Meanwhile.
Inside the villa where Ma Huainan lived.
He was on a video call through Feixun.
His face was flushed with fury, and he was practically roaring.
"You damn swindler!"
"Take a look at this combat record yourself!"
"One shower of acid rain from the enemy, and the protective suits were corroded straight through!"
"You expect me to pay double compensation for garbage equipment like this?"
"Dream on!"
On the other end of the video call sat a somewhat portly middle-aged man, his expression utterly composed.
"Young Master Ma, you rented such a vast quantity of intelligent weapons, yet paid only one thousand Divinity Points."
"As the saying goes, you get what you pay for."
A meaningful smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face.
"Surely you know, Young Master Ma?"
"The cheaper something is, the more expensive it often turns out to be."
A vein throbbed on Ma Huainan's forehead. "And you still have the nerve to demand a hundred thousand from me?"
"Those are the terms of the contract."
The man's expression remained unchanged.
"However ordinary their quality, this equipment still qualifies as intelligent weapons."
"One billion sets of intelligent weapons for a total of fifty thousand Divinity Points was already an exceptionally low price."
"Now that double compensation is due under the contract, there is nothing improper about it."
At those words, Ma Huainan's face turned livid.
Of course he knew why the man dared to be so uncompromising.
The contractual terms had already been reviewed by an artificial lifeform, spelled out clearly in black and white.
If he refused to pay compensation, the man could petition the Federal Court to freeze his assets in the real world.
He could even have restrictions placed on his high-value spending.
If that happened, even his purchases of certain advanced resources