Chapter 3150 — Kang Jingming's Scheme
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"Why not?" Ancestor Xuanchen had no interest in the hacker's name; he simply wanted to know whether the person could be persuaded to come out of retirement.
"Because she is the woman of that madman who destroyed the Center back then and killed my senior brother, Dr. Benjamin the First..." Benjamin II's account was muddled, yet Ancestor Xuanchen understood him well enough, and a sudden shock struck his heart!
That madman of years past—of course he knew of him. This man whom people called "Mad Yang" was one of the Twin Vajras who had swept across the ancient strata in those days. A person like that, Ancestor Xuanchen would never provoke if he could possibly avoid it!
The man had vanished, true, but Ancestor Xuanchen still could not make enemies of his kin. If that madman were to pop up again one day, the Five Luminaries Sect might well become the Sect of No One.
So after hearing Benjamin II out, Ancestor Xuanchen dropped the matter outright and asked no further questions about it. Instead he said, "Then what are we to do now? Are we simply to give up?"
"My advice is that you settle this through industrial espionage. So long as you obtain the other side's research data, I am confident I can reproduce it," said Benjamin II.
"Obtain the research data?" Ancestor Xuanchen was briefly taken aback. Suppressing his displeasure, he said, "If I get the data, I can produce it myself. What would I still need you for?"
"You mustn't put it that way. I guarantee you that even if you get the data, you won't be able to produce it. Many of the components on this circuit board are non-standard specifications. Even if you obtain the core data, we could only substitute other existing electronic components, because you simply cannot buy the electronic parts used in this cauldron!" said Benjamin II. "Of course, if you think your Xuandan Sect has the wherewithal, you are welcome to cut us out and go it alone!"
"This..." Only then did Ancestor Xuanchen understand why Benjamin II was so utterly confident. Benjamin II had banked on the fact that the Five Luminaries Sect had no technical talent in this field, and that even with the production data in hand, they could never manufacture it.
"Quite apart from anything else, consider the heat tolerance of this circuit board and these components. Most components on the market today would be ruled out. So the Center's fifty percent share of the profits is no outrageous demand," Benjamin II reminded him.
"Very well. I will do what I can," Ancestor Xuanchen said, and hung up in helplessness.
It seemed he had imagined it all too simple. Ancestor Xuanchen relayed Benjamin II's words to Kang Jingming. Kang Jingming's expression, too, turned shifting and uncertain—but very quickly, he made up his mind.
"Father-in-law, why don't we go straight after Wei Zhao's company or the secular Liu family? Get our hands on their production data and then counterfeit the product ourselves?" Kang Jingming suggested.
"Are you confident? At the very least we cannot seize it openly—it must be done in secret! You may bribe their employees, but you must never resort to threats. Otherwise, the Cultivators' Chamber of Commerce is not so easy to deal with." Ancestor Xuanchen hesitated a moment, then decided to adopt this method as well. The Five Luminaries Sect was, after all, truly poor now; all their funds were tied up in a mountain of first-grade pills too costly to discard, and the little money that had come back in had gone to buy two first-grade automatic cauldrons. This left Ancestor Xuanchen with no choice but to cast about for other ideas.