Chapter 335： deal with devil

Zhou Boping was silent for a long time.

Just when Director Guo thought that he would not speak and was about to ask Pei Anzhu to cast a mantra, he slowly raised his head, his eyes far away, and told the whole story:

“This is a deal with the devil.”

With these words, Zhou Boping’s memory went back from this moment to more than fifty years ago, when he was still young—

Zhou Boping was thirty years old at that time, a high-spirited age.

He was born into the wealthy Zhou family and was the only heir. He did not need to compete with other brothers and sisters. He would just take over the family business when his father no longer wanted to do it.

His wife came from the wealthy Ling family, one of the five families, and had a prominent status. They had been married for seven years and had two sons.

Having a rich family fortune, a happy family, a virtuous wife and filial son.

For Zhou Boping at that time, life was smooth and beautiful, like a dream.

Sure enough, I woke up from this dream on an ordinary afternoon.

Father told him that there was a big problem in the Zhou family.

The Zhou family started out as a river transport and maritime logistics company. At that time, there was a very large batch of goods from abroad, and they needed a reliable fleet to transport them to China.

But this batch of goods is very important, and the damage will be doubled, which is conservatively estimated to be at least 2 billion.

At that time, no one in the country could accept this order. Even the Zhou family, even if they tried their best, could only do so reluctantly.

In order to win this order, two other logistics families took the initiative to find cooperation with the Zhou family, saying that the three families would win this order together.

According to the market share of maritime logistics, the Zhou family owns half, and the other two account for 30% and 20% respectively. If the investment is calculated this way, the future profits will also be calculated this way.

So, the Zhou family agreed after investigating in many aspects.

The next step was to sign the agreement, inspect the goods, and transport them. Everything went smoothly at first. The Zhou family was waiting for the employer to receive the goods and pay them, but something went wrong.

While the fleet was sailing on the sea, the lead ship of the Zhou family deviated from the planned route for unknown reasons, disrupting the fleet's formation, and then encountered a whirlpool in the sea, causing the entire fleet to be annihilated.

Both the ship and the cargo, they are basically gone.

However, several people on the boat escaped death. They returned to the country with the video evidence and witness statements, and then blamed the entire incident on the Zhou family.

They said that if the fleet followed the planned route, there would be no problem.

Because the weather was good those days, the sea was calm, and there were no messy things, they could deliver the goods safely to the country.

But it was because something went wrong with the Zhou family's ship that they suffered heavy losses.

Not only the client's goods were lost, but the ships of the other two companies were also lost. They joined forces to demand compensation from the Zhou family.

Every member of the Zhou family died in this disaster. No one knows why the leading ship, which was fine, suddenly changed its course, and why the Zhou family's ships were thrown into chaos.

There is no proof, only the video proves that it is the Zhou family's problem.

The Zhou family faces huge compensation, with a total payment of 2 billion, as well as two other fleets. If all compensation is really paid out, the Zhou family will go bankrupt.

Because if they lose money, it means that the Zhou family has admitted that this matter is their problem. No matter what happens in the future, no one will trust their fleet.

Without business, the Zhou family will decline step by step.

The head of the Zhou family at that time, Zhou Boping's father, originally wanted to go to the two partners and ask them for a period of grace, but unexpectedly, he heard a terrible secret.

It turned out that this huge order was originally set up by those two families for the Zhou family.

In order to invade the Zhou family's shipping market and break the Zhou family's near-monopoly position, those two companies teamed up with overseas leather bag companies to set up such a trap.

They had been preparing for this situation for three years, and everything was complete. The Zhou family could not find any clues at all, so they fell into it by mistake and faced a big disaster. At that time, the Zhou family had only two choices:

Either accept your fate, sell off your property, compensate the three families, and then withdraw from the circle of wealthy people in Yuncheng. From now on, there will be no chance of recovery.

Either we can find evidence to prove that this matter was not the fault of the Zhou family. Only in this way can we overthrow the three alliances, and we are not afraid of going to court.

The first way is to destroy the ancestral heritage.

But the second way is so difficult. Where can I find evidence in the vast sea?

At this moment, the mysterious man in a black cloak appeared. He wore a black and white facial mask and a hoarse voice, and found Zhou Boping.

"He said he wanted to make a deal with me." Zhou Boping recalled, "He said he could help me get evidence to prove that the Zhou family was not at fault and help the Zhou family survive this disaster. But after success, he asked me to help When he does something, he cannot refuse.”

Zhou Boping never thought at that time that there would be Xuanmen power in this world.

He didn’t know how that person wanted to help him, let alone what the other person wanted him to do, but he thought at the time:

As long as the Zhou family survives this disaster, with the power of the Zhou family, no matter what the other party wants, they should be able to help the other party do it. Even if it is illegal and criminal, it will not be impossible.

With this idea in mind, Zhou Boping signed an agreement with the man in black.

"That agreement was very special. It was written on yellow paper with a red cinnabar pen, and there were some strange symbols drawn on it." Zhou Boping added, "I didn't understand at the time. I would do whatever he said. At his request, I cut my finger and signed my name with blood."

"It's a blood contract." Pei Anzhu said it clearly, "Those who sign a blood contract must abide by their promises and follow the cause and effect, otherwise they will suffer backlash and die a bad death."

“Yes, it’s a blood contract.” Zhou Boping nodded.

After signing the blood contract, the man in black asked Zhou Boping to prepare the boat and took him to the sea, where the fleet accident happened.

In front of him, the man in black displayed a power he had never seen before:

The art of controlling ghosts.

The man in black took out a Hundred Ghost Banner and ordered the drowned water ghosts in the entire sea to help search for evidence below.

Fleets generally have voyage recorders, just like the driving recorders on cars.

Especially the first ship, which is fully equipped.

The water ghosts found a video of the time of the accident on the ship, and found that someone disguised himself, sneaked into the Zhou family's fleet, killed the captain of the first ship, and then chose a direction at random.

It was easy for some of the Zhou family's ships to keep up, but the team was in disarray and the formation was also disorganized.

The video footage found by the water ghosts is very comprehensive. From the spy entering the cockpit, to his dispute with the captain, to him killing the captain, everything is clearly recorded.

Even the conversation between the two people can be heard clearly—

"What are you going to do? This is the cockpit, you can't just come in!" the captain yelled.

“I entered the cockpit, because next, I will replace you and become the captain.” The man said with a smile.

"What's the meaning?"

“You, the Zhou family, have dominated the shipping market for too long. Even if you eat meat, you must allow others to drink some soup. After today, the glory of the Zhou family will forever become a thing of the past.”

“Stop it! The route is fixed, and no one can tell what will happen after it deviates. Do you want to kill everyone?”

“You guessed it right! Only if you die can the plan succeed!”

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This video, which was fished up from the bottom of the sea by a water ghost, became the key to the Zhou family's comeback.