Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 230 Funding Issues
Ke Lan spent a full half hour building up his emotions and preparing his words, then practiced several times in front of the expressionless Asano Akira before carefully dialing the exclusive number that Zofia had left for him.
"To be honest..." Seeing Ke Lan anxiously waiting for the call to be connected, Hound laughed mischievously and whispered to Layton and others beside him, "I always feel that this guy doesn't seem to be calling to borrow money, but rather to confess his love to the girl he has been secretly in love with for a long time."
"I think so too." Leighton nodded in agreement.
The phone rang for more than ten seconds before it was connected. Sofia's somewhat lazy voice came from the receiver - she seemed to be taking a rest just now, but was woken up by Ke Lan's call.
"Ah... Is it Miss Soma?" Ke Lan suddenly felt nervous for no apparent reason and forgot most of the lines she had just memorized.
"...This name is too unfamiliar!" The voice on the other end of the receiver suddenly became a little cold and stern, as if a teacher was teaching a student who didn't know the rules.
"Uh, Zofia?" Ke Lan was slightly stunned and changed her name.
"That's more like it."
"I need your help with something..."
"After the attack, shouldn't you have asked about my well-being when you first called me?"
“Ah, this…”
"Forget it, I was just kidding. I'm quite surprised that you would call me on your own initiative. Just tell me what's the matter." Zofia seemed to have suddenly switched back to the state she was in as the captain of the "Pioneer". Ke Lan even heard the sound of fingers tapping on the keyboard.
"My teammates and I plan to register a hunting group, but we don't have enough initial registration capital..."
Before Ke Lan could finish her words, she was interrupted by Zofia: "You are planning to register a consortium-level hunting group, right? You need a starting registered capital of 300 million credit points, but you don't have that much cash on hand, so you plan to come to me to borrow money?"
"Well, that's about it. Of course, it's not a free loan. We are willing to transfer 8% of the shares of the newly registered hunting group to you as the interest on the loan... I think you should be aware of our strength. We only need to explore a large ruin once, and the interest will exceed most periodic financial products."
"I know." Zofia said, "I will transfer the money to your account in a moment. I don't need any interest. It's up to you when you want to pay it back. It doesn't matter if you don't pay it back at all."
"No, no, no... I think you misunderstood what I meant," Ke Lan said quickly, "We want to set up an independent consortium-level hunting group on our own, rather than relying on the name of the Soma Consortium..."
"You misunderstood me," Zofia corrected. "The family is actually very unhappy about our engagement. They think that you are not worthy of me given your status. But if you can run a hunting group at the financial group level, I think the opposition will be much smaller. If possible, I even hope that you can use this hunting group as a foundation to directly develop a new financial group."
Ke Lan: “……???”
"Of course I know the strength of your teammates, and I know even more clearly that your abilities are far more than that. As long as there are enough resources to support you, your achievements should not be limited to the scope of a top hunting group. I believe in my own vision and will not make the mistake of misjudging you." Zofia continued.
"Are you praising me?" Ke Lan said with a smile on his face. Rather than praising me, he felt it was more like flattery.
If I really have this ability, then the big financial groups will suppress me to death... After all, no one wants a strong new force to emerge and take away another piece of the cake that is already not big enough to share.
Just like what is written in those fantasy novels: "This child will become a great trouble in the future, and must not be kept"...
"I'm just stating my own judgment." Zofia said calmly.
"...Actually, we haven't thought too much about it. It's good enough that we can run the hunting group well first. As for the money, I will return it to you immediately after the registration is completed."
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Three hundred million yuan is not a small amount of money for Zofia. Although the Soma Group is large and powerful, most of its assets are fixed assets, stocks and bonds. The actual proportion of liquid funds is less than one-third of the total assets, and Zofia can use even less freely.
The two discussed in detail about the registration details of the consortium-level hunting group for more than ten minutes. In the end, Zofia only symbolically collected one ten-thousandth of the shares of the new hunting group as interest. In addition, she also made a : the new hunting group must rank fifth among all hunting groups within three months after the registration is completed.
The ranking of this hunting group has nothing to do with its personnel, funding, or size. The only reference data is the number and value of completed exploration missions. The exploration missions completed by Ke Lan and others in their individual capacity or as a temporary team before the hunting group was officially established are not taken into account at all.
The huge sum of 300 million credit points was deposited into Ke Lan's personal account within one minute after the call ended . At this time, Hound and Ivan had completed the preparation of written materials for registering the hunting group.
Although the formal registration needs to be completed at the office of the relevant department, the preliminary information upload can be completed on the Internet. But at this time, Hound and his friends were stuck with a problem.
"Speaking of which... our hunting group must have a name, but the question is... what should it be called?" The Hound's hand was hovering above the touchpad of the laptop, looking undecided, and the cursor on the screen was stopped in the space after "Hunting Group Name:", flashing on and off.
"How about calling it the 'Glacier Hunting Group'? We all met at the glacier ruins, and that's when we formed the team. I think this name is very meaningful." Layton was the first to suggest.
"Where's your brain?" The hound glanced at him disdainfully. "Such a common name must have been registered by someone a long time ago... If it weren't for the hunting group not being allowed to have the same name, I think there would be a lot of people with this name."
"...This name has been registered? Ah..." Layton wailed in frustration, "Then...how about 'Crash Hunter Group'?"
" Unlucky, you idiot." The Hound was too lazy to look at Layton and turned his attention to Ivan.
"Don't look at me, I'm bad at naming." Ivan waved his hand and said.
