78: Chapter 81: Entrustment
“This…” Uncle Xue Jingming put down the bank statement and turned to look at his wife Li Zhao.
“…” Li Zhao was silent for a long time, as a senior manager of a moderately successful mid-sized company, she certainly knew that the current international financial market situation was not good.
In the United States, the large-scale use of automated mechanical arms by Prometheus Company’s factories had resulted in workers losing their jobs and taking to the streets in protest.
The Middle East was engulfed in war, oil prices remained high, Europe was in turmoil, and it seemed as though World War III could start at any moment.
The sluggishness in foreign markets had affected the entire world, causing daily fluctuations in the financial markets.
During past financial upturns, standing in the right place at the right time could make even pigs fly.
But earning a stable and considerable income under the current circumstances couldn’t simply be explained by good luck or a risk-taking attitude.
It definitely required a unique perspective and extensive knowledge and experience.
In other words, it was beyond Li Zhao’s understanding.
After a moment of silence, she slowly raised her head and asked, “Is the house all set?”
“It’s all arranged, in Huangbai District.” Li Cheng flipped out his phone’s photo gallery, showing the house he had secured, “The rental contract is also done, and the house has all the appliances ready to move in.
I’ve also booked the moving company, they should be arriving soon.
If everything goes as planned, we can move there today.”
The phone vibrated; the text message indicated that the moving company had arrived downstairs.
Xue Jingming opened his mouth, “Leaving so soon?
Won’t you stay for dinner or something?”
“No, I still have homework to do tonight.”
Li Cheng, not being overly sentimental, after hugging his family (with an especially awkward embrace with his aunt Li Zhao), let the moving company take away the four large boxes of his personal belongings.
He then exited the residence where he had lived for more than a decade and transferred a considerable amount of money into his aunt and uncle’s bank accounts.
Having Yuan Zhixia, a friend and insider, there was no worry about the origin and flow of funds being investigated by the authorities, saving Li Cheng from having to launder money himself.
As he drove away, looking through the rear-view mirror, seeing the building growing distant, he took a deep breath and suppressed his emotional turmoil.
Including himself, all players really couldn’t go back anymore.
Even those nearly god-like Level 40 Transcendents.
Moving tips, first step, observe the neighborhood layout, identify the positions of surveillance cameras, blind spots, and security patrol timings to plan possible escape routes.
Second step, check all the rooms for any surveillance cameras or listening devices installed by others.
Third step, take out the soundproof panels bought earlier from the corridor of bones, mount them on the walls to reduce noise, making it convenient to handle the bodies of deer-sized mammals in the future.
The last step involved making several changes to the bathroom, replacing the toilet and installing a domestic sewage filtration system.
The capabilities of modern technology often exceed people’s expectations.
For instance, the police have a technique called “sewage drug testing,” which involves taking samples from the urban sewage system to test for toxic substances in domestic sewage, providing comprehensive insights into the drug crime situation in an entire area.
Which area has drug users, which has drug manufacturers—narrowing down layer by layer until pinpointing specific households.
This technology isn’t just for detecting drugs, but also for finding blood, specific medications, banned chemicals, etc.
The Special Affairs Bureau previously used this technology to identify and locate numerous lone-wolf players who secretly used enhancement potions.
It could be called a governmental weapon of sorts.
“Ah, it’s troublesome being a lone wolf player.
You have to handle everything yourself, from hair, blood, fingerprints to even poop and pee to prevent others from sneakily collecting them and cursing you remotely with tools like the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Book.
Finding your own shit road, deciding on a shit battle, not knowing shit from shinola, born into shit…”
Just as Li Cheng was tightening the toilet lid screws and making up idioms, he unexpectedly received a message from Zhangsun Yao.
[I have a job on hand, are you interested?]
Li Cheng was surprised.
As far as he knew, Zhangsun Yao’s World Nuclear House wasn’t a major guild, but it wasn’t a small club with just a handful of players either.
Any simple and easy tasks would be resolved internally; they wouldn’t ask outsiders.
Moreover, it had only been just over a month since Li Cheng officially became a Summoner.
With the average player’s B+ rating, he should be around Lv3 by now.
What good job could there be?
“But choose a career you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life, huh.
I am a professional mercenary after all.
To just refuse without even listening to the details would just show a lack of professional ethics.”
Li Cheng muttered to himself and began typing on the chat panel to talk with Zhangsun Yao. This content belongs to novel-fire.ɴet
The client is a wealthy businessman from the neighboring city who, being self-made from his youth, had built his company over twenty years with total assets close to one billion.
He himself was fine, the problem lay with his descendants—his young son was frail due to frequent illnesses and his grandson, not even a year old, inexplicably had bruises on his body that vaguely looked like palm prints.
The house’s surveillance could not trace the origin of the bruises, and hospital checks concluded nothing.
According to the client, the Special Affairs Bureau was powerless as well—their equipment detected no unusual fluctuations.
Left with no choice, he turned to World Nuclear House, hoping someone would come over in the next few days to monitor and protect his family in real-time.
The payment offered was three million in cash per person.
Converting three million to Game Coins, that’s roughly 240.
Earning 240 in two days…
Actually, that’s not bad.
Considering that a newbie player might struggle to earn 400 points from a script task, and this wasn’t even a task, just plain protection of ordinary people.
If all went well, no accident should occur.
No wonder they approached a newbie like him.
Li Cheng asked, “Three million in cash per person, does that mean there will be several players?”
Zhangsun Yao replied, “Yes.
Everyone from my company is temporarily tied up and can’t make it, only [You Anjian] is free and willing to go.
You’ve met him once on the shabby street before.
Besides you two, the client has also hired two other players from different channels.”
That’s the young man who wore round sunglasses and looked quite like Ah Bing, right?
Li Cheng thought for a moment, “Hiring four players temporarily for two days would amount to twelve million.
Given the businessman’s billion-level assets, I doubt he could sustain this for long.”
The businessman is originally from Wudun Town but later moved to Su City for development.
Wudun Town is hosting the World Internet Conference in the next few days.
He is attending and taking this opportunity to bring his family back to his hometown for a visit, thus the temporary hiring of players.”
Wudun Town is quite close to Yin City, just two hours away on the expressway, and with its beautiful scenery, it’s a typical ancient town in Gangnam with a national 5A tourist spot.
It’s the coming Saturday and Sunday; I have no classes, might as well treat it as a trip, can’t lose out.
Li Cheng considered briefly and agreed to take the job, receiving more detailed instructions from Zhangsun Yao and set off for Wudun Town.