"But even if we increase it to five hundred thousand, the Enforcement System over there definitely won't agree ah?" One President's mind was still comparatively clear. "The Aurora City has market supervision, our listed price is too outrageous, they will certainly send people over..."
"Those bottom-level Law Enforcers, whoever comes, send fifty kilograms of Coal over to each of them, whether they use it themselves or increase the price to sell is all up to them. For the Enforcers, for every additional stripe send an additional one hundred kilograms, no need for them to do anything, just slightly delay the time a bit is fine."
Yan Shang fished out the Train Ticket from his pocket, unhurriedly speaking, "Our train, still has three hours before it departs... Under this current situation, three hours, is enough for us to clear out all inventory."
"But, but what if they don't accept it?"
"Don't accept?"
Yan Shang smiled slightly.
Boom——!!
The next moment, the main gate of the lounge suddenly exploded into pieces, giving the two Presidents a jump from fright!
Amidst the flying dust, a Black-Haired Woman was currently standing quietly outside the door. Behind her, was a tall and large man whose entire body was like stone pieces. Through the doorframe one could only reluctantly see his chest, his overall height should have exceeded three meters.
"My Stars Chamber of Commerce, has already suffered heavy damage once... Originally thought we could only tuck our tails and leave dejectedly, now the heavens finally gave me an opportunity to turn things around..." Yan Shang picked up the Tea Cup, faintly speaking,
"Whoever blocks me from doing business, whoever dies."
...
Wisteria Coffee Shop.
The Lord of the Aurora coughed for a long time, finally easing up somewhat. He casually picked up a piece of rag frozen hard beside the table, wiping the bloodstains on his hands, his expression incomparably exhausted.
"Are you alright?" Chen Ling couldn't help but ask.
The Lord of the Aurora didn't answer. He merely silently threw the rag into the trash can. His attention returned anew to the coffee currently being brewed, seeming like this was exactly the only thing he cared about now.
Outside the window occasionally transmitted noisy clamoring and fighting sounds, seeming like someone was crying, seeming like someone was wailing. Chen Ling turned his head looking over. On the Glass fully frozen with ice frost he fundamentally couldn't see clearly what happened outside, only knowing they seemed to be fighting over some things.
And inside the coffee shop, it was still quietly peaceful, only leaving the sound of the Lord of the Aurora brewing coffee, and the whimpering of the cold wind flowing past the door crack.
"Do you like adding a bit more milk or a bit less?"
"...A bit less."
After a while, the Lord of the Aurora then carried two cups of coffee, sitting down at a position near the window.
Chen Ling sat opposite him, taking over a cup of latte pushed over by the Lord of the Aurora. The rich coffee aroma drilled into his nasal cavity. At this moment, he seemed to dream back to before the Great Cataclysm, sitting anew in the coffee shop amidst the high-rise buildings, looking at the pedestrians and vehicles coming and going outside, a moment of peace and tranquility welling up in his heart.
The Lord of the Aurora took a sip of the coffee in the cup. That pale face finally recovered a trace of vitality. His mouth corner slightly rose upwards, same as Chen Ling seeming like he was reminiscing about something.
"Although I feel not much time has passed... but drinking this mouthful of coffee, indeed has a long-lost feeling spanning across time and space."
"Over three hundred years of deep sleep, is it still not long?"
"To the people outside, it is indeed long. To me, it was merely sleeping a bit." The Lord of the Aurora picked up the coffee, just as he was about to drink down the second mouthful, he found that the coffee in the cup had already been frozen into an ice cube, thoroughly adhering together with the cup body.
Bitterness emerged in the Lord of the Aurora's eyes. Helplessly and reluctantly he put down the coffee cup. Looking at the Glass fully frozen with cold frost, he lightly spoke,
"Who knew, waking up from a sleep the world then turned into this appearance... And I, am also about to die of old age."
Chen Ling looked at the Lord of the Aurora's blankly staring face, still maintained at an age of less than thirty years old. Speaking as a doctor, he was absolutely young and handsome, but it was exactly a person like this, who soundlessly and motionlessly missed his own second half of life in his sleeping dreams.
Waking up from a sleep, the world had already turned upside down, and his own life had also walked to its end.
"Are you... married?"
"No." The Lord of the Aurora paused for a moment. "However I had a fiancée, she was a colleague in our unit. Originally we were already preparing for the wedding, as a result..."
The Lord of the Aurora didn't continue speaking, and Chen Ling had already roughly guessed what happened, similarly not pursuing the question.
"So, even if you have already Advancemed to Rank 9, you also have no way to extend your own life?"
"Extend life?" The Lord of the Aurora shook his head. "A human is exactly a human, a human's lifespan is limited. Even if it's hibernation, it also didn't extend our lifespan, it merely delayed my speed of aging... but I will still have that day of dying of old age."
"But the people of the Aurora Base, used over three hundred years trying to extend your life."
"...Perhaps." The Lord of the Aurora's expression was somewhat complex. "In fact, the Aurora Base's mission is far more than just this bit... Extending my life, is merely one of the attempts they made for humanity's continuation. And besides this, they also have many kinds of attempts,
For example man-made aurora Domain; for example... recreating a Lord of the Aurora. They would extract my genes, going to carry out artificial insemination, attempting to clone a Lord of the Aurora using this form... Or else, injecting a part of my cell tissues into organs found from elsewhere, trying to duplicate a part of my power and so on... In short, they have tried all the ways they can think of."
"Them doing these, did they pass your consent?"
The Lord of the Aurora took a deep look at Chen Ling. "These plans, were jointly proposed by me and them before my deep sleep..."
"...But they still failed."
"That's right." The Lord of the Aurora sighed. "Perhaps it cannot be said as completely failed. During this process, they also had a bit of harvest, but on the overall situation it didn't have much effect... They were unable to analyze why I possess this power, and also unable to perfectly duplicate a Lord of the Aurora capable of opening up a Domain, sheltering the entire Aurora Domain... Similarly, they were also unable to extend my life.
However this also cannot blame them. Before my deep sleep, there were already people who had tried these... Even with the scientific and technological level before the Great Cataclysm, it was also impossible to accomplish all this. The hibernation plan was exactly our helpless choice after we had no way out back then.
We could only pray that time could bring us a miracle, but as time flowed by, the scientific research level was also continuously regressing. The difficulty of the experiments would only become larger and larger. In the end... still gaining absolutely nothing."
The Lord of the Aurora slowly put down the coffee. The coffee cup frozen into a block landed on the desktop, emitting a muffled sound. The air suddenly plunged into dead silence.
He looked at the hazy Glass window, suddenly laughing bitterly,
"So, humanity's Way Out... exactly where is it?"