"Watch it, why wouldn’t you? I’m not like those guys who only know how to draw power from fear and hatred. You have to move with the tis to progress!"
Listening to Feng Xue’s indifferent voice coming from the loudspeakers, the conference room quietly continued its analysis and recording. Chen Xiyao, who hadn’t encountered many Kaidan, didn’t notice anything amiss and calmly pondered how to find a way to subtly ntion going out to et with the other party.
Before she could figure out how to start, she felt a nudge at her calf. She looked up and saw Lin Wenxue, wearing a noise-canceling mask and holding a soft-tipped pen, showing her the freshly written words.
"..."
Chen Xiyao furrowed her brows slightly, paused for a mont, and then asked, "Is your apprentice really the legendary expert of the martial arts world?"
...
"!!!"
After entering ditation, Liu Qi’s hearing beca increasingly sharp and clearly caught his master’s wife’s question over the phone. He imdiately perked up his ears but then heard a rather ordinary evaluation:
"Just of average caliber, really. His enlightennt and determination are decent, though, and he has a passion for martial arts. I’ll cultivate him casually and see how far he can go."
"So I’m just of average caliber?" Liu Qi felt a little disappointed, but he gritted his teeth as his master had said that he had a passion for martial arts and decent determination and enlightennt. Work hard! Work hard!
Thinking this, the stares from the passersby seed less piercing. As they say, when the mind is at peace, everything becos lighter. Liu Qi felt like he might have found the key and was planning to try ditating in this crowded space, but then his master’s wife suddenly said, "Do you plan to bring him to the official side?"
"???" Liu Qi’s mind, which had just cald down, beca chaotic. Was his master’s wife an official mber? And that earlier chat, which sounded like a joke...
Liu Qi suddenly shivered, feeling that he might have gotten himself into sothing!
But speaking of it, was there really sothing like the ten-yuan "Buddha’s Palm" manual?
As soon as this thought arose in Liu Qi’s mind, the daily two-hour "culture class" popped up, dampening his desire to ask his master. He feared that his master would really throw him a "Buddha’s Palm" manual and then start two hours of Buddhist studies each month or sothing.
While Liu Qi’s mindset was in turmoil, in the Kaidan Counterasure Bureau’s eting room, the attendees all wore serious expressions.
They had indeed understood Feng Xue’s rather obvious threat and felt helpless.
If Feng Xue really started teaching supre martial arts on a large scale, the entire Yan Country would descend into chaos imdiately.
Forget about the nonsense of modern people being rational in peaceful tis. Anyone with a brain knew how frequent shootings were in Columbia. And this wasn’t just anything; it was the situation where "others don’t have what I have."
With a weapon in hand, murderous intent arises. When a bad enough day cos, no one can guarantee they can stay rational.
"Things like this depend on him. You can discuss it with him when he completes his training," Feng Xue’s voice ca from the loudspeakers, but everyone was still focused on the issue of reckless distribution of the secret manual.
"How about we have little Chen directly ask him what he wants? After all, promises aren’t reliable, but trading benefits is different. The current instability of the instructor is because he can manipulate us, and we don’t have any ans to restrict him (after all, martial arts culture is deeply rooted in the Yan Country’s essence and can’t just be outright banned). On the flip side, as long as there is a benefit exchange and sothing he needs us to do, doesn’t it an he might be inclined to ask us for help, even if just a trivial bit can beco a ’reference’?"
Liu Yingqiang, just a deputy team leader, suddenly spoke up. Although seated more to the side, everyone still heard his suggestion.
Everyone had thought of this idea, but nobody ntioned it because it was a tricky issue to initiate.
In negotiations, having the initiative was critical, and asking the other party to make requests was equivalent to conceding control, which could make subsequent negotiations unfavorable.
If it were just for one Kaidan, like the instructor, it would be fine, but since they were an official organization, their words and actions carried significant implications.
It wasn’t about holding themselves too high but similar to how court cases were judged, each case represented more than the interest of a single plaintiff and defendant; it also impacted the considerations in future similar cases.
They had to consider whether their retreat would affect the standard procedure for future negotiations with Kaidan.
"In that case, let’s put it differently." The archival group, usually not noticed, had recently beco more active. After gaining everyone’s attention, Qian Hongxiu smiled and said,
"Proactively asking for his demands relinquishes the initiative, so why don’t we take it by proposing demands ourselves? For example, purchasing magic items?"
"..."
Silence spread briefly through the eting room as everyone pondered whether this transaction suited the current situation.
Although it seed like playing word gas to hold onto the initiative, a seller’s and buyer’s markets were ultimately different.
"Looks like we’ll need to add an ’accounting group’ specifically to evaluate transaction issues," Fu Tianli sighed slightly, then straightened up with a serious face, and said,
"Magic items, while precious, are not essentials. Using them for the first round of transactions can well control the ownership of the initiative. The only issue is, what do we do if he offers items we can’t refuse? Once it becos a seller’s market, we’ll find ourselves at a disadvantage."
"There’s nothing we can do. If the other side really has such things, it makes no difference whether he ntions it or we do." Elder Wang shook his head lightly. As the chief of the West Capital City’s Counterasure Bureau, he had the authority to access information about secret treasure-level mystical items, but he couldn’t explicitly state this. Instead, he hinted to the group leaders.
The group leaders exchanged glances, vaguely understanding Elder Wang’s implication. They realized there might be secret treasures to prevent the worst-case scenario, but due to their high confidentiality, they nodded in agreent, saying,
"I agree to use proactive trading as an initial probe."
"I agree too."
"Agreed."
...
"What the heck, even if I get a special admission, I still have to go to school, right? Otherwise, when I get to university and I’m the only slacker among a group of academic elites, wouldn’t that be embarrassing?"
Listening to Chen Xiyao getting the topic turned to herself so easily again, Lin Wenxue sighed, nudging her calf to get her to focus.
After being nudged, Chen Xiyao realized she had been led astray again and felt a bit uneasy. However, she was still rational, raising her head to look at Lin Wenxue’s raised placard and asked with a nuanced expression,
"By the way, they said they want to buy so magic items from you. Are you interested?"
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