Chapter 179 - Planning to come Clean?

3 February, David Hwang's Villa, City K

Robert Hung, walking into the lounge area of the villa, where David was waiting for him. As soon as the door was closed behind him, he turned to his cousin and said, "We have an issue."

"Damn it. Sit down, as the last thing I need is to be looking at you standing over me."

Laughing Robert sat down, and responded "I can still annoy you..."

"P*ss me off more like it. Now what is it, you know I hate distractions."

"That damn boss of mine and those three idiots he brought in have been investigating my background. They tried to hide it, but my team know where their loyalties lie, with me not those interlopers."

"You trust your team?"

"On this point yes. Too many of them owe me their careers. I know their issues and have protected those I need to keep in place so they will not stab me in the back by lying on this. More importantly they love the role they have, and the new plans are such that they can see themselves being moved to a normal unit, which they do not want."

"So, what do they know? Do you have an idea how it might impact our plans?"

"They pulled my service record. You know when I initially joined …"

"As we discussed I was listed as your next of kin and after a couple of years you dropped me off on the basis, we lost contact and have no one listed as next of kin."

"True. They have also looked further into my background and what happened to our family. Years ago, you helped me embed in the electronic records relating to their case that alert program to tell us when, where and who accessed their case files."

"I do. That is a good little program varied that I marketed to business to track activities on their staff…"

"But it gives you an untraceable backdoor into their systems and you exploit the data it gives. Did you do that with the program version you gave me?"

"Do you think I would be that stupid. It is a passive program, sending out bursts of data hours after it gathered it to prevent it being found. The business program is real time, active and constantly streaming data that is exploitable. Trying that with the version I gave you would have ensured it was quickly located and would have traced back to you and I."

"I just had to check."

"You are being paranoid."

"When I am being investigated by idiots, do you expect that I would not be paranoid."

"True. What do you want to do?"

"I was considering options yesterday, and as you know I made coming here obvious. We need to deal with it quickly, and what I figured is be open about the connection, unlike Colonel Rong, who hides from everyone his family connections. That way, spending time with you and mixing with society elites will not cause an issue."

"…"

"Do not be surprised. You know I am not stupid; I have simply had to play a game for our ultimate goal. And the thing is, we can be truthful but omit just a few things. We can state that when we were younger our parents and extended family were charged with a crime that resulted in them receiving a death sentence or they died in jail, but as we were young we have no knowledge of the exact specifics, but the result of what happened left us orphans."

David continued "Then we can add, we ended up in an orphanage until we turned eighteen, and while I went to university you joined the military. As a result, we drifted apart, and have only recently reconnected with the only family member each of us has. You were thinking. That aligns with some of the information that I have allowed in the public about me and has the added benefit that no one can dispute it."

"It then explains me spending time with you. That has the added benefit that we can work the plans we need to totally destroy the government without anyone guessing while we are spending time with each other."

"There is that. My concern is exposing this now will create issues."

"David, it will be exposed. In doing this, we can control the information and disclosure. The added benefit it that it will strengthen the need for me to stay here, rather than them trying to shift me elsewhere."

"Plus, the government want to keep me on side presently given the significant IT upgrade my team is dealing with for four different departments. It is important to our plans as I am using the early stages to install the worms, bugs, backdoors, and everything else I need to gather the data and totally crash almost every government system when we launch our action to destroy the state that destroyed our family."

Nodding Robert added "So have you an idea when you will be ready?"

"I am in the process of setting up the last part of the plan. There are a few companies here that do not have our products in some shape or form. The problem is that there has only been one woman that has been worth communicating with, to get into the elites within the city and …"

"You can exploit those connections to get what you need. So …"

"Before you ask, it is the young heiress to MoTang Enterprises Abigail Mo. Her Mother over the last month has been pushing her at me, and in talking to her she is willing to consider a relationship. That, even in the last few days has started to crack open most of the doors that I want. The doors that are not opening presently are JL International, Jax Corp, Gu Group and Nang Enterprises. Gu Group have an IT division that is our strongest competitor. Their product is almost as good as our product seems, but as of the friendship between the families there it is going to be impossible to get them to change so my team is working on a virus that will come from other companies systems to get in to them for what we need."

"So, the plans?"

"We have to go slow, but Miss Mo, will end up agreeing to what I want and then …"

"Marriage? I never thought that would be for you."

"True, but she interests me, and more importantly I can use that ceremony to be the trigger for actions…"

"And that will make it difficult for connections to be made to you."

"You have it. Now, are you OK with my PR team releasing the information about our connection?"

"That sounds good but ensure that my identity is protected."

"I will, because we do not need your movement to another posting."

Relaxing Robert said "Once that is done, let us be seen to spend time together. We have waited too long for our revenge for what was done to our family."

"True. But it will happen before the end of the year. The state does not deserve to survive for tearing our family apart when they had done nothing wrong."

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