Chapter 762: Chapter 762: Ambush


    Li Ke’er didn’t have much experience in business negotiations, or rather, her experience was limited to casual conversations with her mother and some experiences being taken to her mother’spany.


    As a result, Li Ke’er’s business negotiation experience wasn’t much less than that of professionals, but she’d never truly experienced it.


    When she heard Song Jian entrust her with such a significant task, she was naturally overjoyed.


    However, for Song Jian to entrust such a significant task to an eleven-year-old girl, it could be said that he was taking a significant risk, and the City of Hope Alliance was trulycking in talents in this area.


    For now, they could only let Li Ke’er try her hand, negotiating with one or twopanies first and seeing the results. After making these arrangements, Song Jian went to Dr. Ebsiting’sboratory to see if he hade up with anything newtely.


    As soon as he entered theboratory, Song Jian saw more than a dozen NPCs manufacturing engineering bombs under the doctor’s guidance.


    “Doctor, what is this…?” Song Jian asked somewhat stunned as he looked at the NPCs.


    “These are some students I recruited. The demand for this stuff by the Alliance is too great; I can’t handle it all by myself!” Dr. Ebsiting said with some helplessness.


    “Haha, don’t worry, doctor. Now that we have upgraded to a level-one city, we will soon be able to build a research institute. I want you to lead the research institute. What do you think?” Song Jianughed.


    The research institute is considered a core building in a city. After bing a level-one city, the number of buildings provided by the system are increasingly limited. From now on, city development will be dependent on the guidance of the research institute, and its research will impact the entire city’s development.


    In the City of Sin, the research institute’s ability topete with the City Lord Mansion was due to its unique position.


    “A research institute?” Dr. Ebsiting’s eyes lit up. His currentboratory was too small for him, as many experiments couldn’t be conducted. However, if he could lead a research institute and be its director, the equipment there would be more than enough to validate his theories.


    “But it’s such arge research institute; surely it won’t just be me, right?” Dr. Ebsiting hesitated.


    “Haha, of course not! Don’t you already have them?” Song Jian gestured with his chin towards the apprentices who were manufacturing the engineering bombs.


    “What, you really want me to be the solemander?” Ebsiting was furious.


    “Don’t worry, there will be many researchers in the future. After all, not everyone likes fighting and killing. When the timees, I’ll select some good candidates for you to train. Once they be sessful, you won’t be so busy,” Song Jian reassured.@@novelbin@@


    “Hmmph, that’s more like it!” Dr. Ebsiting snorted and turned away. After a moment, he felt something was wrong. When he turned back, Song Jian had disappeared without a trace.


    “No, Song Jian,e back! In the end, isn’t the whole research institute still being propped up by me alone?” Dr. Ebsiting’s roar echoed throughout Manor Castle.


    “This old guy’s reaction is quick!” Song Jian wiped the cold sweat from his brow and muttered to himself.


    It wasn’t that Song Jian didn’t want to assign people to the research institute; he simply had no suitable candidates. For now, Dr. Ebsiting had to support it by himself, cultivating talent while conducting research.


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    yers who entered were between eighteen and thirty years old, with very few outside that age range. Although there were people from all professions, it was challenging to find researchers.


    After spending a day in the city, Song Jian noticed that while the number of yers in the City of Hope Alliance had not increased, the number of NPCs was continually growing.


    These NPCs were either powerful or had unique skills. Because the City of Hope had sessfully been established, more and more NPCs were attracted to it.


    Many ces where NPCs could be recruited, such as taverns, became increasingly lively. Many yers had their own Followers, and whether doing quests or leveling up, having helpers increased efficiency exponentially.


    After a day, Song Jian opened the Abyssal Gate and returned to Abyssal Hell.


    As soon as he entered, he was greeted with darkness and scorching red light flickering like mes, illuminating only small areas around him.


    “I really admire those yers who have changed their professions to Abyssal ones. To think they can survive in such a harsh environment…” Song Jian pursed his lips, about to head towards the city shown on the map when he suddenly felt an immense threat looming over him.


    Soul Wander!


    With a thought, his body instantly turned transparent, and a barrage of magical energy struck the spot where he had been;


    Boom, boom, boom!


    Explosions covered every inch of ground within several meters of Song Jian. From afar, hundreds of yers relentlessly unleashed various skills on his location.


    This was an ambush. “orld;”>Song Jian had been seen leaving a day ago, and it had given the yers on the Deste Hignd enough time to gather a considerable force.


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    The bombardmentsted for more than ten seconds. Song Jian’s location had sunk more than a foot deep, with a crater more than five meters in diameter at the center.


    “He must be dead, right? No matter how strong he is, he couldn’t possibly withstand the attack of so many yers…” a yer hesitated.


    “He must be. Even if he had an iron body, he should have been blown to pieces, right?”


    “Humph, a mere human dares to run wild in Abyssal Hell. He’s simply courting death!”


    “Do you know his identity? It’s said that he’s the leader of arge Alliance…”


    “Not just any leader, their Alliance has sessfully built a city. The first yer Alliance to do so! It’s all over the forums!”


    …


    Several days had already passed, giving the yers on the Deste Hignds ample time to gather information about Song Jian. The leader of Doomsday City’s primary Alliance and the top-ranked person on the honor leaderboard couldn’t be kept a secret. As for why he came to Abyssal Hell, many yers spected that it was due to a quest, but the exact details remained unknown.


    When the dust settled, everyone slowly gathered around, staring into the massive crater but seeing nothing.


    “Is he disintegrated?” someone guessed.


    “Impossible! Since he killed so many yers in Abyssal Hell and gained so many merits, how could we not get any dropped items after killing him?” someone objected.


    If a yer killed someone from an opposing faction, the drop rate would increase significantly. The higher the merit, the higher the drop rate. With Song Jian’s merits, it would be practically impossible for no items to drop after his death.


    “Did he run away?” someone guessed. “Maybe he has some life-saving skill!”


    Just then, a dragon’s roar sounded overhead, and everyone looked up to see a vague shadow floating in mid-air. A torrent of scorching mes, like a waterfall, poured down towards them.


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