An Almighty System From On High

Chapter 17

Adrien considered for a moment. He had less than 1.5 million dollars in his pocket now and would need money for relocating the locals and upgrading the System.

“Can I get back to you later, Sylvia? I’m not sure if I’ll have time for that.”

“Sure. Mr. Higgins. Please let me know before the 8th day of next month.”

Meanwhile, Lilianne also received invitation letters for the auction.

“Ms. Olson, all the rich people in Reburg will attend this auction. The host also reserved two seats for Corestar Group. So, what do you think?” Celia reminded.

“You can come with me. I’ll take the chance and catch up with my friends. The last few days have been rough for me.”

“What about Mr. Higgins…”

“He doesn’t know anybody there. Just forget about him.”

“O… okay.”

Things went well for the next few days. Adrien thought his ordinary commercial car might not be decent enough if he took it to the auction. He took Sylvia’s advice and bought a Bentley commercial car with seven seats that was worth more than 600 thousand dollars. That would make Adrien look good on the auction!

April was drawing near.

Adrien had been expecting to hear the relocation news on April 4. Unexpectedly, people of Education Block reached out to Sylvia on April 1.

to Mr. Adrien Higgins?”

This is Mr. Adrien’s butler. May I ask

Mr. Higgins owns 6318 houses in the Orchard Apartment in the 3rd Street, 4th Street, and 5th Street of the Cutural Avenue, Education Block. We just received a notification that those who live in the above–mentioned areas will be relocated. Mr. Higgins is the actual owner of those houses. Therefore, we would like to meet with Mr. Higgins sometime

tell him. Please wait a moment.”

was pleased. He didn’t expect to

10:30 am. on April 2 at a coffee

commercial car. Adrien was accompanied by his butler Sylvia, assistant

of Education Block to negotiate with Adrien. It was clear Adrien was a bigwig as he owned over six thousand houses and was surrounded by

Higgins, I didn’t expect you to be so young, handsome, and rich! I’m Caspar Amos, and this is Derek Nash I’m the leading negotiant today

down. Caspar began to speak

didn’t give us enough funds Plus, there

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let’s get to the price. I don’t have time for negotiation. I know the buildings are old, but that will help save you a lot of money in demolishing them.

offer would be 1,000 dollars per square

think you are being sincere here, Mr. Amos. 1,000 dollars per square foot may seem good enough for a shabby old house. However, the current policy states that the compensation offer must be based on the average house price

also helpless. The highest price their boss could bear was 2100 dollars per square foot. The lower the price they offered, the better it would

What about 1,100 dollars per

call, Mr.

the news in advance and buy all those houses beforehand. They wouldn’t dare to do business with a hard case like this man. Luckily, this man was Mr. Higgins, their boss!

dollars? I can’t

give you a price, 2,000 dollars per square foot, period. It’s okay if you don’t want to pay me this much. I have my own real estate company, meaning