Chapter 160: This Is Their Actual Plan

Long Country, Tianjing.

Inside an office on the 26th floor of the Yonghui Building.

Liu Qingli sat before her desk, carefully reviewing the reports sent back from the Yingjiang Country branch, along with various information from the news and the internet.

"Yingjiang Country, they actually really yielded?"

Liu Qingli murmured in a low voice.

Although she had long known that Tianqi Group's products possessed immense influence, seeing Yingjiang Country choose to soften its stance under their opposition still left her feeling incomparably shocked.

After pondering for a while, she called Su Xin, and to her surprise, Su Xin answered immediately.

"Qingli, what is it?" A calm voice came from the other end of the line.

"Boss, there is some news I must report to you. Is it convenient to talk now?"

"Go ahead."

"The security audits for both branches have concluded. Yingjiang Country has declared that we have no issues and notified us that we may resume operations."

"At the same time, they also issued a statement welcoming all enterprises to develop in Yingjiang Country."

"Such an attitude can be considered yielding, at least there are no follow-up acts of pressure."

After finishing, Liu Qingli tentatively asked:

"Boss, what should we do next? Should we restore normal cooperative relations?"

On the other end of the phone, Su Xin looked surprised.

He had not expected that after only two or three days, and even before the news about the Anti-cancer Drug had been released, Yingjiang Country would yield like this.

This did not resemble their past tough and overbearing style of conduct at all.

Pondering for a moment.

Su Xin suddenly laughed.

"So that's it. It seems this is their plan to deal with me?"

Liu Qingli asked in confusion: "What plan?"

Su Xin was in a rare good mood and explained carefully: "They knew long ago that sanctioning me was useless, but they did it anyway because they weren't counting on the act of sanctioning to put pressure on me at all, but rather wanted to numb me."

Liu Qingli didn't grasp the meaning for a moment.

But Su Xin did not rush to explain, instead asking suddenly: "There must be quite a lot of discussion about this on the internet, right?"

Liu Qingli said blankly: "Yes, a lot."

"Are they all singing my praises?"

"Yes, the praise is very exaggerated."

A trace of a smile played on Su Xin's face as he said:

"There is an old saying in Long Country: if Heaven wants someone to perish, it must first make them go mad."

"A nineteen-year-old youth, a company under his full control, a single announcement makes the world's most powerful country yield, and on the internet, countless people are praising this youth to the heavens."

"Ask yourself, under these circumstances, would this nineteen-year-old youth not become arrogant?"

"Even if he isn't arrogant enough to think he is invincible, he would very likely believe that no one in the world can do anything to him."

"Most people facing such a situation would not accept Yingjiang Country's painless concession, but would instead continue to maintain a stance of opposition, or even further increase the intensity of the confrontation, making Yingjiang Country and the whole world realize that they are not to be trifled with."

"You also think I would do that, right?"

Liu Qingli replied: "Yes."

Su Xin laughed again.

"However, if I really did that, I would have made a big splash in front of the whole world, but trouble would follow."

"No government would allow an enterprise to be above the government, especially when the other party is the world's most powerful Yingjiang Country."

"An enterprise that possesses the power to influence a country, and is so arrogant, knowing no restraint, no boundaries, and no when to stop."

"This would make all countries wary."

"Everything we possess now is based on the rules of this world, so we must also follow the rules."

"Since Yingjiang Country has yielded, let's just quit while we're ahead; it's good for you and good for me."

Liu Qingli nodded thoughtfully:

"I understand."

"They knew from the start that with the importance of Tianqi Group's major products, suppression was unrealistic, so they used suppression as a pretext to create conflict with us."

"If we yielded, naturally that would be better."

"If we didn't yield, then they would yield, directly sending the Boss's reputation onto a pedestal."

"Normally, a genius who becomes famous as a youth, having achieved such a sensational feat, under the praise of countless people, would almost certainly become arrogant, lose a correct self-perception, and make even more radical decisions."

"In this way, the Boss would arouse the wariness of many countries, and even Long Country would be wary."

"By then, no matter how strong the technology, how abundant the funds, or how large the scale of Tianqi Group is, it would face the dead end of being carved up."

Su Xin laughed:

"That's right. The underlying rule of this world is actually power, and our Tianqi Group has no power at all. Only by acting according to the rules of this world can we manifest influence."

"And once the rules are broken, everything Tianqi Group possesses is just a castle in the air."

"To put it bluntly, we are still not strong enough."

Su Xin's words were not only about Tianqi Group, but also about himself.

Although he possesses the Ten Thousand Times God Speed Ability, because his body is only that of an ordinary person, he can only maintain the Ten Thousand Times God Speed for about thirty seconds at most each time.

Other speed-multiplier Godspeed states could allow him to persist longer, but speeds like three or five times, which he could maintain indefinitely, are far from enough to make him invincible.

His physical stamina is fixed there; no matter how many times the Godspeed is activated, the distance he can run is fixed.

Therefore, his ability can only barely be considered pseudo-invincible; one-on-one, or one-against-many, or facing various predicaments, he can solve them easily.

But if the whole world were his enemy, his abilities could not guarantee absolute safety.

Of course, Su Xin had never thought of making the world his enemy; after all, humans are social animals, and he could not live alone apart from society.

……

Following Su Xin's orders, Liu Qingli issued an announcement the next day—

Due to the company passing the security review of Yingjiang Country, our company has decided to continue maintaining cooperation with Yingjiang Country enterprises.

However, in order to prevent similar incidents from happening again in the future, our company has decided to conduct internal self-correction and self-inspection of all our subsidiaries located in Yingjiang Country and all products sold to Yingjiang Country.

Only after the internal inspection and rectification are completed will the subsidiaries located in Yingjiang Country resume operations, and cooperation with Yingjiang Country enterprises will be restored.

The announcement ended there.

It neither announced the inspection standards nor the time required for rectification.

This clearly expressed the attitude of Tianqi Group—it was neither willing to continue the confrontation with Yingjiang Country, nor was it willing to reconcile so easily.

This attitude made various countries and major enterprises breathe a sigh of relief—as long as Tianqi Group was not so overbearing and unreasonable, everyone's future cooperation would be more secure.

On the contrary, netizens from various countries who were waiting to watch the spectacle felt quite regretful about the anticlimactic struggle between the two sides.