Chapter 169: Rich Resources of One Punch World
"Tong Di, you are so reliable." Li De said with praise.

"Brother Sid, after the hospital is built, I wonder if I can come and participate in the genetic modification research?" Child Emperor suddenly asked.

"Of course you can. In fact, even if you don't ask, I will invite you to join. After all, having a genius like you join will definitely play an important role in promoting research. And since I chose you to help me build a hospital, I didn't treat you as an outsider." Li De nodded directly.

"Thank you, Brother Sid. Actually, I'm quite curious about the genetic modification project." Child Emperor replied with a smile.

"Well, the research process may be a little beyond your expectations. As for the specific requirements for the construction of the research institute, let Shiho discuss it with you in detail." Li De asked.

"Sister Shiho? No problem." Child Emperor replied immediately.

After lunch, Xiqi returned to the headquarters with the results of the interview between Li De and Tong Di.

"In other words, the final result of the discussion is to build a new hospital exclusively for the association's internal staff?" Saikingal was not surprised after listening to Xiqi's narration.

"Yes, after all, the current association hospital was directly acquired. Although it is not impossible to renovate it, it will not be open to the public after the renovation, which will cause some bad negative impacts. After all, this hospital has always been open to the public even since it was acquired." Xiqi nodded.

"Indeed, instead of doing this, it would be better to build a new hospital. Anyway, as long as it is not listed, the outside world will not know the existence of the internal hospital, and naturally there will be no impact on public opinion." Saikingal nodded.

"So the next step is to speed up the construction of the hospital. Of course, we can't help with this. Child Emperor has already calculated that if there are enough materials, it can be completed in three months.

So what we can do is to ensure that there are enough construction materials, and also to complete all the formalities before the hospital is completed, so as to avoid any accidents when it is officially put into operation. After all, you also know that even if the interests of others are not affected this time, a small number of people are still very emotional. "Xiqi said immediately.

"I understand this. We won't give them the chance to hold us back. By the way, Xiqi, during today's conversation, did Sid mention the topic of genetic modification we mentioned earlier?" Saikingal couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, Sid invited Child Emperor to join Dr. Shiho Miyano's research project." Xiqi nodded.

"Miyano Shiho, is she the girl with short brown hair who didn't take action yesterday?" Sai Jingal said with a little surprise.

"Yes, it's her, because the spot for S-class hero has been confirmed for Claire." Xiqi confirmed.

"Claire, that girl with long hair, does she have S-level strength?" Saikingal asked with a little concern.

"I don't know yet, but Sid promised me that we can wait until Claire kills or captures a demon-level monster before the association announces her as an S-class hero."

After hearing what Xiqi said, Saikingal couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the S-class hero is the association's signature. If they just randomly push forward someone and find out in the end that he doesn't have S-class strength, it will have a great impact on the association's credibility.

"Also, Sid mentioned something to me." Xiqi said.

"What's the matter?" Sai Jingal couldn't help but feel curious.

"It's about the list of heroes. He thinks the current publicity plan is inappropriate." As Xiqi spoke, he couldn't help but think of a conversation he had with the other party more than an hour ago.

"Xichi, when I was looking at the hero roster just now, I found that all the heroes in it were called by hero names, which are code names. Claire's name should be Shadow Queen. In addition, except for basic information, all other information related to Claire's abilities is not allowed to be published or recorded." Li De continued.

"Why? Isn't this a good publicity method?" Xiqi felt very strange.

"Weirds are not all idiots. If you meet a smart one, he can know the strengths and weaknesses of all heroes by looking at the hero list. Then there's nothing to fight. This is also the reason why I don't want to be a hero. Anyone who wants to subvert the association will definitely list me as the first target.

When you leaked the information about the heroes, did you not consider that someone might set up targeted means to kill the heroes on the roster in the future? There must be a limit to publicity. If you put your strength in plain sight, that is not publicity, that is courting death.

As for the association, it is better to let those idle senior executives study this point carefully, after all, there are many publicity plans. In addition, I don’t care what others do, but Claire’s information must not be leaked. "Li De said very seriously.

"Uh, Sid, you should think too much." With an unnatural expression on his face, Xiqi said this a little reluctantly.

“When we are targeted, we will know whether we are overthinking, or whether the association’s top leaders have never considered whether the establishment of the association has encroached on other people’s interests and offended other forces?
Are they really sure that there will be no forces that intend to target the association? Is it really good to be so arrogant? Xiqi, don't forget that the professional heroes fighting on the front line are the foundation of the association.

Without the foundation of professional heroes, when monsters appear, do you expect staff or cadres to fight? Once they are targeted, causing a large number of casualties among heroes, the association will probably collapse in no time. "Li De's series of soul-searching questions made Xiqi feel a little creepy.

But if we peel off the surface of this paranoia, it is not difficult to find that the situation described by Li De is entirely possible to occur at any time.

Human beings have always been a race that likes to fight among themselves, and the camp of justice will inevitably be opposed by the camp of evil.

Although there is no sign of the evil camp rising up now, we must still guard against it. It seems that the roster of heroes and related matters will need to be discussed carefully later.

After listening to Xiqi's conversation between him and Li De, Saikingal's face became quite serious.

He also agreed that the publicity plan should be changed. Of course, this was definitely not something that he and Xiqi could decide on their own. It had to be discussed at the conference.

However, Sai Jingal believes that it is not difficult to change the publicity plan as long as there is a more suitable new plan to replace it.

You know, with Li De in charge of the association's internal hospital, the Hero Association will naturally be able to obtain a large amount of resources.

There is no worry at all about not keeping up with the publicity, and one can even say that there will be no need for excessive publicity to maintain the popularity of the Hero Association in the future.

After all, donations from the public have always been a minority, and the wealth of society has always been in the hands of a small number of people.

Now that this small number of people are willing to share some of their wealth, it is enough for the Hero Association to operate healthily.

"Xici, this matter really needs to be taken seriously. We will raise this issue at the conference later and revise the publicity plan as soon as possible to eliminate this drawback." Saikingal said to Xichi, whose eyes were full of worry.

"I know that." Xiqi nodded, but the worry in his eyes did not diminish in the slightest.

"Is there anything else bothering you?" Sekingar continued to ask.

"Actually, I don't know whether I should worry about this matter." Xiqi said immediately.

"Sici, what's the matter?" Saikingal continued to ask.

"Sid has asked for all the current hero contact information." Xiqi looked at Sekingar and replied.

"Uh..." Sai Jingal's expression suddenly became puzzled after hearing this.

After all, Li De's move directly revealed his ambition without any concealment.

But this is an open conspiracy, because no matter who it is, it is impossible to prevent Li De from meeting these heroes, unless these heroes are unwilling to meet with Li De. After the meeting, with Li De's unpredictable means, the possibility of winning over these heroes will be very high.

After all, unless there are special circumstances, no one would choose to refuse the kindness of a top therapist.

Just as he himself said, professional heroes are the foundation of the association, and mastering these foundations means gaining control of the association.

If in the future, he really completes the genetic modification project and uses this project to improve the strength of the current heroes, or is able to mass-produce heroes.

It will be self-evident who will have the final say in the Hero Association at that time.

"I can't stop!" Saikingal said after hesitating for a moment.

"Of course I know, but it is precisely because I know that that I am worried. After all, he has a very strong personality." Xiqi nodded and said.

"Let's wait and see. As long as the association's purpose remains unchanged, I don't really mind who is in charge." Sai Jingal said lightly.

Xiqi fell silent upon hearing this. After all, he was very clear about the situation within the association.

Although the association was established only a year ago and is still in a period of rapid development, signs of internal corruption have already appeared. He is indeed not optimistic about the current group of cadres, as each of them is too selfish.

In fact, the cadres of the Hero Association were not elected by the public. When it was first established a year ago, it was funded and staffed by the tycoon Agni.

Otherwise, how could it be possible to establish the Hero Association and make it grow rapidly in just one year just by spending money?

In fact, Agni himself was not very grateful to Saitama for saving his grandson, but because his grandson was attacked by monsters, he felt a sense of crisis.

That's why he wanted to set up a bodyguard organization to protect his property from threats.

It’s just that the old guy didn’t want to bear the full cost of hiring so many powerful people, so he did this and claimed to serve the public.

The purpose is to share the operating funds. After all, if it benefits the public, then naturally the public needs to pay for it together.

It just so happened that the people of this world had suffered from monsters for a long time, so the Hero Association was recognized as soon as it was established and received many conveniences, which meant it was standing at the forefront.

Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible to grow to this extent in just one year.

Of course, behind all the conveniences there must be an exchange of interests.

The cadres who control and operate the Hero Association are the spokespeople selected through these exchanges of interests.

Here, Xiqi is actually the spokesperson through blasting.

The reason why Xiqi was excluded from the core circle at the beginning of the story was ostensibly because he let Elder Centipede escape when Blast challenged the "God".

But in fact, Elder Centipede's escape was just a small matter. The real reason was that after that battle, Explosion disappeared without a trace and never showed up in public again.

Because of this, during the period when Blast disappeared, Xiqi, as the spokesperson, was suppressed.

This is not difficult to understand from the fact that after returning from the explosion in the later period, Xiqi immediately returned to the decision-making circle of the association.

And precisely because the formation process of the Hero Association is full of interest exchanges, the cadres who control the association will not have any belief in fighting for humanity.

After all, if it were an organization like the Akatsuki organization in the Naruto world that was originally developed based on belief, it would definitely not be so materialistic.

It is easy to distinguish between organizations that operate for love and highly commercial organizations.

It is precisely because of this that some people who still have light in their hearts naturally cannot tolerate those cadres who have already exuded the atmosphere of corruption.

There is no doubt that Sekingar and Sichy are such people.

That's why Xiqi only discussed the news with his friends and did not report it to the association.

Of course, there is actually no point in reporting it. At most, it can remind the senior management earlier that the new director of the association hospital is full of ambitions, that's all.

As for the rest, there will be no changes.

Unless someone is found to replace Li De one day, people who have something to ask for will not stop Li De from reaching out to the entire association.

And once Li De produces the results of prolonging his life one day, it is entirely possible that those people will directly give the Hero Association to Li De as a gift if they cannot take it away.

You have to know that those cadres are just white gloves, and the real controllers are the people behind them.

In the eyes of these big guys, when faced with the meager benefits of extending life and the Hero Association, choosing the former is a no-brainer.

It was precisely because Li De was clear about this that he did not hide it at all.

You have to know that the current Hero Association is not the famous organization whose influence has penetrated the entire super continent when the story begins three years later.

There has not yet been a handicap for betting on the battle between heroes and monsters, so naturally there are not such huge interests involved, so the possibility of seizing power at this stage is still very high.

It was only after Li De understood and realized this possibility that he changed his approach.

In fact, if it were the time before when he had to leave after completing the task, Li De would not have considered these things at all.

But now Li De has more ideas. After all, this world is really special.

Of course, Li De was not interested in the obsession in this world that catalyzed mutation and thus greatly improved the monster's strength.

What Li De was interested in was the resource of the monster itself, as well as the ways in which the strong people in this world used Qi.

(End of this chapter)