Hearing Mr. Curie's praise, Xia Pingan didn't look complacent at all; instead, he slightly frowned with a solemn look, "To be honest, I'm not that capable. You're the ones who can decide the fate of Paris. You have many sources of information. Therefore, I can tell you frankly that summoners from the Order Committee and Dragon Group participated in the underground tunnel and cleaning up the demon rats last time. When the zombies in the cemetery were mutated, I suppressed the mutated zombies together with them. It's absolutely impossible for me to accomplish such a difficult task alone!"
The other people in the room exchanged a glance with each other. They had heard some information before; however, they had not imagined that Mr. Luo An could be so frank. In most cases, those summoners who wanted to negotiate would boast about their own abilities at this moment. However, Mr. Luo An was the opposite.
Xia Pingan scoffed at the thoughts of these people in his heart. If he could complete these dangerous missions alone, why would he ask for more Realm Pearls from everyone? Therefore, in order to accomplish the task of entering the underground tomb, I need a team. Therefore, I need realm beads.
"Mr. Luo An, you're too modest..." Mr. Curie started to introduce the others in the room to Xia Pingan. "This is Mr. Wenger, the representative of the French government; this is Professor Ferinan, the chairman of the Paris Civic Union; this is Renault, the head of the Paris Garrison Army..." Mr. Curie introduced all the important figures in the room to Xia Pingan. After getting to know each other, they sat down and started to discuss the business.
The first one who opened his mouth was Wenger, the representative of the French government. After pushing up his spectacles, he looked at Xia Pingan with a shrewd look, "Mr. Luo An, I want to know, how confident are you in eliminating this crisis in the underground tomb?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Wenger, we don't have any confidence!"
Xia Pingan's resolute and decisive words made everyone present look at each other in dismay.
Xia Pingan spread his hands and continued, "Mr. Wenger, Bourget Monoury is the summoner you chose to guard Paris. I don't need to say more about how powerful this person is. You know better that he might still be hiding his strength. There were quite a number of summoners gathered at Fort Boulogne earlier, and these might only be part of the Demon Eye's strength. The Catacombs of Paris have existed for hundreds of years, and there are six million corpses inside. Who knows how many arrangements the summoners of the Demon Eye have made in these hundreds of years? The Catacombs of Paris have now become one of the most dangerous places in the world. If you ask any summoner to face this situation, they won't dare to say that they have any confidence!"
Xia Pingan looked around, lowered his eyes, and had a solemn expression. His tone suddenly became heavy, and he began to transform into a movie king. "Gentlemen, when you ask me how confident I am, you have to know that in the underground tomb of Paris, there are mages of the Demon Eyes who can cause corpses to mutate. The nuclear materials obtained by the Demon Eyes are very likely to be used to summon the Bone Monarch in the underground tomb and reenact the Manbinay incident in Paris. Anyone who enters may face more than six million enemies and a group of summoners of the Demon Eyes. It's unknown whether you can send an army in and come out alive, so don't ask me if I'm confident. If anyone is confident in facing this situation, you can go and find him!"
The room fell silent, and the group looked at each other.
Mr. Wenger cleared his throat. "Mr. Luo An, we know that the underground tomb is dangerous, but we have to pay a huge price for this operation. How can you give us confidence and a guarantee?"
"My guarantee is that if this operation does not succeed or achieve the expected results, if the difficulties and dangers we encounter in the underground tomb exceed the abilities of our team and we are powerless to do anything, we will terminate the operation and withdraw from the underground tomb. At the same time, we will return eighty percent of the Realm Beads. The remaining twenty percent will be the cost of the risk we take and the information we collect. We will tell you the specific situation of the underground tomb and why we withdrew so that you won't be completely kept in the dark. Is this guarantee enough?"
Everyone in the room looked at each other. After a few seconds of silence, they all nodded. With such a guarantee, Luo An's sincerity had already exceeded their expectations.
Xia Pingan's tone changed. "But I also have a request, and that is, you have to pay all the rewards before the mission begins!"
"Mr. Luo An, can we pay half of the rewards at the beginning of the mission, and the other half after the mission is completed?" Professor Ferinan asked.
Xia Pingan shook his head and said firmly, "I have already given you my guarantee, but without the Realm Beads, I can't gather the teams involved in the operation, so the Realm Beads must be paid in full before the operation. This is non-negotiable. If you don't agree, this negotiation ends here. You can find someone else to complete this mission."
Find someone else? That was impossible. Not to mention whether they could make it in time, even if they could find someone, would the person be as strong as Luo An? Would they have Luo An's credibility? Would they be able to afford the price? More importantly, the local tyrants in Paris were very wary of the operation team sent by the government in Paris. At the same time, the summoners of the government did not want to carry out such a dangerous mission in a place where they could not guarantee logistical support.
In the past few days, Mr. Curie and the others had negotiated with Wenger, who represented the government, many times to discuss various candidates. However, there were many problems and details that were difficult to coordinate and could not satisfy everyone. In the end, both sides found that except for Mr. Luo An, there were not many people they could rely on in Paris at this time, and even fewer options to solve the problem.
"How many Realm Beads does Mr. Luo An's team need?" Mr. Curie finally asked.
"Our team has six people, all of whom are very strong, so we need at least... 60 Realm Beads!" Xia Pingan demanded an exorbitant price. He already knew the bottom line of Wenger and the others.
Everyone in the room was stunned. Wenger almost jumped up. "Mr. Luo An, your price is too high. We don't have so many Realm Beads."
"How many Realm Beads can you provide?"
Wenger looked at Xia Pingan and gritted his teeth. "We can provide at most... 25 Realm Beads!"
Xia Pingan smiled and stood up. "Then I wish you good luck. I will leave Paris today, and the matters of Paris will have nothing to do with me in the future!"
"Mr. Xia Pingan, we can discuss the number of Realm Beads!" Mr. Curie quickly stood up and stopped Xia Pingan.
Xia Pingan glared at Wenger and said in a displeased tone, "Don't you know that Bourge Monourie might have more than twenty Demon Eye Mages by his side? You're giving us more than twenty Realm Beads, and you want us to rush to the place where more than six million skeletons might mutate and kill them all? A mage of the Demon Eye is only worth one Realm Bead. The price you are asking is too outrageous. Not only are you looking down on the Demon Eye, but you are also looking down on me and my friends. The millions of people in Paris and your capital are only worth 25 Realm Beads in your eyes? "
"Ahem, this can be discussed …" Wenger looked at the gazes of the people around him and said awkwardly. "Don't waste my time.
"Don't waste my time. If you want to bargain, you can find someone else. The lowest reward for this mission that I and the action team that I found can accept is 60 Realm Beads. I'll give you five minutes to discuss it. If it doesn't work, then today's meeting will end here!" After saying that, Xia Pingan glanced at his watch and started to count down.
Less than five minutes!
After a round of haggling, the final result came out.
The local tyrants and government representatives of Paris paid a total of forty Realm Beads and 260 million euros to Xia Pingan and let Xia Pingan and his team enter the catacombs to carry out the mission. If the mission could not be completed, Xia Pingan and the others would return eighty percent of the reward, and the symbol of the completion of the mission was to find the nuclear materials and stop the Demon Eye's conspiracy in the catacombs.
This money and Realm Beads were pooled by the parties involved in the negotiation, and the French government bore the bulk of it.
Before negotiating with Xia Pingan, the final bottom line of Wenger and the others was forty Realm Beads and three hundred million euros. The conditions that Xia Pingan accepted happened to be above their bottom line.
…
When he left the restaurant, Xia Pingan already had forty Realm Beads and 260 million euros of the European Central Bank's bank note.
Xia Pingan solemnly promised that he would enter the catacombs of Paris with the team he had gathered within forty-eight hours and begin saving Paris …
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