Compared with the enthusiasm of the last meeting, this time after Camille explained what happened, the secret meeting place fell silent.

Several changes were caught off guard. These monopoly merchants had no idea that a matter that didn't seem too troublesome would now have such twists and turns.

Without the post-processing system, Ionia will not accept the Hex device, Pi City will not be able to truly open up the Ionia market, and there will be no chips to gain Ionia's military alliance. No one can copy it.

The patent has now become the heaviest yoke stuck on the necks of the people of Piltover.

what to do?

At this moment, everyone had a conclusion in their hearts like a mirror.

talk.

Although it is very difficult to obtain something that cannot be defeated through negotiation, this is the only thing that Piltover can do at the moment.

Yasuo's firm attitude obviously really deceived these Piltover people. They had no idea that Yasuo's so-called "environmental concerns" were essentially trying to lower prices with the Piltover people. His goal was never to protect Ionia.

Environment, but hope to buy technology directly!

If the people of Piltover are willing to sell technology, provide support, and export Hex crystals, Ionia can also "accept Hex products into the market without causing pollution."

However, the people of Piltover did a lot of research in advance, and the results of the survey showed that when facing new things, the Ionians would indeed worry about the cost first, so they did not go in the direction Yasuo expected at all.

I think I just treat Yasuo as a "normal Ionian". I hope that through technological improvements, Yasuo's concerns can be eliminated.

In this way, the mistaken Pi City people were squeezed into a dead end by chance, and were stuck in front of a small patent.

Time was urgent and the task was heavy. When the raid failed, the Piltover people finally sent an envoy and reluctantly began negotiations with Takeda.

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After the afternoon's negotiations, Deco returned home and felt his head hurt.

Is there any negotiation more difficult than this?

"Get technical support for post-processing equipment without revealing the true purpose" - is this a request that anyone can make?

Time is running out. Tomorrow, I will convince Takeda to send Victor to connect with me... How is this possible?!

However, despite his anxiety, the afternoon's wrangling was quite fruitful. At least Deco had roughly figured out what kind of guy this Victor was.

Moreover, he also has his own preliminary plan for the content of tomorrow's negotiations.

Just like that, at noon the next day, after a whole morning of wrangling, after laying the groundwork and preparing the rhetoric in advance, Deco took the lead in making a "concession" - if we couldn't agree, then we would take a day off.

Invite Takeda and Victor to participate in the special venue of this Evolution Day Hex Expo.

This seems to be a real concession - although the expo is open to the public, the special venue that represents the most core technologies and cutting-edge directions is not open to the public.

On the surface, he said, "Everyone, take a break," but in fact, Deco wanted to ask Victor to help directly.

Takeda is naturally unaware of Deco's thoughts - he does have the initiative now, so it is not too surprising that Deco makes a dispensable concession.

, Takeda happily agreed to the invitation.

So, after bringing a group of special guards, Takeda and Victor stayed in Piltover that night - tomorrow was Evolution Day, and they were not worried about being detained by the Piltover people.

Then, while out for a walk during dinner time, Victor encountered a peculiar argument on the street.

Two young men who looked like they were apprentices and were on the same road as Victor were arguing about how to deal with the emission problem of the Hex device.

The two guys seemed to be discussing some kind of technology that could reduce emissions, but they had differences on the core technical ideas. No one could convince the other with your words.

Compared with the beautiful dusk in Piltover, this kind of debate full of professional knowledge is obviously more interesting to Victor.

Victor, who holds a post-processing patent and has built a complete system, looked at these two young people who had some ideas but couldn't find a way, as if they were two silly children, and the face under the mask rarely showed a smile.

Oh, stupid Piltover!

Anyway, Victor himself didn’t need to eat. Even though it was not convenient, Victor still followed behind and continued to watch the show.

Then, what he didn't expect was that while watching a play, Victor himself was in trouble - among the two young people who were quarreling, the one whose thinking was closer to Victor's was that he couldn't quarrel with the other because he didn't really get started.

He began to be ridiculed.

Originally, it was nothing for one Picheng guy to ridicule another Picheng guy, but the guy who had the upper hand turned out to be a map cannon with his mouth.

"Aren't you so stupid to have a design idea like yours?"

"How much water do you have in your brain before you think that adding a core hub and a recycler can solve the problem?"

"Isn't it ridiculous that we don't take advantage of the opportunities during the transmission process and then talk about plug-in devices later?"

"You don't think you just haven't found a way to switch, do you? No, no?"

"What, are you not convinced? Make a fist? Oh, are you anxious?"

"..."

"..."

Although Victor had shielded himself from emotional interference to a large extent, he finally couldn't help it in the face of such vicious ridicule.

If you mock him, mock him. It is indeed worthy of ridicule to not understand such a simple solution.

But...is there anything wrong with thinking this line of thinking is correct?

Striding up to the young man who was talking nonsense, Victor pulled out a piece of white paper and left a large amount of special formulas.

"That stupid plan you are talking about has been successfully patented for a long time. Stop talking nonsense and read more!"

However, to Victor's expectation, when faced with the detailed formula, the sharp-tongued guy did not give in. Instead, like a bully, he raised questions at every possible place, as if he wanted to refute this sudden decision.

The weirdo appears.

Victor, who was completely aroused to be competitive, didn't think about anything else. He answered all questions and talked for almost four hours before the rude bastard put down a harsh word and left in a hurry.

Seeing the guy speechless after being refuted, and finally stumbling away, Victor once again felt a rare sense of joy.
Chapter completed!