Chapter 490 - Another Attack (14)

25 May, Gong Villa, City K 

Warren Gong sat down at the desk in his study after the meeting with his higher ups and the Devil and his team for a few minutes peace before heading out to have an outdoor meeting with some of the higher ups.

Those idiots, they could not see what they had gotten the Gong Cartel into in agreeing the deal with the Devil and his minions. They could only see the benefits of what was right in front of them, without consideration of the wider picture.

The money, weapons, and importantly access to additional personal and hackers to increase surveillance on their competition and the authorities were all brilliant benefits. They enabled them to solidify certain areas of operations that were in flux, and crush the additional groups trying to mussel in on their activities.

That had, ensured the cartel maintained its position as one of the three top underworld groups in the country whereas eighteen months ago they had been challenged for their position of power. Being honest with himself, at the time when the started their moves, even he had been blind to the long-term consequences of the decision.

However, he had opened his eyes and realised that this was not the two-way deal to benefit them both that they had thought. The more he interacted with the Devil and his minions the more he realised that the benefits they received were short-term and that he had plans for them that would see everything generations of his family had worked for when they established the cartel utterly destroyed taking with it all their legitimate businesses.

The problem he had was one faction of the cartel, who believed that he had no right to be the head, simply because he focused on the legitimate businesses they ran. Those idiots failed to appreciate everything he did not only with the profits he made for the cartel but the ability to launder the illegal funds for the cartel's benefit.

While he tolerated that faction that was led by young thugs who relied on their fathers and grandfathers to climb the ranks within the cartel, they failed to heed the tales of how he became cartel head. Yes, he could construct and run legitimate businesses in his sleep while graduating university and lecturing there at such a young age, he was utterly ruthless in climbing through the levels of the cartel.

He had lost count over the years how many external and internal enemies he had taken out, directly and indirectly building up his reputation before taking out his uncles to ensure there was no one to challenge his ascendency. There was just one line he never crosses, going after those not involved in disputes with the cartel.

Those idiots in that young faction blindly wanting to follow the Devil's plan were not willing to cross that one line. Attacking the public who had nothing to do with them, simply because the Devil said he needed a distraction to enable him to move against not only his enemies but those of the cartel.

A knock on the door interrupted his thoughts with a voice saying "Boss, those you wanted to speak to are in the rose garden."

Making sure everything was secure, Warren knew ne had to return later not only to finish some legitimate business but doc.u.ment this. It was not getting extremely difficult to hide his written notes, but at the same time he had no idea what to do with them. Turning them over to the authorities was thwart with danger but at the same time sitting on them when the Devil struck would implement the cartel even further.

Quickly Warren joined the five men waiting for him in the rose garden. Unlike those idiots, he at least trusted them. They would listen to his decisions and implement them because they knew his skills, both legal and illegal.

Before he had even sat down, Warren heard "Boss, those young idiots what have they done?"

As he sat, Warren calmly signalled to a servant to bring the box he had troubled himself to obtain. On his recent trip, while in Singapore he was able to slip the surveillance he detected from the authorities and instead of staying where he usually would at Marina Bay Sands with the rest of his party he checked into the Marriott on Orchard Road. He was no fool, and knew that there would be surveillance he had not detected and shopped for his family which allowed him to secretly meet with a intelligence expert who arranged for these two items, which would minimise potential electronic surveillance on them.

After sitting the box on the table, he took out his phone, tablet and off his watch before dropping them inside and motioning for everyone else to do the same, shutting it once they were done, before switching on the jamming device.

"Idiots. That is partially true. We were all blinded by the benefits that the deal initially brought us. Most importantly in securing our position that was being challenged and the money we earned. But …"

"Those benefits do not now seem to outweigh the risks. In getting weapons into the country, we have had to compromise our two easiest routes over the last couple of months, one to allow them to get the people in they wanted and the second while it gained us a cache of weapons seemed to benefit them more."

"True…" came another voice. "And it is disrupting the cooperation that we have with other groups. That is causing skirmishes, risking serious intervention from the state forces to deal with everyone."

A third voice added "Boss, the problem is what can we do?"

Warren allowed silence to reign before saying "That is why I wanted to talk. You have all been in your positions for years and have earnt my trust both in the illegal and business worlds in backing my decisions. I want your input before I make my decisions that I will want you to carry out."

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