Chapter 467: Chapter 180: The Ceiling of Cunning Close to Demoniac
In the temporary meeting room set up next to the construction site, Ren Zhong held the first meeting of the New Starfire Resources Company.
Most of the original Starfire Resources staff had already followed the submarine construction to Chromium Carbon Town. Besides the factory buildings being erected here, almost everything was waiting to be done.
Especially, there were almost no staff members at all.
At this moment, the attendees in the meeting room were just Ren Zhong, Wang Zhaofu, Jiang Kai, Zheng Tian, and five others.
But in Starfire Town, there was a shortage of everything except people.
Ren Zhong’s request to Wang Zhaofu was to recruit at least 20 employees by tonight, and then have the old employees in Chromium Carbon Town remotely mentor the new ones, completing basic onboarding training before the official production starts tomorrow.
At the meeting, Ren Zhong established the initial governance of New Starfire Resources. He himself would be the chairman, and Wang Zhaofu would be the executive general manager.
Jiang Kai and the three others each led their respective groups, forming three pseudo-professional teams with one leader and four supporting roles. Ren Zhong would later teach them some tricks to ensure that the resources in the abandoned mines wouldn’t go unused.
Zheng Tian’s team had a new mission, which was to lead a mandate from Ren Zhong to form a cooperative hunting team with a hundred members in the town. Ren Zhong wanted to completely change the survival model of Scavengers in Starfire Town.
Wang Zhaofu’s tasks included personnel management, procurement management, production management, and the maintenance and construction of sales channels...
Ren Zhong was responsible for funding the company and cheering them on.
It seemed like Wang Zhaofu and everyone else had become laborers.
But no one complained, including the high-level worker, Fatty Wang.
In a way, this was Ren Zhong giving Wang Zhaofu a chance to regain citizenship and earn more money to purchase more Anti-aging Potions.
Wang Zhaofu was fully aware of this.
He also knew that while Ren Zhong didn’t manage things in the company, his life outside was far from easy.
Ren Zhong had started from scratch and reached his current level in just two months — it was impossible that he had gotten here by being lazy.
Moreover, Wang Zhaofu had been providing supplies to Ren Zhong for a long time and knew how frequently Chairman Ren updated his gear.
There was only one explanation for this: Ren Zhong trained extremely hard, with an astonishing improvement rate.
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At three-thirty in the afternoon, Ren Zhong and Ma Dafu were sitting in a flying airship heading to Liao Yuan County.
When Starfire Resources moved to Chromium Carbon Town, they processed an exit and automatically lost the agency rights for Starfire Town.
Now Ren Zhong needed to reopen it, which was akin to registering a new company.
According to normal procedures, he needed to register and file with the County Government and the county-level resource recycling company to obtain agency rights for Starfire Town.
If it were a popular major town, a fierce competition would be inevitable.
As of today, the initial secret was no longer a secret. Besides the desolate people of Starfire Town, basically every citizen in Liao Yuan County who paid a little attention to current events knew that Starfire Town was now a well-known abandoned piece that no one would come to contend for, but the necessary procedures could not be skipped.
In the car, Ma Dafu, who had gained a lot of gray hair overnight, frowned deeply and pondered, "Ren Zhong, I didn’t expect that you weren’t lying back then and were really planning to take over Starfire Resources. On behalf of Starfire Town, I want to express my..."
Ren Zhong shook his head, "Old Ma, there’s no need for these formalities. We’re close, just say what you have to say."
Ma Dafu bitterly smiled and shook his head, "But this is just a palliative, not a cure. If you don’t act soon, it might be too late. Recently, I found that the Association has increased the number of Hunters around Starfire Town. This is clearly the handiwork of Mengdu Group and Purple Crystal Mining. Anyway, you have money now, so you can issue temporary wristwatches to the desolate people and get them out. There’s no time to waste; it can’t be delayed any longer."
If it were the past timeline, at this point, Ren Zhong would likely have chosen to lay his cards on the table with Ma Dafu, indicating that there was nowhere else to go, and then fully reveal his strength, expressing his true intention to face the Cold-blooded Butcher himself.
Although he is now a citizen, he was indeed a scavenger born and raised in Starfire Town; he subtly met the assessment requirements.
But after the ordeal with the Level Eight Telekinesis Master, Ren Zhong had gained new insights into the surveillance system of Source Star.
A vested interest holder can sympathize with the desolate people, like Ma Dafu, and nothing will happen.
But if the sympathy escalates to the point of taking life-threatening risks for the desolate people, then things take a completely different turn.
It would be too heretical, too non-compliant, basically akin to when he got into trouble with his words, directly attracting Hunters.
In the previous timeline, when he was candid with the Ma father and daughter, there were two factors why there was no immediate trouble.