The conference room that was supposed to belong to the first floor has been replaced by the chairman's office on the top floor of Oslair Bendove Real Estate. As the core area of ​​the largest real estate company in Carlerona, Chairman Bennik has arranged the room in an orderly manner, and the wide mahogany desk can easily highlight his aura.

But that was when facing partners.

At this moment, he was obviously in his office, but he could only stay in a most inconspicuous corner with a grievance and let the two real protagonists hold their first meeting.

"It's really unimaginable. The one who wanted to buy land in this state was Miss Alice who has appeared in major newspapers recently."

Governor McDowell was just over 50 years old, but he already had a pale hair color: "However, what surprised me the most was the share of this order."

He looked at the material covered on the table: "And six thousand acres are not a small area. I'll ask, this shouldn't be prepared for summer hunting?"

Many rich people have the hobby of buying nature reserves. This land is cheap and cannot be used for commercial and residential development, but it happens to be used for fishing, hunting and vacation. Strictly speaking, the land of the Great Dismore Swamp is of this nature. Its biodiversity allows the rich people living here to have sufficient animals for hunting, as long as it is not a protected area.

“The truth is, I want to start a security company.”

Facing the state's governor, Alice told the truth: "These 6,000 acres of land are used to build a training base."

"Security company!?"

McDowell looked shocked: "If I remember correctly, your current main identity should be the founder of Cisco Systems and a shareholder of Microsoft, right? The security company field seems to have nothing to do with you?"

Alice smiled relaxedly and shrugged: "It didn't matter before, it doesn't mean there will be no relationship in the future. Don't be a girl, my ambition is no worse than that of a boy. I've been interested in such a cool company as a security company for a long time."

As she said that, she still patted Maiya's shoulders: "This is my good sister, so she decided to take the military academy."

"Oh, that's amazing."

Of course, McDowell's attention was not on Akaman and his daughter. After showing polite surprise, he said to Alice: "But why did you pick this land?"

"Of course it's because it's a swamp."

Looking at McDowell's eyes, Alice noticed that something seemed to be wrong: "Speaking of this, Governor McDowell, how could such a swamp nature reserve be sold at a price of 4,000 US dollars per acre? Even if it is placed in the cheapest Oklahoma, a residential land is only half the price, right?"

Alice clearly saw that McDowell's pupils suddenly shrank.

"It seems you have a special liking for that swamp. I wonder if you would like to tell me the reason of this old man?"

The reason is of course because Hei Shui bought this land in history, but Alice could see that neither the owner of this real estate developer nor the governor, they were obviously unwilling to buy that land themselves.

why is that?

"I just want to."

Alice shrugged and stared at McDowell: "But if I just wanted to buy it before, after knowing that this swamp was so expensive, I would like to know why. Mr. Governor, the price of land was directly formulated by the relevant departments of this state, but it is impossible to formulate it casually. The price of this swamp is far higher than its due value. I want to know now, is there any hidden information in this?"

Alice is ready for a protracted war. As early as when she first conceived Blackwater International, the Great Dismore Swamp was already the thing in her pocket. It was just a swamp. To be serious, even if it was sold for one thousand dollars per acre, it was a little expensive, for 4,000 yuan, she would not be such a sucker!

However, the answer does not seem to be difficult.

"It's not that I can't tell you."

McDowell also realized the girl's difficulty and nodded, but said, "You can guess it. If you guess it right, I can lower the price for you."

Alice stared at McDowell's expression: "Because you have discovered that there are mineral resources under the swamp, but because you haven't taken the contractor for the time being, you can raise the price to avoid being bought by others?"

McDowell laughed: "Your imagination is really rich, but Alice, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, it's not the reason at all."

After saying that, fearing that Alice would guess endlessly, McDowell quickly added: "There are two more opportunities. If you can't guess the reason, I will never let go of the price of 4,000 US dollars."

During this conversation, the Akaman and his daughter remained quiet.

Everyone was secretly looking at Bennik.

Logically speaking, the chairman of the seller, Bennik, who is the seller, should be the leader, and no matter how you look at it, it is away, and it should be Governor McDowell. But now it seems that McDowell has taken over the price negotiations in this swamp, and Bennik feels relieved.

It's really weird!

"Because someone died there?"

Alice directly gave up this idea: "But that's only the case of haunted houses, and it must be price reduction, so how can there be a reason for appreciation?"

Then, a scene that surprised and delighted Alice appeared!

Governor McDowell's wise eyes shrank again due to nervousness!

"Hahaha, Alice, you are really worthy of being a writer. This imagination really makes me feel inferior."

But McDowell immediately laughed: "I have also seen your Jurassic Park, that one..."

"It seems that's why."

Alice interrupted his shift: "It turned out that it was because people died in the swamp."

After the words came to an end, both Alice and Acaman and his daughter saw with satisfaction that McDowell and Bennik's expressions completely froze.

"After thinking about it, I understand."

Alice nodded and continued, "There are dangers in the swamp, and it is a danger that can cause death. So when you find that the danger cannot be removed for the time being, you can increase the price manually to make this swamp that is rarely loved, no one will buy, right?"

After a long silence, McDowell sighed slowly: "After all, you are worthy of being King Alice. Although you are still young, you are smarter than many adults I know. You are right, that swamp is indeed dangerous."

It's true!

After getting the answer, Alice closed her eyes with satisfaction.

Akaman interrupted: "What type of danger is it? As far as I know, there is only a small area of ​​that swamp that has the danger of flooding people, and most of the map is just wet land full of plants."

Wuya whispered: "Because there are crocodiles? Or miasma?"

McDowell shook his head: "We don't know either. First of all, you must know that this is not a criminal case after all. At most, we are trying our best to search and rescue the victims. It is impossible to do anything to this swamp itself. After knowing that there is danger, the safest measure is to avoid people going in again, rather than actively solving it."

"Of course, it's not because the state government is inaction, but it's really hard for us to find out the reason."

Seeing that everyone's expressions became even more confused, McDowell thought about it for a while and said, "That's right, as everyone knows, most of the people who walked into the swamp failed to come out."

"Ahhh!"

"What are you doing?"

"God, are you kidding?"

Seeing the surprised expressions of the three people, McDowell seemed to be satisfied and said with a smile: "I'm surprised, but the situation is so incredible. After serving as governor, I have browsed relevant records. Since more than 30 years ago, missing cases have often occurred in this swamp, but most of them have been dealt with by local police as ordinary disappearance cases."

Alice's expression also became serious: "So, the reason that prompted you to raise prices to avoid people buying that land must be a large-scale disappearance, right?"

"That's true!"

McDowell's expression became heavy and sighed: "That was fifteen years ago. I believe you have no impression of it. This gentleman...well, this was the case at that time."

"There are three brothers in the family, who are citizens living in the town of Aiden. They happened to graduate from high school at that time. Because they were about to go to college, they took advantage of the summer vacation to go outings in the swamp together...at least, this is what they said to their families before leaving."

Alice jerked, "And then disappeared?"

"Yes, then it disappeared."

Looking at the serious expressions of the three listeners, McDowell also looked at Bennik, who was equally serious: "The authorities immediately sent police officers to launch a search and rescue operation on the missing teenagers. At that time, a total of 172 policemen were sent to search for them in the depths of the swamp. You also know that the land was only highly wet and covered with wetland plants at most, and it was not difficult for ordinary people to step on..."

Alice swallowed hard and spitted: "No way..."

Governor McDowell's slightly old face showed a clear fear.

"You guessed it right, Alice, except for those three teenagers, all of the 172 policemen who walked into the swamp also lost contact and disappeared completely!" To be continued.
Chapter completed!