The Self-Cultivation of a Reborn Massage Therapist

Chapter 355 Initial Emergence of Assets
Listening to Yu Xiaoning's impassioned speech, Zhao Xiaochui felt inexplicably uneasy.

He looked at Yu Xiaoning and asked cautiously, "You've said so much... so how many people are there in this AI department right now?"

"The core R&D team currently has about 50 people," Yu Xiaoning answered crisply, "and will expand to 120 to 150 people within the next three months."

Zhao Xiaochui paused for a moment. Having been reborn in 2025, he knew all too well the brutal competition for computing power in the future. He hesitated, then asked with a somewhat uncertain word, "Then... AI card? Is that what it's called? Is this... enough?"

Yu Xiaoning was somewhat surprised that he had asked the right question: "The greatest value of the core algorithms and formulas in the USB drive lies in efficiency. It allows us to pre-build efficient semantic clusters. It quickly locks the most relevant semantic regions for calculation, bypassing a lot of redundant attention calculations."

"This means that, with the same computing power, our model training speed will be several times faster than mainstream foreign solutions, greatly reducing the hardware threshold and cost of building large models!"

But she then admitted, "However, GPUs are still essential, and in large quantities and at a top level. No matter how good the algorithm is, it still needs to run."

Zhao Xiaochui immediately thought of the situation before his rebirth, and frowned: "This thing may become a scarce commodity in the future, so we should prepare for it as soon as possible."

The topic circled back to the most practical question at the beginning.

Yu Xiaoning looked at him and asked again solemnly, "So, Xiao Chui, how much money do you actually have? We need cash to stockpile computing power, expand our team, and pay for cloud service bills."

Just then, a crisp text message notification sound rang out.

Zhao Xiaochui's phone screen lit up, and a new bank deposit notification popped up:

[Bank Name] Your account has been credited with RMB..., balance...

Their eyes fell on the screen at the same time, and the air instantly became quiet.

……

Zhao Xiaochui himself doesn't know exactly how much money he has.

During his two business trips abroad, adhering to the simple principle of "a thief never leaves empty-handed," he recovered everything that could be "recovered."

On his first smuggling trip to America, besides recovering tens of millions of dollars from Old Man Lou, he also destroyed the household registrations of three Commissioners Smith.

Under the professional guidance of "a certain company," he extracted the target's biometric features (fingerprints, iris scans), and subsequently took over a large amount of hard currency that was difficult to trace: bearer bonds, private equity, cryptocurrency wallets, overseas bank safe deposit box certificates and keys, offshore account permissions, electronic password devices, offshore company documents, and even various prepaid premium memberships... These operations far exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.

To be honest, he didn't expect any reward for doing these things. He just wanted to make up for the regret of watching those TV dramas and reading those online novels in his previous life. He also didn't have any moral fastidiousness. If he had the ability and could ensure his own safety, why wouldn't he take it?
He never expected that "a certain company" would be so "generous," not only giving him a commission of up to 20%, but also giving him the entire container of "trophies" filled with cash and jewelry during the second South American operation, only taking away the documents and materials that he considered "worthless."

In addition, he also received another container as payment by performing a "deep conditioning" treatment on the armed tribal leader who was guarding the container (Volume 6, Chapter 13). This wealth is being "processed" and "laundered" by a certain company through special channels, and will be deposited into his account without taking a penny.

The most astonishing part was the operation that took place in Richard Keaton's overseas outpost, disguised as an ordinary office building. What was clearly a national-level overseas agency was staffed with CIA agents who were all ruthless thugs.

The "department" was shocked to discover from the information he brought back that even the armed tribal leader who had received his "massage" was, after several twists and turns, actually a henchman of Richard Keaton's henchmen...

The world is a giant makeshift operation. The biggest behind-the-scenes force providing "high-quality products" to the American "people" in the South American jungle has, in a twist of fate, pointed to America's own "elites."

So, how much undisclosed wealth did this Commissioner Smith, Keaton, have hidden overseas? This has become a thought-provoking question.

Therefore, given the astonishing gains and immense value of Zhao Xiaochui's operation, "a certain company," or rather the state, decided to double his commission rate once again.

From some perspectives, Zhao Xiaochui, as a 'strategic nuclear weapon,' also needs maintenance, especially since the maintenance costs are earned by the strategic nuclear weapon itself.

This means that in the next year or two, as those hidden assets scattered around the world are gradually "processed" and "monetized," Zhao Xiaochui's bank account will continue to receive these sudden and astonishing "dividends."

Given that Zhao Xiaochui's gains were too complex and required the cooperation of multiple departments, he received two special bank cards on that large ship: one from the J representative and one from the WJ department representative.

Including the operational expense card previously given to him by "a certain company" and his own salary card, Zhao Xiaochui now owns a total of four bank cards with different functions. He only uses the most ordinary-looking personal salary card for daily expenses.

At that moment, his phone was notifying him of the balance change in this "salary card":

The current account balance is RMB 5420 million, and the USD balance is RMB 1113 million.

……

Yu Xiaoning's gaze was fixed on the bank text message, staring at the ridiculously long string of numbers, especially the recently deposited salary commission. She instinctively gasped, and a curse she had never uttered in a formal setting slipped out:

"Fuck...!"

She suddenly raised her head and looked at the young man in front of her with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.

"Your earnings this month are almost enough to cover the top-tier human resource costs for both of our teams for a month!"

She rubbed her forehead, feeling her worldview had been severely shaken, and muttered to herself, "No wonder those leaders let me poach people at will, no wonder you dared to take on this difficult task..."

Zhao Xiaochui was a little embarrassed by her strong reaction and didn't dare to mention the other three cards. He scratched his head and quickly changed the subject: "Um... Sister Xiaoning, what's the name of that top-of-the-line AI card you mentioned earlier?"

“H100.” Yu Xiaoning, still not fully recovered from the shock, answered instinctively, “Nvidia’s H100, currently the most advanced, and also the one we need most…”

(End of this chapter)