Baslov was a tough negotiator to deal with, unlike any opponent Gao Guang had faced before. With every word calculated, if you joked with him, he'd joke back and wouldn't engage in a serious conversation, stubbornly sticking to his initial offer.
So what Gao Guang had offered him was the bottom line; if Baslov still wouldn't accept it and was really intent on a fifty percent take, then it would be no loss to Gao Guang to walk away from the deal.
Watching Gao Guang, Baslov seemed to guess what he was thinking, so he didn't accept, but he didn't outright decline either. Instead, he leisurely said, "Talking about fifty or twenty percent is meaningless. First tell me, do you know how much Pavel's fortune amounts to?"
Gao Guang finally remembered to ask how big the deal was and couldn't help but find it both irritating and amusing. Impatiently, he said, "They say it's two billion, but who can really say for certain? I estimate..."