Chapter 90 - 84: Deceit and Trickery
Chapter 90: Chapter 84: Deceit and Trickery
Zhang Xincheng’s eyes narrowed. ’This guy really is ruthless. I still need to discuss this with Ah Miao. It looks like this group of Ryukyu people has some underworld ties.’
Xie Xiaowei didn’t continue speaking. After all, he had already shown more than enough sincerity, and there was no other way to build mutual trust. He could only resort to this last-ditch strategy.
For the one million his boss promised, he was really giving it his all.
After a moment, Zhang Xincheng looked up. "Xiaowei, it’s not that I don’t trust you. I need to consider this matter carefully. Let’s meet here again tomorrow at noon. Whether it’s a deal or not, I will definitely give you an answer."
"I understand... Let’s eat first!"
After dinner, Xie Xiaowei and his group found a hotel in Golden Cauldron Bay to check into, while Zhang Xincheng drove back to Magong Town.
He didn’t make any calls in the car, worried that the other party might have planted a listening device or something similar.
He returned to his small villa at South Lake.
He saw his seven-year-old daughter, Zhang Xiaomin, drawing, while his ten-year-old son, Zhang Xiaolong, was playing video games.
He exchanged a few words with his wife, Jiang Xia, then went up to the study on the second floor.
He opened a cabinet in the study. Inside were several telephones, each with a plastic tag bearing a name hanging from it. These were landline phones on separate, independent lines, similar to the ones used for prison visits.
This was mainly to prevent eavesdropping.
After all, cell phone calls could be recorded.
Especially when it came to matters like this, Zhang Xincheng was extremely cautious. He first sent Jiang Miao a sticker on WeChat.
A moment later, the phone with Jiang Miao’s name on it rang. He picked it up. "Hello, Ah Miao, this evening..."
On the other end of the line, Jiang Miao listened for a few minutes until he had a preliminary grasp of the situation before speaking up. "Brother-in-law, agree to their terms. As for that Xie Xiaowei and the person behind him, leave them to me."
"Ah Miao, isn’t that too risky? These people might have underworld connections. Even though we’re in the mainland, if we push them too far, I’m worried they’ll get desperate and do something crazy."
"Brother-in-law, I’ve got this."
Hearing the utter confidence in Jiang Miao’s voice, Zhang Xincheng chose to trust him, despite not knowing how his younger brother-in-law planned to handle the situation. Jiang Miao’s self-assurance had always convinced him in the end.
"Alright then! I’ll close the deal with them tomorrow at noon. But what should I do with the money? Won’t it be a hassle to wire it back?"
"Brother-in-law, just keep the money for yourself. It’s a windfall, so you might as well take it. No need to wire it back. You can use it to buy real estate in Hong Kong later."
"This..."
"Come on, we’re family. No need to be so formal."
"Alright then!"
"Oh, right, Brother-in-law, make absolutely sure you don’t leave any record of the transaction. Nothing on paper, nothing on social media—nothing at all."
"I understand."
He hung up the phone.
Jiang Miao, also in his study, immediately opened his laptop. By exploiting a series of software and system vulnerabilities and backdoors, he quickly located Xie Xiaowei and his two companions, who were staying at the Baisha Hotel in Jinting Bay.
’Having a cheat is awesome.’
A scan with his Appraisal Panel, and the backdoors intentionally left by internet companies became his secret passages and shortcuts.
If he wanted to, he could even directly modify account information in a bank’s back-end system.
However, directly altering bank account balances was too obvious and would be exposed very easily.
If he changed it by too little, less than what he could earn in a day, it would be pointless.
If he changed it by too much, the bank would easily detect the anomaly. After all, banks have extremely tight monitoring on large-value accounts, and many transactions require corresponding paper records.
Therefore, Jiang Miao’s activities on the internet were primarily for intelligence gathering, especially targeting groups that could potentially threaten him and his family.
Ordinarily, for Jiang Miao, a mere few tens of millions was not worth scheming over.
The real reason he was taking action was that they were trying to steal Hailufeng Company’s core technology. He didn’t want to be constantly on the defensive; he had to go on the offensive.
The reason Xie Xiaowei and his two companions were so easy to locate was that Jiang Miao knew their phone numbers. Combined with their status as Ryukyu people, it was easy to filter them out in the hotel’s identity information management system.
He hacked into their three phones.
Jiang Miao sifted through the internal data on the trio’s phones, focusing on information from their social media apps.
He soon found what he was looking for: the social media account of Xie Xiaowei’s boss.
Following this thread, all of Jiang Anye’s information on the internet was dug up, including private videos he’d made with a few minor celebrities, five overseas anonymous accounts, and his network of connections with various powers both on and off the island.
’He really knows how to have a good time,’ Jiang Miao remarked with a look of mock appreciation, then recorded the information related to the man’s five overseas anonymous accounts.
Although nominally only Jiang Anye and a few relatives knew the passwords to these overseas anonymous accounts, Jiang Miao knew that the financial institutions managing them definitely knew the passwords as well.
All he had to do was tentatively enter a random password. The institution’s system would then automatically check it against the correct one, and through the system’s backdoor, he could directly see the correct password being used for the comparison.
With the 19.34 million US Dollars in the five accounts, Jiang Miao could, at any moment, transfer the money to a designated account, neutralizing any contingency plans Jiang Anye had left behind.