Negotiations Break Down

'You came to my Yingpo Star and caused trouble, destroyed half a street, and now you say I am meddling?' Looking at the ruins covering the ground, Yase's face turned ashen. However. What greeted him was a flash of blade light. 'Boom!!' The moment Yase raised the greatsword in his hand, it collided with the blade light. His body flew backward like a cannonball and slammed straight into a hundred-meter-tall building. Shock filled his heart. 'That was a fast strike.' 'That strike had terrifying power.' Facing that attack, he could barely keep his grip on the greatsword. If not for the danger sense he had developed over years of adventuring, which made him raise his sword in advance, that last strike would have split his body in two. This guy... Yase turned and put some distance between them, not daring to advance any further... Right now. What Treasure Pavilion. What Yingpo Star. Compared with his own life, none of it mattered. Fortunately, the other party did not attack again. After glancing at him from afar, a white rhomboid spaceship appeared out of thin air. The figure flew into it, and within moments it vanished into the sky above Yingpo Star. That was a Machine Race E-grade cosmic ship. A single shot from it could wipe Yingpo Star off the map. Yase was drenched in sweat. He felt he had been too reckless just now. If this guy fired a shot at the planet, then aside from himself, almost no one on the entire planet would survive. 'Who on earth is this person!!' 'And who did Treasure Pavilion offend? What happened during the decades I spent in seclusion?' Yase quickly had his intelligent life search for relevant information. After a moment. He let out a breath. 'It seems the target was only Treasure Pavilion, and it has nothing to do with my Yingpo Star!' 'Who is this guy? He is so vicious that he is not even afraid of the Undying behind Treasure Pavilion. He has robbed Treasure Pavilion's cargo three times in a row, and he even killed one of Treasure Pavilion's World Masters...' Although the news on the Virtual Universe had not been confirmed and seemed like idle speculation, after seeing it with his own eyes, Yase felt that all of it must be true. Treasure Pavilion had provoked a truly fearsome big shot. The crucial thing was that this big shot held grudges, and even Yase had been caught in the fallout. Suddenly. Yase thought of something. 'Lakesi... help me buy Treasure Pavilion stock. No, help me short Treasure Pavilion stock. How much should I buy? All in! All in!!!' The clever man quickly thought of a way to make up for his losses... He only needed to make a profit from the Virtual Universe stock market. This loss was nothing. Yingpo Star was one of the most prosperous commercial planets in the Zichen Universe Kingdom. What happened here could not possibly be concealed... Yase also did not restrict the spread of the news. Regarding the damage to the street, he responded that it was a private grudge between a mysterious powerhouse and Treasure Pavilion, and that the other shops had merely been caught in the crossfire. Of course, the damaged merchants would bear their own losses. Who told them to pick such a poor location and insist on setting up shop next to Treasure Pavilion? ... Meanwhile. In an upscale office building in a floating city above Qianwu City. Kunshaluo and the Demonic World Master were negotiating with several people wearing formal bank attire. 'Mr. Stefan, you have certainly seen the data. Treasure Pavilion's advantages are enormous. In just thirty thousand years, we grew from a scale of 1,000 Hunyuan to 20,000 Hunyuan, a twentyfold increase... And this is while our capital was limited and our expansion was not fast. If we can obtain the help of the Virtual Universe Company, I believe that within ten thousand years at most, we can at least multiply tenfold again!' Kunshaluo spoke with some agitation. Although he was an Undying Deity and the people opposite were only several World Masters, one of them merely a Domain Master, he still did not dare act presumptuously, because they were all from the Commerce Department of the Virtual Universe Company stationed in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom. And if he wanted to obtain investment, and even place Treasure Pavilion under the Virtual Universe Company's Commerce Department, he needed to gain their approval. 'Mr. Kunshaluo, it cannot be denied that Treasure Pavilion has developed very well and is a highly promising enterprise. But recently... it seems your company has encountered a little trouble! If this problem is not resolved, it would be a very risky matter for investors.' A rather gentlemanly leader spoke. 'Mr. Stefan, I do not know what rumors you have heard, but Treasure Pavilion has been perfectly fine recently. The stock market is calm. What trouble could there be?' 'Is that so? I heard that your company's cargo ships have been raided twice in a row. This may be deliberate retaliation against you.' 'Rumors. Absolutely rumors. Someone must have learned that I plan to cooperate with Mr. Stefan and deliberately spread them to drive a wedge between us. You know how business competition is...' Mr. Stefan smiled faintly. 'Whether or not it is a rumor, I believe Mr. Kunshaluo, as an Undying Deity, can easily resolve it. However, based on our assessment, we can invest at most twice your asking price, and we require 51% of Treasure Pavilion.' Kunshaluo's expression darkened. 'Sir, twice is simply too low. Treasure Pavilion has enormous potential. Five times is the minimum... If your Investment Department acquires 51% of Treasure Pavilion, it will surely make a huge profit!!' 'Mr. Kunshaluo, you know that even without a risk warning, a fivefold investment would be very difficult to negotiate... Now it is simply impossible...' 'Then four times. Four times should be acceptable, right? This is my bottom line. You know that besides making money, I also plan to send my younger brother into the Doomsday Secret Realm... I will have him serve as manager of the new company.' 'Four times...' Stefan and several colleagues discussed the matter among themselves. In fact, their original target had been between three and four times. It was only because Treasure Pavilion had encountered a problem that they had lowered their assessment. Suddenly. One member of the negotiation team quietly walked over to Stefan and whispered something. Stefan entered the Virtual Universe and verified the information. Then he frowned slightly and looked at Kunshaluo. 'Mr. Kunshaluo, I am afraid our negotiations will have to be suspended for now.' 'Mr. Stefan, why? We were speaking very happily just now!' Kunshaluo asked, puzzled. 'Just look at the news on the Virtual Universe. Hmm, it has already made headlines across the Qianwu Universe Kingdom.' With that, Stefan rose with his team and left. Kunshaluo and the Demonic World Master immediately entered the Virtual Universe to check the news. Then both of them were stunned. 'The Treasure Pavilion on Yingpo Star was raided, and the entire street was destroyed...' 'Lord Yase of Yingpo Star states that this was a private grudge between space pirates and Treasure Pavilion, involving no one else, and has no impact on Yingpo Star's business environment.' Text, images, and even videos were spreading everywhere online... 'Damn it!!!' Kunshaluo raised his hand and smashed the costly negotiation table to pieces. 'Whoever you are, I swear I will make you die a horrible death!!'