A few hours later, Ye Chen and Lang Hongjun returned to the United States together.
The plane landed in Providence first, and after Ye Chen got off the plane, it immediately took off again, carrying Lang Hongjun to Silicon Valley together with Hong Wu and Richard Chen.
The main reason why Hong Wu and Richard Chen accompanied Lang Hongjun was to protect his personal safety, after all, he was going to talk about a billion-dollar business deal, and it was not certain whether Mei Yu Zhen had any other unknowing accomplices in the United States.
After getting off the plane alone, Ye Chen drove back to the hotel where he was staying with Xiao Churan.
In the days that followed, he asked Fei Kexin to help him deliver a batch of medicinal herbs, and took advantage of Xiao Churan’s daytime cla*ses to make a new batch of Blood Dispersing and Heart Saving Pills.
Afterwards, he mixed one Peiyuan Dan and two Spring Return Pills into it, and paired them with a large number of herbs that were mainly for strengthening the body, melting and refining thousands of pills that contained enough medicinal power and also a little bit of spiritual energy.
These pills were not as effective as the Blood Dispersing and Heart Saving Pill, but they could easily dissolve the poison in the bodies of the dead soldiers and Primus Guards, helping them to completely break the shackles that had been pa*sed down for centuries.
Apart from preparing the antidote, Ye Chen had also set himself two plans of action.
The first option was to find a chance to sneak into the cargo ship carrying the antidote at sea, seize the line of delivery and find a way to obtain a higher level of secrets about the organisation, and then look for an opportunity to swap the antidote.
The alternative is to find a way to infiltrate inside the copper mines and then quietly target the sectional governor once he has the antidote in his possession.
The advantage of the former option was not only that it allowed access to people at a higher level, but also that it was one step ahead in time, so that if this option did not work out, the latter option could still be chosen, but if the latter option was taken as the preferred one, then there would basically be no suitable alternative.
As for how to board a moving cargo ship silently, Ye Chen also thought of a feasible plan and informed Wan Bajun of his requirements in advance, so that he could prepare for himself in advance.
Four days later.
With the tried and tested reason of “reading feng shui for a client”, Ye Chen left Xiao Churan for a while, carrying a black waterproof duffel bag, and took off directly from Providence on a Concorde to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
Beirut is located in the westernmost part of the Middle East and the easternmost coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The city is located across the sea from Cyprus and the shortest distance is just two hundred kilometres.
By the time Ye Chen arrived in Beirut, it was already dark, and Wan Bajun was already here to greet him.
As soon as he saw Ye Chen, he reported to him, “Mr Ye, the seven primus guards and the five-four-seven have all been arranged to board the ship in advance, as a cargo ship of the Isuzu Line has just crossed the Suez Canal and its first destination is Cyprus, so I have sent them on board by helicopter in advance at the Suez Canal. the first major port, Lima*sol.”
Ye Chen nodded and asked him, “That copper mine of theirs, it’s in Lima*sol, right?”
“Right.” Wan Bajun said, “The exact location of the copper mine is almost thirty kilometres northeast of Lima*sol, on the coast, and the mine has its own dock.”
Ye Chen asked again, “Have you found out where the ship carrying the supplies left from in Turkey?”
“Figured it out.” Wan Bajun said, “According to the copper mine’s sales data, all the copper ore they produce is sold to a copper refinery in Hatay province in Turkey. This copper refinery, ostensibly to reduce transportation costs, has purchased an eight thousand tonne cargo ship of its own, specifically for transporting copper ore from Cyprus, and their shipping route is also very fixed, which is from the Turkish Hatay Iskenderun port, to the Lima*sol copper mine’s own port, a journey of about two hundred and ten nautical miles, almost three hundred and ninety kilometres.”