“The Former Emperor?”
“I didn’t expect your skills to be so lacking, but your ambition is quite something!”
“I’m extorting you right now!”
“And you, you’re trying to recruit me instead!”
“What were you thinking?”
“Do you really think I’m like your followers, someone you can fool around with however you please?”
“Behave yourself!”
“No matter how rich your family is, it has nothing to do with me!”
“Besides, I’m not exactly short on money these days!”
“If you truly want to live, it’s simple!”
“Have someone from your family bring ten world-renowned treasures!”
“Then, I’ll consider letting you off the hook!”
“Otherwise, you can just go back to that void space you were in earlier!”
“You’re a cultivator, after all; you won’t starve if you don’t eat for a few days!”
“Of course, that depends on when your Sun family remembers you!”
“Your cultivation is only at the early stage of the Shaping Mirror, so you won’t starve immediately!”
“But that doesn’t mean you’ll never starve!”
“If your family doesn’t come looking for you for another ten days to half a month!”
“Then I can’t guarantee you’ll still be alive by then!”
Upon hearing Sun Zhibiao’s words, Zhou Xuan was almost amused to the point of laughter by him.
He had initially thought that Sun Zhibiao was just some pampered, dim-witted simpleton!
But he didn’t expect this fellow to resort to such petty tricks at a critical moment.
Not only did he try to build a relationship between them in just a few sentences.
In the end, this fellow even tried to buy him off with money!
One had to admit, if it were someone else.
He might have indeed been fooled by those few words.
After all, who in this world would refuse money?
Especially one hundred billion!
It was a number that many couldn’t even dream of.
Yet, in Sun Zhibiao’s mouth, it sounded so insignificant.
As if he were discussing the matter of a hundred yuan.
What’s more, Zhou Xuan knew that this fellow might not be speaking without basis!
Because with the Sun family’s wealth, which was enough to rival a nation, this one hundred billion might be an astronomical sum to others.
But to them, it might just be a minor exertion.
However, it was a pity that Sun Zhibiao, confident in his eloquence.
Coupled with the vast capital of his influential background.
He believed he had a great chance of winning Zhou Xuan over.
But he hadn’t expected Zhou Xuan to play by his own rules.
After “kidnapping” him, he wasn’t after money.
Instead, he was after treasures!
And he demanded ten rare treasures right from the start!
This immediately put Sun Zhibiao in a difficult position!
It wasn’t that these so-called rare treasures were more expensive than his initial offer of one hundred billion.
It was that he himself was someone who relied entirely on his family’s influence.
He was a mere hanger-on who swaggered around, living a life of idleness.
If it were about money, he had plenty of his own. But when it came to treasures,
He couldn’t produce a single one!
Because he had never been interested in such things since he was young.
His grandfather, however, was very fond of such items.
When Sun Zhibiao was young, he had once inadvertently seen his grandfather.
Multiple times, he had placed items like porcelain and calligraphy behind a secret compartment in his study’s bookshelf.
And considering that his grandfather, arguably the wealthiest person in the entire Shangjing City,
Had carefully collected these treasures, they were definitely of the rare treasure caliber that Zhou Xuan spoke of.
But then again, those were treasures his grandfather had collected for many years.
If he sent someone to retrieve them for Zhou Xuan, what would happen when his grandfather found out?
He would probably beat him to death!
After all, something like this had happened when he was a child.
Once, when his pocket money wasn’t enough.
He had sneakily slipped into his grandfather’s secret room and taken a landscape painting.
He had then gone to a pawnshop and pawned it.
He thought his grandfather, with so many collections, wouldn’t discover it so easily.
Who knew that the next day, his usually doting grandfather would summon him to the family villa.
Then, he tied him to a willow tree and proceeded to give him a good thrashing!
Later, after some investigation, he discovered that the pawnshop he had chosen had betrayed him.
After receiving his grandfather’s landscape painting, the shop owner, knowing his grandfather’s fondness for such items.
The next day, he brought that landscape painting back to the Sun family to present it to his grandfather!
As for the final outcome, it went without saying.
Upon seeing his collection in someone else’s hands.
His grandfather had basically guessed the entire sequence of events.
That beating was arguably the most severe one since Sun Zhibiao could remember!
This led him to never dare to touch his grandfather’s treasure trove again.
But now, listening to Zhou Xuan’s threat, he had to reconsider.
After all, if he were caught by his grandfather,
At most, he would receive another severe beating, but his life wouldn’t be threatened.
However, if he were trapped by Zhou Xuan, his survival would be truly uncertain.
Because he had also seen that this guy was someone who wouldn’t budge an inch.
Most importantly, this fellow was not like the people he had encountered before.
He didn’t have a strong sense of reverence for their Sun family.
As if in his eyes, their Sun family was just a slightly larger family.
No different from the other small families in Shangjing City.
“I wonder if this guy is a local dragon or a reckless fool!”
“But no matter what kind of person he is, the most important thing now is to save my life!”
“As long as I can safely return to the Sun family!”
“Then no matter what I lose now, I’ll have a chance to get it back!”
“Conversely, if I truly starve to death in that place before.”
“Then I’ll have truly lost everything!”
“Since that’s the case, I’ll agree to his conditions for now!”
After a thorough analysis in his brain, which was comparable to a pig’s.
Sun Zhibiao ultimately chose to compromise!
He directly asked Zhou Xuan for a phone and called a trusted subordinate.
As for the content of the conversation, he didn’t say much.
He only instructed his subordinate to, according to his request.
Sneak into his grandfather’s study and retrieve ten treasures from the secret compartment.
Then, come to the Baili family’s territory to find him.
He said nothing else.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, but Zhou Xuan was standing right beside him.
He feared that if he leaked any more information.
He might anger Zhou Xuan and end up dismembered.
Seeing that Sun Zhibiao didn’t take the opportunity to say anything he shouldn’t have.
Zhou Xuan nodded at him with slight satisfaction.
Then, the two of them went to the entrance of the Baili family’s manor to wait for Sun Zhibiao’s subordinate to deliver the “ransom!”
And they waited for the entire afternoon.
Just as Zhou Xuan began to suspect if Sun Zhibiao was playing any more tricks on him.
A low-key business van slowly pulled up to the main entrance of the Baili family’s estate.
Seeing a young man with shifty eyes stepping out of the business van.
Zhou Xuan, feeling a surge of joy, led Sun Zhibiao forward.
He knew that what he wanted had arrived!