Chapter 1464: Becoming Deeper and Deeper
Chapter 1464 Becoming Deeper and Deeper
There was a glint in Meng Chaoâs eyes. âWhat project?â
âA very, very small, insignificant project.â Shen Yulin said, âI swear to God, I really didnât do anything that would harm the interests of the company or the family. That project was not the focus of Universe Corporationâs work in the first place, and there were dozens of people handling it. Everyone had detailed information on it a long time ago. Even the higher-ups didnât think highly of the project, and it could be shelved at any time.
âUnder such circumstances, it didnât matter whether I was willing to help or not. The other party had a hundred ways to get detailed information. Moreover, ninety-nine of those ways would be much cheaper than going through all the trouble to find me!â
Meng Chao nodded. âIf you had been asked to seriously damage the interests of the group and the family right from the start, you definitely wouldnât have given in.
âFirst, he made you take a few insignificant projects that donât violate the principles. At most, it would be a side project that would make you lower your guard and sink deeper and deeper. Only then would you completely sink.
âSo, you fell for it?â
âI couldnât not fall for it!â
A few scarlet blood spots formed on Shen Yulinâs pale face. âIâm not a three-year-old child. Although the other partyâs tone in the anonymous letter was gentle and he told me to be at ease, claiming that all the evidence had been destroyed, how could I really relax?
âI can guarantee that if I hadnât done as the other party said, this anonymous letter would have appeared on the home pages and forums of all the major media and self-media in Dragon City the next day. I would have become the shame of the Shen family, the shame of Universe Corporation, and the shame of the entire circle of superhumans in Dragon City!
âI, I could only follow that personâs orders!â
âUnderstood,â Meng Chao said.
âWhat happened after that?â
âOn the second day after I helped that person obtain information on the project, he sent me a gift that I couldnât refuse.â
Shen Yulin said, âIt was the poison stinger of a mutated silver rattlesnake.
âBack then, in order to treat my internal injuries, I was concocting a gene reagent. I urgently needed this ingredient. âItâs true the silver rattlesnakeâs grade is lower than that of its close relative, the golden rattlesnake. However, the problem is the number of silver rattlesnakes is even lower than the latter, more so when it comes to the mutated version.
âI searched for a long time in the Supernatural Tower and the black market, but I still couldnât find such the ingredient. I could barely use the poison stingers of ordinary silver rattlesnakes to replace it, and the effects of the gene potion that I concocted were always unsatisfactory.
âIn the end, the mysterious person somehow heard about my plight and directly left the poison stinger of a mutated silver rattlesnake by my bed!â âWaitâŚâ
Meng Chao said, âBy your bed?â
âYou didnât hear me wrongly. It was by my bed!â
Shen Yulin revealed an extremely terrified expression and said in a trembling voice, âCan you imagine how I felt when I woke up and found that a mutated silver rattlesnakeâs venomous stinger had been neatly placed on my bedside table along with a âpassionateâ thank-you letter underneath it?â
âYou must have felt a chill down your spine.â
Meng Chao said, âSince that person had the ability to place the poisonous stinger on your bedside table while you were asleep without anyoneâs knowledge, he obviously had the ability to stab it into your heart too.â
âTherefore, I had no choice,â Shen Yulin said dejectedly.
âAfter that, I helped him a few more times. It was just as you said. It was not important, it did not violate my principles, and it did not hurt anyone. They were just minor matters.
âAnd that person gave me an extremely generous reward every time. Of course, it wasnât sent to my bedroom, but to a public warehouse that we had agreed upon beforehand.
âWhoever it was even took the initiative to help me deal with a competitor in the family, allowing me to get a position that I yearned for day and night.
âDonât misunderstand. âDealâ doesnât mean killing the competitor. Instead, it entails exposing the other partyâs scandal. That way, the other party would have no choice but to leave the scene miserablyâno man is rich without a windfall, and no man is fat without fodder. If superhumans want to reach the peak, they need to have more cultivation resources than others. In the process of fighting for resources, who can remain clean and never be reprimanded by others?
âWhen I saw what happened to my competitor, I was both delighted and terrified.
âI couldnât help but wonder if my competitor received the same anonymous letter as I did, and he made a different choice than I did. Is that why he ended up in a situation where his reputation was ruined? âAfter the incident⌠no, you could say that from the very beginning, I didnât know how this matter should end. âThere were many times that I wanted to reprimand that person in a righteous manner, break away from him, and never listen to his orders again.
âBut I couldnât make up my mind.
âEvery time that person asked me to do something, it was something that didnât go against my principles or betray my conscience Moreover, the rewards that I was given were too generous.
âWhen I got stuck in my latest dilemma, the other party took the initiative to ask for my help for the final time. Since I was always so loyal, that person wasnât willing to make things difficult for a precious friend. From now on, he would completely disappear and never bother my life again.
âOf course, if I ran into any difficulties and wanted to ask for help, that person would definitely do whatever he could to help me.
âAt first, I thought that I was mistaken. How could it be so easy to talk to a mysterious fellow like that? âI was already a fish on the chopping board, but they let me off at the last moment. How could this be possible?
âI was on tenterhooks for months, but whoever it was kept his promise and never showed up again
âIt should have been a good thing.
âBut for some reason, I, Iââ âYou missed the mysterious and powerful
Meng Chao asked, âDo you miss the life where you were rewarded handsomely by helping that person a little?â
Perhaps because the spirit energy that Meng Chao had injected into his body had helped him recover some of his vitality, the red spot on Shen Yulinâs face spread into a cluster of red spots. He spoke with a flushed face, âI would never have taken the initiative to look for him.
âBut, I needed money, a lot of money! âAt that time, I was barely in the middle level of Universe Corporation.
âBefore I climbed to this position, I looked at the âsupervisors, managers, and directors,â all of whom were so well-behaved and glamorous.
âOnly after I really reached the middle level did I realize that this was an unlucky position where I had to suffer at both ends.
âThe higher-ups would only press the target regardless of how many monsters were killed. If the target was to kill a set number of monsters, it would still be possible to complete through gritted teeth. However, it was stipulated that a brand-new crystal lode should be discovered every month. How was that possible?
âThe employees below were not good either. At most, everyone would only spend 30% of their energy on their work. The remaining 70% would be spent on training. Only a fool would think of working wholeheartedly for the corporation and the family. Smart people⌠no, normal people would invest their time, energy, and resources into themselves. They would continue to train and become stronger! âYou canât hit or scold such an employee. If you dared to give him a hard time today, tomorrow, he would train to a higher level and rebuke you until you were drenched in blood in front of everyone. Then, he would leave without a word. In the end, he wonât be the one to take the blame. Instead, it would the so-called middle-level people who were proud on the surface!
âI had enough, and I told myself that if I wanted to do it, I needed to be the biggest person in Universe Corporation. At the very least, I had to be the biggest person in a subsidiary company. I needed to be a high-ranking official who could say whatever I want!
âOf course, it was not easy to sit in such a position.
âFirst of all, the hardest, most important target is the cultivation level.
âAt that time, although I had already stepped into the Heaven Realm, if I wanted to stand alone, I would still be required to cultivate crazily.
âPlus, to not be exhausted or even go crazy during my crazy cultivation, I needed resources that were a hundred times more abundant than others.
âI am a member of the Shen family, but the Shen family is full of talented people. There are many experts, and the internal competition is very fierce.
âAmong my peers, there are already many talented people who have stood out and soared to the sky.
âEven among the younger generation, there are many who have shown astonishing cultivation potential. They are known as the future of the family.
âThe limited resources and opportunities in the family have to be invested into these brilliant geniuses and rising stars. When itâs finally my turn, even dog sh*t will be cold.
âThe path of cultivation is like sailing against the current. If I donât advance, I will retreat. As I get older, the path ahead of me will become darker and narrower.
âIf I donât find a way to break through, Iâll probably have to stay in my position and realm for the rest of my life. No, I canât stay there for the rest of my life. In three to five years, at most seven to eight years, I will be pushed down by the new generation who are getting increasingly aggressive!
âI, I had no other choice but to participate in the gambling
âI wanted to win back a lot of cultivation resources from the black market and try to break into a new realm.
âI didnât expect to lose.
âNot only did I lose all my assets, but I also lost some of the companyâs money.
âAt that point, I was completely panicking. âThe company was about to have a debt. Where was I supposed to find such a large sum of money to fill the hole in one or two weeks?
âOnce the scandal of embezzlement of the companyâs assets was exposed, I wouldnât even have a chance to guard the doors of Universe Corporation, let alone the warehouse!
âI could only brace myself and take the initiative to contact that guy.
âIt was the first time that I had taken the initiative to contact him.
âI thought that he would make things difficult for me.
âI didnât expect him to be so straightforward. He didnât bother with any details. With a wave of his hands, he helped me fill the hole and even supported me with a large amount of cultivation resources.
âThat person even criticized me for not treating him as my friend. Why was he gambling? Couldnât I just ask them directly?
âSince he was so straightforward, it was only natural that I would do him a small favor.
âThis time, that person invited me to deliver a letter to the office of a certain big shot of the Universe Corporation.
âThe request is to deliver the letter directly to the big shotâs desk without anyone noticing.
âI used to be this big shotâs subordinate, and trusted and appreciated me geatly.
âTo be more precise, this big shot was one of my backers in the group. Therefore, I was very familiar with his office layout and his schedule. Even if I appear around his office, it wonât arouse suspicion.
âThe mission wasnât too complicated.
âThere was no need to go against your principles and betray your conscience.
âWithout much effort, I placed the letter neatly on the big shotâs desk and pressed it gently with his favorite monster Fang paperweight.
âAt that time, I did not know what I had done.
âIn fact, until today, I donât know the specific content of the letter.
âBut, but, that night, this big shot killed himself in his own practice room!â