156: Chapter 156 is for protecting against wild boars, after all, this is the wilderness.

Chen Yuan's expression was serious to the extreme.

His handsome face, which usually carried a hint of languor, was now as taut as a piece of pig iron.

He looked at his sister, who was on the verge of tears, and then glanced at the screen, where comments like "Arms Dealer" and "Terrorist" were flooding the chat.

He let out a soft sigh.

This sigh was incredibly heavy, as if it contained the bitterness and grievances of countless days and nights, as well as the hardships of a conscientious entrepreneur starting a business in a foreign land.

"Nuo Nuo, do you also think that your brother is up to something shady?"

Chen Yuan did not block the camera.

Instead, he stepped forward calmly, exposing his righteous face completely to the scrutiny of tens of millions of netizens.

Chen Nuo bit her pale lips, tears welling up in her eyes.

She pointed at the Gatling machine gun on the wall, which exuded an aura of death, her voice trembling: "Brother, what legitimate Pharmaceutical Factory would mount a machine gun on its wall? That's a heavy military weapon!"

"Because this is Texas, Nuo Nuo."

Chen Yuan reached out and gently pressed his sister's trembling shoulders. His eyes were deep and compassionate, as if he were looking at a little girl who had never seen the dangers of the world.

"You only see that we mounted machine guns and put up electric fences on the walls."

"But you and the friends in the livestream have no idea what kind of nightmares we have experienced in this wilderness."

The scrolling speed of the comments slowed down slightly.

Everyone was waiting, waiting to see what kind of story this "domineering CEO" driven to the edge could come up with.

"Do you think the US-Mexico Border is some scenic tourist destination?"

Chen Yuan turned around and pointed at the vast wilderness outside the estate, his tone filled with deep accusation and helplessness.

"This is a no-man's-land! The ecological environment has long been devastatingly destroyed by decades of industrial pollution and illegal border crossing activities!"

"There are no police here, no rescue services, only those wild animals that have mutated in nuclear radiation and chemical waste!"

Chen Yuan turned his head abruptly, his eyes staring sharply into the camera.

"Especially those Texas mutant wild boars!"

"They travel in packs, and their bodies are over two meters long! Their tusks can pierce even ordinary steel plates! They are like a pack of starving bulldozers, crazily attacking any living thing they see!"

The livestream chat was quiet for a few seconds.

Then, a few scattered comments drifted by.

"Mutant wild boars? Texas wild boars are indeed quite fierce, I've seen documentaries..."

"But do you need a six-barreled Gatling gun to defend against wild boars? This thing is meant for fighting armored vehicles!"

"Streamer, aren't you bragging a bit too much?"

Looking at the skepticism in the comments, a glimmer of anticipation flashed in Chen Yuan's eyes.

He knew that relying on his own words alone wouldn't convince this bunch of silly netizens.

To deal with this kind of crisis, you need a "victim" to give a testimonial.

"Victor!"

Chen Yuan suddenly turned his head and roared at the fat butler, who was frantically wiping sweat in the corner.

"Come here! You tell Nuo Nuo and the friends in the livestream yourself what happened last month!"

Victor shuddered.

As a former CIA intelligence dealer, his ability to read the room was absolutely world-class.

Almost within a tenth of a second of Chen Yuan's roar, Victor's brain had already automatically generated a complete, tragic, and logically rigorous Oscar-level script.

He scrambled into the frame.

"Miss! Fellow netizens! You must seek justice for us!"

As soon as Victor opened his mouth, his eyes turned red instantly. His two hundred-plus pounds of fat trembled violently with his emotional accusation, looking as miserable as could be.

"You don't know, those wild boars are not normal animals at all! They are demons!"

Victor grabbed Chen Nuo's selfie stick tightly, and with snot and tears, began his performance.

"It was on the evening of the fifteenth last month!"

"Our Pharmaceutical Factory's night shift shuttle bus had just driven less than five kilometers out of the factory area when it was attacked by a pack of wild boars!"

"There were hundreds of them! They were like a black wall, directly flipping our reinforced shuttle bus over!"

Chen Nuo gasped, her little face turning pale.

"Flipped over? Then... what about the employees in the bus?"

"Employees?"

Victor covered his face with his chubby hands and wailed in pain, his voice hoarse enough to break one's heart.

"Old Tom from our procurement department, to cover everyone's retreat, had his calf pierced on the spot by a wild boar's tusk! If the boss hadn't arrived in time with the security team, there wouldn't even be bone fragments left of him now!"

"Do you know what that means?"

Victor raised his head abruptly, his bloodshot eyes staring intensely at the camera, as if accusing the world of injustice.

"We are a conscientious enterprise dedicated to researching and developing life-saving animal specialty drugs!"

"Our employees work overtime in the laboratory every day, striving to save those lives in pain. But after work, they have to face the risk of being torn apart by beasts!"

Victor pointed excitedly at the machine gun bunker on the high wall, tears streaming down his face.

"The boss spent a fortune buying this security equipment, not for anything else!"

"It's just to protect us defenseless researchers!"

"In this lawless wilderness, do we not even have the right to protect the safety of our own employees?!"

Deafening.

Every word was blood-curdling.

Victor's improvised speech, comparable to a Hollywood Best Actor, coupled with his desperate and angry body language, directly stunned the millions of netizens in the livestream.

The comments, which were originally full of skepticism, were instantly replaced by a sudden wave of sympathy and guilt.

"Holy crap... so that's how it is? Are Texas wild boars that terrifying?"

"I remember now! A few days ago, the news reported that a pack of wild boars attacked a farm in southern Texas, and even police patrol cars were flipped over!"

"That's so miserable! Poor Old Tom, he almost lost his life just working a job."

"Thinking about it, building a laboratory in such a godforsaken place, you really can't survive without heavy firepower for self-defense!"

"Brothers, we wronged President Chen! This is the kind of god-tier boss who puts employees' lives first!"

"What's wrong with using a Gatling gun to defend against wild boars? Having a fear of insufficient firepower is a traditional virtue of us Chinese people!"

"Umbrella Corporation is awesome! Physically transcending mutant wild boars, no problem!"

The direction of public opinion.

Was thus pulled back from "illegal armed separatism" to "a conscientious enterprise forced to arm itself to protect employees" by Victor's superb acting of crying and howling.

Chen Yuan looked at the comments on the screen that were starting to flood with "Feel bad for President Chen" and "Support Umbrella".

He secretly gave Victor a thumbs up in his heart.

This fat guy, I definitely need to give him a raise later.

"So, Nuo Nuo, do you understand now?"

Chen Yuan put on his gentle, jade-like expression again and reached out to tidy up the hair that had been blown messy by the wind for his sister.

"In this world, kindness needs to have a bit of an edge."

"The reason your brother set up these scary things is just because I don't want my employees to bleed, and I don't want you to worry."

The fear in Chen Nuo's eyes finally dissipated completely.

Replacing it was a complex emotion mixed with heartache and admiration.

She nodded forcefully, even feeling that the cold Gatling machine gun on the wall now looked like it radiated a sense of security for protecting the weak.

"Brother, I'm sorry, I wronged you."

Chen Nuo sniffled and lowered her head, feeling a bit embarrassed, "I thought you were doing something bad over here."

"Silly girl."

Chen Yuan smiled, pinched her cheek, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He had finally managed to bluff his way through this deadly public relations crisis.

Now he just wanted to quickly take this girl into the main building, confiscate her phone, and then make her stay obediently in her room until she returned to the country.

"Alright, it's windy outside."

Chen Yuan turned around and signaled for Victor to lead the way, "Let's go in, I've asked the kitchen to prepare your favorite..."

Before he could finish his sentence.

The ground suddenly transmitted a dull, rhythmic tremor.

"Thump." "Thump." "Thump."

That was definitely not a sound a human could make when walking; it sounded more like a heavy pile driver approaching at a constant speed.

The smile on Chen Yuan's face instantly froze.

He turned his head abruptly.

He saw that at the end of the gravel path leading to the logistics area.

A huge, black shadow, like a black iron tower, was striding out from around the corner.

It walked very slowly.

But every step it took was accompanied by the tight feeling of muscles stretching the suit fabric until it creaked.

The afternoon sun was completely blocked by its massive body, casting a large, suffocating shadow of death on the lawn.

On its head, it was wearing, quite comically, the pink lace bow that Jennifer had just tied for it.

But beneath those large sunglasses, what shone through was absolutely inhuman coldness.

Chen Nuo's hand holding the selfie stick froze in mid-air once again.

She looked up blankly at the terrifying giant that was two heads taller than Chen Yuan.

Her neck made an overwhelmed clicking sound.

The comments in the livestream, which had just calmed down, were once again plunged into a crash at this moment.

The crisp sound of swallowing saliva was clearly audible in the quiet garden.

Chen Nuo turned her head tremblingly, looking at Chen Yuan, whose expression had already completely stiffened.

Her voice carried a hint of a near-breakdown cry.

"Brother..." "Your security guard for defending against wild boars..." "Isn't he a bit ridiculously tall?"