Chapter 249: The Deadly Blow
Chapter 249: The Deadly Blow
Liang Zhiqiang had been feeling uneasy these past few days.
His left eyelid kept jumping constantly, making him feel like something bad was about to happen. Even his sleep at night was restless.
Especially this morning: while driving, he almost crashed into a large truck. Then, walking up the steps, he suddenly missed a step. Finally, just after sitting down in his office, he received a call from Cao Wenbo.
He got scolded really badly!
The Chairman of Jiangnan’s Minghui Biotechnology felt terribly unlucky.
The business situation of the Wansheng Group hadn’t been good for the past two years. New drug development faced big difficulties, with clinical trials failing to pass approval several times. There was a real risk of losing the huge investment, causing the market value to keep falling.
The group’s cash flow was tight, so it started taking money from its smaller companies.
Brightglow Biotechnology was no exception.
Taking the money was bad enough, but Cao Wenbo also gave him a troublesome task – getting the recipe for the Hundred-Fruit Wine.
Honestly, when Liang Zhiqiang first learned about Hundred-Fruit Wine, he could hardly believe such a thing existed.
But the sample analysis from the lab showed its effects were definitely real. It held enormous value!
The problem was, no matter how hard the researchers at Brightglow Biotechnology tried, they couldn’t recreate a wine with the same amazing effects.
The only way was to get the brewing recipe and process from the owner of Hundred-Fruit Wine – Gao Jing.
Originally, Liang Zhiqiang had wanted to use gentle “commercial methods” to get it. But he kept running into walls.
Because things weren’t going well, Cao Wenbo gave him an ultimatum not long ago.
That forced Liang Zhiqiang to make tough choices and resort to shady tricks.
Liang Zhiqiang knew very well that things were different these days; playing such tricks was dangerous.
Gao Jing wasn’t someone without powerful friends. His background might seem ordinary, but behind him stood the Beiyang Niu Family and the Capital City’s He Family. He was definitely not a nobody who could be pushed around.
If something went wrong with these shady methods and he was caught, he, Liang Zhiqiang, would definitely be the one taking the blame.
Cao Wenbo claimed he could handle the He Family and told Liang Zhiqiang to go all out.
But even after getting the Hundred-Fruit Wine recipe, Liang Zhiqiang could still be thrown to the wolves as a scapegoat.
In the eyes of someone like Cao Wenbo, Liang Zhiqiang was just a dog!
Liang Zhiqiang truly didn’t want to be a dog that could be tossed aside anytime. So, he had his own plans and thoughts.
Or rather, ambitions!
But the key to achieving those ambitions was getting the recipe for Hundred-Fruit Wine!
The question was, would Gao Jing really give in?
Liang Zhiqiang wasn’t sure.
He grabbed a bottle of whisky from the cabinet nearby, opened it, and took several big gulps straight from the bottle.
At the same time, all kinds of nasty thoughts raced through his mind.
MMP!!
The more Liang Zhiqiang thought about it, the more worked up he became. He took gulp after gulp, pouring the booze into his stomach.
As the alcohol hit him, his inner turmoil slowly started to fade.
In his hazy state, Liang Zhiqiang imagined Gao Jing walking into his office. He pictured Gao Jing kneeling before him, begging for mercy.
Liang Zhiqiang kicked Gao Jing to the floor and ordered him to hand over the recipe immediately.
After securing the recipe, the company ran tests and succeeded in brewing the miraculous Hundred-Fruit Wine. When they sold it, it became wildly popular, hailed as a miracle wine from the East. Rich people from everywhere flocked to buy it.
Brightglow Biotechnology went public successfully, its market value soaring past 100 billion!
Suddenly, Cao Wenbo wouldn’t dare boss him around anymore. Instead, he’d plead for Liang Zhiqiang’s help, even groveling.
The more Liang Zhiqiang pictured this, the prouder he felt. He couldn’t help but start laughing out loud with glee.
But right at that moment, he suddenly felt a tingly numbness in his lower back.
Liang Zhiqiang gasped sharply. His eyes bulged wide open, and the drunken fog vanished completely.
It felt like someone had jabbed him with a shot of adrenaline. His blood started pumping super fast, his heart hammered powerfully in his chest. His mouth went dry, his face turned hot and red, and veins bulged on his forehead.
The next moment, Liang Zhiqiang groaned without meaning to. Blood trickled out of his nose and mouth.
His wide-open eyes became bloodshot, his pupils instantly dilated. It was as if all his bones and muscles just gave way. He collapsed, completely paralyzed.
How could this be happening?
In those last moments of his life, Liang Zhiqiang’s mind suddenly became crystal clear.
Gao Jing’s face flashed into his thoughts.
Some unspoken feeling told Liang Zhiqiang that this horrible end he faced now… it came because of him.
Deep regret flooded him, and then he plunged into everlasting darkness.
A few minutes later, the secretary, carrying a pile of files, walked into the Chairman’s office.
In the whole company, only she had the privilege to do this.
“Chairman Liang?”
When the female secretary saw Liang Zhiqiang’s horrifying, wide-eyed corpse, she let out a piercing scream: “Ah~!”
The sound was so sharp it cut right through the thick door and echoed into the outer office area.
“Help!!”
When the office workers heard the scream and rushed over, everyone just stared at Liang Zhiqiang and the scared secretary.
No one noticed a tiny flying insect, sort of like a bee, silently leave the room just then.
It swiftly flew through the office area and reached the elevator lobby in the hallway.
Without a sound, it slipped into a fold in the skirt of a businesswoman waiting for the elevator.
A few minutes later, after the woman got off the elevator, walked through the lobby, and stepped outside the Jian’an Building…
The little white “bee” wriggled out from her skirt hem and quietly flew away.
It landed on the hand of a big, tall man leaning against the building wall near some flower pots. He was smoking a cigarette.
This man, strong and close to two meters tall, was Gao Jing. He was wearing a disguise.
Good job!
Gao Jing affectionately stroked the Spirit Gu on his hand, its work masterful, then tucked it safely back into its special box.
He had spent nearly ten days below ground in the Blackwater Underground City.
Besides getting even better at controlling his Spirit Gu, he’d found a way to test how deadly it really was on nearly a dozen criminals from the Lower District who deserved what was coming.
He’d learned all about using the Spirit Gu to injure enemies… and worse.
Gao Jing wasn’t some bloodthirsty killer; he hated trouble.
But if trouble found him? He faced it head-on.
Today, his first target was the guy who’d been tailing Gao Yuanyuan. Next, he came to the Jian’an Building, Brightglow Biotechnology’s headquarters.
Then, from his hidden spot, he commanded the Spirit Gu to deliver the final blow to Liang Zhiqiang.
Now he could control the Spirit Gu from almost 300 meters away! Brightglow wasn’t high up in the skyscraper.
So everything happened totally unseen.
The instant that secretary pushed open Liang Zhiqiang’s door? His fate was sealed.
Gao Jing slipped the Gu box into his pocket. He put out his cigarette and dropped the butt into a nearby trash can.
He stuck his hands in his pockets and walked away whistling a tune.
Just as he reached the street corner, an ambulance with siren shrieking “WOO-woo! WOO-woo!!” whizzed right past him!
Gao Jing simply smiled.