Chapter 268: Chapter 268: He Can Only Be Trusted
"90 million? He wants 90 million!"
Holly Houston couldn’t shake the feeling that the figure of 90 million seemed oddly familiar.
But this feeling was fleeting.
Right now, Holly Houston was worried whether this video would really be leaked.
If it was leaked, what kind of loss would it bring to the show’s production team?
Could she still deliver a perfect answer sheet to her grandfather?
But clearly, no matter how she imagined it, Holly Houston felt the consequences were unbearable for her.
So she hurriedly picked up her phone to make the transfer.
But Nathan Jacobs snatched her phone back.
"Calm down first."
"Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down? If this video is leaked, the show is finished."
Those people could diss July Quinn to the core, and could also diss her and the production team to the core.
And Holly Houston was even more worried that some haters had mastered the trick to report and prevent the show from ever airing.
If "Competition Dance" couldn’t air, all the money invested earlier would be gone.
Not only would she fail to deliver a satisfactory answer to her grandfather, but those investors would never let her off.
"As long as money can solve the problem, it’s not a problem. I’ll send the money to them now!"
Just 90 million.
Compared to not being able to enter the upper management of Westmarch Television and explaining to investors, it was nothing.
But at that moment, Nathan Jacobs asked her, "What if they still won’t delete the video after getting the money?"
"But if I don’t pay them, what else can I do?"
Holly Houston was indeed inexperienced; facing a big issue, her mind was totally paralyzed.
"I’ll contact my hacker friend first. He’s one of the top three in the COMEX hacker list; maybe he can solve this problem for you."
"Really? Brother Nathan, you know hackers, that’s so cool."
Perhaps because she once had a crush on Nathan Jacobs, Holly Houston couldn’t help but shower him with praise.
And to some extent, this greatly satisfied Nathan Jacobs’ masculine ego.
He kissed Holly Houston hard, then picked up his phone to contact Ollie.
When Ollie saw the video message he had just sent a few minutes ago being screenshotted and sent to him again, he finally understood why Lord Muck specifically approached him to complete this task.
Probably to prevent Nathan Jacobs from pulling off such a move.
But the camaraderie of dormmates couldn’t compare to being recognized by the lord and becoming the chief disciple.
So ultimately, Ollie chose to ignore Nathan Jacobs’ message.
Nathan Jacobs and Holly Houston waited in vain and could only contact the bunch of jumbled text.
[If I send you 90 million, will you really delete the video?]
But the jumbled text was quite arrogant, only providing this response.
[You can only trust me; there’s no other choice.]
Feeling helpless, Holly Houston still had to send the 90 million.
Just like the jumbled text said, they could only trust him.
And after this incident, she and Nathan Jacobs had no other intentions that night, focusing solely on watching the trending list on Weibo, fearing the video might be leaked and ready to suppress any trending topics.
Fortunately, by the time the sun rose the next day, the trending list remained calm.
It seemed the hacker’s only goal truly was money.
Holly Houston breathed a slight sigh of relief and started overseeing the recording of the first episode stage PK of "Competition Dance".