Conditions

Li Jiaming received a message and reported to Long Fei, "Boss, a fleet of spaceships is requesting contact. They want to board this ship and have something to discuss with you."

"Which force's fleet is it?"

"The Long Family."

Long Fei frowned and asked, "The one who wants to see me is my aunt, right?"

"Yes."

"Accept."

Long Huijuan traveled in her exclusive space pod, escorted by the most advanced Long Zhan MS developed by a Long Family subsidiary arms company.

Long Huijuan looked out the window at the scenery: two Albion MS motherships, newly developed frigates and destroyers, and Specialized GM Mobile Suits.

Long Huijuan could tell that the warships and MS developed by Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company were far more advanced and powerful than those developed by the Long Family's arms companies.

If her father had treated her third brother's children well, all these warships and MS would belong to the Long Family. For at least the next ten years, the Hanxia Nation would rely on the weaponry developed by the Long Family.

It was a pity that her father's stubbornness had led to today's losses.

The space pod entered Albion's Hangar Bay 1. Long Huijuan disembarked, accompanied by two bodyguards.

Long Huijuan surveyed her surroundings and noticed that the mercenaries responsible for combat were wearing combat armor suits that differed in appearance from the War God Armor Battle Suits she had seen in intelligence reports. Long Huijuan guessed they might be improved versions.

"Regardless of whether these combat armor suits are improved versions, they are combat suits that companies under the Long Family cannot develop," Long Huijuan compared them to her own company's products. Then she saw nearly ten Gundams in the hangar.

Long Huijuan secretly shook her head. Her foolish nephew, Long Taotian, had foolishly provoked Long Fei, practically inviting his own humiliation.

Then, Long Huijuan was led to a restroom by a mercenary.

Long Huijuan frowned, seeing the restroom crowded with people, and couldn't understand why Long Fei had arranged for her to come here.

"Miss, the boss is in the restroom. You can go in and see him," the mercenary said, making a gesture to invite her in.

"But this is the men's restroom. How can I go in as a woman?"

The mercenary smiled and said, "It's a special period right now, so there's no distinction between male and female for the time being."

Long Huijuan frowned slightly and looked at the restroom again, noticing female mercenaries inside.

"What exactly is going on?" Long Huijuan still didn't understand.

"Just as I said, it's a special period," the mercenary continued to gesture an invitation.

Long Huijuan could only frown and enter the restroom, followed by her two bodyguards.

The restroom was very noisy. Li Xiucheng saw Long Huijuan enter and waved, "Sister Long, over here."

At this moment, Long Huijuan saw Long Fei leaning against the wall, staring coldly into the distance. Following Long Fei's gaze, Long Huijuan saw a scene that was too gruesome to behold.

Long Huijuan immediately walked to Long Fei's side and said, "Little Fei Fei, quickly tell your people to stop. Even though Taotian did something wrong, you shouldn't treat him like this. You're cousins, after all."

All the mercenaries present heard "Little Fei Fei" and looked in Long Fei's direction. Who would dare call the boss like that?

It was a beautiful woman in high-end clothing, who looked a bit like their boss.

"Heh," Long Fei let out a cold laugh.

"Aunt, don't you think what you just said is ridiculous? You say he and I are cousins, but has he ever treated me like a cousin, from back then until now? Shortly after my parents passed away, I think you should still remember how he bullied me. To protect me, my third sister was trampled and humiliated by him. You shouldn't have forgotten this scene, right?"

Long Huijuan certainly remembered those events. She remembered that Long Taotian had sent people to capture Long Fei and beat him. Long Wen, in order to protect Long Fei, had knelt and begged Long Taotian for mercy. As a result, Long Taotian was ungrateful and pushed Long Wen to the ground, stepping on her face.

At that time, she had rushed over, slapped Long Taotian directly, and angrily rebuked him for his excessive actions.

"Little Fei Fei, even if he acted excessively back then, you shouldn't use such methods to retaliate, let alone torture and humiliate him like this."

"Do you think I'm just retaliating for that old grudge? Aunt, don't tell me you don't know how many bad things your nephew has done outside. Everything that's happening today is to bring him to justice. This is to vent the anger of those victims."

Long Huijuan was speechless for a moment. She was aware of the bad deeds Long Taotian had committed and knew that he would eventually face retribution. However, she hadn't expected her nephew's retribution to be so intense.

But seeing Long Taotian's current miserable state, Long Huijuan felt pity.

"Little Fei Fei, as long as you're willing to let Taotian go, just name your price. Whatever conditions you want, as long as Aunt can fulfill them, Aunt will definitely satisfy you."

"All assets and companies managed by Long Taotian are to be transferred to me for one dollar, and he is to be ransomed back for 10 billion."

Long Huijuan's expression was very troubled. The companies and assets managed by Long Taotian were all family assets of the Long Family. 10 billion was indeed a drop in the bucket for the Long Family. However, this was in terms of assets. If it were in terms of cash, it would be no problem for the Long Family to come up with 10 billion. The premise was that if they were to invest 10 billion, the Long Family would invest without hesitation. But to use 10 billion to ransom a person was another matter entirely.

To outsiders, Long Taotian was indeed a noble young master of the Long Family, but to the main family, Long Taotian held no significant position.

If it were to ransom the head of the family, let alone 10 billion, even 50 billion would be directly invested to ransom him back. Long Taotian might not even be worth 1 billion for the Long Family to spend money to ransom him. Long Taotian's abilities were not outstanding. Within the Long Family, there were plenty of side-branch members who were more outstanding than him.

"Little Fei Fei, your conditions are something Aunt cannot agree to. Even if it were presented to your grandfather, he would not agree to these terms to ransom Long Taotian. He might even tell you directly to just chop him up."

"Hmph, Long Dingkun is indeed heartless. Everyone has a value in his eyes. If Long Taotian were more outstanding, he might have considered it. Those were my conditions, so Aunt, what do you want to offer in negotiation to lower my terms?"

"All of the Long Family's investments in the Philippines can be sold to you for one dollar, and I will ransom Long Taotian for 1 billion." Long Huijuan stated the conditions she could offer.

"Aunt, I can agree to the first part of your conditions, but 1 billion is too little. I want 5 billion."

"2 billion."

"4 billion."

"2.5 billion."

"3.5 billion."

"3 billion, that's my final offer. If you don't agree, then everything we discussed before is off the table."

Long Huijuan stated her final price. If Long Fei didn't agree to it, she truly couldn't make any further decisions.

"I agree to your terms."

Long Fei accepted his aunt's conditions. This was the most he could get. He also knew that if he asked for anything more, his aunt would genuinely be unable to make further decisions. Otherwise, his aunt would face punishment from the family. The family elders would absolutely not let her off the hook. No matter how much Long Dingkun doted on his aunt, he still wouldn't be able to protect her.

Long Huijuan's two bodyguards helped the already weak-limbed Long Taotian get dressed and then dragged him away.

After saying goodbye to Long Fei, Long Huijuan walked a few steps, then suddenly stopped and turned back to ask Long Fei, "Little Fei Fei, I saw your new Gundam in the hangar earlier. Can you sell your earliest Gundam to Auntie? Name your price, Auntie will pay whatever it takes."

Long Fei directly gave his aunt the middle finger, as if to say, "Get lost, don't even think about it."

Long Huijuan blinked her eyes in surprise, then smiled and left the scene, boarding her shuttle to return to her luxury spaceship.