Chapter 528 Those Who Stay Near Vermilion Are Red
Alvin squinted his eyes, pacing back and forth in the office.
He chuckled softly, "The Rothschild Family has indeed acquired quite a few large corporations in recent years, but not a single acquisition was done properly."
"Better safe than sorry. Since they've already come knocking at our door with threats, I need to be prepared."
Alvin thought for a moment. "Walter, get on these two things right away. First, start a search to find any traces of the Rothschild Family's acquisition activities. Try to figure out their methods."
"Second, thoroughly check the Gemini app's program system from top to bottom. Make sure there are no vulnerabilities."
Walter nodded firmly.
The core algorithm of the Gemini app was big data matching!
In Veridiania, among the Gemini app users, there was almost no information that couldn't be found!
The only disadvantage was that the Rothschild Family was based abroad, so information about them was relatively limited!
But there's no wall that doesn't leak!
The Gemini app was no longer the startup company it once was—it had become a data empire!
Then Alvin looked at the cyborg security director. "Please bring my family to Wavehaven. For the next month, assign a few guys to protect them."
The man nodded.
Alvin turned to Walter again. "Walter, you're pretty well-known now too. What about your family..."
Walter laughed. "The only relative of mine the outside world knows about is Briana, and where she is now... if someone can still hurt her there, I might as well kill myself."
Alvin smiled knowingly.
Right.
Briana was on Phantom Island now!
Walter hesitated. "Mr. Weaver, should we notify Paul Three?"
"Even if I lent them two servers, they still couldn't trace Paul Three's identity."
Alvin smiled and looked toward the Witness building across the street. "That guy is busy with his physical stores right now. Something as minor as the Rothschild Family stops with me, Alvin. No need to bother him!"
The security director hesitated. "Mr. Weaver, what about your personal safety..."
Alvin chuckled!
He bent down and picked up the ornament Fero had crushed from the trash can. With creaking sounds, his fingers unleashed tremendous force!
He actually managed to roughly restore the metal ornament!
Alvin kept working on the ornament's details with his fingers. "He entrusted the Gemini app to me, so I must protect this foundation. Whenever he comes back, everything here must be safe and sound!"
Both Walter and the security director were stunned!
"Mr. Weaver, what's going on with your strength?"
Alvin smiled again. "Haven't you heard that saying? You become like those you spend time with. I got infected by that kid!"
Walter suddenly understood!
He'd heard from Briana that Mr. Weaver had spent three days on Phantom Island a while back!
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While Alvin shielded Elbert from trouble at the Gemini app, facing everything alone, he didn't know that in the building across the street, Elbert was being cornered by several people!
"I'm telling you, you've got some nerve!"
"Hanging around Witness all day—do you think that's going to help?"
"Let me tell you, you need to be strong yourself. With TO being so small, Witness won't take you seriously!"
The speaker was Finnegan from the Clark family!
He had two band-aids on his face and was arguing with Elbert, though he didn't dare get too close!
Elbert had originally come to check on work progress.
He didn't expect to run into them in the first-floor lounge!
"See these people?"
Finnegan pointed to three middle-aged men beside him. "These three are restaurant chain owners—Mr. Weaver, Mr. Greene, and Mr. Carr!"
"If you don't sell TO to me, I'll team up with them to open stores around yours and attack your shops with low prices!"
Elbert smiled mysteriously.
Witness had been quietly acquiring various small stores over the past few days. Things were turbulent behind the scenes, but few people knew about it publicly.
Finnegan's information was way behind!
Ring ring ring...
The phone of one of the bosses next to Finnegan rang.
He answered, listened for a few moments, his expression immediately turned serious, and he kept nodding.
"Finnegan, my company has an emergency. I have to go!"
With that, he hurried off!
"Hey... Mr. Weaver, where are you going?"
Finnegan looked confused as the boss completely ignored his calls!
"No problem. Mr. Greene and Mr. Carr together can still squeeze out your stores!"
Finnegan had just put his hands on his hips!
The phones of the other two bosses rang simultaneously!
Then both of them looked serious and hurried away!
"Mr. Greene, Mr. Carr, wait! What's going on?"
Finnegan was dumbfounded!
Elbert smiled slightly. "I'm guessing their companies were probably just acquired."
"Nonsense!"
Finnegan said angrily, "They all have companies with thousands of stores. They just got acquired randomly? They must have some urgent business!"
"I'm warning you..."
Just then, Finnegan's phone rang too!
He answered, and after listening for a few moments, his expression changed dramatically. He shouted, "What are you talking about? I just left the company 30 minutes ago and it's been acquired?"
"What? All the shareholders voted together? They kicked me off the board?"
"What? There are problems with my accounts? They're going to sue me?"
"That's ridiculous—I'm the company owner!"
"What? The new owner is TO?"
"This..."
Finnegan's body went rigid. He slowly turned to look at the young man in front of him!
Elbert said slowly, "I know TO well!"
Finnegan immediately swallowed hard!
Elbert looked up into the void. "Although you're the founder, after several rounds of financing, you only have 28% equity left. Over the past three years, you've embezzled $130 million. If convicted, that's over 20 years!"
Clatter!
Finnegan's phone dropped to the ground. His face filled with horror. "That's impossible! How could you have that much money! How could your little TO possibly acquire my company?"
Just then, Elowen, having finished her work, came downstairs and stood beside Elbert.
"Mr. Perry, after acquiring Finnegan's smart robot company, our robot supply speed increased by 3 percentage points. Although it's not much, it's better than nothing."
Finnegan's eyes widened. "Are you kidding? My production capacity is 30,000 units per year, and it only increased by 3 percentage points?"
"Wait!"
"You really acquired my company!"
"And Elowen, you're calling him Mr. Perry!"
Finnegan looked as if he'd been struck by lightning, trembling as he pointed at Elbert. "You're that Witness... Creator... you're..."
Elbert smiled calmly. "Let me simplify this for you..."
These familiar words made Finnegan's body tremble!
After a moment, his face twitched. "I'll get lost... I'll get lost..."
With that, Finnegan got down on all fours and slowly backed away!
His face full of fear, he said, "I'll do whatever you say. Can you please let me off the hook!"
Elbert smiled. "From now on, when you see Melissa, bow your head and call her Ms. Winter."
Finnegan had already backed away 15 feet, his face pale. "Fine, I'll do whatever you say!"
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