It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

"Come on! There's nothing wrong with it!" Rogers came over and defended himself, "I have someone I like. Even though that happened decades ago, I still like her!"

"Look!" Denise ordered Xiao Xiangcheng: "Why don't you apologize to your Uncle Rogers!"

"Oh..." Xiao Xiangcheng bowed obediently, "Brother, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have spread the dirty rumor about you."

"Great! Why don't we take this opportunity to talk about you taking Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan to block the other kids!"

Xiao Xiangcheng immediately emphasized: "Sister Xiaonan is being bullied. As the eldest sister, how can I just ignore it?"

"Then you can't use multiple shadow clones either!"

"But there are so many of them!"

"Yes, there are a lot of people! But do you really need to create 70 or so shadow clones to chase after 10 people? Seven against one, right?"

0243 The best way to overcome fear

It turns out that having too much money can also be a nuisance.

It’s just like Boss Cheng, who has 500 tons of gold in his hands but doesn’t know what to do!

Boss Cheng contacted the UNSC and asked them if they would still accept gold. But for a country, the more gold it has, the better. Moreover, it has been less than a month since Zhou Zhezhi returned with 675 tons of gold. Even a government as strong as the UNSC would need some time to fully digest 675 tons of gold.

Besides, Boss Cheng is just a restaurant owner. He has no lofty ideals or ambitions, nor any unreliable and money-losing investment channels. The tens of billions of funds in his account are more than enough for him to squander until he runs away from home and the world economy collapses.

On the other side, the project team also reminded Boss Cheng: "If you really want to sell, I'm afraid you can't accept the recycling price given by the main control. It's just gold, and it's everywhere in the universe. Don't you know that there are asteroids with pure gold in the asteroid belt? When the PT in your account is less than 1000 points, then think about exchanging gold for points. The gold price for small transactions is not calculated according to the price of bulk minerals."

That's right, this is the rule of the competitive world! Only when you initially register an account or your account balance is less than 1000Pt, you can use gold to redeem points up to 1000Pt. However, gold is not the only precious metal that can be redeemed for Pt. Various rare elements or precious alloys, as well as other strange materials, can be used to redeem Pt.

But again, the maximum limit is only 1000Pt! It can be regarded as a kind of "welfare" provided by the competitive world to everyone.

Therefore, these nearly 500 tons of gold are like garbage and are temporarily stuck in Boss Cheng's hands.

"Oh, I finally understand how it feels to have money but not be able to spend it."

"Tsk! How can you have money but not spend it?" Denise muttered while playing a mobile game, "Don't you always complain that the governments in the greater Northeast are like Biaozi, and they don't know how to stimulate the economy even after receiving special funds. They either renovate bridges or build roads during the rainy season. Or they dig a ditch in the good main road and fill it up when you don't know what they are going to do."

"Oh, yes! They basically do this every year!"

"Then you can learn from them and just do it for money! Since it's not your turn to do harm in Birch Forest City, then you can go to Dawn Town and the Rain Country to do harm!"

"Yes!"

Denise's words awakened the dreamer, making Boss Cheng realize that he could continue to build infrastructure in the Rain Country! Although the 4-lane first-class highway from Dawn Town to Yuyin Village has been built, who says that after the highway is built, a railway cannot be built?

Besides, there is only one first-class highway now. Can we use this highway as the backbone to build a whole highway network covering the entire Rain Country?

Don’t think that the Rain Country was a place of war during the war years. But once the war is over, based on the geographical location of the Rain Country, it will definitely be a transportation hub and a logistics center!

It just so happens that the Rain Country is a plateau and the source of many major rivers in neighboring countries. Especially since the River Country turns into a "swamp country" every rainy season, is it necessary for the Rain Country to build a dam somewhere? Dams can not only be used to generate electricity, but also to allocate water volume in downstream rivers to prevent drought and flooding?

"Oh, after all this, it seems that my two dollars are not enough!"

"If you don't have enough money, go and pull asteroids!" Denisa suggested again: "If you can't sell gold, you can still sell ore!"

"That's right!" Boss Cheng slapped his thigh and suddenly realized, "I can mine in space. I don't need to apply for a mining license, and I don't have to worry about environmental pollution! The only thing I need to worry about is where to get the mining ship!"

But, when it comes to mining ships, Boss Cheng can't help but shudder. When they first entered the competitive world, they were all scared out of their wits! Or rather, a large number of them were scared out of their wits. Then, batch after batch of contestants, batch after batch, were all scared out of their wits.

After all, the "Ishimura Speed ​​Race" has always been a race that new contestants in every season cannot avoid. It is also the most popular and popular race map among the audience! Basically, on the "Ishimura Race Day" of each season, there will be all kinds of strange handicaps.

Such as betting on a designated player to be scared to tears, peed or fainted; or betting on the number of people to be scared to tears, peed or fainted; or betting on who will "meet love at the corner" in the competition, and the unlucky guy will be "killed from behind"; who will be crushed to death by an automatic door, and who will have his anus scratched while drilling through the ventilation duct.

“That…that…that…”

[Racial discrimination is not popular in our group, no matter how much you say it, it will be useless. ]

"No, I just want to ask, can the page for buying a spaceship be retrieved?"

【You want to buy a spaceship? 】

"I want to... take a look first."

Perhaps it was because they were in tune with each other, or perhaps they were too familiar with each other. When Boss Cheng said "I want to take a look", the programmers and other members of the project team roughly guessed what Boss Cheng meant. After all, he had asked the project team on New Year's Day whether there was a mature plan for mining in space.

and so……

【You want to buy a mining ship? 】

Afterwards, Boss Cheng saw the spaceship purchase page again on the terminal. However, unlike the last time, this purchase page was a real purchase page, because under the display picture of each spaceship, there was a long string of numbers.

When Boss Cheng saw the price of the "Chunlan Class" wave-wave artillery battleship again, he asked in confusion: "The price of this ship is not much more expensive than the price of renovating my house. It's only 5432 million Pt!"

[This is for normal armor. You can check the additional options to see how many Pt are needed to change the armor material to Spartan Alloy.]

After doing so, Boss Cheng suddenly couldn't help but exclaimed "Fuck!" Because he found that the price of the battleship had increased by more than five times. In comparison, the VF-5, which only sold for 28888Pt, was a bargain!

However, when Boss Cheng switched the spacecraft display page to "Commercial-grade planetary disintegration ship", he was completely dazzled by the long string of numbers below the spacecraft.

"Wait a minute, let me count. Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions... Shit! One hundred and thirty-four billion Pt!"

[When you challenged the Ishimura, you were only busy calculating the time to clear the level, and you treated the spacecraft as a background decoration. Please, this is a planetary decomposition ship! Mining and refining, a ship can easily complete the refining of 30 trillion tons of ore in 10 days! 50 mining ships of this level can dismantle and refine the entire Mars within 15 years. So, do you still think this ship is not worth the price of 134 billion Pt? ]

"But this is not a question of whether it is worth 134 billion, but I..." Boss Cheng did not finish his words, and changed to another more heart-wrenching question: "Speaking of which, if we do not count the crazy cultivators in the other world, and only count all the professional contestants in the supernatural and technology fields on our side, can we add up all their Pts to 134 billion?"

【this……】

Inside the project team, the girl in charge of querying data told the programmers: "The mall's discount and promotion activities have just ended, so even if we add up the PTs in all the current professional contestants' accounts, we really can't get the PTs needed for a cracking ship. But before the promotion, when all the contestants were saving money, not only could we buy one, but we could buy two!"

In fact, this is the same as the fact that Hedgehog Cat put all the authors' points together but still couldn't exchange them for the seventh leave application.

It’s really expensive!

But unlike the habitual collective slacking of the pigeons on the cat station, the planetary cracker is really worth the money compared to the price of 134 billion. According to the programmer, even if you buy a planetary cracker with a loan with zero down payment, even if it is calculated at an annualized rate of 3.5%, if the cracker is not sunk or damaged during mining, it will only take about 40 years to pay off all the loans by selling minerals to the competitive world.

[This is the repayment period after retaining 30% gross profit! ]

"So much money? Can you pay off a 40 billion loan in 134 years?"

[It is 134 billion plus 3.5% interest. ]

"Then why haven't I heard of any contestants getting rich by taking out loans to buy this kind of boat?"

[Nonsense, do you think ordinary contestants have this qualification? Even if they have this qualification, where can their ships go to mine? Do you think they are all like you miners who protect the cornerstone world, and can dig as much as you want with your mining ships? Do you know? If the miners in other cornerstone worlds knew that there was a rich mineral belt between Mars and Jupiter in your solar system, you would be so jealous that they would die! ]

"Eh!"

[The prerequisite for the master world to allow loans to buy ships is that the world you are in allows you to drive the ship out to dig! ]

"Oh!"

[If you still think that new mining ships are too expensive, the main control will sell some second-hand mining ships at a low price from time to time, provided that you can accept it.]

"Second-hand mining ship?"

When Boss Cheng heard the word "second-hand", he didn't need any prompting. The first thing he thought of was the bloody and messy "second-hand ship" that was replaced from the "Ishimura Clearance Race".

[Actually...] The programmer hesitated and then said: [I don't think I need to explain in detail, you can guess the source of the second-hand mining ship. Although this kind of second-hand ship is indeed a bit disgusting, you need to clean it up yourself after buying it. However, the technical department can still guarantee the functionality and safety of the second-hand mining ship. ]

"Can I ask you a question? When you say safety, do you mean the overall structure of the mining ship, or can you say that personal safety can be guaranteed inside and outside the ship?"

【The first.】

"That is, if you buy a mining ship, the first thing you need to do is go in and raid a few waves, right?"

【Uh……】

Seeing that the other party did not reply, Boss Cheng asked a relatively piercing question: "Do you have a backlog of second-hand mining ships?"

[Well, there are indeed two mining ships that have been used in more than 30 competitions and are in the hands of the Logistics and Equipment Department. But both ships are new ships that have only held competitions and have never actually mined. ]

"More than 30 games?" Boss Cheng couldn't help but take a deep breath and asked, "In other words, I..."

[Oh, yes, you actually competed on both boats. You were the one who caught up with the first three races!]

"What the hell!" Boss Cheng took another breath, but then asked, "Are they eager to make a move?"

[Since we are all on the same side, I will tell you the truth. The main reason why these two mining ships were eliminated is that the internal structure of the hull has been well remembered by the contestants and the audience. The old-timers' speed through these two ships is basically the same as the backboard clearance, so they were eliminated.

However, the two ships were too big. The Logistics and Equipment Department wanted to hand them over to the Technical Department, but the Technical Department complained that the monsters in the cabin had not been cleaned up. Besides, the Technical Department did not have the right space to store the two huge ships. If something went wrong with the ships in their hands, they would be held responsible. Therefore, the Technical Department refused to accept the two ships.

"So what about the price?" Boss Cheng asked again.

[The current price they offer is 80.4 billion Pt per ship.]

“Can I get a loan?”

[It should be fine. You have a very good repayment record. What's more, your area is a completely lawless area.]

"50 billion a ship! I want both, but the condition is an interest-free loan!"

[But your price...]

"Okay, now I'll offer 45 billion per ship."

[No, why are you still descending? ]

"Okay, then I'll pay 30 billion!"

[Don’t lower the price! Don’t lower the price! Just 45 billion! This is the bottom price they gave us. If you lower the price any further, we won’t be able to get the deal!]

0244 There will be no problem

It is said that "every failure makes you wiser". Unless you are a real idiot, even the dumbest person will learn his lesson after suffering many failures.

When the people from the Logistics and Equipment Department urged Boss Cheng to sign the contract as soon as possible, Boss Cheng realized that there was probably no trick here, but a fucking pit.

So when the head of the logistics equipment department threatened Mr. Cheng that he would not sell the product if the contract was not signed immediately, Mr. Cheng replied decisively, "I will not buy it," and then hung up the phone, keeping silent with the programmer in tacit agreement.

Boss Cheng always believes that if the price of a product is far lower than its actual value, it is not the product that has a problem, but the person who sells it. A spaceship worth 134 billion yuan can be sold at a discount of 45 billion yuan. Even two are sold at once, and Boss Cheng is provided with an interest-free loan service.

When encountering such a good thing, Boss Cheng had to ask himself, why did he get such a good thing? Was he the guardian of the 27th cornerstone world?

Human relations and corruption are everywhere. Boss Cheng doesn't believe that the huge competitive world can be purer than Ding Zhu. Is it possible that there are no connections and nepotism in the main control?

If such a great thing really escaped the secret operation of "internal digestion first" and fell directly on Boss Cheng's head, Boss Cheng would probably be turned into a vegetable by such a big pie.

A vegetative person is lying flat, but what people generally refer to as "lying flat" is an attitude towards life, not a posture or position of actually lying still.

"It's not a business deal. What's the problem with those two ships?"

[We didn't know before, we just received a request for assistance from the Logistics and Equipment Department, and we all worked together to find a way to sell the two ships. But there are not many people who are qualified to buy the ships, except for some of the top executives of the General Control... uh, that is, you, the world guardians who have a huge demand for mineral resources. ]

"And what about the ship? Don't you have any inside information?"

[There is no definite information. In fact, we have no idea where the two ships are parked.]

"You don't know anything, and you dare to help shout and sell?"

[Money is attractive, because they offered a high commission, so we let down our guard. Now looking back, from the beginning to now, everything was unreasonable. But one thing is certain, the head of the logistics equipment department really wanted to sell the ship.]

Boss Cheng himself admitted that he was indeed very interested in buying the two low-priced mining ships. But the problem now was that Boss Cheng's sixth sense was always reminding him to "be careful of falling into the trap."

Moreover, since Boss Cheng "retired", he has been tricked by the project team and the main control more than once or twice. Although the two sides have a friendship, and a good friendship, this friendship cannot reach the level of sharing life and death, and sharing honor and disgrace.

Therefore, Boss Cheng made his request to the project team, asking the project team or the technical department to help investigate why the mining ship was sold so cheaply. More precisely, what was wrong with the mining ship or the seller of the mining ship?

At the secret request of the project team and the technical department, the internal affairs investigation department also launched a secret investigation. However, after two rounds of investigation, the internal affairs investigation department gave a closing report that "the ship is old, but 45 billion yuan per ship is indeed inappropriate."

But the report is a report, and the people in the technical department and the internal affairs investigation department are not fools. The more the investigation results are not problematic, the more it proves that there is a big problem with the logistics equipment department that is eager to sell the ship to Keystone World.

At this time, an old acquaintance of Mr. Cheng proposed a very reasonable hypothesis to the investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Investigation. He asked the investigators: "Why are you so sure that the two ships you investigated are the ones they are eager to get rid of?"

After all, the Logistics and Equipment Department has at least 30 of these mining ships used as competition venues! The head of the Logistics and Equipment Department claimed that there were only two of the earliest models.

"But the question is, what if the two oldest models are not what they want to sell? Our Internal Affairs Investigation Department has a lot of power, so why not use that power to cooperate with certain people to put on a show? I heard from someone in the No. 27 project team that he also put on a big show some time ago and even made a lot of money from it."

The investigator from the Internal Affairs Investigation Department also thought this was a solution, so he immediately called his supervisor to apply, and the supervisor quickly contacted Project Team No. 27.

The Internal Affairs Investigation Department also understands the principle that "the emperor has no hungry soldiers". They assured the No. 27 project team that no matter what the outcome of this matter is, they will sell two second-hand mining ships to Mr. Cheng at a price of 45 billion per ship. They also repeatedly assured that there will be no problems with the mining ships sold to Mr. Cheng. And the commission for the project will also be paid according to the standards promised to the Logistics Equipment Department before.

You must not think that the competitive world is peaceful, harmonious, and prosperous. All kinds of people or organizations are like leeks, which grow again after being cut. The Internal Affairs Investigation Department is the department responsible for the investigation of internal affairs. It is not an exaggeration to call them "East Factory Fanzi".

These people never lack money, and they don't even care about money. Of course, they don't care about human life. If they really kill someone by mistake, they just go through the procedures with the Insurance Department and ask them and the Medical Department to help revive them. So the Internal Affairs Investigation Department is so unscrupulous when it comes to doing things.

So, when the coder contacted the boss again and told him the Internal Affairs Investigation Department's idea, the boss, who had been almost bored recently, readily agreed to the Internal Affairs Investigation Department's request for cooperation.

Because the boss is really bored lately!

The construction site in Hualin City was closed for holiday. In such a large construction site, there were no other living creatures except the security guards and the big dogs kept at the site.