When he thought of this, Meng Chao's eyes sparkled, and he said to Qin Hu, "Mr. Hu, you reminded me. There are hundreds of thousands of broken-star superhumans in Dragon City, and there's a lot of resources hidden behind them. If we don't use them properly, it'll be a waste. But how can I let you pay for the headquarters?"
"Don't worry about that," Qin Hu said readily.
"Brother Meng, you don't understand. You can only earn money if you pay for it.
"Think about it. The main goal of setting up the Broken Star Club is to practice the Ultimate Style. Not only are you Mr. Gu's true disciple, you're also the person who has the greatest influence in promoting the Ultimate Style. You're also the person who repaired main meridians and reached higher realms the fastest among all the broken-star superhumans. All the broken-star superhumans treat you as their role model, so it's only natural that you become the club leader.
"But I joined halfway, and I don't even know whether I can be considered a broken-star superhuman. It's not a problem for me to be a normal member, but if I want to be a director or even the chairman when the Broken Star Club has hundreds of thousands of members, people will inevitably ask me why I should do that.
"I'm really optimistic about the development of the Broken Star Club, which is why I'm willing to risk my life to fight for it. Brother Meng, you have to fulfill my wish!"
Meng Chao thought about it for a while and said, "Mr. Hu, we're just talking on paper. You might be able to make sense of it, but no one knows what problems we'll run into when it develops. You might end up wasting all your money."
"That's nothing. I still have shares in Superstar, don't I? We're friends who have gone through life and death together. Brother Meng, you can't bear to see me begging on the streets, right?"
Qin Hu laughed. Then, his face suddenly turned dark, and the light of a tiger shone in the depths of his eyes. He said clearly, "The matter with the White Spirit isn't over yet. Frenzied Saber was practically wiped out, and I have to take revenge for my dead brothers. Unfortunately, I don't know who the mastermind is right now. I might have lost all my power, but I want to use my own method to help!
"I can't do anything else, but I'll do my best to make the Broken Star Club bigger and search for clues from all walks of life. What if I manage to find some clues?"
Meng Chao's expression changed.
He did not expect that this was Qin Hu's goal.
His mind raced, and Meng Chao did not doubt Qin Hu's motives.
Because in the memories of his previous life, Qin Hu had indeed escaped alone and stepped on the path of taking revenge on the White Spirit.
No matter how many flaws this person had.
At least he was a man.
However, Meng Chao and Qin Hu still had their differences when it came to operating the Broken Star Club.
He shook his head and said, "Mr. Hu, if we work together with Big Sis Ya, we'll definitely have a chance to catch the mastermind who modified the White Spirit, but I don't intend to earn a single cent from the Broken Star Club."
Qin Hu was stunned. "What?"
"The Broken Star Club should be a non-profit organization. Our goal is to obtain the friendship and trust of hundreds of thousands of broken-star superhumans. If we want to become stronger, we can't have even the slightest thought of profit.
"It's just as you said. We can use our members to promote our products, do direct sales, and do group purchases. That's not a problem, but we must give all the benefits to our members and the normal citizens who trust our members. Aside from the expenses to maintain the operations of the organization, we must not earn money from the Broken Star Club."
Qin Hu scratched his head and said, "Then why did I go through so much trouble to make it so big? Am I really going to contribute to the citizens?"
"What's wrong with contributing?"
Meng Chao smiled faintly, and the light in his eyes shone brilliantly. "Mr. Hu, set your sights in the long term. If we can really win the trust and friendship of hundreds of thousands of broken-star superhumans, we can use their connections and resources to earn money from any business we do outside the Broken Star Club.
"In Dragon City and the Other World, money isn't the most important thing. You've already made a good start. Don't kill the goose that lays golden eggs. The Broken Star Club isn't for money, but to win something even more important."
Qin Hu was stunned. "What is it?"
"The future!"
Meng Chao said firmly. He patted Qin Hu's shoulder and strode outside. "Come, let's go and talk to the other directors. I have good news to tell you."
Qin Hu thought about it and quickly caught up to him. "What good news?"
"What does the Broken Star Club lack the most right now?" Meng Chao asked.
Qin Hu thought about it. "We've already paid the rent for the storage for half a year, and we don't need much money to renovate the place. But we're lacking cultivation cabins for the Ultimate Style. The members are mainly here to cultivate, but they're expensive and hard to buy. I want to contribute, but I don't have that much money!"
"Don't worry, you don't need to contribute."
Meng Chao grinned. "It's all thanks to your hard work over this period of time that the top-class fighters in Dragon City have their sights set on the Broken Star Club. A mysterious elite donated one million Supernatural Coins and one hundred cultivation cabins to us!"
…
From that day onwards, Meng Chao felt as if he had returned to the most stressful days in Project 1024. He lived a life where he wanted to split every single second.
First was the special training from the abnormal beast research department.
Ye Xiaoxing was very efficient. He found a few instructors for him in one go.
There were specialists and professors from Agricultural University, ace lecturers from the University of Technology, University of Science, Medical University, and military school around them.
The alliance of the five universities had always been a place where they could help each other, so elite students often traveled to other universities to learn.
Everyone was in Nine Sands University City, and the speed and jumping ability of superhumans were rather astonishing, so there was no problem of them wasting time.
The instructors taught him fine dissection of superbeasts' brains, how to use spirit energy magnetic fields to create mental walls to fight against abnormal beasts' mind control, the application of a lot of advanced runic symbol machines and weapons that Meng Chao had never heard of before, and how to set up and dismantle biochemical bombs that used monster organs as raw materials.
Of course, there was also the identification of traces, tracking and anti-tracking, reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance, group psychology, histology, and other subjects.
Based on what Lu Siya said, these subjects were supposed to be taught step by step over the course of two years.
But Meng Chao was not an official investigator of the abnormal beast research department. It was enough for him to just skim through them.
Regardless of whether it was Group 9's Captain Ye Xiaoxing or the instructors, they did not have high hopes for Meng Chao.
After all, the training time was too short, and it was too scattered.
But Meng Chao did not know how he should explain his situation to the instructors, Ye Xiaoxing, and Lu Siya.
Perhaps it was because what he thought about during the day was what he dreamed about at night.
Every night, after he received the special training from the abnormal beast research department, a large amount of information was forcefully injected into his brain. When he returned to the Ultimate Style's cultivation cabin and entered deep meditation, Meng Chao would always have really clear and long dreams in his daze.
In his dreams, he went through another special training.
In his previous life, he went through the Ghost Tribe's special training.
The subjects were poisoning, kidnapping, assassination, explosives, spreading rumors, framing others, fishing in troubled waters, robbing others, and so on.
It was as if the training he received when he was awake was to become the sturdiest shield and protect the unity, stability, and peace of Dragon City and human civilization. He also wanted to find the evil forces lurking in the dark.
And in his dreams, all the training he received was so that he could become the sharpest spear. He would do everything he could to disrupt the Other World's civilization's unity, stability, and peace so that he could become an evil force of power that lurked in the darkness.
'Just what did I do in my previous life?!'
As the training during the day gradually deepened, the memory fragments in his dreams became clearer. Almost every day when he woke up, Meng Chao found that he remembered a brand new, despicable, and sinister skill. When he saw the murderous skill names in Kindling, it was enough to make his skin crawl and break out in cold sweat.
'Looks like there's a reason why a third-class fighter like me was able to drag out an ignoble existence until Dragon City's apocalypse even though so many peerless fighters died.
'I'm too old, and I have serious internal injuries. No matter how much I train, I can't move forward in my cultivation realm. I can only learn how to poison, assassinate, set up traps, hide, and snipe. That's the only way I can maintain my life.
'But Dragon City was a little too pathetic in my previous life. It's a human civilization, but for the sake of survival, it resorted to these despicable methods. Forget about the despicable methods, the crucial point is that even after the despicable methods were used, it was still difficult for us to escape from the disaster. This is really … It would have been better for us to cause a huge ruckus!'
Meng Chao felt indignant for his previous life and Dragon City.
He became even more determined to change the future.
Fortunately, he had the memory fragments from his previous life and contribution points, so he could digest the training courses from the abnormal beast research department very quickly.
After he received the special training from the Ghost Tribe in his nightmare, he returned to reality to receive the special training from the abnormal beast research department. It was like asking an experienced bandit to catch a thief or asking an assassin who always hit the target to be a bodyguard.
Meng Chao might not be familiar with the job, but at the very least, there were similarities.
Besides, he could usually stand in an angle that no one expected and give answers that left the instructors dumbfounded.
In truth, as he awakened to his previous life's memories, Meng Chao looked down on the training courses from the abnormal beast research department.
Over the past half a century, the main threats Dragon City faced were zombies and monsters.
They did not need to use tricks to fight against these two evil creatures.
The abnormal beast research department had just been established. Even though its members were elites from various industries and law enforcement agencies, when they faced highly intelligent monsters they had never seen before or even organized groups of abnormal humans and abnormal beasts, no one had figured out an effective solution to deal with them.
Now, most of the training courses in the research department were copied from the adjudicator court.
But the enemies the adjudicator court had to deal with were evil superhumans who broke the law and committed crimes.
Breaking the law and overthrowing Dragon City were two completely different concepts. To Meng Chao, who had experience from the future, it was hard for him to not think that the training was very unprofessional.
'If I use the skills I learned from the Ghost Tribe to attack the defense of the abnormal beast research department, I might really … succeed, right?' There were many times when Meng Chao could not help but think about it.
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