Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 492: Stealing

Lu Shaohua left and returned to Washington. In addition to preventing the Brown family incident from being suspected of lying to him, another reason he did this was that he was preparing to return to Hong Kong from Washington.

When Lu Shaohua returned to the hotel in Washington, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening. He entered through the back door of the hotel and returned quietly to his presidential suite, as if nothing had happened.

However, Lu Shaohua knew that tomorrow's newspapers and TV stations would definitely report the information that the Brown family was wiped out overnight.

But Lu Shaohua wouldn't care so much. Now the members of the Tiger Roar Mercenary Group had already left New York through special channels. In addition, after Lu Shaohua left, the Brown family's villa was burned down by a fire, which achieved the effect of destroying the bodies and covering up the traces, so it would be impossible to find out.

All in all, the demise of the Brown family had nothing to do with Lu Shaohua. Lu Shaohua had nothing to do, so he sat leisurely on the sofa with a smile on his face, looking at Li Zhijie and Chen Guobang.

"What's going on?" Lu Shaohua suddenly asked.

Lu Shaohua had just returned to Washington, and asked how things were going at this time. The meaning was self-evident, and he must be asking about the Brown family.

Li Zhijie also understood what Lu Shaohua meant, and after a moment's silence, he spoke. "It has been resolved. There was gasoline in the Brown family's villa. After we left, the entire villa turned to ashes. Well, the valuables have been moved out."

"It's quite valuable, right?" Lu Shaohua asked with a smile.

For a family like the Browns that is in the arms business, there must be a lot of valuable things in the villa.

Lu Shaohua's guess was correct, it was indeed a lot. After Lu Shaohua asked, Li Zhijie immediately answered. "According to current estimates, it is worth about 20 million US dollars."

After a pause, Li Zhijie continued, "Of the 20 million dollars, 5 million dollars is in cash, stored in a password box. It seems that it was obtained from a recent business deal. There are also other miscellaneous items, such as jewelry and gold, which are worth 5 million dollars. The other 10 million dollars are guns and ammunition."

Arms are also valuable. Once they are in the hands of the Tiger Roar Mercenaries, they can be sold to a seller. As for jewelry and gold, they are also useful and can be exchanged for money.

"Ha ha!"

Lu Shaohua laughed loudly, and then asked jokingly, "Does our main action have a bit of a robbery flavor?"

It is undeniable that Lu Shaohua's behavior was essentially robbery.

Li Zhijie and Chen Guobang both nodded in affirmation.

After being nodded by Li Zhijie and Chen Guobang, Lu Shaohua couldn't help but feel embarrassed, shook his head with a wry smile, and said softly, "Twenty million US dollars, twenty million US dollars is almost enough for our operation this time."

For this operation, the United States alone sent hundreds of people. It cost money for them to come to the United States, plus the purchase of arms and other miscellaneous expenses, so twenty million US dollars is really just enough.

"Yes." Li Zhijie agreed, and then said, "We suffered a lot of losses in this operation. Now we have 20 million US dollars to make up for it, which can almost offset each other."

"Yeah." Chen Guobang nodded in agreement.

"Ah!" Lu Shaohua sighed. He didn't want to see this happen, but it happened anyway. Lu Shaohua could only do this. He shook his head vigorously, forcing himself not to think too much, and changed the subject. "How are the operations in other places going?"

Although Li Zhijie came here with Lu Shaohua, he came back in a fighter jet. There were communication equipment in the fighter jet, so he could communicate with the ground and learn about everything through the communication equipment.

"Everywhere in Europe is going smoothly, with almost no losses." Li Zhijie concluded, and then explained, "This time, we used sneak attacks, breaking through the opponent's defenses before they could react, which is why we were so successful. As for the other things, they are almost the same, except for a part of cash, the rest are arms, well, we have evacuated the original place, and everything is going smoothly."

"What are the casualties?" This has always been a question that Lu Shaohua has been concerned about.

"There are only injuries, no deaths." After saying that, Li Zhijie paused for a moment and then said, "The number of injured is not large, only about a dozen people."

"More than a dozen people? Not bad, not bad." Lu Shaohua frowned. This number surprised Lu Shaohua. It was not that the number was too large, but that the number was too small. You know, there are dozens of branches of the Brown family. There are only a dozen injured people. What does this mean? Even a three-year-old child knows that this means that there are some places with zero injuries. "Oh! By the way, have you counted the captured munitions?"

The Brown family is the largest arms smuggling organization in Europe. They have many branches, and each branch has hidden arms. Now that the branches have been taken over by Hu Xiao's people, the amount of seized arms will naturally not be small. With a lot of arms, their value will certainly not be small.

"There are too many. We cannot count them at the moment. We have to wait until they are all shipped to Africa before we can count them." Li Zhijie answered truthfully.

"Oh!" Lu Shaohua responded, and then as if he had thought of something, he asked, "If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that there is no problem with the channel for transporting those arms to Africa, right?"

"Haha! No problem." Li Zhijie laughed and said, "It may be a little difficult to get the munitions in, but getting them out is no problem at all."

"Yeah." Lu Shaohua nodded, and he had some understanding in his heart. It was just as Li Zhijie said. It was hard to get it in, but it was not easy to get it out. Li Zhijie had at least hundreds of ways to get it out. "It's good that it can be transported out smoothly. Well, and how is the Brown family's arms business going?"

In addition to wanting revenge, Lu Shaohua also wanted the Brown family's arms business. You know, the arms business brings a lot of wealth to the base every year. How could Lu Shaohua give up this business?

Furthermore, the demand for arms in Europe is also quite large. Although it cannot be compared with the Middle East, it is not much different. How can Lu Shaohua not be jealous of such a piece of cake? More importantly, Lu Shaohua wants revenge and must take revenge. The result of revenge is the destruction of the Brown family. The arms business is a convenient way to get something for free, and it also brings interest. It feels like killing two birds with one stone.

"We are taking over." Speaking of the arms business, Li Zhijie was a little embarrassed and added softly, "It is impossible to take over the entire Brown family business. We can only take over part of it."

Taking over the whole business is impossible, and Lu Shaohua knows that. He has never thought about taking over the whole business. "Let's do it step by step. What we need to do most right now is to enter the European market and then swallow it up step by step. The Brown family's life channel is the beginning of our entry into the European market. We can do other things slowly."

Li Zhijie didn't expect that Lu Shaohua thought more thoroughly than him. With Lu Shaohua's words, he felt relieved and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "I'll let them hold on tight."

"Yeah." Lu Shaohua nodded, then waved his hand, not wanting to continue the previous topic, and changed the subject, saying, "How about this, you go back to Africa tomorrow, there's nothing to do here, and there might be something for you to arrange over there. Well, I'll stay another day tomorrow, and I'll return to Hong Kong the day after tomorrow."

"Okay." Li Zhijie responded.

As the topic came to an end, the conversation also ended. It was getting late, so everyone dispersed and returned to their rooms to sleep. Lu Shaohua did the same, he also went to bed and had a good rest for the night, and didn't get up until nine o'clock the next day.

The first thing Lu Shaohua did after getting up was to turn on the TV and watch the news. Just as he expected, a fire broke out in the Brown family's villa last night. Judging from the pictures on TV and the report from the TV station, he suspected that it was a revenge by enemies and a gang fight.

Lu Shaohua didn't completely believe what the TV station said, but it didn't matter what. He just knew that the matter would not be traced back to him. He watched for a while and then turned off the TV. It wasn't that Lu Shaohua didn't want to watch it, but Li Zhijie came in with a gift bag.

Li Zhijie's return to Africa was decided last night, so it was reasonable for him to say goodbye to Lu Shaohua before leaving. However, Li Zhijie's visit this time was not just to say goodbye, there was something else he wanted to tell Lu Shaohua.

"Xiaohua, Brother Guobang and I discussed it last night, and we're going to add thirty more bodyguards to you, twenty in the dark and ten in the light. Well, plus the eight you already have, that's a total of thirty-eight. What do you think?" Li Zhijie said in a solicitous tone.

Lu Shaohua officially stepped into the spotlight, and the threat to security would escalate. If more bodyguards were not added, the possibility of accidents would increase. However, adding thirty people at once was a bit too much. "Didn't we agree on twenty people a few days ago? Why did you add ten more?"

"Xiaohua, your safety is very important. It doesn't make any difference if there are ten more or ten less people." Chen Guobang couldn't help but interrupt.

Lu Shaohua sometimes needed to listen to Chen Guobang's words. Seeing this, he stopped talking and nodded. "Then you guys make the arrangements."

"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to come to Hong Kong to find you when I get back." After a pause, Li Zhijie continued, "As for the weapons, I've just called them to ask, it shouldn't take too long to develop them, well, if we can make it in time, I'll have the people who came over bring them here."

"Okay." Lu Shaohua did not object and said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll leave now." After saying that, Li Zhijie did not stop and left with those people from Africa and returned to Africa.

After the people from Africa left, Lu Shaohua's room returned to silence. Only the three Tang Daxin brothers, He Qiang, and Chen Guobang were left.

In response, Lu Shaohua did not say anything. Instead, he was happy to be alone and stayed quietly in the room for another day. The next morning, he took a flight back to Hong Kong.