As he reached the end, David's voice gradually grew quieter.
Clearly, he didn't think his chances were very good either.
But even if the chances were slim, he still had to try.
What if it actually worked?
Su Xiao looked into David's eyes, and after briefly meeting his gaze, David lowered his head.
At the same time, he couldn't help feeling nervous.
David suddenly regretted coming. He felt he had been too impulsive.
Su Xiao didn't say anything else to David. Instead, he said something over his comms channel that David couldn't hear.
After giving his instructions, Su Xiao picked up his coffee cup again and drained the slightly cool coffee inside. "Go on, drink up. It'll be completely cold if you leave it any longer."
David picked up his cup and finished the coffee.
But he didn't put the cup down, keeping it cradled in both hands.
For the next few minutes, neither of them spoke.
David had no idea what Su Xiao was thinking, who he had just spoken to, or what he had said.
Just as he was about to speak, V arrived with the two hundred thousand euros David wanted.
However, V hadn't brought cash, but two credit chips.
Su Xiao had thought things through carefully for David.
A transfer to his electronic bank account was out of the question. If that much money suddenly appeared in a poor person's account and someone reported it, there could be trouble.
The corporations wouldn't monitor every poor person's electronic bank account, but David was going to pay the Arasaka Academy. If someone there found out, there was no guarantee they wouldn't report him.
That line of thinking was a little conspiratorial, but with things like this, it only took one unlikely mishap.
It was better to be careful.