The entire ocean is my fishing ground.

Chapter 89 Your Wife's Card

Half an hour later.

Haifeng Wharf, a key asset of the Shaw Group – the No. 3 Cold Chain Storage Center.

Two bread trucks and a refrigerated truck were parked outside the rusty iron gate.

The air was filled with a strange smell of engine oil mixed with the fishy smell of the sea.

Zhou Dazhuang jumped out of the car, and after just one glance, his brows furrowed into a knot.

"Boss, this mess... is even worse than I thought."

Looking around, a dozen or so electric trailers used for transporting goods were parked haphazardly on the open ground outside the warehouse. The yellow paint on the trailers was peeling off, revealing large areas of rust underneath, and some of the tires were flat like leather.

The outdoor unit of the refrigeration unit in the distance emitted a buzzing roar, interspersed with a harsh, metallic screech that made one's teeth ache.

Sun Heizi kicked a trailer tire and cursed.

"Damn, this thing still works?"

Lin Chen didn't speak, but his gaze swept across the entire courtyard.

Just then, the peeling metal door of the warehouse creaked open.

A bald man with a cigarette dangling from his mouth led seven or eight thugs out, each carrying wrenches, steel pipes, and other such items.

They brazenly blocked the entrance, stopping Lin Chen and his group.

The bald man threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it with his toe, raised his chin, and looked at Lin Chen sideways.

"The new boss?"

He looked Lin Chen up and down, his eyes full of undisguised contempt.

"If you want to take over this place, that's fine."

The bald man tapped his palm repeatedly with the wrench in his hand, making a snapping sound.

"We dozens of brothers have followed Boss Shao for so many years. We've worked hard, if not made great contributions. Now he just changes bosses like that, and we need to get an explanation about our severance pay!"

The group of people behind him immediately joined in the commotion.

"Yes. Pay up."

"Two hundred thousand per person. Not a penny less."

"No one is allowed in this door without paying."

Upon hearing this, Sun Heizi's anger flared up, and he clenched his fists, ready to charge forward.

"Who the hell do you think you are?"

Lin Chen reached out and gently pressed down on Sun Heizi's shoulder.

Sun Heizi was taken aback. He turned around and saw Lin Chen's calm eyes. He forced down his anger, but the heavy breathing from his nostrils revealed his current mood.

Zhou Dazhuang's face also darkened, and he silently stood on the other side of Lin Chen.

Seeing Lin Chen's actions, the bald man's smile grew even more smug.

In his view, this was a sign of admitting defeat.

He took a step forward, almost touching Lin Chen's face, and lowered his voice, his tone full of threat.

"Kid, my name is Liu Qiang, and I'm in charge of Warehouse Number Three. I advise you to be smart and pay up to avoid further trouble. Otherwise, if a part is missing from this batch of equipment today, or a wire breaks tomorrow, you'll have a headache."

"Even if you bring those fish over, you'll need a place to put them, won't you?"

Lin Chen looked at him and suddenly asked an unrelated question.

"Is your wife's bank card number ending in 8841?"

Liu Qiang's smile froze on his face instantly.

The smugness and arrogance in his eyes were quickly replaced by astonishment, and a hint of panic appeared on his face.

"What...what did you say?"

Lin Chen ignored his question, took out his phone, turned on the screen, and began reading from a script. His voice was not loud, but it was clear to everyone present.

"Liu Qiang, warehouse manager of warehouse number three. On the 15th of last month, under the pretext of reporting the equipment as scrap, you privately resold five still-usable refrigeration compressors to the scrap yard in the west of the city, making 32,000 yuan. The money was taken from your wife's card with the last four digits being 8841."

"On the 27th of last month, you falsely reported a cable repair cost of 11,000 yuan, but you only spent 2,000 yuan. You used the remaining 9,000 yuan to buy your son a new cell phone and game console."

"At the beginning of this month, you..."

With each item Lin Chen read aloud, Liu Qiang's face paled a little more.

When Lin Chen read out the third rule, Liu Qiang's forehead was covered in beads of cold sweat, his lips were trembling, and he couldn't utter a single word.

The young men who had joined in the commotion behind him were also dumbfounded.

They looked at each other, their steel pipes and wrenches hanging limply in their hands.

This isn't a negotiation; it's an attempt to expose our secrets!

They even know someone's wife's bank card number; that's an incredibly thorough investigation.

Lin Chen raised his eyelids, his gaze sweeping over Liu Qiang's pale face before finally settling on the group of people behind him.

"And you all."

"Zhang San resold 300 kilograms of refrigerant."

"Li Si, sell the spare copper wire in the warehouse as scrap."

"Wang Wu..."

He called out names one by one, and each time he called out a name, that person's face fell.

The scene was deathly silent.

Only the dilapidated refrigeration machine in the distance was still emitting a piercing noise.

Lin Chen put away his phone, his voice turning cold.

"The Shaw Group's accounts are in a mess. But a messy mess doesn't mean there are no accounts."

He looked at Liu Qiang, whose face had turned deathly pale, and spoke slowly and deliberately.

"Now, I'm giving you two choices."

"First, get out of here immediately. I can pretend nothing happened."

Second, stay here, or I'll call the police.

The wrench in Liu Qiang's hand fell to the cement floor with a "clang," making a crisp sound.

His legs went weak and he almost lost his balance.

Call the police?

Each of these filthy acts is enough to constitute embezzlement, and if added together, he'll probably have to go to jail for several years.

"I...we're leaving. We're leaving right now."

Liu Qiang roared as he scrambled to his feet, his previous arrogance completely gone.

He turned around, pushed aside the stunned crowd behind him, and rushed out without looking back.

The others, as if waking from a dream, dropped their weapons and scattered like birds and beasts, running faster than rabbits.

In just three minutes, the group of people who had been blocking the door had all run away.

All that remained was a mess on the ground and the still-screaming refrigeration unit.

Sun Heizi stared in disbelief, and it took him a long time to finally utter a sentence.

"Boss, you're awesome..."

He had thought he was going to have a fight, and even planned how to dislocate the other person's arm, but Lin Chen solved the problem with just a few words.

This method of solving problems without lifting a finger impressed him even more than taking direct action.

Zhou Dazhuang immediately rushed to the refrigeration machine that was making the strange noise, took out his tools and began to inspect it, muttering to himself.

"The bearing is broken, but it's not a big problem; we can just replace it. It's the compressors that the rats took that are a bit of a hassle; we'll have to buy new ones."

The rat he was talking about was, of course, Liu Qiang, who had just escaped.

Lin Chen ignored their reactions and walked to the warehouse door, pushing open the heavy iron door.

A wave of cold air, mixed with the smell of dust and mildew, hit me.

The huge warehouse was empty, with only a few rows of shelves standing alone.

But for Lin Chen, this mess was the starting point for him to take control of the provincial capital's seafood market.

He needs this warehouse, and he also needs the dock berths here.

Just as he was pondering his next move, a dark blue light suddenly appeared before him.

The system interface popped up.

[Limited-Time Opportunity Information]

Opportunity Target: Top-quality wild grouper (occasionally stranded during migration)

Coordinates: Blackwind Bay, underwater cliff coordinates 118.34, 24.51

Quantity: Approximately 80-100 pieces (average weight of each piece over 1.5 kg)

Estimated value: Extremely high. Wild grouper of this quality can fetch over 2000 yuan per kilogram in the high-end market.

Key information: Due to the special ocean currents in Black Wind Bay, the fish will leave the area in 12 hours and return to the main deep-sea shipping lanes.

Countdown: 11:59:57