[Healing potion: Restores physical injuries and ailments. Costs 50 Survival Points or a certain amount of mental energy.]
[Divine Control: After activation, summons a divine servant. Costs 1,000 Survival Points or a large amount of mental energy. The user can control the servant to act according to their will. The higher the servant's level, the lower the success rate. Each percentage point of control costs 1,000 Survival Points or a certain amount of mental energy. A servant of the same or lower level costs half as many points per percentage point, or 50% more mental energy.]
"That's powerful."
"With this Divine Control option, as long as I have enough faith points, I can summon a divine servant and make it do whatever I want. Once I've got enough, I can summon a god, too."
Zeng Mo had only glanced at the healing potion, but the Divine Control option had immediately caught his attention.
He stood up at once.
Qing'er stood up as well.
The car stopped in front of a large building in the city center. Zeng Mo and Qing'er stepped out, then went upstairs to find Yu Lin and Qing'er and invite them to dinner. He also arranged an hour for them to film a promotional video, hoping to draw in more viewers.
On the first day, Zeng Mo had earned more than two hundred Survival Points by searching the nearby suburbs. He then spent the entire day going about his usual routine.
Today, he hadn't encountered any targets to eliminate. He had only earned 2,210 Survival Points.
The next day.
Zeng Mo searched the nearby suburbs as usual, making a circuit through the southern, northern, and eastern districts before heading west. He earned another 30 Survival Points.
But he didn't go to the city's western outskirts. Instead, he stopped at a jewelry store near the square.
It was about twenty minutes later.
Zeng Mo called Yu Lin.
"I'm on my way. Where are you?"
Yu Lin quickly replied, "I just arrived at the jewelry store. Hurry up. I'll wait for you before going inside."
"Okay."
Zeng Mo ended the call. About thirty seconds later, he parked outside the jewelry store.
Yu Lin stood in front of the store's main entrance. She wore a simple, elegant dress that accentuated her tall, graceful figure and made her look familiar, like a sweet and lovely neighbor.
Below the hem, her long, beautiful legs were wrapped in sheer black stockings, glimmering faintly in the sunlight.
"Yu Lin's really gone all out with her outfit."
Zeng Mo chuckled, parked in an empty spot nearby, and got out.
As Yu Lin watched him walk over, she seemed a little stunned by his enormous, muscular frame.
She smiled and greeted him. Then, quite naturally, she moved closer and wrapped an arm around his, speaking like a spoiled young lady: "Zeng Mo, your car is so cool. I've wanted to get one like it for years, but my dad never lets me. Every time I see one on the road, I can't help staring."
[Warning: The host has been cursed by a level-three water deity. Evade as soon as possible to avoid being trapped in the land of the marsh and reduced to a puppet.]
The alert in his ear made Zeng Mo's heart skip a beat.
He didn't hesitate.
He leaned his tall frame against Yu Lin, taking in the delicate fragrance around her, and then smiled. "That works out, then. I've been thinking about something. Why don't we do it together?"
Yu Lin hadn't expected Zeng Mo to be so straightforward. She blushed slightly, but her voice still carried the sweetness of a spoiled young lady. "Sure. When my company wraps up this round of financing and things settle down, if your little girlfriend doesn't mind, I'll go car shopping with you. Anything you want."
"Haha, then it's a deal." Zeng Mo grinned. "Come on, Yu Lin. There's something serious we need to discuss inside."
"Sure."
Yu Lin smiled, then naturally took Zeng Mo's arm and walked inside. In a corner where no one was looking, a woman in an expensive designer dress watched them leave, her gaze cold and dark.
Zeng Mo and Yu Lin entered the jewelry store. The manager in the lobby clearly knew Yu Lin and came right over.
"Ms. Yu, you're here again. It's not that I don't want to give you a discount, but business has been slow lately. There just isn't much profit to be made," the manager said apologetically.
Yu Lin gave a small smile. "I know. Don't worry. You've always treated me well. You'll get a good tip."
With a faint smile, Yu Lin led Zeng Mo to the most luxurious VIP office in the store.
As soon as they stepped inside, a stylishly dressed woman who looked to be in her fifties stood up from her seat. She smiled and greeted Yu Lin.
"Ms. Yu, what brings you here today? You didn't even call ahead. I could've come out to meet you."
Yu Lin walked to the sofa opposite the manager and sat down without bothering with pleasantries. She gestured toward the man beside her. "Manager, I'll skip the formalities. I'd like to use him as collateral and borrow money from you. Take a look at this."
The manager narrowed her eyes. Her face was still smiling, but there was a trace of suspicion in it. She quickly reached out and took the file from Yu Lin, then began flipping through it.
As she read, her face grew paler.
"The seven-percent stake in Lihuang Gold Group? That's the largest gold mining company in the city. The stone jewelry mine is comparable to one in Myanmar. Hm? Zeng Mo is the guarantor? Why haven't I heard of him? These documents can't be fake, can they?"
Yu Lin said, "Manager, you're making me laugh. The person standing beside me is Zeng Mo. He and the stone jewelry mine company have been negotiating for seven percent of the shares. You can verify that yourself."
The manager studied Zeng Mo carefully.
She'd just seen him come in with Yu Lin and assumed he was some young nobody Yu Lin had found. She hadn't taken a proper look at him.
But beneath his ordinary-looking clothes, he seemed to have a pair of remarkably long legs.
"All right. Please wait a moment." The manager picked up her phone, found the contact for CEO Shi Mingqiang, and immediately sent him the documents.
The office building of the grand Lihuang Gold Group.
Shi Mingqiang sat in his office, listening happily to his assistant's suggestion about how to maximize the profit from taking the shares from Wang Cuiyu, the greedy woman, and how to turn her into a puppet to control her completely.
Suddenly, his phone rang.
He reached out and answered.
The face of CEO Lin appeared on the screen.
"CEO Lin, hello. What can I do for you?"
"This is about Zeng Mo, the young man you negotiated with. You signed an agreement with him for a seven-percent stake in Lihuang."
The moment Shi Mingqiang heard that the manager of the jewelry store had called, delight flashed in his eyes.
He knew that as long as the manager followed up on the agreement, it meant that the woman was about to hand over all her assets and become Yu Lin's puppet.
Shi Mingqiang took a deep breath and said gravely, "Yes. I used my entire fortune to sign an agreement with him for a seven-percent stake in Lihuang."
"Stone jewelry is my business partner for filming and recording. I'm asking you: He wants to use this agreement as collateral and borrow money from Yu Lin. Do you agree?"
Shi Mingqiang really didn't want to agree, but when he thought of Wang Cuiyu, that greedy woman, he gritted his teeth and said, "I agree. Whatever he wants to borrow against that agreement, give it to him."
"All right, I understand. The documents for your partnership with my film crew have been reviewed. They're indeed suitable as collateral. How much do you plan to lend him?"
"I want to borrow 100 million. I'll pay you back with interest in a year," Yu Lin said.
"One hundred million. The interest for a year would be 10 million."
"What?" Zeng Mo, who had been quietly listening, suddenly exclaimed.
"One hundred million." The manager's voice wavered slightly. After all, she was lending an extra 10 million in interest.
"Not at all. Next sentence," Zeng Mo said.
"I'll pay you back with interest in a year."
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