Age of Legends

Chapter 281 High-End Business Warfare

Liu Qi grinned and said, "Mr. Huang is truly capable. Huang Huifen was sitting here just now and felt cold. Could it be that your 'Rain Dragon Decapitation Formation' worked?"

Huang Herui said, "That's because you turned the air conditioner up too high. I told you to just blow it on her neck. You didn't need to turn it so cold and make her realize it."

Liu Qi said shyly, "I'm just afraid the effect won't be good."

"That's not how it works... Just creating the right atmosphere is enough. I had you set up the 'Time-Shaking Curse' in this 'Listening to the Rain Pavilion' precisely for this purpose. This so-called feng shui killing formation is meant to interrupt Huang Huifen's luck. She has a strong earth element in her destiny, with the earth dragon rising in power. We'll use this Cloud and Rain Formation to seal her here, combined with the screens on both sides, converging on her main position. This is the Rain Dragon Decapitation Technique. The artificial draft from the air conditioner blowing on the back of her neck will break her protective aura. She'll sit here for half an hour, and then I'll take charge. After that, Huang Huifen's luck will be cut off, and she won't be able to stir up any storms!"

"Yes, she swindled me out of 30 million last time, just as Master Huang said, she's my nemesis. Either she's being suppressed, or I'm being nemesis by her. I had no choice!"

Huang Herui nodded. "You have no choice. The next step is to seize it from her, to take that land from her, to seize her fortune. Yipin Group could be worth tens of billions in the future!"

As the two talked, they described the layout of the room, with screens depicting ferocious dragons soaring through the clouds. The only direction of these dragon patterns was faintly converging on the main seat where Huang Huifen had just been sitting.

The checkered chandelier above the dining table, along with the bronze sword-shaped decoration above it, creates countless prismatic light spots under the light, which fall precisely on Huang Huifen's position.

Chen Yan and Zhou Kai, who were in charge of putting the room's furnishings back in their original positions, were secretly astonished. They were participants who had cooperated with Liu Qi throughout the process, and as they listened to Master Huang's explanation, both of them broke out in a cold sweat.

Thinking to myself, this kind of feng shui killing formation is so intricate, it's bound to silently kill people. Those who don't understand it won't even know how they died!

……

Inside Chen Xuran's red Audi A4, both Chen Xuran and Wang Bowen seemed hesitant to speak, their minds preoccupied. They didn't know how to express themselves, or perhaps they were waiting for Huang Huifen to explain.

Huang Huifen was probably thinking about it on her own, and after thinking for a long time without figuring it out, she ignored Chen Xuran and Wang Bowen and asked Zhang Chen, "Why did you tell me we wanted that piece of land from the textile factory? Oh my god, just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle. That's a huge investment! I don't even dare to dream about that land. How much would it cost to bid for it? At least a hundred million!"

Chen Xuran drove carefully, while Wang Bowen turned around to see what kind of ghost story the mother and son were singing.

Zhang Chen said, "Mom, godmother, from today onwards, whether you announce it publicly or in reality, you should both aim to acquire the textile factory land. Make it a complete performance, and the principle is to make Liu Qi believe that you are determined to acquire that land!"

"Why not? And do you think I can even get that land? Do you think your mother runs a bank?!"

Zhang Chen smiled wryly and said, "What I meant was for you to make a show of it, because if you do that, I believe Liu Qi's real purpose is to take this land from you."

Zhang Chen's words stunned Huang Huifen and Wang Bowen. Chen Xuran, who was driving, kept glancing at his expression through the rearview mirror, just like the Queen of the Women's Kingdom spying on Tang Sanzang.

Zhang Chen had only noticed Liu Qi's odd behavior but hadn't given it much thought. However, once inside the private room, Zhang Chen felt a strong sense of déjà vu. To confirm, he excused himself and went to another private room. He saw that their room had a completely different layout from the other VIP rooms. The patterns on their screen looked somewhat strange, as did the arrangement of the vases and the bronze artifacts on the chandeliers. While Zhang Chen couldn't immediately spot anything wrong, there was a feeling that it had been deliberately decorated.

After all, he had experienced or heard about some of the events in his two lifetimes. Thinking that it wouldn't hurt to do Conan's thing, he made an excuse to go out and investigate the layout of the other rooms on this floor. Only after confirming this did Zhang Chen feel a bit absurd.

What about overturning someone else's company tree and killing its lucky tree at the entrance? What about setting up a trap to ruin their business? What about setting up massive cannons on rooftops and exchanging fire? What about designing and arranging formations to affect the competitor's performance...?

Zhang Chen realized that he had encountered a high-level business battle.

As expected, this was likely a scheme designed specifically for his mother, Huang Huifen. Why Huang Huifen? Clues can be found in past news reports about the Yipin Group. The Yipin Group's main gate has two stone lions specially designed by a Hong Kong expert, and Liu Qi personally attends every groundbreaking ceremony, following various feng shui procedures. Therefore, he is definitely a person who deeply believes in fate.

In reality, people like Liu Qi, who have weathered many storms and accumulated considerable wealth, often develop a certain fatalistic or metaphysical view of this matter as they reach a certain age. Because when they look back on their lives, they inevitably see elements of so-called destiny.

From Liu Qi's perspective, which is based on feng shui and metaphysics, Huang Huifen was truly destined for greatness, soaring to new heights. She turned others' dead ends into gold, bringing good fortune to her entire family. It's also highly likely that she even managed to extract 30 million from Liu Qi, which shook his worldview to some extent.

So today, we're using this method to set up a scheme. Whether we're trying to take advantage of Huang Huifen's luck or disrupt it, it doesn't really matter whether Liu Qi inquires about Huang Huifen's development direction or uses the pretext of cooperation to probe her.

Let Huang Huifen use the textile factory land as a target and see what Liu Qi does. If he's trying to steal the fortune, then he'll swallow the land. If he's trying to borrow Huang Huifen's fortune, then he'll end up with nothing, because Huang Huifen can't develop the land at all, and Liu Qi's whole plan will be nothing but a mirage.

As for the feng shui arrangement he set up today, Zhang Chen didn't care at all. Even if fate existed, neither the other party nor the expert behind him could have predicted that Huang Huifen herself actually had nothing. The real reason for their family's current situation was Zhang Chen's role behind the scenes.

He is a soul that has escaped time and space, so if we're talking about metaphysics, what metaphysics in the world is more mysterious than this?

If Liu Qi and his group wanted to test fate, then he could show them what fate really was.

Facing the gazes of Huang Huifen and the other two, Zhang Chen said, "I don't know if you've ever thought that the layout of today's private room is strange... I've heard before that some people, in order to defeat their competitors, would kill someone else's money tree. There are even many such things in the real estate industry. Two houses compete with each other, one builds a sword to cut down the other, and the other builds a shield to defend against the sword."

"That's not true!" Wang Bowen said, "Even the Rongcheng Department Store has that. They say that back then, the department store faced an elevated highway, creating a 'reverse bow' energy, so they built a sunken plaza to counteract this negative energy. Let's not even talk about now; just think of Li Bing's flood control efforts. He buried a water-suppressing mythical beast in Rongcheng to suppress the Minjiang River's 'water evil' and ensure the plains' fertile land. Later, the beast was unearthed, and Rongcheng suffered torrential rains and floods. Everyone said the 'suppressing object had shifted,' so the government reburied the beast to stabilize the feng shui. Wait… you mean…!?"

Huang Huifen burst into a tirade: "No wonder I felt so cold on the back of my neck! He's trying to freeze me! What is this, trying to make me catch a cold and send me to the hospital? This Liu Qi is such a moron!"

"I noticed that today, his invitation to dinner wasn't about negotiating the operating rights or making any threats. Instead, he mainly wanted to know what land we were getting. I've thought about it: since he's definitely up to no good, let's give him a big one. The textile factory plot is large, and acquiring it would require even more capital. If you just offer it up, and he tries to snatch it, he'll only end up with a huge appetite and be unable to handle it. Otherwise, he'll try to develop it on an equal footing with you, which will also inflate his appetite and might threaten his future cash flow. As for Mom, you can just choose any land, as long as it's not the textile factory. You can choose any land in the surrounding area. When the mystery is revealed, it'll infuriate him for all his scheming!"

(End of this chapter)