Chapter 63: The Investment Invitation

Chapter 63: Chapter 63: The Investment Invitation

Liam stopped talking to Nirvana and turned to speak softly to Elijah:

"Hey Elijah, is there anything you particularly like to do?"

Elijah was a little startled: "What do you mean?"

Liam sat up, rolling his neck, and answered: "For example, Brother Benjamin likes filming and photography; Sister Isabella likes crocheting handicrafts; I like farming, cooking, and doing business."

Elijah rested his chin on his hand, thinking for a moment, then shook his head: "I don’t really know if there is anything I particularly like. I mean, I’m studying dance right now, and I don’t feel like I love it, but I don’t hate it either."

He rubbed his chin thoughtfully, and added: "Sister Isabella taught me to crochet, but I only find it interesting, I don’t have the patience to finish an actual item."

Liam let out an "oh" of understanding: "Perhaps you haven’t been exposed to the thing you truly like yet. Like Brother Benjamin and Sister Isabella, it wasn’t until they were exposed to filming and doing handicrafts that they realized they loved them."

Elijah asked curiously: "How did you convince them to listen to you? You have to know that up until now, their responsibility toward the family’s property has always been very heavy."

Liam smiled, recounting everything from when he found the two siblings to the events that happened afterward. Elijah listened with great interest. He leaned close to Liam, beginning to ask questions about everything under the sun. His pale face gradually regained a rosy hue; although still a little white, it was no longer terrifyingly so like before.

Mr. Hall and butler Levi saw this and both secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, they rejoiced a little too early. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

At noon during lunch, Elijah suddenly had a violent reaction to the minced star-beast meat porridge. He had barely looked at the bowl of meat porridge before his face turned pale white, followed by violent dry heaving. Ultimately, his lunch was resolved with a tube of high-grade nutrient fluid.

By late afternoon Elijah began running a fever. He ran a very high fever, requiring the doctor and the nurse robot to be on duty 24/7. Mrs. Hall and Alexander both took time off to stay at home, while Mr. Hall had to go to the Vanguard planet to attend an emergency meeting.

Elijah had a fever for two days and two nights. Everyone in the house had dark circles under their eyes, their expressions visibly haggard. Liam was pregnant so he was forced to go rest; despite being very tired, he still occasionally jolted awake in the middle of the night. He rubbed his forehead, saying to Nirvana:

[It was me being too hasty, forgetting that Elijah is still a fragile Omega no matter what.]

Nirvana said bluntly: [Host, the problem is not whether he is a fragile Omega or not, but that a normal person encountering such a situation would also be terrified to the point of doubting life. Tell the truth, you have tortured someone like that before, have you not? You have killed someone before, have you not?]

Liam affirmed: [Never. I was quite scared too, but not to the point of being unable to bear it like Elijah. I feel that even if ten more Jacksons were standing in front of me, I could still slice every piece of flesh off his body without changing my expression.]

Nirvana: [...] Its host had truly turned dark. Too terrifying!

Actually, Nirvana still did not know that Liam had even wanted to let Elijah kill Jackson with his own hands. But at the last minute, his own reason had awakened this brutal thought of his. Elijah was only an Omega in a glass cage, not an Alpha going to the battlefield to kill the enemy. If Liam let him truly kill someone, it would mean adding another obsession to him.

When that time came, Elijah would truly break completely.

Because Elijah was sick, Liam’s return plan was delayed for a few more days. During this time he still maintained contact with Daniel and Logan to supervise the work remotely. In addition, he also monitored the soil terraforming progress through the connection with the Robots at home.

The gas burning stage to terraform the atmosphere on Logan’s planet had entered the final phase; they only needed to wait two more days to be able to bring the machinery down to plough the soil and mix the microbial compost.

The new batch of compost Leonardo sent last time was very large; Liam had taken half of it to compost and they were currently mature. He set an order for the Robots to pack half of it into crates and leave them at the empty lot in the West, letting Logan’s people come and get them themselves. He kept the other half for the family to use.

Retaining a portion of the original starter, Liam let the Robots continue composting the next batch of compost. This new batch would mature in about a week. The current compost pit was too small, while Liam did not want to reveal this matter to Logan, therefore he was very anxious to return home to build a few more.

Mr. Hall had returned the property ownership documents of the Martinez family to the three siblings. That group of people on the paternal side seized the land but did not know how to farm, and within a few years had suffered heavy losses. Instead of subleasing it, they sold all these planets and divided the money, taking that money to play and enjoy themselves.

Ultimately there was not much left. Only three large villas on the planet Altair, a fashion stall with sluggish sales in the commercial center, two new-model hovercars, a family spaceship, and twenty-eight billion silver stars.

Liam clicked his tongue looking at this meager property, unable to believe this was the property of the Martinez family that used to be ranked among the upper class of the Polaris star system.

However, a mosquito despite being small is still meat; this property was enough for Liam to expand his business.

Liam contacted the buyer of the planet Sirius (the planet Isabella and Benjamin had sold) to buy that planet back for a price of twelve billion silver stars, three billion higher than the initial price this person had bought it for. The planet owner thought about it for two days, feeling that by selling the planet Sirius he could buy another better planet, so he agreed.

The planet transfer process was completed with Daniel’s help.

The reason Liam bought the planet Sirius back at a high price instead of buying another better planet, was because this place had been tied to Isabella and Benjamin from childhood to adulthood. Secondly, the climate of the planet Sirius was divided into two climate zones: temperate and subtropical.

The subtropical half was suitable for growing wet rice and subtropical crops such as lychee, longan, orange, mandarin, pomelo, lemon, tea, coffee...

The temperate half was always in a pleasantly cool state, with a slight chill entering autumn and winter, suitable both for growing temperate crops such as wheat, and for making a resort tourism area.

Importantly, it had a dense river system; one only needed to terraform this heavily alum-contaminated river water into freshwater, and whatever one wanted to do would be much easier.

Compared to Cygnus which only had two seasons of sun and rain, with no rivers, Sirius was more suitable for developing tourism.

After completing the procedures, Liam told Daniel to have people go survey the geology of the entire planet first, subsequently waiting for him to return then the two of them would proceed to the next step.

As for expanding the scale of the dining restaurant and home delivery service, these past two days he had taken advantage of the time to learn roughly about the culinary area of the Capital planet, zoning in on a few key areas.

Instead of concentrating on the commercial center area, Liam concentrated on the square next to it, the place concentrating a great many small and medium enterprises. He asked Alexander to help him pay attention to whether there were any shops for rent or outright sale.

Alexander had heard about the business Liam was doing from Benjamin’s and Isabella’s mouths; he himself also felt it was very interesting. It was not until this moment that Alexander realized his soft, obedient younger brother had truly changed.

From a canary raised in a cage, Liam had gradually transformed into a little Eagle, beginning to spread his wings to learn how to master the sky.

Alexander felt both proud and a little lost in his heart. The younger brother no longer relied on the family; the affection for the family had also added another layer of distance.

"I have a warehouse right on the frontage, normally only used to store a few low-grade Mecha components." Alexander opened the image of his warehouse, pointing it out for Liam to see: "This warehouse only has an area of a little over four hundred square meters, but is licensed to build mid-grade infrastructure, able to be built up to five floors."

Liam examined it carefully, subsequently being extremely satisfied: "Sell it outright to me."

Alexander showed a dissatisfied expression: "I will transfer the name straight to you and that will do, what is this talking about buying and selling."

Liam waved his hand: "No. Biological brothers still have to be clear and fair. Furthermore, this project is me and two other friends cooperating to do together; if we do not separate things clearly, the business will not last long."

Alexander angrily ruffled Liam’s brown hair, subsequently saying poutingly: "Three hundred million."

Liam burst into a laugh: "How is this any different from giving it to me for free." He calculated the real estate prices on the Capital planet a little, saying: "Calculated according to the general price, six billion two hundred and thirty-eight thousand silver stars. You knock off the odd number for me, charge me a round six billion, alright?"

Alexander’s face fell, muttering: "Acting like I lack your six billion..."

Liam raised his thumb to his lips, making a shushing sound: "Actually I have an intention behind all of it. I want you to contribute this six billion into another investment project."

Having said that, he sent Alexander the entire plan he had prepared beforehand:

"This is a tourism planet development project implemented jointly by me and the third young master of the Mason family. Initially I had the intention to invite a friend belonging to the Cromwell family to participate together, but now I have changed my mind. Compared to an outsider who can turn against and bully us two Omegas at any time, I still find our eldest brother more trustworthy."

Regardless the Cromwells were not a small family; Liam dared not guarantee that after smelling the fat, whether this hungry wolf Logan would open his mouth to gnaw him and Daniel until not a single piece of bone was left.

Alexander was different. Firstly, the brotherly affection between Alexander and the original owner was very deep; after resolving the misunderstanding, Liam firmly believed that the relationship between the two families would be even stronger. The Hall family was even more powerful than the Cromwell family; there would be no investor more suitable than the eldest young master of the Hall family. Furthermore, Liam also had a little private intention.

Firstly, regarding his personal aspect. The Hall family was the aristocratic family standing second only to the Coronado Royal family.

Mr. Hall was the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, assuming an extremely important role in the Government apparatus. As for Mrs. Hall, her full name was Aurora Coronado Hall. She was the adopted daughter of the late Empress Dowager, the adopted younger sister of Prince Louis Coronado.

Prince Louis was the biological younger brother of His Majesty the Emperor, the biological uncle of the former Crown Prince. He always reserved the supreme respect for His Majesty the Emperor and always supported the former Crown Prince in every circumstance, even after the scandal of the former Crown Prince occurred last year.

Having a background of this level as a backing, later when his and the child’s matter was revealed outside, whatever those enemies in the darkness of the child’s Daddy wanted to do, they would have to be wary.

Secondly, regarding his first friend after coming to this world, Daniel. The Mason family despite standing in the top ten, ranked last, currently having a trend of being surpassed by the Darcy family ranking eleventh.

In such a situation, if it was only Daniel himself becoming independent it was not enough; the Eugene family still had the capability to use a few small tricks to make the Mason family submit.

If there was the family standing second in the Lumia Galaxy backing Daniel and the Mason family, then a Eugene family standing seventh was nothing at all!