Chapter 289: Life-saving straw (Part 1)

Zhou family mansion.

In a quiet small garden, Zhou Junyi was playing chess with his brother half lying on the rocking chair.

The current head of the family, Zhou Mengde, has been seriously injured in the last battle and has not fully recovered so far, and his cultivation has been regressed by at least half! He has had to temporarily hand over the power to his younger brother and rest with peace of mind.

"Your Highness, it's time for you to take medicine!" The maid brought it up with a silver bowl and said in a low voice.

Zhou Mengde threw down the chess piece in his hand and took the silver bowl. It was a slightly black medicine liquid inside, emitting bursts of medicinal fragrance.

He took a sip, swallowed it slowly, and shook his head with some discomfort: "I don't know why, I'm increasingly dislike the smell of this medicine!"

Zhou Junyi smiled and said, "This is nothing to do! It's so good, who would like to take medicine?"

"Brother, you are the head of the family. How many people are counting on you? If you don't recover quickly, I can't bear the burden!"

Zhou Mengde sighed, closed his eyes, and drank the medicine in the bowl in one go!

"You came to me today, not just to play chess, right? Tell me! What's the matter?" he asked.

"That action failed!" Zhou Junyi hesitated for a moment before saying, "No one came back!"

Zhou Mengde was slightly stunned: "Failed? I remember that the child is only at level 12. Even if the information is wrong, he is at most a demigod! How can he deal with so many masters? Could it be that someone helps him?"

"No! He is the only one, this can be confirmed!" Zhou Junyi emphasized.

"...It seems that your opinion was right at the beginning!" Zhou Mengde's face darkened. "This child is no longer something that can be erased by force!"

Zhou Junyi immediately said: "That's right, I didn't agree with this! But that guy Yun Hongchang was in a bad position and had a ghost in his heart! He insisted on pulling us together! What's the result? So many masters were killed and injured in vain!"

"Actually he is right!" Zhou Mengde sighed, "This child's approach is indeed too much! How much has our Zhou family lost in the past few days? Those industries and manpower are the assets we have worked hard to manage for many years! Now he has robbed them all!"

"And, I can see that things are not over yet! With this sharp sword, His Majesty will become bigger and bigger! The situation of the six major families will be even more difficult in the future, and all this is caused by this child! That's why I promised to send someone to participate in this operation with them!"

"Even if you don't have him, your Majesty will find someone else, right?" Zhou Junyi disagreed with his opinion.

"That's natural! But there are too few people like him!" Zhou Mengde smiled, "The prestige and strength of the royal family have increased significantly, and a considerable reason lies in him! Without him, the Imperial Supernatural Legion would have struggled in the war in southern Xinjiang!"

"What should I do now?" Zhou Junyi asked.

"Second brother, I know you admire this child very much, and even thought about pulling him into the family! However, this child is now gradually drifting away from us and is not a member of the same person at all! He is only loyal to the emperor and represents the interests of the royal family!" Zhou Mengde said, "So, I agreed to Yun Hongchang's joint action last time! The reason is that the family's interests are above everything else!"

"Then... Since the means of force is no longer feasible! What should we do now?"

"It's hard, so there's only a soft one!" Zhou Mengde said, "Maybe, I should ask you to talk to him. You have helped him and have a good relationship with each other. He should take some sympathy!"

"Of course, this child is not a mean and polite person! Maybe he can really reach some kind of agreement with him!" Zhou Junyi was quite confident about this.

"But there is one more thing!" After thinking about it, Zhou Junyi said again: "Yun Hongchang sent someone to come to me today, saying that he wanted to propose marriage for his son!"

"What do you think?" Zhou Mengde asked a little surprised.

"Hmph! What else can you think? That guy has been in trouble recently and his status in the family is already very unstable!" Zhou Junyi said disdainfully, "Isn't he here to ask for marriage at this time just to grab a life-saving straw?"

"I hope we can help him! So that he can continue to be his own head! Hey! It's so scheming!"

Zhou Mengde shook his head gently: "Yun Hongchang still has the ability, but his mind is more sinister and he is too obsessed with it! He just can't see something! The cause of yesterday, the result of today! Everything is a fixed number!"

"Yun Hui, I thought he was pretty good! But look at what he did in the last battle? In addition to losing troops and generals, he also lost troops and generals! He had no record of making any achievements! Such a waste wants to marry my Zhou family's woman? A joke!" Zhou Junyi said,

"However, if it was Yun Haoyu's child, you could agree! Zhou Yiwei's girl often mentions him!"

"You!" Zhou Mengde laughed in silence, "When is it now? Is there still the mind to plan for this?"

"I'm serious!" Zhou Junyi's face turned right and said, "The family's intelligence network has made a major discovery recently! It's about the breakthrough progress of the royal family in the field of genetic technology!"

"I used to know a rough idea, but now I have more detailed information!" As he said that, he took out a document and handed it to his brother.

Zhou Mengde took it over and took a look, and his face changed drastically: "Is this true? They have already gained such a great advantage in the production of level 5 and level 6 gene optimization reagents?"

"Of course it's true! The annual output of our family experimental base is not as good as their monthly output! And their cost is much lower than that of us! There are many other types of genetic agents as well! Of course, this is not the most deadly, I heard..." Zhou Junyi lowered his voice, "I heard that they have developed a level 7 gene optimization reagent!"

"Several old antiques who are loyal to the royal family and stay at the level 15 for many years have used this thing. It is said that the effect is good, and they may be expected to break through to the god level! No one in the human world can reach this level yet!"

"And all this is because they have obtained the child's genes!"

Now, Zhou Mengde really can't sit still!

He stood up, paced around the yard for a few times, and then said decisively: "Okay! This matter is left to you! No matter what he wants, he can satisfy him! For this joint action of the six major families, I can personally apologize to him! And I am willing to give him enough compensation. No matter how much the price he pays, as long as he can get a genetic sample, it is not a loss!"

The head of the family was clear-headed and saw the key to the problem at once. With the child's genes, the royal family's advantages in this area will be so great that the six major families are unbearable! If they do not find a way to remedy it now, facing a high-level psychic who is several times or ten times more than their own in the future, these big families will really become history!
Chapter completed!