Translator: Khun
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Editor: Yuki_Shuichi
Although Bai Chunian didn’t want to go upstairs, he was called up by the President.
The President and Uncle Jin were both there. Seeing the torn-up snack packages on the coffee table, he knew that Lu Yan wasn’t far either.
The President was working at the desk. Uncle Jin was sitting on the sofa, holding a laptop on his knees, holding a coffee cup in his left hand, and typing a few words to send to the other party from time to time with his right hand.
“Why are you standing there? That fish gnawed on some equipment again?”
“No…” Bai Chunian spun the recording pen in his pocket.
“That Du Mo person you introduced to them a few days ago is pretty good,” Lu Shangjin said, “People still don’t know his details, it’s perfect to entrust this to him.”
“What do you want to do?”
“I don’t need to interfere for such a small matter, but it’s a good time to teach you.” Lu Shangjin signaled for him to come and sit down with the tip of his shoe and turned the computer screen to him. “Du Mo is responsible for negotiating the contract with the sales side of the Research Institute. He used to be a little prison guard with no business experience, but I have taught you how to negotiate.”
Indeed, in recent years, Bai Chunian had often gone out with Uncle Jin. As long as rich people got together, whether it was a dinner party or an island vacation, they were constantly taking in information and partners. Influenced by his environment, Bai Chunian also learned some things.
He remembered that when he first came back, he was riding in Uncle Jin’s car. When the car drove through an unknown small county town, he saw a tanghulu seller at an intersection, so he leaned forward on the window and looked curiously. At that time, Uncle Jin casually chatted with him, “There seems to be a lot of people here, but you won’t be able to sell a lot. It’s not convenient to park around the traffic lights. It’s better to move a bit forward.”
Lu Shangjin saw that he was in a daze and kicked him lightly. “Remember, when you meet the other party, first ask for 60,000 nutrition agents and offer the lowest price.”
Bai Chunian thought for a while. “On average, 3,000 is the maximum number of nutrition agents needed for an experimental subject to grow to maturity stage. It’s enough for the approximately 20 experimental subjects here. Do you want to… just keep the experimental subjects and detain them?”
“I told you to properly learn from me, but you just had to come and be a special agent. You will end up selling tanghulu.” Lu Shangjin rubbed his head heavily. “What we want are the infection agents, the largest amount he can make, then take the goods all at once.”
When Uncle Jin spoke to this point, Bai Chunian would have no face to stay in this room any longer if he couldn’t figure it out. He nodded thoughtfully and said, “Understood.”
The President suddenly raised his head. “We have new information. The Greyhound Family has already taken the goods and temporarily stored them in a cold warehouse. They should refine 300 tons of monocrylene raw materials into finished products in their own factories and then transport them to the Research Institute’s major pharmaceutical factories separately.”
Having been Yan Yi’s subordinate for a few years, there was no need to clarify the task. It only took a few seconds of eye contact for Bai Chunian to understand thoroughly.
Lu Shangjin slightly lifted the corners of his lips. “Blow it up.”
After returning home from work, Bai Chunian didn’t bother to take off his clothes, so he fell into the bed head first and put the recording pen on the inductive battery charger next to the bed to charge it.
Once he turned around, Rimbaud was lying on the side of the fish tank, looking at him gloomily.
“What’s the matter, are you hungry? There are still two tomatoes in the refrigerator. I fried them for you.”
Rimbaud spat out two wilted green tomato leaf stalks.
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Bai Chunian took off his shirt and threw it into the closet. He looked down and saw that the fishtail wrapped around his leg had turned translucent red.
He turned his head and met Rimbaud’s eyes. Rimbaud’s pupils had elongated into towering vertical thin lines and transformed jagged fangs were faintly visible between slightly parted lips.
He was angry.
“Wife.” Bai Chunian turned around and hugged him. He pressed Rimbaud’s entire body against the closet door and licked the hollow of his neck and outer ear.
The upside-down lifted scales on Rimbaud’s body fit back into his skin calmly. His fishtail returned to a tranquil blue color, softly encircling Bai Chunian’s neck, and the thin lines of his pupils expanded into gentle dark blue circles.
“You’re angry again, why is your temper so big?”
“If you want your dad, it’s not impossible for me to act like him.”
“…Where did this come from?”
“Hen.”
“Hey, why are you so angry? Don’t you feel happy that you have parents?”
“I don’t think so, I don’t remember what they looked like, I just remember their hands scraping off my scales over and over again, and it hurt. I don’t like them.”
“Then I don’t like them either.” Bai Chunian put Rimbaud down on the bed, laid sideways beside him, placed his hand naturally on Rimbaud’s lower abdomen, and rubbed it slowly.
“You beat me so fiercely before, why don’t you do it now.”
“If I don’t hit you, Yan Yi will punish you severely. He will soften his heart when he sees you hurt.”
“Punishing me to write a reflection? If it is serious, I will be fired. The President will definitely not punish me physically.”
“He’ll put you in confinement in a small dark room for a long time. You don’t like narrow and dark places, I know.”
“Mn, I don’t like them.” Bai Chunian squeezed in front of Rimbaud’s cheek, and asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear, “Then did you know that when you hit me, I actually enjoyed it very much.”
Rimbaud was dumbfounded.
Bai Chunian lowered his head, burying it into the hollow of his neck, and murmured softly, his warm breath on Rimbaud’s ice-cold neck.
“Discipline me more.”
The cell phone placed next to the pillow rang. It was an unfamiliar number. Bai Chunian pressed to answer but did not speak first. Their regularly used devices were all developed and encrypted by the IOA Technology Department. The outside world couldn’t eavesdrop or check their location at all; it was absolutely safe.
The voice of an omega came from the speaker.
“I’m going to talk to the Research Institute’s pharmaceutical representative about the order right now. They gave me this number and said you would tell me how to do it.”
“Hey, it’s me.” Bai Chunian replied, “I will instruct you during the conversation, remember to turn on the invisible communicator.”
Du Mo, who was on the other side of the phone, immediately sighed wordlessly when he heard the familiar scumbag tone.
Du Mo hanged up the phone. Wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase, he walked into the business building where the representative of the pharmaceutical factory was located. His current identity was the manager of Huali Medical Devices Company. Although he was given the identity at the last moment, he still had to dress like it.
After he was forced to leave the International Prison, he had nowhere to go. He had been a prison guard for the past few years, and all the people he offended were serious offenders. Even if the prisoner had left their organization before he came in, it would not be uncommon for him to have a few brothers wandering outside. It would be very easy to crush a small prison guard to death. The big tree that Du Mo was relying on fell down, and he absolutely couldn’t survive without finding shelter. Even if he fled abroad, he would most likely be a dead end.
Fortunately, Bai Chunian had a conscience and pushed him into Lu Shangjin’s hands. To Du Mo, this was a bundle of life-saving straws that must be grasped tightly.
Since the appointment was made in advance, the representative of the pharmaceutical factory knew that this was a big customer, so he welcomed Du Mo into the reception room with a smile.
The person in charge of this business was an alpha in his thirties. He poured Du Mo a cup of tea and first discussed the price before drawing up a contract.
The alpha pushed the agent price list to Du Mo and said with a smile, “Please have a look.”
The prices of their various representative products were clearly marked on the A4 paper. Both the AC Accelerator and the HD Horizontal Development Agent were out of stock. The remaining were 15,000 SH shielding agents, 90,000 IN infection agents, and 140,000 NU nutrition agents.
Although Du Mo had seen a bit of the marketplace when he was a prison guard at the International Prison, there were many embezzlers in the International Prison. The ones who had their houses searched and possession confiscated, all their family property was pretty substantial. But looking at the price of these ordinary agents, he couldn’t help but exclaim ‘oh my god’ in his heart.
He inwardly calmed down without changing his expression, pushed the price list back, treated it like it was no big deal, and said, “Hey, this price list is from the first half of the year, we’re both discerning people aware of the current circumstances. Taking 60,000 nutrition agents, it’s not a small number. Give an honest price, alright?”
The current situation of the Research Institute was no longer a secret, both inside and outside the industry. Many people in the industry were going to tread on it, and the representative understood it in his heart, so he could only say, “Pharmaceutical raw materials are really precious. If you place an order with sincerity, a discount is certain.”
The representative meant that the payment was 8.4 billion and discounts could be discussed.
Du Mo actually thought the price couldn’t be changed. After all, things used to be clearly marked. When he bought decorations in the mall, he would cut it from 3,000 yuan to 1,500 yuan with the counter employee at most. He was confused as to how to bargain for the price of goods with this many uncountable zeros.
Unexpectedly, the invisible communicator in his ear sounded, and Bai Chunian said, “800 million.”
Du Mo almost cursed out loud. Was he treating this as an antique marketplace where counterfeits gathered? The total price of the agents was 8 billion. They rounded the price as a discount, then he came and wiped out another zero. Did this kid really knew how to do business?
Sure enough, when Du Mo bit the bullet and pretended to be calm to say the price, the representative’s face turned green. If it wasn’t for his self-restraint, he might’ve directly grabbed him and thrown him out.
Du Mo inhaled inwardly. Concealing his uncertainty, he raised his eyebrows and said, “It’s hard for everyone to do business now, there probably haven’t been any big orders recently.”
The representative’s face was already very ugly, so after thinking about it, he called the headquarters.
The pharmaceutical distribution department of the Research Institute reported the matter to Aileen truthfully.
Aileen was cutting her nails at her arc-shaped office desk. The electronic speaker of the computer AI sounded and read the report document.
Aileen lightly filed the sharp fronts flat with a nail file and sneered coldly, “It’s just Lu Shangjin’s usual method, posing as a shrewd, ruthless businessman. In the current situation, who doesn’t know who is out of stock? Their IOA just took away 20 experimental subjects from me, and it seems that they don’t plan to return them, even wanting to train them all into top weapons. Truly, rich and overbearing. Yan Yi, you aren’t above this either, this married couple is equally despicable.”
The computer AI named “Deng” said mechanically, “But we need this money. The maintenance cost of the experimental subject storage equipment has already exceeded the budget. If this continues, we need to personally eliminate some small and weak experimental subjects to save on maintenance costs.”
The representative of the pharmaceutical factory was still confronting Du Mo. After a long time, the AI mechanically read out the new email, “The other party has changed to buying IN infection agents, hoping to buy it at 80% of the original price.”
Aileen thought for a while.
The demand for nutritional agents was the highest, but the output was not high; only 140,000 were produced a year. If Lu Shangjin wanted to buy it at the lowest price, there were only three possibilities, he was directly buying it to feed the experimental subjects the IOA was holding, he was having the Medical Association research them to change a part of the ingredients for sale through another channel, or he was stocking them up for hunger marketing.
Now they’ve switched to buying infection potions, most likely because they wanted to blur their vision. Lu Shangjin’s real objective was still nutrition agents.
The demand for infection agents was not high at all. After all, people didn’t buy experimental subjects to kill them for fun. Infection potions agents were only used as an insurance measure to subdue test subjects in emergency situations.
Even if Lu Shangjin wanted to use the infection agents to deal with the experimental subjects of the Research Institute, as long as the Research Institute got the payment for the goods, there was a chance they could make an unexpected recovery.
“Sell.” Aileen sneered and said, “There are only 10,000 pieces in stock. Deliver the remaining 50,000 by the end of the month. Let him pay the deposit.”
AI reminded, “There aren’t enough monocrylene in stock. If all of them are used to make infection agents, we will have very little left after delivery.”
“The Greyhound Family has already obtained the raw materials. We will receive the finished products next month. There is still enough monocrylene.”
“Alright. I’ll make the arrangements.”
In the end, Du Mo reached an agreement for an order for 60,000 infection agents at a price of 45,000 for each one and paid a 20% deposit in advance. Du Mo’s hand was shaking when he signed the contract; he had never seen so many zeros. Rich people wrote zeros like they were drawing. Only after walking out of the business building did he repeatedly let out heavy sighs of relief, went into a place where no one was around, and shouted abuse at Bai Chunian, the deceiving commander.
Bai Chunian smiled happily and hung up the communicator after saying that he had worked hard a few times.
At the same time, dinner was just set at Doctor Han’s house. Xiao Xun and Doctor Han were sitting at the side of the counter, lowering their heads and stirring the fish in the milky white fish soup.
Han Xingqian put his hand on Xiao Xun’s nape and said gently and warmly, “I know you are very reluctant to mention your family.”
Xiao Xun shook his head slightly. “I think I should have already left that place; I don’t want to get tainted by anyone from the Greyhound family anymore. The hunting event is coming soon. Chu-ge said I can prove my ability at the grand meeting. But I…I don’t want to go.”
“Why?”
“I don’t need to prove myself to them. They will never recognize me or the value of an omega outside of marriage. Besides, their recognition is meaningless to me.”
“Mn. very good.” Han Xingqian stroked his cheek. “You are already starting your life in a good direction. Besides, an assassination is really difficult for a child of your age.”
Xiao Xun’s lowered eyelashes suddenly raised. “Assassination? Who?”
“It’s very unfortunate, but you can know. It’s the current head of the Greyhound family, Xiao Changxiu, your paternal grandfather in name.”
Gradually, Xiao Xun’s expression changed from being dazed and sluggish to excited. His eyes opened wide, veins crept up into the whites of his eyes, and his right hand which was on his knee kept making the action of rubbing the trigger.
According to Bai Chunian, in the ATWL exam, it was Xiao Xun who injected the AC accelerator into Medusa Eyes at the end, and when he was shot in the head and fell from high up, his eyes showed an elated look of successful revenge.
Han Xingqian hadn’t believed it, because Xiao Xun was extremely well-behaved and didn’t look like a young man who was so vengeful that it was abnormal at all. However, the psychology teacher of Greenfly Island kept telling him with the results of the health checkup that Xiao Xun really did have a strong desire for revenge and destruction.
“Enough, enough.” Han Xingqian pulled Xiao Xun, who had sunk into a painful daydream, into his arms. He gently poured his Delphinium Consolida-scented soothing pheromones into Xiao Xun’s nape glands and comforted him in a soft voice, “Be good, stop thinking about it.”
After a long time, Xiao Xun gently grabbed Doctor Han’s lapel and said cautiously in a muffled voice, “I am very willing. Please make sure I will be the assassin.”
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