Translator: Abyssruler Editor: Lucas
Ai Xiaolu looked into Wang Zheng’s eyes, her heart skipped. “How much money are you short of? Do you want me to lend some to you?”
Wang Zheng laughed. “Thanks for your good intentions, but I think it might not be possible.”
“Why not possible? Are you afraid that I can’t afford it?” Ai Xiaolu laughed. Wang Zheng had called for life and death matches, and he would at least have earned several hundred thousands of dollars from each of the match. Hence, he would definitely not be bothered by small sums of money.
“Ai Xiaolu’s family owns a bank.” De Fulei laughed, and added this comment.
“Really?”
Wang Zheng’s eyes lit up. At the most crucial moment of the space project, the bankers over at the Solar System’s side had all tightened up their loan giving. It seemed that there were traces where the Chronos family had called the shots. Actually, the business world was a battlefield. Once you showed a weakness, the capitalists would definitely not be courteous with you.
“Of course, it’s real. How much do you need to borrow?”
“About one billion or so.” Wang Zheng laughed bashfully. Even though Xiao Fei did not need so much, Marcus had secretly told him that the experiments had been continually failing, and they also had insufficient funds. The state of affairs must had been even more serious, otherwise, out of the self-respect of an old person, Marcus would never had disclosed the details to Wang Zheng.
Even if Wang Zheng opened up life and death matches it would also not have much value as after all, the World of Saints was not CT and there was not as much entertainment value. If people knew that they would lose, very little people would come. There would be an insufficient number of people, and it would also be of no value.
Ai Xiaolu was startled for a moment. She had thought that at most Charcoal would only borrow several millions of dollars. She did not expect that once he opened his mouth, it would go so far as to one billion dollars!
“Why do you need so much money for?”
Such a huge amount of capital, it was obviously not for his own personal consumption but for large-scale economic activity.
Ai Xiaolu’s family owned a bank, and her concept of money was different from ordinary people. Most people’s concept of money was reflected on “earning money”, while Ai Xiaolu was more sensitive about “spending money”.
To be honest, as long as it was not for gambling, there would be no difference between giving mentally sound person one billion or fifty million dollars. This was simply because he would not be able to finish spending it all, or just spending it.
“I am not sure if you guys have ever heard of the KING Space Technology Company?” Wang Zheng touched his nose.”
“Yes, we do know about it. But, what has that got to do with you?” De Fulei leaned her head to the side.
Snow Li was also looking at Wang Zheng curiously. KING Space Technology Company was highly reputable in the Milky Way Alliance. It had enormous future potential, and once its technology matured, it might be possible for it to change the entire universe. Currently, everyone would want to grasp some shares of the company, however, the top management of the KING Company had no intention of letting go of the shares.
Presently, all the big capitalists only had one request with regards to the financing of KING Company, which was for them to let go of their shares and to let everyone enter into it. But of course, their request would not as simple as getting entry, it was possible that they would take advantage of the opportunity to swallow up KING.
Wang Zheng genuinely laughed. “Actually, I have participated in the project before. Xiao Fei is my teacher and I am also holding some shares in it. If it is possible, we will go according to the regular rules, and the interest can be calculated as per usual. However, it’s just that it might require a longer time for us to return the initial capital. You guys should also know that the thing about doing research is that it is very much like flushing money down the toilet.”
Ai Xiaolu took a look a Snow Li, she had probably gotten some sort of reminder from Snow Li and laughed. “In your own name, one billion dollars at an interest rate of 30%. However, we would be going in accordance with the rules, if you are unable to pay it off, you can try repaying it with your body hehe.”
Actually, for this project, Ai Xiaolu had also only heard about it. Every year there were numerous of this type of big projects that were so-called said to be able to impact the development of mankind. However, if this person was Wang Zheng, then it would entirely different. Even though Ai Xiaolu did not participate in the IG, but she had also been looking forward to meeting him for a long time.
“However, I have one condition. Can you remove your mask for me to see, Student Wang Zheng?” Ai Xiaolu smiled.
Snow Li did not to know whether to laugh or cry. “Xiao Lu, stop fooling around, we would probably meet each other in school. Let’s talk about this again after we finish the trial. And let’s just focus all our energy on the trial for now.”
“Dear Student Snow, it’s not good to side with outsiders ya.”
“You lass, are you looking for a fight…”
Clearly as Snow Li’s best friend, Ai Xiaolu had heard a lot about Wang Zheng. But of course, there were still some secret talks that were between women and were to be kept between themselves.
This person… was the one who was able to make Princess Aina fall in love with him???
The gossipy fire of Ai Xiaolu was raging.
30 minutes later.
At the entrance of the Ice Territory trial.
Wang Zheng who had just borrowed one billion dollars from Snow Li also did not know what to say. He had looked through the contract, and it was indeed straightforward and could be understood clearly. It seemed like Ai Xiaolu’s family was really doing pretty well. He also could not do anything about it, as Marcus had opened his mouth. It could only have meant that the state of affairs was even worse, otherwise, he would not have come to find Wang Zheng again.
Wang Zheng knew that very well in his heart. If he was really unable to repay the money, he would just do what he had to do. Even if he had to put up his equity shares as collateral, he would also not renege on the debt. It was just that he had not expected for someone who was once his opponent to be this frank and straightforward.
Initially, he had just wanted to give it a try. If it was unsuccessful, then it was unsuccessful. But now, it was different, it was a must to succeed.
Redington had wanted to say a few words to mock him. If he had no money then he should not have followed other people to set up some technology company, the result was him losing face and having to borrow money from people. However, he did not say anything in the end. He was not brainless, saying such thing would only lower his own standing. But that aristocrat smile on his face was just saying, “I have a lot of money, but I just do not want to lend it to you.”
The Ice Territory trial was divided into 12 territories, and it was also known as the 12 Palaces of Ice and Snow.
There was a different test in each of the palaces. For the first 11 territories, they followed the prescribed order in accordance with the information card and they got through the daunting experience all the way without mishap. Actually, Wang Zheng basically was just acting as a supporting role as the coordination between everyone was very perfect.
Redington had Ice ability X, but he also possessed very strong ice creation ability. Ice arrows, ice shield, whatever Jiang Feng had said about micro-control was displayed over here brilliantly by him. He was indeed an expert, and no wonder he was in Class Xuan-1.
Ai Xiaolu and De Fulei were both from Class Xuan-3, their strengths were also pretty awesome. On the contrary, Snow Li who was their team leader was probably the weakest among them. But of course, Snow Li’s status had major significance. Her potential also far exceeded the rest.
Both Ai Xiaolu and De Fulei also had ice abilities, it felt that they should had reached the high grade C rank level, while Redington most probably was an expert in the initial low grade B rank level. No wonder he had an air of arrogance. His handsomeness could damage a country and cause suffering to the people, and his ability was also strong. He was the typical case of a tall, rich, and handsome guy. And naturally only Snow Li was his target, otherwise why would he be squandering his time in the World of Saints.
Even though this thing was helpful in improving his energy, but after all, it was a virtual thing. Even though it was said that it could bring out cultivation techniques, many people still did not believe in it. And even more people were filled with doubt about the cultivation techniques itself.
Actually, only the people from the Solar System were able to accept the cultivation techniques. They were from the origin of civilisation. While the rest had never took it seriously since the beginning, as they felt that this was only an amusing form for them to train their mental power.
However, when they reached the eleventh territory, there was an unusual change. A distinct weakness appeared in Wang Zheng’s heart, and it almost resulted in everyone failing to succeed after all the work that had been seriously undertaken.
Fortunately, Snow Li used Icebound Nation and managed to let Wang Zheng cool down.
This was simply something unimaginable. As someone with ability X, especially one who was able to enter the Elite Academy X, willpower was the number one thing. A mere fantasy in a virtual world was able to cause Wang Zheng to lose his focus, this was really too…
Wang Zheng was wearing a mask, and no one could see any of his expressions. However, he knew very clearly in his heart, that all these while, there had been blind spots in his inner world. He was in a very perfect realm, full of confidence, steadiness and perseverance. However, the thing with Aina had indeed broken his focus.
He firmly believed in his own perseverance, and in the end, he did not resist the illusion. Even though it was his own choice, but he did feel helpless inside.
And to a practitioner, this could become a weakness. All this while Wang Zheng had not bothered too much about this, and that was why he had almost suffered a big loss during the illusionary trial.
The last stage, and the twelfth territory. Before the 10,000 mirrors maze, De Fulei looked at Wang Zheng in the eyes coldly. Even if she was under Snow Li’s order, she no longer had any trust in Wang Zheng. On the information card, the eleventh territory was the easiest to pass. He knew perfectly well that it was fake, and if his willpower had been a little steadier, there would not have been any problem. But unfortunately, a problem just had to occur.
She really did not understand why Snow Li insisted on bringing him to the Ice Territory trial, and she even trust him unconditionally.
Ai Xiaolu and Redington also did not look very happy. Snow Li’s Icebound Nation was one of the hidden trumps for them to break through the 10,000 mirrors maze, but unexpectedly it had been used in advance. Ai Xiaolu had heard of Wang Zheng’s famous name before, but there were also plenty of such people who did not live up to their name in reality.
It was a little unexpected for Snow Li, but she did not care much about it. She looked at Wang Zheng with the same confidence as before, “From now on, it would all depend on you.”
Wang Zheng removed his mask. They were all students of the Elite Academy, it did not matter whether he wore it or not. It was unexpected for him that a trial that he did not care much had actually allowed him to find the weakness of his heart, and he did care about it. However, with Wang Zheng’s ability, as long as he was aware of it, it would no longer be a weakness.
