Chapter: 6172

As soon as Ye Chengyun received Helena's voice call, he guessed that she must be reporting good news to him, so he answered and asked with a smile, "Helena, have you left New York yet?"

"Yes," Helena said respectfully. "Mr. Ye, I've returned to Canada and would like to report on the developments at the Rockefeller family."

Ye Chengyun laughed and said, "Go ahead, tell me."

Helena then recounted her entire process of meeting Howard in detail.

When mentioning the price, she lied and said, "Sir, the final price that Howard agreed to pay was $11.1 billion in cash, plus setting up a complete AI model in Northern Europe, with at least 20 years of maintenance and updates."

"Eleven point one billion?" Ye Chengyun couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "You've really bled Howard dry!"

Helena laughed. "Who would have thought that he initially only wanted to pay $100 million? If I had started negotiating at $10 billion, I might have gotten $200 million too, and it's not like they can't afford a loss. As it turned out, he suddenly offered $1 million, speaking as if it was priceless, so I just decided to take what I could get."

Ye Chengyun smiled. "The Rockefeller family is rich enough to rival the gods, so it wouldn't be a crippling blow to them even if they did lose some money. Howard must have thought it was still a good deal."

Helena laughed and said, "In a few years, I estimate he'll be willing to pay $2 trillion for one elixir."

Ye Chengyun said, "That depends on his actual performance. If it's not good, he won't sell any elixirs to him in the future."

On the phone, Helena spoke up and said, "Ah, Mr. Ye, when are you free? Give me a bank card, and I'll transfer your portion of the money over to you."

Just as Ye Chengyun was about to agree, he suddenly felt that something didn't quite feel right.

Given Helena's character, if this deal actually went through for $11.1 billion, she would probably find all sorts of reasons to reduce her share and try to take half according to the agreement, which might cost a lot of effort.

But now, Helena was almost without hesitation, wanting to directly settle accounts with herself at a 50-50 split, which was completely out of character for her. This also led Ye Chengyun to be certain that there must be some hidden agenda.

Ye Chengyun pondered, thinking that Helena probably told him a lie and the actual price should not be as high as $11.1 billion. She might intentionally inflate the price to reduce her share of the profits.

He then said to Helena, "Just take this money for me first, I don't have any use for it anyway, and even if I did, I wouldn't know where to put such a large sum in my account."

Ye Chengyun was worried that Helena would give herself most of the sales revenue, so he planned not to receive the payment yet and wait until he figured things out later.

Moreover, he didn't actually lack money at present, and had plenty of disposable capital. He really didn't need this $5 billion or more, and it might be better to leave the money with Helena for now, on one hand to prevent her from giving too much, and on the other hand, in case he needed a large sum of money in Europe later, keeping the money with Helena would make it easier to consume there.

"Helena was still unsure of Ye Chengyun's intentions, thinking that he really didn't have a suitable account to receive this amount of capital, so she asked him: 'If you need a secret account, I can help you contact the Swiss Bank and get them to open a high-security-level account for you.'"

"Not necessary," Ye Chengyun smiled and said. "I'll just keep it with you for now. When I need it, I'll contact you."

Helena hesitated for a moment before agreeing, saying: "Alright, Mr. Ye. I'll take care of this 5 billion and 550 million dollars for you first."

When Ye Chengyun arrived at Jinling, it was already late evening in Yanjing.

After going through customs and completing entry formalities, Ye Chengyun directly walked into the departures area from within the airport and boarded a private plane waiting for him since earlier, taking off into the night sky bound for Yanjing.

Because his grandfather's investment cooperation with the government was publicly underway in Yanjing at this time, Ye Chengyun worried that Wu Feiyun's subordinates might monitor the entry information of Yanjing, so he decided to enter Jinling instead.

After entering Jinling, he would go on to Yanjing, bypassing the international departures and arrivals area and customs, as there were hundreds of domestic flights in Yanjing every day, with passengers unlikely to be the targets monitored by the Qing dynasty's surveillance group. JrNovels.com