"Oh, so you can swim..."
After Lin Qi confirmed, Li Wenkang had a sudden realization and nodded lightly.
With a positive response, he no longer continued to inquire about Lin Qi's family matters. After all... Lin Qi just mentioned that he secretly returned to the country for three reasons: the first two related to the Xia Country Lin Clan, and the other involved some negotiations.
Therefore.
Ensuring no lives are lost during the internal power shift within the Lin Clan is something the Security Bureau should not interfere with.
"Since you can swim, let's get back to the main topic!"
Li Wenkang smiled, took a rugged Security Bureau smartphone from his pocket, opened the recording function, and placed it upright on the table with the camera facing Lin Qi:
"The recording has started now. I will submit your thoughts upward, but as for the outcome, it's not something I, as a researcher, can control."
"Then, Mr. Lin Qi, please answer: how did you enter the country? Did you parasitize Lin Zhe using breeding grafting technology, or did you wrap yourself in an artificial human skin with grafting skills?"
"I refuse to answer." Lin Qi didn't even acknowledge Li Wenkang's first question, outright refusing to respond.
"Second question, the purpose of your smuggling." After receiving a response, Li Wenkang did not dwell on the answer but moved on to a new inquiry as a routine procedure.
The overseas Lin Clan is a colossal entity with various cross-holdings and asset swaps, making it difficult even for ordinary accounting firms to navigate the myriad of interests and inevitably involved in some unspeakable gray areas of business.
The overseas Lin Clan differs from the Xia Country Lin Clan.
The overseas Lin Clan has the shadow of the Longevity Club, and Lin Qi is even a member of the Longevity Club.
"My purpose for returning home is simple..." Lin Qi slightly relaxed his posture, leaning against the couch armrest with a smile of implication, saying:
"Because... I see hope in Xia Country."
"A company is a company, a combination of several companies is a group, and the union or merger of several giant peer groups forms a complex of interests. In the vertical field of their operations, they are like a comprehensive feudal dynasty of great landlords."
"The core of capitalism is appreciation in value. Becoming a landlord or hereditary capital group in finance is one of the ways to stably appreciate assets."
The great landlords of the overseas feudal dynasty completed the division of territories.
"But the nature of capital is its desire for appreciation. Eventually, due to greed, they will devour each other and complete a new evolution."
Lin Qi's words were light, almost weightless.
Yet he depicted a purgatory where, in the not-so-distant future, people will live under various complex interests and become a new type of slave.
Because of Spiritual Particles and genetic editing technology, and the order being monopolized by hereditary capital landlords, people cannot resist or overthrow them,
they can only remain silent, accepting employment, using the wages given by landlords to purchase products sold at marked-up prices, barely covering living costs.
Or, they work four or five jobs a day and occasionally sell blood to buy a cup of new milk tea.
They cannot resist.
Because the upper class consists of spiritualized beings, whom ordinary people cannot challenge.
The catalytic properties of Spiritual Particles aren't just effective on the flora and fauna of Blue Star.
Due to the catalytic effect of Spiritual Particles,
in the future moment, maybe, it might genuinely facilitate the fusion of boundless resources and extraordinary individuals, birthing a concept that exists only as the [Ultimator].
The [Ultimator] concept comes from a science fiction novel.
In the world depicted in that novel, a billionaire who monopolizes all wealth and resources absorbs the atmosphere, oceans, and land, ultimately forcing 2 billion humans into outer space.
"I myself am a member of a complex interest group, so I am utterly certain the probability of the Ultimator appearing is no longer zero..." Lin Qi stated.
Li Wenkang pondered and asked, "So, can we categorize you as returning for refuge?"
"Because considering your words, you are a member of a complex interest group, and in the near future, those complexes will engage in carnage due to capital characteristics?"
"No."
Lin Qi smirked darkly and said, "I didn't come back for refuge; I came to incite revolution, to overthrow the vile capitalism together! Overthrow the capitalist empire!"
Li Wenkang: "......"
After a brief silence, Li Wenkang picked up the phone on the table and said, "Thank you for cooperating. I will report all matters regarding you in full."
The inquiry ended. Li Wenkang closed the recording, looked at Lin Qi, visibly frustrated, and asked, "Do you still have any shame?"
"In the past, someone like you would be the quintessential vampire, displayed in a specimen room for teachers and students to collectively lament your presence, maybe even get a poetic lament."
A leader of an armed cartel (monopoly interest group) saying nonsense about overthrowing capitalism—who would believe that?
"Does face matter?"
Lin Qi waved his hand and said, "My direct descendants and collateral branches of the overseas Lin Clan consist of over ten thousand people; not everyone can survive the business wars of a monopoly group."
"The Lin Clan needs to integrate all resources and set up a haven for the clan members, and find a deputy."
Lin Qi contemplated briefly and smiled at Li Wenkang.
Li Wenkang seemed to understand something, his expression changing as he frowned at Lin Qi.
"Are you... plotting against the Xia Country Lin Clan?"
Lin Qi gave no explanation, picking up a teacup from the table and drinking the tea in one gulp.
Lin Qi got up from the sofa, waved goodbye to Li Wenkang.
"A qualified deputy? Or a shadow patriarch?"
Li Wenkang walked to the windowsill, whispered softly while watching the back of the mixed-race youth, and then...
Li Wenkang laughed because from the second floor, he could see the Old Fox running joyfully with limbs, biting a takeaway box, heading towards the ancestral house.
"Disrespecting the old, encountering naivety..."
"Your Xia Dong specialties, apart from having a foul mouth, are quite strong. Oh, right, I think I forgot to inform Old Lin that Lin Ying seemingly picked up a Guardian Level Spirit Beast and treats it like a beloved son at home?"
"However, he said he knows how to swim..."
Li Wenkang chuckled, remaining indifferent.
No such thing as having all the good fortunes; if Lin Ying weren't so wealthy, she wouldn't have spoiled the fox to have such a picky mouth. The Security Bureau has nine ways to coax Spirit Beasts!
Let alone Old Fox, even his Spirit Beast Gang behind him, they could all be coaxed for a civil service arrangement.
Unfortunately...
Old Fox traveled by private plane.
Even has legal advisors and an accounting team. In some sense..... nationwide Spirit Beasts, he's the wealthiest.
"Need to think of a way to trick him into taking a civil service exam or a postgraduate test." Li Wenkang donned a fisherman's hat, muttered while descending the stairs, grabbing fishing gear before leaving.
Even though.....
He quite wanted to stay and see if Lin Qi would choose to swim back to America or reveal his identity to his niece for clemency...
But he was exceedingly busy.
Still had to rush back to the Imperial Capital later.