Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 545 - 122 I Have Some Different Opinions

Shen Zhidong sat in his office, staring silently at the newly replaced ashtray.

It wasn’t until the phone rang that he snapped back to reality and quickly picked it up.

His father, Shen Jianzhen’s voice, came through the phone, tinged with weariness.

"Haven’t I told you not to do anything?"

Shen Zhidong hesitated for a moment before responding softly, "They have already started investigating the Weimar Business Association, and the members suffered heavy casualties..."

"If the foreigners have a problem, their consuls will naturally negotiate with the foreign affairs department. What does it have to do with you?"

"Slander called and told me they took away the ledgers."

"So they took it, what of it?"

Shen Jianzhen scolded in frustration, "I told you to do nothing, and that means nothing. Don’t you understand that simple Chinese?"

"But that’s just sitting around waiting for death..."

"So what if you’re sitting around waiting for death? Zhidong, ever since you were young, you’ve had this competitive nature, always wanting to gain an advantage and unwilling to take a loss. At your age now, how can you still not understand the saying that taking a loss is a blessing?"

Shen Jianzhen sighed, "How can you not understand that a few hotheaded youths who enjoy fighting can’t shake the foundation of the Shen Family? Why did the President back then not move against the Shen Family? Was it because your father is so handsome, with talents soaring high, or because you and your brothers are extraordinarily gifted, some kind of unmatched geniuses?"

"It’s because the President’s opponents back then were all jackals, tigers, and leopards, snakes and scorpions. And our Shen Family were nothing but dogs and falcons, not worth flaunting. As long as we don’t go too far, and maintain consistency with the President on major directions, the President could tolerate and accommodate us before dealing with her real enemies."

"Now that the President holds the world in her hands, with formidable enemies lurking outside and numerous factions within, she still doesn’t have the time or energy to care about us. It’s true that the Shen Family has made some money, but the development in Tianmen is also visibly significant. If someone else, if another family, were in this position, they might not do any better than the Shen Family. It’s alright for the Shen Family to spend money to avert disasters if our wealth attracts jealousy."

"Leave the matters of the youth to the youth. You’re of such an age and yet you insist on meddling, wanting to escalate the situation. Isn’t that just giving others a handle on us?"

"It’s not about whether I’m willing to step in now!"

Shen Zhidong interrupted Shen Jianzhen’s nagging and said coldly, "Now it’s about those young people not knowing restraint, insisting on probing to the end! They’re not leaving any face for the Shen Family."

"Then let them investigate!"

After hanging up the phone, Shen Zhidong raised his hand and fiercely pounded the desk.

His father is just too weak, he has always been so weak. Spending too much time teaching at the university has made his mind stubborn, still clinging to the outdated maxims like a minister must die when his ruler says so.

Should all the achievements of his hard work over much his life dissipate into nothingness?

Shen Zhidong felt very unwilling, he even thought that what his father was indirectly implying was for him to go die.

To sacrifice himself alone for the sake of preserving the whole Shen Family.

But why should he?

Isn’t the wealth and power of the Shen Family today all due to his own hard work and struggle? Otherwise, who would it be thanks to? The inflexibly upright second brother? Or the third brother, who knows nothing but indulgence in pleasures?

Now that trouble has come, you actually want me to take the fall. Favoritism shouldn’t come to this!

Having said his piece, Shen Zhidong realized he no longer had any other way out.

Only a desperate fight could possibly offer a chance of survival from death!

...

Listening to the busy signal from the phone, Shen Jianzhen remained silent for a long time.

Sometimes, he truly envied the group of young people who followed the President back then.

The Shen Family’s heritage was too shallow, none of the three sons accomplished anything noteworthy. The only reason they managed to reach their current positions was that they were sons of Shen Jianzhen, and yet they had no self-awareness about this fact.

Among the third generation of the Shen Family’s children, all were of mediocre ability, with Shen Qingxi being the only one who seemed to possess some talent, but after all, she was just a girl.

A genius like the President might not emerge even once in a thousand years; other women in this era, even if they managed to hold certain power, would inevitably end up getting married and bearing children, supporting their husbands, and raising their offspring.

No matter how good a daughter was, she would ultimately become someone else’s wife.

As for the sudden crisis this time, Shen Jianzhen could say he was well aware of the reasons behind it.

Although it appeared that the Shen Family was being targeted at every turn, the truth was that it had little to do with them; they were simply caught in an unwarranted disaster.

Did the Shen Family have its issues? Certainly.

But not to mention being on the President’s desk, even among the issues that Tianmen needed to urgently resolve at the moment, problems of the Shen Family were not top priority.

Ever since his last meal with Zhou Yaowen, Shen Jianzhen had come to understand the whole story, from cause to consequence.

The primary target of the Special Service Bureau was the Joshua Consortium plotting behind the scenes to seize the Black Earth in the North. Compared to the millions of square kilometers of territory, what was the Shen Family? They were merely incidental targets, like catching rabbits in the grass and getting hit in the process.

If they couldn’t withstand the investigation by a few young people, then it was not a death worth mourning. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

With proper planning and some sacrifices, the Shen Family could safely get through this crisis.

But there was no helping it, his own children were truly incompetent, and Shen Zhidong’s greed and stubbornness exceeded Shen Jianzhen’s expectations.

At such times, there was no other choice but to think of an alternative plan.

After thinking for a long while, Shen Jianzhen picked up the phone again.

"This is Shen Jianzhen, ask Qingxi to come here."

"Grandfather?"

After waiting a few seconds, the sweet but slightly puzzled voice of a young girl came through the phone.

"Qingxi, come over to grandfather’s place; there are some matters I need to explain to you."

"Alright, I’ll come over now."

"No need to hurry, come after dinner."

...

"What is... this?"

Even before he passed through the gate, Wang Yunxiao already smelled the thick scent of blood.

After resting briefly post-lunch, he, along with Yan Yu’an and Ito Hidemi, led their team to the local branch of Yamazaki Pharmaceuticals in Tianmen, or rather, what could be described as their office.

The staff employed here were all locals, who aside from speaking the Fusang language, knew next to nothing else. According to what they said, the staff dispatched by Yamazaki Pharmaceuticals stayed at the dock warehouse to guard the medicines.

But by the time they arrived at the warehouse, what they saw was a scene of Hell on Earth.

The entire warehouse was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with hundreds of heads hung from the ceiling by Red Strings; one could tell from the expressions on their faces that they must have suffered inhuman treatment while alive.