by Chen Ran
This is the price of evolution.
Zero answered, "I understand. And even if it happened again, I would still make the same decision. Survival of the fittest, there was nothing to say. If an alien was powerful, it was normal for humans to be eliminated. But I'm thinking, other than killing, is there no other way to survive? "
"This proposition is a bit too big." Biansi put down her wine cup, supporting her chin with one hand. At this moment, Biansi's eyes were hidden behind the reflection, so no one could clearly see what she was thinking about.
After a moment, she continued, "It is better to leave these questions to the scholars. However, it is not necessarily a bad thing for you to think like this right now. To attempt to use a different perspective was to think of a problem and solve it in the end. This was something that every person with a higher position must have, called Su. As the higher ups, we need to face a lot of problems. The situation is very complicated, and far surpasses everything we need to face as soldiers. "
"The problem for a warrior is very simple, which is to do everything possible to kill his opponent. Even though the ultimate goal is to defeat the opponent, but in this process, sometimes we even need to work with our enemies to solve the problem. Principles are things that we don't really understand. For the sake of benefits, principles could also be abandoned. The only thing we can hold on to is probably the bottom line in our hearts. " Biansi said with an emotional tone.
He looked at Biansi who looked like she was twenty years old. It was hard to imagine how much responsibility she would have to shoulder on her slender shoulders, how much sacrifice she would have to pay in order to get all the way to this point.
To be sure, it must have been more difficult than one could imagine.
"Alright, let's not talk about this. Get ready, it's time for the meeting. " Biansi straightened her body. In this instant, the faint gentleness from before was swept away. The one who entered her eyes was the capable Black Rose Home Lord.
The conference room of the Black Rose Home was very big, it was at least five hundred meters square. However, there were only seven or eight people attending the meeting. With such a small amount of people in the meeting room, the room seemed very spacious. Aside from Su Yun and Biansi, two other elders, as well as three or four young men and women participated in the meeting. Only the two elders were able to share a seat at the main table. As for the other youngsters, they were probably juniors from the younger generation, so they sat in the last row to show their difference in status.
To everyone's surprise, on the main table, Zero also got a spot.
The two elders' expressions remained the same. They even revealed smiles as they looked at Zero with admiration. But Zero knew that these things were just for show. There was something else hidden behind the gazes of the two people. One of them was a handsome man with long hair who stood up and protested, "Respected Miss Biansi, I thought that tonight would be a private meeting of our Asgard's Three Wealthy Classes. What he didn't know was that there was actually a third party participating. "I don't know, but this mister is your new favorite."
A cold light flashed in Su Ming's eyes as she looked at this arrogant man. The young man's eyes first flashed, and she had a great intention of retreating. Yet as she thought of something, she held back her gaze from meeting with Zero's. She did not give in at all.
Just then, Biansi said indifferently: "All those who participated in this meeting were all participants in this plan. Currently, he is my partner, and he is also one of the participants in this operation. He is not my new pet. Mr. Habes, please take note of your words next time. As a woman, I am not as magnanimous as your father. Are you right, Mr. Austin? "
Seated on the right of Biansi, the old man with the moustache smiled and said, "You are already very tolerant, Miss Biansi."
He once again said coldly: "Habes, get out of here right now."
"Father!"
Habes looked at his old father, not believing that he would help an outsider. Austin said indifferently: "I don't want to repeat myself a second time."
Habes then looked at Biansi angrily, staring at him angrily for a second time, before she brushed her sleeves and left. As a result, the already empty conference room became even more spacious.
Aside from him, the other three people on the main table were all heavyweights in the Asgard. Of course, Biansi was definitely the last. As for the two old men, the one named Austin was the patriarch of the Herben's family, and the one sent away was his second son, Habes. I heard that Old Austin really liked this second son and intended to change the name of his successor. This caused Herben's family's eldest son, Noxious, to complain about him and split into two factions. However, Herben's family was still in charge of the current Old Austin. As long as he did not fall in one day, the clan would not truly split apart.
This kind of thing was common in the Wealthy Class. Humans were always keen on fighting for power. According to's judgement of Old Austin, this old man who liked to play with power had no idea that he did this on purpose, and could easily control the members of the family.
As for the fat old man sitting on the left of Biansi, he was the manager of the Pluning Family, Chalod. Chalod looked like a kind and compassionate man, her fat face always had a smile that could make people feel like they were being bathed by the spring wind. His eyes narrowed into slits, making him look like he was smiling. However, Zero saw that when the pair of eyes opened and closed, it was filled with a chilling light.
Anyone who possessed such a gaze would definitely have a cold heart. In fact, the Planning family, which was engaged in military industry, continued to explore the wilderness every year. As for the number of species or refugees that had died at the hands of this fat fox during the exploration, it was unknown.
It was said that the hands of those in power were drenched in blood. Compared to Chalod and Austin, Biansi's was undoubtedly the lightest. Just like what she said, although she could sacrifice her principles, she still had a bottom line. As for the two in front of them, their bottom line was most likely their gains.
"Alright, everyone. If there is nothing else, I declare the meeting open. " Biansi stood up and used her fingers to support the frame of her glasses. She stretched out her slender fingers and pressed on the table in front of her. It looked like a table made of Nannan wood, but it gave off the glow of a light key. A command was typed, and a row of laser projectors appeared at the edge of the wooden table.
The laser projector shot out beams of cyan light, which constantly interweaved in the air to form a three-dimensional map. In the blink of an eye, a vast map of the mountain appeared before everyone's eyes. Biansi extended a hand and pressed onto the map, through continuous rotation and stretching, it finally adjusted to the appropriate scene. In the picture, there was a small town to the east.
The town was not big, but it was equipped. Although the three-dimensional topographic map had been reduced to a certain extent, everyone could still see clearly that the town was surrounded by high concrete walls. There were eight post tower on all four sides. As for the weapons inside, he could not see them clearly. The town was centered around a small assembly square, with buildings spread out in all directions. Two roads neatly intersected at the assembly square, neatly dividing the town into four areas.
Most of the buildings in the town were short and one-story houses. There was a row of shanty towns on the west side. They should be slums of the town. To the east was a church building, the tallest building in town.
"This is the Pavaric, located 350 kilometers south of the Frost Forest in a mountain area, basically living a life cut off from the rest of the world. The economic system of the town was mainly to produce fur. There were many excellent hunters in the town, many of whom had low level abilities. They went in and out of the borders of the dense forest of ice, selling the fur of low-level metamorph they hunted. Every year, adventurer would come to the small town to purchase them, and it could be said that their prof
its were plentiful. But in reality, the fur business is just a cover. Their real business is... "Black gold!" Biansi said in a heavy voice.
Immediately, the sound of someone inhaling cold air came from behind Zero. But the two old men on the main table didn't budge an inch. Only Austin's right thumb started to unconsciously spin around and around his index finger's ruby ring, while Chalod's eyes opened a little, filled with a greedy light.
Black gold, also known as oil, was known as the heart of the planet. After the Cataclysm, the global environment and climate changed dramatically, and the places that used to be oil wells are now missing half a drop of oil. This was a result of the change in the continental plates, and the trend of the landmarks was no longer something humans were familiar with. The dangers of the wilderness, as well as the forbidden areas of life, caused humans to be extremely restricted in their movements.
This has created exploratory difficulties, and even in favour of new energy development, oil is still the continent's most common efficient combustion. Because the price was comparable to gold, it was called black gold.
Biansi was also an astute master, the subtle reactions of Austin and Chalod couldn't escape her eyes. She was very satisfied with the expressions of the two great figures, thus, Biansi continued to throw out her bait: "Of course, Pavaric doesn't have any oil wells or anything like that, but a foreign race doing barter with them. And the Pavaric was plotting to get a windfall from this information, this information was unintentionally discovered by my people, and only found out about it by disguising themselves as the adventurer. Then, everyone, please look here. "
As Biansi's delicate hand drew, the map immediately moved. Only when the floating mark indicated that the map was about 120 kilometers to the southwest did the map finally stop moving. In everyone's eyes, it was a corner of the silverfrost dense forest, filled with ancient trees, a mountain range rising and falling, there was nothing special about it. However, as Beyoncé lifted her hand, the horizontal line of the map immediately rose and a portion of the underground structure appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Thus, in the eyes of zero, the rough outline of a subterranean city is shown in a simple line in a three-dimensional map.
"What … what is this?" Austin could not hold it in any longer, stood up and bent his body over to take a look inside.
"This is an unrecorded alien race, gentlemen. They live underground like the dwarves of the legend and build considerable cities. My men had sneaked into the city, but they only sent a rough outline of the city and disappeared without a trace, which means they have good armed forces. " Biansi spread out her hands: "I call them subterranean race, and they are the target of this slave capture plan!"
Chapter 386 - The Night before yesterday (III)
The three-dimensional map on the table slowly rotated, revealing the outline of an underground city to the greedy eyes of humans. Austin swallowed his saliva, sat straight and spoke in a deep voice: "Miss Biansi, don't you think that the value of black gold is greater than the value of those so-called slaves?"
Although Chalod did not say anything, he nodded his head in agreement.
Biansi looked at them, then looked at Zero, and finally said: "This point is not bad. In this era, energy was a precious resource. That's why Mr. Zero and I are willing to give the huge value of Black Gold to you two. As for us, we can only take all the slaves in the city. What do you two think? "
Austin fell into silence and looked behind him. Originally, his second son, Habes, and his two daughter, Fen Duo'er were sitting behind Austin. But now that Habes had been sent away by Austin, only his daughter, Fen Duo'er was sitting behind him. Fanta was only eighteen years old, tall and beautiful. Her clothes were similar to Biansi's, they were the capable attire of the old era's office lady.
However, she seemed to prefer red. The red pants made her look like a ball of raging flames. However, Fendall's cold and proud expression, in stark contrast to her clothes, aroused some of the impulses of men. For example, from the start until now, the two young men behind Chalod had their eyes on Feng Tou'er, and kept looking at her sensitive parts, showing great interest.
As for Fendall herself, she seemed to have turned a blind eye to these two burning gazes. Seeing her father looking back at her, she seemed to know something and nodded. She took out a pocket-sized intelligence brain from her pocket and started to calculate.
As someone who was proficient in the aspect of perceptual domain, as well as a person who was proficient in the aspect of calculation, she was most proud of her ability in the field of multiple calculations. It could calculate all sorts of functions at the same time, and its computation ability was comparable to a intelligence brain.
Very quickly, she had already obtained a number on the intelligence brain and whispered it to her father.
Seeing the father and daughter's expression, Chalod remained unmoved on the surface, but his gaze secretly landed on Biansi. Now, Chalod started to understand why such a trifling plan needed Biansi to invite him and himself to come over. The underground city was without a doubt a huge resource. Judging by the scale of the three-dimensional map, this underground city could contain at least 3000 types of human beings.
Even if it was three thousand refugees' slaves, it was still not a small fortune. Moreover, alien races had much more value, and slaves were only one of the lowest class. In addition, Black Gold was another shining point.
However, no matter how ambitious Black Rose Family was, he would not be able to swallow such a large amount of wealth in one go. Whether it was the city or the black gold, they were both of great value. They were so valuable that if they were exposed, they would attract the attention of a pack of wolves. Black Rose Family was unable to digest such a huge piece of meat alone, so Biansi invited him and Austin to join them. When Three Wealthy Classes joined forces, the other powers could only retreat.
However, Biansi's brilliant point was that she had directly given up on the fat piece of black gold that benefited the most. Compared to Black Gold, no matter how valuable the lives of the other races were, so what if the three thousand foreign slaves were all given to Biansi? Furthermore, the other party was still quiet, if he and Austin were still not clear about this, then they would be laughed at if word of it spread.
That was why Austin agreed to Biansi's suggestion, and directly allowed his own daughter to calculate their gains.
However, these were all moves that Biansi had used on the surface, but she had secretly thrown the sharpest of contradictions towards Chalod and Austin. His two forces were on par with each other, but Black Gold's benefits were too great, so Chalod and Austin naturally wouldn't let either of them take even an inch. Chalod was very clear that no matter how much this benefit was divided, it would never be enough to satisfy the two families, so he secretly planted this seed of conflict.
And since the seed had already been planted, there would definitely be a day when it would blossom and bear fruit. And this, was the chess piece under the surface of Biansi's body. But even if she knew, Chalod would not give in to him just like that. From this, it could be said that Biansi had a good grasp of their temperament.
Seeing how Austin was continuously calculating like a cunning merchant, Chalod secretly laughed in his heart, but his fear of Biansi only increased by a few degrees.
Before he came to participate in the banquet, Biansi had already told everyone the general situation. Therefore, when Biansi made this promise, Zero was not surprised. It was true that Black Gold had great benefits, but even Black Rose wasn't willing to be affected by this business, and Zero didn't have any rights whatsoever.
It wasn't a bad thing to have ambition, but without the ability to match ambition, it would lead to disaster. Su Yun was very clear on this point, so she did not say a word and allowed Austin to see everything clearly.
After that, there was an intense argument. Austin had obtained the biggest benefit from his family with the help of his daughter, Fen Duo'er. But w
ith regards to this number, Chalod naturally did not buy it. The two families began to haggle over the sharing of the black gold loot as they negotiated, refusing to budge an inch. This allowed Zero to witness another level of confrontation. This kind of confrontation in the shopping mall was as intense as any life and death battle that he had ever participated in.
Austin and Chalod were practically fighting to the death with each other, the intelligence brain in the hands of the two youths behind Chalod and Fen Duo'er continuously moved about and around, reporting all kinds of numbers in their mouths. The accuracy of the numbers had already been confirmed to the last four digits of the decimal points!
In the midst of the argument between the two families, Biansi and Su Wen were in a resting state. The two were leisurely drinking the coffee offered by the Helper, waiting for the two big shots to end the business battle.
After two hours of argument, the result came out. Regarding the proceeds from the black gold, Chalod's Plang Ning family received 67% of the total income, and the rest was given to Austin's Herben's family. However, Chalod had to provide the Herben's family with an additional batch of firearms, some of which were even designs from weapons from the new era. If it was not so, Austin would not make such a concession.
Just like this, a city that was far away in the silverfrost dense forest was cleanly divided up by the Three Wealthy Classes.
Seeing that Austin and Yue Yang had finally reached an agreement, Biansi stood up and continued: Alright, gentlemen, we still have one more problem to take note of. Although our target this time is the Subterranean Clan, we cannot ignore this small town called the Pavaric. Don't forget, they have trade relations with the Subterranean Clan, and their interests are the subject of this. It is hard to ensure that they won't inform us when we make a move. "