Chapter 1384: Chapter 522: The Poisoned Apple (Part 3)

Grune swallowed hard and cautiously asked, "How expensive is it exactly? Can I afford it?"

Liu An laughed heartily, "You don’t need to worry. Your little project is insignificant compared to the real computational power needed. You don’t have to buy the whole thing. As for how much it’s going to cost..."

Liu An mentioned a figure, and Grune almost had a heart attack on the spot.

The reason was simple: the number matched the maximum liquidity the Augustus family had ever possessed, which was now transformed into three hundred sets of instruments in the Academy of Sciences.

"Earl, you know that just to start this venture, I’ve exhausted the family’s assets. How could I possibly come up with this money? Earl, if this succeeds, it could suppress your adversaries. Could you sponsor this?"

Grune’s sharp instincts immediately identified the crux of the problem.

To him, it was a huge sum, but to Liu An, it was merely a drop in the ocean.

Unexpectedly, Liu An simply shook his head, "It’s inappropriate. If a large amount of money transfers from me to you now, I would technically be your investor. Even a gift wouldn’t work; no one can maneuver such a substantial fund without catching the eye of the Empire’s Ministry of Commerce. If in the future you go to arbitration court and a parachuted arbitrator like Wen Yuanbo is brought in, your chances of winning might be slim. So, you have to rely on yourself. Besides, once you succeed, regardless of how much you invest now, the returns could be ten thousand or even a hundred thousand times. Why not take a gamble? Although Viscount Nan Jiu is out of liquid funds, you still have quite a few fixed assets right? If you sell them at a slight discount, you should be able to liquidate them quickly, right?"

Liu An provided Grune with a feasible solution.

Grune didn’t hesitate much.

He didn’t care about squandering or not; he only cared about his life.

Thus, after the two hung up the call, Grune immediately listed a large number of his assets on the Ministry of Commerce’s public platform for auction in a relatively short period of time.

To his surprise, as soon as these assets were listed, hundreds of external consortium forces immediately entered.

These hundreds of consortiums, located in various Star Zones within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, united to form a sizable financial investment company, devoured all the assets he listed in one go.

Thanks to the Empire’s Ministry of Commerce’s exceptionally high efficiency, the buying and selling contract quickly took effect, and a large influx of cash followed.

Grune signed a supplementary contract with Liu An ten minutes later, then transferred the funds over.

Liu An told Grune not to panic, that the results would show within five days at the latest.

True to his word, a seemingly inconspicuous piece of information returned across most of the Ancient Disk Galaxy to the Southern Nine Star System within just five days.

Grune, feeling conflicted, brought the simulation’s calculation results back home to his Academy of Sciences, placing the results before the two great contributors, Vittel Haddon and Sera Augustus.

Originally, this calculation yielded some results, but they didn’t reach the ultimate destination; rather, they advanced Vittel’s Electron Bombardment Method and Sera’s Magnetic Field Traction Method by a considerable margin.

Vittel and Sera each thanked Viscount Nan Jiu, took their findings back to their respective project teams, and began a new round of theoretical derivation and experimental validation.

Meanwhile, Grune simultaneously shared the simulation results with two hundred other groups.

Three months later, the verification concluded, proving that both the Electron Bombardment Method and Magnetic Field Traction Method were feasible with a very high success rate.

Grune and his clan uncle were caught in a dilemma.

Both routes had extremely high success rates but neither was absolutely certain.

This means that neither path could be abandoned; they had to proceed down both.

A new torment arose.

Vittel pointed out that as the scale of the atomic clusters expanded, the existing electron stream bombardment equipment could no longer meet the demand and required externally customized, entirely new High Rank equipment.

Sera’s situation was similar; she needed larger scale, wider control range, and higher precision micro variation magnetic field hub equipment.

Grune was drawn deeper into this toxic apple, unable to extricate himself.

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