Chapter 192: Who’s in Charge?
Seeing Chu Nan leave without looking back, Carlisle frowned and fell into deep thought.
He originally thought that even if Chu Nan’s martial arts talent was especially outstanding, he was only a young man who was not even 20 years old. It was easy to deal with him, but he did not expect him to be so difficult to deal with.
Earlier, he had spent a lot of effort to persuade Chu Nan to sign this contract, but he refused to let go. In the end, the two of them could not reach an agreement and parted on bad terms.
When he recalled Chu Nan’s unyielding attitude, Carlisle felt a trace of displeasure.
As the director of the Purple Cloud Planet’s branch office of the Noctem Chamber of Commerce’s Earth Federation, Carlisle was only a small figure in the entire Chamber of Commerce. However, on the Purple Cloud Planet, because he represented the Noctem Chamber of Commerce, he could be said to be one of the top figures comparable to the chairman of the Purple Cloud Planet’s council. How many people dared to show such an attitude in front of him?
He immediately suppressed this displeasure.
Chu Nan had received special attention from Lord Rubes. In fact, Lord Rubes had even specially requested the Earth Federation Branch to increase the level of attention they paid to Chu Nan, proving that he had completely attracted Lord Rubes’s attention. Naturally, they could not treat him ordinary.
Moreover, according to the rumors in the Chamber of Commerce, even the top data analyst of the Chamber of Commerce, Lord Elkart, was interested in Chu Nan.
When he recalled Chu Nan’s abnormal personality and his ability to analyze data that completely exceeded his age, Carlisle did not allow himself to underestimate this kid any further.
Facing this young martial artist who looked very weak now, he could not treat him like those ordinary martial artists who had cooperated with the Chamber of Commerce and treat him as a slave of money.
“But how can I convince him?”
Carlisle frowned and looked at the contract that Chu Nan had ignored after throwing it on the table. He shook his head.
The reward marked on this contract was definitely not low.
According to the amount set by the contract, as long as Chu Nan signed this contract, he would immediately obtain a signing fee of 200,000 federation coins. Then, the Noctem Chamber of Commerce would transfer a fixed reward of 20,000 federation coins into his personal account every month.
Apart from that, every time Chu Nan participated in the corresponding experiment of the Noctem Chamber of Commerce, he would be given additional rewards according to the time spent and the difficulty of the experiment. The lowest reward would not be less than 50,000 federation coins.
Moreover, this contract stipulated that the minimum number of times Chu Nan had to assist in research every year was five.
In other words, as long as Chu Nan signed this contract, other than immediately obtaining 200,000 federation coins, he would at least obtain 500,000 federation coins from this contract every year!
To a young man like him who was not even 20 years old, it was definitely a high salary.
Carlisle had investigated Chu Nan’s family background and knew that his parents were only a pair of ordinary farmers on the Purple Cloud Planet. Their family conditions were definitely not good.
Such a contract that could allow him to obtain at least 500,000 federation coins every year should be extremely tempting to him.
However, Chu Nan rejected it and was still unmoved by Carlisle’s persuasion.
The only explanation Chu Nan gave was that the contract did not specify the experiment content he needed to participate in.
Therefore, in his opinion, such a contract was almost equivalent to a slave contract, so he firmly disagreed.
To be honest, Carlisle actually agreed with Chu Nan’s decision and admired his calm judgment under such a huge temptation.
The Noctem Chamber of Commerce had signed almost identical contracts with many martial artists before. Although he did not know very well what experiments the Chamber of Commerce’s research center had done with these martial artists, it was true that these martial artists had lost their freedom from then on.
After all, compared to the huge Noctem Chamber of Commerce, an ordinary martial artist did not have any ability to resist.
However, before Chu Nan, it was not that no martial artist recognized this, but almost all of them chose to continue working with the Noctem Chamber of Commerce and did not have any intention of rejecting.
The reason was very simple. Apart from being able to bring about sufficient monetary benefits, in order to ensure that the martial artists who were experimental subjects could provide better help to the experiment, the Noctem Chamber of Commerce would also give these martial artists some resources related to martial techniques to help them better master them and increase their strength.
No matter how one looked at it, this contract was extremely helpful to them. How could those martial artists with ordinary strength and no future reject it?
Unless this martial artist had extremely powerful confidence in himself and thought that he could become an extremely powerful martial artist without the help of the Noctem Chamber of Commerce, and was definitely unwilling to be inferior to others and be affected and controlled by the Noctem Chamber of Commerce, he would definitely choose to reject this contract.
Chu Nan probably rejected this contract because of this. It was not strange.
“But where does this guy’s confidence come from? He was judged by two Star-Grade Martial Artists to be almost impossible to break through the Cosmic Heaven’s Gate…”
Carlisle was puzzled as the scene of Chu Nan answering why he needed the human data of other martial artists appeared in his mind.
At that time, Chu Nan’s expression was very calm and natural. When he spoke of these things, it was as ordinary as eating and drinking. It was as if in his opinion, what he said was natural and not difficult.
However, Carlisle knew very well that it was already extremely difficult to determine the flaw in his body through a few human data analysis reports to compare the difference between him and other martial artists. It was almost impossible to improve his cultivation according to these flaws.
However, Chu Nan’s confidence prevented Carlisle from feeling any absurdity. He even felt that this was very normal.
It was also because of this conversation that Carlisle realized that Chu Nan might have an even stronger value. In the end, he applied for this contract from the higher-ups of the Chamber of Commerce and planned to confirm a long-term cooperation with him.
However, Chu Nan rejected it.
“In other words… this kid is very confident that he can break through the Cosmic Heaven’s Gate and become a truly powerful martial artist, so he’s unwilling to be restricted by the Chamber of Commerce’s contract. Is this considered arrogant and conceited? Or does he really have the strength?”
Carlisle groaned.
After a while, he slowly shook his head.
“We still can’t be anxious. No matter what, he’s still in the Earth Federation. It’s good to observe more. If he can really break through the Cosmic Heaven’s Gate, it’s indeed worth paying more attention to. However, if he can’t even break through the Cosmic Heaven’s Gate, why waste such precious resources on him?”
Just as Carlisle was about to put this matter behind him, a new message notification suddenly appeared on his personal terminal.
Carlisle looked at his personal terminal and was surprised to discover that this new message was from Chu Nan.
“Could it be that he has changed his mind?”
Carlisle quickly displayed this new message in surprise, only to discover that it actually contained a document.
“Director Carlisle, if you’ve regained your calm now, you can take a look at the cooperation agreement I’ve listed. This is the way I need to cooperate.”
Seeing the additional message behind Chu Nan’s document, Carlisle was first stunned before he laughed.
This little guy had actually learned to bargain with him so quickly!
However, when he opened that document and read it carefully, his expression quickly became serious.
This Chu Nan was not an arrogant person. His confidence was indeed reasonable.