Song Wenguang said with a lecturing disdain, "That's because you shallow people really need someone with brains to help you find a new path."
Niu Dazhuang laughed out loud: "Sorry, I really haven't found anyone here who is more intelligent than us. I think that when you get old, you should think less and sleep more in order to live a long life, especially since the world is too unstable now."
The head of the Jin family ignored Niu Dazhuang and stared at Li Ke, saying, "It seems you're determined to go down this dark path. You should think this through. If we want to, we can cut off your base's water, electricity, and all resources immediately."
Kong Zhiyan, who had been observing from the sidelines, stepped in to smooth things over: "We've all gathered here today to promote communication, so let's not hurt our feelings. Why don't we give the Qiushan base some more time to think it over? We can make a decision at our own gathering in a couple of days."
Song Wenguang stood up first: "I'll give you two more days to calm down and clear your heads. Young people often act impulsively. Don't wait until you're bloodied and bruised to regret it."
After issuing the warning, these people stood up and left one after another. Li Ke also led Song Xian and the others away directly. They had already seen everything in the exhibition hall. Their base was not lacking in anything. They had only come here to find out what the core area's intentions were.
Just like the heads of those bases said, Li Ke and his group really didn't have much experience and knew too little about the core area.
When Li Ke first saw the plans for the safe zone, he thought it might become a great future city. Now it seems that there will be no shortage of conflict everywhere.
Back in the guest room, Niu Dazhuang asked Li Ke, "What are your plans? It seems like these people are determined to make us back down."
Li Ke calmly said, "No rush. We're in the conference center now, so please be patient. Of course, the management of the base mainly depends on you. If you feel that submitting to them is acceptable, I have no objection. However, I will take back what I have given you, and you can take your people and seek refuge with others."
Song Xian and Qiu Feng exchanged a glance and smiled, saying, "We can't return all those things to you right now. If we really can't stay here any longer, we brothers will bring those who are willing to come with us and start over with you. We definitely don't want to be free guns for those old guys."
Li Ke: "Don't worry, I bought the land and autonomy with real money. As long as I don't want it, they can't take advantage of me."
There was a knock at the door. Niu Dazhuang got up to check and saw Mo Bao'er standing outside. He knew that Mo Bao'er and Li Ke had a good relationship, so he invited her in.
Seeing that Mo Bao'er seemed hesitant to speak, Song Xian and Qiu Feng wisely got up to take their leave.
After the person left, Mo Bao'er remained standing there, and said with an unusual emotion, "My father would like to invite you over for a talk."
Li Ke remained seated, asking with a hint of detachment, "What do you want to talk about?"
Mo Bao'er hesitated for a moment before saying, "We asked Jian Ye about some things and wanted to confirm with you whether you are the person he knows."
Li Ke said calmly, "I'm not in a good mood right now and I don't want to talk about this. You should go back."
Mo Bao'er felt a little strange thinking about her previous guesses, and the joy and ease she used to feel with Li Ke was gone. She nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go back now."
After walking out the door, Mo Bao'er suddenly remembered that she hadn't received a reply yet, so she hurriedly went back and pushed the door open to ask, "When can you talk to us?"
Li Ke thought for a moment before saying, "Let me deal with the current trouble first."
Despite the unpleasantness, three bases still took a liking to the apple trees displayed by the Akiyama base and wanted to make a deal with them.
These three bases are none other than the Kong, Mo, and Li families. These transactions will all have to wait until after the banquet.
After the banquet at the conference center ended, the people there didn't rush to leave, because the banquet at the Toujia base was about to begin.
The banquet was held inside the First Ring Road, at the Song family's villa. As the host, the Song family specially invited guests who were unable to stay there to stay temporarily, including Li Ke and his entourage.
The Mo, Kong, and Li families also extended invitations to Li Ke, but Li Ke still moved into the Song family's villa with his entourage.
After entering the Song family, they treated Li Ke and his group with great hospitality. Fortunately, the group did not understand the meaning of politeness and did not feel uncomfortable at all.
Before the banquet even started, the Song family specially sent Li Ke three sets of women's clothing. Whether she wore them or not was entirely up to her; it was just a token of their goodwill.
Li Ke naturally wouldn't wear it. In just two days, Li Ke and Niu Dazhuang had figured out the layout of the Song family's villa.
The banquet officially started at 8:00 AM. Around 5:00 PM, guests began to arrive by car. Li Ke attended the banquet alone that evening, while Song Xian and Qiu Feng had been arranged by Li Ke to leave early in the morning.
After exchanging toasts, the eight representatives selected from the thirty-seven leading enterprise bases sat down opposite Li Ke once again.
Across a corridor, the lobby remained filled with singing and dancing, while the conference room was tense and fraught with tension.
The head of the Jin family asked Li Ke, "Commander Li, after considering this for so long, shouldn't you give us a definite answer?"
Looking at the leaders opposite him, Li Ke noticed that they were all very cautious this time, each accompanied by two trusted confidants. Li Ke, on the other hand, was all alone and had to go through a security checkpoint before entering the conference room.
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