Becoming one of the seven directors on the Interastral Peace Corporation's board.
It meant that you had stepped into the ballroom of the most powerful people in the entire galaxy.
Status, power, money... here, all these concepts would become blurred, and the identity of a board director would be regarded as a symbol of honor.
It was the highest praise, transcending the shackles of material things.
Few people could remain unmoved by it, no matter how unattainable it might be.
Naturally, Bai Heng would not refuse such goodwill.
After all, from the moment he stepped into the seven-member board, he would become an actual shareholder of the Interastral Peace Corporation.
By then—no, perhaps from the moment he announced that he stood on the company's side... even if he publicly declared that the research project the Interastral Peace Corporation was currently exhausting every effort to crack—the "Molten Knight"—was actually his creation.
And that the three Molten Knights who had gone missing during the archaeological disaster were also in his hands, and that it was his "hibernation" command that had made progress on Molten Knight research so slow.
The Interastral Peace Corporation would not hold him accountable in any form.
After all, the benefits he would bring the company would far exceed the biological mechs the company might develop in the future.
Still, Bai Heng naturally would not sign the contract "Diamond" handed him so casually... even if he had the leverage to flip the table should he discover contractual fraud.
Because that did not fit the habitual logic of someone like him.
Of course, he also did not need to worry about "Diamond" making empty promises over this matter.
There had actually long been signs regarding "Diamond" and Edmond stepping down from their positions.
The difference was that the former was