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The proceeds from salvage activities are always just money, and the most important thing is the connections that the chaebols have and their reputation among strangers during salvage activities. The lost money can be earned back at any time.

The correct choice is to take this loss now and settle the account quickly, but...

Luke crossed his fingers on the table, looked at the smiling Naylan, and narrowed his eyes.

"Although you provided important information that enabled the salvage operation to proceed smoothly, you only provided information. You did not provide any help in salvaging the ship or the foreigner exchange project. You can say that you were unilaterally taking advantage of the chaebol alliance."

"As a former member of Azazel who contributed the most to the smooth progress of the salvage operation, it is only natural that you can get half of the profits from the salvage operation in the tenfold penalty compensation, but your share of the profits needs to be carefully calculated."

"Even if it is ten times, it is only one tenth of the total profit, so the penalty compensation is 60% of the total profit."

"That's a good calculation. This is fine for compensation. If you really take it all away, your subordinates will make a fuss." Neylan nodded, seeming to be very satisfied with the answer.

Luke still squinted his eyes to look at Naylan, and seeing that Naylan seemed to really intend to leave with the contract, he sighed in his heart, knowing that he had to speak up.

"The proceeds from this salvage operation have not yet been used to offset the costs. Only 40% of the proceeds are left. After deducting the costs paid by the various chaebols for this activity, it will definitely cause widespread dissatisfaction."

"Really? Sounds like you're going to be in big trouble."

"Why don't we be frank? No one will say they want to monopolize the business or take more than half of the profits. If anyone does, it's just for negotiation." Luke leaned forward with a blank expression.

"Tell me your purpose."

"There is no special purpose. You know, after you burned my house and destroyed the Abyssion Group, I was left penniless. It would take too long to make a comeback, so I chose to use the funds gained through fairness and justice to build a higher level to start from."

Naylan tapped the parchment with his fingers, half smiling.

"Of course, you can also choose to use this money to invest in a certain chaebol alliance and become one of the decision-makers."

"Which plan do you think is better?"

"The latter is better. There is a ready-made chaebol group now." Luke took advantage of the situation and continued with Neylan's words, "Then how much are you willing to invest?"

"I'll get 55% of the proceeds from this event, and I'll cash out the remaining 50%." Naylan took out another parchment scroll from the lining and pushed it in front of Luke. He was already prepared.

Luke took the parchment and read every word carefully.

This is a new contract, or a letter of understanding, which also contains compensation for betrayal.

In the past, he must have treated this contract as a joke, but now he has to consider it seriously.

As long as there is a legitimate reason, a large number of foreigners will come out for one thing. The first batch of small tycoons whose properties were ransacked by foreigners are a lesson for us.

If this legitimate reason really falls to the big chaebols, no matter the connections and reputation accumulated over the years, or the wealth and power, they will be nothing but chickens and pottery dogs in front of foreigners.

After signing this contract, Neilan will become an irreversible member of the chaebol alliance. If he violates it, he will be severely punished by foreigners.

If you don't sign, you will be subject to severe sanctions from foreigners.

Luke stamped the contract without hesitation. His only comfort was that he wasn't the only one who had to stamp his signature; every member of the chaebol alliance had to stamp theirs on the contract.

"It's a great era now. Everyone abides by the law." Naylan put away the parchment scroll and put it in his arms.

"What if someone refuses to stamp it..." Luke asked tentatively.

Naylan was just laughing, and he caught a glimpse of Guild Master Zero reflected in the blade at his neck, also laughing.

The answer is self-evident.

"It's a pleasure working with you." Luke extended his right hand toward Naylan.

Neylan did not refuse and stretched out his hand to shake it.

……

Naylan and Guild Master Zero left the Luxor Group's Chamber of Commerce building, and several of the other 32 players were waiting outside, fully armed.

Seeing the two men come out unharmed, the Tenth Seat Huo Luo put down the sledgehammer in his hand with regret.

Because of his real job, he has become familiar with the laws of the three kingdoms. Compared with modern society, the laws born in this era are more barbaric, but also more [cool].

If Luke refused without any courtesy and violated the terms of the contract, then it would be legal for him to take back his property by any means.

This means that robbery can be carried out legally, and if personal ability is insufficient, the Knights can be hired to enforce it. This is his personal favorite part.

He felt that people like Luke would definitely become a deadbeat, so before coming, he explained to everyone what they should pay attention to.

For example, in the process of reclaiming one's own property, if damage is caused or people are injured, compensation must be made, and killing is strictly prohibited.

However, the property to be recovered this time is particularly large, so there is no need to worry about the damage to the buildings, even if the entire manor is burned to ashes.

Seeing the regretful look on the face of the tenth seat Huo Luo, Guild Master Ling couldn't help but complain.

"Shouldn't you value peace and make big things small? What about reducing social influence, etc."

"Don't bring your messy bad habits from reality into this world! It won't be clean here!" The tenth guild leader Huo Luo pointed at Ling and shouted.

"Okay, okay." Guild Master Ling shrugged and patted the tenth seat Huo Luo on the back.

"We still have to go to several more places. There will always be one that will be blind. Then you will have a chance."

"Then hurry up and leave."

Neylan looked at the people in front of him who were rushing around and couldn't help but let out a sigh. He no longer felt any fear or disgust towards them. Did this mean that they had become one?

I don’t know if it’s good or bad.

"Then let him get better."

Chapter 1578 Gourmet Continent

World D, or to be more precise, after the first upheaval that ended the old era and opened the new era, became the most interesting and most suitable area for adventure among the foreign population.

As the last fruit of life containing eternal life, the Golden Princess released all her vitality and completely transformed the body of the perfect man Adam that covered the entire World D, turning it into two columns of World D containing infinite vitality.

“Gourmet Continent!”

Blaze stood behind the chicken and couldn't help but raise his hands in celebration.

This is a world that could only exist in a child's dreams, where all you see is delicious food.

Marshmallow-like clouds, cake-like land, and just the right amount of clear river water to relieve the greasiness.

To be honest, Blaze had no idea how such a world came into being.

The strangers accepted this kind of world instantly and happily went in to explore it. A large group of strangers from the exploration team were also stationed here, eagerly making illustrations.

But for the people in this world, this continent of gourmet food is still quite terrifying and completely incomprehensible, so they are extremely fearful and cautious, and even an imported food crisis has occurred as a result.

Just like the cake-like soil, the stranger just ate it directly and was generous enough to dig up the soil cake and share it with others.

At least before the quite authoritative strangers of the exploration team came up with the [Edible Guide], no kingdom territory dared to accept anything from the Gourmet Continent.

Blaze was a little amused by this, but this feeling did not come from him, but from the Black Beast Knight.

In the era of the Golden Kingdom, there was a sad and helpless vicious cycle. Wars were fought for food, which consumed the population to fight for food. However, due to the neglect of land development and prevention measures against bad weather, there was a lack of food, so they had to continue to wage wars.

At that time, almost all the conflicts were focused on the word "food", and one of the perfect aspects of the Golden Kingdom that was praised was that the residents of the Golden Kingdom did not need food.

The way the Golden Princess thought of to make everyone live in peace was to make a lot of food.

If there is unlimited food, everyone can eat and drink their fill, lie lazily on the ground, bask in the sun, and discuss peace leisurely.

This idea is naive, because being well fed and well clothed is the wish and happiness of ordinary people, but those who start wars are often the ruling class who have luxurious clothes and food and have no worries about food and drink.

However, this naive idea has been a very useful conspiracy until now. The wishes and happiness of ordinary people will always be a sharp weapon that can dismember the ruling class.

Unfortunately, the Golden Princess overdoes it a bit, and the world of gourmet food she created scares away ordinary people. Perhaps only children can laugh and smile in front of this world of gourmet food.

But... this delicious land might be too dangerous for children.

There is an iron rule in nature that will never change: the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is; the more delicious something is, the more terrifying it is.

The extremely delicious food continent is also extremely dangerous. An island like the Golden Apple Tree Sea, which has extreme vitality, was constantly attacked by monsters on the first day of its appearance. However, no monster dared to land on such a huge food continent.

Of course, along with the birth of this food continent, there is also the food continent’s exclusive food monster ecosystem and its overlord.

In addition to the unspoken rule that monsters will never offend or invade each other unless it is absolutely necessary, there is another point that is more helpless.

Although this is a gourmet continent for humans, for monsters, it is full of things that are inedible and may be fatal if eaten.

Compared to monsters, humans have many organs that are overdeveloped just to adapt to heavy salt and oil, to the point of being meaningless and a waste of skill points.

Here we have to mention the food-based combat method specialized for monsters that the strangers created. Basically, during the battle, they eat themselves while feeding the monsters, using the monsters' inability to adapt to human food to put them into an abnormal state that cannot be resolved even if they gain resistance skills, until they die.

However, since this fighting method is extremely cruel, and monsters are very vigilant and will not eat anything casually, it is not very popular. It is usually used to forcibly interrupt the monster's roar skill.

Blaze visited the Gourmet Continent, not only because he had wanted to come and see this for a long time, but also because he was planning a teleportation channel built using a temporary teleportation tower.

Unexplored continents like Atlantis that appear in the unexplored world all have a fatal flaw, which is that they are too isolated from the world. Once you leave, even if you know where it is, it will take an unknown amount of time and energy to visit it again.

If there were local natives, they could quickly build hotels and teleportation towers like on the Cyclops Island, but the continent of Atlantis is too extreme.

Although it is a lost kingdom, the only resident of the kingdom is actually Poseidon, the god of the sea and the king of Atlantis.

Although there are traces of a large number of mermaids living there, the mermaids who served as slaves lived in caves at the bottom of the continent of Atlantis.

With so many problems piled up, the difficulty of developing the continent of Atlantis basically all lies in transportation.

As the main force of the development, the foreigners could not stand the trouble caused by the inconvenience of transportation.

In some extreme cases, strangers would use [Emergency Rescue] to turn themselves into a human-shaped teleportation tower, but they would complain afterwards that it was fine for defeating large bosses, but it was too extreme to use it for land development, and they would definitely not want to use it next time.

Herbie, who was sitting in front of Blaze, bit the tip of his pen and drew a route on the map carefully.

Temporary teleportation towers have many flaws, but they also have a huge advantage over traditional physical teleportation towers, which is that they do not require a stable pedestal.

A temporary teleportation tower is a fixed teleportation magic. It is a floating magical creation that can be directly suspended in any terrain.

On the way to the Gourmet Continent, which was closest to the Atlantis Continent, they deliberately took many detours in an effort to choose a safe and reliable route.

It's not allowed in places where monsters gather, and it's also not allowed in places with bad weather.

Of course, it is not possible to float directly on the sea surface. This is a transmission path that is segmented. Strangers may not react in time and fall directly into the sea, so a natural platform is also needed.

"Well, this route is just right, but it requires 32 temporary teleportation towers." Herbie picked out the best route, many of which were small natural islands.

"We need to go to the warehouse for some supplies."

"That's perfect. We have arrived at our destination." Blaze raised his hand and pointed into the distance. On the edge of the food continent of [D-22], there was a huge tower.

Chapter 1579: Salt Crisis

Standing between [D-22] and [D-23] is a giant tower called the [Gourmet Research Association], which combines the functions of an extra-large transmission tower and a research group.

That’s right, this building, which is built at the junction of the Food Continent and the Ocean World and looks like an oversized lighthouse, is also a gathering place for a research group.

The name of the research group is [Gourmet Research Association]. Like the exploration group, it is a large organization formed by foreigners who come together due to their interests. Members are not restricted to whether they belong to a guild or not, or even whether they are foreigners.

In addition to the exploration teams that open up new ecological areas and create illustrations, and the Food Research Association that studies the effects of various foods, there are many other strange research teams. Except for some differences in scale, they are almost identical in other aspects.

When approaching the giant tower of the Gourmet Research Association, Blaze clearly felt that he was being targeted, but the feeling soon disappeared. He probably let the person go after roughly judging that he was not an enemy.

Blaze took a look at the boundary between the two terrains.

The biggest threat brought by the earth-shaking upheaval is undoubtedly the environmental change. After the two special terrains, the vertical abyss and the falling abyss, disappeared due to the exchange of authority between the earth and the sun, the most threatening is the ocean world.

Even if the sea level rises by less than one meter, it will turn into a huge flood in an instant.

Not to mention that the sea level from the ocean world of World F is now on average tens of meters higher than other areas, sometimes even hundreds of meters higher, like a huge ocean wall.

In the two areas of the Vertical Abyss and the Falling Abyss, a large amount of soil and rocks on the ground have disappeared, so the ocean area from World F will be several hundred meters higher.

After the first earth-shaking event, the next few earth-shaking crises were actually all about dealing with the ocean world. Many times, they were able to overcome the difficulties because they were lucky enough to have built barriers in advance, or because they had the help of the Tree of Life and the Ouroboros.

But not all areas need barriers. For example, the Gourmet Continent in World D is at the same height as the Ocean World in World F after the flesh and blood of the perfect man Adam was converted into an ecological environment, so it did not cause any disaster.

"What a blessing."

"Not good at all! This is a catastrophe. The world is going to be destroyed!"

A loud roar was like a slap in Blaze's face, causing the corners of his mouth to twitch. This time, the punishment from the God of FLAG came unexpectedly quickly.

Herbie raised his head and listened carefully to the shouts from the Gourmet Research Association, then immediately raised his hand to block Blaze.

"Don't worry, it's a small matter."

"It's a small matter?" Although Blaze was confused, he still sat down obediently, and the chicken flew slowly.

"That person is the head of the food division of [Hermes's Travel Hat], the halfling Taffy, and also the president of the first and only research group organized by locals, the Gourmet Research Association."

Through the chicken's shared vision, Blaze saw the shouting half-ling Taffy on the giant tower of the Gourmet Research Association.

She is a rather petite girl, with a short stature and youthful looks, which are the physical characteristics of a halfling.