Chapter 493 Blackmail
America.
Inside the Pentagon in California.
Victor looked a little strange at this time, but he still agreed to communicate on the phone.
After answering the exclusive hotline call.
Wu Wei's smiling voice came from the microphone: "Mr. Victor, how are you?"
"Stop talking nonsense. What do you want to say?" Victor said bluntly.
"It really makes me sad that Mr. Victor treats his friends like this! I originally wanted to tell you a very important piece of information, but it seems that it is not necessary now." Wu Wei said in a tone that showed he was heartbroken.
Victor still looked indifferent: "Haha, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, otherwise I will hang up the phone."
"Okay! It seems you don't need this news. Knowing this news can at least help you reduce your losses by hundreds of billions. I'm hanging up now."
Victor was shocked and didn't care about being pretentious. He quickly asked, "Wait! What are the conditions?"
"Conditions? We are old friends. It would hurt our relationship if we talk about conditions. Let's just forget it!" Wu Wei replied nonchalantly.
Fuck! Victor cursed Wu Wei in his heart for being shameless, but he still suppressed his anger: "Speak! America will not let you suffer any loss when it comes to friends."
"Oh? Are you sure?"
"I'm sure, as long as your conditions are suitable, we can consider it."
"Then I'll be frank. Our company is currently developing an island tourism project. You own quite a few islands in the Pacific Ocean, and our company wants to buy a few of them."
Victor remained silent.
"Our company wants to buy the Gilbert Islands and the Ellice Islands. The price is absolutely fair. How about 500 gold dollars for each island and reef?"
"Mr. Wu Wei, this joke is not funny at all." Victor replied in a low voice.
"Are you sure you don't want to sell it? If you miss this opportunity, you won't be able to find it again." Wu Wei reminded with a smile.
Victor fell silent again. He was thinking about Wu Wei's words and the meaning behind them.
After all, there was no reason for Sapiens to call the hotline for no reason, let alone make fun of him. Obviously, there must be a reason behind this incident.
But what exactly is going on?
Hundreds of billions in losses?
What could cause hundreds of billions in losses?
Wait! A guess suddenly occurred to Victor. Could it be... He asked in a low voice, "Is it an earthquake?"
"What? What is Mr. Victor saying? I don't seem to understand." Wu Wei asked in an affirmative tone.
And Victor also heard the answer at this time.
That is, the Sapiens Company already knows that a major earthquake is about to occur in America or the Free Union, but the other party just won't tell America the specific information.
"Change the terms! I can't sell those two islands to you."
Wu Wei calmly reminded, "Why bother? Anyway, those two islands are going to be destroyed this time. If you sell them to our company, you will make a lot of money."
Hearing this, Victor's expression became even more serious.
Obviously he understood the implication of Wu Wei's words, which was that the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands were both severely affected by this earthquake.
The only possibility he could think of now was that a major earthquake triggered a super tsunami, submerging the two archipelagos.
This information made Victor even more uneasy.
"Since Mr. Victor is not interested in selling the two islands, I won't bother you anymore. If you change your mind, you can always call my hotline, but you'd better hurry up!"
After saying that, Wu Wei hung up the phone.
Victor did not continue to dwell on the phone as he needed time to think and report the matter to the Hilltop City Council.
He quickly sorted out his thoughts and quickly consulted experts from the earthquake monitoring department.
Although Wu Wei provided very few clues, he still analyzed the areas where earthquakes might occur.
Based on the information about the flooding of the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands, he deduced that the earthquake occurred along the west coast of North America.
According to earthquake experts, there are two fault zones in the west coast of North America, namely the Aleutian Fault Zone in Alaska and the Cascadia Fault Zone near California.
Given the potential loss of hundreds of billions, he ruled out the uninhabited Aleutian Fault Zone.
Therefore, the earthquake is most likely to occur on the Cascadia Fault Zone near California.
But knowing this news is not of much use.
The reason is that there is no exact time and place. We can't ask everyone in California and Washington to leave the coastal areas for a few months, right?
The west coast region of North America is very important now because it is the core trade channel between North America and Northeast Asia, and there is definitely no way it can be interrupted for a few months.
What's more, what if the Sapiens company deliberately misled him? Or what if the earthquake happened in Japan?
As long as the Homo Sapiens company does not provide the exact time and place, America will be worried.
Victor, holding the analysis report, quickly went to Seattle and secretly met with Thomas Morgan there.
Inside a safe house in an underground bunker.
"Big earthquake?" Thomas frowned. "Is that true?"
Victor shook his head. "I don't know either. After all, we don't have earthquake prediction technology. But Sapiens Company shouldn't deceive us."
Thomas put down the documents in his hand and felt a headache.
It’s not that he is troubled by the earthquake. After all, even if he knew about it in advance, it would be difficult to completely avoid the losses.
What is really giving him a headache now is whether or not to sell the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands to Sapiens Company and then obtain accurate information about the earthquake.
Although the two archipelagos are part of a free association, their core rights are firmly controlled by America.
Just do this, is it worth it?
Although the combined land area of these two archipelagos is less than 1,000 square kilometers, their exclusive economic zones cover nearly 5 million square kilometers.
Moreover, these two archipelagos are transportation hubs connecting North America to Oceania.
Once the two archipelagos are sold to Sapiens, there will be an island chain between North America and Oceania.
For the Sapiens Company, after acquiring the two archipelagos, the company can basically travel unimpeded between Southeast Asia and South America.
Thomas quickly convened a video conference with the City on the Hill board of directors and other directors.
After hearing the news, all the directors began to talk about it.
"Thomas, what do you think?" James Rockefeller asked, biting his cigar.
Thomas expressed his thoughts: "If we don't agree to the agreement with Sapiens now, they will definitely not cooperate with us in the future. We don't have the early warning technology for earthquakes, which will be very troublesome in the future."
"But if we agree to them, our power in the Pacific will be divided into two, which is too dangerous," DuPont warned.
Thomas continued, "I know, so we have to find a way to negotiate with Sapiens to demilitarize the two islands while retaining our freedom of navigation rights and requiring Sapiens to provide long-term seismic services."
"Is that so?"
"If that's the case, it's not unacceptable."
After all, the earthquake prediction service of the Sapiens Company is indeed very powerful, and they can obtain long-term earthquake prediction services, so they are not losing too much.
After a heated discussion.
The Hilltop City Council finally made a decision.
