After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1738

Chapter 1738: Negotiation Continues

The high-quality restaurants in the system were from Holt City, and could not be compared to the trash food from the cheap restaurants at village level.

They owned plenty of properties already, so there was a chance the value of Blu in Holt had already lessened.

Even if it didn’t, the Glen Clan’s foresight was quite well-known. They simply didn’t have as much background and power when it started out, so it was taking a while to rise to the top.

However, it was definitely on its way there, especially with the current heir, who had always been praised for his wisdom since he was young.

Cauis looked at Otto. He remembered feeling respect for this guy when he met him back then, and that had not changed.

It didn’t mean he would make things easy, especially now that the guy’s known leverage was all but gone. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"You have some things we’d like to have some of."

He didn’t even say what it was yet, but Cauis played along. "What can you still give that we can’t get directly from Alterra?"

Otto smiled. "What about the technology for Blu handling?" he said. "In exchange, we want a percentage of the harvest."

This made everyone in the room flinch.

"...what?"

Otto maintained his smiling expression as he waited for them to absorb what he had just said.

Through the years, the Bleulle Lord’s party had always been dependent on the Golds in terms of handling the Blus. The Lords simply could not comprehend the technology, and the Golds refused to share it with other families. It was their condition for serving the main family, even after generations.

At the very least, while the ancestors really wronged them a lot, they weren’t completely idiotic.

This way, the Bleulle Lords couldn’t force them to release the ideas and methodologies, and also commit the entire bloodline at the same time.

However, after so many decades, several people and spies here and there had learned the methodologies—though definitely not as proficiently as they could—and this was why Bleumrick felt confident enough to get rid of them.

In their generation, the oaths were held through the entire bloodline simply because the oaths themselves were simple—they simply could not betray the Lord’s family.

If it were an oath like giving their entire lives to the other family, especially their descendants, then the ancestors’ oaths wouldn’t have gone through.

Similarly, there was no specification of the Blu technology either, because it was the Golds who figured it out, and the system did not allow the Lord to have a monopoly on knowledge that one did not develop, let alone one that was applicable in multiple generations.

The contract was never amended, even after so long, simply because there was nowhere else where Blu was found again. In normal cases, even if they shared the technology because they could, it was still useless because the raw materials weren’t there.

However, according to his brother’s intelligence network, it seemed like one of Holt’s very distant subsidiaries far west, had found a small mine of Blu.

After a bit more study (er, begging some old friends for some favors), they found out that this subsidiary was under the Glen Family’s management, as well.

It was not nearly as big as Bleulle’s, even after centuries of consumption, but it was not too small that people would ignore it. Rather, it was just big enough to invest in finding out how to handle it themselves.

Cauis’ eyebrows rose.

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