It was indeed a perfect setup, but would it be too serious? What Candy Hall did was indeed hateful, the child was innocent.
“In order to punish Candy Hall, even an innocent child, it is a little … too harsh.” It’s Joe Wright’s personal business, Emma Rosy can’t interfere, but still can’t help but remind.
Joe Wright, as if his mind was already made up, looked away from the city into the darkness and said coldly: “To be cruel to others, in order to protect yourself and the most important people in your heart.”
The next day, the sun rose as usual.
Eric Chan handed a document to Alex Brown with disappointment written all over his face.
“Mr. Brown, it’s still not working. The experts have gathered for several meetings and still can’t figure out a way to fix the surveillance video.”
Alex Brown elbows on the table, squeeze the brow hard, just feel the headache: “The matter of the design drawings, let’s leave it to the police to investigate first.”
Eric Chan froze, thinking he had heard wrong: “Then what do we do next?”
Alex Brown beckoned him to come closer: “We don’t care where the design goes, but the surveillance still needs attention. You go, hire a computer expert to fix the video with all your might.”
At this point, Eric Chan only thought that Alex Brown was still convinced that the previous judgment was correct, he wanted to persuade, but knew it was useless to persuade, so he honestly went to release the information.
Within half a day, the news was on the front page of every major website and became the latest joke of the year. The directors of Brown Group could no longer contain their anger and rushed to the company in a frenzy.
In the meeting room, an elderly board member slapped the table and reprimanded Alex Brown: “Two years ago, when you left the company in the midst of its growth and disappeared, I could see that you were irresponsible, and now you’ve done this series of actions to harm Brown Group.
A young man next to me agreed with a dark face: “That’s right! The most important thing now is to calm down the public opinion, get the business back on track and save the stock as soon as possible, and you? The police say the video can’t be fixed, you have to go to some expert?”
Alex Brown, who used to disdain arguing with a bunch of mediocre people, today, uncharacteristically, shouted in a fury: “Any order I give is well thought out and based on evidence, what do you know about it?”
Instantly, the anger of the crowd was pushed to new heights, and the old man with the white beard coughed so violently that he nearly fainted on the conference table.
Alex Brown, however, calmed down and swept his gaze sharply across the faces of every director present, observing their expressions and waiting for the result he wanted.
Finally, one of his cousins, who was still close to him, gave a wink to the surrounding people and spoke first: “Since Alex’s business philosophy is contrary to everyone else’s, and it will not be fruitful to continue arguing, why don’t we choose another wise person, what do you think?
Once the words came out, several people around immediately chanted and agreed.
Alex Brown hooked his lips and smiled, and tapped his fingertips on the desktop a few times, and the phone next to him suddenly rang.
After answering the phone, his smile intensified: “I have a good news here, before replacing me, do you all want to hear it?”
Most of the directors were displeased but curious when they answered the phone in such an important meeting, while the cousin changed his face slightly and spilled his cup of tea when he sat down.
Alex Brown stared at his cousin and deliberately slowed down his speech: “A certain hacker who claims to be one of the top ten hackers in the world accepted the invitation and is willing to fix the video data for our company, and said that he could find the IP address of the hacker who invaded Brown Group by some high-tech means.”
Seeing that the crowd are skeptical, and added with a smile: “Eric Chan through the hidden channels of investigation, has confirmed the identity of the other party … did not fake.”
For Brown Group, the most important task now is to find out the real culprit of the theft, stabilize public opinion, and save the stock as fast as possible, of course, on top of that, if the design can be successfully recovered, it will be an unexpected pleasure.
Therefore, the directors unanimously suppressed the idea of changing the chairmanship and urged Alex Brown to get the hackers involved immediately.
All of them agreed, except Alex Brown’ cousin uncle, who vaguely showed his concern in his words.
“The internet is already full of opinions about our move to offer a big reward, and the police have been working hard on the case, so I’m afraid that getting a hacker to help now will tarnish the Brown Group’s reputation, right?”
As soon as the cousin’s words fell, the young director immediately retorted, “I think Mr. Brown’ decision is very wise, it can be implemented!”
The white bearded director also agreed: “The most important thing is to solve the stock crisis, as for the reputation, it is not too late to maintain it afterwards.”
Not surprisingly, after the proposed opinions were rebutted one after another, the cousin laughed dryly and left the meeting room in a hurry on the pretext of going to the restroom.
At the secluded place at the end of the corridor, looking around vigilantly for a moment, he quickly dialed a number …
Ten minutes later.
When he returned to the meeting room, Alex Brown still had that disgusted smile on his face, and the directors were still stony-faced.
For some reason, the atmosphere around him seemed to be dead silent, so that people could not breathe, he pulled his tie, reached for his cup of tea but felt an empty one, only to remember that he had accidentally knocked over the cup.
“Uncle, you took long enough to go to the bathroom, not feeling well?” Alex Brown leaned closer to the conference table, propped his arms on the tabletop and looked at him with a smile.
Uncle smiled awkwardly, did not respond, changed the subject: “Where did the secretary go, even such a small thing as changing the tea cups still need to be reminded?”
“Heh heh heh …” Alex Brown shook his head and gave a light press on the remote control in his hand, as the screen lit up, the abruptly grim voice also sounded: “After watching this video, I guess you can change the place to drink tea.”
In the screen, Uncle was standing in the corner, full of anxiety.
“Hello? Did you leave any breakage when you invaded the surveillance system?”
“Don’t ask so many questions, talk quickly, or we all have to play the end!”
“Are you sure? But I heard Alex Brown say … well well, anyway, you find a way to hide, even if they really found, do not talk nonsense, okay?!”
Uncle used his position to steal the design, thinking that he could hire a hacker to infiltrate the surveillance system and delete the video at the time of the incident will be safe, but did not expect that Alex Brown will take advantage of his weakness and the surveillance that had helped him to make things happen, completely shattered his success already in hand.