In a top-tier restaurant, usually bustling with business, the atmosphere today was unusually quiet because one person had booked the entire venue.
Numerous bodyguards in black suits stood guard around the restaurant.
Long Taotian, dressed in designer clothes, sat waiting for his clients.
Long Taotian was Long Fei's cousin, the eldest son of his second uncle, Long Yingxiao, and the third grandson of Long Dingkun.
With his father's care and assistance, Long Taotian also controlled a subsidiary of the Long Family's enterprises. Although it was a subsidiary, its assets reached hundreds of billions.
"Long Fei, Long Fei, I kindly invited you yesterday, and you dared to ignore me. You don't even consider your own status, yet you dare to be so ungrateful. Don't blame me for dealing with you later."
Taiga and Gude arrived at the restaurant one after another and shook hands with Long Taotian.
"May we know what business you have for us, Young Master Long?"
"I dare not ask for your help, but I have a business deal I'd like to discuss with you both."
Upon hearing about business, the two men's spirits lifted.
"I heard that you, Young Master Taiga and Young Master Gude, have many mercenary groups under your families' banners."
"Indeed, as Young Master Long said. May we know what kind of deal you wish to discuss with us?"
Long Taotian took out a photograph and pushed it toward the two men.
When they saw the photo, they recognized the person as Long Fei. They exchanged glances, and Gude asked, "Young Master Long, how do you wish for us to handle this person in the photo?"
"This person, I hope you can..."
Long Taotian stated his demands and then produced two bank cards.
"These are bearer bank cards, a deposit for you. Each card contains two hundred million Hanxia Nation currency. After the job is done, I will give each of you another eight hundred million Hanxia Nation currency."
The two men readily took the bearer bank cards, shook hands with Long Taotian, and sealed the deal.
After leaving the restaurant, they each got into their own luxury cars and initiated a secret communication.
Taiga said, "I never expected Long Fei and Long Taotian to be cousins."
Gude sneered, "What's even more unexpected is that the things Long Fei developed are not controlled by the Long Family of Hanxia Nation; Long Fei developed them all by himself."
Taiga seemed a bit confused and asked, "Brother Gude, how can you be so sure?"
"If Long Fei were truly a part of the Long Family, and his developments belonged to the Long Family, do you think Long Taotian would dare to offend him?"
Only then did Taiga have an epiphany. He thought to himself, Just as Gude said, Long Fei's developments bring endless benefits to the Long Family. If Long Taotian truly offends Long Fei, it would be equivalent to offending everyone in the Long Family. He wouldn't even need the family head to act; his own father would give him a good beating.
Gude continued, "The Long Family sent Long Taotian to find us with the intention of capturing Long Fei and forcing him to hand over his technology to the Long Family."
"Brother Gude, listening to you, shouldn't we first seize the technology Long Fei controls before handing it over to Long Taotian?"
"No, absolutely not. Even if our two families combined forces, we are still slightly inferior to the Long Family of Hanxia Nation. At present, it's not worth offending the Long Family for Long Fei."
Long Fei was eating at a restaurant, surrounded by members of the Sky Wing Mercenaries, all in plain clothes, protecting him.
Outside the restaurant, many Sky Wing Mercenaries were also blended into the crowd, vigilant for any sign of trouble.
Suddenly, a commotion erupted from the restaurant's kitchen.
It drew the attention of many diners.
The Sky Wing Mercenaries inside exchanged signals, indicating that the spies in the kitchen had been dealt with by their comrades and the chefs had been calmed.
A female Sky Wing Mercenary, disguised as a waitress, served Long Fei's order to his table. She tapped the plate a few times with her index and middle fingers, signaling a report to her superior.
Long Fei, resting his right hand on the table, tapped the tabletop twice with his index finger.
Long Fei nonchalantly picked up his knife and fork to cut his steak.
When Long Fei had eaten about half of the steak on his plate, his phone vibrated a few times. He took out his phone from his pocket and looked at the report sent by Li Jiaming.
As Long Fei read further down, his expression grew colder. Finally, he let out a cold laugh, put his phone back in his pocket, and continued eating his steak.
Long Taotian was in a presidential suite at a hotel owned by his family, reclining on a lounge chair and sipping expensive red wine.
A knock sounded at the door.
"Come in."
A beautiful assistant hurried in and whispered a few words into Long Taotian's ear.
"Let her in."
The beautiful assistant had only been out of the room for a few seconds when the door was pushed open.
Long Huijuan entered, her eyes filled with anger. The beautiful assistant dared not enter and instead closed the door.
Long Taotian put down his wine glass, stood up, and said with a smile, "Auntie, what has upset you..." Before he could finish, Long Huijuan slapped him.
Slap.
Long Huijuan roared, "Long Taotian, who told you to kidnap Long Fei!"
"Auntie, Grandpa approved this. If you're unhappy, go protest to Grandpa. Don't take your frustrations out on the younger generation."
Long Huijuan's expression was extremely grim. She said angrily, "If you do this, you'll regret it sooner or later."
"Aunt, what do we have to regret? He's a mixed-blood mongrel who's part of the lower class. Letting him have the Long surname is already showing extreme grace. He should be grateful for our Long Family's generosity instead of hoarding things. When our Long Family didn't bother him a few days ago, he should have been thankful for our magnanimity. We invited him, acknowledging him as a member of the Long Family and asking him to contribute to the family. He actually had the audacity to ignore our invitation. So don't blame us for striking hard." Long Taotian's expression grew more ferocious as he spoke.
Listening to Long Taotian, Long Huijuan let out a furious laugh. "Heh, don't talk about inviting him a few days ago and deigning to acknowledge him as a member of the Long Family. You're just like squeezing a rag, trying to wring out his value. Once he has no value, you'll just kick him out of the Long Family."
"Then he only has himself to blame. Who told him he only had that much value?"
"Well said, 'he only had that much value.' That little bit of value is enough for our Long Family to be trampled under his feet. On the contrary, Long Taotian, if you didn't have your father and the Long Family behind you, you'd just be a piece of trash. You're worlds apart from Long Fei."
After speaking, Long Huijuan turned and walked to the door. She turned back to Long Taotian and said, "Long Taotian, Auntie gives you a word of advice. Immediately retract your foolish decision, or you will regret it." With that, Long Huijuan walked out of the presidential suite.
Long Taotian picked up his wine glass and smashed it on the floor, shouting, "Regret? Auntie, you think too highly of Long Fei. This mongrel with the blood of the lower class, how can he shake our Long Family? Daring to challenge our Long Family is like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. I want to see what this mongrel intends to do to shake our Long Family. I'm waiting to laugh at this mongrel's misfortune. I'm even more eager to see how I'll trample him then, just like I trample those dead commoners. Hmph, hahahaha." Long Taotian burst into a furious laugh.
Outside the presidential suite, Long Huijuan heard her nephew's angry curses from inside. She shook her head and took the elevator, thinking, This nephew doesn't recognize his own strength at all. Without relying on the Long Family, if he only relied on his own abilities to challenge Little Fei Fei, he'd be inviting humiliation.
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