Mysterious Queen walked into the dining room and greeted everyone present. Alexia followed behind her.
Alexia was wearing a loose linen robe today. Unlike her previous sexy look, she had eyeshadow on, but her eyes were bloodshot and she walked unnaturally.
A beautiful waitress from the Internal Affairs Department looked at Alexia, then glanced at Gray. She bit her lip and tried not to laugh.
"Mister Ley, how do you feel today?”Empress Xuan specially greeted the young man with cancer, Lei Xinnuo.
The young man was a little surprised to be asked. He hesitated for a moment and said,"I feel pretty good. When I woke up this morning, my whole body felt very comfortable.”
"That's good. Then, please finish your breakfast and get into the car in the courtyard. We have a meeting today.”Empress Xuan said with a smile.
"May I ask what meeting it is? Miss Yang." Xu Haoran asked.
"It's a regular meeting of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. We won't express our opinions. We're just listening. There are other arrangements in the afternoon.”she said.
Bian Kai's expression was serious and thoughtful. Fang Xiaogang couldn't help but ask in surprise,"We can also attend this meeting?" Which country's central bank are we representing?”
"Mr. Fang's previous advice as an economic consultant was very good. It was ingenious and far-sighted. You should come and listen. Of course, all of us don't represent any economy. Everyone, follow the company's arrangements. I'll wait for you in the car.”Mysterious Queen left the dining room with Alexia.
Everyone hurriedly finished the food in their hands and followed him to the courtyard. There was a minibus that could seat twenty people parked in the courtyard. Alexia was the driver, and Mysterious Queen was leading the others into the minibus like a tour guide. The car drove through the city and had to avoid the blue-green trams. On both sides of the road, there were mostly small buildings with three to five floors. The ground floor of the small building was mostly filled with all kinds of small shops. There were a few green plants at the entrance of the shop to decorate the environment.
The minibus drove slowly for half an hour and stopped in front of a circular building that looked like a magnified medium-focus single-lens reflex lens. A middle-aged European woman greeted them at the door and took them to the conference room on the tenth floor.
The eight men sat down at the conference table and the guide left. Empress Xuan did not take the elevator with them, so they were the only ones left in the room.
Wang Xiaohao asked Fang Xiaogang,"What is this place? What meeting are we going to attend?"”
"This should be the headquarters of the Bank for International Settlement. I don't know what the meeting is about, but it's about how to supervise banks and control risks.”Fang Xiaogang said.
"How can I understand that? I'm just a sportsman. What do you do?" Wang Xiaohao asked everyone present.
"You're better than me. I'm just an unemployed vagrant.”Bian Kai said.
"I'm a salesman," Sun Lingdong said."I just started working at this company.”
Fang Xiaogang said,"I'm about the same. I just came to this company as a small employee."”
Gray said," We have some business dealings with this company. I'm here to inspect it.”
"I'm in technical work. I've only been in the company for a month.”Xiao Fu Yun introduced.
"I told you, I'm here to treat my illness. I'm still in school and haven't graduated.”Lei Xinnuo said.
Xu Haoran smiled and said," I'm a little different from you. I was invited to visit. I work in a local bank."”
"We don't seem to have anything in common. This selection is really unpredictable.”Wang Xiaohao was confused.
Xu Haoran said," The selection method is even stranger. No one would have thought that yesterday, they were playing Texas hold 'em. Today, they are listening to a meeting of the China Merchants Bank.”
Bian Kai said seriously,""This is a meeting place for the representatives of the central banks of the twenty-seven most powerful countries and regions in the world. Anyway, I won't be able to understand the content of the meeting unless they use Chinese.”
"Don't worry about that." Mysterious Queen's voice came from outside the door. She had changed into a dark red business suit and appeared at the door.
"Miss Yang Tian." They nodded and greeted her.
After Mysterious Queen walked in, the projector in the conference room was turned on, and the image of another conference room was projected on the wall. The room's decoration and the style of the tables and chairs were similar to their current meeting room, but the room was much bigger and could accommodate up to a hundred people. There was a long table covered with a tablecloth in the conference room. There were more than 20 small flags of different countries on the table, and many of them had other small flags beside them that could not be seen clearly. Most of the people at the long table were already seated. The meeting was about to begin.
A loudspeaker somewhere in the conference room was transmitting the speech in the conference room in real-time at a relatively low volume. Fang Xiaogang could tell that it wasn't English, but he couldn't understand anything else.
At this moment, someone knocked twice on the door of the conference room. Then, the door was opened and a Chinese woman who looked to be in her forties walked in. She had some light makeup on and looked very elegant. After entering the room, she nodded at Empress Xuan, then put on an earpiece and sat beside the projector.
"This is Jennifer. She will be our simultaneous translator today.”Empress Xuan gave a brief introduction of her.
On the projector, there were people in the conference room who had entered and sat down again. The voice from the other side was quite noisy. Fortunately, a small microphone was quickly set up on the other side, and a white-haired European old man said something into it.
"Please be quiet. Our meeting will begin soon.”Jennifer suddenly spoke, almost at the same time as the old man.
The venue quieted down. Fang Xiaogang and the others also sat up straight and looked at the screen.
The white-haired old man spoke into the microphone. In front of him was a German flag and a small flag with blue words on a white background. Two seconds after he spoke, Jennifer began to translate.
"Everyone, I am Jens Weidmann from the German Central Bank. The list of operating expenses of the Bank for International Settlement for the third quarter and the details of the expenses borne by shares have been handed over to everyone. Please pay the advance payment for the fourth quarter within 15 working days. Below was a board change submitted by the Federal Reserve.”
The white-haired old man handed a small microphone to a young man on the table. This young man was very young. He had two flags in front of him, the American flag and the round eagle head flag of the Federal Reserve System.
"Everyone, I am honored to be appointed as a director of the Bank for International Settlement on behalf of the Federal Reserve. Chris Morgan." the young man said. Of course, the voice was translated by Jennifer.
At this moment, someone next to him spoke. He did not use a microphone, but he was sitting next to John. His voice was very clear."YYFC, is your Morgan family going to take over the Federal Reserve?”There was only a British flag in front of him.
The young man smiled at him and said,"There's no such thing. This is just my personal work."”
After a while, the microphone was taken over by someone behind the blue flag."I'm Stanley from the Bank of Israel. Fisher, our bank is issuing 50 billion US dollars of 20-year bonds this month with an annual interest rate of 2.64.”
At this moment, a Central Asian man behind the red flag said something with an unfriendly expression, which was clearly transmitted over. Jennifer listened to her earpiece and suddenly looked at Empress Xuan with a troubled expression.
"This is Turkish. He said that the Arabs want to borrow money to fight."”
"Miss Yang is really knowledgeable." Xu Haoran shook his head and praised.”
Empress Xuan did not comment. English came from the other side of the venue again. The microphone returned to the hands of the young man from the Federal Reserve. Jennifer translated,"We only talk about business, not politics.”
At this moment, the speaker spoke in Chinese without any translation. A representative of the People's Bank of China behind the China National Flag and the red shield flag of the China Bank of China spoke,"Business is not just about politics. It can even lead to war. As an international organization, we should understand the use of funds.”The speech received the nod of support from many participants.
"We have the right not to explain the purpose." The man shook his head.”
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As they left the Apennine Peninsula, the whole of Italy was left behind. Andrew and Eva drove to the mountains in the distance. Those mountains were the Alps. Human cities were always built on plains near water, and the rivers flowing down the mountain gave birth to more than half of European civilization, just like Kunlun Mountain to China.
They rented a short 90-inch wheelbase black Land Rover Defender in Milan. Although it was cloudy today, the scenery along the way was still charming.
After entering the high-altitude area of the mountain, there was a thick fog on the road. Andrew drove as slowly as possible to prevent any oncoming cars from suddenly appearing in the fog.
"The weather is terrible. It looks like we'll be spending the whole morning on this mountain road.”he said slowly.
"You can drive faster," Eva said unexpectedly."There's no car ahead."”
"Little girl, you're quite brave. Then should I really speed up?”he said.
Eva nodded.
He showed a fearless expression and sped up in the fog. The speed of the car had already reached a dangerous level. If a car suddenly came from the opposite side and drove in the wrong lane, they could only pray for their own good luck.
After a minute or so in the fog, Eva said to him,""Slow down, there's a car in front."
Andrew slowed down the car, and sure enough, a white pickup truck appeared in the fog, and the two cars passed each other.
"You guessed it right." he said with a smile.
"How do you know that I was just guessing?" There was a hint of mockery in her smile.
"Should I speed up?"
"In a while, a blue Alfa Romeo Giulia will be here soon.”She told him.
"If you can guess that…F * ck!”A blue sedan drove over in the fog. The inverted triangular air intake grill flashed past. The model was right.
"How did you know?" he asked in surprise.
"Chinese technology, map software." She waved her phone at him.
"The technology of the third country is really amazing.”He could not believe it.
"Speed up, there's no car in front."
Puzzled, Andrew sped up and looked at the navigation screen on his car. There was only the direction of the road on it, and it did not show the car coming from the opposite side.
"Can I go any faster?" he asked.
"It'd be best if that's the case. I'm in a hurry." she said.
He cautiously increased his speed to 60 kilometers per hour. At this time, the Guardian SUV started to bump on the mountain road. Its shock absorption was not as comfortable as a car or SUV. The two of them shook up and down in the car from time to time.
"Slow down, there's a BMW in front.”she said.
Andrew slowed down and honked. Soon, they heard a horn in front of them. Then, a black BMW X5 brushed past them.
"China's mobile phone software is really amazing. Can I download one?”
"Currently, there are no other languages.”she said.
"But it seems like you don't really look at your phone screen?”he said while looking at her.
"I saw it." Eva picked up her phone as if she was looking at a map.
"Is there a car in front now?"
"Yes, in twenty seconds, there will be a truck.”she said.
He stepped on the accelerator and slowed down fifteen seconds later. Soon, he heard the sound of a big car driving over. He got excited and said,"That car can be driven by no one in the future." Unfortunately, this car has a manual transmission."
"Speed up, there are no cars in front.”she said.
The car sped up and soon reached 70 km/h.
"There are no cars in the three kilometers ahead.”Eva said.
The speed of the car continued to increase. Andrew shifted into fifth gear and drove at 100 km/h on the foggy road. He looked at the navigation map from time to time to make sure there was no turn ahead.
Clouds of fog rushed toward him. The car broke through the fog and moved forward. There was an excited expression on his face.
Suddenly, a ball of grayish-white fog seemed to be a little different. It was not until they were very close that they could see clearly that there was a gray animal that was not small and stopped in the middle of the road. It was an adult female wild red deer.
“Oh,mioDio!”Andrew screamed and turned to the right. Eva's eyes widened at this moment, and her hands and feet unconsciously tightened.
The sound of brakes and tires sliding was accompanied by the sound of a collision. The deer was hit by half of its butt and flew a few meters to the left. The car slid out of control and left the road to the right. Andrew did not turn the steering wheel recklessly, but there was a slope on the right.
Inevitably, the car flipped over and rolled twice on the slope. The people sitting in the car felt the world spinning and the mountains collapsing. Finally, the car rolled to the right and stopped.
When the car overturned, the two of them were tightened by the seat belt. When they stopped, they were hanging there. Andrew grabbed the steering wheel and the door handle to support his body. Otherwise, he would fall and crush Eva. The four corners of the front windshield were shattered, and the cracks extended to the entire front. However, the glass was still in the frame and most of the window glass was not broken.
"Let's go out first." Andrew struggled to get out of his seat in the overturned car. Eva unbuckled her seatbelt, stood up in the car, and helped him adjust his posture.
Then, they opened the door of the driver's seat and climbed out of the car. The cold wind on the mountain was bone-piercing. Andrew shrunk his neck in the cold. He could not see the shadow of the deer in the fog on the road. It should not have been seriously injured and had run away.
"I hope it's covered, or we'll have to pay a lot of money. Fortunately, he's fine." Andrew said as he looked at the damaged car.
"Your head is bleeding." Eva told him that his left forehead had a scratch, but it was not serious and there was a small amount of blood oozing out.
He wiped his forehead and said,""The question is, what should we do next?"
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