"Ding! Host has claimed the newbie gift pack and received 100 billion in Dragon Country Currency, deposited into the overseas financial account the system prepared for the host." "The funds originated from international stocks, cryptocurrency, futures markets, and other financial markets. Their sources are traceable. Host, please use them without concern."
Li Rui's jaw dropped. Although he had obtained a system, and something that outrageous had already happened...
He still found it unbelievable to learn that he had received 100 billion in Dragon Country Currency. With that much money, he could solve 99.99 percent of the troubles in this world.
This was 100 billion! Although Dragon Country had dozens of people with net worths exceeding 100 billion, and probably even more hidden from view, there were also conglomerates worth over 10 trillion.
But this was 100 billion in cash. There probably weren't many individuals in all of Dragon Country who could produce that much cash.
"System, transfer one billion to my Agricultural Bank of China card ending in 8115." At that moment, even Li Rui's voice trembled slightly.
"Certainly, host."
The instant the system finished speaking, Li Rui's phone chimed. He looked closely and saw a text message from the Agricultural Bank of China appear on the screen.
Your Agricultural Bank of China card ending in 8115 has received 1000000000 yuan. Your balance is 1000000156 yuan.
Ones, tens, hundreds, ten thousands, ten millions, billions... As Li Rui counted the digits in his bank account over and over, he finally confirmed that one billion really had arrived.
"It's real, it's real, it's actually real! Hahaha..."
What followed was a long bout of shouting mixed with laughter. For an ordinary person to receive such an enormous fortune without going mad already showed considerable mental fortitude.
One billion! Even if he won ten million in the lottery, he would have to win a hundred times to reach one billion. An ordinary person with one billion would never have to worry for the rest of his life.
Li Rui had his own reasons for transferring only one billion to his bank card. As the saying went, wealth should not be exposed. Too large a sum could easily attract the bank's attention. Although there was nothing wrong with the source of the funds, the less trouble, the better.
A transfer as enormous as one billion was already enough to make people's jaws drop.
If he transferred all 100 billion into a domestic bank, even the bank manager in their little county town would be clamoring to take him out to dinner every day and treating him like royalty. So, for now, he would transfer only one billion. Even that amount was an astronomical figure to Li Rui.
He now had one billion in his bank account, with another 99 billion in his overseas financial account.
Those luxury cars he had once seen on the streets, which had filled him with envy, jealousy, and resentment, were a must. As for revitalizing his family or high technology, those weren't things he could accomplish overnight. He would set them aside for now.
A supercar was an absolute must. What young man didn't love supercars?
Thinking of driving a supercar and having all kinds of beautiful women come knocking of their own accord, Li Rui couldn't help beaming.
At that thought, Li Rui rolled out of bed, put on his slippers, went downstairs, and hailed a taxi. "Driver, take me to the biggest luxury car dealership in Star City."
Inside the lavish showroom of Star City's largest luxury car dealership, several uniformed saleswomen scrolled through their phones and traded gossip. There were barely any customers looking at cars.
There was nothing strange about the scene. This was Star City's largest luxury car dealership, after all, and even its cheapest cars cost over a million. These weren't purchases ordinary people could afford. With the economy slumping over the past few years and money becoming harder and harder to earn, it was no surprise there were so few people.
Footsteps suddenly rang out in the spacious dealership. The saleswomen who had been looking down at their phones all raised their heads and looked toward the sound.
A young man who looked like a college student stood at the entrance. His looks and bearing were fairly decent, but... flip-flops and baggy shorts? What was going on?
That should have been the standard outfit of an old landlord. On someone so young, though, the difference in presence between him and an old landlord was more than a little. He looked like a complete loser. Otherwise, a salesperson would have gone over to greet him already.
Seeing how the newcomer was dressed, the veteran employees all knew this was another person here to mooch a car experience, and immediately lost their enthusiasm. How could a loser like this afford a luxury car worth over a million?
Still, because of the dealership's rules, none of the salespeople sneered at or mocked the customer as they might in a novel. The veteran employees simply didn't want to take on such a thankless task.
"Lili, there's a customer. Go help him," a slightly older saleswoman said from her chair, her legs crossed, addressing a young woman studying documents behind a desk. If the dealership didn't have a rule that anyone who came through the door was a customer, someone like him wouldn't even warrant attention.
Something this obviously thankless should go to an intern. I'm certainly not wasting my time, Zhang Yingying thought disdainfully.
"Okay, Sister Zhang," Wang Lili answered softly. It had been almost two months since she had graduated and started working at the dealership, and she hadn't sold a single car in all that time.
That was because she never got a turn to serve customers who could actually afford to buy. Instead, she was sent to help people like this, who clearly had no purchasing power. Naturally, she couldn't sell any cars.
Her three-month internship was almost over. If she still couldn't sell a car, she wouldn't even have a chance to become a permanent employee. At that thought, she felt full of grievance and dejection.
After adjusting her mindset, Wang Lili walked briskly toward the man standing at the entrance.
"Hello, sir. Are you here to look at cars?" Wang Lili looked at the man in front of her and asked softly.
As Li Rui was surveying the luxury cars around the dealership, a clear female voice sounded beside him.
Turning his head, Li Rui looked the beauty before him up and down. She was a seven or eight out of ten, 1.65 meters tall, and dressed in a professional outfit with a figure-hugging skirt.
With stockings over her long legs and low heels on her feet, she had something of a mature-woman air, but her bright eyes revealed that stupidity unique to college students.
Just an hour earlier, a woman with looks and a figure like hers would have been someone he could never get in his entire life. After all, no girl would choose a man who struggled even to feed himself, much less a girl who could be considered quite a beauty.
But times had changed. There was a billion sitting in his bank account. Any kind of woman was now within his reach.
If that wasn't enough, there was another 99 billion in his financial account. With that much money, what kind of woman couldn't he get? So, when it came to women, he was in no hurry now.
"If I didn't come to a car dealership to look at cars, did I come to look at beautiful women?" Li Rui said with a sincere smile as he looked at the beauty before him.
To Wang Lili, however, that smile looked a little like the ill-intentioned grin of a petty hooligan.
"All right, sir. May I have your surname?" Wang Lili asked, her face slightly flushed.
"Li."
"Hello, Mr. Li. Is there a particular model you have in mind?"
At Wang Lili's question, Li Rui shook his head. During his glance around earlier, he hadn't seen the kind of sports car he wanted. He then said, "I want to buy a supercar. A top-of-the-line supercar."
Hearing Li Rui's words, Wang Lili froze.
"Mr. Li, you're saying you want to buy a supercar? You're not joking, are you?" Wang Lili truly couldn't believe it.
Of the people who came to a dealership to buy supercars, which one wasn't dressed in designer brands, wearing a watch worth hundreds of thousands or even a million? There was no way they would be dressed like the man before her.