While talking, Jin Yuyan outlined the hologram of the internal district of the Seven Seas Grand Market on the light beam with his telepathic thoughts, especially the map of defense around his office. The defense measures and the status of the guards turned into waterfalls of data that flowed down quickly.
Li Yao gasped while studying. He grimaced. "The defense around your office is too thorough, isn't it? Also, why are the ventilation tubes and the sewers so narrow and zigzagged? Why are there so many sharp blades of mystic rays flying here and there? According to such a structure, nobody can break in without three days and three nights! "
"But we definitely don't have three days and three nights."
Jin Yuyan said solemnly, "Once the meeting of managers and shareholders is over, and Qi Yuanbao really wins the approval of all the big shots, it won't be changed easily. He will become the 'winner'. Nobody will care how he climbed up, how I died, or even if I'm dead. I'll be the past, and Qi Yuanbao will be the future!"
"Is that so?"
Narrowing his eyes, Li Yao continued studying the gaps of the tubes that were a hundred times more complicated than a maze. He said casually, "Isn't it too cruel?"
"We are the Immortal Cultivators. The Immortal Cultivators have always been so cruel."
Jin Yuyan said, "You have to understand that other people chose me as the director of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors not because I'm likable, not because I'm honest, and not because I'm honorable, but because I can bring more benefits to them and I'm capable of defeating the coalition fleet of the four families. Nothing more!
"Then, as long as Qi Yuanbao demonstrates enough strength to prove that he can also bring more benefits to all the shareholders and the big shots behind them, and that he can defeat the coalition fleet of the four families, it will be enough. Nobody will care if his methods are dirty or how many schemes he has played!
"Getting to the bottom of it, the people of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors are not interested in upholding justice or distinguishing right from wrong at all. There are only interests in their eyes!"
Li Yao's eyes gradually froze. After a long daze, he asked, "So, even though most of the deacons and shareholders know that you are the real Jin Yuyan, they will abandon you and support Qi Yuanbao without any hesitation if they feel that you cannot bring enough benefits?"
Gloomily, Jin Yuyan said, "Of course. They are all businessmen. As long as the profits are high enough, it doesn't matter who they do business with."
Li Yao's eyes glittered more and more brightly. "From another perspective, if 'somebody' can bring them enough benefits and show enough strength, giving them hope to defeat the four families, even if it is not Jin Yuyan or Qi Yuanbao, those managers and shareholders will still support him without any hesitation and do business with him, won't they?"
Slightly dazed, Jin Yuyan thought for a moment and said, "Theoretically speaking, of course. However, Qi Yuanbao and I have been cooperating with those managers and shareholders for a hundred years before we convinced them of our capabilities. How can an uncanny 'somebody' that pops up out of nowhere be trusted?
"Unless you confess your identity and do business with those people as the 'plenipotentiary of the government-in-exile of the Star Ocean Republic'. Then, as you said just now, the profits will be inestimable, and everybody will be tempted.
"But like I said just now, not all the Immortal Cultivators are as rational as I am. Most of the Immortal Cultivators and the Cultivators are still incompatible. Besides, you have destroyed 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', which is a great loss. Besides, one Firefly is not enough to resolve the threat of the coalition fleet of the four families at all.
"Therefore, no matter how you play tricks, it is not enough to win anyone's trust. I really don't understand what you mean by 'somebody'. What are you thinking about exactly?"
"Nothing. I just want to take a gamble."
Li Yao licked his frozen lips. His smile was both cunning and cold. "First of all, the defense around your office is too thorough. As you said, it is impossible to sneak into the office in secret for three days and three nights. If you break into the office openly, a lot of subordinates who are loyal to you will be killed or injured, and the misunderstanding will only get worse and worse.
"Secondly, after what Qi Yuanbao did, the confidence index of the Seven Seas Grand Market must've hit rock bottom. Even if we can figure out a way to take back the control of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, it will be barely possible to boost the low morale in the upcoming battle of Seven Seas. We will certainly be killed in such a war.
"Therefore, I feel that it is necessary for us to take a gamble and take back the control of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors in the simplest and most violent way. We will also make all the warlords, Sector Masters, and local magnates at the edge of the Imperium, as well as most of the bottom-level and middle-level Immortal Cultivators inside the four families, believe that our capability is about to soar significantly and that we will definitely be able to take down the four families and the 'fake reformists' in the capital. They will bet their lives on us and be determined to work for us, making us the mainstay of the reformists and … the new leader!"
"How is it possible?"
Jin Yuyan looked at Li Yao in disbelief. "All the managers and shareholders of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors are cunning and suspicious old foxes. How can they believe your bulls * it so easily and even make us overshadow Li Linghai and become the leader of the reformists?"
"It's very simple. Because what I'm going to tell them is not bulls * it but the truth."
Li Yao said frankly, "I've always believed that the truth is the most powerful, and the false things are always false. One lie needs to be covered by a hundred lies, or it will be exposed sooner or later. So, I've been telling the truth since the beginning. Right now, I only need an opportunity, an opportunity for me to speak in front of all the managers and shareholders.
"To get the opportunity, we have to do this …"
Li Yao described his opportunity in detail for ten minutes.
Jin Yuyan looked at him as if he were a mixture of the most fanatical lunatic and the most cunning liar.
"You really have the potential to become a very outstanding businessman. It's been a long time since I've seen someone as despicable, shameless, insidious, and cunning as you, who can even deceive yourself without batting an eyelid, and who is so good at using the tiger's skin as a banner to gain something for nothing."
Jin Yuyan said with mixed feelings, "If you had come to the Imperium a hundred years ago, perhaps you would've been the director of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors today instead of me!"
"Thank you for your compliment. In order to accomplish the plan, we still need to contact some people and set up an ambush in advance."
Li Yao accepted the compliment without changing his expression. "Director Jin, you must've made some close friends after doing business in the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors for a hundred years. Even under the most unbelievable circumstances, they must've been willing to give you a chance suspiciously, right?
"I don't need them to believe that you are you and support you fully right now. I only need them to give me a chance to speak. Just give me five minutes!"
"There are some."
Jin Yuyan sighed and said, "But Wuying Qinxin is very clear about my relationship with those close friends. She must've monitored their Spiritual Nexus, communication channels, and residences closely. Whatever way we reach out to those people, we will be eavesdropped."
"It doesn't matter."
Li Yao smiled and said unhurriedly, "I've brought a high-power communication adapter with me. Through it, I can send signals to the edge of the Seven Seas Space Zone. Then, I can connect to the four-dimensional Spiritual Nexus through a tiny super-remote communication base that I've deployed there a long time ago.
"Not far away from the Seven Seas Space Zone, I have some subordinates and a very advanced super crystal processor center. The information that we want to transmit will be encrypted and disguised by the super crystal processor center before it is transmitted back to the Seven Seas Grand Market. Rest assured. Nobody can eavesdrop or interfere with it!"
While talking, Li Yao fell on one of his knees and took out abundant components from his Cosmos Rings, assembling them quickly.
While assembling, he activated the secret communication channel with Li Jialing. "Jialing, what's the situation outside right now? It's fine. I'm just asking. There's also a minor mission for you … "
…
In the inner district of the Seven Seas Grand Market, on the asteroid that was riddled with holes, the headquarters of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors was as splendid and glamorous as a pyramid.
His hands behind his back, Qi Yuanbao stood on the observation balcony on the top floor of the building. Around him was special glass that was as clear as water. There was not the slightest trace of steel structure at all, as if it had been embedded in the sky out of nowhere.
As far as his eyes could reach, the entire asteroid was like a glittering ant nest and a beehive, which had long been modified beyond recognition by the power of human beings and money. It was full of skyscrapers and complicated transportation tubes, and countless people were coming and going like diligent ants and worker bees, struggling hard for survival.
Qi Yuanbao opened all the windows and allowed the blowing wind to cut his face. Even though the wind was mixed with the intense stink of rust and copper, he enjoyed it as much as he could.
He liked the smell. He liked all smells. He liked anything that could make him feel that he was a "living person".
Recalling the thrilling, blood-boiling assassination half a day ago, his heart was still pounding crazily. Even the nerves in his hands were shivering beyond his control.
This feeling made him realize that he was still a living person, not just a specter, a specter that was entangled by vengeance and lust for power.
Soft footsteps echoed behind him. He did not need to turn around to know that it was his twin sister, Wuying Qinxin.
In the past hundred years, he had been very jealous of his sister who could live on as a living human being, instead of having to hide in the shells of other people with the "Corpse Puppet Technique" like him. In the end, he could barely tell what he was anymore.
However, right now, he was already used to and even enjoyed such a form. He considered himself to be a form that was above human beings.
He was not a human being or even an Immortal Cultivator, but something entirely different and more superior.
Perhaps it was exactly because of his arrogance that he disobeyed Blackstar the Great's command and took action in advance, killing Jin Yuyan at a most inappropriate moment.
It was a pity that there were some mistakes in the process.
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