Chapter 7327

After that hotpot feast on the polar ice, Charlie spent two days at the Nordic research station with Maria, just relaxing and unwinding.

During those two days, Jeremiah and Ria didn’t fully go into seclusion, but for the most part, they kept to themselves, meditating in their rooms and absorbing the spiritual energy from the spirit stones, not wanting to disturb the two of them.

As for Charlie and Maria, there was nothing overly intimate between them. Most of the time, they simply held hands and walked together across the vast ice fields outside the research station.

Each time, they would stroll for several kilometers at a leisurely pace, until the outline of the research station faded from view, until there was almost no trace left of modern technology.

Somehow, Charlie found himself falling in love with the Antarctic during the polar night.

On this modernized planet, perhaps there was nowhere else so pure, a place where one could truly escape the noise of the world and feel the wild, untamed spirit of the earth itself.

Here, the most beautiful auroras danced across the sky, and the stars shone with unrivaled brilliance.

Whenever Charlie looked up at the endless stars and the vast universe above the Antarctic ice, he couldn’t help but think of those cultivators who had already left this place.

If they weren’t natives of Earth, then this must have been the closest place to their homeland. When they gazed up at the stars, perhaps one of those distant lights was the path they once traveled.

Meanwhile, in Miami, USA, Youngheart, the Grand President of the Left Army Governor’s Office, was flushed with excitement as he stared at his phone.

All because one of his scholarly subordinates had managed to connect with the Rothchild family, he’d made a staggering one billion dollars in net profit in just a few days. It was something he’d never even dared to dream of.

Although the assets he controlled for the Poqing Society had long since surpassed ten billion dollars, those were all official assets, registered and accounted for. He was just the North American CEO of the group, after all.

Business operations, cost accounting, profit reporting—these were all handled like any multinational corporation. The Poqing Society’s financial team strictly audited every cent of income and expenditure, so the amount that truly landed in his pocket was never much.

This was entirely in line with Victoria’s usual style.

She was suspicious by nature, always wary of everyone. She had no children of her own and had lived far too long, so she cared little for family ties.

She let the Wu family oversee the five military governor’s offices not because she wanted to take care of her bloodline, but because she felt her own people were more reliable. But when it came to giving them too many benefits, she was never willing.

Money, after all, was a kind of universal energy. Too much of it, and people grew wings. Once their wings were strong, their hearts would grow wild and uncontrollable. She never wanted the Wu family to amass too much personal wealth.

The best outcome, in her mind, was to give them power and status that could be taken back at any time, but never let them build up too much personal fortune, so they would always remain loyal.

But loyalty was just Victoria’s wishful thinking. Of all things in this world, the human heart was the hardest to control, the most unpredictable, and the least subject to logic.

Youngheart had been lining his own pockets in secret for a long time, but the old way of skimming was slow and inefficient. Now, things were different. In the past, he could only sneak away small amounts from the Poqing Society’s assets, but now, he believed he’d found a shortcut to fortune.

Earning a billion dollars in just a few days had only strengthened his trust in Rachel Getty.