Chenghuang Company's Main Conference Room, Board of Directors.
Since the company was founded, it had never held a meeting of such high caliber. All the major shareholders were present, more than half of the board members had attended, and several senior executives were sitting in.
The lights in the conference room went out, and the curtains were drawn tight. Everyone disappeared into the shadows, their expressions impossible to make out.
Only the giant screen on the wall remained lit. Wei Liqun operated the computer and brought up an English document on the screen.
"This is the 'North African Terrorist Organizations Sanctions List' just released by NATO. Here is the full translated version."
Wei Liqun clicked the mouse, and the text on the screen changed.
"Everyone should have read it before coming, so I'll just briefly summarize it."
"This NATO document identifies six local warlord forces currently fighting in North Africa as terrorist organizations, and demands that businesses around the world suspend trade with those terrorist organizations."
"The list warns several representative companies, including us. The NATO Secretariat has demanded that we immediately stop trading Artificial Blood with the six so-called terrorist organizations."
"We still have large orders from these six North African militias, including the additional 1.2 million liters of Artificial Blood ordered over the past few days, 5.8 million bottles of Chenghuang Mosquito Repellent Ointment, and 200,000 bottles of Neuropeptide Anti-Fatigue Drug. All the orders have already been paid for with a fifty-percent deposit, paid in physical gold according to the international gold price. The gold appraisers we hired from Shuibei have already inspected it, and there are no problems."
"The main purpose of today's meeting is to discuss what we should do next." Wei Liqun looked toward everyone at the table. "I invite all the attending representatives to