Gao Wu: From Martial Arts Student to Star Emperor

Chapter 11 Zhao Jinglan

The next day, before dawn, Chen Lie got up, washed up, and left home with 100,000 star coins in cash.

Arriving at the bus stop, Chen Lie dropped in two-star coins and boarded the flying bus.

The flying bus soared 100 meters into the air, and in just forty minutes, Chen Lie arrived at the designated location.

After getting off the air bus, a towering building, reaching a height of a thousand meters, came into Chen Lie's view.

This is the Riyue Building, the headquarters of the Riyue Group.

"Chen Lie, come here quickly!"

Chen Lie turned his head and saw Wang Hui waving at him from a distance.

"Why are you here so early?" Chen Lie walked towards Wang Hui.

Wang Hui said, "My dad gave me 200,000 star coins to buy some supplements that are suitable for me. Luckily, my cousin has insider connections, which can save me about half the money, so I left home early."

"Okay, then let's go in and find your cousin."

"No, the security at the Sunrise Group is even stricter than that of the military region. Didn't you see that the security guards at their gate are all second-level martial artists?"

"Shall we just wait outside?" Chen Lie asked.

"My cousin got us both a foreign guest card. There's a reception hall on the first floor of the Riyue Building. Let's wait there for a while. We can't wander off."

Chen Lie nodded and followed Wang Hui to the reception hall in front of the Riyue Building.

When Chen Lie and his companion arrived at the main gate, two security guards immediately came up to stop them. Wang Hui promptly showed his foreign guest card, and the guards then allowed them to pass.

Upon arriving at the reception hall, Wang Hui and Chen Lie found a place to sit down.

"I'll tell my cousin."

As he spoke, Wang Hui took out his communicator, dialed a number, said a few words, and then put the communicator away.

My cousin said he'll be there soon.

Upon hearing this, Chen Lie nodded.

A short while later, a man who looked to be in his thirties walked into the reception room.

Upon seeing the man walk in, Wang Hui immediately stood up: "Cousin, how did it go?"

"Pure, unprocessed beast meat is always available, but the supplements you need will have to wait a while."

Wang Hui asked, "Approximately when?"

The man said, "It will take three or four hours. I need to coordinate with employees from multiple departments. Although you don't need many supplements, they are all the best-selling and in-demand items on the market. Even at the internal employee price of Riyao Group, it will cost eighty or ninety thousand star coins."

"Okay, three or four hours it is."

"Okay, I'll bring ten catties of raw exotic beast meat with me. Don't wander around here."

"Okay." Wang Hui nodded and immediately introduced the man, "Cousin, this is my best friend, Chen Lie."

Then, he turned to Chen Lie and said, "This is my cousin, Meng Jing."

Wang Hui's cousin, Meng Jing, looked at Chen Lie and said, "So you're the one who wants to buy the meat of wild, untamed beasts?"

Chen Lie nodded and said, "Yes."

Meng Jing said, "I can remind you that ordinary people cannot use the meat of wild beasts. Even martial artists or people with extremely high qi and blood values ​​are mostly unwilling to use the meat of wild beasts because its meat has violent energy and is difficult to digest and absorb completely."

"I know, I bought it for another purpose," Chen Lie said.

"Alright, you guys wait here for a bit."

After saying that, Meng Jing turned and left the reception room, leaving Chen Lie and Wang Hui waiting in the empty reception room.

As instructed by Wang Hui's cousin, Chen Lie and Wang Hui did not move around and remained almost motionless in the reception room.

"Do I need to wait here every time I buy wild animal meat?" Chen Lie asked.

"No need for that. There's always raw beast meat available. We can take it out when we're cleaning up the warehouse. My cousin even has a lot of it in stock."

The supplements I want to buy will undergo strict screening and cannot be taken out of the Sunrise Building at all; they can only be purchased by internal employees.

Every full-time employee of Riyao Group is entitled to purchase medicine at an internal price once a year, which is nearly 100,000 Star Dollars cheaper than the market price. This is considered an employee benefit.

Once you buy it, you can use it yourself or resell it to someone else.

Employees' internal purchasing privileges are usually used up at the beginning of the year, and it's almost the end of the year, so it's even less likely that any employees will still have their internal purchasing privileges reserved.

However, my cousin is a middle manager, so he can pull some strings and get the employee purchase privileges of those who have already left the company.

Chen Lie said, "Isn't your family quite wealthy? A few tens of thousands of star coins is nothing to your dad, is it really worth it?"

Wang Hui couldn't help but say, "For my dad, tens of thousands of star coins are nothing, but for me, it's enough for me to splurge at the virtual experience center for three months!"

Don't worry, buddy, if I ever become rich, I'll never forget you! After I finish using the Blood Essence, let's go to the virtual reality experience center and have a blast. I'll cover all your expenses for the next two weeks!

Chen Lie nodded and smiled, looking at Wang Hui as if he were seeing his carefree seventeen or eighteen-year-old self from his previous life.

"It's just a pity..."

For him, that moment will probably never come back.

Because he is no longer the person he was in his previous life, the memories of more than fifty years of wandering in the starry sky have dulled his passion. The law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, constantly reminds him to do everything in his power to become a strongman.

At that moment, through a transparent glass wall, Chen Lie saw a tall, aloof woman suddenly walk into the reception room.

"Young Miss".

As soon as the tall, aloof woman appeared, several men in suits came to her side and bowed slightly.

"The group's new nutritional supplement is about to hit the market. A few days ago, I asked you to contact members of the provincial youth prodigy group to endorse the new supplement. How is that going?"

The tall woman nodded slightly and asked in a cool, clear voice.

"Well... I don't know why, but we've contacted two members of the Dongchuan Province Youth Genius Group in the past few days, but they've both refused."

"Then keep contacting other members. If you can't even handle this small matter, is the group just keeping you people around to do nothing? If you delay the drug's launch, resign and leave!"

"Yes...yes!"

The figures beside the aloof woman responded repeatedly, but none of them dared to raise their heads.

The woman walked to the outside of the reception room through the transparent glass and saw Chen Lie and Wang Hui sitting inside. She stopped and asked, "Are there any foreign guests visiting today?"

"I don't think so... I don't think so?"

"should?"

The aloof woman's cold gaze swept over them, and the person who had answered immediately shuddered, quickly changing their tune: "No, there are absolutely no foreign guests today!"

"What's going on with those two people inside?"

The woman's cool eyes looked at Chen Lie and Wang Hui through the glass.

The man in the suit immediately called over the security guard at the door.

"I'm asking you, how did those two people in the reception room get in?"

Although the men in suits were meek and submissive to the tall woman, they were quite imposing in front of the two security guards.

"Reporting to the leader, those two people both came in as foreign guests."

"Nonsense! There are no records of any foreign guests registering to visit the group in the next three days! Where would any foreign guests come from?"

"Well... I don't know, but when these two came in, their foreign guest cards were from the back cabin."

The tall, aloof woman said, "Call the warehouse manager over!"

"yes!"

The man in the suit immediately took out his communicator and dialed a number.

Chen Lie and Wang Hui witnessed everything that happened outside.

The moment Wang Hui saw the aloof woman walk towards the reception room, he broke out in a cold sweat and nervously grabbed Chen Lie's clothes.

"It's all over!"

"What's wrong?" Chen Lie asked, puzzled.

"That woman's name is Zhao Jinglan, the CEO of Riyao Group. She's a regular on our Dongchuan Provincial TV station. She's famous throughout the eight provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi for her stunning beauty and exceptional management skills, and is known as the Pearl of Eight Provinces. Don't you know her?" Wang Hui asked.

Chen Lie shook his head and asked, "So what?"

More than seventy years have passed, and apart from those he knew well, he has almost forgotten everyone else, let alone those he only saw on television in his previous life.

"My cousin is a middle manager. If Zhao Jinglan brings it up because of something I did, he'll probably lose his job."

My uncle spent a fortune, pulling strings and using countless connections to get my cousin a lucrative mid-level management position at Riyue Group.

If my dad found out that my cousin lost his job because I wanted to take a few tens of thousands of star coins as a kickback, wouldn't he skin me alive?

Chen Lie immediately said, "Isn't your dad a municipal-level political and business committee member? Why don't you just have him put in a good word for you?"

"I'm a little confused. Are you making fun of my dad or giving him too much credit? This is the Riyue Group, buddy. It's a behemoth in our Dongchuan Province. Its nutritional supplements and medicines are bestsellers in more than ten provinces across the planet."

This concerns the internal affairs of the Riyao Group. Even if my father were a high-ranking official, let alone a mere deputy mayor, the Riyao Group might not be willing to give him the face he deserves.

Unlike Wang Hui, Chen Lie didn't panic; he simply nodded thoughtfully.