Chapter 940: Chapter 357: Who Doesn’t Like More Money? (2)
Huang Hai was a big-hearted, straightforward guy. He clicked his tongue and said, "Not gonna lie, Leng Bing’s luck is just too damn good. One shot of potion and he’s straight up a Great Grandmaster. Why don’t good things like that ever happen to us?"
"Didn’t the minister tell us before, as long as we become Great Grandmasters or even Transcendent, he’ll let us lead our own teams?"
"I really wanna be a captain too!"
When Huang Hai said this, he didn’t even look at Xu Feng.
After spending this period of time together, everyone on the team already knew each other pretty well.
With jokes like this, lines like that, Xu Feng really didn’t mind.
"Alright, since you want to be captains, then hurry up and improve your strength."
"Stop thinking about that potion crap all day. It’s still better to build your strength up by yourself. That kind of strength that just skyrockets out of nowhere, I always feel like there’s something wrong with it."
"Look at those experimental subjects from before, all dumb as bricks. Any IQ in there at all?"
"Leng Bing looks fine for now, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be sequelae down the line. Strength has always been something you climb up step by step. When you gain it all of a sudden like this, once the backlash hits, I’m afraid you won’t even have a place to regret it."
Xu Feng’s words were simple. These principles were basically obvious; they all understood them.
It’s just that understanding doesn’t mean they didn’t still have thoughts about it in their hearts.
After all, the temptation of your strength spiking overnight... that’s really a bit too big...
No one can say no to getting stronger.
Just like no one can say no to getting rich overnight.
When it comes to strength growth, as members of a team, they’d already gotten a taste of how sweet it is over this period.
Seeing them looking thoughtful, Xu Feng shook his head. "I may be your captain, but I can’t decide what you’re going to do."
"All I can say is, that’s all from me. I definitely won’t choose to use potions. If the minister really opens up usage permission to you, then I’ll respect whatever you choose."
After he finished talking, Xu Feng picked up his phone and started messing with it.
Right now basically all of them were injured. They couldn’t train to increase their strength; all they could do was lie in bed and heal.
Even the one with the lightest injuries would have to stay in bed for at least three to five days.
The others also started doing their own thing, and the room went quiet for the moment.
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"Holy crap, Brother Bei really is Brother Bei. He just got back and he’s already cooked up a huge headline!!!"
"I always thought stuff like ’going undercover,’ ’deep cover,’ that was all decades ago, only happened back in wartime. Never thought we’d still see it today, and in such a bombshell way!!"
"This Leng Bing is ruthless as hell. Lying to people is one thing, but he lied for money too. Two hundred million US Dollars a pop, and he sold it to that many countries. How much money is that, damn?"
"This wave Brother Bei is straight up financially free, damn. No wonder he personally showed up at the press conference to stand up for Leng Bing and clear his name. If it were me, I’d do the same thing. Otherwise wouldn’t that just break your heart?"
"Has no one noticed the strength of this new Team Two captain...? Isn’t Team One’s captain only Half-Step Grandmaster? And Leng Bing is straight Great Grandmaster? With this strength, doesn’t that make him number one under Minister Zhang? Number two in the whole world??"
"Yup, right now the world’s top three combat powers are all in our Great Xia. One Transcendent, one Great Grandmaster, one Half-Step Grandmaster. According to what’s known on the surface, Great Xia already has thirteen Grandmasters, more than one-sixth of the whole world! You can basically say our martial destiny is booming now! And it’s predictable that The Ninth Bureau’s Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters will just keep increasing! Just don’t know if we’ll ever see another Transcendent like Brother Bei down the line?"
"By the way, hasn’t Brother Bei not had a breakthrough in ages? Didn’t he divide several realms after becoming Transcendent? Before, Brother Bei was hitting a whole new realm in under a month, but now it’s like totally radio silence?"
"Yeah!"
"Seems like it!"
"You don’t say, you really don’t say,"
"Mm, true, I almost forgot about that."
"No no no, you’re all wrong. Minister Zhang Beixing has actually already leveled up in secret. You guys just don’t know it."
One commenter said that, and even specifically attached a video.
The video was an edit put together from the clips uploaded on Zhang Beixing’s personal account and The Ninth Bureau’s official account, then analyzed.
It clearly listed out all the public videos of Zhang Beixing making a move after becoming Transcendent.
Based on the strikes in the videos against different objects and the fights in different scenes, it analyzed power and speed and all aspects.
It pulled out the videos from when Zhang Beixing had just become Transcendent and compared them with the latest combat video.
The difference was clearly shown.
That last time Zhang Beixing made a move was about half a month ago. The video wasn’t posted from his own account, but it was uploaded on The Ninth Bureau’s account.
It’s just that The Ninth Bureau’s account didn’t have nearly as many followers as Zhang Beixing’s side.
Right now Zhang Beixing already had over seventy million followers, but The Ninth Bureau account barely broke one million.
According to this netizen’s comparison video, Zhang Beixing’s combat power had increased by at least seven or eight times.
Of course, it was also possible that he wasn’t using full power in the earlier videos, but the gap in the comparison was obvious to anyone with eyes. This strength increase was definitely not just a tiny bit.
"Based on the video comparison, we can judge that Zhang Beixing has either gone up another level and broken through to the second realm of Transcendent, or Minister Zhang is already at the absolute peak of the first realm and is about to have a breakthrough."
"Anyway, long story short, Minister Zhang’s strength is two whole versions ahead!"
"Back when Minister Zhang was a Great Grandmaster, the strongest in the world were only Grandmasters."
"When Zhang Beixing became Transcendent, the only Half-Step Grandmaster was also from The Ninth Bureau."
"Now we even have a Great Grandmaster. Still Ninth Bureau, but at least we have one. And Minister Zhang’s strength has jumped again."
"So I’m willing to call Minister Zhang ’the man who is one entire tier of the meta ahead’!"
"..."
A lot of people watched this video.
Very quickly, marketing accounts picked it up and spread it everywhere.
The whole internet was screaming "win so hard it’s insane."
And the person at the center of all this was currently sitting in his office, smiling as he took a call from Zhang Delin.
"I really have to thank you properly this time. Before this, I had no idea how to wipe that stain off Leng Bing. In the end you handled it for me like it was nothing."
Although Zhang Beixing was smiling, his mouth didn’t let it slide.
"Boss, you can’t put it like that. What do you mean I handled it like it was nothing?"
"Do you know how tiring it is to hold a press conference? I had to stand up for Leng Bing, nab that walking five hundred grand, control public opinion, and still make sure the effect actually cleared Leng Bing’s name. You have any idea how hard that was for me?"
Zhang Beixing smiled as he complained.
Counting off just how tough he’d had it.
"Alright, alright, quit whining. I’ve already put in a request upstairs to increase your department’s budget by forty percent for next quarter. Happy now?"
"Your quarterly budget is about to catch up with a third of my entire region’s! How many people do you even have in your department?"
"On average, one person in your department costs me more than ten people on my side. What more do you want?"
"Hahahaha, thanks, Boss." Only then did Zhang Beixing beam with joy.
No kidding.
Yeah, he was good at generating revenue, but who doesn’t like having more money?
With this budget bump, it was basically like getting back everything they’d handed in before. Mm, this wave felt real good.
