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Chapter 263 The Holy Grail and the Bloodbath (Second Update)
Immediately, both of them fell silent. Honestly... they hadn't meant it that way at all!
"So, please speak frankly if you have something to say!" Chu Zhu said leisurely. "If there's nothing else, I'll head back now. Old Huo, if you're not planning to continue hosting me here... just let me know, and I can return to my country!"

Chu Zhu stretched and sighed, "After staying here for two days, I'm starting to feel a little out of sorts!"

Howard: "???"

Don't tell him that you're being so disrespectful because you want to go back to China early... How can you do that?

Howard felt his face turn green. He used to think he was already quite reckless, but now he realized that there were always stronger opponents out there...

"..." James frowned, staring directly at the other person, a hundred thoughts surging in his mind. He suddenly spoke, his attitude completely different from before: "Let's make an equal exchange, sir! You touched the Holy Grail and enjoyed the blessing... So, your promotional resources will be increased by two... no, three times."

James held up three fingers, his tone serious: "Moreover, I can pull strings in other regions... to release and promote your songs simultaneously in all parts of the world, including China! Making you a world-class superstar in the shortest amount of time."

After a brief pause, James tilted his head: "From what I know, even in your hometown, you haven't done full-channel promotion because you're not familiar with the local music distributors, right?"

"..." Chu Zhu felt this was outrageous. An eagle, in front of him, a man from China, was claiming to be far more professional in promoting Chinese music!
Chu Zhu inexplicably thought of a meme she had come across before and sighed, "Sigh, capitalism!"

“Right!” James was completely unaware that Chu Zhu was actually referring to the recent trend in China where all misfortunes in life are blamed on capital. He genuinely believed that the other party was only saying the surface meaning and said matter-of-factly, “That is indeed the power of capital! The power of wealth!”

"???" Howard was stunned, looking at James in disbelief. Wait, why did your attitude change so much? What happened?
And... three times!
How can you even say that? Do you know how much they originally planned to spend on advertising?

"Why didn't you just show this attitude earlier?" Chu Zhu remained noncommittal. He was always one to be persuaded by gentleness but not by force. Since the other party had already made their stance clear, giving them some face wouldn't hurt.

He gently touched the Holy Grail with his palm, and in the next instant, information about the Holy Grail flooded into his mind... just as written in his good brother's diary.

Chu Zhu quickly withdrew his hand, showing no intention of analyzing the Holy Grail's power. Partly because his current strength was insufficient, and partly because while the Holy Grail's power was indeed formidable, the requirement of needing all the blood of an eight-year-old child... Heh!
However, Chu Zhu suddenly thought of something: if blood was drawn from 100 eight-year-old children, and only 1% of each child's blood was drawn, it would not harm them...

But if it's thrown into the Holy Grail, can it produce a portion of holy blood?

Hmm... if possible, this should be considered a bloodbath, right?
Chu Zhu forcefully cleared the jumbled thoughts from her mind and asked, "Is there anything else?"

“If you’d like, stay for a meal! But if you don’t want to, you can leave…” As soon as James finished speaking, Chu Zhu stood up and walked to the servant: “What are you looking at, staring blankly like that… Didn’t you hear what your master said? Lead the way!”

The attendant was sweating profusely. He glanced at Howard and James with a stiff expression. To his surprise, Howard, who had been speaking up for Chu Zhu, now looked much worse than James. He stared at Chu Zhu's back in disbelief, as if he had misheard.

Seeing James nod, the servant reluctantly took a step, inwardly screaming, "No, why did you choose him? Won't he face retaliation later?"

Is it because he showed you a gun earlier... that you're now retaliating...? Is it really necessary...? He was just trying to scare you! How could he possibly fire a gun in such an upscale place?
I watched them both leave.

After a brief silence, Howard made a gesture, and the remaining attendants bowed in a European courtly manner and withdrew. Not a sound was uttered from beginning to end!

“…Big Brother.” Howard placed his hand on the Holy Grail, and after a moment, his face paled slightly. He looked at James, his gaze somewhat evasive: “The final result is…”

“Not the Holy Son, right?” James began, but Howard sensed something amiss and hesitated, “Brother, what are you…”

"I think the suspicion surrounding this guy as the Holy Son has increased significantly compared to before." James's lips curled into a mocking smile. "Compared to Guan Qianyu and Zhao Shao, whom you mentioned, he's far more suspicious!"

“But…” Howard was completely baffled. To be honest, he hadn’t understood James’s thinking from beginning to end… just like with the Raven incident!
It's like James has already admitted his guilt... that Chu Zhu is suspicious—even though there's no evidence at all!

"Didn't you notice?" James cracked his wrists, his tone enigmatic. "That kid, even though it was the first time he'd met me... he didn't seem to be a stranger to me!"

Howard was stunned for a moment, his expression gradually becoming serious: "That's impossible!"

He understood all too well how secretive James's identity was now. Apart from those White House officials, establishment figures, and financial tycoons who had met him, no matter how much outsiders investigated, they could only find out that although James graduated from a prestigious university, he had failed in several business ventures and was a typical loser in the business world...

“But, after eliminating all the impossible options, what remains must be the answer.” James snapped his fingers.

"What do you mean?" Howard's attitude changed completely.

“It doesn’t mean anything!” James paused, glanced at Howard, and finally softened a bit, sighing, “So, don’t put on that act! Don’t think you’ve misjudged him, that you consider him a friend but he won’t even give you the courtesy of having a meal… That guy isn’t as unreasonable as he seems on the surface.”

Howard's eyelids twitched, and he gave James a strange look: "Big brother, I didn't expect you to actually try to comfort me... To be honest, seeing you like this, I'm actually a little touched..."

(End of this chapter)