"Forget it, let's wait and see about the car."
After feeling melancholy for a while, Xia Xu decided to temporarily put his plan of buying a car on hold.
It’s not a matter of money, but mainly because there seems to be no place to put it even if I buy it. I have to go to classes every day, and it’s hard to even park in the small building where I live.
Chen Leyao and Xia Xu split up. Chen Leyao went to contact talent markets and headhunting companies to recruit people, while Xia Xu was not idle either. He took Ato in a taxi and wandered around a university town.
This university town is located in the suburbs of Xingcheng, surrounded by several universities and technical schools. Due to the presence of a large number of students, a prosperous area has appeared in this desolate suburb.
In fact, hanging out in places with a lot of people is Xia Xu's daily routine. After all, since he has the special ability to check attributes, there is no reason to waste it. There might be surprises if he looks around more. Therefore, whenever he has nothing to do, he will hang out in such places for a while.
However, if it weren't for the little white flower's power, high-star talents would not be so easy to come across. Most people's talents are one star or even none, and it would be a great achievement to have a two-star talent.
Three-star level means talent at the level of industry leaders, and talent is relative to individual differences of the same kind. Therefore, to a certain extent, a higher star level naturally represents a higher rarity, and it is not easy to come across talents with more than three stars.
Taking Hong Bo as a reference, he is actually just a three-star game planning talent, but he only took his investment of only 500,000 and created hundreds of millions of revenue. How many such cases can there be
Although not everyone can discover their own talents, receive education and embark on the right path, a glimpse of the small part is enough to show how rare talents above three stars are.
In fact, even if he is really lucky enough to meet one or two three-star talents, they may not necessarily meet his needs.
Take Jian Xiaohao for example. He is a four-star talent, which is always strong enough, but his talent in playing games is just a waste to him. It would be a pity to throw it away and it would be tasteless to eat it. The same goes for other skills such as music, chess, calligraphy, painting, gymnastics and hurdles.
It is extremely difficult to find someone with three stars or above, who just meets his needs and is not in a high position that he can recruit and deceive.
One- and two-star candidates can be found through talent markets and headhunting companies, and those found are all those who have received professional training, have resumes and work experience, so it is not worth it for him to spend the energy to recruit and train them, so this also leads to him getting nothing most of the time.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that Uncle Luo and the others either met through the plot or had some connection with Little White Flower. There are almost no people he met purely by himself... Maybe He Qing can be counted as one
Back to the topic, Xia Xu came to the university town, looking for talents was just one of the reasons, the most important one was for one person - Griffin Jones' new neighbor, Zhang San.
There is a School of Political Science and Law in this university town, where Zhang San is a professor. Last time, he just observed Zhang San from a distance and did not make any contact with him. Now he plans to make formal contact with him.
A top lawyer is, to some extent, a talisman that can be used to protect oneself even if one does not use it against others.
Moreover, this kind of official handling is often crucial. You can see that slightly larger companies all have their own legal teams, just to protect themselves and prevent competitors from using regulations to harm themselves.
As long as there is no legal problem, everything else, whether it is public opinion or hiring killers, are just unacceptable means.
One is facing the state apparatus, the other is facing at most a few thugs. There is no comparison between the two. There are many ways to deal with it. The worst case scenario is to fight violence with violence. What's more, there is official assistance. It would take more than a mortal feud to get to this point.
"If Zhang San is intercepted again this time, Griffin Jones will probably realize that someone is targeting him..."
After getting off the taxi, Xia Xu stood at the gate of the School of Political Science and Law, pondering in a distracted manner.
He intercepted Chen Leyao and Zhang San one after another, and this was when Griffin and Jones had already made contact. Even the dumbest person should have noticed something was wrong.
However, he did not have too many concerns about this, or rather, Griffin Jones had never been a person he was wary of. The only person he was really wary of from the beginning to the end was the unpredictable Andra Group.
The Andra Group and Griffin Jones cannot be confused. There are so many people who have had contact with Griffin Jones, and Griffin Jones does not know what the connection is between him and the Super Brain Potion.
He just 'coincidentally' intercepted some talents and interests from Griffin Jones. To be honest, he can only be regarded as a business competitor. As long as he does not show any connection with the super brain potion, the Andra Group will not suspect him even if it finds Griffin Jones.
Of course, this is not absolute, because he plans to set up a biopharmaceutical company. If Andra is really domineering or has a more unique way of thinking, it is still possible that he will be suspected. After a careful investigation of him, perhaps the improvement in his performance or even his sudden enlightenment and ability to make money can be associated with the super brain medicine.
There is nothing perfect in the world. If the Andra Group really wants to make a far-fetched connection with this, then there is nothing he can do.
But even so, it only arouses suspicion. An organization of 10,000 people has 10,000 different ideas, and it is impossible for any large group to be united.
He was not worried about the Andra Group's small-scale probing and targeting. If he was really worried about offending the Andra Group, he would have offended it long ago. In the previous Night Owl plot, he had killed several mercenaries sent by Andra himself, and he had the mechanical centipede with positioning in his hand for a month.
Then what
He is alive and well now, and Uncle Luo is living a prosperous life with Louise, who is highly valued by the Andra Group.
If Andra really wanted to ignore it, he could of course kill them. After all, if he could make one mechanical centipede, a product of technology, he could make hundreds. It was not easy to find a four-star fighting and physical fitness master like Colclough, but he could still meet a few three-star ones. If that didn't work, he could go for their old specialty, biological modification.
The reason for not doing so is nothing more than considering the cost and consequences or being unable to do so. After all, it is not the entire Andra Group that is executing the jump plan, but only one of its subsidiaries or even a department. The entire Andra cannot be mobilized and is even subject to control from above.
The Xia Kingdom of the Aquamarine Star is not a country that is easy to bully. After all, there are powerful people like Uncle Luo. There is no doubt that the Xia Kingdom attaches great importance to public security. Uncle Luo's previous reputation as a "taboo" was earned in this way.
Therefore, Xia Xu is no longer afraid of the itch caused by his lice, and is not worried about provoking Andra. He just doesn't want to completely irritate the Andra Group and cause them to deal with him at all costs.
Even if it was the super brain potion, a mere suspicion would obviously not cause the Andra Group to deal with him at all costs. At most, they would use some business and legal tricks or take some conventional military action.
To be honest, he is not afraid of conventional force. Atuo should be able to become a second-level life form soon. With the support of the mechanical centipede and the super brain potion, his combat power is not weak. If all else fails, he can just call Uncle Luo and a special department will come to his door directly.
As for other aspects, in business, as long as you are strong enough, there is basically no means that can cause devastating blows. In terms of law, Zhang San is right in front of us.
All I can say is that there is a risk, but it is a risk worth taking and is inevitable.
He had actually been mentally prepared for this when he learned that Hongbo's cousin was coincidentally the same person Griffin Jones was looking for.
Putting aside whether he could accept missing out on a five-star talent like Sister Le Yao, who also had a five-star business administration degree with immeasurable benefits, the fact that Griffin Jones got a bargain was something he couldn't accept.
It's not just because of the dislike for Griffin Jones, but if the original plot of Super Brain is followed, Star City and even the entire Xia Country will have one more commercial and technological giant.
It would be fine if this kind of giant was abroad, as it has nothing to do with him, but if it was in Xia Country or even in Star City, competition and hostility between them would be almost inevitable.
Especially since this giant is a foreigner who has no sense of belonging to Xia Country and is even a bit arrogant, this is definitely a devastating blow to Xia Country's economy and technology.
There is no need to talk about any fictitious companies like umbrella companies. Just look at the domestic giants that are well-known around the world and don't need to be named. If they are really completely controlled by foreign countries, it will inevitably be a horrible disaster.
Of course, this is a bit far-fetched.
Ultimately, the main thing is that the benefits are sufficient and the risks are proportional to the returns.
The value shown by the super brain plot is enough for Xia Xu to decide to take a risk. Since Griffin Jones can probably rely on the plot to quickly build a giant enterprise, he can naturally accomplish the same thing by standing on its ruins.
What's more, as the protagonist of the story, it is obviously impossible for Griffin Jones to die halfway, which means that according to the original plot, he at least lived to the end of the story. The hidden dangers caused by the Andra Group should have been solved or temporarily solved by Griffin Jones, or at worst would not erupt until the end of the story. If we look at it from an optimistic perspective, the risk may actually be smaller than expected.