"Mm," Mu Rufeng nodded slightly.
He pulled out a reclining chair, sat down, and then took out a cup of iced milk tea, happily sipping away.
But soon, Mu Rufeng remembered something, "Ah, it seems I forgot to transfer money to Minister Ye."
Mu Rufeng now had a whopping one hundred trillion yuan to his name, and nearly a week had gone by without him remembering to transfer funds to the relevant departments.
Minister Ye must be hopping mad by now.
Mu Rufeng smiled then recalled Minister Ye’s Heaven and Earth Bank card number.
"How much should I transfer?" Mu Rufeng pondered for a bit then directly transferred twenty trillion over.
Transferring a fifth should suffice; that much was more than enough for the people in the relevant departments to use.
In the real world, at the headquarters of the relevant department.
Inside a conference room at the headquarters of the relevant department.
Tian Youdao and Han Chen were both in the office, along with two others, namely Jiang Caiwei and Xu Lian—both eighth-level Ghost Kings.
Nine hours prior, which was at 2 A.M., under the lead of Ye Lin, the two of them had successfully destroyed the channel in the real world.
(As the real world was twelve hours ahead of the Mysterious World, 2 P.M. on January 1st in the Mysterious World equaled 2 A.M. on January 2nd in the real world.)
However, even though the three of them joined forces, they still suffered a bit, as no one expected that there would be two eighth-level Contractors guarding the place.
They also had quite powerful items, but in the end, after paying a small price, they succeeded.
After all, with three against two, the advantage lay with us.
It was Xu Lian who was somewhat unfortunate, having lost a leg.
But it was no serious harm; waiting for Mu Rufeng’s Blood and Flesh Growth Device would solve the problem perfectly.
Despite the success, the mood in the office was unusually heavy at the moment.
Additionally, international news was playing on the television.
Naturally, the news was about how Huaxia’s relevant department led three eighth-level Contractors in attacking an important base in the United States.
To have their say, "exercise" troops were already en route, and this time it was not just one country’s "exercise"; neighboring countries were joining in an "exercise" in Huaxia.
At this moment, the conference room door was pushed open, and Ye Lin walked in, his face devoid of any expression.
"How are things?" Han Chen asked Ye Lin.
"The situation is not good; the pressure is greater than the last time," Ye Lin said gravely.
He had just come from the South Sea, after a long talk with that person.
This time, after all, it was their fault, and they might have to spill some blood.
"What did the person from the South Sea say? Will there be a fight?" Jiang Caiwei asked.
"If we fight, we are not afraid, but we set out without a justified cause; after all, we were the ones who made the move, so we probably need to spill some blood," Ye Lin shook his head.
"Damn, they are trafficking in live human flesh. Doesn’t the international community care?"
"Didn’t we take a video? Can’t those people see?" Jiang Caiwei angrily reprimanded.
"Do you think they care about public opinion? Interests foremost, crossing someone’s financial path is like killing their parents; we have effectively killed their ’parents’," Tian Youdao sighed.
"I think they’ll still demand we hand over the technology for the Login Bracelet," Han Chen said.
"Hmph, even if it comes to a fight, we absolutely cannot hand over that technology," Xu Lian snorted coldly.
"Regardless, let’s go to the seashore first, I’ll talk to them," Ye Lin said.
Ye Lin had been authorized by the person from the South Sea to take full responsibility for this incident, with one point being clear: they could bleed a bit, but they would not give in on core issues, focusing on their leverage over the human trafficking issue.
[Your card ending in 6671 has received a transfer of 2,000,000,000,000 at 11:10 on January 2nd, balance 2 trillion.]
"Ah?" Ye Lin let out three strange exclamations and became completely stupefied.
"Have you been hit? Cursed?"
Seeing this, Jiang Caiwei and the four others were immediately alarmed, going on high alert as their ghostly auras unfurled.
"I... my... card... money..." Even with Ye Lin’s usually unflappable composure, he found it hard to calm his own emotions at the moment.
"What card, what money? What exactly has happened?" Xu Lian asked anxiously.
Ye Lin was the head of the relevant department and the steadying Sea God of Huaxia; if something happened to him, it would really be a serious issue.
"Huff! Huff! Huff!" Ye Lin waved his hands at everyone and then took a few deep breaths, trying hard to regain his composure.
"It’s okay, it’s good news, great news." Finally, Ye Lin managed to calm down.
"Great news? What great news?" Everyone looked at Ye Lin.
"We have money; Huaxia is no longer short of money."
"Two trillion, two trillion, haha, I knew I was right about him; the person from the South Sea was right about him too. He succeeded, truly succeeded." Ye Lin suddenly burst into laughter.
"Two trillion? What two trillion? What happened to Mu Rufeng?" Han Chen was the first to catch on and quickly asked.
"It’s really perfect, right on time. Another coup? I’ll smash them with money," Ye Lin said fiercely.
Although unafraid to confront multiple nations, the Mushroom Bomb was still a threat.
His anticipated outcome, in Ye Lin’s view, would probably just be to pay some compensation to the United States for destroying their channel.
This was an unavoidable situation unless they were truly ready to start a global war.
Even if they had trafficked human flesh, what of it?
"I said, what exactly happened? Can you be clearer?" Jiang Caiwei stepped forward and grabbed Ye Lin’s arm.