434 What in the World - Part 7

Thursday, continued …

Silence descended in the room as Hou Yi spoke further "Thank You.I am in a room with CEO Yao, my wife, his wife and Mr Gan and Mr Mo.I will place you on speaker phone."

With that and a few seconds later everyone heard "Thank You CEO Hou.CEO Yao, Madams Hou andYao, Mr Gan and Mr Mo, thank you for all meeting together.I decided that we needed to speak to you together so you all had the same information to minimise confusion, although Mr Mo, there is a matter that we need to separately speak to you."

With that everyone in the room looked at Snake, knowing that the police were about to ask him to take on a role as police informant."What can I do for you?" he asked hesitantly.

"We hate to do this Mr Mo, but the information that you, Mr Gan and your associates brought to is critical to being able to do anything.However, rumours are already spreading that we are investigating Lu Corporation's Entertainment Division.The impact for us is that we cannot go as quick or as in depth into the investigation that we originally hoped and attempting to insert people into that scene will now raise questions.We have to be seen as not investigating as otherwise it will risk lives.However …"

"We already have an in and you are after us being involved and feeding information to you.Do you know the risks?We really did not know what we were getting into when we worked our way in.All we thought was there was something that needed some investigation as it threatened our business headquarters, given its location, and we simply filmed as a means to protect ourselves.This time we know what we are getting in to."

"Mr Mo given that we suspect there are potentially thirty or forty girls in as current victims and untold numbers that are previous victims, it is a case that none of us locally or at the national level can afford to have messed up.It is not for our sake but their sake that we are asking.Given some of the information, we know how close you and Mr Gan are to CEO Yao and his family and that the attack six months ago on his daughter may also be connected to this…"

Looking around the room Anna noticed that there were nine men, all ready to kill for this having been brought up.Amanda was also concerned, and Anna realised that she felt the same and that if James was here, he would feel the same as well.

"So, unless we can be certain on everything, the potential is that the case against CEO Lu for that along with whatever else that he has done could fall over."

Snake looked around, and saw a number of nodding heads and that everyone agreed with him being backed into a corner."Look, I am going to say this only for myself, and this is being done reluctantly however I need to ensure that you protect me if things go wrong with this whole idea both criminally and in the civil area, but I will do.I will put it to my associates, and I would suspect if they agree that they will want the same protections…."

Lion then spoke "And my involvement is on the same basis.I agree that there are serious risks to us, our families, and our associates.We need to ensure that there is backup.More importantly we need you to devise a plan that, if we say you need to act now your will.We can make our own decisions about out risks but you are asking us to make that same decisions for young, vulnerable girls.Making those decisions is the last thing you should ask us to do, but you have to agree to that and protect us as you are asking us to allow abuse of the victims to continue without acting."

Anna could see how angry that Lion was, let alone anyone else in the room.

"Mr Gan, we can work that out."

Amanda then interrupted "It needs to be done immediately.You are asking our friends to take significant risks, and they have to be the ones to make the call that it has to end."

Anna then interrupted "And while I do not know the intricacies of the Criminal Law here, would it not risk the evidence being thrown out?"