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Chapter 12.1: Marriage Negotiations Part 1

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DPM Chapter 12-Marriage Negotiations Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77

 

 

Wu Xingyun suffered shock. He hadn’t expected the Night Shard would be so excessively unfair.

True, the majority of the dowry had been lost, and that was partly the Federation’s responsibility. But the greater responsibility lay on the Night Shard. After all, he’d been the one who caused the orbital pattern of the meteor flow.

How could Mozun be completely shameless? Using such pretexts to refuse help.

Looking around him, Wu Xingyun could tell, the other soldiers’ willpower broken under Mozun’s indifference. The strength to persevere and resist seemingly vanished. Instead, they were assisting Mozun in coercing Wu Xingyun to compromise.

Well, Wu Xingyun wasn’t prepared to compromise. Those words weren’t in his vocabulary. He said to himself: “Soldiers don’t appeal to the enemy! They persist, persist, persist!”

But even after telling himself this, Wu Xingyun couldn’t help feeling bewildered. How in the hell was he going to adhere to his own declaration? Just how were they going to finagle supplies from the Night Shard and convince him to let them onto the ground?

Wu Xingyun really wasn’t good at dealing with people, even less skilled at negotiating with people. He’d have to have the aid of his teammates.

Of the escort team, after the meteorite disaster, only ninety-eight remained. And they were soldiers like Wu Xingyun, unlikely to have anything constructive to contribute.

The dowry team had thirty-two people left. Ten of those were guards for Wu Xingyun’s security. The remaining twenty-two included two scientists, a quantum physicist, and an astronomer. The two great scientists were huddled in discussion, recording their thoughts with pen and paper, as they could faintly be overheard: “If the Night Shard jumped from here, how many seconds would he take to land, depending on gravity acceleration?”

“We can’t just consider gravity, we have to calculate his take-off velocity. That strength can’t be ignored, I think the formula should be like this…”

The physicist was drawing a picture for the astronomer, and the astronomer was rendering a diagram of what they thought would be the trajectory of a Night Shard freefall.

The smartest people on the scene. Apparently destined to provide no help to anyone.

Lastly, there was also a psychologist, supposedly there to support Wu Xingyun in maintaining ‘healthy mentality.’ However, at the moment, the psychologist was busily trying to talk Wu Xingyun into acquiescing to the other side’s unfair conditions. The psychologist, though capable, was clearly in the wrong……

That left some mechanical engineers, chemical specialists, environmental designers, and a few farmers and miners.

All either smoking, wandering around in a daze, or staring at the sky.

Was there no one who could give Wu Xingyun support and consolement?

At that moment, Wu Xingyun particularly missed Wen Nuo. Wu Xingyun couldn’t help thinking, if Wen Nuo were there, he’d had given good advice. The situation wouldn’t have turned into such a bungled mess.

But Wen Nuo wasn’t there. Wu Xingyun had to rely on himself.

Wu Xingyun silently pumped himself up, then got up from the flooring, loudly saying: “Quiet!”

Conversations ceased, and Wu Xingyun ordered: “Line up! Attention!”

They all assembled themselves in rows, while Wu Xingyun felt his next words might not be persuasive, but they were correct and to be strongly emphasized. “No matter what, we should not yield to the enemy. We cannot accept defeat. We must fight to the end! A soldier’s honor and glory is to never surrender.”

“Report!” A soldier asked, “Leader, what are you going to do?”

Wu Xingyun had no idea what he was going to do, but everyone was watching him. Except for the two scientists who had resumed whispering to each other about cosine theory, truly two intelligent people who were proving useless.

All Wu Xingyun had at his disposal was his own lacking brain. “I will negotiate with the Night Shard. I hope…I hope to persuade to him to give us supplies and a place to temporary settle on the surface, until we have a ship to send our people back.”

Everyone promptly wilted. Clearly, their interim-Marshal lacked communication skills. And negotiating savvy. He was doomed to fail.

It was the psychologist who finally summoned the gumption to help his teammates. “Leader, you don’t have any negotiating skills. You’re going to be at a disadvantage.”

Wu Xingyun nodded. “But if I don’t try, we’ll be even worse off.”

“Right. Well, I’ll teach you the basics of negotiation.” Ai Lan, the psychologist, kept rolling. “First, be clear on your bottom line. Know what your advantages are. Then when the momentum is building and you’re both trying to dominate, show no wavering or timidity……”

Excluding the two brainiac scientists, everyone then began chiming in, conferring and settling on a series of conditions.

First, hold a decent wedding as soon as possible. A wedding verified and legal, not just some negligent words said and having it ended there.

Second, in a month’s time, a ship provided for the escort team to safely return to the Federation.

Third, the Alliance accepted responsibility for the meteor flow event, and apologized to and mourned the Federation’s dead martyrs.

Four……No ten-minute hot kiss…Absolutely unacceptable. An insult not just to Wu Xingyun, but also a dishonor and provocation to the whole Federation.

As for advantages…

After thinking for a long time, it come down to they had none, except for Wu Xingyun. They could only rely on the fact that Wu Xingyun’s marriage was both a condition and representation of the painstakingly agreed-upon peace.

Reaching an group consensus, Lu Hai fired a flare, the signal to Mozun that they wished to talk.

Mozun rapidly appeared.

He rode in a small ship, wearing a gray robe with a red moon on the chest.

The people on the platform were a little surprised that Mozun even bothered with a ship. They all knew that, with his ability, he simply could have leaped up.

But it was his territory. Whatever the method of arrival, it was his choice.

The soldiers tidied up the tent in the middle of the platform, placing two chairs and a table inside. Wu Xingyun sat upright, nervously anticipating.

Soon, there was the sound of footsteps. The curtain of the tent lifted, and Mozun entered. He stood next to the chair, arms folded across chest, eyebrows raised at Wu Xingyun. “What? Are you ready? I’ll make it clear. If you don’t satisfy me in the bedroom, I’ll grant no supplies.”

Listening to Mozun’s words, Wu Xingyun badly wanted to shoot the bastard down.

And looking at Mozun, Wu Xingyun felt pure loathing, while Mozun’s frivolous attitude only made Wu Xingyun even more uncomfortable.

Back straight, his hands on the table, Wu Xingyun said: “Please sit. I invited you up at this time to discuss some matters with you.”

Mozun laughed, casually sitting down opposite Wu Xingyun, finger on his chin, and said: “Alright, what do you want to talk about?”

Wu Xingyun took out the piece of paper on which was listed the conditions his team had agreed upon. He read it out loud and then finished by saying: “I hope you can meet our requirements.”

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Snorting, Mozun asked: “Why should I? You’re late, you lost your dowry, and now you’re asking to make a deal? I doubt your sincerity! Be honest. You don’t want to marry me, then say so. I’m not lacking a wife.”

Enraged in his heart, Wu Xingyun manfully strove to heed the psychologist Ai Lan’s charge to remain calm and use facts. “It was not our fault we came late. We encountered a meteor stream with an unpredicted orbit, our ships were destroyed, so…”

Mozun interrupted Wu Xingyun’s words with a sneer. “That’s your own business. Nothing to do with me. Why don’t you stop making excuses?”

Wu Xingyun had thought that no one could be utterly without shame to this extent, but he kept his cool and continued asserting the truth. “Why the flow of the meteorites deviated, you would know best. The rest of my people think you did it deliberately, but I believe this may be a misunderstanding. I don’t think you were acting maliciously, and I wish you wouldn’t speculate so unkindly about me.”

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