radicalducati Chapter 231 That's right, whoever you say I am, that's who I am.
Chapter 231 That's right, whoever you say I am, that's who I am.
Chapter 231 That's right, whoever you say I am, that's who I am.
Sitting in Li Yuanren's office, Ye Nanxiao crossed his legs and happily sipped a cup of milk tea.
Li Yuanren, sitting opposite Ye Nanxiao, looked pale and clenched his fists.
Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down Li Yuanren's forehead as he looked at Ye Nanxiao with fear in his eyes.
Ye Nanxiao glanced at Li Yuanren, who immediately looked away and lowered his head slightly.
"What's this guy up to? Does he want milk tea too?" Ye Nanxiao wondered, taking out a cup of milk tea, placing it on the table, and pushing it toward Li Yuanren.
Li Yuanren was startled by Ye Nanxiao's sudden action. His fat face trembled slightly as he forced a smile and said, "Mr. Mu, let's not beat around the bush. What do you want if I become the chairman? Or perhaps, what does the person above want?"
Upon seeing Li Yuanren's reaction, Ye Nanxiao chuckled. "This fat guy has probably imagined something and misunderstood my identity."
Once again pulling out his deceptive tactics, Ye Nanxiao held a feather fan in his hand, fanned himself a few times in a pretentious manner, and said, "Let's not beat around the bush, of course. Since Chairman Li has already seen through my scheme, then I won't beat around the bush anymore."
"The Aoto Chamber of Commerce is still your Aoto Chamber of Commerce. From now on, you are the new president, but..."
Ye Nanxiao kept everyone in suspense, looking at Li Yuanren with a half-smile.
Facing Ye Nanxiao's gaze, which was flashing with the symbol of gold soul coins, Li Yuanren knew exactly what Ye Nanxiao meant. He pondered for a moment and began to make his own calculations.
Li Yuanren was quite surprised to suddenly be appointed as the chairman, but he also understood that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
"It seems I can only nominally control the Aodu Chamber of Commerce as a puppet president." Li Yuanren felt somewhat unwilling; he really didn't want to give up the Aodu Chamber of Commerce, which was practically handed to him.
After a moment's internal struggle, Li Yuanren gritted his teeth and said, "Since I am the guild leader, how many gold soul coins does Mr. Mu require me to offer?"
In this sentence, Li Yuanren deliberately converted rare metals into gold soul coins, because strategic-level rare metals are resources that cannot be bought with gold soul coins.
Ye Nanxiao narrowed his eyes slightly, and the hand holding the fan instantly turned white, freezing the feather fan into powder and dissipating it.
"President Li, you're mistaken. As Soul Masters, we both know that rare metals cannot be represented by Gold Soul Coins. Or perhaps you harbor ulterior motives?"
The temperature in the room plummeted, and frost began to spread from Ye Nanxiao's feet.
The extremely low temperature forced Li Yuanren to release his martial spirit to resist it, with eight spirit rings floating behind him.
Looking at the frost covering the room, Li Yuanren slumped down. He knew he had no right to make demands, as the person in front of him had dealt with An Litong, the former president of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce.
"Please be frank," Li Yuanren said with a sigh.
Seeing Li Yuanren back down, Ye Nanxiao took out a feather fan from his storage ring again and said with a smile, "It's very simple, you just need to make the Aodu Chamber of Commerce obey."
As expected, the target was the entire Aodu Chamber of Commerce. Li Yuanren sighed again.
"But you want my Aodu Chamber of Commerce to provide rare metals? How about 30%?" Li Yuanren asked, withdrawing his martial spirit.
Ye Nanxiao didn't speak, but looked at Li Yuanren with a smile and held up five fingers.
Li Yuanren's face was extremely grim, and he said in a deep voice, "Mr. Mu's appetite is a bit too great, isn't it?"
"I will take 50% of the rare metals circulating in the entire chamber of commerce, and the remaining 50% will be used for capital operation." Ye Nanxiao reached into his robes and took out a token.
Li Yuanren immediately saw the token in Ye Nanxiao's hand, and his hands trembled involuntarily.
As a powerful figure in the underground soul master world, he has connections in all aspects of business, and can be said to have connections in both the legitimate and criminal worlds, and has even made contact with the royal family.
He was familiar with the various types of tokens used in the royal family, and he immediately recognized that the token in Ye Nanxiao's hand was a royal token, with a golden claw on each of the four corners.
"Four, four claws, you, you are the Crown Prince's man!" Several beads of sweat rolled down Li Yuanren's forehead, and the fear in his eyes intensified.
Ye Nanxiao's eyes twitched slightly as he glanced at the token in his hand, then looked at Li Yuanren, who sat opposite him like a frightened wild boar.
"It seems this thing still represents Xu Tianran. Why did Ju Zi give this to me?" Ye Nanxiao thought to himself, and then a hint of killing intent appeared in his eyes.
If today's negotiations do not yield the desired results, then Li Yuanren cannot be allowed to live.
Otherwise, if word got out that this token had once been in his possession, he would be in danger.
But who can tolerate having the fat meat that's right in front of them snatched away and swallowed by someone else?
As Ye Nanxiao's murderous intent took hold, the temperature in the room suddenly dropped.
Feeling the biting cold, Li Yuanren dared not summon his martial spirit again, for fear of angering Ye Nanxiao.
He had learned some of Xu Tianran's methods through rumors, but it was only the tip of the iceberg, yet it was enough to terrify him.
Back then, after Xu Tianran was ambushed, he retaliated with swift and decisive action, wiping out the Second Prince's entire lineage completely, leaving not even a single dog behind.
Li Yuanren took a deep breath, slowly removed all the rings from his hands and placed them on the table, while also taking out the breastplate that had been placed on his chest.
"So you're someone close to the Crown Prince. In that case, the Aodu Chamber of Commerce will be at your service at any time. As a vanguard, I, Li, will brave any danger, even death!"
Ye Nanxiao [.]
That's right, whoever you say I am, that's who I am.
Seeing that Li Yuanren was showing signs of surrendering, Ye Nanxiao tossed out a small, antique-looking bottle.
Li Yuanren instinctively caught the small bottle, looked at it in his hand, and asked, "What's this?"
"Pour out what's inside, and I don't need to teach you what to do next, right?" Ye Nanxiao's hands turned white, and an aura of power erupted from his body.
Upon hearing this, Li Yuanren quickly poured out the contents of the small bottle.
A bright red pill landed in Li Yuanren's hand.
The moment Li Yuanren saw the pill, he understood what Ye Nanxiao meant.
Without the slightest hesitation, he opened his mouth, tilted his head back, and swallowed the pill.
The pill melted in the mouth, carrying a slight sweetness, and went down into the stomach.
After swallowing the pill, Li Yuanren felt the oppressive aura that had been pressing down on him vanish instantly, and Ye Nanxiao, sitting opposite him, returned to his smiling demeanor.
"Well done. I'm sure you know what this pill is for. It's Red Crown Plum, a high-grade product that you can't even get your hands on. After you take it, the pill will lie dormant in your body. Don't try to force it out. If you do, you'll trigger the drug's effects prematurely."
Ye Nanxiao made an explosion gesture with his hands. "The fire poison, which is infinitely close to the extreme, will devour you, and then you will turn into a dazzling firework."
Li Yuanren wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeve, bowed his head, and replied, "I understand. From this day forward, I will never waver!"
Although he had never heard of the poison "Red Crown," the change he had just heard reminded him of some top-tier poisons circulating among underground forces.
"Where did you get this Red-crowned Crane poison? I had no idea you could make poisons." Xue Di asked in confusion.
She witnessed the entire process of how Ye Nanxiao tricked Li Yuanren, and she knew exactly what Ye Nanxiao was thinking. She even knew how many security-level umbrellas were in Ye Nanxiao's private treasury, but she had no recollection of this red pill.
"Did Xiao'er block me out at some point?" Thinking of this, Xue Di narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, abruptly slamming the comic book shut. How dare Xiao'er block me out?
Realizing Xue Di's intention, Ye Nanxiao quickly explained, "Xue'er, wait a minute! Don't take the keyboard. How come you've picked up some of Nan Nan's bad habits? Besides, that's not even a keyboard! Who has an icicle on their keyboard?!"
Upon hearing Ye Nanxiao speak, Xue Di finally dropped the "keyboard" in her hand, her jade-like hand playing with a strand of hair that fell to her chest, her fair and slender legs crossed.
Seeing Xue Di throw away the household "torture" device that resembled a keyboard, Ye Nanxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief and explained, "What poison? I made that up. That red thing was just a box of sugar pills we bought while shopping before. You even complained that the sugar pills weren't sweet enough."
Xue Di thought about it and realized that there was indeed such a thing.
"Aren't you afraid of messing things up if you try to fool this fat guy with a sugar pill?" Xue Di asked, tilting her head slightly.
The head tilt kill really does deal real damage!
Ye Nanxiao wiped the unidentified liquid that had dripped to his lips and said, "I've discovered that this fat guy is quite good at self-hypnosis. Judging from his reaction, he's definitely succeeded in fooling him. It wasn't for nothing that I specially drew a bottle from Orange that I bought with a gold soul coin!"
Ye Nanxiao was furious when he remembered being tricked by Orange into spending a gold coin on a bottle that was pretty but useless.
How could I have been fooled by Ju Xiaohan and spent a whole gold soul coin to buy this broken bottle?
Consciousness returned to reality.
Ye Nanxiao stepped forward, patted Li Yuanren on the shoulder, and secretly sent a chill down his spine.
"Little Li, work hard from now on, and you won't be treated unfairly."
Li Yuanren shuddered violently and nodded quickly.
"The effects of the medicine have been suppressed for you. The duration is once a year. If you show any bad behavior, I don't mind shortening the suppression period so you can experience the wonders of Dandinghong," Ye Nanxiao said sinisterly.
As Li Yuanren walked out of the office, he followed Ye Nanxiao with small, quick steps, which, combined with his large physique, made him quite conspicuous.
Wang Yu stared in disbelief at Li Yuanren following behind Ye Nanxiao. Although he felt as if his eyes had been sprayed with pepper spray, he remembered that his superior was Li Yuanren. He quickly stepped aside and dispersed all the people surrounding him.
Li Yuanren coughed a few times, trying to cover his embarrassment, then shouted, "Where is Wang Yu?!"
Wang Yu, Li Yuanren's number one loyal follower, immediately stepped in front of Li Yuanren and knelt on one knee.
"By my orders, incorporate all personnel of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce! From today onwards, I am the next president of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce!" Li Yuanren said domineeringly, his hands behind his back.
(End of this chapter)