Sometimes, the easier it was to talk to someone, the more they suffered.
The moment Luke expressed his dissatisfaction, the other party immediately changed their tune.
The truth was that in front of Chris, this Hydra branch chief, the Yashida family was nothing.
Hydra didn't have to give the family face if it didn't want to.
Whatever the case, Chris represented Hydra.
It wouldn't be easy for him to take down the family, but it wouldn't be hard for him to make things difficult for them.
The reason why the research institute had asked Chris to be its intermediary was because he had government connections in Japan which he could use to get information on the Yashida family.
Otherwise, the research institute would've long abandoned Chris.
On the other hand, Chris was interested in the institute's research results.
Unless he wanted to squeeze the Yashida family dry of a billion dollars some day, it was useless to him.