Cosma Empire

In the distance, a young man leaning on a telephone pole saw what happened across the road. He straightened his peaked cap, lowered the brim of the cap, and walked slowly on the sidewalk.

He didn't cross the road and follow behind Mr. Pete, he just followed far away on the opposite side of the road.

In movies, there are often interesting plots in which the stalker and the person being stalked can't find each other even if they almost meet each other, but in real life, it only takes a little doubt to make a stalking activity completely fail.

People will have a not-so-serious delusion of persecution that cannot be explained clearly. This is not a mental illness, but an instinct of self-protection. Only when this instinct seriously affects people's thinking will it be called a mental illness. That is mental illness.

But before that, protecting one's own personal safety is the most basic human instinct, need or desire. When people find something suspicious hovering around them, even if they are just too sensitive, they will think that someone may against myself.

The good-natured smiles of the newly moved neighbors will become suspicious under this awareness of self-protection, and the unfamiliar security guards who have just joined the job will abide by their duties and diligently patrol and become sneaky, so tracking has never been an easy task , especially when a person needs to be followed, then he will definitely become more sensitive.

Because he must have done something that would be targeted!

If he was just an ordinary person who had never sinned against anyone, had no enmity, and had very simple social relations, it would be impossible for him to suspect that someone was plotting against him, and he would not be so sensitive to the point of losing everything.

Only those who have done certain things will become more careful, more vigilant, and more sensitive, so sensitive that even small details like rings will be remembered by him.

Unaware that he was being targeted and that he was still a child, Mr. Pete walked towards his company.

The companies registered on the east coast are basically not in the entertainment industry, but in the international trade industry. His company is a small import and export company, formally registered, and has a special office.

In order to ensure that his identity is legal, without loopholes, and able to withstand the scrutiny of others, Pete expended a lot of effort to perfect the identity he is using now.

From about seven or eight years ago, he consciously began to arrange a way out for himself. He knew that those organizations with extraordinary social status and fame behind the scenes would not come to rescue him when he was unlucky, but would rather think about it than the empire. To let him die early, so he began to think about retreat for himself.

The more prosperous he is, the more investors he has, and the more loyal believers in the Earth God Sect, the more careful he will be, not only guarding against the investigation from the empire, but also guarding against malice from within.

Everything now proves that there is nothing wrong with his carefulness, including that he always wears a mask to show people in the Earth God Sect. In this society with relatively backward technology, as long as no clear photos flow into the official hands , it can be said that he is absolutely safe.

As for the first batch of people who knew what he looked like, they either had an accident, or disappeared inexplicably years ago.

Now, he is a legal outstanding citizen of the empire. His company not only provides more than 30 stable jobs for the local city hall, but also pays a lot of various taxes every year.

Add up the money—the wages paid to the workers and the taxes paid. Within a year, he must contribute at least 200,000 yuan to the local economic construction. This money is enough for the mayor, the police chief, Let those people know who should be protected and should be praised.

After walking for about 20 minutes, he arrived at his office before leaving get off work at noon, an office not far from the pier, with a signboard of "Shuguang Yuanhang Import and Export Trading Company" hanging on the door.

Pushing the door open, the little girl at the front desk stood up habitually after hearing the doorbell,

Then he came out from behind the counter with a cheerful smile.

Everyone knows that Mr. Pete is very amiable. He has no airs, and he will not be like the bosses of some companies next door. Just because they pay their employees dozens of dollars a month, they feel that they are dad.

Not only is the attitude bad and arrogant, but sometimes they use dirty language to attack those people when they are lazy.

In comparison, Mr. Pete is simply an angel!

He smiled and took off his coat and handed it to the little girl, and walked towards the inside without stopping, "Is there any work information that I need to know today?"

This company is not just a shell company like a bag company, it is actually working and operating.

The company has a total of 33 people. Apart from the chairman of the company and the little girl at the front desk, there is also a warehouse manager. The rest of the people are information collectors, and by the way, they are salesmen. Work.

Before the empire's economy improved in the past few years, this company did some import and export trade on the surface, placed orders in the empire and sold the goods abroad.

But in fact, those buyers are actually companies registered abroad by Pete, who have supported the company's turnover and profits by selling from his left hand to his right hand. At least he guaranteed that the books and statements are very good-looking.

Those goods abroad will be half sold and half free at very low prices, so you don't have to worry about not being able to sell them, and you can also slightly subsidize part of the loss.

There are some differences now, with the rise of international trade, all kinds of businesses seem to be unable to keep up with the pace of the times without using the word "transnational".

The customs at each port will not only take the initiative to help these merchants arrange cargo ships and the timing of entering and leaving the port, but also help them apply for preferential policies such as tax rebates and subsidies. Basically, it can be said that their rights and interests will not be less. .

But there are still some small-scale import and export trades that are more troublesome. For example, a certain factory has received an order from abroad, which is embarrassing, one hundred blankets.

Is this deal a good one or not?

Large enterprises will never make such scattered orders, so these orders will eventually flow into small factories or even workshops. For these small and micro enterprises, as long as they are profitable, they are willing to do it.

When they are ready to deliver these items to the buyer, they will find a problem, it is difficult for them to send the goods out for delivery.

For now, basically most of the shipping capacity is covered by major group companies and large transactions. Even if there may be some surplus in these shipping capacities, they would rather be empty than take these hundred blankets by the way, or A hundred jugs, or a hundred cups.

This involves more procedures, more verification processes and approval processes, wasting the same time to go through the process for this profit that is not even a fraction?

Rest it, this is absolutely impossible.

Therefore, these scattered small batches of export commodities have to wait until the scattered parts have accumulated to a certain extent and can be assembled to fill a freighter, and the customs will arrange the export schedule on the itinerary.

There are some problems here, commercial fraud, or routine fraud.

Many international orders are time-sensitive. For example, from the time the order is received, it must be delivered within how many days, and there will be standards for how to deliver.

Now the shortage of transportation capacity in the empire has made it difficult for many small and micro enterprises to send out the scattered goods in time. As long as the order deadline is slightly exceeded, those foreign companies will initiate international trade claims to the World Financial Trade Organization. The companies are unable to complete the orders according to the content of the contract as an excuse, requiring these companies to give them a large amount of cash compensation.

This kind of thing has happened more than once, and it seems to have become a new way for some foreign businessmen to make money, and it is gradually spreading.

Pete saw the opportunity here, and he took advantage of his good relationship with the customs and those ship tycoons to get three freighters to start international shipping, and he specialized in handling scattered goods.

All his salesmen are scattered all over the east coast. These people look for small and micro business people who need help outside the customs every day, and then sign transportation contracts with them at a relatively reasonable price. The main reason why he can do this is because he The boat will go around all the ports on the east coast, and pull some things onto the boat from each place, and it will be almost full when it travels the entire east coast.

Pete originally thought that this was a business that didn't make much money. His purpose of doing this was not to make money, but to have more and better social network resources. own.

Before he has any further plans, he intends to maintain this identity, and complex social relationships are the most critical link if he wants to withstand the investigation of others.

But what people didn't expect was that this business not only didn't lose money, but was making money all the time. For those small and micro enterprises, as long as they can pass on the risks, spending a little more money is not a problem at all. After the contract of carriage is signed, the transport party becomes the first defendant in the event of delay claim litigation.

This allowed Pete to earn some money, and he maintained a very good relationship with these small and micro enterprises, including customs and domestic transportation companies, which he himself did not expect.

The two entered the office while talking. The girl at the front desk often played the role of Pete's secretary. She took a few documents and put them on the desk in front of Pete. "Here are the customs approval documents, Naris The Queen will leave the port the day after tomorrow, and I need your signature..."

Pete smiled, and took out a fountain pen from his pocket. The platinum body of the pen was engraved with many complicated but beautiful and mysterious questions. On the top of the pen cap was inlaid a blue square gemstone the size of a little fingernail, indicating that wisdom.

The cost price of this pen has already exceeded one thousand yuan, and considering its craftsmanship and design, as well as the added value of the master who made this pen, this pen can top the first-tier pens in some second-tier cities. A house, one hundred square meters.

At the same time, in a phone booth across the road, the teenager took out coins and stuffed them into the phone booth. While looking at the door of the store across the road, he quickly reported the address here, and then left the phone booth , I found a corner that was not easy to notice and took it quietly.

About 17 or 18 minutes later, three cars stopped at the corner of the street, and several young men in yarmulkes and black turtlenecks approached.

After discussing for a while, they dispersed and completely disappeared on this busy street.

As early as more than two months ago, Durin's people in the west captured Mr. Charles, the senior Earth God cult who wanted to draw Durin into the Earth God Cult, and even sent a girl to Durin. Priests can also be said to be elders.

He was very lucky to escape the destruction of the Earth God Sect, and then returned to his hometown and continued to be his own farmer.

It's just that he didn't expect Du Lin's influence in the west to be so terrifying. His neighbor of more than 30 years went to the security station in the middle of the night to report him. When he was arrested, he was sleeping on the bed with his buttocks naked.

Soon after the high-level person was captured, some information in the Earth God Sect was leaked, and the Military Intelligence Department and the Security Committee took over the subsequent arrest work. Among the many confessions made by Charles, the most valuable one is The characteristics of the "God Envoy".

Because Pete has been wearing a robe and a mask, no one has seen what he looks like, so Charles doesn't know, but his desire to survive saved him.

He told the interrogators at the time that there were two very special rings on the index and middle fingers of the envoy's left hand. One was very wide and had some so-called scriptures engraved on it. A large gemstone holder holds a head of Odella, the goddess of the earth, molded with various gemstones.

In addition, he also mentioned the pocket watch he found by accident.

This information is very important. After Du Lin knew about it, he immediately asked people to spread these characteristics internally. Anyone who found someone with these three characteristics should report it immediately, even if it is wrong.

You can make a mistake a thousand times, but you must never miss one.

Before Pete was noticed, more than 80 people had been illegally kidnapped for a period of time and then released. Although a lot of people were wrongly arrested, there was no substantial progress, but the associations of the gods and the Guarts from all over the world The group is useless, so it relaxes, and it is still as important as it was at the beginning.

So much so that it was only the two obvious ring marks on his fingers that exposed Pete to these people.

The time soon pointed to the noon lunch time. Pete rejected the invitation of the girl at the front desk to have a meal together, signed several documents and left first.

He knows what the girl is thinking, but his situation is not very suitable for romance, he has too many secrets, he is really afraid that he will say something terrible when he is dreaming, and he has no choice but to kill his own girl bed partner.

He put on his coat and walked out of the gate silently. The girl looked at Pete's back with some sadness, but the next second, she widened her eyes and watched Pete being pushed into a car by several young people, and then quickly leave.

This... is kidnapping!

Angrily and excitedly, she picked up the phone and was about to perform her duties as a citizen of the empire, calling the police station, but one hand was pressed on the hand she dialed the last number at the moment the phone was about to be dialed .

"Hush..."