The male supporting character was actually myself.

So it wasn't what I imagined? No wonder I often see armored trucks bustling around various branches after get off work... and those gold vaults...

Scenes from the movie flashed through his mind instantly.

The thick, round door, after a series of complex operations, was turned open to reveal a vault without a single gap...

"This is so troublesome!" He was immediately filled with frustration. He had thought that there were piles and piles of useless gold in the wasteland waiting for him to carry them back, but who would have thought it would be so damn difficult!

Just as Chen Luoqi was feeling dejected, a dazzling protagonist's aura suddenly erupted and enveloped Jiang Chen, who was separated by a wall.

The fluffy little ball of fur, who had been dozing on the bed, suddenly sprang up and jumped onto his shoulder with a "whoosh." It pushed forward with its right paw as if supporting a tremendous weight, its little face serious. In its soft, sweet, loli-like voice, it shouted with utmost seriousness, "Back off! Back off! Back off!"

The dazzling halo was actually stopped by the shout, and then it reluctantly stepped back, releasing Jiang Chen who had been enveloped by it.

He glanced curiously at the fluffy ball on his shoulder and earnestly coaxed, "Nothing in this world is easy to succeed at. But our cooperation has been going well so far, so I'll give you the gold bars first."

Based on the previous exchange rate for the gold bracelet, this gold bar could probably be sold for around 40,000 yuan.

You can keep the ten thousand yuan as profit, and use the rest to buy high-quality ingredients and send them over. With high-quality ingredients, I can negotiate prices with various suppliers. Although it's impossible to immediately raid the gold vault and steal gold bars and bricks, as long as this business is profitable, we can all benefit in the long run.

Chen Luoqi thought about it and realized that what the other person said made some sense. But how could someone from the wasteland world seem to know more about the pre-disaster city situation than he did?

Even more outrageous is that he was able to calculate the value of a gold bar from the gold bracelet recycling price he casually mentioned!

Damn it, I thought people from the wasteland world who have never seen the world would be easy to fool, but I ended up meeting a real genius.

"Ha, it's really ridiculous that someone as stupid as you can be the main character." The little white cat stroked its fluffy ears and said disdainfully, "Just because you're an idiot doesn't mean everyone else is stupid. When it comes to transactions and interests, who would reveal their entire hand? Putting aside everything else, what if you took all those gold bricks and bars and ran away without coming back? Pfft~"

Jiang Chen gave it a look, and the fluffy ball hopped over and took out a 100g standard gold bar that it had prepared beforehand, and threw it on the ground.

Clang!

The gold bar made a pleasant sound, and Chen Luoqi's eyes lit up. He quickly stepped forward and picked up the heavy little gold bar.

So this is a gold bar? These thin gold pieces don't look quite like the little yellow croakers I see on TV, but they actually have some weight to them!

Chapter Fifteen's character design is beyond the scope...

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Chapter Fifteen's character design is beyond the scope...

The gold bar, gleaming and meticulously crafted, has a brand mark on its lower left corner. It is only eight or nine centimeters long and no more than three centimeters wide. Its small size gives it a sense of solidity when held in the hand.

"I'll deliver the goods tomorrow!" Chen Luoqi held the gold bars, looking at them again and again, grinning from ear to ear. He then added, "Keep an eye out when you go out. Not only gold bars, but even gemstones, jade, and emeralds can be exchanged for money! I'm leaving now. After I exchange the gold bars today, I'll go find the supplier. This time, I'll definitely deliver the highest quality goods!"

"Wait a minute." Jiang Chen looked at the little white cat that had already perched on his head, ready to travel through time with him. After thinking for a moment, he made a request: "This transaction is not just about ingredients. You can also get some cost-effective daily necessities, such as toothpaste, soap, and shampoo."

"No problem!" Chen Luoqi gave an OK sign, pressed the button with the gold bar, and disappeared along with the little white cat.

Jiang Chen immediately deleted the camera's archive, and the sealed room fell silent as the lights went out.

"biu!"

Almost instantly, the fluffy ball felt the light in front of it become even stronger, and a faint stench made it cover its mouth and nose in disgust, muttering, "What era is this? There are still stinky men who don't like to wash their feet! How disgusting! Ugh~"

Having grown accustomed to his messy little apartment where he had lived for nearly two years, Chen Luoqi didn't notice anything amiss. In fact, he was quite relaxed, finally back in his familiar surroundings. He held the small gold bar in his hand, looking at it again and again, wanting to take a bite but also reluctant to do so.

He took out his phone, opened an online shopping app, took a picture, and searched for it. His eyes widened immediately.

Almost identical gold bars are priced at over 40,000 on the official website!

"I'm rich, hehehe..." Chen Luoqi didn't even bother to tidy himself up. He just grabbed some alcohol disinfectant, sprayed it a couple of times, and rushed out of the house like the wind, wanting to cash out before the shop closed.

If we're lucky, we can get it back at almost the original price, which would be 40,000 yuan!

I've never had so much money all at once in all these years of working!

The fluffy ball hurriedly followed.

"Ouch!" As soon as Chen Luoqi stepped out, he bumped into his beautiful landlady. She was wearing a miniskirt and low-cut top, which almost exposed her. Her beautiful eyes widened and she said in a coquettish tone, "Are you trying to kill me? Can't you watch where you're going?"

Savoring the soft touch, he unabashedly raised his hand to smell the faint fragrance clinging to it, revealing a slightly lewd smile. "Hehe, I'm in a hurry to leave now and don't have time to tease you. You're welcome to come to my room anytime tonight if you want!"

After saying that, he gave the beautiful landlady what he thought was an irresistibly charming look, put his right hand in his pocket, gripped the gold bar tightly, hummed a little tune, and dashed out the door like a whirlwind.

"Tch~ Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror to see what kind of thing you are!" The landlord rolled her eyes, straightened her clothes, and went upstairs to collect rent in a flamboyant manner.

The little white cat, who had witnessed all of this, tilted its head and question marks began to pop out of its forehead.

"That's strange... His protagonist aura was so dazzling in the wasteland world, but it completely disappeared once he entered the real world. He clearly had a cheat code to start his path to defying the heavens, shouldn't he have immediately taken all the beauties around him? Why is his protagonist aura not working now?"

"Holy crap, riding a secondhand electric scooter to go out, the protagonist is really... down-to-earth in the real world!"

The little dumpling simply squatted on the back seat of the electric scooter, enjoying the breeze. It has to be said that the modern-day Liuli City, with its bustling high-rise buildings and shady trees lining the roads, is quite a beautiful sight.

Driving at breakneck speed, Chen Luoqi found a shop that specialized in selling gold.

"Wow, Great Xia Gold? This is gold bars from the future being recycled by a professional gold shop now. Uh... my host specially prepared these gold bars, and they even have serial numbers on them. Maybe there are still gold bars with the same serial numbers piled up in the vault right now. Can they really be recycled so easily?"

The little white cat, who had come with a mission, stared with its deep blue eyes wide like copper bells.

Sure enough, after the other party professionally appraised the gold bars, they offered the protagonist a high buyback price of 41,500 based on the current gold price! The protagonist's aura that flashed for a moment almost blinded the fluffy little ball of hair.

It hurriedly grabbed and scratched at the shimmering halo, plucking strand after strand, but unfortunately, the light soon disappeared.

"I knew it! The illogical exchange was only successfully completed thanks to the protagonist's halo..." It tidied up the halo it had plucked and put it around its neck, then slowly stroked its ears with its paws, seriously considering the problem of the halo's intermittent effectiveness.

Once the Burning CPU figures out this problem, it might be able to completely suppress the protagonist and prevent him from becoming a threat to its own host!

The little white cat, determined to shed its "useless" label, felt that traveling between the two worlds was its shining moment to prove itself!

If I could be like the host, able to figure out the intricacies of things with a furrowed brow and find a way to punish an unqualified protagonist with a slight smile, then I would have more confidence when posting on the forum that has just returned to normal.

The little ball of fluff excitedly rubbed its paws together at the thought of newbies worshipping it as a master in the future.

After the transaction, seeing the five-figure sum that instantly appeared in his account, Chen Luoqi chuckled excitedly.

Even though the other party calculated the price clearly, he didn't know the prices in this world! He certainly wouldn't notice if he cut back half to buy some high-quality but not top-tier goods.

Half of that is 20,000 yuan. In less than a week, I earned 25,000 yuan, which is much more than what white-collar workers in office buildings earn!

If you can consistently earn 25,000 yuan a week, that's 100,000 yuan a month, and 1.2 million yuan a year...

"Damn it! This thing is considered a cheat code?" He quickly frowned as he did the math, looking at the small black box in his hand with a mixture of love and hate.

What can you do with a million or so?

Buying a two-bedroom apartment in a remote part of Liuli City is okay, but if you want to buy a luxury penthouse in the city center, it would take more than four years to earn enough money. If you want a luxury villa with a lawn and a super cool sports car, you'd have to wait forever.

Chen Luoqi was gritting his teeth as he calculated the accounts.

Every time I go through a tunnel, I risk my life, and all I earn is this little bit?

God is so unfair! Look at the chosen ones in novels, who doesn't soar to the top with their cheat codes? Especially those cheat codes that allow you to spend a certain amount of money within a set time and double it if you don't finish—that's really awesome!

On many sleepless nights, Chen Luoqi lay on his small bed in his rented room, pondering eighteen thousand times how he would plan, develop, and make money after obtaining the golden finger. Who would have thought that after finally realizing his dream, he would be so unsuccessful that he couldn't even get his hands on the simplest gold brick!

He found a flower bed, plopped down, took out his phone, skillfully opened his favorite free online novel app, searched for the phrase "traveling between two worlds," and quickly found stories similar to his own from the books that popped up. He clicked on one and skimmed through it, wanting to learn some fancy tricks.

"Meow meow meow~" The fluffy ball was stunned by his actions.

Is it really possible for someone to use an online novel as a textbook? No wonder the protagonist lacks even basic common sense and needs his host to patiently explain things to him. This guy is just a complete idiot!

How did it grow so big?

How does the scriptwriting team select the lead actors?

He actually managed to find a decent job... Any high school graduate with normal intelligence wouldn't take online novels seriously, right?

"I was hoping to give it my all, but I never expected that the main character would be so over the top this time." The fluffy little cat stared blankly for a while, indicating that it had never seen anything like this before!

The little white cat almost couldn't resist the urge to retaliate and report him.

But then I thought about what my host said. Choosing this kind of sleazy guy as the protagonist is probably to attract similar people as the target audience. I guess even if I report it, the main system won't punish me. On the contrary, the problem is more between me and my host. It's safer to just stay out of it.

Moreover, the protagonist's aura does seem a bit strange; we should observe it more closely.

How about... I post a rant on the forum first? The scriptwriting team really needs to reflect on this. What kind of garbage have they written? Even if my host used his face to roll on the keyboard, he couldn't write a more outrageous protagonist!

"Holy crap! Why is it so easy for others? They can just bring back a piece of wood from another world and it's worth millions or tens of millions. Why don't I ever have such good fortune?" The more Chen Luoqi read the novel, the angrier he became.

In any novel that involves traveling between two worlds, the protagonist invariably has relationships with both sides.

The protagonist can acquire a barrel of wine from another world with all sorts of magical effects, such as reversing aging and attracting powerful figures from all sides to curry favor with him, just to have a sip of the wine he brought back or to buy a rare, extinct plant that he casually dug up...

The wasteland world is even more amazing. Not only are all sorts of beauties willing to throw themselves at him for a can of cola and a loaf of bread, but even a bag of instant noodles that he casually brings there can cause a sensation.

Some protagonists are even more awesome, directly traveling through time and finding an entire planet.

Abundant mineral resources, high-tech robots roaming the land, and rare treasures unearthed from the ruins—all belong to him. Bringing back even a random stone could instantly make the protagonist famous, turning him into the world's richest man and a top scientist, enjoying all sorts of privileges...

"My luck is absolutely terrible!" Chen Luoqi gritted his teeth with hatred at the thought of the shelter owner, whose true face he had never even seen. He clasped his hands together and prayed fervently, "If I really am the chosen one, I beg God to strike that shelter owner down quickly. He is the biggest obstacle on my road to success!"

The little white cat, who was deep in thought about the halo problem, was furious when it heard him muttering to himself. "Damn it, how dare you curse my host? You're asking for trouble!"

As it spoke, it puffed up its fur, took a running start, and flew up like a pure white Angry Bird, crashing straight into the protagonist, the "pig."

The next second, Chen Luoqi, who was sitting peacefully by the flower bed and praying devoutly, cried out "Ouch!" and sat down on the ground with a thud, rubbing his lower back where he had been hit by something, looking terrified.

"Holy crap! Did I see a ghost in broad daylight?" Chen Luoqi felt a little guilty about making a wish earlier, so he quickly picked up his phone and sheepishly ran to ride his electric scooter.

He needs to negotiate a good price for the supplies today so they can be delivered to the warehouse tomorrow and sent to the wasteland world as soon as possible.

Chen Luoqi had considered just making a quick buck and calling it quits, but forty thousand yuan was far too little. To really stop, he'd need at least four million, no, forty million, no, at least a billion!

Can losing a billion yuan guarantee a lifetime of wealth and luxury? Impossible!

Buying a luxury house you see online would cost at least 400 to 500 million yuan, wouldn't it? There are also limited edition luxury supercars, various status-enhancing luxury goods, and globally customized one-of-a-kind watches. No matter how he calculates it, he still doesn't have enough money to spend on his electric scooter ride to the factory. Only a billionaire can ensure a worry-free life.

If it's over 10 billion...

Chen Luoqi stopped, took out his phone, opened the calculator, and did a serious calculation. One gram of gold can now sell for four hundred yuan, and one jin (500 grams) equals five hundred grams. To expect to earn ten billion yuan simply by selling gold, one would need at least... Holy crap! Twenty-five tons?!

"Damn it, twenty-five tons of gold bars! I wonder how many tons of gold are stored in a vault..." He looked worried and sighed heavily.

The novel I just read was super exciting! The protagonist travels to another world and gets a miraculous medicine formula. He immediately sells it for a billion dollars and doesn't even buy it out; he takes a cut from the sales. His net income is two or three hundred million dollars a month. That's what you call a chosen one!

If you have to work hard to visit manufacturers, and you can't even afford a house with just one transaction, what kind of golden touch is that?

Chen Luoqi was seething with anger but couldn't set off. All he could do was curse the shelter owner in his heart, wishing he would die soon! He wanted to buy a cutting machine, open up the sealed room, and inherit his shelter.

Just bring over some high-tech products and you'll instantly become a world-renowned figure!

Ha, then even the bigwigs in Congress will have to treat me with utmost respect...