Chapter 75: 500 Billion Inheritance
If he had known that Ace would become addicted to games after going to Nakahara Chuuya's house that night, Mori Ogai would have tried every possible means to stop Ace from going to Nakahara Chuuya's house.
But it's too late to say anything now.
Ace is now in the initial stage of contact. He even bought several game consoles at one time when he was offline outside Moriole, and installed a large-screen display in his leader's office!
It is well known that when people get too addicted to games, especially those that cannot be interrupted, they can easily forget to eat and sleep.
After getting the game console, Ace couldn't help but reduce the frequency of eating and going out for a walk.
At first, Sen Ou Wai thought this might be a good thing, after all, if he didn't go out, he wouldn't get into trouble, until he logged in three times and played all night.
Every time I go online, I feel very tired, sleepy, and heavy. When I look at myself in the mirror, I see dark circles under my eyes and there seems to be red bloodshot in the whites of my eyes.
No, he couldn't take it anymore. He really couldn't be in a good state to work at this rate!
Mori Ogai has said that he should control his gaming time, but it is also well known that people who are addicted to games find it very difficult to control themselves and put down the games. They will only "play a little more", "finish this round", "immediately, immediately"... However, the final result is that they play again and again, one round after another, immediately after finishing an hour, or immediately...
In short, I can't let it go.
This went on for more than a week. When he was correcting documents again, he was so sleepy that he was unconscious. His head tilted to the side, but he suddenly woke up and straightened his face. Finally, Mori Ougai couldn't stand it anymore!
After slapping his face with both hands for a while to wake himself up physically, he suddenly stood up from his seat and prepared to find Ozaki Kouyo to help supervise Ace's gaming time.
However, as soon as he came out of the office, he saw Ozaki Kouyo coming out of the elevator with a thick stack of documents.
Seeing that Mori Ogai was about to go downstairs, Ozaki Kouye was slightly startled, and then raised her eyebrows: "Sir Ogai, are you going out? That's really unfortunate, I just happen to have an important piece of intelligence to report."
Mori Ou smiled faintly and said, "No, it's really a coincidence. I was just about to come look for you. Come in." He turned and walked back to the office.
After Ozaki Koyo entered the office, the member in charge of security outside closed the door.
After Mori Ogai sat down at the desk, Ozaki Kouyo asked, "What does Ogai want to talk to me about?"
"It's not an important matter." Mori Ogai said, "Since you said you have important information to report, you should speak first."
So Ozaki Kouyo said seriously, "It's like this. The latest intelligence collected by the Intelligence Department is that a wealthy psychic died unexpectedly, and his wealth flowed into the underground world of Yokohama. It is reported that the total value of this wealth is 500 billion. At present, the news is only circulated in a small range, but it won't be long before the entire underground world of Yokohama will be boiling over it. Moreover, although the underground society in Yokohama is mainly controlled by psychics, it is not ruled out that underground forces from other places will sneak in and take advantage of the situation. By then, Yokohama will probably be in chaos."
In fact, they don't think highly of foreign forces. Yokohama's management system appears to be one thing on the surface, but is actually another. Only a fool would really believe it.
Japanese esper were concentrated in Yokohama, and those from other regions would only stir up trouble by sending their heads to the enemy. They would not gain any advantage in the upcoming chaos, but they would most likely make the situation more unpredictable. If there were foreign esper forces sneaking in, it would be even more difficult to say.
Although the entry of people with special abilities must be strictly controlled, if the other party is a person with special abilities whose identity has not been exposed, what if they enter the country with their special abilities concealed?
"These are detailed information on the current situation in Yokohama." Ozaki Koyo stepped forward and placed the documents she brought on Mori Ou's desk.
【Five hundred billion——?】
Ace, who had been daydreaming due to mental fatigue, caught the key words in his ears and immediately woke up. It would be more accurate to say that the pirates' enthusiasm for treasures made Ace excited all of a sudden.
[There are so many——] Ace made the sound he wanted.
After being here for so long, he still figured out the purchasing power of the currency here. He didn't need to readjust at all, the purchasing power of the Japanese yen and Pele were basically the same!
Even Daddy’s (in both senses of the word) bounty isn’t that high!
Mori Ogai was not in a hurry to express his opinion. Although the Port Mafia had suffered a huge financial loss due to Verlaine's invasion some time ago, in theory he should attach great importance to this huge sum of money.
But in reality, while seeing this huge benefit, he also saw the huge risk attached to this huge sum of money - as Ozaki Koyo said, this huge sum of money flowing into the Yokohama underground world will stir up a boiling chaos, and if obtaining the 500 billion is the main goal, one will inevitably be dragged into the chaos, and whoever gets the 500 billion, even if it is only a part of it, will become the target of criticism.
Even if you have had access to the 500 billion, you may be pushed out by others to take the blame, even if you have not actually obtained it. You don't need to actually obtain it, as long as you have had access to it, your enemies can spread rumors to push you to the forefront and use the hands of others to get rid of you.
Yokohama has been through ups and downs for the past few years. The leaders of the organizations that have survived to this day are not stupid. Even those who do legitimate business in Yokohama must have connections with underground organizations, or even be backed by an underground organization. Once the news of the 500 billion yuan flowing into the underground world spreads, Yokohama will inevitably fall into complete chaos.
Furthermore, in Yokohama's underground world, rumors spread very quickly, which means that Yokohama will soon fall into a period of absolute chaos.
Mori Ogai asked in a somewhat troubled tone, "Have you confirmed that the 500 billion mentioned in the intelligence actually exists?"
"It's very likely, but there's no way to confirm it's exactly 500 billion," said Ozaki Kouyo.
She had actually thought about the problem that Mori Ogai was worried about, whether the 500 billion was just a blank cannon launched by someone, with the purpose of disrupting the situation in Yokohama and taking advantage of the situation to achieve another purpose. She had also sent people to investigate, but it was really difficult to find out whether such things were true or false.
Sen Ouwai sighed deeply, "Please prepare for me. I will convene a staff meeting at 3 pm."
"Yes." Ozaki Hongye nodded and then asked, "Chief, you said before that you wanted to talk to me about something. What is it?"
Sen Ouwai paused for a moment, "There's nothing to do now, it's not important, let's talk about it later."
"Then I will go and prepare for the meeting."
"Um."
After Ozaki Kouyo left, Mori Ogai immediately began to teach Ace a stern lesson: "Ace, the situation will be tense and busy for a while. I hope you can regulate your schedule and ensure that I have plenty of energy. I believe that you don't want me to be killed by the enemy one day because of lack of energy, right?"
[…Oh.] Ace was completely obedient this time.
Indeed, no matter what, he could not joke about Sen Ou Wai's life. He still knew the importance of this matter.
After hearing Ace's response, Mori Ougai finally felt relieved.
He knew that once his life was at stake, Ace would definitely do what he promised and would never do as he did before, when he just said "I won't eat anymore after I finish this" and then picked up the potato chips again a moment later.
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Three o'clock in the afternoon, in the highest meeting room of the Port Mafia.
The colonel, Ozaki Kouyo, and A sat on both sides of the conference table, each with two of their most trusted subordinates standing behind their seats. Dazai Osamu, who had just been promoted to a quasi-cadre, sat at the end of the conference table, but quasi-cadres did not have the power to lead people.
The leader of the armed forces Black Lizard, Guangjin Liulang, stood next to the leader's seat, and it was at this time that Mori Ougai entered the conference room.
After he entered, all the seated people stood up and saluted him. When Mori Ouwai walked to his seat, raised his hand and pressed down, indicating that everyone should sit down, several cadres and quasi-cadres followed suit and sat down.
Mori Ogai sat in the first seat. After making sure that everyone was present, he got straight to the point and said, "An hour ago, I received a piece of information from Hongye-kun that a 500 billion inheritance flowed into the Yokohama underground world. What do you think about this?"
As the person who received first-hand intelligence and reported it directly to the leader, Ozaki Kouyo had already expressed her initial thoughts when she reported, and now she was waiting calmly for others to speak.
The colonel frowned and thought, but did not respond immediately. The 500 billion black money was a huge profit, but it was also a huge crisis, and there might be some conspiracy behind it. However, as a mafia, the port mafia could not just sit there and watch the money flow into other people's pockets. It was hard to say what they should do to be better.
Dazai Osamu had no intention of speaking at all. He openly absented himself and made strange faces at Nakahara Chuuya who was standing behind Ozaki Koyo. Nakahara Chuuya gritted his teeth and was furious, but he could not scold him.
There were three cadres and one quasi-cadre at the table, but A was the only one who was not in good shape. Everyone tacitly avoided the leader's face, but he couldn't help but secretly glance at the leader, wanting to see if the black spot in the white that appeared when the leader was talking just now was a missing tooth.
It has been more than two months since Morigu had the implant inserted, but the follow-up examination will have to wait until three months after the implant is placed, so he cannot install the repair now, and will have to wait at least another two weeks.
In the past two months, Moriou avoided seeing anyone as much as possible, even the cadres were rarely seen.
Sometimes they had to talk to Ozaki Kouyo and the colonel, so they also knew about his tooth loss. As for A, Mori Ogai basically let him go. All he had to do was submit various financial reports and summaries every month, as well as enough funds for him to continue to stay in his officer position. He didn't ask for anything else, and these things could be faxed to him directly or delivered by his subordinates. So A had never met Mori Ogai before, and naturally didn't know about his tooth loss.
Now, in such a situation, A suddenly realized it and was unable to react immediately.
Then his peeking gaze was caught by Sen Ouwai.
Mori Ogai looked at him with a smile: "Mr. A, do you have any opinions you would like to express?"
A: “…”
Although Officer A bought his position, he is not a fool. How could he possibly bring up the matter of the leader's teeth in such an occasion? No, it should be said that no matter what the occasion is, talking about his embarrassing things in front of his superior is something that only a retard would do.
A then smiled his usual business smile and said, "Ah... I was wondering, how come I didn't receive any news about such a huge amount of money flowing into Yokohama?"