Chapter 132 - 87: Making It Ashore

Chapter 132: Chapter 87: Making It Ashore

"How are they different?"

Lin Yi pressed.

He only knew that the situation in America was chaotic.

But he didn’t know the specific details.

"Did you know that there are also great tombs beneath the American Continent?"

Luo Qian asked in return.

"Yes, I’ve heard a little about it."

Lin Yi nodded. It wasn’t a secret.

"That multinational corporation sent him to America, and it’s obvious they were after those tombs! But here’s the critical question..." Luo Qian’s voice grew cold. "Whose tombs are they?"

Lin Yi: "Hm?"

He had never really thought deeply about that question before.

Luo Qian said quickly:

"Before Columbus discovered the New World, America had indigenous people, but their civilization was relatively primitive and undeveloped. This raises a huge question—"

"In the Pre-Qin Era, those legendary Qi Cultivators were powerful enough to reshape the world—they could supposedly move mountains, fill seas, and crossing the ocean would have been no difficult task for them! So why didn’t they go to America and spread their civilization?"

"Why are there almost no records of America in the texts of the Pre-Qin Era or later periods? It’s almost as if information about it was deliberately sealed away."

He paused, letting the question brew in Lin Yi’s mind.

Then he continued:

"This can only mean one thing: that land, America, must hold something that even the powerful Pre-Qin Qi Cultivators feared—something they were willing to abandon completely, something they didn’t even dare to touch!"

"In that case..."

Luo Qian’s voice dropped to a near-whisper, laced with a bone-chilling coldness:

"Those massive tombs beneath American soil... if they weren’t left by the Pre-Qin Qi Cultivators... then who, exactly, are their masters?"

"It’s terrifying when you think about it, Lin!"

"Senior Wang Yiming is a top graduate from Demon City Martial Arts University. He has a boundless future, a great life just getting started. Why would he be willing to go to that godforsaken place to die? That’s why he’s dead set on breaking his contract."

"It’s just that..."

"A contract like that is basically an indenture agreement. Once you sign it, trying to get out? It’s harder than climbing to heaven!"

After speaking, he looked at Lin Yi with a hint of concern:

"Lin, didn’t you also sign with a multinational corporation? This should be a warning to you. You have to be extremely careful about the traps in those clauses from now on!"

Lin Yi understood perfectly, but on the surface, he nodded solemnly.

"Yeah, I know. I’ll be careful."

Signing with the corporation was just a cover to deceive people.

It was to explain the abnormality of his Cultivation resources and speed.

Naturally, he wasn’t afraid of these things.

Luo Qian didn’t notice anything unusual and continued dropping bombshells:

"According to the unwritten rules in our circle, the penalty for breaking this kind of sponsorship contract is usually ten times the value of the resources invested. Getting a tenfold profit over four years isn’t a loss for the corporations, and it also doesn’t completely burn the bridge between both parties. So most of them will agree to terminate the contract for that amount and part ways peacefully."

"That’s what Senior Wang Yiming initially thought, too."

"He did the math. Over four years of university, that corporation invested about fifty million in resources on him. With his current strength and the network he built in Demon City, scraping together five hundred million, while painful, wasn’t impossible."

"But just when Senior Wang Yiming confidently took his five hundred million to terminate the contract, he found out he’d been screwed over by those bastards!"

Luo Qian’s tone was filled with indignation.

"’Screwed over?’" Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat.

Luo Qian nodded.

"The corporation had tampered with the contract. If he wanted to break it, he had to pay a hundred-fold penalty!"

"A hundred times?!" Even though Lin Yi had braced himself, he couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath. "That’s... five billion?!"

"That’s right! A full five billion!" Luo Qian nodded emphatically. "That’s an astronomical figure! They have no intention of letting him go! No matter how much of a genius Senior Wang Yiming is, there’s no way he could come up with five billion right after graduation! So, with no other choice, he had to come back to Yang City for help!"

Lin Yi’s brow furrowed tightly.

"He wants to break his contract, but how can Yang City possibly help him in a big way? Does he expect the Yang City treasury to lend him five billion?"

That was obviously unrealistic.

Luo Qian shook his head.

"Everyone is guessing that Senior Wang Yiming came back this time to pass the civil service exam and secure a government position!"

"’The civil service exam?’" Lin Yi was stunned.

He almost thought he had misheard.

’Holy shit!’

’We’re in a high-level martial arts era.’

’Is the civil service exam still that big of a deal?’

’Why the fuck is everyone still competing over this in a high-level martial arts era?’

"Heh, Lin, you just don’t get it, do you!"

Luo Qian gave him a look that said, ’You’re so naive.’

"Of course, passing the exam for a regular government job is useless. But if it’s to get into one of the top-tier, core government departments, that’s a whole different story!"

"Senior Wang Yiming is most likely trying to use Yang City’s help to get into the Huaxia Science Academy!"

"Once he’s successfully accepted by the Science Academy and becomes a key talent at the national level, he’ll be treated as a ’Pillar of the State’!"

"The government will naturally step in personally to intervene with such an obviously unfair, predatory contract!"

"At that point, the Science Academy just has to order the corporation to terminate the contract. Senior Wang Yiming would only need to pay back the resources he used, with interest. At most, it would be a little over fifty million. He wouldn’t have to pay that fatal, sky-high five-billion-dollar penalty!"

"It works like that?"

Lin Yi was stunned.

’Is the Huaxia Science Academy’s status really that high?’

’That’s a massive contract worth five billion!’

’The Science Academy can just say a single word and get it canceled, just like that?’

’And those multinational corporate giants, who usually throw their weight around the world with their noses in the air, just meekly accept it without so much as a peep?’

"What do you think?"

Luo Qian rolled his eyes and scoffed irritably. 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

"Lin, use your brain for a second. Within Huaxia’s borders, who is officially the strongest Martial Artist power right now?"