Qiao Dahua looked at the safe behind the wine cabinet. The safe was still intact, and Qiao Dahua finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He even reached under the safe and felt around. In an inconspicuous spot, a small piece of transparent tape was affixed. If anyone had opened the safe door, this tape would have been damaged.
Now, feeling the transparent tape, perfectly intact, Boss Qiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He dismissed his subordinates, entered the password on the safe, inserted the key, and verified his fingerprint.
After a series of operations, the lock inside the safe finally clicked, and the cabinet door opened.
Qiao Dahua looked into the cabinet and let out a cry, then fainted.
It turned out that the large amount of foreign currency, jewelry, and various bills and documents stored in the cabinet had all vanished without a trace!
The inside of the safe was completely ransacked, leaving Qiao Dahua with absolutely nothing!
Qiao Dahua had not yet recovered from his physical weakness. Suddenly receiving this shock, his blood pressure surged, and he fainted on the spot.
His subordinates outside the door heard that something was wrong inside the room. They rushed in and, after shouting for a long time, managed to revive Qiao Dahua.
Qiao Dahua glanced at the safe and fainted again.
In this manner, after fainting three times, Qiao Dahua finally accepted the reality. The blow was simply too immense for him!
It was not that Boss Qiao had poor psychological resilience; it was simply that his losses this time could be described as immeasurable!
For example, he had lost many bank cards, all obtained with fake identities, some even foreign ones, opened in foreign banks.
He did this because he knew that some of his business dealings were shady. If he ever had to flee, these assets would be his capital for the rest of his life!
The money in these cards, totaling billions, was his life savings, and now it was all gone!
Even more devastating was the loss of his forged passports, fake identities, and documents!
This meant that these items could not be re-fabricated, nor could he report them lost using these forged documents. All these billions were gone!
The losses were even greater with those documents. Without them, their projects could not be approved and could not proceed.
Of course, these documents could be reissued, but it would likely take several months. On the construction site, a delay of several months would mean millions or even hundreds of millions lost.
More critically, reissuing these documents required other files and certificates, which were also in the safe and lost along with everything else.
Ling Tian was no saint. He handed over the items he had acquired directly to the Misty Rain Pavilion, which had the channels to extract the money from the cards and quietly absorb it.
As for the documents and other items, they had already been burned, leaving no trace of ash!
This was exactly the outcome Ling Tian desired. Qiao Dahua was now in a dire situation, and he and his company were in big trouble, leaving them no time to deal with the orphanage.
However, Ling Tian soon seemed to remember something. There was still a guy named Qiangzi.
Qiangzi was also very frustrated. He thought he had landed a big job, as Boss Qiao was very generous.
Moreover, this time, it was just to annoy the people at the orphanage. Even if caught, it would only be a couple of days of detention. Qiangzi and his subordinates were regulars at the detention center; they knew which way the door opened with their eyes closed.
As it turned out, halfway through the deal, he and Boss Qiao had both come down with diarrhea.
Qiangzi had been nearly driven to death by the illness for several days. However, the more serious consequence of this incident was the complete collapse of the "big brother" image he had painstakingly cultivated among his subordinates over the years.
Although his subordinates remained outwardly respectful, he could keenly sense the strange looks they gave him.
After lying in the hospital for four days, Qiangzi couldn't stand it anymore. The hospital was too strict, forbidding smoking and drinking, and there were no women, which made Qiangzi very uncomfortable. So, he discharged himself.
Qiangzi lived in a high-end community in Jiangzhou City, in a four-bedroom, two-living-room apartment. Besides him, four younger brothers lived there, attending to his daily needs.
As for women, Qiangzi hadn't called for any yet. He was still weak and impotent.
He could only lie on the bed, bored, watching silly videos on his phone. As he watched, he grew sleepy and drifted off to dreamland.
At midnight, he suddenly felt something was wrong with his body. Qiangzi opened his eyes, trying to move, but found he couldn't move at all.
It felt like being sleep-paralyzed. He wanted to call his subordinates, but his neck felt as if it were being choked, and he couldn't make a sound.
Just then, the lights in the room suddenly turned on. The blinding light forced Qiangzi to close his eyes. When he opened them again, he nearly wet himself in fright.
In front of him stood a person wearing a Halloween ghost mask.
It was late at night, he couldn't move, and then suddenly seeing this figure, the scene was as terrifying as it could get.
The person in the ghost mask reached out and touched his throat. Immediately, he felt the blockage in his neck being removed.
"Who... who are you? How did you get here?"
"Heh heh, you can shout. Shout as loud as you can. Even if you scream your lungs out, your four subordinates outside won't save you.
Those four men probably won't wake up!"
The man in the ghost mask was Ling Tian. He had altered his voice, making it sound very eerie.
However, when Qiangzi heard these words, he felt terrible.
In fact, the four men outside had been overcome by Ling Tian's sleeping gas and were lying there like dead dogs, which was why Ling Tian said they wouldn't wake up.
But Qiangzi, at the opportune moment, misunderstood the statement. He thought Ling Tian had killed all four of them; dead people naturally wouldn't wake up.
"You... you... why are you looking for me? I've never met you, nor have I offended you!"
"Heh heh, Qiangzi, haven't you heard the saying, 'If you do nothing wrong, you won't fear the knocking of ghosts'?
You've done too many wrong things, and you're going to face retribution, do you know that?"
"I... I..." Qiangzi's heart was in turmoil. This guy was young but had been involved in society for a long time, doing countless wrong deeds and offending countless enemies. He couldn't imagine who this enemy was or which deity he had offended.