American Comics: BOSS Invasion

Don't let the appearance of Qi Shan's company fool you; it's essentially a facade. Alice handles over ninety-five percent of the entire company's operations. Whether it's intelligence gathering or processing various types of information, Alice excels at it. The hundreds of white-collar workers filling the office building appear busy and serious every day, but in reality, they only control less than five percent of the workload.

This is precisely why they seem so relaxed, and their benefits are pushed to the maximum. Each person's workstation is a custom-made, semi-circular cubicle.

The distance between workstations is considerable.

Moreover, the entire building has over a dozen floors, and besides the various offices, it even boasts a lounge, a cafe, a cinema, a billiard room, and even a playground, as well as a cigar bar exclusively for men and a wine bar exclusively for women.

The rooftop garden is meticulously crafted, with exquisite sightseeing facilities, and even an indoor swimming pool, though it's not fully open yet. Judging by the busy construction team inside, it will soon be a pool of clear water.

The top floor is relatively open and used as a gym, open twenty-four hours a day. Below, a floor is divided into small rooms for temporary rest if there's urgent overtime work.

Yang Tao was increasingly astonished, feeling like her eyes were opened. Although China's economic development had been soaring since 2010.

She had heard of such humanized offices and personalized work environments, but had never seen one in person. Yang Tao always thought that to see such a work environment, she would have to go to Silicon Valley in America, otherwise it would be impossible. To her surprise, there was such a great company less than an hour's drive from her home.

Qi Shan didn't say much, simply leading Taozi on a tour, listening to her slightly surprised exclamations, and revealing a knowing smile.

"It's almost time, let's go to the office. The identity I've arranged for you this time is quite special, so Taozi, you need to listen carefully to see if there are any obvious loopholes in their statements. Even if there aren't, you have to nitpick. If we can find even one flaw, we can push the price down a bit!"

Taozi said somewhat embarrassedly, "I can't guarantee that, I can only try my best!"

A week ago, Yang Tao never imagined that she, a lobby manager with five or six years of experience, would inexplicably enter the company merger negotiation team. Wasn't this quite a leap?

Qi Shan saw through Yang Tao's thoughts, but he didn't choose to comfort her. It could be said that Qi Shan had specially arranged this situation. Building the Daqi Group from scratch, although not too difficult, still took a lot of time.

To ensure that all procedures and qualifications were complete, Qi Shan also specifically sent several Death Gods to the homes of key figures to modify their memories.

And he had Alice add traces of the Daqi Group's existence on the internet, as if a hacker had spent a whole year building a fictional legitimate company for himself and his companions. For Alice, this didn't require too many resources.

He believed that after Yang Tao participated in this negotiation meeting, she would definitely have more interaction with him.

After that, some things would happen, and the two of them would go through them together, or he would simply help her solve them. As the favorability slowly increased, he would then create a small situation that required her help. With give and take, the relationship would gradually warm up.

He led Yang Tao to the conference room, reached out and pushed open the door for her. Yang Tao hesitated for a moment, smiled at Qi Shan, and the two walked in one after another.

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In a private restaurant not far from Qi Shan's company, several people of different shapes and sizes were sitting at the dining table, sizing each other up.

The table was already full of various teas and a large number of exquisite fruit plates, but no one touched them.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and two young men who looked like bodyguards walked in, standing on the left and right corners of the room.

Behind them, two more bodyguards came in, holding the door open, and welcoming a young man in a white suit in. Behind him, one could still see a large team of bodyguards in the same suits, standing in the corridor, forming a blockade-like defensive line.

The young man went straight to the head seat, casually throwing the bouquet of lilies behind him to the assistant next to him. He took off his sunglasses, tossed them aside, nodded and looked at the men in front of him, and said with a smile: "It seems everyone has arrived. You are indeed gentlemen who keep time. So, without further ado, what have you found out?"

The men looked at each other. Suddenly, the fat man on the far left, with a round face and round eyes, wearing the most ordinary overalls, indistinguishable from passersby, suddenly smiled and took out a yellow envelope from the only pocket on the chest of his denim overalls and threw it over.

"Boss, I've already found out everything you asked me to. I have to say, your vision is indeed accurate. This woman named Yang Tao is indeed a rare good woman. Since she graduated from university, she has been working as a lobby manager in a four-star hotel. She is very serious at work and handles things smoothly, and has never made any mistakes.

This woman is thirty-two years old this year and is still single. She only has a mother named Xue Sumei, who has retired at home and is single-mindedly looking for a partner for her daughter.

Therefore, on major dating websites, there is information about this woman named Yang Tao. According to my rough estimate, she has been on more than a hundred blind dates, and most people's conditions are quite presentable.

Only a small portion are of the stable work type, so it can be seen that Xue Sumei's standards for her son-in-law are quite high!"

As the fat man spoke, the young man flipped through various photos. The protagonist in the photos was only Taozi, and each photo represented a different period, taken from different angles, in various styles, from the innocent photos of her school days, to the gorgeous and pure photos when she had just grown into a delicate flower, to the photos of her now with a mature woman's charm.

All the photos were high-definition, as if the fat man had personally taken them with a camera, but everyone knew that this was impossible.

This alone made the remaining men look at him with new respect.

"Thank you, Mr. Laurent! Did you give me too much money?"

"I'm very satisfied with the detail of your information. The extra is naturally a token of my appreciation. You can leave now!"

The young man raised his hand. Without waiting for the round-faced fat man to answer, a bodyguard immediately opened the door. The round-faced fat man looked at the door, then at the young man, and finally touched the thick envelope in his arms, cupping his hands and smiling at the others.

"Everyone, then I'll take my leave!"

The others just glanced at him, without any reaction. The fat man didn't feel embarrassed at all, laughed, and strode out.

The door of the private room was immediately closed.

Laurent organized the photos in his hand and casually handed them to the bodyguard next to him. The bodyguard directly inserted them into his inner pocket, with no expression on his face.

"I'm quite satisfied with the investigation of this person, Yang Tao. So, what about the other targets?"

A big-nosed man wearing a detective trench coat suddenly said: "This man named Guoran is unremarkable, without anything worth praising. His work is very stable. Every day, he only deals with various marriage registration issues in the village. He usually takes photos at a place called Seven Star Pet Shop.

He also had a brief interaction with Yang Tao some time ago, but after it ended, neither side had any intention of continuing to contact each other. It seems that after the blind date failed, the two have returned to being parallel lines again!"

As he spoke, the big-nosed man took out a thin folder from his arms and handed it directly to Laurent.

Laurent flipped through it. As expected, there were a lot of photos of the protagonist, still from various eras, but there were very few young photos in the past. Instead, there were a lot of photos after he started working.

In the old photos from the past, a woman had appeared several times, but it wasn't Yang Tao.

Then the big-nosed man said: "This woman's surname is Xu. She is Guoran's ex-girlfriend. She abandoned this man the day before the wedding and married a strange foreign man abroad. She recently got divorced and has returned to China, and is trying to find out about Guoran's news through some means. I guess there are signs of their relationship rekindling."

The young man just glanced at it briefly and didn't express any opinion. He snapped his fingers, and after the bodyguard paid the money, the big-nosed detective also left.

After this one-time report format at the beginning, the remaining three people looked at each other, and the man wearing glasses sitting in the middle spoke first.

"It seems that Mr. Laurent needs to investigate quite a few targets. In addition to the man and woman in front, I also spent a lot of effort to dig out various information about Qi Shan of Daqi Group.

This person is a bit strange. Although all kinds of resumes are very complete, they make people feel a bit too complete. Under normal circumstances, it is theoretically impossible to have no flaws at all. After all, not everyone is used to sharing their life status. Even people who like to share don't share to the outside world every moment of every day.

But this person is very strange. There is a complete set of information about this person on the Internet, and there is not much difference from the manuscript I received from the administrative agency.

However, considering Qi Shan's wealth and his special status, perhaps it is not too surprising.

Daqi Group's initial founding company specialized in financial games such as commodity trading, futures, and precious metal trading. Perhaps it was the correctness of their vision, or perhaps the funds were too abundant, which led to the group's capital accumulation process not being restricted too much.

Later, they returned to China to develop and quickly created the current company, and made money by using games as their main project. Obviously, they succeeded, and the results were quite good, with very high monthly turnover and net profit.

Recently, the upper echelons of the group are preparing to enter the tourism and hotel industry, so they are negotiating with Greenland Group, wanting to buy a large number of apartment-style office buildings from Greenland Group.

If nothing unexpected happens, the group wants to use these buildings and their special geographical locations to create a chain brand of star-rated hotels as soon as possible.

As for Qi Shan's personal related information, I found a little bit, but it triggered the network alarm system. It seems that a group of people are constantly paying attention to the security level of Qi Shan's various information. Once they find an illegal intrusion, they will immediately reverse track it.

Last time, fortunately, I was careful and cautious, not only using a transit machine in the Philippines area, but also jumping from Russia and the Strait of Malacca, but even so, I was almost caught by the other party.

"In any case, your success is worthy of praise. This Qi Shan is not simple!" Laurent smiled lightly, looking at a side profile photo of Qi Shan, and also threw out an envelope.

After the private detective wearing glasses went out, the other two private detectives looked at each other and said: "What the two of us investigated is obviously related to this woman Yang Tao. One is her childhood friend, the two are about the same age, and the other is a male best friend. The two should be ordinary people. The information has not been encrypted, so all the information we found is in the envelope!"

Laurent nodded, directly took the envelope, simply flipped through it, checked a few key information points, and the bodyguard behind him threw out two envelopes, dismissing the last two private detectives.

After driving the bodyguards out, the private restaurant finally served various exquisite dishes. Laurent, in this closed room, ate the dishes while looking at all kinds of photos, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Although the map is a bit big, there are still rules to follow. Since no abnormalities were found on the Korean side, there is an 80% or higher chance that it is in China. Look, I still found you!"

The one he was holding in his hand was Qi Shan's photo!