep an eye on him and master his every move." Solang stood up on crutches.

When the anti-Aglia agency was first formed, Beckett persuaded the other two parties to let the agency take the JA name with the highest percentage of funding and benefits. In the two days that followed, the market value of JA shares rose by a frantic 120 points.

He asked Janis to secretly investigate the matter, and Beckett disseminated the information through various channels, thereby influencing the entry of some major funds and individual stocks, and making JA a stock myth on the Great West Coast.

And now, what Jill promised him was the same as what Beckett had done.

"Beckett will definitely make a move, and if necessary, help him." Solang replied as he turned around. He thought that the confrontation between the two would only seem less boring if they complemented each other.

"Yes, sir." Denis said respectfully.

At 4:30 p.m., Jill moved back to Stulet Abbey from the Spiral Mansion. According to Caroline's arrangement, a family gathering was held in the evening, attended by him, Caroline herself, Beckett and Ina dead, in order to celebrate his return to the convent and to them.

Dinner was Western-style and the cooks were Beckett and Ina.

During the meal, the atmosphere is relaxed and pleasant, and there is talk and laughter among each other. After dinner, Jill lay alone on a rooftop terrace made of glass with her hands as a pillow, looking up into the depths of the sky, which was still slightly white, like a pearl of the night covered with a thin veil.

"Hey, what are you thinking?" Caroline popped up.

"Scared me." "I'm wondering what's next for Agria?" It seemed like there had been no movement on Boomley's side for a long time. ”

"It's obviously to express boredom. As for you, it has become a habit to come here and lie down and look at the sky whenever you have something to worry about. Caroline said as she lay down on Jill's right side, "You can understand the mental activity of Boakye, but you know it's harder than picking stars." Bumley is no exception. ”

"Welcome back." After a while, Caroline looked at the sky and said.

"Thank you." After a pause, Jill spat out the two words unhurriedly.

Caroline grinned softly, but didn't make a sound. Jill never liked to be asked, so she was so amuseful that she wouldn't ask Jill about his negotiations with Beckett, or if Jill remembered anything now. At this moment, being able to lie here and look up at the same small piece of sky as Jill feels very nostalgic and full of wonder.

When it was completely dark, Jill called Caroline to leave the terrace. As he was about to open the door, a flash of light flashed briefly, reflecting his figure on the door panel, followed by a muffled explosion like a thunderous explosion.

Something must have happened!

Caroline walked up from the other end of the hallway, her phone in her hand, and informed her that the tail of the Gil Aglia spaceship had exploded half a minute earlier, and that it was from there that the sound was heard. According to the preliminary judgment, it was artificially detonated from the inside.

"I guess this man is Boomley." Jill said.

"Is that part of his plan? Well, he's broken with Aglia completely! Caroline confirmed Jill's conjecture. She and Jill stood side by side in front of the handrail of the corridor and looked at the sky, apparently the ship had only slowly passed their headspace five minutes earlier, and then the incident happened, which inadvertently tightened her nerves again.

But, because of the injury, she had to calm down this emotion.

Back in his room, Jill had just laid down on the flat bed when the phone vibrated suddenly. That's a message from Vargas. Vargas informed that Boomley was staying with him and hoped to meet him this morning.

"There are some things that need to be dealt with, and I will go to you when I am done." Jill replied. In order to ensure the security of their messages, Vargas helped him upgrade the level of his mobile phone account, so that it could not be tracked or intercepted by any party, but he would still habitually delete the information after reading it.

The next day, Jill and Beckett went to the JA headquarters building. According to Beckett's plan and arrangement, at 8 o'clock, all the remaining fourteen board members, except for Solang, attended the board meeting as scheduled, that is, the meeting of directors requested by Jill.

Jill's appearance attracted the attention of everyone present, and more than half of them muttered in their hearts.

"Let Jill have a few words to everyone." When Jill was seated, Beckett handed over the voice to Jill like a host, an actor who was about to perform on stage.

Everyone focused their eyes on Jill again.

"From now on, I am the third largest shareholder of JA Bioengineering Technology Group and the fifteenth member of the Board of Directors. Unfortunately, I have amnesia and can't remember the directors, so I asked my brother to meet with the directors at this meeting. I didn't come empty-handed, I came with sincerity – I could increase the market value of our stock by at least 10 points. As he spoke, Jill deliberately emphasized the last sentence so that the others in the room could hear it really.

Their faces, including Beckett, showed a more or less "unbelievable" look, and 10 points is also a big gain. They are all authentic businessmen, and they will reveal their nature without fear in front of interests.

"So, tell me what you want to do." Beckett asked.

"Before I arrived, I looked through some of the company's documents and learned that the WACKER branch in Billings, Montana, had recently built a new energy research base in the town of Silverbow, but within five days of its operation, more than 60 percent of the town's residents protested because of the deterioration of the ecological environment caused by the over-exploitation of nickel ore at the base, the most serious of which was the fact that the ground cracks in the road were exacerbated by it. I think you, like me, will find this message incredible, even a little ridiculous. Jill paused to look at the others.

"Since the matter has happened, we must find a way to solve it, otherwise the cost spent on the base will be in vain. I've investigated that the cracks in the road are related to the drop in the water level in Yellowstone, so that we can block the mouth of most of the townspeople. On this basis, the company sent people to negotiate with the local government to fund the relocation and proper resettlement of the townspeople of Yingong Town, and once the matter was implemented, the mouths of those leaders could naturally be blocked. Jill paused.

"That's what you do?" James asked, puzzled.

Jill nodded.

"No matter how much I think about it, it's like doing public welfare, even if the new energy research at the base can be carried out in the end, the benefits will be made up for the previous deficit at most. Utilitarian philanthropy cannot be equated with commercial value. James continued.

"What about my military order?" Jill said, "If I can't deliver my sincerity to you, I'm willing to give my full stake and never return to JA." ”

Jill's words silenced the audience.

After meeting Jill's determined gaze, Beckett was the first to break the silence: "Since Gil said so, I choose to believe him once and stand on his side." ”

"For the sake of sincerity, I also support it." Graham raised his right hand and said.

"Give it a try." James followed.

One, two, and more than half of the directors agreed one after another.

The board of directors decided that the person negotiating with the local government in Silverbow was Luc, Managing Director of WACKER. Luke is well versed in human resources, having been managing director of WACKER for three and a half years, and is close to Beckett, which is exactly what Jill fears.

Out of the building, he spent half of the salary that Sidon had paid him to buy a plane ticket from New York to Billings, knowing full well that Luke would not answer his phone calls or pay attention to his text messages.

At the same time, he used ten phone calls to wake up Fernando and ask them to help him retrieve all of Luke's information. According to the data, there have been two bank accounts in Luke's name, each with $500,000 in the account, and the remitter must not be Beckett, but it must be Beckett behind the scenes.

Jill's appointment was communicated to Billings and Silverbow half an hour before he did.

At 11:10, he arrived in the town of Silverbow. According to Fernando's reminder, Luke had arrived in the town an hour earlier, and was sitting in a café. He walked into the café and was taken aback when he appeared in front of Luke.

"I know why you're sitting across from me right now." Luke turned the handle back to the left, "But don't worry, I'm here to do my duty." Every day at 11:30, the mayor of the town will come to this store rain or shine, and sit in that corner by the window, do you know why? Because of an old-fashioned story. This shop was opened by his biological daughter, and everyone has a weakness, and his weakness is his biological daughter who has never met. 25 years ago, he was just a temporary worker in a government agency, and in order to get to the top, he abandoned his wife, who was 5 months pregnant. In the end, the daughter was born, but she was not in good health and needed regular medication, and if she chose to cure it radically, it would require a sky-high medical bill. I'm waiting for him here, and he won't choose to run away. ”

Jill was surprised, could it be that Beckett really didn't interfere with it?

In fact, half an hour before Jill's arrival in Silverbow, Janis approached Luke to negotiate a deal, as long as Luke spares no effort to help Jill complete the negotiations, he can get a bank card with $1.5 million and a guarantee that the money he received will not be exposed.

Furthermore, Janis tells him that the matter is to be kept secret from Jill, but that he can tell Beckett in 1510.

"I want you to keep my business a secret, and in exchange I'll keep quiet about you." Luke said.

"One more question, how do you explain to Beckett?" Jill asked.

"I have my own way. If you believe me, you can book a ticket to New York right now, and if you don't, you can follow me and get things done. Luke replied.

"I can choose to trust you once." Jill got up and left. As he passed by the counter, he looked at the woman sitting at the counter, who also looked over and greeted him with a smile that was simple and contagious. At the door of the café, he happened to bump into a tall and thin man in a suit, stubble, and didn't look at him, and after greeting the woman, he walked straight to the corner by the window.

It turned out that he was the mayor of the town...... But Jill doesn't plan to stay any longer.

Because he was not in a hurry and to save money, Jill took the train back to New York, and when he arrived, he went to the Rotary Building.

Boomley's iron arm was cut in half, and he was wrapped in bandages.

Boomley tells Jill that he had infiltrated the ship's "100 Doors" — Boakye's secret room where important information and files were stored — in an attempt to unearth some useful information, but was discovered halfway through, with injuries inflicted on the ensuing escape, and an explosion at the tail of the ship caused by him detonating a fluid robot to save his life.

According to him, he had broken with Aglia and Boakye completely.

"What's next for you?" Jill asked Boomley.

"Find someone, but I'm not 100 percent able to find him." Boomley gestured to Jill with his glass.