After hearing Ye Yuan's words.
Dilai nodded thoughtfully.
The atmosphere fell silent.
Neither of them spoke.
Ye Yuan merely watched the changing expressions on Dilai's face.
Yet Dilai was not as dejected as Ye Yuan had imagined.
After spacing out for a while, he looked up at Ye Yuan and said with utmost solemnity:
"Ye, this matter is very important to me. I hope you can help me.
"Even if it truly doesn't work out, I'll still be grateful to you."
Ye Yuan sighed inwardly.
He knew that something like this was simply too tempting for someone like Dilai.
There was no way a few words from him could make Dilai give up his desire for the agent.
But there was nothing Ye Yuan could do about it.
Selling it was out of the question.
Even when he had sold it to M Nation last time,
Leonard had personally made the trip.
He had merely helped them clean up the crude oil pollution.
He had not directly allowed the agent to fall into their hands.
To put it bluntly, what others saw as an agent was actually a kind of technological nanoworm.
They fed by devouring crude oil.
Once there was no crude oil left, they would quickly die.
But if such a thing fell into the hands of someone with ulterior motives,
as long as they were provided with enough crude oil,
they could survive for a very long time.
It was even possible for them to reproduce into mutated variants.
Ye Yuan would never allow something so uncontrollable to happen.
If his carelessness caused Blue Star's crude oil reserves to plummet,
he would truly be guilty of a grave sin.
Others might not know how terrifying they were, but Ye Yuan did.
With just one drop, an entire