Chapter 3276 — The Songshan Orphanage
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As for Wei Zhao, he naturally followed behind Fanny, wearing the eager look of a man glad to help.
Since Wei Zhao had helped carry the drugs over before, neither Fanny nor the general manager harbored the slightest suspicion of him.
Fanny was clearly used to doing this for the general manager. She opened the laptop, brought up the online banking page with practiced ease, and typed in the Conch Group's corporate account number. What remained below was the payee's account number and password, for He Dantou to enter.
"Let me carry it for you!" Just as Fanny was about to lift the laptop, Wei Zhao appeared right on cue, reaching out and motioning for her to hand it to him.
Fanny gave it no thought. She nodded and let Wei Zhao take the laptop, and then the two of them walked together toward the outer office.
Wei Zhao, however, deliberately fell half a step behind Fanny. He had had his eye on this laptop all along, and now, seizing the moment when she was not looking, his fingers flew across the keyboard.
Wei Zhao's hands were remarkably quick—otherwise, when he had first come to Songshan City, he could never have lifted the money from those swindlers right under their noses and in front of Wang Xinyan. So the instant he stepped out of the inner office, his work on the keys was already done.
Once out of the inner office, Wei Zhao respectfully set the laptop down before He Dantou and said with a smile, "President He, please enter your card number and password!"
At that moment the laptop screen was angled directly toward He Dantou. And since a password was to be entered, neither the general manager nor Fanny could very well keep watching the screen; Wei Zhao, for his part, made a show of avoiding any impropriety: "The coffee's gone cold. I'll go fetch some hot water!"
With that, Wei Zhao pushed the door open and walked out of the general manager's office.
"President He, please inspect the goods!" The general manager nodded and said to President He, "I'm sure you're an old hand at this. Before you came, you must have done your homework on the purity of the drugs. What I've prepared for you is, of course—" Of course, Wei Zhao had not left the office to fetch hot water. Wei Zhao was running. The goods were in hand; to linger here any longer would only be asking for trouble.
So Wei Zhao stepped into the elevator, but he did not ride it all the way down to the bottom floor. Instead he got off at the floor where the real Secretary Lu had collapsed, hurried into a stall in the restroom, swapped his own clothes with Secretary Lu's, and then massaged the back of Secretary Lu's neck a few times. Only then did Wei Zhao push the door open and step out. He reckoned Secretary Lu would wake on his own in about ten minutes.
That done, Wei Zhao quickly took the elevator again, left the Conch Group, hailed a passing car outside the building, and sped away.
Upstairs, in the general manager's office.
"There we are, General Manager. The transfer has gone through—three hundred million euros, exactly the price we agreed on," He Dantou said, clicking the confirm key on the computer and entering the SMS verification code from his phone to complete the transaction.
"Mm, my phone gives me deposit alerts. It'll come through in a moment." Seeing President He transfer the money so readily, the general manager nodded in satisfaction, and his guard lowered. It seemed the overseas cultivators' association was quite sincere about this deal; the missing euros in that suitcase had probably been an accident after all.
But after about five minutes, the general manager still had not received the deposit notification, and he could not help but frown slightly. His account was held at one of the most advanced and efficient banks in the world; transfers were normally credited in real time. There was no way five minutes could pass without the money arriving.