9: Chapter 9 Zhang Hang's Winning Over!

Lin Yunfei stepped out of the first training hall, breathing in the slightly chilly air of the outer city.

Even after stepping outside, the heavy metal door behind him still felt like a boiling pan of oil.

Innumerable exclamations, gasps, and whispers could still be faintly heard through the door panel.

In the Star Sea Era, everything was supreme based on data.

With solid battle achievements, Lin Yunfei completely shattered the ironclad rule of the so-called "wasteland is bound to die."

The ten-square-kilometer resource desert not only did not collapse, but instead bucked the trend to hatch a Tier-1 initial transcendent lifeform.

This terrifying level of extreme operational capability made everyone who used to mock him shut their mouths.

At this moment, his title of "Theoretical Number One Genius" not only did not become tarnished from awakening an F-grade Wasteland, but instead was coated with a layer of halo.

With his expression as usual, Lin Yunfei followed the campus tree-lined path paved with white stone, preparing to return to his old apartment.

Deducing the divine kingdom's grand array was far more meaningful than enjoying flattery among the crowd.

"Classmate Yunfei, hold on."

A gentle voice carrying a hint of a smile rang out not far ahead on the tree-lined path.

Lin Yunfei stopped in his tracks and looked up.

A streamlined, extremely expensive magnetic levitation spiritual energy flying car had silently parked by the roadside at some unknown time.

The car door slid open silently.

A youth dressed in high-grade custom silk robes walked down slowly.

He was not in a hurry to speak, but instead very naturally tidied his wrinkle-free cuffs, then raised his head, wearing a spring-breeze-like smile on his face.

Zhang Hang.

The top plutocrat scion from the neighboring Class Two.

The Zhang family controlled nearly half of the starnet low-tier mineral vein mining rights in Tianwu City, and the family commanded dozens of mineral planes under its banner. Its foundation was unfathomable, making it a true capital giant crocodile.

Zhang Hang walked forward, clapping naturally, his eyes revealing undisguised appreciation and praise.

"Brilliant, simply brilliant."

"To be able to play tricks with a ten-square-kilometer wasteland and forcefully squeeze out a Tier-1 lifeform. Yunfei, you have truly opened my eyes today. I, Zhang, admire this extreme squeezing method to the utmost."

Lin Yunfei's face was without ripples, quietly looking at the other party.

"Something?"

These brief two words exuded a calmness that kept people thousands of miles away.

Zhang Hang did not mind this coldness; he knew well that geniuses all had a bit of arrogance, so the smile on his face instead grew a bit thicker.

"Straightforward people don't speak in riddles."

Zhang Hang looked at Lin Yunfei very frankly, his gaze burning.

"I have taken a fancy to your management talent. Or rather, I have taken a fancy to your terrifying computing power and means of coordinating resources."

"Your F-grade Wasteland has an innate deficiency in its origin. That Tier-1 initial lifeform may seem like a miracle to ordinary people, but you and I both know that it must have overdrawn all the foundation and potential of the wasteland."

"You don't have fertile soil, but you have the top brain in all of Tianwu City."

"And as for my Zhang family, what we lack the least is soil and resources for you to trial and error."

Zhang Hang snapped his fingers.

Immediately behind him popped up a glowing blue starnet terminal contract, its light soft and completely non-aggressive.

"Come be a senior guest minister of my Zhang family."

"As long as you sign this contract and go to the outer realms for my Zhang family to coordinate and manage those complicated low-tier mineral vein divine kingdoms, I guarantee your basic annual salary each year will not be lower than one hundred thousand faith points, with mineral vein output commissions calculated separately."

"Not only that, I will also mobilize the family's privileged resources to provide high-grade spiritual energy array infusions for your dilapidated wasteland."

"Even if it is just an extremely barren wasteland, I can ensure its ecosystem does not perish, allowing you to steadily sit in the position of a deity."

In this Star Sea Era, many low-tier deities who lost their potential would ultimately choose to attach themselves to major powers.

Although handing over the divine soul imprint would subject them to great constraints, to an F-grade Wasteland judged by the whole school as a dead end, this condition was already a generous preferential treatment that ordinary people could only wish for.

Lin Yunfei's gaze swept across that shimmering high-grade contract, his eyes not showing the slightest ripple.

"Not interested."

He decisively refused without any hesitation, his voice still as steady as water, without a shred of hesitation.

Rejected to his face, Zhang Hang did not fly into a rage from shame like ordinary prodigal sons.

He was slightly stunned, took a deep look at Lin Yunfei, then nonchalantly waved his hand, directly dismissing the costly contract projection.

"Haha, Brother Yunfei is indeed steadfast in mind, someone who does great things."

The smile on Zhang Hang's face did not decrease by a fraction, actively stepping aside by half a step to make way for the passage.

"If the business fails, righteousness remains. A forcibly twisted melon is not sweet; since you are determined to walk alone, naturally I won't force it. But the door of my Zhang family is always open to you. As long as you change your mind in the future, this promise of a one-hundred-thousand base salary will always remain valid."

Lin Yunfei slightly nodded, preparing to take a step and leave.

"However, as a classmate, there are a few deep words beyond our shallow acquaintance that I still want to give you for free."

Zhang Hang restrained his smile a bit, his gaze becoming somewhat profound and extremely realistic.

"The rules of the starnet are a hundred times more cruel than what is written in books. In the end, the development of a divine kingdom all comes down to the thickness of its foundation and the crushing power of capital."

"The truth in this world is: one step fast, every step fast!"

Zhang Hang sighed, raising his hand to point at the training hall behind him.

"Take your ex-girlfriend Liu Ting for example. Do you really think her Tier-1 late-stage Frost Elementalist was all comprehended by herself?"

"Simply a joke!"

"That was the eldest young master of the Wang family, Wang Han, smashing a full three hundred thousand faith points onto her!"

"One hundred thousand points to buy high-grade Elf Holy Water, one hundred thousand points to lay down a frost law grand array covering the entire territory, and another hundred thousand points used to forcibly mature accompanying high-grade spiritual plants!"

Zhang Hang's gaze revealed a trace of a merchant's shrewdness and a maturity that did not belong to his age.

"In this Star Sea Era, only having value makes one worth investing in. Liu Ting has an A-grade talent, so the Wang family is willing to spend money regardless of cost, and her divine kingdom can grow stronger and stronger like a snowball."

"And as for you, no matter how strong your theory is and how heaven-defying your methods are, how can a ten-square-kilometer broken piece of land contend against the resources brought by three hundred thousand faith points?"

Facing this extremely realistic, and even one could say kind, admonition from Zhang Hang,

Lin Yunfei stopped his footsteps.

His gaze was as profound as an astral abyss, quietly looking at this plutocrat young master who regarded the law of capital as his golden rule.

"Capital is indeed a sharp weapon for rolling snowballs. Resources can indeed forcefully pile up high-tier combat power."

Lin Yunfei spoke indifferently, his tone carrying no warmth.

"But there is one point you guys got wrong."

"Three hundred thousand faith points, and it only smashed out a Tier-1 late-stage?"

"This extremely inferior resource conversion rate is not worth mentioning in my eyes."

Lin Yunfei slightly turned his head and glanced at Zhang Hang.

"Thank you for your reminder. However, I still believe in myself."

"I, Lin Yunfei, in all my life have never been weaker than others. I will rely on myself to break the curse that F-grade Wasteland has no development!"

As his voice fell,

Lin Yunfei did not stay any longer, turning around and striding away, his back upright and resolute.

Zhang Hang stood beside the magnetic levitation flying car, quietly watching Lin Yunfei's retreating figure, a trace of unfathomable thought flashing deep in his eyes.

At this time, the car door of the flying car's passenger seat opened.

A close attendant walked forward quickly, whispering with a face full of resentment: "Young Master, he is just a poor kid born in the slum. Even if he has good luck and squeezed dry the wasteland's foundation to force out a Tier-1 initial, he is destined not to go far. Since he is so ungrateful to you, why must you greet him with a smiling face?"

Hearing this, Zhang Hang put away that gentle smiling face, but did not get angry.

He merely glanced indifferently at the attendant, then said: "Your level is too low. 'Harmony brings wealth.' These four words are the foundation for my Zhang family to firmly act as the banker in the cannibalistic star sea."

Zhang Hang's tone was very light, yet it exuded a maturity far beyond his age.

"To be able to forcibly turn the tables and cultivate a Tier-1 lifeform without a single cent of foreign capital in a ten-square-kilometer wasteland desperate situation. This terrifying mentality and extreme resource coordination method are definitely not something ordinary people can reach."

"Even if he falls in the initial test this time, I won't lose any faith value. But what if he truly carves out a bloody path?"

Looking at the figure gradually disappearing at the end of the tree-lined path, Zhang Hang's mouth hooked up into a meaningful arc once more.

"Make one less mortal enemy, leave one more backup path. Your vision is too narrow; you cannot understand the potential value within this."

"Remember, only people with no value are called trash, and they aren't worth wasting breath on."

"And Lin Yunfei, he has investment value!"

On the other side,

Lin Yunfei walked steadily on the road returning to the slum.

The three hundred thousand faith points of capital that others regarded as precious treasures and needed to grovel to exchange for?

For the Creator who mastered the [Transcendent Breeding] golden entry, what could it count for?

One day in the outside world, ten years in the divine kingdom.

Tenfold prosperity, tenfold explosive production.

Pushing open the iron door of the old apartment.

Lin Yunfei returned to the bedroom, locked the door, and sat cross-legged directly.

His spiritual power directly connected to the creation terminal on his wrist.

Calculating the time, the high-grade fertilizer for that group of Dark Ice Snow Camels on the Far North Ice Field should have completely penetrated into the permafrost foundation of the ice field.

"Load the divine kingdom."

Vision inverted, space leaped.