Twisted Dreams-Chapter 138 - 110: Conception of the Demon Exchange
South Sea, Half-Mountain Villa, Study Room.
A black crow is cawing in the room:
"No money, no money! The hospital is out of money!"
This crow is just an ordinary crow in the Black Emperor’s Crow Legion, carrying the Black Emperor’s magic.
It can only deliver messages, with no other abilities.
Its mention of money refers to the Angel Harbor Hospital running out of funds.
Angel Harbor Hospital is a Demon Club industry.
On the surface it’s a hospital, but its main task is to serve as the experimental base for Kong Qianqiu.
Kong Qianqiu’s gene experiments burn through money every second, yet it’s difficult to catch up with the God Creation Organization’s experiment progress.
After all, the founder of the God Creation Organization, Leon Jin, is a genius and a master in genetics, his knowledge certainly rivals Kong Qianqiu’s.
Moreover, Leon Jin is considered an international big capitalist, his perspective is broader than Kong Qianqiu’s.
It’s just like the gap between a wealthy heir scientist and a civilian scientist, even if they have the same knowledge, their vision differs.
Now Kong Qianqiu’s experiment is facing dual difficulties.
One is that the experiment has hit a bottleneck, no matter how they try, a breakthrough is impossible.
This is normal, as Leon Jin’s decades of research outcomes can’t be matched in just a year by Kong Qianqiu.
Another is that gene experiments are extremely costly, burning through an ordinary person’s lifetime earnings in just one day.
Li Yang had considered the expense of gene experiments, but he hadn’t realized how expensive it really was.
For an orphan like him who was just an ordinary person a year ago, poverty limits the imagination.
It’s understandable, as the lab’s funds are mostly supported by the Emperor Nightclub’s revenue.
And the Emperor Nightclub is merely one of Zhu Dajun’s industries.
If Zhu Dajun, a South Sea underground kingpin, could sustain the God Creation Organization’s experiments, then their research outcomes wouldn’t be worth much.
Kong Qianqiu’s experiment is soon approaching the point of being unable to operate.
In terms of financial power, the business-expansive God Creation Organization is still far superior to the Demon Club.
Li Yang stroked the crow’s head, his gaze mysterious, unclear what he’s pondering.
Suzu entered holding a tablet:
"Li Yang, my membership has expired!"
Li Yang tapped the crow’s head:
"See, even it says there’s no money."
Suzu puffed her cheeks and sat on the floor:
"Hmph! I checked, a membership is just twenty bucks a month, nowhere near as expensive as a car!"
Li Yang replied indifferently:
"Oh, busted."
Suzu glared angrily with wide eyes:
"Is that how you admit your mistake?!"
Li Yang didn’t speak, his eyes remained fixed on that ordinary crow.
Suzu pouted:
"If you miss Little Crow, call him back, why did you chase him away?
Poor Little Crow didn’t even know he was leaving home, who’s the one who tricked him to the ruins." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
Li Yang touched the ordinary crow’s beak, saying:
"The Demon Club isn’t unbeatable, today’s Demon Club doesn’t even qualify to be exposed to the public.
If the crow remains in its current state, its future will be dangerous."
Suzu retorted with disdain:
"Increase strength? Isn’t it just leveling up and controlling the Demon Race? Just give him an order!"
Li Yang shook his head:
"I raised him, I know him, he likes being clever.
Only by pushing him will he truly improve.
Maybe when he becomes the Demon Race Emperor, he won’t want to come back.
Leave, until you’ve completed the task I gave you, don’t ask me to renew your membership."
As Li Yang spoke, a black flame appeared in his hand, lightly touching the crow.
The crow’s eyes turned deep, its wings flapping as it flew out of the villa.
Suzu grumbled discontentedly, like a little complainer, hugging her tablet as she left.
Actually, if she wanted a membership, even if a month’s membership were as expensive as a car, she could afford it for a hundred years.
Numerous people in the Demon Club want to curry favor with her, even the underground female boss—Master Snake is one.
But, she insists on asking Li Yang for it.
Whether it’s food, drinks, or entertainment.
Li Yang picked up a pen again, marking black dots on his notebook absentmindedly.
The notebook carried a few words: Demon Exchange.
Li Yang lit a cigarette and pondered.
Kong Qianqiu currently has two troubles.
One is the experiment encountering a bottleneck, needing more pioneer experimental data.
That’s not hard.
Leon Jin’s lab is now in the South Sea, Li Yang knows its location too.
Just let Du Yangming find this foreign old man.
From the moment Leon Jin arrived in the South Sea, he became prey for Li Yang.
Keeping him till now was precisely for this moment.
If Leon Jin never came to the South Sea, never left abroad, Li Yang would really struggle with him.
Even if Leon Jin was in other cities of Xia Country, Li Yang couldn’t touch him.
But Leon Jin came to the South Sea, and the South Sea is Li Yang’s territory.
As for the funds needed for the experiments, the Demon Club should accelerate its growth.
In concept, the Demon Exchange is a subsidiary of the Demon Club.
In today’s gradually developing Extraordinary Civilization, where authorities are eagerly pursuing it, the market for the Extraordinary Industry can be opened up.
Selling Spirit Plants, selling the fruit of the Tree of Human Essence, selling Spiritual Artifacts, even selling Demon Club membership and Desire Potion.
Sure enough, the sold Desire Potion can’t be a complete dose, only portions of it.
Moreover, the Demon Exchange can purchase desires.
To Li Yang, what the Demon Exchange sells is not priceless.
After buyers pay the price and become extraordinary, they’ll provide spiritual power to Li Yang.
This is not a buy-low-sell-high business, calling it extraordinarily profitable is modest.
The Demon Exchange is a high-functioning pharmacy, a semi-public institution.
The Demon Exchange can create more extraordinaries and earn more wealth.
More importantly, the Demon Exchange can indirectly expand the power and connections of the Demon Club.
The Demon Club is Li Yang’s foundation for controlling the Extraordinary World and Mortal World.
Recently, with spiritual energy revival ongoing, the Demon Club has stalled.
The Demon Club is Li Yang’s foundation in this world.
Li Yang’s gaze grows mysterious, his deep eyes like the bottom of an eerie lake, suppressing ambitions, he murmured:
"Spiritual energy revival and the Demon Club’s development must progress simultaneously.
Sooner or later, as the Extraordinary Civilization thrives, the Demon Club will be exposed to public view.
By then, the Demon Club will be the strongest force on Blue Star.
Major extraordinary influences, various countries’ officials, will call the Demon Club a Holy Land."
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South Sea, South Sea Medical University Affiliated First Hospital.
A newly married couple walks out of the hospital doors.
A serene woman looks very downcast, muttering as she bows her head:
"There’s nothing wrong with me, nor with you, why can’t we have a child?
Isn’t something wrong with the hospital’s tests, is there an undiscovered issue with me?
Shouldn’t we visit the Imperial Capital and check it out?"
The man looks at the woman’s guilty appearance, heartache piercing him.
He knows it’s not the woman’s issue, likely his own problem.
Because, he is a vampire.
