Let me help many people refresh their memories.
Two months ago on the Main Worldline, after Sister Gaohou's grand rescue operation had concluded, Chu Big Head's innate divine ability came into play. Gritting his teeth and stamping his foot, he invested 300 million in Shi Tiexin.
With that funding, Shi Tiexin opened a biological laboratory in Shaluo City. From chairman and general manager to HR director and finance director, then salespeople, buyers, cashiers, and accountants, Shi Tiexin was the sole employee.
Which made embezzling public funds extremely convenient.
So where had those 300 million gone?
Naturally, they had been used for private purposes—cough, cough—invested in research and development. The Word Spirit mental arts, including the main body, sixteen prerequisite branches of knowledge, and all 128 expansion packs, cost eighty million at the discounted bundle price.
That was expensive enough.
Even more expensive were the Primal Language Guide, Introduction to High-Dimensional Writing, and the general and specialized Runes, Inscriptions of all six major disciplines. Even after Shi Tiexin had used every trick in his Rhetoric arsenal to haggle, the whole set had cost over a hundred million.
It could not be helped. The sheer volume of knowledge contained in Runes, Inscriptions was too vast. Every single rune or inscription could be treated as an independent field of study. Their intersecting combinations, generation and extinction, mutual clashes and restraints were especially complex. Over a hundred million had only bought him some common goods. Truly powerful secret runes were never circulated on the market; no amount of money could buy them.
But the money had been well spent.
There was no need to mention the usefulness of Word Spirit. Everyone had seen it firsthand. It was practically a strategic underhanded move, directly changing Shi Tiexin's strategic outlook and plans for the future.
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