Wu Xiong carefully considered what Lu Yuan had just said.
He seemed to have grasped the key point.
"Dr. Lu, did you just say that was the price if paid with money, meaning you'd also accept other forms of payment?"
"That's right."
Lu Yuan sat up straight, and the discussion finally got to the main point.
"I need a complete set of gene research equipment, from limb research to cell research and then to the most microscopic gene encoding devices, a full set of equipment."
Wu Xiong's face was expressionless, Sun Ying was stunned, Wei's jaw nearly dropped to the ground.
The three showed different psychological resilience according to their rank and status.
Lu Yuan: "As far as I know, the gene research equipment left over from the old era that your Starlight Group has control over is slightly more advanced than what Tianyu Group has."
"I'm not greedy, just one working set will do, you can set the price however you want."
Wu Xiong blinked and carefully asked, "Dr. Lu..."
"Are you conducting medical research that already extends to the field of genetics all on your own?"
Beside him, Wei gazed in shock, "The R&D personnel in our group's gene department haven't even--"
Wei didn't finish speaking before he felt two surges of cold intent converge on him.
Wu Xiong and Sun Ying glared at Wei full of killing intent.
He immediately shut his mouth.
Lu Yuan didn't directly answer the question Wu Xiong asked.
He just smiled without saying anything.
But in Lu Yuan's mind...
Hmph, extends to the field of genetics?
Hillbilly!
It would scare you to death if I told you the truth!
I'm already almost at the end of the genetics field!
Gene encoding!
Unlocking the human genome!
Lu Yuan didn't know what stage those medical groups on the outside had reached in their genetic research.
But he knew that they probably couldn't compare to him.
Otherwise, why would the Starlight Group value so highly the mechanical prosthetics he had devised three years ago?
Next, Wu Xiong made a phone call and came back. After nearly another hour of bargaining, the two sides reached a series of agreements.
The Starlight Group would trade a complete set of gene research equipment for 100 full sets of mechanical prosthetics from Lu Yuan.
The total value was about 2.6 billion.
Each would be responsible for their own loading and transport.
For the place of exchange, Lu Yuan and Wu Xiong tacitly chose a random location on the border between S Region and X Region.
The exact location would be determined later.
If the Starlight Group had further demand for prosthetics in the future, they would purchase them with cash payments of 3.5 million per set.
Both signed two copies of the contract, Lu Yuan imprinted his handprint, and Wu Xiong affixed the official seal representing the Starlight Group.
Given the lack of sufficiently authoritative law enforcement and judicial institutions in this era, signing contracts didn't have much significance anymore.
But the ceremonial cooperation passed down from the old era still gave some sense of security in most cases, especially when working with financial groups like the Starlight Group.
At the very least, big financial groups still cared about face on the surface.
The two sides exchanged contracts, and Wu Xiong casually remarked, "Oh right, Dr. Lu, don't forget to provide detailed installation videos and instruction manuals when we make the exchange!"
Lu Yuan stopped what he was doing and slowly said, "President Wu, let's keep things separate. The prosthetics are prosthetics, and the technology is technology. I don't provide it for free."
Wu Xiong stared and asked, "Dr. Lu, if I buy a piece of furniture, installation instructions should be included, right?"
Lu Yuan calmly replied, "President Wu, if I sell an airplane, do I have an obligation to provide pilot training? There's no such precedent, right?"
Wu Xiong: "Then at the very least you have to provide the service!"
"Of course the service is provided!"
Lu Yuan smiled again.
Wu Xiong immediately understood. He slapped the table in resignation and said, "Fine! Name your price!"
Lu Yuan seemed to have already prepared in his mind. His voice was slow and methodical: "I don't know if President Wu wants an exclusive regional distributorship or just a regular distributorship?"
Wu Xiong was stunned for three seconds as anger nearly burst out the top of his head.
To Wu Xiong, Lu Yuan's words were tantamount to "Do you want me to cultivate another medical financial group in S Region that possesses this technology?"
Beside Wu Xiong, Sun Ying helplessly held her forehead and mournfully said, "Dr. Lu, you're a doctor..."
"Can you please not calculate so shrewdly like a businessman?"
Lu Yuan took off his eyeglass frames that didn't have lenses and put them into his white coat pocket. "I'm sorry, doctors doesn't mean I have to selflessly dedicate myself to you."
"There may have been people like that in the old era, but now is the new era."
"The gap between financial groups in the new era and officialdom in the old era is also vast."
Lu Yuan's words left Wu Xiong and Sun Ying at a loss for rebuttal.
Sun Ying: "Passion, ethics, responsibility, commitment..."
Lu Yuan: "Hmm? What's up, do you want to become my patient?"
Sun Ying: "I didn't say anything."
Finally, Wu Xiong dispiritedly said, "Exclusive distributor, we want the exclusive distributorship."
"I really didn't expect that usually people plead for the distributor rights to our products. But now, there would come a day when our Starlight Group has become a distributor for someone else..."
Lu Yuan picked up his cell phone and typed "3.5" on it.
"3.5 billion, per year."
Instantly, deathly silence filled the conference room.
After a long while, Wu Xiong drank some water and slowly said, "Dr. Lu, it seems that gene research equipment isn't all that important to you?"
Lu Yuan smiled. He deleted the number on his phone and re-typed "2.6".
"That's the price I give others. Of course I have to show more sincerity when dealing with friends."
"2.6 billion, 3 years, can pay in installments."
Wu Xiong pondered briefly and held up a finger, "The price is fine, but there needs to be an added condition."
"You have to accept Starlight Group's invitation to become an unnamed external medical consultant for us."
"Every month, we can send you a case not limited to prosthetic replacement, and of course we will pay the medical expenses for that case."
Lu Yuan: "You can make things a little more difficult, no need to send one case every month. Just send me as many as you want whenever you want."
"And I guarantee the safety issues for your cases after entering X Region, including safety issues for you several during your departure this time."
Only then did Wu Xiong's expression improve slightly. He asked Lu Yuan at the end, "What about this prosthetic body of mine?"
Lu Yuan waved his hand. "That's just a little gift from me to President Wu. Please accept it with amusement."
Wu Xiong forced a bitter smile. "Please don't. Just give me a discount. Otherwise when the group investigates, I won't be able to withstand it. Let's redraw the contract..."
In the end, Lu Yuan gave Wu Xiong a 20% discount at 1.2 million paid on the spot by transfer.
When the two sides concluded negotiations, it was already 3 pm. Lu Yuan treated Wu Xiong and his group to a meal at Yun City Xia's Group's restaurant to fulfill his host duties.
After eating for over an hour, around 5 pm when it was almost dark, Lu Yuan and Liu Yuan returned to the clinic while Wu Xiong's group returned to their hotel.
But shortly after leaving the restaurant, Wu Xiong told Long who was driving, "Long, leave this place and return home through the night!"
This puzzled not just Long, but also Sun Ying and Wei.
Sun Ying: "President Wu, didn't Dr. Lu say to leave tomorrow and he would have people send us out of X Region?"
Wu Xiong looked at his new body and urgently said, "You don't understand shit!"
"It's more dangerous if we let that Lu follow us!"
"And I can't wait any longer, I have to hurry back and test out whether this body works well!"
Long had no choice but to turn the steering wheel towards the suburbs of Yun City.
As darkness fell, Wu Xiong's car soon disappeared into the pitch black night.
...Suburbs.
As they were about to leave the outskirts of Yuncheng, the several people in the car finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Whether it was the clown that had appeared earlier or the female ghost Long had spoken of afterwards, both had left considerable psychological shadows on everyone.
Sun Ying patted her chest and said, "Long, play some music."
"Sure."
The gentle, antique-style music soon rang out in the car, the melody languid, however...
Long subtly knitted his brows, because he did not remember putting this track in his in-car music player.
As a macho man, Long did not like antique-style music.
Suddenly, swish—
Long slammed hard on the brakes.
His action gave the other three people in the car a sudden fright!
No one questioned Long, with everyone first looking out the car windows.
In this already-dark suburb, fog had actually arisen.
"Why would fog come up this late at night?"
"This place really is freaking sinister!"
"L-Long, turn off the music, listening to it in this environment is p-pretty scary..."
Long did not move at all, staring fixedly at their surroundings, saying in a low voice: "Can't turn it off..."
"This music isn't coming from our car at all."
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
