Chapter 44: Raising Funds and Franklin's Invitation

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  These past few days, Franklin and his crew have been busy hijacking a cruise ship protected by Meriwether. Trevor took on a rotten job; he actually plans to sell restricted weapons to people from other countries. Such behavior is no different from going against one's own country. Lin Xiao knows they won't succeed in this deal either. Fortunately, they don't need more manpower, so Mac didn't come looking for Lin Xiao. Otherwise, he would have had to get involved in this foolish matter as well.

  As for Cui Fu, Lin Xiao was still quite interested in him. He seemed brutal and bloodthirsty, but he treated his friends with enough righteousness. Even when Mai Ke betrayed them years ago, indirectly causing the death of Blade, he hated Mai Ke so much at first that he wanted to kill him, but later chose to save him instead.

  Such a person is obviously a good friend to have, although he may sometimes drag you into certain dangerous situations.

  Because he didn't want to get involved in this mess, Lin Xiao hadn't gone to find Ma Ke recently, and at most they just talked on the phone. Franklin had seen him once, and the two of them had a drink at Vincent's place, chatting about their lives. Lin Xiao told Franklin that he had won a lot of money at the casino, and was also learning how to trade stocks. Franklin expressed his interest in this as well, telling Lin Xiao to bring him along next time.

  Four days passed quickly like this, and Cui Fu's deal was indeed messed up. Soon after, Leicester found Franklin again and gave him a villa on the mountain waist.

  Franklin, in gratitude to Lester, also agreed to help him with the next assassination, this time targeting four jurors bought by Redwood Tobacco, for the lungs of millions of smokers, Franklin accepted the task without hesitation.

  The very next day, the stock of Debonair that Lin Xiao had bought began to surge dramatically. Due to Hongmu Tobacco's defeat, Debonair Tobacco Company got a chance to develop, and its stock rose by 82.3% in just two days. Lin Xiao sold all his Debonair stocks when it rose to 82%, reaping a harvest of $54.6 million.

  Then he immediately put the money into the stock of Hongmu Tobacco, which had plummeted due to a lawsuit, and then he didn't need to take care of it anymore.

  ……

  This morning, Lin Xiao got up early, washed and dressed, and was about to go out for breakfast when his phone rang in his pocket.

  "Ding ding ding~ding ding ding~!"

  Lin Xiao picked up her phone and saw that it was a call from Franklin's number.

  "Hey! Xiao Fu, it's so early, you're not going to ask me out for a drink again, are you?" Lin Xiao said with a smile.

  On the other end of the phone, Franklin's laughter came through, "Dear Lin, this time it's not to invite you for a drink. You might not know, I just moved into a new place and I'm planning to have a few friends over for a get-together, you know, eat some food, drink some drinks, chat about something."

  "Hah! Looks like you've made a lot of money recently, Little Fu. You've finally moved out of your aunt's place!"

  "Oh! Don't mention that aunt of mine again, after moving out I feel like I've been reborn. By the way, let's set a time for this afternoon, I'll send you the address, don't forget then."

  Lin Xiao smiled as he recalled the last time he saw Franklin being scolded by his aunt, and said, "Alright, Little Fu, I'll definitely go over early next time."

  "Alright, see you this afternoon!"

  "See you this afternoon!"

  He hung up the phone, Lin Xiao smiled and shook his head, then picked up the key and went out.

  ……

  In the afternoon, Lin Xiao arrived at Franklin's mountain villa.

  "Hey! Xiao Fu, this environment is really great." Lin Xiao said with praise.

  This was not Lin Xiao's polite remark, Franklin's villa was indeed good, the location was also very good, just right to see the scenery below the mountain, and the design style was also Lin Xiao's kind, if he wouldn't stay in this world for too long, he really wanted to buy such a villa.

  "Lin, actually with your financial resources, you can also buy a villa like this for yourself to live in, why suffer?" Franklin said with a smile.

  "I don't have too many requirements for where I live," Lin Xiao said with a smile.

  At this time, there was suddenly a ring of doorbell outside the door.

  "It must be Mike and them," Franklin said as he walked towards the door, Lin Xiao also followed with a smile.

  The door opened and it was indeed Mike and Lester, but in addition to them, there was also a fierce-looking Trevor.

  "Did you three come together?" Franklin looked at the three people who appeared together with a puzzled expression.

  "It just so happens that I ran into you on the road," Mike said. "Hey! Lin, long time no see, how have you been lately?"

  "Are you Lin?" Cui Fu walked in through the door and said to Lin Xiao with a puzzled expression.

  "Is it? How come? Not right?" Lin Xiao said with a smile.

  "Your reputation isn't small!" Cui Fu laughed and said, "Among all the gamblers who go to Kaiwei Imperial Palace, there are hardly any who don't know you."

  This time, it was Mike and others who were puzzled.

  "Lao Cui, are you talking about the Kaiwei Imperial Palace?" Ma Ke asked doubtfully: "Is it that largest casino in the city?"

  Choi nodded and said, "Of course it's there. Lin is a big shot there, just won 7 million a few days ago. Those gamblers who lost to him were willing to gamble with him before they left."

  "Were you there at that time?" Lin Xiao asked in puzzlement.

  "Haha, I often go there too, you just didn't see me." Cui Fu said with a smile.

  "Lin, I didn't think you were so formidable!" Franklin and the others looked at Lin Xiao with shocked faces, clearly not expecting his gambling skills to be so impressive that he won so much money. When they thought about how hard they had worked together to get a share, but ended up getting nothing and even got into trouble, their hearts felt bitter.

  There's really a difference between people!

  Seeing the look on Maike and the others, Lin Xiao couldn't help but wave his hand and say: "Alright, it was just good luck, and I'm probably already on that casino's blacklist now. Thinking about going again is probably not possible, and Cui Fu, you don't know, after I went out, I encountered quite a bit of trouble."

  "I know, you little scamp are quite ruthless!" Creville said with a face that seemed to say he knew everything: "Twenty-eight of the Meliwese's special forces were taken out by you, I can hardly imagine how you managed it!"

  "Uh..." Lin Xiao forced a smile, he found that Cui Fu knew everything, this was not good, Mai Ke and the others would probably ask him all sorts of questions again.

  As expected, when Crevit said he took down twenty-eight Melirita special forces, Mak and the others were shocked again, and then asked him about the process. Lin Xiao had to tone down his own actions by several times before telling them, but it still made them exclaim in admiration one after another.