The Hero

Chapter 142 Investigating Sammy Blue Inc.

Jade has lied.

He said he heard Javier's car while going to the bathroom and reacted by looking out the window. That's not true at all.

Javier wakes up in the afternoon, long after Jade leaves. As he passed his study, he noticed that the desk light was on, illuminating a pile of documents and files that were all related to Sammy-Blue.

He researched the information briefly and discovered that Sammy-Blue Inc. was a relatively nascent company. Although it was only founded five years ago, the rise of the company is very rapid, and its growth is manifesting in various industries ranging from advertising, fitness, health, medicine, and even automobiles. If one looks at their expansion trends, one would conclude that the company is trying to kill itself by over-expanding. That's not the way to keep the company.

However, Sammy-Blue Inc. managed to get a remarkable profit. At this point, its annual profit has reached 348 million dollars.

There are also news reports about Sammy-Blue Inc. on the table. The business analyst who wrote it called Sammy-Blue a business miracle. Glancing at the article, Javier thought that the expert might have been slapped with an 8,000-dollar bill before issuing this, or they wouldn't have been so enthusiastic and aggressive about licking the company's boots.

Damn, five years alone seems to be enough time for a company that has divided itself into different industries to achieve rocket growth in all their ventures instead of dying? What is this, a role-playing game where Sammy-Blue becomes the gamemaster?

Or are they cheating?

Javier never thought that even bona fide geniuses like Mary Jane Gould and Chad McCool were capable of something so ridiculous. According to him, Sammy-Blue Inc. must be hiding something. It was unlikely to be a legitimate and legal business, but for now, he had no idea what methods they might use. It could be collusion between corrupt government officials and company leaders. That could be illegal. It could be, frankly, a lot of things.

That is why Javier is not interested in finding a part of this problem. Rather, he intends to find out what exactly Sammy-Blue has done that keeps Jade - who has a double duo of Mary Jane and Chad working at the company - awake until three in the morning home just to read about them.

The documents and information he had obtained contained too little meat, so it was difficult for Javier to find anything useful there.

He made breakfast carelessly, changed into something clean and tidy, and went to the company. While passing Chad's office, the man himself looks up from his job and looks into Javier's eyes. Chad quickly gets up from his chair and desk before Javier pulls him into his office.

Javier hasn't seen Chad for a few days, but the latter looks like it's been a few years. He looked like he had been weathered by the elements. The man had swapped the appearance of his clean-shaven early adopter with the look of a tired office worker with a beard wrapped around his chin.

Javier sneered while observing Chad. “Yah, okay. What kind of trouble can make you look like shit, Mr McCool?”

Chad sounds helpless. "Fucking criminals."

Javier laughed even harder. Exasperated Chad, he turned around to check his back. “As in thugs in business, okay? I mean not a real thug!”

Chad starts to explain what happened to Javier. Apparently, the company has been at odds with criminals in the same— market as discovered by Sammy-Blue Inc. Javier in research documents. The company seems to have used its tremendous funds to attract so many clients and potential sales that the Reivaj Group was effectively ostracized. In addition, he used other non-business influences to block Reivaj's projects and sales.

The reason that triggered this strange showdown was because the Reivaj Group had successfully taken one of their company's sales. Just like that, Sammy-Blue Inc. has considered it a gross offense that deserves a full frontal attack from all sides. It was as if two children were involved in an argument, and one party decided to call grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, and no one else into the fray. The entire crew then proceeded to gang up on the other side.

Of course the other kids will be on their last legs. How else could it end?

Chad can be a hotshot, but even a hotshot can't possibly strike back without similar resources or support. How can Iron-Man fight off a massive purple alien if the only resource he has is an actual iron to iron out clothes?

He may have the software, but he doesn't have the hardware to do it. That's exactly the bond Chad has

After knowing Sammy-Blue's tactics, Javier again giggled. “Then throw your hat into the ring and throw the shit out! According to the information I got, Sammy-Blue Inc just went up in the stock market earlier this year, right? Let Aunt Mary Jane take them to the boxing ring, and you'll hear them calling their mom and dad!”

Chad just looked helpless. “You think I don't want that, boss? I dreamedit! But even the combined power of me and Miss Gould can't extort 1.5 billion dollars to kill them! The value of Sammy-Blue Inc is more than we can collect!”

And according to the information on the table, the company has a net profit of 316 million dollars every year. Doesn't that mean Sammy-Blue only took five years to reach the peak of profits?!

“Who knows where the company got the money from? All I know is that they act like thugs with not the slightest bit of honor in the business. I focused all my attention on them, and I said, madness is their only method - their expansion strategies are everywhere! It's like watching an orchestra led by an outsider. But gosh, they're really good at bully, financially attack, using off-business tactics, and I don't know what else.”.

Javier will never really understand this. He was not a genius in business; his talent was to gather talented people in business.

"Do you have detailed information about this Sammy-Blue Inc?" She asked. "Give me a copy."

Chad pointed to a pile that was about half a meter tall. “There, all yours. Destroy yourself.”

God * mn. How does a five-year-old company generate a lot of information about itself?!

“It's mostly about bad intimidation tactics from bad savage companies,” Chad replied when Javier asked, “Until now, the only companies that survived their attacks were those backed by government officials or the country itself. No one else has ever won.”

Well, fine. That sounds like a tough big boss! Javier's still gonna see this on his own. He took the file at the very top of the stack and glanced at it.

Eyebrows wrinkling. The chairman and legal owner of Sammy-Blue Inc. was a man named Samuel Lambert

Javier flipped through the report, taking the details. This man's file depicts someone who looks a lot like Jonah Lambert's adopted son, right down to his life experiences. Samuel has been hailed as a prodigy who has missed grades and successfully enrolled at Gale University, one of the nation's top universities before studying abroad at Sammius to earn his Ph.D. in the economic field.

Javier believes Samuel Lambert in these files is the same as Samuel Jonah mentioned. It will be easy for someone who distributes drugs—first in the country, then abroad, then back to the homeland again—with easy capital billions of dollars. Human trafficking also provides another quick way to make a lot of money.

Javier could have guessed smartly that it was very likely that Samuel was using this insane company for money laundering. Making money has always been Sammy-Blue's second goal.

Now that the company is attacking Reivaj Group, much of its capital could be used in the crusade, which gives Sammy-Blue Inc. plenty of opportunities to launder its money.

Tsk, tsk. It seemed like Samuel had played a high-stakes game.and became extremely expert at it as well!

Javier pulled out his phone and checked his papers. There has been no news from the black market yet, but he is far from anxious about it. Tucking her phone back into her pocket, she tells Chad to come closer.

"Come on. Let's go to Sammy-Blue Inc's headquarters to check it out.”

Chad tensed. “We're going to do what? The Sammy-Blue Headquarters? It's all the way in the state capital! Why are we even going there?”

“We can always try to beg for mercy on Mr. Lambert, right? Tell him to let us get away? ”

Chad speechless. He could hear in a non-committal tone - almost joking that his boss did not think Sammy-Blue was anything worth serious about.

Chad can see why.

Why would a paragon of Kersey descent even fear a weak little Sammy-Blue Inc? Even after the great feud between Javier and the rest of the family, this young man was still not someone Sammy-Blue could take for granted!