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He currently leads a team of one hundred people to protect Stern's African laboratory.
"Hey?"
"Young Master, I have failed your expectations!"
Barney said through gritted teeth.
"Ok?"
Hawke frowned immediately, patted Andy's sister, and said calmly:
"Tell me what happened first."
"Yes!"
Barney explained the situation in detail.
Today, Stern went out to play golf to relax. When he was on his way back to the base, he was stopped at an intersection by a lot of cars.
Barney immediately sensed something was wrong and drew his gun to alert his security team.
really.
Soon, a heavily armed team surrounded them.
Well-equipped.
Well-trained.
It's obvious they came prepared.
The vehicle Barney and Stern were in was hit by an RPG, which blew it into the air, tumbled several times, and then landed. While Barney was briefly unconscious, the attacker rushed over and took Stern away.
The people who came were clearly there specifically to kidnap Stern.
Once Barney regained consciousness, he was naturally unwilling to give up and led his men in a relentless pursuit of the enemy.
However, the enemy was well-prepared, and although Barney and his men killed many of them, they still managed to take Stern away.
"Barney, I'm very disappointed in you," Hawke said calmly. "I thought I could entrust such an important matter to you and then rest easy, but this is the result you gave me? Letting someone who was completely under your control be snatched from your grasp by someone else. Tell me, what use are you to me? If you had been protecting me, and someone else had tried to assassinate me, wouldn't they have succeeded?"
"I……"
Barney's face turned bright red, he opened his mouth, but in the end he kept it shut.
Because he failed in his mission, anything he says now sounds like an excuse.
Hawke took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. After all, even a superhuman like Enfi could let Stern escape. Although Barney and his group were all elite soldiers, they were still just ordinary people.
However, Barney's mishap this time was definitely partly due to carelessness!
Even though he had specifically instructed Barney to strengthen Stern's protection after Stern made a major breakthrough in the development of the Extremis virus, because the Extremis virus still needed to continuously improve its success rate and even needed to be commercialized!
It hadn't been more than a few days since he had given Barney his instructions, and this incident had already occurred. This made Hawke wonder if Barney had taken his words to heart at all.
Are you taking advantage of my friendly attitude towards you and not taking me seriously?
Barney: "I was wrong. I'm willing to accept any punishment. Just say the word..."
"If they want to die or live, fine, but let's just cut off a finger as a small punishment to teach them a lesson," Hawke said casually.
If someone like Barney messes up a very important task and Hawke doesn't punish him at all, how will he be able to get things done in the future?
So, will everyone just drift along in doing things from now on, since there's no punishment for failure anyway?
A powerful family like the Ryan family has no shortage of people like Barney. They have plenty of capable people kneeling at the Ryan family's doorstep, serving as their lackeys.
Being a dog for the Lane family is far more comfortable than being a human being for many others.
"Thank you for your magnanimity, young master!"
Without saying a word, Barney drew his long knife and, with a light slash, severed his left ring finger.
Hawke also heard Barney groan over the phone, but he didn't even scream.
"Alright, let's get back to business," Hawke said expressionlessly. "Do you know who the other party is?"
“The other side was very professional, acted quickly, and left no survivors,” Barney said. “They left behind about ten corpses, but they were all unknown mercenaries and some unidentified people whose origins could not be identified.”
Hawke raised an eyebrow: "It seems the other side really did plan this for a long time, Fang, without leaving a single flaw?"
Barney remained silent.
"Alright, you take care of those corpses first and guard the lab. I'll go there personally in the next couple of days and settle this matter."
Hawke said in a serious tone:
"Protect the lab first. The lab can't afford any more problems, otherwise the consequences could be extremely serious, the kind of seriousness you can't afford!"
"understand!"
Barney said it with absolute certainty.
241 How strong can a mere minotaur demigod be?
Hawke hung up the phone, and his expression turned very unpleasant.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Andy said cautiously.
Just a moment ago we were chatting and laughing, but then Hawke started talking about things like "assassination," "cutting off fingers," and "corpses," and the tone of the conversation suddenly changed.
"It's about Africa," Hawke said, rubbing his temples. "A very important matter has been botched."
Andy nodded, she could roughly guess that Hawke had always been in charge of Ryan Biotechnology's business, and although she heard it was related to human experiments, she had never inquired about it.
"Andy."
"kindness?"
"I'm really angry right now!"
Andy gave Hawke a flirtatious glare and slowly shrank back down.
……
The next day.
The morning sunlight streamed through the window and fell onto the bed.
Andy opened his eyes and felt the warmth of the sunlight on his face.
She had barely moved when she suddenly realized that she and Hawke were still pressed tightly together, with Hawke wrapping his arms around her slender waist from behind, the two of them locked together perfectly.
"Like a wild buffalo."
Andy tilted her head to look at Hawke's profile, gave him a reproachful look, and blushed slightly. She then gently removed Hawke's hands from her waist, pulled herself out of his embrace, and carefully tiptoed off the boat. She took a new bathrobe from the wardrobe, tied it around her waist, and walked barefoot into the bathroom. Soon after, the sound of running water could be heard.
When Hawke finished washing up, Andy was already dressed in a business suit with matte black stockings, and had prepared breakfast: fresh vegetables and fruits, along with some bread and eggs—a nutritious and delicious breakfast.
After breakfast, Andy knew Hawke must have something to do today, so he said goodbye and left for work.
After packing up, Hawke drove alone and soon arrived at the building of Lane Capital.
Hawke went upstairs to his office and asked Jordan:
"Have Stark Industries' short positions been covered?"
"It's already closed out." Jordan said with a beaming smile, "Young master, our final settlement this time was $91.82 billion, which is a real windfall, it's awesome!"
Hawke nodded slightly: "Okay, I understand. But I'll have to trouble you again. Next, Agei Capital will go all out to short the Rockxen Group."
Hawke's first suspect in the kidnapping of Stern was Roxson.
After all, Roxson has a history of trying to acquire AIM.
The fact that they noticed Stern and went to such great lengths to intercept him, even at the cost of becoming mortal enemies with Ryan, suggests that it was done by another powerful force, just as Barney had guessed. Who else could be the prime suspect besides Roxson?
Killian, Killian, you're gone but you're still causing me trouble!
Mudd!
Hawke was really annoyed by Roxson. "There are so many advanced technologies in the world, such as Pym Particles, Ant-Man suits, and Gravitonium, why did you have to target my insignificant AIM?"
I blew up your factories twice before, and you still haven't learned your lesson. You still want to mess with me. What, are you addicted to masochism?
This time, if I don't teach you a lesson, if I don't beat you until your faces are flushed red, you won't know why you're so red!
"Huh?" Jordan was stunned and said, "Young master, we've already taken down Roxson twice. And now again? And if we go all out to short Roxson... I'm afraid it will be hard for us to hide ourselves. We'll be discovered."
Jordan now feels sorry for Roxson, who was once a super-rich oligarch with a market value of over $4000 billion.
Now it has been split into a company with a market value of about $150 billion, a decrease of $250 billion in market value. The sad thing is that although it was Lane Capital that brought down Rockxon, it only made a profit of more than $20 billion, and most of that money was used to acquire Rockxon Financial.
The rest were all swallowed up by other giants.
But even after all this, Hawke still wasn't going to let Roxson off the hook and was going to give him another blow.
"This is no longer about whether or not to take advantage of loopholes."
Hawke lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and said coldly:
"Just received news that Roxson attacked my biological lab in Africa and kidnapped my people. If I don't teach Roxson a lesson, they might think I'm easy to bully! Fuck those bastards, they even dare to steal my stuff, they're really asking for it! So what if they found out? I'll just fight them head-on. I'm not afraid of anyone!"
Jordan's lips twitched twice, and it was clear that the big boss was furious, his words laced with a strong "mother."
Although Jordan really didn't want to fall out with Roxson, wouldn't it be better if everyone just quietly made money?
If things really come to a head with Roxson, who knows what methods Roxson and Ryan will use against each other, and a small fry like him could easily become cannon fodder.
But Jordan obviously couldn't refuse Hawke's order, because if he did, Hawke would deal with Roxson before Roxson could even make a move.
He had already gone too far on Ryan's ship, and there was no chance for him to get off. He could only follow Hawke down this dark path.
“Yes, sir.” Jordan lowered his head. “I will do my utmost to complete this trade as you request.”
"Well, let's go."
Hawke nodded, took a deep drag on his cigarette, and then stubbed it out hard in the ashtray.
The Extremis virus is Hawke's private property; it's related to his future plans. And now Roxson just wants to steal it from you?
To be honest, if Hawke hadn't already found out on his way here that Dario Agger, the CEO of the Roxon Group, wasn't in New York, or even in the United States, and hadn't run off somewhere, Hawke would have gone and killed Dario Agger on the spot.
He really wanted to have a go at Dario Agger, this so-called demigod!