Fatal Shot

“Sister Rui?”

Feng Luo was really surprised when he saw that the person who walked through the automatic door and took off her SUV combat uniform to change into smart casual wear of a white shirt and a light yellow short skirt was Sister Rui!

“Little Feng, I can’t believe it really is you!”

When Sister Rui saw Feng Luo, her surprise was no less than his. However, after the expression of recognition, it looked like she had expected it.

“Looks like the two of you know each other?” said Lin. “Then, that’s great. Miss Wu, Mr. Feng is our company’s adventurer partner. On matters related to the potion, I’ll leave it to him to discuss with you. I still have an experiment that I need to attend to.”

Upon seeing that Feng Luo and Sister Rui knew each other, Lin did not show any hint of curiosity. Instead, as she saw that she was not needed, she just left the two at the side as she turned around to return to her laboratory.

It was, indeed, true. A genius young woman with extremely high IQ. However, her EQ might be in the negative.

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Sister Rui stood there and looked around at the small hall across the laboratory that was separated and asked Feng Luo, “You started a company?”

“To be precise, this is a real commercial company in the game, not like the companies of players,” Feng Luo explained.

He had just signed an agreement to “sell his body,” which meant that he and Lin had just jointly registered a company with the Federal Government. So, to say that he’d started a company would be correct. However, under normal circumstances, when players talked about “companies,” what they really meant were players’ guilds.

“Oh, that’s right. Let’s forget my small in-game company. Talk, Sister Rui—you’ve never told everyone just what it is you do. In the end, you’re actually one of the higher-ups of the Huan Yu Company!”

Feng Luo had already read through some of the information Lin had sent to him through the terminal, so he already knew who Sister Rui represented and in what capacity. She was the person in charge of the Huan Yu Company in the Storm City region.

Feng Luo suddenly understood why Sister Rui had so much rare gear on her that even normal rich people couldn’t afford. The Huan Yu Company and the Starry Sky Company were both equipment trading agencies, and they mainly targeted high-end players. At the same time, they had their own auction houses in various large cities in War, and they were relatively famous throughout War.

However, compared to the Starry Sky Company, which had always firmly sat in the first-place spot in the industry inside War, Huan Yu Company was still some ways behind. The main reason was that they’d started in the game a bit later, and the first batch of important clients had already been affiliated with the Starry Sky Company. Any latecomers to an industry would have it tough if they wanted to challenge the entity dominating the market at that moment.

However, Huan Yu Company was not just any company. It was because, in reality, it was a core business of the subsidiary company of one of the top three family-run conglomerates in the entire 17th Administrative Region, the Mu Rong Conglomerate.

Although it was a family-run conglomerate, the Mu Rong Conglomerate had accumulated great wealth. Even in the entire Star Federation, it was ranked in the top 1,000. A conglomerate like that certainly had the capability to challenge the Starry Sky Company.

As for Sister Rui, who was one of the higher-ups of the Huan Yu Company, it wasn’t odd for her to become a Diamond VIP member of the Nightless City club.

The only thing was that the Starry Sky Company was also uncommon. Although it was only a small business, in reality, due to capitalizing on the excellent opportunity after entering the game, setting up the stage in advance and successfully taking the market share, it had now already become the go-to company for many big conglomerates interested in the industry.

And recently, they even made it to the top 20 rankings across the Federation. Their wealth and capital could even be compared to countries, as it received capital injections from another family-run conglomerate, the Xiao Conglomerate!

As such, neither organization lacked money, and they had probably already started a price war in reality. The only thing was that War wasn’t a place where money could solve everything, especially for middleman agencies and auction companies that went the high-end equipment route. To attract high-end customers, they needed items that could really attract attention! Rare gear, rare skills, Boss core crystals...

To average players, these things were valuable; however, for wealthy players, they were clearly not all that rare! After all, even if half of the two billion players were all pure life profession players, and if only one in 10,000 combat profession players managed to get one rare piece of equipment from their kills per day, the daily rare equipment production was still 10,000 pieces. This was also why the price of the highest-class rare equipment in an international all-inclusive game similar to a “second world” was only worth around 10,000 Star Coins.

Of course, if it were really top-class rare equipment, the price would be quite high. For example, the Death Ripper and the Barrett would be over a million credits. As for core crystals of Bosses above Level 50, it was highly likely for them to reach a price of over 10 million credits in an auction!

“In truth, when Lin contacted me earlier, I had suspected that the potion would be related to Little Feng, you.”

“It’s because the stats of the W-series Enhancement Potion that Lin showed me was extremely similar to the T-virus Enhancement Potion that we received in the Roguetown mission previously. Moreover, didn’t you say last time that you were going to bring the Enhancement Potion to a Master-level NPC to conduct research? That’s why, after getting this information, I specifically came here myself.”

“The first thing is that the company takes an Enhancement Potion like this that can permanently increase stats very seriously. Secondly, I also wanted to know if it were really connected to you.”

Sister Rui smiled as she lightly put her blonde hair blocking her eye behind her ear.

“It’s just that I didn’t imagine that not only is the potion related to you, but you actually started a company with an NPC.”

“Good luck. Triggered a special mission.”

“However, I’m only a hard laborer of this company,” said Feng Luo as he forced a smile. “I still have a headache here, trying to solve all these problems.”

In the previous agreement, Feng Luo was not only the “raw material” (yes, apart from being the test subject), and he also had to invest 30 million credits and be in charge of communications and sales negotiations with adventurers. Also, he owned 25 percent of the shares of the joint venture!

The ratio was incredibly low. However, Feng Luo knew that this was definitely an incredibly lucrative deal. The system probably wouldn’t have let the player have any chance to increase the ratio further. As such, he signed without any opinion.

But Feng Luo still felt that he overestimated the price of the Enhancement Potion. He would never have been able to predict back then just how much benefit and return the small 25 percent share he owned had brought him.

It was because the length and importance of this Epic mission were far longer and more important than he’d thought.

And there was a saying: “Time is money!”