Chapter 120 You need to pay more!

Chen Jinglong stopped in his tracks. The two of them were walking under the shade of a tree, with the sound of wind blowing through the leaves. He turned and looked at Li Ming, with complex emotions brewing in his eyes.

Even he was speechless at this moment, but what made him even more helpless was that what Li Ming said was right, there was no need for him to take risks.

"I will watch you. Don't worry, there will be no risk unless an A-level life form comes to kill you personally." Chen Jinglong emphasized.

"A-level lifeform coming to kill me personally?" Li Ming paused, then frowned and said, "Although the possibility is relatively small, it is not impossible."

Chen Jinglong almost laughed out of anger, "You mean, the leader of the Torch will come and kill you personally?"

"Don't laugh, I'm just making a reasonable analysis." Li Ming said solemnly, "Look, I'm a Blue Star native with a good family background. I've received systematic training at the Polytechnic University, and I might even have to go to the Itlan Civilization to receive better resources and training."

"He will definitely be a big threat to the Torch in the future. If I were the leader of the Torch, I would definitely kill him."

Chen Jinglong looked at Li Ming's serious expression, squinting his eyes. He roughly figured out what this kid meant and said unhappily, "What do you want? Aren't tens of millions of alloy materials enough for you to stockpile?"

Hearing this, Li Ming changed the subject of what he was about to say and said, "Mother ore, I've been quite interested in mother ore recently."

Mother ore? Chen Jinglong's expression shifted slightly, and he remembered what Xia Yuanlun had said to him: Li Ming really loves mechanics and metallurgy.

It has reached the stage of collecting mother ore.

"Okay, I can get you two pieces of mother ore." Chen Jinglong nodded.

Get it? Why did this word sound so strange? Li Ming thought about it and immediately said loudly: "Ten dollars!"

Chen Jinglong was puzzled and glared at him. "I just went out for a walk and I might not even catch anything, and you dare to ask for ten dollars?"

Li Ming felt a little guilty, "You won't bargain?"

Chen Jinglong was completely speechless. This guy was so cunning.

"I'll give you five dollars at most, no more." Chen Jinglong said unhappily.

"Five dollars is five dollars, it's not a small amount." Li Ming thought and decided to stop while he was ahead.

"You still look like you've been cheated." Chen Jinglong said in a bad tone, adding: "If you can't catch it, I'll give you two pieces at most. If you do, I'll give you the remaining three pieces."

Li Ming, the old fox, immediately added, "What if I get into danger?"

"Impossible." Chen Jinglong said firmly.

"I mean just in case." Li Ming chuckled and said, "Look, there are many people who want to kill me: Xingchuang Company, Prince Baijan, Sera Civilization, Torch Organization, the Bian Family..."

"Are you including the Bian family?" Chen Jinglong completely lost his refined demeanor and almost rolled up his sleeves. How on earth did Wu Yanqing teach his students?

"This bait of mine is beautiful, fragrant, and delicious. It's my first time in the water, so I wonder what giant crocodile I might catch." Li Ming took two steps back, still saying, "If I run into any danger, you must give me five more mother ore as compensation."

Li Ming didn't know if it was an illusion, but he could vaguely hear the sound of Chen Jinglong grinding his teeth and the muscles on both sides of his cheeks twitching.

"Good boy." Chen Jinglong suddenly smiled again: "In that case, let's do as you say."

Did you really agree? Don't tell me anymore?

Now, Li Ming was a little confused. This old man wanted to hook more than just the Torch Organization, right?

"Is there really an A-level life form taking action?" he asked tentatively.

"It's settled. Let's do it tomorrow." Chen Jinglong didn't respond, nor did he give Li Ming a chance to speak. He disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"Fishing, hey..." Li Ming shook his head and went back.

In the afternoon, Zhang Huaiyuan arrived in a hurry.

"Brother Li."

In the reception room, Zhang Huaiyuan waited for Li Ming to come over, and stood up to greet him.

"Sit down." Li Ming asked him to sit down. It was still holiday and there were not many people around. He poured himself two glasses of water.

Zhang Huaiyuan continued hurriedly, a little embarrassed: "Brother Li, what is it that you want to talk to me about? Do you need to explain it in person?"

This attitude really made him feel uneasy, as if something bad might happen to him next, so Li Ming was so polite.

Li Ming didn't think too much about it and sat down casually. "There are still a group of people who haven't arrived yet. When they come, you will know."

Zhang Huaiyuan wanted to say something but stopped himself and had to sit there silently.

The two chatted casually for a while, and after more than half an hour, a group of people hurried over, led by Huang Jianzhong, the regional director of Xunying Company.

He looked solemn until he saw Li Ming, then he forced a smile. The two shook hands and sat down. His assistant Deng Bo drove out all the outsiders.

"How is it, Director Huang, have you found out?" Li Ming asked casually.

Huang Jianzhong didn't say anything at first, while Deng Bo looked at Zhang Huaiyuan hesitantly.

This young rich man was quite perceptive and was about to get up and leave, but Li Ming waved him down, "It's okay, we're one family, go ahead."

Zhang Huaiyuan's throat rolled, and he hesitated to sit down, his face slightly flushed.

Deng Bo was obviously hesitant, but Huang Jianzhong spoke without hesitation, "Based on the clues you gave us and our investigation over this period of time, we can basically confirm it."

"Fu Zongchen did collude with Xingchuang Company to secretly sell some of Blue Star's arms, and also forged orders to eat up a large amount of military funds."

What the hell?

Zhang Huaiyuan, who was excited, was stunned when he heard these words. Then his face turned pale and his calves began to tremble.

Selling arms? Is that something he can listen to?

Li Ming was not surprised. Over the past half month, whenever he had free time, he would check the paper documents he had taken in Fu Zongchen's safe.

He discovered the arms trafficking from those materials, and Prince Baijan also had a stake in it.

"With the evidence you've collected, it shouldn't be difficult to attack Xingchuang Company." Li Ming followed up, "Then what did we say at the beginning..."

"That's true..." Huang Jianzhong laughed bitterly, "But driving out Xingchuang Company isn't that easy. We've had our legal department carefully study Blue Star's laws and the contract they signed in the past two days."

"It is indeed possible to try to deprive Xingchuang Company of its operating license within Blue Star by selling out the interests of the local civilization."

“But this is not something that can be accomplished in the short term.”

"That's your business." Li Ming said calmly, "After depriving Xingchuang Company of its operating license, I only want a mineral star."

Xingchuang Company controls five or six mineral stars in Blue Star. Once its operating license is revoked, the space will become vacant and it will inevitably have to bid again.

Xunying Company is a strong competitor.

"We can't guarantee that," Huang Jianzhong said helplessly. "The bidding for mineral resources is handled by the Bluestar Asset Management Bureau."

Li Ming nodded: "I know, I just need your various qualifications."

"You want to borrow our shell?" Huang Jianzhong frowned. If one wants to obtain the resource mining rights of a large mineral planet, he will at least need a large number of qualification certificates such as [Resource Exploration and Excavation Certificate] and [Heavy Machinery Operation Permit].

"I will set up a company and let him connect with you." Li Ming suddenly pointed at Zhang Huaiyuan.

Before Zhang Huaiyuan could react, he had already started to back down.

He was about to open his mouth to refuse, but when he thought of the outsiders present, he swallowed his words back and stopped talking.

"Is it okay?" Li Ming looked at Huang Jianzhong.

Huang Jianzhong hesitated. Even if they bid again, they were not sure how many planets they could obtain the mineral rights to, so they just gave one to Li Ming.

Moreover, it seems that they have to provide resources for Li Ming to "train his troops."

"Otherwise..." Li Ming said slowly, "Then forget it. Our cooperation ends here. The clues I provide you can be regarded as the reward for the mother ore you gave me last time."

Li Ming was about to send the guest away after he finished speaking. Huang Jianzhong gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Okay, no problem. Even if we only get one, we will give it to you."

"It's a pleasure to work with you." Li Ming stretched out his hand. Huang Jianzhong shook his head helplessly. He let a young man take control of it and regarded it all as an investment.

"Old Zhang, this is the business card of Qi Zhan, Minister of Central Intelligence, and Wang Xing, Deputy Minister of the Resource Management Department..."

Li Ming took out a stack of business cards and handed them to Zhang Huaiyuan in front of Huang Jianzhong: "Contact them when you have time, they will take care of you."

Basically, they were officials, both big and small, who were trapped in the villa on the day of Fu Zongchen's death.

After Qi Zhan brought them here last time, the relationship between them developed further and even turned enemies into friends. He even called a few gatherings some time ago and went.

Huang Jianzhong's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he smiled bitterly. Li Ming was pointing at him.

He may not be able to make Xunying Company earn a lot more money, but he can make Xunying Company not earn a penny on Blue Star.

Zhang Huaiyuan was at a loss as these were all big shots on Blue Star, the kind his father normally had no contact with.

A heavy trust fell on Zhang Huaiyuan's heart.

At such a young age, when he was studying the history of Blue Star, he always found it difficult to understand the ministers and followers who followed the ancient emperors to death.

Just say a few words and a pat on the shoulder and you're ready to die for it?

But he understood now.

Huang Jianzhong did not stay long and left in a hurry, preparing to take action against Xingchuang Company in full swing. The outcome would not be determined in a short time.

"Brother Li, don't worry, I will definitely live up to your trust." Zhang Huaiyuan assured at the same time.

"Don't be so stressed. In the early stages we will use the personnel of Xunying Company. You just need to watch over them and learn from their experience." Li Ming said. A large mining and smelting team was far beyond the ability of him or Zhang Huaiyuan to pull out in a short period of time.

It would be better to directly use the staff of Xunying Company.

"I understand." Zhang Huaiyuan looked solemn, thinking about whether to pull his old man over. The business of one acre and three mu of land on the Silver-Gray Star was nothing.

After dealing with this matter, Li Ming found Chen Yan again. She had nowhere to go during the holidays, so she still stayed in the laboratory.

As usual, he pulled Chen Yan into his room and told her to shut down the computer.

"Can Torch find some people to kill me?"

"Ah?" It took her a long time to react, with confusion in her eyes, and she even took two steps back. It seemed that Li Ming had gone crazy again.

"Are you okay?" she asked hesitantly.

"Seriously." Li Ming certainly wouldn't say that he was too cunning and wanted to take advantage of Chen Jinglong, but instead said nonsense:

"I can't explain why Torch didn't kill me. Yuko, such an important person, was killed just like that. It seems that my importance is even higher than Yuko's. There was no assassination at all. This doesn't make sense."

"Today, some people are even wondering if I am the seed of the torch."

Chen Yan's expression changed slightly: "Did those people come to investigate this matter this morning?"

"Some of it." Li Ming continued to deceive: "Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with my information, but I have to dispel their suspicion. Let Torch find a few cannon fodder, the kind that I can kill in return."

Just pick a few cannon fodder? Chen Yan was speechless. How could this be picked randomly?

Can the Torch management point out a few people and tell them that they are going to die and must not resist?

"Are you sure?" Chen Yan felt that this matter was strange: "You are not a Torch Seed, why are you afraid of being investigated?"

"But you are. If I didn't kill you at the beginning, I would definitely not be able to explain it." Li Ming said immediately.

Chen Yan was immediately speechless and said in a muffled voice, "I'll report it, but the specific actions will still have to be decided by the higher-ups."

"Do you know how to report it?"

"I know!" Chen Yan said coldly, "I was very careful to find out this news. You don't know anything."

Li Ming nodded in satisfaction. As far as Torch knew, he didn't know Chen Yan's origins yet, so he couldn't make any mistakes.

The next morning, Li Ming received an urging call from Chen Jinglong.

"Are you still afraid of retreating at the critical moment?" Li Ming muttered to himself and found Chen Yan to ask. The report was submitted, but she didn't know how Torch would react.

When he was about to go out, he received another message from Zhang Huaiyuan. This guy seemed very excited. When he saw Li Ming, he couldn't wait to say:

"Brother Li, I spent the whole night yesterday researching and conducting a detailed investigation of several mineral stars controlled by Xingchuang Company."

He took out a document, and after Li Ming took it, he gestured for him to get in the car: "Don't worry, we'll read it on the way."

"Oh oh..." Zhang Huaiyuan was in high spirits and got into the car without asking where he was going.

In the car, Li Ming took a closer look. Most of it was data, so densely packed that it was dizzying.

"Well...this is the last market research..." Li Ming said, pointing.

Zhang Huaiyuan hurriedly explained, "Brother Li, Xingchuang Company is a cross-civilization consortium. They have a wide range of sales channels and can sell to other civilizations."

"But within our civilization, we can't digest so many mineral resources. If we use Xunying Company's channels, they will definitely deduct them. I'm still thinking about this."

"Don't worry about that." Li Ming shook his head. "When the time comes, send all the refined metal ores to me. I want to make something."

Sell? He never thought about selling.

"Ah?" Zhang Huaiyuan was confused, but seeing Li Ming's confident look, he had no choice but to nod.

After getting the information back and calming down, Zhang Huaiyuan glanced out the window and asked, "Where are we going?"

"Shopping." Li Ming's answer made Zhang Huaiyuan stunned. He said with difficulty, "Aren't you going to call Yang Yu and the others?"

"No." Li Ming shook his head. Who knows how Torch will attack? It's too dangerous for Yang Yu to follow him.

Zhang Huaiyuan hesitated to speak, scratched his head, and didn't know what to say.

(End of this chapter)