Investment and Learning

Jinshan Villa District.

Villa 66.

Su Yuan returned smoothly with a case of investment gold bars worth thirty million.

After putting the gold bars away, Su Yuan sat cross-legged.

He began reviewing everything he had done that day.

After leaving Jinshan Villa District, he had never appeared on any surveillance cameras. The mall locker area where the transaction had taken place had also suffered a three-hour surveillance outage.

And outside the mall? Everywhere Su Yuan had walked or lingered had been surveillance blind spots.

He had left no trace whatsoever.

As for the only girl who had seen Su Yuan—

She had face blindness and had not remembered what he looked like at all.

After pondering for a moment, Su Yuan took out the Grey Mirror and began asking questions.

"When will my impersonation of Dong Guofeng be exposed?"

Su Yuan stared at the Gray Mirror.

Dong Guofeng was the highest-ranking member of the Underground Black Market and was currently vacationing in the Maldives.

Using that man's identity, Su Yuan had successfully cashed in that batch of antique treasures.

The Gray Mirror became hazy and blurred, and lines of text soon emerged.

[One month later, the Underground Black Market will contact Dong Guofeng, and Dong Guofeng will learn of this matter.]

"One month?" Su Yuan continued, "What will Dong Guofeng's attitude and reaction be? What actions will he take?"

The Gray Mirror churned, quickly providing another answer.

[When Dong Guofeng learns that he once traded a batch of jewelry with the Underground Black Market, he will be utterly baffled. If the person in charge of the Underground Black Market had not guaranteed it with his life, Dong Guofeng would never have believed it.]

[After reluctantly believing it, Dong Guofeng will begin investigating the matter. In the end, he will only discover that the owner of the phone number that called Sun Lao Liu was Lin Qingxue. After monitoring Lin Qingxue for two months, Dong Guofeng will conclude that she was not the person who used his membership code. His Think Tank will also speculate that the mastermind hacked into a nearby base station and randomly selected a phone number to call Sun Lao Liu.]

[After continuing his investigation for another month, Dong Guofeng will still fail to obtain any useful leads. He can only contact the Underground Black Market again in frustration and change his membership serial number from SED2384... to HJKFGF124...]

As he watched the lines of text emerge on the Gray Mirror,

Su Yuan finally felt at ease.

In truth, he had already known this outcome.

Before taking action, he had already learned every detail, process, and result of the operation from the Grey Mirror.

Every action Su Yuan took had followed the answers given by the Grey Mirror, eliminating any possibility of unforeseen variables or hidden dangers.

An hour later.

Su Yuan took out his phone and opened a stock market app.

For Su Yuan, who possessed the Omniscient Mirror, the ever-changing stock market was practically like picking up money.

Of course, having learned his lesson from the Double Color Ball, Su Yuan would not buy obscure stocks.

Even if the Grey Mirror's answers said that certain obscure stocks would soar tenfold or twentyfold tomorrow,

Su Yuan would not touch them.

Obscure stocks with little capital were too easily manipulated by market makers. Once Su Yuan bought in, they might very well crash.

The market makers would be waiting for Su Yuan to take the fall.

"I'll just follow the trend."

Su Yuan could not be bothered with complicated maneuvers.

The Grey Mirror stated that the next ten years would belong to AI, and every industry related to AI would become popular.

So, he directly invested five million and bought several leading AI stocks.

Entering the stock market was also part of Su Yuan's next plan.

First, it gave him another way to make money.

Second, money earned through the stock market was legal and legitimate.

It would not be considered money from an unknown source.

There would be no need to specifically launder it.

Nor would he need to fear the bank's monitoring system.

Previously, Su Yuan had acquired his first funds through various clever methods, such as offering astronomical rewards and fulfilling elderly people's dreams.

However, the origins of that money were too coincidental, so Su Yuan did not dare let his bank balance exceed ten million.

He feared triggering a manual review by the bank's monitoring system.

But money earned through the stock market came with no such concern.

After buying several stocks recommended by the Grey Mirror,

Su Yuan took out several books and prepared to study in depth.

All of these books concerned computers, information technology, and related subjects.

This era was, after all, the information age.

Even though Su Yuan possessed the Omniscient Mirror, he still needed to become strong enough himself.

And in the information age, mastering information technology would undoubtedly bring enormous help.

Even Blue Star's strongest Level 4 Lifeform could not instantly travel from one end of Blue Star to the other.

But information networks could.

And if Su Yuan possessed sufficiently advanced computer and information skills, many things would become far more convenient for him in the future.

For instance, during the transaction with the Underground Black Market just now, he would not have needed to wait specifically for the mall's surveillance system to fail. He could have simply hacked into its information network and disabled the cameras himself.

In any case, aside from cultivation, Su Yuan currently had nothing else to do. Idling was still idling.

Learning computer and information technology was not difficult for Su Yuan.

First, he had originally majored in computer science, so he already had some foundation.

Second, after his first cultivation session, Su Yuan's body had undergone a comprehensive transformation, and even his intelligence had improved considerably.

Under such circumstances, many problems he had once been unable to understand no matter how hard he thought now came easily to him.

Most importantly, Su Yuan had the Grey Mirror.

If he truly encountered something he did not understand, he could just ask the Grey Mirror.

Compared with the all-knowing Grey Mirror, those computer experts and professors on Blue Star were no better than trash.

At nine that evening,

Su Yuan received a phone call.

"Sister Wang is calling me?"

Su Yuan looked at the caller ID and immediately understood.

Sister Wang was the owner of the hotpot restaurant where the original owner had worked part-time.

During his two years in university, the original owner had worked part-time at that hotpot restaurant.

It was fairly exhausting, especially on Saturdays and Sundays, when he hardly had a chance to sit down, but the pay was a little better than elsewhere.

After thinking for a moment, Su Yuan answered the call.

"Is this Su Yuan?"

Sister Wang's voice came through. She asked with some concern, "Why haven't you come by these past few days? Did something happen?"

For the past two years, the original owner had worked part-time at the hotpot restaurant every summer and winter break, rain or shine, without exception.

But he had not gone these past few days, naturally attracting Sister Wang's attention and prompting this call.

"Sister Wang, something came up on my end."

Su Yuan said.

"It's fine. Take care of your own matters first. As for the hotpot restaurant, you can come back once you're done."

Sister Wang immediately said.

The original owner had been honest and hardworking. Every boss liked an employee like that.

"I probably won't be able to go back anymore."

Su Yuan replied.

"You can't come back?"

Sister Wang seemed somewhat surprised. After a moment of silence, she said, "That's fine too. If you ever want to come back, you can."

They exchanged a few more pleasantries before hanging up.

"The hotpot restaurant..."

Su Yuan's gaze grew slightly complicated. That place had occupied nearly all of the original owner's free time.

For one hundred yuan, he could stand outside the restaurant for an entire day and shout for an entire day.

"It's all in the past now."

Su Yuan sighed inwardly.

With the Omniscient Mirror, his future would be infinitely brilliant.

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, a week had gone by.