The air fell silent for a few seconds, and a sincere smile appeared on Kana Mei's deeply wrinkled face.
"Of course."
But the others were not so friendly.
Well, well. The lad had raced through his teaching assignment, revealed his identity as the creator, and asked for resources outright. He really did stay still until it was time to strike like lightning.
But were they that easy to talk around?
They were Kou Cheqie'er's old rivals. They had failed to beat Kou Cheqie'er back then, so having a young man who seemed to be his junior come calling would be nice, too.
Some of the old-timers chuckled sinisterly.
Others genuinely did not want to surrender their interests. In particular, once they discovered that the creator of Nini Home was just a greenhorn, they began entertaining crooked ideas.
"Young man, chasing quick success and immediate gains isn't a good sign."
Kaitis, his chest bare, sneered. "You'd better not get any crooked ideas. I just found something interesting."
He waved the Terminal in his hand, a gleeful, unrestrained smile on his lips.
"Kou Ying, creator of Nini Home, one of Great Xia's top Red Hackers, and a Great Xia Research Institute Center Senior Researcher. I won't even mention his identity on the Dark Web."
"He holds three hundred and fifty-eight technology patents, including weapons technology used in frontline upgrades, certain defense systems in the Present World, and even technology for making weapons from calamity remnants.
"If you cut off his resources, are you trying to bring half the Americas to a standstill?"
Kaitis cast a mocking look at certain people who reeked of capitalist rot. What little brains they had went entirely toward shortchanging and exploiting others. Had they put any of that toward fighting Calamities, he would not have slapped them