Chapter 98 - Agato Land

They both finished their lunch. Lena had a great time talking to Tye and about what he does as a doctor. He talked a lot about his care for Gary too. Lena was somewhat… concerned about it. Tye walked Lena out afterward. She made an excuse to him that she had things later so James was picking her up. In that case, she would not need Tye to send her back home.

"Glad you are getting pick up.. Ahahaa.. I have to leave too! It's bath day for Gary." Tye smiled happily and head off first.

Lena's heart stopped and she continued to stare at Tye as he drove away. James called her names a few times before she snapped out of her daze. She quickly got into the car. Lena pulled out her phone and texted Collin that she had an emergency and needed to talk to Kris right away.

Collin said that Kris was at the company, he had a few things that needed to be done today. Collin told her that he can pick her from the front entrance and take her to see Kris.

"Take me to the Li company!" Lena bit her thumbnail nervously. 'Don't worry Gary, I'll save you!'

James head to straight to the Li company without asking any questions. It took them about 25 minutes to get there with traffic from the city too. He pulled the car up front and Collin was already outside waiting.

Collin greeted them. Lena smiled back and followed him in. It was a weekend and usually, the building was locked. There was no one working in the building at all. Collin led them straight to the VIP elevator.

Colling pressed an elevator button. It was not the top floor but a button with a star on it. "Hold on tight."

Lena was confused but then she felt the elevator do down. She held to the stainless holding rail. The elevator stopped and went backward vertically.

"Where are we going?" Lena asked.

The elevator came to a full stop and opened. Collin got out first, then Lena followed. She stared at the room she entered. It was like they were in a top-secret headquarters. The room had several large screens and a bunch of computers. There were a few people here, working on their own things.

They glanced at Lena and James, people they had never seen before. They tried not to make it obvious with their stares, but Lena spotted them. She smiled sweetly at them.

"This way." Collin led Lena to a large room with windows. However, the windows were tinted so dark, she could not see what was inside. "He's just inside."

"Ok." Lena opened the large doors. James stood outside and waited for her.

As she entered, Kris glanced up from his tablet but went back to focus on the information on it. "What was it that was life and death? You look pretty--" Alive… Kris was about to finish his sentence.

However, Lena walked over with sonic speed and slammed her two arms on his desk, interrupting his sentence.. "I want someone else to take care of Gary."

Kris looked up at Lena. It was not her strong-willed face that caught his attention but her long beautiful hair. He cleared his throat and blinked. "Seems like you talked with Tye."

"I--"

"Didn't you say you want Gary to be in the best care?"

"I-- He can treat Gary without giving him personal baths!"

"But he's a doctor, that's part of his job."

"You---" Lena pointed her finger at him and knitted her brows. "How would you feel if you were in a coma and a girl was giving you baths."

Kris pushed his back to his chair and crossed his arms. "Is this your life and death situation? If this is it, you may leave."

Lena put down her fingers and relaxed herself. "Then… can you have at least a pretty nurse to take care of him? At least he'll wake up with someone pretty next to him."

"You're ridiculous." Kris pushed his phone to call for Collin. "You can bring Miss. Shen out now."

"Wait.. I am not done." Lena sat down on the chair across from Kris's desk.

"Give us a few more minutes." Kris removed his hand from the call button. He pushed his back on his chair and waited for what other things Lena had to say. Having another good look at her, he noticed she was quite dressed up today. She looked very much like a woman… Doesn't she look like that too much lately?

"The number… it got a result." Lena spoke, interrupting Kris's thoughts again. "It belongs to Mayor Bai."

Lena could feel Kris was thinking about something else again. She doesn't know if it was him not paying attention or the name made him though of something. Lena felt the strong cold breeze coming from Kris although his face remained neutral.

"Follow me." Kris stood up and went to the door. Lena followed him out.

Kris walked out of the room. Collin and James who were outside also followed them. Kris walked down a few steps to enter the big screen room. A few people greeted Kris.

"Pull up the Agato Land Deal." Kris poke. A young man quickly typed on his desktop and Lena turned her head to the big screen. There were a few pictures up on the screen.

"Agato Land Deal? Are you talking about the ongoing debate on what to use the land near Sky Heights District Mall?"

"You know about that?" Kris glanced at Lena, who was focused on the screen, reading the information in front of her. "Mayor Bai wants the land to develop a low-income housing apartment in the city for people. Currently, the land in on auction and every major company wants that prime land."

"Andy wanted this land." Lena thought back to the time Andy argued with Madam Yang. Madam Yang wanted Andy to back off the land, saying that it was not needed for the Yang company expansion. However, Andy told her that she was not a businesswoman and losing this land would be a loss for the Yang company.

"He did. The Yang company just recently dropped its bid. Only five major companies are still bidding now. This would confirm the relationship between the Yang and the Bai family. Mayor Bai is his own charity money to bid for the land." Kris explained. He nodded to the young man and he opened up a new document.

"Mayor Bai is probably going to re-run for mayor the following term. Apart from his recent successful healthcare reform, this will definitely boost his powers."

Lena kept her eyes glued on the screen. She had one of her gut feelings again. "Can you put up a map of the location?"

The young man quickly pulled up a satellite map of the Agato Land. Lena walked close to the screen and bit her thumbnail again. It has become a bad habit of hers… "Zoom out a bit please?"

"What do you see?" Kris was curious.

The location was near the sea. As Lena recalled, in both worlds, the coat was hit with heavy flooding 5 years ago. Most of the area was rebuilt but some areas were still empty and sold for redevelopment. In her past world, this area would be where the school was located. It was newly built but just about before Lena transmigrated here, it was all over the news about the school.

The land was a slowly sinking ground. Many of the water from the flood were collected in a water well but as it got warmer, the water flow back to the ocean, eroding the soil below and slowly sinking it. Half of the school collapsed. Apart from that, they later found out that the soil had lots of lead too. Many students were sick but the health department thought that the lead poisoning was from home, not the school.

"Are you one of the bidders?" Lena finally took her eyes off the screen and faced Kris.

Her hair swung a bit and Kris could see her beautiful eyes staring at him. "Of course."

"Drop out of the bidding."