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"What!? More than sixty-eight million points? One trade run brought in more than sixty-eight million points!? Did you rob the Source Treasury!?"

For the first time, Chu Minghao's voice sounded so agitated and distorted, agitated to the point where he looked ready to eat someone. Judging solely by the way he was grabbing Wu Pifu by the collar and roaring, the usually ethereal-looking man seemed like he had fallen to demonhood and was about to devour someone.

Wu Pifu did not know how to explain it for the moment, so he looked toward Xu Shilan.

Xu Shilan was in no hurry, smiling as she sipped tea in the presidential office.

Wu Pifu was unfamiliar with that expression, but Chu Minghao knew it all too well.

Before the Fourth War, when he had still been trapped on Earth and had yet to obtain the Superbrain Auxiliary, the Dragon Rider System, or compatible mecha, he had been at his weakest, like a dragon stranded in shallow waters. Back then, he had encountered Xu Shilan wearing that expression many times.

It meant she was about to do business.

"...Go on. What do you need me to do?" Chu Minghao asked helplessly.

Xu Shilan set down her teacup and said briskly, "Then I'll be direct. I want Chu Yuyan. In any era, talent is always the most precious resource. One of the two outstanding figures of the Chu Clan, Chu Anran is dead, but Chu Yuyan is still alive. I want him to join the development of the Ocean Dream World after we establish a Territory-type Sanctuary there, and I want him as my deputy."

Chu Minghao looked somewhat troubled. He murmured, "You know that the Chu Family currently has the fewest people awakened among all the families. I have to lead by example.