The meeting room was utterly silent. In fact, the people here included not only operators of small and medium-sized shelters, but also "undercover agents" from several major conglomerates. They wanted to know what Lin Qi intended to say, as well as what would happen next.
Lin Qi did not care about their behavior. Predators had never cared what their food thought. Their ultimate goal was to get the food into their mouths, not chat and share their feelings with it.
"Faced with these large conglomerates and large and super-large shelters, you don't possess much of a competitive advantage."
"Especially when they propose establishing standards for shelters, you have even less of an advantage."
"I'm not belittling any of you. This is simply the truth. As long as they demand that shelters have independent power and heating systems, along with their own independent internal resource-recycling systems—"
"Seventy percent, or even more, of the shelters here will be eliminated. They won't meet the standards those people establish."
"More importantly, they can voice their opinions on establishing these standards in Congress, while you can only passively wait!"
"You will never be able to fight back, because in front of them, you're like a mute. You'll never be able to make people understand what you think."
"And that is the problem we're here to solve today."
Someone stood up. "Mr. Lin Qi, what do you plan to do?"
"Have you represent us?"
"Or do you have some other solution?"
Lin Qi understood what the man meant. He shook his head. "I can't represent anyone. The only people who can represent you are yourselves."
"If you've paid attention to Slem's operating model, you'll know that we have extensive experience cooperating with local governments in the Slem Area through the Industry Self-Discipline Committee."
"When we become