An Chongqiu was slightly stunned, then sighed and said with some melancholy, “After my sister and brother-in-law’s accident, that nephew of mine disappeared, for so many years, many people are looking for him, but there have been no clues, don’t look at the old man’s mouth, he never said anything, but in fact, in these twenty years, he hasn’t stopped looking.”
Saying that, he paused briefly and added: “The year my sister’s accident happened, the old man set up a special trust fund at JP Morgan Bank, putting a billion dollars into it every year;”
“This money was used for two purposes, one was dedicated to finding that nephew of mine, and the other was to give him the rest of the money when he was found;”
“No, after twenty years have pa*sed, the principal has been put in a total of twenty billion dollars, and hiring multiple teams to find people around the world over the past twenty years has cost less than half of that, almost six or seven billion dollars, I think.”
Li Yalin’s jaw dropped as he listened and blurted out, “It costs that much to find someone?!”
“Yes.” An Chongqiu explained, “In the information age, it seems easy to find someone, but in fact, the world is so big that if you miss a corner, you may not be able to find that person for the rest of your life, so it takes multiple teams to spread out the map of the world and then search it little by little, hundreds or thousands of people, running around, feeding people and horses, the cost is indeed very high. ”
“On top of that, there’s the cost of intelligence, whether the information is useful or not, as long as there’s information coming back to you, you have to pay a fee, and you can’t get help from local authorities, police and gangs for this kind of thing for fear of information leaks and good intentions, so it has to be your own team looking a little bit at a time;”
“And once you find a suspect, you have to do everything you can to obtain the other party’s DHA for comparison, which is also a big cost, and no less than tens of millions of DNA comparisons have been done over the years alone.”
Li Yalin asked in disbelief, “And that’s not even found?!”
“No ……” An Chongqiu sighed, “It’s weird to say, we’ve been to almost everywhere in the world where people are, but we just can’t find it, maybe it’s in the wrong direction.”
Li Yalin asked again, “Did you look for it domestically?”
“Of course.” An Chongqiu said, “At that time, we started with the place of origin, and after turning the place of origin upside down, we started to gradually spread to the whole country. If we couldn’t find the whole country, we searched for those countries bordering the land, then spread to the whole Asia and then spread to the whole world.”
Li Yalin asked, “Have you sent anyone to check your brother-in-law’s family? Maybe they have hidden the child.”
An Chongqiu smiled sarcastically, “Of course we did, not only did we check, we had sent our top team to monitor them in those first few years, but we never found any clues.”
“But we didn’t give up, after all, which one of these big families wouldn’t play some tricks? Out of absolute caution, we wouldn’t give up until we had 100% confirmation, just in case they were hiding too deep.”
“So, fifteen years ago, we sent another group of people to infiltrate them, and one of them took a whole ten years to become the personal butler of the first heir of their family.”
“That time frame was almost five years ago, I think, and that was when we were finally able to be 100% sure that my brother-in-law’s family, too, did indeed not know the whereabouts of that great nephew of mine! And the old man of their family was looking for him everywhere, just like we were ……”
“You see this before and after, we just to confirm whether the person is in my brother-in-law’s family or not, or whether they know any clues or not, it took a whole fifteen years, all the human resources and energy we put into it, basically all in vain.”
“In the end, when we saw that the basket was empty, we withdrew all the people back ……”