The Geared Immortal

Chapter 425

/*unedited*/

Two weeks later…

The town of Haisong which is a rural and desolate town suddenly became lively. Hundreds and thousands of people began to enter the town as a large factory was built on the outskirt. The people in the town became lively as the industry within it suddenly boomed.

The town mayor and officials were thoroughly joyed at the appearance of the factory and the rise of people entering the town. This growth has significantly made the town became lively especially at night.

Meanwhile, the Li clan has fully supported Li Qintang in his project and began sending their experts to develop further their own Mech Frame project. They named their own mechs as Jinshulong.

Since the Lis had a large background they have contacts with the military and now the military was involved in the construction of the new mechs. The military on the other hand already has a contract with the NXT Element Company, but the price for that one was a bit higher than what the Li is offering, so they decided to do a dual contract. They would decide to buy from both parties.

Everything was really fast and the action of the Li clan made a huge ruckus even in the capital. Many other clans wanted to join in with the project and offer the Li clan a huge advantage just to get their hands on a piece of advanced tech. And because of greed for power and money, the Li clan decided to negotiate a combined venture making the clan be involved in the project.

The days have gone by peacefully in city H and the NXT Element Company. The lives of Shin Jiao, Susan Tang, Shi Anne Li, Park Jiyong, Marie Eleanor, and the little Duan Ying were peaceful and productive.

On the third week, one night Shin Jiao received a call from a mutual friend, Princess Mary Anderson of Bail Kingdom.

'Hey, Brother Shin! How have you been? You seem to be really busy that you don't have time to call me…' Mary said on the other line.

"Haha… Yes, a lot of things have happened. How are you?"

'I'm doing fine… I'm doing a bit of leisure shopping and going around while dragging some royalty brat… Haha…'

"Really? Is he your… brother?"

'Nah, he is someone from an Empire on the other side of the portal. We already have contact with the people on that side and discovered a lot of wonderful things… I wish I can share it with you some of these days, but the bratty prince is dragging me around…'

'Hey who are you calling bratty prince, you old hag!' suddenly a young voice appear on the other line.

'Haha… see, see… call you later brother Shin, I need to punish this brat first…' Mary said as she hangs up.

Shin Jiao shook his head with a chuckle. Mary is a high-level mage and is very powerful in her own aspect. Being a body would really suit her. Shin Jiao chuckled at this thought.

Suddenly, a message pop up on his screen, and Shin Jiao crunched his brows upon reading it.

The message has a link to a social media site. Upon clicking the link he saw a picture which almost made him laugh.

The message came from Lin Qintang, as one of the powerful clans in the country, it was easy for them to find his phone number, and hence they are able to contact him. Upon seeing the mech on the picture, Shin Jiao wanted to commend the Li clan for their effort.

Plus he wanted to applaud them for their persistence and ingenuity for creating such massive beast. The mech on the picture is twice the size of the Mech Frame they are creating. But of course, Shin Jiao wanted to laugh his ass off to this dumb idea. Unless it is a fortress, that size is just target practice to even a normal soldier carrying sabot rounds, RPGs, and other explosives.

What he gave them is a water down version of the rune command program. It would not be able to support the speed of a normal person's movements. Plus the weakness of steal is evident. Hence he is not worried, everything will be shown in front of the whole country or even the world when the time for the duel against his Mech Frame and the creation of the clans.

But what Shin Jiao didn't expect is the tenacity, pride, and arrogance of a clan.

Thus a few days later, the Li clan began to do a press release of the upcoming battle between the Li clan and the NXT Element Company.

Shin Jiao and the rest of the employees are watching the news report on the TV screens inside the company.

'Mr. Li Qintang, you are saying that the NXT Element Company is not the only company who were able to produce such advance fighting robots?'

'Yes, that is right… plus they have the guts to challenge our Jinshulong unit, within a next week everyone can watch the bout between our mechs and theirs, let's see who can win…' Lin Qintang said with confidence.

'Oh, that would be a spectacle to watch then… Where is this going to happen?'

'Well, I don't know, you can ask them…' he said with a shrewd gleam on his eyes.

"That bastard is really looking for his own demise."

"He dared challenge our company? We will see what they got."

"Haha… they didn't know how strong our Mech Frames are… I'm glad that those stupid pricks would be shamed for stealing our tech."

The NXT company employees were riled up upon hearing the words from Lin Qintang.

'Umm… I'm just curious… how did you get the technology? I mean I saw that the NXT Element Company was the first to produce such advance tech…' the reporter suddenly asked.

Everyone in the conference became silent as the rest of the reporters also wanted to know the answer to this question.

Lin Qintang showed a clever smile on his arrogant yet handsome face.

'As you can see we are a company that is in business for a long time. And that small company has just come out of nowhere and is in business for a short time… so what do you think?'

This made everyone began to discuss one with another the hidden meaning from Lin Qintang's words.

'Thank you for your attendance that is all…' he suddenly said as he stood up while the reporters are clamoring to ask more questions.

Those who have seen the video began to discuss and had a bad impression of the NXT Element Company right at this moment. This is because what Lin Qintang has said has some backing on it. The Li clan is involved in many businesses and one of those is advanced technology research. Hence it is common for people to think that the NXT Element Company may have stolen the tech.

Suddenly, along with this news, many people began to claim that the other products of NXT Element Company are actually stolen from other people. Hence the online forum began to erupt with many criticisms against the NXT Element Company.

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Inside the NXT Element Company conference hall, a meeting with the managers and executives of the company is being held.

"These people are too much… what should we do?" Shi Anne Li who has a younger perspective and mind suddenly blurted her emotion out.

Everyone in the room knew what happened to her so they didn't mind her saying those words.

However, everyone was at their wits end on what to do next. Many of their suggestions were rejected by Susan Tang, hence they fell silent.

Marie stood from her seat and gave everyone a crafty smile. When they saw this Goosebumps run through their body. This only means that the shrewd COO of the company has thought of a plan and they think it would be something domineering as per her usual attitude.

"Everybody worries too much… as you can see we are above out quota in sales for this year already by 20%... even if we sell only half it would not affect our company's resources. But the user of our products has higher demands for it. This is especially true with our free AI program SLIA, the download alone in our country has reached millions, if we add it to other parts of the world, then we are about to reach billions already… and now we have announced the development of the SLIA figures. What do you think would happen if we announce that we would stop production due to public slander? Hihi…" she explained in confidence.

'OMG, there she is again… I knew that she would think that way…'

'No way, I won't let that happen. I can't wait to have an SLIA figure. If those people stop this it would mean war.'

'Oh, no! I want my own SLIA figure… this is not good… I need to spread this out.'

The employees began to whisper and mumble to themselves. They knew that what the COO has told them would be realized once the slander online and in public would not stop.

Hence at that instant, everyone in the meeting room began sending messages to their accounts about the decision.

When it appears online, the whole forum was turned upside down.

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