I am Lapland’s rat!

Wait a moment.

Just when everyone was stunned, Wu Xian inexplicably understood Ya Jue's brain circuit.

No matter what, Ya Jue does not want to support Rhine Lifestyle in continuing to investigate the theft case!

The current situation is that if Yajue abstains, the number of votes in favor of abandoning the investigation will be much greater than the number of votes in favor of continuing the investigation.

But if Yajue gets William's equity, it is equivalent to William also abstaining from voting.

In that case, Yajue's position remains unchanged, but the group that supports continued investigation will win!

This shows one thing.

That is Ya Jue, who does not do business at a loss, and also believes that continuing to investigate the theft case is a loss.

But he also believes that spending 2000 million to buy William's shares at a huge premium is not a loss, and may even make a profit!

Very principled.

Wu Xian really... didn't know what to say.

"..."

William's whole fat face wrinkled up and he looked at Duck Lord's neck - because Duck Lord's face hadn't turned around yet.

"Mr. Duck Lord, are you serious?"

Duck Lord's neck is shaking: "Do you want to doubt my correctness as a successful person? Obedience is not blind obedience. Successful people with real vision will choose the opinions and opinions they need to follow..."

William: "...Okay, I refuse."

The price of 2000 million is already seven or eight times what he paid when he invested in Rhine Life five years ago. From an investment perspective, it is certainly a huge profit.

But from a long-term perspective, William still believes that Rhine Life can create more wealth for him.

So he won't agree.

This is his judgment as a successful businessman.

"Ok."

Yajue spread his wings, then turned his head and said to Wu Xian and Texas:

"I tried my best. The most important quality of a successful person is to retreat despite difficulties..."

Wu Xian: "..."

Well, he couldn't blame Yajue for anything.

Wu Xian's mood suddenly dropped, and the last chance of improvement disappeared.

In the conference room, after discovering that Lord Duck really planned to abstain from voting instead of voting against, William's face quickly revealed a sinister smile of success.

Even if Edmund and Kristen object, it will not help. After all, these shareholders provide funds to Rheinland Life for real rice, not for some illusory dreams!

At the shareholders' meeting, the shareholders unanimously decided to stop further investigation into the theft case and use multiple means, including legal means, to put an end to the destruction of Laboratory 42 as soon as possible.

Although Texas' refusal to provide information on how to infiltrate Laboratory 42 caused some headaches for shareholders, this was nothing more than a more troublesome problem when quelling the incident.

Judging from the legal evidence, at most one Silver Wolf Security employee will be guilty of infringing on trade secrets, and this crime is easy to litigate.

The most critical thing is that Silver Wolf Security must withdraw all the manpower that assists in case handling to prepare for the second achievement exhibition and other needs of Rhine Life.

This directly blocked Wu Xian's plan to secretly sneak into other laboratories of Beach Umbrella.

Unless he really wanted to be arrested by the police as the owner of the beast.

……

The shareholders meeting is over.

The shareholders and agents left the meeting room one by one with satisfaction. In the end, apart from Wu Xian, only Ceria, Muir Seth, Kristen, Texas, and Duck Jue were left.

"Sorry, Ceria...and Mr. Xiaoyin..."

In the main seat, Kristen's eyes were a little dim.

"Maybe I shouldn't be in such a hurry to raise funds, at least I should keep more than 40% of the equity in my hands..."

Wu Xian: "..."

Wu Xian didn't know what to say.

If Black Carbon had not destroyed the wall, although the result might still be the same, wouldn't these shareholders also reconsider their choice?

Wu Xian doesn't blame Hei Tan, he just blames himself a little.

Ceria took a few steps forward, wanting to comfort Kristen who was sitting there.

But at this time, Yajue, who was still sitting at the table leisurely, suddenly spoke:

"Hey, kids."

Duck Lord still masters his weird accent.

Wu Xian blinked and looked at the duck curiously.

But Yajue just waited for everyone's eyes to focus on him and said:

"Do you know why I don't agree with you investigating that case?"

2 The so-called purpose

"...Why?"

Wu Xian blinked.

It seems that Yajue actually has other options?

Ya Jue's words slightly dispelled Wu Xian's unhappiness, and he began to think about what happened in the shareholders' meeting just now.

To be honest, whether it was Mr. William or Mr. Charles, their aura was a little scary to Wu Xian.

After all, the shareholders on these tables are all wealthy people, and Wu Xian has been a man and a mouse all his life, and his most commendable experience is just facing Alberto with Lapland.

In the situation just now, although Wu Xian could not say that he had no chance to express his objections, it was really difficult for Wu Xian to be the leader when none of his companions spoke.

After all, he is just a rat.

At this time, Wu Xian, who had calmed down, quickly noticed something——

That is, in the meeting just now, Texas did not express any opinions.

Texas obviously didn't want to stop investigating the theft case, so he didn't say anything at all, which was actually not in line with this young lady's style!

"..."

Oh.

Wu Xian blinked, he seemed to understand.

Texas had no intention of “voicing” its objections at all.

He looked up at everyone in the conference room, and saw that Kristen, Seria and Mulseth, who were kept in the dark, all showed puzzled expressions. Duck Lord's eyes were hidden under his little hat, and Texas, who was sitting aside, still looked calm.

At this moment, the uneasiness and loss in Wu Xian's heart completely dissipated without a trace.

After completely calming down, he began to think about the whole story, including the reasons why the theft case had developed like this so far, and why the shareholders did not allow Silver Wolf Security to continue investigating the theft case.

Wu Xian knew that the reason for the latter was actually very simple.

It's not in the interests of the shareholders to continue investigating the theft, period.

In the eyes of shareholders, the theft of the calcification surgery unit itself has no harm to Rhine life at all——

After all, this batch of surgical units are just consumables at best, and the contracted OEM can make another batch for Rhine Life at any time.After the beach umbrella gets these surgical units, at most it will only cause some economic losses to Rhine Life. Even in the worst case scenario, the beach umbrella successfully imitated the surgical units, and the research on bionics no longer exists. In fact, It’s nothing to Rhine Life!

Because the shareholders know that Ceria, a top scientist, still has a lot of available research, it will still be economically beneficial to build another department if the bionics department is gone.

They didn’t know how helpful Seria’s research would be to Kristen’s dream. These capitalists didn’t expect that far ahead. They didn’t expect that Kristen would break the star pod ten years later. They didn’t expect that Seria’s other bioengineering research would have any impact on flying. Going up to the sky can be said to be of no use. ——Even if they thought about it, they would think it was meaningless, unless Kristen said that she wanted to build space-based weapons in the sky.

In comparison, the second achievement exhibition is much more important.

In the eyes of shareholders, Kristen is short-sighted. If she allows her opponents to take advantage of a case that will not have any impact at all and destroys important achievements, then she will lose sight of the other and lose the watermelon. An example of picking up sesame seeds!

The conflict between Kristen and shareholders can be said to be a conflict between farsightedness and pragmatism, or a conflict between idealism and realism.

As for the speeches made by shareholders at the shareholders’ meeting just now——

In fact, Wu Xian also understood at this time.

It's all just words.

At first, Charles wanted to defraud intelligence from Texas and achieve information-level suppression;

And William's excited accusation against Edmund afterwards was just to win the support of other shareholders by belittling his opponent in the debate!

These businessmen have a habit of hiding their true intentions.

Their only purpose is to get Silver Wolf Security and Rhine Life to stop investigating the theft.

Thinking of this, Wu Xian had a new level of thinking:

Could it be that the enemy of Beach Umbrella also realized that the shareholders of Rheinland Life were trying to stop the investigation, so he deliberately made the matter worse?

Probably.

The reasons that led to Beach Umbrella's actions, and why shareholders didn't want to continue investigating the theft, were set in stone from the beginning.

That was the first results exhibition.

The first results exhibition of Rheinland Life achieved great results.

Capital is all about profit. Under such circumstances, no matter what difficulties Rheinland Life encounters, it will never be as successful as the second Achievements Exhibition.

At present, from the perspective of the outside world, the current progress of the theft case is that Rhine Life lost the surgery unit, and then Rhein Life's people found a similar one next to the laboratory where the beach umbrella was destroyed.

There are questionable scandals on both sides. The scandal of Beach Umbrella was the theft of Rhine Life's surgery unit, while the scandal of Rhine Life was the violent destruction of the innocent laboratory where Beach Umbrella was doing related research.

Although Wu Xian knew that it was definitely the beach umbrella that was responsible, in the eyes of the public, it was impossible to tell which side was the victim, the beach umbrella or Rhine Life.

However, beach umbrellas currently have no weak points, and Rheinland Life has an exhibition of results.

Suppose that Beach Umbrella did not make any preparations and simply had a head-on confrontation, and the matter reached a point where both parties were unable to control it. After the evaluations of both companies dropped significantly, Rheinland Life was the loser!

What's more, the beach umbrella is larger, looks well prepared, and there are people on the police side?

——Perhaps the enemy of Beach Umbrella took into account the above things that Rhine Life would consider, so he greatly exaggerated his losses and made the matter bigger.

The beach umbrella's goal in exaggerating the incident was not really to file a robbery case or a trade secret infringement case and arrest a few Rhine Life people.

Their goal is to make shareholders stop investigating after weighing the pros and cons of threatening Rhine's lives like now.

From now on, this goal has been achieved.

……

Thinking of this, Wu Xian couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

"Both sides are old mille-feuille."

If he hadn't found that Texas was unmoved, he would never have imagined so much.

Wu Xian once again realized the gap between him as a rat and a truly smart person.

Because he didn’t realize it until now——

Even if it was revealed at the shareholders' meeting just now, Rheinland Life Insurance actually only owns 34% of the shares of Silver Wolf Security.

Rheinland Life's shareholders' meeting does not have the power to completely veto daily business matters such as investigating cases.

They can only ask Silver Wolf Security to fully fulfill the requirements of Rhine Life within the contract——

As for the remaining resources, Silver Wolf Security itself can still use them to investigate the case.

This is why Texas, who saw through the truth of the meeting, said nothing.

It was when Wu Xian thought of this that he calmed down from his disappointment.

--still have a chance.

Chapter 2 Hope is here

Of course, correspondingly, Kristen, Seria, Yara and others really cannot use Rhine Life's resources to help investigate the case.