Dressed like a real daughter, she leads a billionaire CEO to abuse a wealthy family

The Kate family is not considered a wealthy family in West Texas, not even middle-class. Because three generations have moved to Texas, their influence in West Texas has gradually shrunk, and most of them have turned to business.

"But the industry they are doing business in is quite interesting." Liancheng threw the information he obtained from the day's investigation onto the table. There were more than a dozen business scopes listed on the spread page, "Their main business is medical equipment, jade and jewelry. Rare mineral resources, tourism, metal manufacturing...do you feel familiar?"

He smiled meaningfully.

Even Qing Teng, who doesn't like doing business, also saw the clues at a glance, "These industries may seem incomparable, but when combined together, they are not the scope of alchemists' daily search for materials."

Traveling is for visiting places. Jade, metal, mining resources, including medical equipment, almost everything is serving the alchemists and the God Maker organization.

"And their company's operating conditions do not match their wealth rankings." Nanxu threw out another report, pointed at the numbers and said: "Companies such as the Kate family have been expanding externally, and a large part of them is operating at a deficit, but The family wealth is rising steadily on the Forbes list, and it has now entered the top five, almost catching up with our husband."

Although Xiao Yunting was still very impressive for attacking a family by himself, this was a situation that was not allowed for the demanding Xuanzong elders.

They even felt that third place was too low.

After all, Ye Lan just kept a low profile and didn't participate in the competition. If he really wanted to be on the list, he would definitely be number one.

But now a family business that has been in deficit for many years is ranked higher, which is obviously abnormal.

Where did those extra assets come from?

"Perhaps the information I have here can answer the question." At this time, Caroline took out a list and smiled at everyone: "I asked the noble lady of Xidian to check it. Although the Kate family has a low status, it is related to Many nobles have business relationships, especially the jewelry business, which is a regular provider of charity evenings, and the profits behind it are immeasurable."

As the wife of a former nobleman, she had her own connections and thinking patterns. She knew that the wealth of the entire Xidian was mainly concentrated in the hands of the nobles, so she followed the clues and found clues.

Ye Lan opened the auction quotations and found that the starting prices of the jewelry were exaggerated enough, but the auction prices were often thousands of times higher.

It looks... more like the nobles are actively transfusing blood to the Kate family.

"What kind of deal did you make that requires such an expensive remuneration?" Nan Xu sneered, with a hint of coldness on his face, "It seems that these nobles have also joined the Lao Shizi God Maker Organization. Patriarch, we promised the official I’m afraid my request will break my precepts.”

When he set out previously, Ye Lan only said that he was here to pick up something and would not disturb the local nobles.

But now looking at the list, Xidian may have fallen.

However, Ye Lan shook his head and said calmly: "There is no need to alarm these people. Since they have no contact with the Kate family, it means that something has happened and they will not take the initiative to help. And our purpose is also It’s not about dealing with Kate, it’s about following the clues and finding their leader.”

Catch the thief first to catch the king.

Once the leader is captured, this force will naturally fall apart.

Everyone understood and followed the timeline to explore the Kate family's past in Xidian.

After two days of this, news suddenly came of a volcano erupting in the Xidian Mountains.

"This volcanic eruption was caused by plate crustal movement. Not only in the Xidian area, many dormant volcanoes at the junction of the Eurasian plate were activated, causing countless casualties."

"The Xidian Geological Research General Administration recommends that residents around the world's dormant volcanoes relocate as soon as possible and stay away from the volcanoes! Please stay away from the volcanoes quickly!"

Early in the morning, the news repeatedly reported on the post-disaster situation. There was a layer of gray particles floating in the sky outside the window. It was the thick smoke from the volcanic eruption that was blown away by the wind.

One after another, rescue planes flew over at low altitudes, making explosive noises, which seemed to add a touch of ominous color to the entire city.

Before noon, the group of elders, Caroline and others who had gone out to inquire about the situation rushed over.

As soon as they entered the room, everyone's expressions were solemn.

"Patriarch, not only the volcanoes in Xidian are erupting, but the entire ancient European plate is shaking, and the Asian side has also begun to enter an emergency warning state. I feel that the situation is not good."

There are rules in the way of heaven.

Just like earthquakes and flash floods, they will occur from time to time for the purpose of racial reproduction and the survival of all living things, similar to clearing an area and changing its landscape so that more creatures can exist for a long time.

What seems to be a disaster for humans at the moment is actually a blessing to animals and plants for tens of millions of years.

But the situation is obviously different now.

Multiple volcanoes erupted, and their destructive effects were so wide that not only humans were harmed, but even vegetation had to endure hundreds of years under the cooling volcanic rocks before they could grow new green again. This is no longer in line with the laws of nature.

"Well, let's stop what we are doing for a moment." Ye Lan had already found a world map before they entered, marked the current areas where volcanoes are located, and drew a line with a red line.

Everyone walked over to take a look and hesitated: "This is...an earthquake zone?!"

"Yeah." Ye Lan responded and kept writing.

Everyone here is highly educated and has a certain understanding of geography. They can roughly draw a few earthquake zones with frequent plate movements.

But the one Ye Lan drew right now was completely out of the familiar area.

Emma, ​​who was more of a scumbag, couldn't understand it, so she took the initiative to ask, "Why did you connect all the dormant volcanoes together and cross the Atlantic Ocean? It looks weird."

Ye Lan was bringing a stroke to the surface of the ocean. Hearing this, he spoke up and explained to them in advance: "The dormant volcano is also an earthquake zone. It is only defined as low risk because it did not erupt tens of millions of years ago. Compared with what we are familiar with at this stage, Active volcanic and seismic zones, these volcanoes that erupted tens of millions of years ago are the most complete connection between plates."

"When they merge into one and connect together, the squeezed land becomes a raised mountain range, and the flowing underground fire erupts from the connecting soil to form a volcano. Then the underground fire is blocked by the mountains before flowing to other places and becoming an active volcano. "

"In fact, there has always been only one route for the underground fire. It connects the ocean and the land, and goes around the earth in a circle."

Accompanied by the cold words, the final red stroke returned to the original red dot, and a bright line stretched across the entire earth, shockingly cutting the northern and southern hemispheres in half.

Everyone looked down at the several obvious marks on the line, where the volcano was erupting at this time, and felt an ominous premonition emerging inexplicably in their hearts, which was extremely frightening.

"Clan Leader, don't you mean that the Earth Fire has become active again..." Qing Teng swallowed his saliva, speaking in a difficult tone, and it felt even more difficult to pronounce the words, "All the volcanoes on this line will come back to life, right?"

After adding the second half of the sentence, his voice couldn't help but tremble.

"..."

The room was silent for a few seconds, and then Ye Lan nodded slightly, "Yeah."

Everyone immediately felt that the Tianling Gai was freezing cold from beginning to end.