Chapter 547: Chapter 322 Mountain Collapse
“Is there someone, military personnel?”
The girl shielded her eyes from the bright light, struggling to look outside, where a dense crowd of people pressed in close!
Above, the four jet propulsion engines of a floating machine emitted a faint blue glow.
In front of the taxi, a squad of armed soldiers approached.
“Get out.”
Four soldiers simultaneously covered each door, their gun barrels pointed inward.
The intense lighting allowed Wang Nuonuo to barely make out their military uniforms.
They really were Federation soldiers!
“Get out for inspection!”
Hearing the stern command again, she saw the taxi driver obediently step out of the car, so she too pushed open the door and got out.
“Federation Special Guard here, are you Miss Wang Nuonuo?”
A soldier showed his identification, revealing a Captain rank.
“I am. Why are you stopping me!” Wang Nuonuo looked at him angrily.
The officer was unmoved, “Are you a director of Loki Heavy Industry?”
After a moment of hesitation, Wang Nuonuo recalled the 15% of shares she held and nodded, “I am.”
“Your company is suspected of smuggling military arms. Please come with us.”
“How is that possible! I’m a student at Dingchuan Academy, on what grounds are you arresting me!” Wang Nuonuo blurted out a crucial term.
Dingchuan Academy!
“Please calm down, Miss Nuonuo. This is just a routine inquiry. May I ask if Mr. Rodrick is part of your company?” A soldier cloaked in a cape stepped forward.
It was evident that when he appeared, the soldiers around him automatically cleared a path for him.
His voice was calm but carried an undeniable threat, which made Nuonuo’s fiery temper falter, “Yes.”
“Then there’s no mistake. We’ve found illegal weapons on your ship that fall under Federation’s embargo and are classified as mass destruction weapons. Consequently, the highest responsible person on the ship, Rodrick, has already been detained by us.”
“What, you’ve already captured Uncle Rodrick?” Wang Nuonuo’s eyes widened in disbelief, as she hadn’t even reached Spaceport 15 and she was already facing the military’s presence.
Moreover, she heard from them about Uncle Rodrick’s arrest.
“Where is he now!?” she asked urgently, flustered with concern. She was desperate to see him and confirm the actual news from him directly.
What exactly had happened to her grandfather!
Why had the officer in front of her not once mentioned her grandfather’s name!
Her heart slowly sank to the bottom, Wang Nuonuo took a few deep breaths to regulate her breathing.
Surrounded by these military men, the tall figure of the young lady finally showed the grace of a well-bred heiress, forcibly adjusting her emotions and asserting formally, “I am Wang Nuonuo, the highest-ranking officer of Loki Heavy Industry on Blue Capital Star. Please take me to see Mr. Rodrick.”
The cloaked officer nodded slightly and turned away, uttering indifferently, “Take Miss Nuonuo to the car.”
Scanning the hundreds of soldiers around her, Wang Nuonuo showed no fear.
When Wang Nuonuo entered the armored transport vehicle, the cloak-enveloped officer and a Lieutenant beside the vehicle exchanged a glance and nodded to each other.
The Lieutenant took out a ring-shaped attachment device from his pocket and pressed it directly onto the armored vehicle.
A pale blue light flashed briefly, as if nothing happened.
A communication jammer!
After all this, the military unit quickly withdrew from the area.
Once inside the dark armored vehicle, Wang Nuonuo sat for a moment, forcing her mind to cool down, finally able to think somewhat clearly.
Suddenly, she remembered, before leaving she hadn’t told anyone!
And her Sky Communication device had just broken…
“Give me a Sky Communication device, I want to make a call!”
Nuonuo stood up and called out to the front, believing that there must be someone on the other side of that communication port.
“I’m sorry, this is a military secret; communication is forbidden.”
“I haven’t been formally arrested yet! I demand the right to communicate!”
With a clang, the light coming through the communication hole vanished, as the other side unilaterally closed the soundproof panel.
Beneath the faint starlight of night, the convoy began to speed back to Warehouse No. 55.
…
When Nuonuo was taken away by the military, it was as if the epicenter of an intense nuclear blast emitted an invisible shockwave, spreading in all directions.
Not far off, two convoys had already converged on highway N104, and after meeting, they merged into one.
Two limited edition Black Duke floating cars drove side by side.
Gaoling Ze and Lin Wu exchanged glances through the double-glazed windows.
One wore an excited smile, the other’s expression remained calm.
But in the moment their eyes met, both showed a knowing smile.
Just now, direct descendants of the Tang family had found each of them separately, delivering just a slip of paper with the same message: “Success, come to the assembly.”
Thereupon, Gaoling Ze excitedly grabbed the buttocks of a Jigu Clan female slave in his embrace and set out from his villa.
Lin Wu, on the other hand, emerged from an office of a bank owned by the Lin family. His convoy had been waiting for some time.
Besides the driver, Lin Wu was alone in the car. Resting his head against the soft sofa seat, he murmured to himself: “What a viper, so unexpectedly quick… and with so many hidden moves. Almost emerging simultaneously, they severed Loki Heavy Industry’s financial lifeline… Clever move, to have held back until now, tsk tsk.”
Peace soon returned to the interior of the car, with only the driver focused on driving, oblivious to everything else.
…
On the distant Purple Jade Star, at this moment, eight major shareholders of Loki Heavy Industry simultaneously declared their divestment and transfer of shares, leaving only Wang Ji with 36% of the shares, Wang Nuonuo with 15%, and 20% of floating shares on the market!
Amid such a major event, multiple attempts to contact Wang Ji failed, resulting in his automatic absence from the board meeting.
Consequently, a mysterious shareholder instantly acquired 29% of the shares, becoming the second-largest shareholder of Loki Heavy Industry!
In such a peculiar moment, with Wang Ji absent, this behind-the-scenes controller, with the support of the original eight major shareholders, effortlessly penetrated several key business channels of Loki Heavy Industry. They announced that the company was entering a tumultuous period of restructuring, integrating finances, and postponing payments for raw materials and parts.
The result was…
In the eyes of the old-timers loyal to Wang Ji, the once mighty Loki Heavy Industry seemed to have rapidly transitioned from its peak to its decline.
And almost instantly, the new management appointed by the major shareholder sidelined them!
They also sought out Wang Ji and Wang Nuonuo, to no avail through Sky Communication!
The Blue Capital Star branch was unreachable as well!
For they didn’t know that in the Blue Capital Star branch, a group of bewildered employees had already been taken away by the suddenly appearing police, accused of arms smuggling.
Therefore, they pinned their hopes on Wang Nuonuo’s father on the distant Capital Star—Wang Lingfeng!
They were grasping at straws; Wang Lingfeng, who never involved himself in the group’s affairs and had no shareholdings, was a Colonel at the Staff Department of the Capital Star Military Department!
His Sky Communication was strictly monitored by the military.
Thus, this incoming Sky Communication call was reported following standard procedures.
However, extremely inconveniently…
A day before, Wang Lingfeng had received an urgent mission to inspect a secret base with an important person from the Senate.
All Sky Communication was confiscated!
Personal communications were strictly prohibited!
So, in the end, the senior members of the Loki Heavy Industry on Purple Jade Star, betrayed and divested by many old-timers within the company, and without any contact with the true spokesperson Wang Ji, were mercilessly abandoned.
It all seemed as though an invisible hand was orchestrating everything meticulously across tens of light-years.
Like a machine, precise and cruel.
…
Meanwhile, on Blue Capital Star, at Dingchuan Academy.
Mu Fan still sat in the auditorium, smiling as he watched the stage, because Rachel’s fiery and enthusiastic voice was announcing the arrival of the next act: “Coming up is the ninth act of this evening’s festivities, please welcome…”