Thirty-three tons of gold.
Thirty-three tons!
Thirty-three tons of gold is worth over a billion US dollars, which isn't much to a large country, but to ordinary people, it's money they couldn't earn in ten lifetimes. Even for those corporations with assets worth tens of billions of dollars, how many could actually come up with a few billion US dollars?
Not to mention that this gold had come from illicit trade.
These days, even those with substantial businesses might not have so much liquid capital. Several billion, or a dozen billion US dollars—very few could spare that kind of money. And yet, there was a consulting firm based in East Asia that could. What did that imply?
It meant something was off.
The words from Yang Yi cut through the silence on the other end of the phone. After a moment, the voice on the phone asked in a low tone, "Thirty-three tons of gold?"
