Resurrection Empire

Chapter 707 266: Corporate Warfare

Morning, open eyes.

The slightly bluish dawn light slants through the gap at the top of the curtain.

A beam stretches into a line, shining right to Ren Zhong's feet.

Ren Zhong sat up straight and glanced around.

Last night he didn't go to bed on time, about ten minutes later than Ju Qingmeng.

By now, Ju Qingmeng had already gotten up.

Ren Zhong walked into the bathroom, preparing to wash up, and saw a note next to the electric toothbrush with toothpaste squeezed on it.

The note had a line of neat and forceful calligraphy.

"There will be many people coming to the mall today for equipment refinements; the workload will be immense. Yesterday, I made an additional request to Liao Yuan County for three sets of standard maintenance machines, and I need to check the equipment this morning, so I'll be really busy. Therefore, breakfast will be left to the intelligent robot! I actually think the robot does it better."

Ren Zhong put away the note and smiled.

At exactly seven in the morning, just at the start of work hours, a strange high-level communication code came through.

Answering it, a young man's voice came from the other side.

"Hello Ren Zhong, I am the special negotiation representative from the Mengdu Group for this incident, and I can fully represent Mengdu Group."

Ren Zhong: "Hello. I am the negotiating representative from Ren's Group for this incident, and I can fully represent myself."

The other side: "..."

Ten minutes later, both parties reached an agreement.

The terms are as follows:

Mental damage compensation reduced to 7.5 billion.

The compensation multiplier for property loss reduced to three times.

The subsidy for casualties of the desolate lowered to 20,000 for the deceased and 10,000 for the injured.

Molecular Regeneration Device will be free to lease for 10 years.

Ren Zhong received 20 billion Special Citizen Credit Points.

Ren Zhong will hand over the Legion Beast on time in five days.

Is a reason needed to extend the custody of spoils of war?

No, it's not needed, only if he's willing.

After hanging up the communication, Ren Zhong did a quick calculation, the result of this micro-operation was decent, any extra gain is a plus.

The concessions from the other side were much larger than in the previous timeline.

There were quite a few decisive factors at play.

Since yesterday, under the influence of multiple forces jointly shorting, Ren Zhong's interview, divine merchant Huang's long-term optimism, and blind following by stockholders, Mengdu Group's stock price plummeted by 3.7% in one day.

Ying Hao's conspicuous and covert actions once again aborted the internal discussion on the special bill within Mengdu Group.

During the negotiations, the other side accused Ren Zhong of inappropriate wording in media interviews, but Ren Zhong cleverly countered, saying he had been as considerate as possible, only listing some unfounded speculations without disclosing the technical details of how he cracked the Legion Beast's code during the battle.

As a result, they had to offer a suitable return to his excessive demands.

After hanging up the call, Ren Zhong, who had already anticipated the outcome, cast it aside.

On another side, a handsome young man with blonde hair and blue eyes had a weird smile on his face.

He muttered to himself, "I've lost twice in a row at this person's hands."

...

What happened next was basically the same as in the previous timeline.

Ren Zhong made a routine trip to Chromium Carbon Town and simultaneously began to swiftly advance the comprehensive reconstruction of Starfire Town at the speed of light.

In the process, he and Ma Dafu made another trip to Liao Yuan County and advanced the quota for one hundred Citizen spots, leaving those original Starfire Town Citizens wishing to return "to enjoy life" with no home to go back to.

During this process, Ren Zhong consistently maintained his strength training matched with the Mother-child Medicine.

While he is known as a "combat genius," he deeply understands that true genius is often built from ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration, and both are indispensable.

He is not a Source Star person, so he started many years later than others.

To catch up, he had to utilize every second to the fullest in every cycle whirlpool of time.

Diligence, persistent diligence, was his ultimate secret to success.

Time finally rushed to the 127th day, Ren Zhong and Ma Dafu combined the Citizen promotion awards ceremony and the transfer ceremony of spoils into one and held it together.

Mengdu Group remained dejected.

Since the stock price started plummeting six days ago, the overall decline of Mengdu Group's shares has reached 7.5%, just when it was about to improve, it suffered another sharp humiliation.

Investor confidence continued to decline, reflected in the further drop in stock prices.

That evening, the documentary produced by Xiao Xingyue aired as scheduled.

Ren Zhong directly skipped to the end of the film, and the "Source Star Civilization Promotion Association" in the production unit column had indeed disappeared.

On the 128th day, following the conclusion of the highest-level meeting of the Business Association in Upper Origin Capital, Mengdu Group's stock price took another sharp 3% dive.