Resurrection Empire

Chapter 651 - 244 Negotiations, Weak Countries Have Diplomacy_2

Ren Zhong: "Sigh, I screwed up."

"Yeah, you already put the offer out, it’s hard to change your mind now."

Ren Zhong: "Sigh!"

Sun Miao: "Sigh~~"

Brother Sun finished advising, and replied to his superior like this.

"I talked sense into him a lot, even threatened to break off with him. Useless! This bastard Sun must have taken the wrong medicine! His brain isn’t working. Huh? Who gave him the medicine? I did, so what?"

...

By evening, in the video section of the daily headlines, a combat video titled "In Starfire Town, a Fourth Level Mechanical Warrior activates Consciousness Upload to take down a Level Six Legion Beast manufactured by Mengdu Group, rumor has it that the longer the title, the more viral it becomes" went viral, burning up the charts.

The video was made by Ren Zhong.

He set a steep price of 2000 points for the premium view, a price so high that people yelled robbery.

Yet, viewers still cursed him as a bandit while willingly paying up.

Because Ren Zhong hit so many explosive points precisely.

The first major highlight was the Fourth Level Mechanical Warrior initiating Consciousness Upload. Looking across Source Star, although not unprecedented, he was the sole example openly. He made Sid Meier a relic of history. Who’s got the hottest tutorial videos now? It’s none but Teacher Ren, of course!

The second big highlight was Ren Zhong riding his own wave of popularity. Source Star TV’s continued three-day live broadcast had already spread Starfire Town’s name globally.

The third major highlight was the Mengdu Group and the Legion Beast, both naturally buzzworthy.

The fourth major highlight was his refreshingly unconventional video title, making it difficult for the daily headlines to arrange a front-page logo recommendation, so they went with a simple whiteboard background filled with densely packed title lines spanning three entire lines, making it very eye-catching and unique.

Combining all four highlights, Ren Zhong finally expanded his audience beyond the confines of Mechanical Warriors.

Whether Professionals or non-Professionals, as long as their economic conditions allowed and they caught wind of this matter, they would at least take a peek out of sheer curiosity, just to see the buzz.

Ren Zhong wasn’t worried about exposing the components of Alien Ore in the Red Blade Armor.

During this battle, Red Blade Armor did not undergo spontaneous evolution.

Others watching would only consider it as him making another upgrade through his costly private Armored Laboratory.

Moreover, Ren Zhong didn’t actually reveal his ultimate skill.

Consciousness Upload is something others can’t learn, they can only watch for entertainment.

His true expertise is the Combat Command Set.

In the past, viewers using first-person view could read into his rapid programming process.

Source Star Military Industry learned his techniques, leading to the creation of an annular amplifier for the Legion Beast, based on this.

However, after activating Consciousness Upload, his thought process became part of the armor’s central system, making it impossible for others to decipher his operational details.

This video had even less technical content than his previous works, offering no help to viewers but didn’t affect its popularity.

In just an hour, the paid views for "In Starfire Town..." reached one million.

According to past patterns, the paid views for this video are expected to exceed ten million.

Estimating roughly, Ren Zhong earned ten billion in the first hour, with long-term earnings reaching one hundred billion.

In response to this unusual change, the famous influencer Mr. Ren could only silently reflect, in an era of total informatization and currency digitization, the economic system really seems like a joke.

Overnight riches are no more than this.

Of course, the Association surely has many ways to reclaim wealth.

Thus, the overnight wealth myths might occur daily, but also dissipate daily.

On the 122nd day by noon, the matrix crystal chip memory is completed, starting to copy the Legion Beast’s Crystal Core data.

The third negotiation between Mengdu Group and Ren Zhong still ended unhappily.

Ren Zhong threatened to extract the Legion Beast’s crystal core and publicly disclose all technical details of cracking the Legion Beast code during the combat worldwide.

At the same time, he personally criticized this "idiotic project" again, stating that he would join forces with Purple Crystal Mining and Tanggu Group to jointly petition the Association to terminate all research related to Legion Beasts.

The other party panicked this time.

The project team had initially chosen Starfire Town for the experiment for deterrence and also considering the town’s unstable foundation, its residents were all impoverished wilders, just suitable for kicking off the Ruined Beast control project.

Nobody anticipated such a thorough defeat in the first battle.

Since yesterday, the company’s stock price has already been dropping amidst a sea of green.

If this guy truly stood forward as an industry insider to incite people and severely damage the internal confidence of the company, potentially killing the project, the invested billions could go to waste. More importantly, the company would lose a potential future opportunity, disappearing from the quantum boxed market, causing the stock to plummet by over 5%.

Finally, Mengdu Group conceded, not staunchly resisting, urging him to calm down, stating they needed to consult their superiors.

That evening, after two days of negotiations, an agreement was formally reached.

Ren Zhong will hand over the Legion Beast in five days, just enough time to finish copying the data.

He made some concessions on a few of his earlier sky-high demands.

The specific terms are as follows:

Mental distress compensation reduced to fifty billion.

Property loss compensation multiplier reduced to twice.

Wilders’ casualty compensation reduced to ten thousand for the deceased and five thousand for the injured.

Free rental period of the Molecular Regeneration Device shortened to four years.

Ren Zhong received all of the remaining Special Citizen Credit Points for the year from Mengdu Group’s Yangsheng City branch, totaling twenty billion.

This last item was his core interest, the rest were just pretexts.

Just this one item would save him two hundred billion when advancing to Fifth Level Citizen.

Ren Zhong went to mock Yu Junren about this matter.

The general idea was to see how even a mere city-level branch has so much, while their headquarters only gave him two billion points, which was very embarrassing.

Yu Junren explained with a wry smile.

Actually, both companies’ annual quotas are generally similar, but Purple Crystal Mining has invested too much in the thousands of mines plan, and each area also needs to leave enough balance for other certification personnel, so the amount given to him was already all the balance at Yangsheng City branch.

Ren Zhong rolled his eyes, indicating they were insincere, deceiving him into saying it was head office discretionary points.

Yu Junren continued with a wry smile, "Who would’ve thought you’d be coveting the Fifth Level again in just a month? Did you install a mega-ship engine under your chair to launch yourself?"

Ren Zhong smiled but said nothing.

However, Yu Junren himself found a way to rationalize it.

Mr. Yu: "The world of geniuses can’t be measured by common sense. By the way, when are you going back to the lab?"

"Someday."

"What!"

"Just kidding, I have plans."

"That’s more like it."

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