Before coming here, Lin Qi had learned about a very interesting case.
There was a seemingly honest man who one day voluntarily turned himself in. To make the police take him seriously, he confessed the amount of money involved in the case.
More than four hundred billion.
Yes, more than four hundred billion—enough to make even the richest person in some Small Countries break into a sweat. And that was only the amount involved in the case! The police did not quite believe him. They investigated the informant's background and found an utterly ordinary social profile: a middle-school graduate with no job.
Perhaps the police were still asking themselves one question—
You probably haven't even seen forty thousand in cash, and you're telling us four hundred billion?
But acting responsibly, they opened a case and began their investigation. What no one expected was that the amount involved was far more than four hundred billion!
It was an online gambling case. The informant had once been addicted to online gambling, but later began studying computer technology, hoping to open a gambling den of his own.
Perhaps this was where his talent lay. He quickly set up his own online casino and, relying on the connections he had made through various online and offline gambling activities, recruited a group of people to gamble there.
The casino soon grew larger and larger. Specialized game-currency dealers began appearing, buying game currency from the informant at a price of six-tenths of a yuan for ten thousand units.
They then sold the game currency for between eight- and nine-tenths of a yuan per ten thousand units, while also buying game currency back from the market at low prices.
As more and more people kept pushing it forward, the entire casino continued to expand, spreading from within