9: Chapter 9 Signing the Contract

"You're asking to borrow money from me?" Fang Yun looked at his deskmate, Wang Xinrou, with a face full of surprise.

The two sat facing each other in a cafe within the virtual space.

Fang Yun had originally planned to leave right after class, but Wang Xinrou suddenly stopped him and said she had something to tell him, so Fang Yun casually found a nearby cafe.

"Classmate Fang, I really have no other choice. The house my sister and I rent is about to expire, and over the years, my sister and I have been frugal and haven't been able to save much money."

"If we can't pay the rent again, my sister and I will end up on the streets."

Wang Xinrou was extremely helpless at this moment, her lively big eyes losing their luster. Wearing only her school uniform all year round had caused it to become somewhat faded from washing.

She and her younger sister had depended on each other since childhood. Their parents died in an accident, and the company's boss also died in that accident, leaving zero compensation.

The Federation only distributed a certain amount of relief funds and ensured they received a normal education.

But for Wang Xinrou, who had awakened her talent, this bit of relief fund was definitely far from enough.

"I remember you awakened the S-grade talent [Heart of Elements], right? Didn't the school give any rewards?" Fang Yun said after weighing his words.

He wanted to ask about the situation first. If there was a chance, this might just be an opportunity!

In his previous life, because he was expelled from the Fang Family, he gradually became decadent afterwards, without a single friend by his side, ultimately ending up completely isolated.

If there had been a few acquaintances to take care of him on the battlefield later on, he wouldn't have died so quickly. Therefore, in this life, he also had a plan to recruit reliable teammates.

"The school rewarded me with two E-grade resource cards, and Teacher Feng also rewarded me with one E-grade ecological card, but it's completely not enough."

"Starting today, my believers have even begun to starve to death, yet I have no way to help them." Wang Xinrou wiped her tears and said with a choked voice.

"Then how much are you planning to borrow?" Fang Yun didn't beat around the bush and asked her straight to the point.

Hearing this, she hurriedly said: "Not much, just lend me 20,000 Faith Points. I need 5,000 Faith Points to make up for the overdue rent, 1,000 Faith Points for monthly living expenses, and additionally to purchase..."

"Stop, stop, stop. You don't need to tell me how you plan to use this money; just tell me how much you need." Fang Yun hurriedly interrupted her.

"Oh, oh, 20,000 Faith Points will do." Wang Xinrou hurriedly said.

Fang Yun took a sip of coffee, then looked Wang Xinrou up and down, making her feel somewhat uncomfortable all over.

"Wh... What's wrong?" Wang Xinrou asked weakly.

Fang Yun put down his cup, leaned forward slightly, stared into Wang Xinrou's eyes, and said: "20,000 Faith Points is not a problem, but I have a better plan here. I wonder if you, my deskmate, would like to hear it?"

Looking at Fang Yun, who had suddenly turned serious, Wang Xinrou said somewhat nervously: "Classmate Fang, what is this better plan you mentioned?"

"Sign a contract with the Fang Family. The resources for your early-stage development will be handled by the Fang Family, and they will make a one-time investment of 1 million Faith Points in you. In exchange, you must join the Fang Family after graduating from university. Of course, your salary at that time will be renegotiated by both parties. What do you think?"

Fang Yun read out his conditions word by word.

Having experienced the incident with Su Qianqian, he would not place full trust in anyone.

He believed in the kindness of human nature, but he would never gamble on people choosing to be kind.

Hearing the annual one million Faith Points offered by Fang Yun, along with the full coverage of early-stage resources, she was already dazed by this huge pie falling from the sky.

The Fang Family? He had previously felt that Classmate Fang's family was very rich, but listening to this now, it sounded like a major noble family.

"Alright." Wang Xinrou agreed without hesitation.

Federal law stipulated that prior to talented high school students entering university, major consortia and family forces were strictly prohibited from contacting them in advance.

Because extremely vicious competition had occurred before, a student from an ordinary family with an SS-grade talent had their awakened talent exposed. Two major families had both taken a fancy to him, but the trouble lay with these two major families; they were bitter enemies of many years, and neither side wanted the other to acquire this genius.

In the end, the side that failed to get him leaked the genius's information, causing alien races to spend a huge price to nip the genius in the bud beforehand, and humanity consequently lost a pillar that might have grown into a cornerstone of humanity.

Ever since then, the Federal Supreme Council passed a special legislation stipulating that during high school, all students' talent testing must be uniformly managed by the Federation's highest intelligent life form, and no forces are allowed to actively contact them. However, students actively requesting cooperation due to their own needs are not within the scope of prohibition.

"Fine, if you don't agree, it's not a problem either. These 20,000 Faith Points..." Speaking up to this point, Fang Yun suddenly raised his head and looked at the other person in disbelief: "You agreed?"

"Yeah, I agreed." Wang Xinrou looked at him strangely. Wasn't this the demand he proposed? Why did he still look so surprised even though she agreed?

Fang Yun's expression was somewhat odd, and he still couldn't help reminding her: "As a price, after you graduate from school later, you will have to work for me and won't have any other choices."

"I know, no problem." Wang Xinrou readily agreed.

Wang Xinrou had lived a hard life since childhood, and she was far more mature than she looked on the surface. Raising her younger sister all by herself, the grievances and bitterness she suffered along the way were too much to be told to outsiders.

She knew her talent was relatively high, but after human development for so many years, the last thing lacking was talented people.

How far one could ultimately go on the Divine Path still depended on whether resources were sufficient, and the aristocratic clans of the Federation had long firmly controlled the vast majority of resources in their own hands.

Some precious resources simply could not be obtained without joining them. What circulated on the market were merely ordinary resources used before becoming a god, and most of truly valuable ones were acquired through barter between Divine Lords.

Her talent was inherently better than others, and she was not someone with short-sighted vision; on the contrary, her choice was extremely wise.

Apart from people with outstanding family backgrounds like Fang Yun, other classmates were also steadily developing their Divine Kingdoms. Once awakened, the Divine Kingdom was constantly developing.

Every single second of the outside world was extremely precious; she had to seize the opportunity to develop as quickly as possible, otherwise she would only fall further and further behind.

Only by developing the Divine Kingdom did one have the qualification to talk about the future, rather than having ambitions higher than the heavens while having a fate as thin as paper.

Looking at the other person's resolute appearance, Fang Yun was greatly surprised, but since she was willing to sign, it was a hundred benefits and no harm to him.

Therefore, he dialed the communication of his father, Marshal Fang Qing.

"Hey Dad, sigh, isn't it because I missed you?"

"Hehe, I actually really have a matter here."

"I've signed a super genius for the Fang Family on my end, and we've already negotiated with them. We'll invest one million Faith Points, and we will bear the early-stage development costs."

"Right Dad, according to family rules, the ones signed by our branch must be reserved for our branch to choose with priority when the time comes. This is my deskmate, you must make sure nobody steals her away."

"Alrighty, I won't disturb you anymore."

After hanging up the communication, Fang Yun directly made an OK gesture to Wang Xinrou: "Done."

Immediately afterwards, Wang Xinrou's communicator received an electronic contract prepared in advance, but just as she opened it and prepared to sign, her wristband popped up a prompt.

"The current wristband version is too low to open the file. Please view it after replacing your wristband."

She explained somewhat awkwardly to Fang Yun. Fang Yun scratched his head and didn't say anything, directly handing his own wristband to the other party to log in.

Very quickly, Wang Xinrou finished the operation. After opening it, she carefully read through the contract and found no issues, then signed her name on the contract.

After the contract was signed, it was automatically filed by the Federal Intelligence, all information was saved, and either party that breached the contract would bear corresponding responsibilities.

Watching the other person finish signing the contract, Fang Yun reached out a hand and said with a smile: "Happy cooperation."

"Happy cooperation."