Chapter 317

Barbara was very beautiful, perhaps due to the Lawrence family’s bloodline. In short, even if these young people were not so handsome or beautiful, they were very standard ordinary people, with few being ugly.

She was clearly the standout in the family in terms of appearance. God had favored her by not letting her inherit her father’s belly, but instead her mother’s youthful looks.

In addition, she had a very good temperament, the kind unique to middle-class families, so she was very popular with the opposite sex at the company.

Everyone was willing to say a few more words to her.

When she gracefully walked over and asked this question, the worried expression on the manager’s face softened a little, but only a little.

“I can’t contact the department heads.”

Barbara didn’t react at first, “Maybe he’s on a business trip… did you just say ‘they’?”

The manager nodded.

At this time, it was not yet the 9:30 opening time. The company’s main door was still tightly closed, with only employees inside.

It was clear that it wasn’t just Barbara’s manager who knew about this matter; many other people also knew about it, and they were all discussing it.

Barbara inexplicably felt as if her heart was being squeezed by an invisible large hand, making her heartbeat abnormal!

She clutched her chest and looked at the manager, “Could it be… they played too late and fell asleep?”

She had heard that a few girls from the company had participated in last night’s wild party.

The internal story was that they were celebrating a new victory and had invited some people to participate.

Those girls, in order to curry favor with the company’s senior management, no longer cared!

The financial circle was not clean. If it weren’t for Barbara’s own good family background, which had not yet reached the point of making her sell her body for money, she might have participated too.

The hypothesis she proposed was valid, and the manager did not rush to deny it, “I’ve had people go to the villa to check. There should be news back soon.”

The business of Basil Investment Bank required the signatures of these managers, so without them, the business simply could not proceed. This was what made them discover that the management could not be contacted.

In fact, they already had some premonition in their hearts, but they were still unwilling to believe it.

Barbara couldn’t sit still anymore. She had just borrowed $60,000 to invest. Although the interest was not low, it was still a little less than the monthly rebate brought by buying these products.

She supported herself against the wall and sat down on the sofa next to her. She felt her whole body was trembling slightly.

A young man noticed her situation and took the initiative to come over and ask if she needed help, but at this moment her attention was not here at all!

About ten minutes later, two company employees strode in from the side door, their faces filled with terror, “We went to their villa, didn’t see anyone, all the valuables have been taken away!”

With a crash, the entire hall was in chaos!

Barbara, who had been unsteady just now, felt a surge of strength that made her stand up. Several managers immediately ran over. After confirming the matter again and again, they all fell into a daze.

Suddenly someone asked, “Is the money in the bank still there?”

That’s right!

If the money in the bank was still there, then it didn’t matter if these people had disappeared. At the same time, it could also show that their disappearance had nothing to do with running away.

In fact, many people here understood that this was a scam, but they always thought that they were also company people and would not lose out.

Until this moment!

A manager immediately contacted Golden Port Bank. Soon they received feedback from Golden Port Bank. The company currently had about $400,000 in cash on its books.

But of this $400,000 in cash, only a portion could be used. The other part had been temporarily frozen to prepare for paying various bills.

Barbara’s vision went black for a moment, she felt a little shaky, and sat back down on the sofa with a plop.

The company was in chaos. She felt her mouth was dry and her heart was racing!

Her family had already invested $100,000, but the rebate money had been reinvested, plus the $60,000 she had borrowed herself!

She braced herself and rushed out into the street, squeezed into a phone booth, and used her last bit of strength to dial her father’s number, “The senior management of the company took the money… and all ran away!”

By the end, she was already on the verge of tears. Her father was also stunned for a good while after hearing this news. $100,000, half a lifetime’s savings, all smashed into it!

He was also so heartbroken he couldn’t breathe, but considering his daughter’s condition, he could only tell Barbara to protect herself first, and that he would drive over immediately.

After he hung up the phone, he called William, “You were right, they ran away!”

“Who ran away?” William was on top of Emily, “I have important things to do. If you have nothing else, we’ll talk later!”

“Basil Investment Bank, they ran away!”

The phone was hung up. William, stark naked, stood by the phone looking at Emily, who was beckoning to him with her finger. For a moment, his mind was also a bit blank!

“What are you daydreaming about, come here quickly, you haven’t made me happy yet!”

William put down the phone, he hesitated a little, “Basil Investment Bank has run away.”

Emily didn’t care about so many things. She walked over and put her arms around William’s shoulders, her legs directly wrapped around him, “Hold me tight…”

William cursed, “F—k!” and then began to exert himself again.

More than ten minutes later, the battle finally ended. He let out a long sigh of relief, “I have to go and see…”

Emily nodded with great satisfaction, “Are you coming back for lunch?”

“Probably not…”

“Then you can go!”

A little after nine o’clock, a large number of people had already gathered outside Basil Investment Bank. The news had spread too fast!

In less than twenty minutes, the news had completely spread!

Those who had previously been envious of others making a big score because they had no money to invest now showed a schadenfreude smile.

People are like this. The thing they hate most in their lives is always others making money while they don’t!

The happiest thing is also similar, that is, others have lost money, but they still have not!

Although there is no sense of participation, at least being not happy is better than being in pain!

Many police officers also came, for fear of causing some problems. A large number of newspaper reporters appeared here. The angry investors threw stones at Basil Investment Bank to vent their dissatisfaction, while also shouting slogans like “give us our money back.”

Tens of thousands of people, an eight-figure sum of money was swept away. This matter had too great an impact on Golden Port!

The police department kept sending people over to prevent the situation from escalating.

Barbara was already with her father. She was also in so much pain she couldn’t speak.

Her whole person was in a daze. William was also here.

“Luckily, you persuaded me, William. If it weren’t for you, I can’t imagine such consequences!”

Although $100,000 was gone, for a family like theirs, it wasn’t to the point of completely losing hope.

Even if only tens of thousands were left, they still lived better than most families in this city.

Barbara kept wiping her tears. She felt that she was the one who had caused her family to lose so much money. What was more troublesome was that there were others in the family who had also invested under her call!

She didn’t know what to do at all. She didn’t even dare to tell her father that she had borrowed another $60,000.

William nodded and comforted, “For such a big matter, City Hall will definitely have a way to deal with it, and didn’t Barbara say they have a lot of investment assets?”

“If these assets are all real, they can also make up for a part of the losses.”

It was just that at this moment, both middle-aged men knew very well that those assets were probably also fake.

This was a complete scam. They had clearly had a premonition, but in the end, they still fell into it.

It could only be said that desire and greed had blinded people’s eyes, making them turn a blind eye to those dangers!

At ten-something, more and more investors who had rushed from all over finally broke into the company. They began to loot. The police did not stop them either.

But even if they could take everything, it might not make up for their losses. And some staff who hadn’t had time to leave were held down by the angry investors and beaten up!

But beating people was of no use to the losses. Some people had really invested their entire family’s fortune, not to mention some who had borrowed money, even high-interest loans, to invest!

Now that Basil Investment Bank had run away, it was definitely a devastating blow to them!

If there was no way to help them recover their losses, then it was highly likely that someone would have to jump off a building!

The whole of Golden Port and even the whole state began to pay attention to this matter. It’s unknown if someone was guiding them, but when someone shouted the slogan “find the mayor to help us,” the angry crowd, after smashing the lobby of Basil Investment Bank, set off for City Hall!

The news also quickly gathered at City Hall. The mayor listened to the report from his secretary, closed his eyes, and rubbed his temples.

After the secretary finished reporting, he slowly opened his eyes, “You see, the struggle is everywhere!”

The secretary bowed his head slightly to show that he was listening. This was actually a very rare “teaching,” a precious experience!

“More than half of the people in this City Hall are Wade’s and Williams’s people. I hadn’t even heard about this matter. Someone cut off the source of the news, leaving us trapped here.”

“If it were you, what would you do?” he asked the secretary.

The secretary frowned and thought for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said, “There’s nothing I can do. It’s clear these people have already run away with the money.”

“What I’m more worried about is whether there are any other problems behind this, for example, did they also participate?”

“Otherwise, it would be very difficult for such a large sum of money to be transferred out so quickly and quietly. If that’s the case, then they are too despicable!”

“But I can’t think of any way to make them become rational and calm. I think it’s highly likely that they won’t get their money back!”

The mayor quite agreed with his judgment, “Yes, they won’t get this money back, and this is the trouble they have left for me!”

In the city under his jurisdiction, such a staggering amount of fraud had occurred, and he didn’t even know.

What would others think?

What would the citizens think?

What would the representatives at all levels of the Socialist Party think?

These people really deserved to die!