Early the next morning, a phone call from Melzak dug Li Xiaochen, who hadn't slept enough, out of bed and pulled him to the school gate.

A silver-gray convertible Mercedes was already waiting for him. Melzak, who was wearing a pair of purple sunglasses in the car, was smiling and waving at him.

Li Xiaochen yawned and asked, "Say, Dean, call me early in the morning, what's the matter?"

"Actually, I have a little favor that I need your help with. ”

"Oh?" Li Xiaochen asked curiously, "I have no money and no color, what can I help?"

Melzak laughed, "Not necessarily. Cowboy, in fact, you look pretty good. There's a beautiful woman who has taken a fancy to you, and she wants me to take you there. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had any hope of negotiating a contract with her. ”

Li Xiaochen blinked, not understanding the meaning of his words: "I...... Is there any necessary connection to your contract?"

"Yes. I'm in talks with investors to build a theme park in Yinluo City. But the other party made a strange request, saying that he would not continue to talk to me until he had met you. Melzak shrugged his shoulders and looked helpless, "I don't know why I have to see you." ”

"I'm not interested. Li Xiaochen lowered his eyelids and turned around to leave.

What are you kidding? How can I have the leisure to hang out with him? I have a bunch of classes to go to this morning. What should I do if I miss class and get credits? Do you want to graduate?

"Hey, cowboy, don't leave me with a manly melancholy back, then take your lewd little steps irresponsibly, and then leave in a commotion......" Melzak jumped out of the car and stopped Li Xiaochen, "I'm also the dean." You've got to give me face, right?"

Li Xiaochen pretended to be sorry and said, "Dean, it's not that I don't want to accompany you, I really don't have that time." As a man with an iron will in his blood, why don't I want to turn the copper tendons and iron bones of the majestic rivers and mountains into a thousand wisps of soft and tender obsessive love, and melt the iron and stone ice heart of the investor's beauty for you?"

Li Xiaochen sighed with a sad expression: "How can I just be a bumpy and hard-working young man who is lost on the road of life, and he is weak. Plus there are a lot of professional classes this morning. And I have also established a strong teacher-student friendship with the professors. I shouldn't have missed class because of my feelings. Alas, how can I, who have always had a reputation for being a resolute man, stop there...... To live up to the dean's kindness to me......? Alas, this is ...... not to give the dean face."

In the end, he almost burst into tears, choked up and cried, and vividly portrayed himself as a tragic figure in a dilemma—how unavoidable, how helpless, how heartbroken.

Where could the old and sophisticated Melzak not see his tricks?

He also pretended to be sorry and said, "Understood, I completely understand your feelings. Originally, I thought that after negotiating this $40 million project, I would pay you 0.1/10000 to make up for the gap in friendship between you and the professor. Alas, who would have thought...... It's a pity, it's a pity......"

Li Xiaochen, who was already walking towards the teaching building, twitched his ears after hearing his words.

"Dean, why are you like this!" Li Xiaochen turned around and reprimanded him solemnly: "How can the relationship between teachers and students be settled with money? Not everything in this world can be bought with money! Besides, the remuneration of 1/1/1,000 is simply insignificant. You're insulting my relationship with the professors!"

After saying that, he did not look back, and left proudly like a proud petrel flying in a storm.

However, after not taking a few steps, Li Xiaochen, who slowed down his movement, quickly calculated in his heart: 0.1/1,000 of 40 million US dollars is 4,000 US dollars. Even if it is converted into the currency of the country at an exchange rate of 1 to 6, it is still 24,000 yuan! Not 204, not 2,004, but 24,000 yuan!

"Hehe, then, Dean, are you sure it's 0.1 thousandth, not 0.01 thousandth? Or maybe I misheard. Is it actually one in a thousand?" asked Li Xiaochen cautiously as he trotted back in front of Melzak.

......

Driving the car away from the university town, Melzak took Li Xiaochen and went straight to the city center.

"Who is that person? I don't usually know rich people, let alone have anything to do with them," Li Xiaochen searched his stomach and recalled for a long time, and he didn't remember that he had ever met any wealthy and wealthy people.

"The investor is a beautiful woman from Singapore named Tao Qianyun. It doesn't matter if you recognize it or not, be smart later. Don't mess up my project. ”

Li Xiaochen always felt that something was wrong: "Wait a while." Dean, aren't you the leader of our school, why are you doing all this? Is it a side hustle?"

Melzak laughed: "There are thirty-three colleges and universities, sixty-two companies, 1,825 houses built around the world and tens of thousands of subordinate employees. Mei's School of Management: It's just a third-rate university set up to hide the headquarters of the Shadow Department. I still have a lot of properties. You can earn a lot of money every year. ”

Li Xiaochen opened his mouth stupidly, and couldn't help screaming in his heart: **Ah! In these years, the monk drove a luxury car, the priest married a nun, and even the shadow department did not do a proper job, built a school, opened a company, and made a lot of money!

"Those who cultivate immortals should also eat and drink Lazar. It is not possible to sustain itself by relying on the alms of others. A huge Xianlun faction is all supported by the shadow department's money. The Shadow Club not only has to pay salaries and bonuses to its members every year, but also pays a lot of expenses for the Immortal Cultivation Realm. If you don't have money, how can you get things done?"

Melzak turned his head with a smile and said to Li Xiaochen again: "Cowboy, join our shadow department." As long as you are willing to come in, tickets, girls, cars, etc., all of them are available. I can also promise you that the position of the Minister of Shadow in the future will be yours. You'll take care of all those businesses. How's that, are the conditions good enough?"

"This ...... How much do you earn in a year?" However, Li Xiaochen still tried his best to stay calm and couldn't lose his temper anymore.

"Trade Secrets. Melzak smiled mysteriously, "If you really want to know, just join the Shadow Department, and I'll tell you everything." And I will personally guide you in your cultivation and tell you how to use the Divine Thunder Eye Hide. You must know that the peerless learning of the Xianlun faction is the best in the world, and it is definitely the supreme treasure of pretending to be a handsome girl. Do you want to get the thrill of 'destroying a strong enemy in the snap of a finger'? Do you want to be a pretty boy who 'tears down thousands of beautiful women with a smile'? Do you want to ......?"

"Gotta get it......" Li Xiaochen hurriedly stopped Melzak's words, "Dean, why do I think you are engaged in illegal pyramid schemes?"

Melzak suddenly restrained his smile and said solemnly: "Join the Shadow Department, what else do you have to hesitate about? Without my guidance, sooner or later, the Divine Thunder Eye Hidden in your body will go berserk because you don't know how to use it." When the time comes, it's too late for you to cry. ”

Li Xiaochen said: "I don't know if you're tricking me, or if you really want to recruit me. But at the moment I can't do what you want. Because there are too many rules and regulations in your shadow department. Sorry to disappoint you, right?"

Melzak groaned slightly, and said, "You're for Jiang Mi'er, right? If you join the Shadow Club, which doesn't interfere in any family infighting, you won't be able to help her achieve a certain goal." That's why you don't want to come in. ”

Li Xiaochen didn't expect this middle-aged cowboy to be so perceptive and guess his mind thoroughly.

From another point of view, the Shadow Department's ability to gather intelligence is indeed very strong. Otherwise, how would Melzak know about Jiang Mier?

Since he was seen through, Li Xiaochen simply smiled and said nothing, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

Seeing that he was silent, Melzak was not reluctant: "Let me tell you about the Divine Thunder Eye Hide." I think you should know that you have the treasure of the Xianlun Sect in your body. But why is it on you, have you ever wondered?"

Li Xiaochen shook his head in confusion.

"Because I arranged all of this in advance," Melzak said. From the Xianlun faction, he brought the Divine Thunder Eye Treasure to Yinluo City, and deliberately released information so that some people who coveted the treasures of this sect could get the news. And then through them, find you, who finally got the approval of the god thunder eye. ”

Li Xiaochen asked curiously, "Why do you want to do such a thing, and what good is it to find me?"

"Now is the time of the great harvest of heaven and earth. The righteous path is weak, and the evil devil is in charge. The head of this sect stargazing foresees that there will be a catastrophe involving the fairy world, the human world and the ghost world in the near future. The Immortal Wheel Sect and the Four Great Families will definitely be unable to stop the catastrophe. We need an immortal who can help all beings in the world survive the calamity. ”

"And the immortal you are looking for is me?" Li Xiaochen couldn't help laughing, "Save the world?" A lot of novels are written like this. ”

Melzak didn't refute and said, "The god thunder eye chose you, not others. Do you know why?"

Li Xiaochen thought about it for a while, remembering the last time he entered the Divine Thunder Eye Hidden and talked to the Ancient Thunder God. If what Lao Lei said is true, then his previous life was a heavenly immortal?

In his previous life, he sealed the ancient thunder god in the god thunder eye hidden. In this life, I have obtained this divine thunder eye again.

Is this the inevitability of cause and effect, the fate of 10,000 years of reincarnation, or is it a script that God has written for him a long time ago?

Thinking about it, Li Xiaochen felt that the profundity and wonder of the Heavenly Dao were really unpredictable.

At this time, Melzak said: "I can tell you that there is no love without a reason in this world, and there is no hate without a reason. Things that seem to be coincidental all have inevitable factors. In a word, it must be connected by chance. Since Heaven has chosen you, it has its own reason. You have your mission and you have your destiny. I bet you that in the near future, you'll come to me—beg me to let you join the Shadows. ”

Li Xiaochen said a little unhappily: "My fate is in my own hands. I don't like it when people dictate my fate. ”

Melzak laughed: "Cowboy, there are many things you still don't understand. Changing your fate is not an easy task. ”

As he spoke, the car had stopped at the parking lot of the Hotel Tita Hotel. Melzak took Li Xiaochen, under the guidance of the hotel staff, into the luxurious business negotiation room.

It's not the first time Li Xiaochen has been here. Last time, Liu Rongwei held a Hongmen banquet, and he was also in this place.

As soon as I entered the negotiation room, the first thing I saw was a neat and clean white-collar beauty dressed in formal clothes.

She looked between thirty and forty years old. The shade of pink on the face is moderate. The glasses on the bridge of her nose add a bit of intellectual beauty to her.

She was reading the information, and after hearing the sound of the door opening, she raised her head and saw Melzak who was smiling unchangeably and Li Xiaochen who kept a polite smile.

After the greetings, Melzak took the initiative to introduce them: "This handsome cowboy is the Li Xiaochen you want to meet." And she is my investor representative, Ms. Tao Qianyun from Singapore. ”