26 Diamonds and Slave Owners
After visiting Yu Chun, enjoying an amazing bowl of spicy hot pot, and even filming a short video of her favorite face, Chu Xiao went to work feeling completely satisfied.
However, this good mood did not last long.
Chu Xiao had barely settled into her seat at the company when she received devastating news.
Assistant Liu told Chu Xiao with a sorrowful expression that their project in Black Continent might be canceled.
Norris's 50-year mining rights in Sierra have only a few months left.
Due to the immature technology and low mining efficiency in the early years, Norris still has a large amount of unmined diamonds in the Sierra mine, with estimated reserves of US$2 billion. This has always been a coveted prize.
With breakthroughs in exploration technology, just a few days ago, Norris made a new discovery of high-purity powder diamonds in the "Kaga River mining area" in southeastern Sierra, with estimated reserves of $5 billion!
This directly ignited a fierce battle among various factions in the African continent for control of the Norris mining rights.
The local government is corrupt, and the laws governing the mining area are vague; whoever controls the mine has the right to mine.
The oligarch Kosarev of the Bear State took the lead and controlled the Kaga River mining area, and hired a former KGB agent to guard it.
Ugly oligarch Ivan followed suit, taking over most of Norris's mining area in Sierra, which was then defended by former Sea Lion Commando members.
In just a few days, the Norris Company of the African continent had completely divided up its mining area in Sierra.
After Assistant Liu finished his report, the other assistants lowered their heads and held their breath, afraid of being called out by the boss.
For a moment, the only sound in the office was the ticking of the wall clock.
After listening to Assistant Liu's report, Chu Xiao took a sip of Da Hong Pao tea with displeasure.
For this project, she auctioned off the "Pink Star" pink diamond ring, a birth gift from Jane's father to the original owner, worth $100 million, and used it all as an initial investment.
If they don't get anything, the $100 million will be gone.
Although the Jian family controls a pancake empire worth hundreds of billions in this world, and can afford to lose 100 million US dollars, Chu Xiao never does anything that results in a loss.
And $100 million—how many pancakes would you have to sell to earn that!
Even if her father didn't care, it would still break her heart!
"Clang!" The celadon porcelain cup hit the table with a crisp sound, startling the assistants.
Chu Xiao leaned back in his chair with an air of domineering confidence and began calling roll.
"Assistant Liu, you personally supervise Ping An Security. They must recruit 50 retired special forces soldiers within a week, select them according to the highest standards, and double their compensation."
"Once the personnel are assembled, they will be immediately sent to Sera in Heizhou to await orders through the Jian family's channels."
"Assistant Zhang, you will personally fly to the Serra branch to oversee operations. Procure a complete set of standard Azerbaijani equipment locally to ensure that security personnel can be armed and deployed immediately upon arrival."
"Assistant Xia, notify the Human Resources Department to immediately improve the team structure of the Sera branch. All core positions in all departments must be recruited from the Flower Country."
"Local miners can be hired, but each shift must have three foreign supervisors. Also—"
After a pause, Chu Xiao pursed her lips and made up her mind.
"Immediately sell my mansion in Bitley Hill, USA, and once the funds are in place, invest them all into the Black Continent Blood Diamond project. The transaction must be conducted discreetly through an offshore account."
The three assistants looked up in shock.
The mansion in Bitley Hill, USA, was a coming-of-age gift from Jane's father to Jane Fei, worth $200 million, more than even the eldest daughter of a wealthy family could afford.
Just like that... it was sold?!
Chu Xiao, however, couldn't care less about all that.
She pinched the bridge of her nose.
Her ultimate goal is to establish a force to capture criminals, and raising funds to build an armed force is just the first step.
If she can't even deal with the indigenous forces in these books, how can she possibly fight against the system from a higher dimension?
...
The system was completely unaware that it was being watched.
Seeing that Yu Chun's body was gradually recovering, it resumed its cold, impersonal task reminders.
"Host, it's been almost three months, and your mission progress has only reached 1%."
Yu Chun was startled, fearing that the system's next message would be, "Host's passive slacking has been detected; punishment is being generated."
He quickly pretended to be pitiful.
"I tried my best. Look, I even fell and ended up in the hospital for a week trying to seduce Jian Bing!" Yu Chun said with a look of grief and indignation.
"..."
The system is speechless.
It has never bound itself to such a stupid host.
Nearly three months have passed, and countless amounts of money and energy have been spent. The host has been very serious, but the mission has made no progress whatsoever, and he has ended up covered in bruises.
It was a good thing that when it scanned Yu Chun's identity, it found that he was the first heir of a 10 billion yuan spicy hot pot group. It thought he was a business elite and rushed to bind him without scanning further. It didn't expect that this person only had a face to look at.
Even knowing that the host was not very intelligent, the system still used its authority to issue a mandatory task to Yu Chun in order to improve the progress of the mission.
[Mission: Increase the mission progress to 5% within three months, or face electric shock penalty]
Yu Chun stared at the task pop-up window that only she could see, feeling suffocated.
It's been almost three months, and his leg isn't healed and he can't move. How can he do his mission?
Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for Yu Chun?
Yu Chun tried her best to plead: "Could you give me another month? My leg still isn't healed after three months, how am I supposed to complete the mission?"
The system remained unmoved.
Yu Chun pleaded pitifully, "You are the most intelligent, brave, handsome, and invincible commander! Please!"
The system hesitated.
Seeing an opportunity, Yu Chun quickly added, "To be honest, the first day I saw you, I was blown away! Your body is the coolest I've ever seen! Your abilities also amaze me! I've always admired you!"
The system happily lit up with colorful lights.
This is the first time the system has been praised.
It feels really good to be praised.
The system suddenly found Yu Chun much more agreeable.
It believes that Yu Chun still has a lot of room for improvement, and it should be more patient with Yu Chun.
So the system, in a moment of kindness, changed the task—
[Mission: Increase the mission progress to 5% within four months, or face electric shock penalty]
It was waiting for Yu Chun to say something nice.
Upon seeing the change in the mission, Yu Chun was indeed very pleased and continued to praise him.
Yu Chun gazed at the mechanical ball with deep affection: "System, you are the best system in the world! I am honored to be bound to such an excellent system as you and become your host!"
The system is satisfied.
It transformed into a consciousness and returned to Yu Chun's mind to temporarily lie dormant.
Upon discovering that the system was gone, Yu Chun rolled her eyes.
He experienced what it felt like to be a slave through the system.
Despite working themselves to the bone, they still have to be grateful to the instigator for not killing them.
The system, that heartless slave owner, uses high-pressure tactics to force him to work all day long, and never gives him any rewards.
He's a slave to the system and even has to pay for it out of his own pocket; it's truly pathetic.
He really doesn't want to be a host for even a day longer.
When will I finally get rid of this damn system?!
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