791: Chapter 786 Isn't that impolite?

Edward took out a contract from his briefcase.

"You've seen the situation outside. The Shenyan Group's ship is about to sink."

"Our family is willing to invest to acquire 51% of the equity in the 'sky city' project."

"Of course, the price might be a little lower than the market price."

"As long as you sign, those technical faults targeting the foundation will immediately disappear."

"The Bank loans will recover, the stock price will rebound, and you will still be a respectable tycoon."

This was naked robbery.

The kind where someone holds a knife to your throat.

Shen Yan didn't look at the contract.

He just looked at Edward, as if watching a clown.

"What if I don't sign?"

Edward shrugged, looking regretful.

"Then you will lose everything."

"Not only will the company go bankrupt, but you will also be saddled with tens of billions in debt."

"Your wife, your children, they will all end up on the streets because of your stubbornness."

"Mr. Shen, you are a smart person; you should know how to choose."

Shen Yan put down the fountain pen in his hand.

The pen made a crisp sound on the desktop.

"You are right, I am a smart person."

"That's why I never do business with the dead."

Edward's expression darkened.

"It seems Mr. Shen won't shed a tear until he sees the coffin."

He took out his phone and dialed a number.

"Make your move. Give him a little color to see."

The person on the other end was the data center in Iceland.

Edward hung up the phone and looked at Shen Yan with a cold smile.

"In thirty seconds, your proud foundation will begin to disintegrate."

"You will hear the sound of steel bars breaking—that is the sound of your dreams shattering."

Shen Yan remained silent.

He just raised his wrist and checked his watch.

"Ten."

Shen Yan started counting down.

Edward was momentarily stunned.

"Nine."

"Eight."

Edward frowned, a sense of unease welling up inside him.

"What are you doing?"

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

Time was up.

There was no loud noise from outside the window.

The foundation did not collapse.

Instead, Edward's phone suddenly began vibrating wildly.

He picked up the call.

A hysterical scream came from the other end of the line.

Accompanied by piercing alarms and explosions.

"Young Master! It's over! Everything is over!"

"Our servers are overloaded and on fire!"

"All data has been locked down!"

"That virus... that virus is coming back through the network!"

"It's devouring our Bank system! Our funds are being transferred out crazily!"

Edward's phone dropped to the floor with a thud.

His face instantly turned deathly pale, completely drained of color.

He looked at Shen Yan in disbelief.

"You... what did you do?"

Shen Yan stood up and slowly adjusted his cuff.

"Nothing."

"Just sending you a return gift."

"Lin Tuo calls it the 'Quantum Boomerang.' I think it's a nice name."

In those thirty seconds just now.

In the quantum laboratory beneath the Shenyan Group.

Lin Tuo and Adrian jointly activated the prototype machine they had just assembled.

They used the computing power of the pangu supercomputer, combined with the action-at-a-distance of quantum entanglement.

To amplify the massive data stream of the virus injected by the Cavendish Family tenfold and reflect it back.

The massive energy originally intended to destroy the foundation instantly surged back into the data center in Iceland.

It was like someone throwing a grenade into a pressure cooker.

Edward collapsed onto the sofa.

He knew what this meant.

The destruction of the family's core data, the paralysis of the banking system.

This was not just a monetary loss; it was the collapse of credibility.

When the sun rose tomorrow, the Cavendish Family would no longer be the overlords of Europe, but a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Shen Yan walked up to Edward and looked down at him.

"Go back and tell the old man in your family."

"The cake that is China is very hard."

"Be careful not to break all your teeth."

Edward was escorted out by security.

As he left, the man was completely stunned, muttering "Impossible" repeatedly.

Quietness returned to the office.

At this moment, the system notification sound sounded in Shen Yan's mind.

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for completing the mission: Desperate Counterattack."

"Successfully thwarted the malicious acquisition and technical sabotage by the Cavendish Family."

"Reward obtained: 3 billion US dollars from the Cavendish Family's secret Swiss Bank account (legally laundered and deposited into the Host's offshore account)."

"Advanced intelligence obtained: Core electrolyte formula for next-generation solid-state batteries."

Shen Yan's lips curved slightly upward.

Three billion US dollars.

Now, not only was there enough funding for the follow-up of the 'sky city,' but he could even start planning for that other project.

He picked up his phone and sent a message to Liang Yibai.

"Clear the scene and resume construction."

"Also, have Lin Tuo and Weiss come to collect their bonuses."

After sending the message, Shen Yan walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

The night view of Jinghai was still brilliant.

But he knew that starting tonight, the structure of this Jinghai, and even this world, was about to change again.

The next morning.

The Shenyan Group issued an announcement.

The supposed foundation hazard was merely an exercise conducted to test the new quantum-safe defense system.

Simultaneously, the Shenyan Group announced an additional investment of fifty billion to accelerate the construction of the 'sky city.'

This news was like a depth charge.

Retail investors and institutions that were selling off stocks yesterday were now crying and begging to buy them back today.

The stock price immediately hit the daily limit, with billions sealed in buy orders.

Across the ocean.

An inconspicuous piece of news was drowned out in the stream of information.

"Old European financial consortium suffers heavy losses due to hacker attack; several executives resign in shame."

Shen Yan sat on the lawn of the manor, watching Shen An, who was learning to walk not far away.

Liu Hui walked over, carrying a plate of cut fruit.

"Is everything resolved?"

Although she didn't understand the affairs of the business world, she could feel the tension leaving Shen Yan's body.

Shen Yan picked up an apple slice with a fork and fed it to Liu Hui's mouth.

"It's resolved."

"Just a few jumping clowns."

Liu Hui smiled and bit into the apple.

"That's good. By the way, Wu Ya called just now to say, should we take over that bankruptcy auction site belonging to Chen Wu?"

"She said that although the land has bad feng shui, the location is excellent. If used for warehousing..."

Shen Yan paused.

Chen Wu?

The person he had already crushed in business?

His land...

The tycoon system interface suddenly popped up.

"Information triggered: Fifty meters beneath the former Chen Wu auction site, a cache of gold from the Second World War is buried, valued at approximately five billion."

Shen Yan smiled.

When luck comes, it's unstoppable.

"Take it over."

Shen Yan stroked the little head of Shen An, who was crawling onto his leg.

"It's just right; I can build a playground for my son."

Just then, Song Guoliang's call came through.

The old man's voice sounded full of vigor, mixed with unconcealed excitement.

"Brother Shen! You played that move beautifully!"

"I heard that some old friends in Europe were selling off Cavendish Family bonds this morning."

"You're trying to crush them to death!"

Shen Yan leaned back in his chair, looking at the blue sky and white clouds.

"Old Song, the business world is like a battlefield."

"I did not intend to kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren intended to kill me."

"Since they handed me the knife, if I don't stab back, isn't that impolite?"