50 Kilograms of Gold!

The Gold Shop was not small. Inside were two large glass display cases and six smaller cases at the front.

"Clatter, clatter~"

Gold rings, gold earrings, gold bracelets, and gold necklaces were swept continuously into the sack with Li Yang's movements. With his arm stretched straight out, he swept inward, and the gold jewelry fell into the open sack like dumplings dropping into a pot. One large display case was emptied by a fifth.

"Clatter, clatter~"

Another sweep emptied another fifth. After five consecutive sweeps, one large display case was finally cleared out. Li Yang hefted the somewhat heavy sack, hurried two steps to the second display case, opened its glass door, and began stuffing jewelry into the sack with a clatter.

This case held all kinds of gold ornaments: gold toads, gold Pixiu, gold babies, gold Buddhas, gold peaches, gold ingots, gold melon seeds... One precious pure-gold item after another was swept into the sack by Li Yang, this farmer harvesting gold as though it were wheat.

The second large display case was emptied in five sweeps. When Li Yang lifted the sack again, it felt rather heavy.

He looked at the remaining six small cases, as well as the gold displays placed in the most conspicuous spots in the Gold Shop: one huge gold pen and six large gold ingots stacked together. Then he looked at the huge pile of gold in his sack, and felt his heartbeat quicken.

"Whew, I'll go back first."

With armor on his body, the sack full of gold was becoming hard to carry. Li Yang immediately chose to make a trip back. With a turn of his thoughts, he returned to his still-lit rental room. Looking down, a sack of glittering gold filled his vision.

He hastily suppressed his emotions, tied the mouth of the sack shut, grabbed a new sack, and with another thought, reappeared in the Gold Shop.

"Good thing I specifically bought a bundle of new sacks."

The Gold Shop was dim, but Li Yang felt that it was dazzlingly bright. Licking his lips, he first stuffed the two shop-treasure-like pieces—the huge gold pen and huge gold ingots—into the sack. Then his expression changed.

Damn, these two things were a little heavy. They would be inconvenient to carry around.

"One more trip."

A flush crossed Li Yang's face. With a thought, he returned to the rental room again, packed the two large gold items in the sack, and placed them in the room.

Then he took a third new sack, went back to the Gold Shop, and swept everything from the last six small cases into it in one go with a clatter.

"Whoosh~"

The world shifted. Li Yang, clad in armor, appeared in his room once more. He tossed down the sack full of small gold jewelry, removed his pure-steel face-covering helmet, and found his head covered in sweat after only this short while.

But... looking at the three sacks of gold beside him, Li Yang did not feel tired in the slightest. Instead, he was wildly excited. He swiftly removed his armor, folded and stored it away, put down his crossbow bolts and Miao Dao one by one, then took a towel to the bathroom for a shower. After washing off his sweat, he returned to the room.

"Whew~"

Feeling cool all over, he turned the fan to level three and shut the door and curtains. Squatting on the floor, Li Yang opened the three sacks one by one, and a dazzling array of gold filled his sight.

"I've struck it rich this time."

Muttering to himself, Li Yang saw that there were still quite a few tray-like holders for the jewelry in the sacks. He immediately picked all of them out, leaving nothing in view but that glittering golden sheen.

Then he took out the bathroom scale from home and weighed the gold. His eyes immediately lit up.

"50 kilograms!"

The gold buyback price was 447 per gram. One kilogram was 1,000 grams, so fifty kilograms was 50,000 grams.

Fifty thousand times 447 came to 22.35 million!

Subtract thirty percent personal income tax on gold transactions, and that left 15.645 million.

No, that was not how it worked. It was not that simple and crude.

There had not been much trading that morning, and the tax matter had been handled on the spot, so Li Yang had not paid attention. But now that he held so much gold, he could not help going online to look up how individuals were taxed when selling gold. He frowned.

"That's way too much..."

Individuals selling gold had to pay 3% value-added tax, 20% personal income tax, resource tax, urban construction tax, education surcharges, local education surcharges...

However, he also noticed that all these taxes were prepayments. Prepaid tax was not truly paid tax, merely an advance payment. If an individual's annual income did not exceed a certain amount, it could all be refunded; within a certain range, part of it would be refunded; but once that amount was exceeded, additional taxes would still have to be paid.

And with this wave of twenty million in income, there was no question that he would have to pay extra tax.

And the ways to pay less tax...

"Children's education, home-buying loans, long-term investments?"

Li Yang blanked out for a moment. After thinking for a while, he decided to give up. He should just sell the stuff first and worry about that later.

Taxes had to be paid. Only money that had been taxed could be spent without worry.

As for the troublesome matter of the gold's unclear origin, Li Yang believed that it was not really a problem.

There had to be a solution.

For example... he could first put the gold in a Gold Shop in the Other World, leave the country, entrust a legitimate financial company abroad to sell it, and bring the money back into the country completely legally.

It was just that the procedures would be a little difficult.

Or... he could go to the Temporary Exchange.

With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Yang decided to first visit the various Gold Shops and sound out the bosses he had worked with during the day. If it worked, he would trade with them. If not, he would try the Temporary Exchange first.

If none of those routes worked, then he would consider doing business abroad. After all, even if he went to Africa, obtaining the qualifications would still be troublesome.

But... before money, such troublesome matters no longer seemed like much of a problem.

Thoughts churned endlessly in his mind. Li Yang stared at the gold for a long while, then suddenly realized that the best way was to put it back in the Gold Shop in the Apocalyptic World first.

Shaking his head with a helpless sigh, Li Yang carried the gold and put all of it back into the Gold Shop in the Apocalyptic World.

Including that illegal crossbow.

This time, however, he did not rush to leave. Instead, he decided to add a little protection to the Gold Shop.

"I wonder when the apocalypse happened. The glass door is locked, yet the rolling shutter door wasn't even pulled down."

Li Yang glanced at the rolling shutter by the entrance, gritted his teeth, returned to the rental room to put on his armor and bring his Miao Dao, then came back again. Taking up the crossbow, he cautiously moved toward the entrance.

"Grrr..."

Five or six zombies wandered on the street outside. Seemingly catching his scent, they rushed over in a swarm.

"Thud, thud, thud..."

Li Yang rapidly pulled the trigger at the zombies' heads. With armor on, he was completely fearless, but he only had time to shoot four dead before the remaining two got close.

"Thud~"

He swiftly retreated two steps and killed another with one arrow. Li Yang then quickly set down the crossbow, drew his blade, and viciously thrust it into the zombie's eye socket.

"Pfft..."

The blade tip pierced the zombie's head, and the frenzied zombie instantly collapsed.

"Good thing I came fully prepared."

Li Yang's thoughts stirred. He hurriedly got up and pulled down the rolling shutter at the entrance.

"Screech~"

The piercing sound drew the attention of more zombies in the silent night. But by the time they came over, Li Yang's scent had vanished. After clawing twice at the rolling shutter, they all gradually left.

Half an hour later, Li Yang appeared again in full armor and pushed the shop's display counters one by one against the inside of the rolling shutter, preventing zombies from breaking through the entrance and charging into the shop.

When he turned around, he saw an iron door at the back of the Gold Shop that led who knew where.

He went to inspect it and discovered that the key was still in the lock. Pushing it open, he was surprised to find a staircase leading upward. However, the unit door outside was also closed, so it was fairly safe. He quickly shut the iron door and locked it from the inside.

After testing it, he found the iron door was sturdy once locked and secure enough. The front entrance was blocked as well. Only then did he finally feel at ease. He calmly left the crossbow and Miao Dao in the shop, and with a shift of his body, vanished from the store.