Confusion

Under Number Nine City was a crystal core farm. To them, crystal cores were nothing more than numbers.

Nothing more than numbers?

That was truly the sort of thing that made people hate the rich.

Jiang You stared coldly at the other half of Wang Qichuan's kidney.

As if sensing that gaze, Wang Qichuan instantly felt a pain in his kidney. Although he was already quite old and no longer had much need for certain things,

he still couldn't do without a kidney!

"Unfilial son!! What are you still hesitating for?"

"Between your father and crystal cores, what is there to hesitate about?!"

"You heartless little bastard! If I'd known this would happen, I should've shot you into the wall back then. You unfilial son, is your father more important, or are crystal cores more important?!"

"Have you been hoping I'd die so you could take over, haven't you? Stick your face over here and let your father give you two slaps!"

"I raised you from infancy, feeding you shit and piss, and this is how you repay your own father?"

"I'm not dead yet! The Wang family's money isn't yours yet!"

"..."

Wang Qichuan clutched his kidney and stamped about, his disheveled white hair swaying with his movements as he furiously cursed his own son.

In a daze, Jiang You saw the Mad Doctor after one of his experiments had failed and he had gone insane.

On the other side, the second son of the Wang family wore an equally colorful expression.

Sixty million was already an enormous sum, and these were Tier 2 crystal cores.

Sixty million little stones, thrown down, could crush a whole crowd to death. It wasn't that he hadn't offered enough—it was that the damn little bitch was far too greedy!

He had still felt somewhat sorry for the old man, but seeing him now with knives stuck all over his body and still able to curse him with such vigor, he regretted coming so early.

He was the future head of the family. Now that he was being cursed at in front of so many people, would he still have any authority in the future?

He could already imagine how the Li and Zhang families would view him behind his back.

The second son of the Wang family glanced over casually and, sure enough, saw that the faces of both families had reddened from holding back their laughter.

When they saw him looking over,

the Zhang family said, "Nephew, don't misunderstand. We're not laughing at you. I just remembered that the pig at my home gave birth to eighteen piglets in one litter, and I'm so happy I can't close my mouth."

The Li family said, "Old Wang really is something. He loses his temper without even looking at the occasion.

"Don't worry, Nephew. Your father is in the wrong here. We're all on your side. When he comes out, your uncles will have a good talk with him!"

The second son of the Wang family said coldly, "This is a matter between my father and me. Outsiders don't need to interfere."

The outsider, Head of the Li family: "..."

Originally, even with knives stuck all over his body, Head of the Wang family had still wanted to save as much as possible. Now, however, he was as agitated as one of Jiang You's trained infiltrators, shouting for his son to send over the crystal cores.

He looked exactly like an ungrateful wolf turning its elbow outward.

Wang Qichuan had done this, plainly speaking, to save himself. His son didn't know how huge this little bitch's appetite was, but he did.

She was so greedy she could swallow the heavens.

Unless she stripped a layer of skin from the Wang family, he could forget about leaving this place.

He was only sixty. Number Nine City had already developed a way to extend human lifespans through its mutant-human project, so he could live to at least one hundred and twenty. In other words, he had only lived half his life.

He absolutely could not die here in such a miserable fashion.

A dozen or so minutes later, Jiang You dragged Wang Qichuan back into the room.

The instant he entered, Wang Qichuan clutched the dagger in his waist and collapsed onto the floor. His face was deathly pale, large drops of sweat poured down him, and his breathing grew heavier with every gasp, like a broken bellows.

The vigorous appearance he had shown outside had all been an act.

After all, a lively Head of the Wang family was far more valuable to save than a half-dead Wang Qichuan.

He couldn't let those people see how weak he was.

Jiang You had never dreamed that her first attempt at kidnapping and extortion would net such an astonishing sum.

Ninety million—not ninety million Tier 2 crystal cores,

but ninety million Tier 3 crystal cores!

The leap from Tier 2 crystal cores to Tier 3 crystal cores was a direct qualitative transformation.

The two were fundamentally incomparable.

The Wang family's total assets were certainly more than this, but this was all the liquid capital they had.

After all, crystal cores were constantly being consumed.

She sat in a single-person chair, waiting for the Wang family to send the crystal cores inside.

Wang Qichuan spoke weakly. "Once you get the crystal cores, how will you escape Number Nine City? Why don't you come back to the Wang family with me? You stabbed me so many times before, but I won't blame you. We each fought for ourselves, and striking hard is only human nature.

"Not only do I not blame you, I admire you greatly. You can give serious consideration to what I proposed to you before.

"If you marry my son, you'll be the mistress of the Wang family!"

It had to be said that Wang Qichuan was a ruthless character.

After being stabbed so many times by Jiang You and extorted for so many crystal cores, he could still think of making her his daughter-in-law.

Jiang You possessed a spark of fire. If she could give birth to descendants carrying the genes of a natural spark of fire, what would they be like?

Wang Qichuan was already beginning to look forward to it.

"Wang Qichuan, if I marry your son, then you'd better prepare to lose both of your sons. His death date would be the night of the wedding."

Jiang You sat quietly in the chair. In the dark room, Wang Qichuan couldn't see the expression on her face.

About half an hour later, the aircraft transporting the crystal cores arrived.

They flew through the sky in orderly formation, dropping them one after another.

Sacks of crystal cores were flung heavily in through the balcony from outside, smashing onto the floor.

The aircraft calculated everything with extreme precision. They shook the snakeskin sacks with mechanical arms in midair, then released them at the instant the sacks swung, allowing them to land precisely on the balcony floor by means of inertia without smashing the windows.

She pointed at the long-and-short-legged experimenter. "Go drag all those sacks inside."

"Me?"

The long-and-short-legged experimenter was somewhat unwilling. He was afraid of being shot full of holes, but it seemed he had no other choice.

He secretly shot Jiang You a resentful look. He thought that if she ever fell into his hands one day, he would definitely make her wish she were dead.

He would make this woman who had bullied him beg for mercy beneath him, letting him do whatever he wanted.

He would trample her into the mud and make her regret everything she had done today.

When he imagined having complete control over that pale, smooth skin and turning her lofty appearance into coquettish sobs, the experimenter's eyes reddened slightly with excitement.

Jiang You's airy gaze swept over, and the experimenter immediately lowered his head to hide his thoughts before walking out.

Even from that hurried glance, she had understood the anger and fleeting desire in the experimenter's eyes.

Jiang You gave a cold laugh.

This was men. The most direct way he could think of to torment a woman was nothing more than physical humiliation.

What a foolish thing. Did he think that was anything?

Jiang You watched his habitual little movements and the way he walked with bored interest. The corners of her lips lifted slightly, and she seemed to be in a good mood.

After starving for several days, he was visibly thinner.

Perhaps even the experimenter himself hadn't noticed that his back looked somewhat similar to Jiang You's.

Crystal cores had always been nothing more than icing on the cake, merely a means of confusing the main issue.

The more outrageously she demanded, the more easily others would focus on the extortion.

Her true goal was to use Wang Qichuan to take herself out of the Research and Development Center.

And this experimenter was the bridge that would allow her to leave.

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