The Liu family's greed was basically known to everyone at the higher levels because they were indeed a bit too arrogant. However, because the four major families were in cahoots, even if the military reacted, it wouldn't do any good.

This was because the resources that the Liu family embezzled mostly came from the military and civilians. As for the Avengers Alliance, the Liu family didn't have the guts to touch them.

Because their interests weren't affected, the Avengers Alliance chose to stay out of it. Only the military and civilian councilors were left, and naturally, they couldn't stir up any waves, so they had to swallow their anger.

And now, Li Chenzhou's words undoubtedly pointed out the Liu family's affairs, and it was so sudden that some people in the crowd couldn't help but laugh. Fortunately, they stopped early, so they probably weren't discovered...

"You!"

Liu Xialai was furious, but looking at Hu Tao frowning at him, he had to suppress his anger and just glared fiercely at Li Chenzhou.

"Just you wait, kid. You'll get what's coming to you!"

Liu Xialai thought, looking at Li Chenzhou's indifferent face. Then, he looked at his nephew, Liu Xiawei, who nodded almost imperceptibly while making a gesture with his hand.

Seeing this gesture, a smile appeared on Liu Xialai's face. He looked at Li Chenzhou again, but Li Chenzhou didn't pay any attention to him. He was talking to Hu Tao and a few other tycoons who were interested in his handgun.

The four major families were in cahoots, but they also had their own calculations. The members of these families had always been fighting each other openly and secretly, let alone with other families.

The so-called "in cahoots" was just an alliance formed by the four major families to protect their own interests, because this gave them enough power to suppress the military and the civilian faction.

And now, seeing this kind of sharp weapon, the other three families couldn't care less about standing with the Liu family, because they also wanted this kind of weapon. If they joined the Liu family in antagonizing Li Chenzhou and really angered him, they wouldn't be able to get the weapons and evolution serum!

The reason why the four major families united was to strengthen themselves, so that they wouldn't be squeezed out by other families. Therefore, they were constantly forming cliques and suppressing people who didn't belong to the four major families, in order to suppress all potential enemies.

This was something that major families had to do to survive. There was no way to judge right or wrong. If they wanted to protect themselves, they had to constantly strengthen themselves while also weakening those who posed a threat to them, using any means necessary!

At this time, they gathered around Li Chenzhou, but none of them spoke. They just listened to Li Chenzhou chatting with Hu Tao. At this moment, Li Chenzhou was handing the gun to Hu Tao, saying:

"I'll give these two guns to the general. You can also take them to your weapons research institute to test them and see if their performance is as I said!"

"Ah?"

Hu Tao was quite surprised. He thought that after he finished testing the gun, Li Chenzhou would take the two guns back.

It wasn't that he cared about the two guns, but mainly that if they got the guns, they could completely send them over for research. After all, this gun wasn't made by the Devourers.

If they could research and imitate it, then naturally they wouldn't trade with Li Chenzhou for this kind of gun anymore. After all, something they made themselves would be cheaper than buying it, right?

Therefore, under normal circumstances, Li Chenzhou should put the gun away, and then negotiate the first order. For example, if they ordered tens of thousands of such guns, then he could give them away.

In this way, even if they developed a replica, at least Li Chenzhou and his people would be able to make a profit first. This was also the basic routine for transactions between different worlds.

The Devourers connected so many worlds, and each world had its own special products. Of course, they would trade with each other, and this kind of one-off deal also happened frequently.

However, Hu Tao immediately reacted. Trading with other worlds probably couldn't be applied to Li Chenzhou, because their world mainly focused on evolution serum. This thing...they probably wouldn't be able to research it just by holding the serum.

Therefore, even if they could copy these two handguns, they wouldn't dare to do it on a large scale. They would still have to trade with Li Chenzhou. If they angered Li Chenzhou's world because of these two guns and they stopped trading with them, then they would be in trouble!

Of course, Hu Tao didn't know that Li Chenzhou didn't really think that way, because he didn't believe that this world could replicate the guns produced by the Slaughter System. Therefore, he was simply fearless.

"Little Li, thank you. Then I won't be polite!"

Hu Tao looked at the two guns in his hand, then handed them to his adjutant behind him, and then said to Li Chenzhou:

"How about this? I can't accept gifts for nothing. Since I've received your gift, I have to treat you to a big meal. We also have some unique food here. Let you have a taste! What do you think?"

"Okay!"

Li Chenzhou smiled, then looked around and asked strangely:

"Huh? Qing Cang hasn't arrived yet?"

Now, Li Chenzhou admired Qing Cang in his heart. He didn't expect that a man who looked so forthright was actually the same type of person as Duan Lei. To put it in a nutshell, he was a master strategist!

From the time Qing Cang left until now, basically the progress of events had been unfolding according to Qing Cang's script, including the appearance of Liu Xialai, his attitude, and Hu Tao and the others. Qing Cang had foreseen all of this.

Although not everyone was following the script completely, at least the general direction of the events was similar. Even the fact that Hu Tao would invite Li Chenzhou to dinner after the gun test and gift was something that Qing Cang had anticipated.

Therefore, Li Chenzhou was now even more looking forward to whether the following script would come true as Qing Cang predicted.

If the things that happened before could be guessed as long as you knew enough about these people, then the things that would happen later would be a bit complicated. Li Chenzhou didn't quite believe that things would still be as Qing Cang predicted.

"Qing Cang?"

Hu Tao was stunned, and then he realized that he had already sent someone to call Qing Cang over. Logically speaking, they should have arrived long ago. Why were they still nowhere to be seen?

Just now, because of the gun, Hu Tao had forgotten about this matter. Now, after being reminded by Li Chenzhou, he finally reacted and quickly turned around to ask the adjutant behind him:

"What's going on? Why hasn't Qing Cang arrived yet?"

"This...I'll ask!"

The adjutant was dumbfounded. He was only thinking about how to get Hu Tao and the others to trade for more of these guns, so how could he still remember Qing Cang?

"No need to ask. Qing Cang will be here soon, in at most a minute. If you're not in a hurry to eat, you can just wait here!"

Just then, a voice rang out. It was Liu Xiawei. He looked at Li Chenzhou with some gloating and playfulness, saying:

"But...I'm a little worried. After Qing Cang arrives, will some people still have the appetite to eat! Hahahaha!"

Liu Xiawei's words made Hu Tao feel unhappy. He couldn't help but frown and look at Li Chenzhou, only to see that Li Chenzhou just happened to be showing a rather shocked expression...