novelraw Chapter 10: Investment and Learning
Chapter 10: Investment and Learning
Jinshan Villa District.
Villa Number 66.
Su Yuan successfully returned with a box of investment gold bars worth thirty million.
After storing the gold bars safely, Su Yuan sat cross-legged.
He began reviewing everything he had done today.
From the moment he left Jinshan Villa District, his figure had not appeared under any surveillance cameras. The mall locker area he used as the transaction location had experienced three hours of surveillance failure.
As for outside the mall? Every place Su Yuan walked through or paused at were blind spots for surveillance cameras.
He had left absolutely no traces behind.
The only person who had seen Su Yuan was that young girl.
But she was face-blind and hadn't remembered Su Yuan's appearance at all.After contemplating for a moment, Su Yuan took out the gray mirror and began asking questions.
"When will my impersonation of Dong Guofeng be exposed?"
Su Yuan stared at the gray mirror surface.
Dong Guofeng was that highest-level underground black market member, currently vacationing in the Maldives.
Su Yuan had used this person's identity to cash out that batch of antique treasures.
The gray mirror surface grew hazy and blurred, quickly revealing lines of text.
[One month later, the underground black market will contact Dong Guofeng, and Dong Guofeng will learn about this matter from them]
"One month?" Su Yuan continued asking: "What will Dong Guofeng's attitude and reaction be? And what actions will he take?"
The gray mirror surface swirled, quickly providing another answer.
[After learning that he supposedly traded a batch of jewelry with the underground black market, Dong Guofeng will be completely baffled. If not for the underground black market manager guaranteeing with his life, he wouldn't believe it at all]
[The reluctantly convinced Dong Guofeng will begin investigating the matter's origins, ultimately only tracing it to the phone number owner Lin Qingxue who called Sun Laoliu. After two months of surveillance on Lin Qingxue, Dong Guofeng will conclude that the person who misused his membership code wasn't her. His advisory team will also speculate that the mastermind likely used hacking methods to invade nearby base stations, randomly selecting a phone number to call Sun Laoliu]
[After continuing deep investigation for another month, Dong Guofeng still won't obtain any useful clues. He can only contact the underground black market again with a frustrated expression, changing his membership serial number from the original SED2384..... to HJKFGF124......]
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Watching the lines of text appearing on the gray mirror surface.
Su Yuan felt reassured.
Actually, he had already known this outcome.
Before taking action, he had already learned all the details, process, and results of this operation from the gray mirror.
Every action Su Yuan took followed the answers provided by the gray mirror, eliminating any potential for unexpected variables or risks.
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One hour later.
Su Yuan took out his phone and opened the stock market app.
For Su Yuan who possessed the All-Knowing Mirror, the unpredictable stock market was practically like picking up money.
Of course, learning from the double-color ball lesson, Su Yuan wouldn't buy those niche stocks.
Even if according to the gray mirror's answers, certain niche stocks would skyrocket ten or twenty times tomorrow.
Su Yuan still wouldn't touch them.
After all, niche stocks with small capital volumes were extremely susceptible to manipulation by market makers. If Su Yuan bought into them, they might suddenly crash.
The market makers could be waiting for someone like Su Yuan to take over their positions.
"Just follow the major trends directly."
Su Yuan couldn't be bothered with complex operations.
The gray mirror indicated that the next ten years would be the AI era, with all AI-related industries becoming hot topics.
So he directly invested five million, purchasing several leading AI stocks.
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Entering the stock market was also part of Su Yuan's upcoming plans.
First, it provided another avenue for making money.
Second, money earned through the stock market was legal and reasonable.
It didn't count as coming from unknown sources.
No need for special money laundering.
No need to fear bank monitoring systems.
Previously, Su Yuan had obtained his first capital through various clever methods, like offering huge bounties, fulfilling elderly people's dreams, and similar activities.
But the origin of that money was too coincidental, so Su Yuan didn't dare let his bank card balance exceed ten million.
He worried about facing manual review by the bank monitoring system.
But money earned from the stock market didn't have such concerns.
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After buying the several stocks recommended by the gray mirror.
Su Yuan took out several books, preparing for in-depth study.
These books were all related to computer information and similar fields.
This era was, after all, the information age.
Even though Su Yuan possessed the All-Knowing Mirror, he still needed to be sufficiently capable himself.
And in the information age, mastering information technology would undoubtedly bring tremendous assistance to himself.
Even the strongest Level 4 lifeforms on Blue Star couldn't instantly travel from one end of Blue Star to the other.
But information networks could.
Moreover, if Su Yuan acquired sufficiently strong computer information technology, everything he did in the future would become much more convenient.
For example, during his recent operation with the underground black market, he wouldn't need to specifically wait for the mall's surveillance to fail - he could directly invade their information network and disable the surveillance.
Anyway, aside from cultivation, Su Yuan currently didn't have much else to do. Since he was idle anyway, he might as well study.
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Learning computer information technology wasn't difficult for Su Yuan.
First, he was originally a computer major, meaning he already had some foundation.
Second, after his first cultivation session, Su Yuan's body had undergone comprehensive transformation, including significant growth in intelligence.
Under these circumstances, many problems that he previously couldn't figure out no matter how hard he tried were now easily solved.
Most importantly, Su Yuan had the gray mirror.
If he truly encountered problems he didn't understand, he could just ask the gray mirror directly.
Compared to the omniscient gray mirror, those computer experts and professors on Blue Star were like trash.
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9 PM.
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 hot pot restaurant where his original self had worked part-time.
During these two years of university, the original self had consistently worked part-time at this hot pot restaurant.
Although it was quite exhausting, especially on Saturdays and Sundays when he almost never had time to sit down, the wages were higher than other places.
After thinking for a moment, Su Yuan answered the call.
"Is this Su Yuan?"
Sister Wang's voice came through, asking with slight concern: "Why haven't you come these past few days? Did something happen?"
Over the past two years, the original self had worked part-time at the hot pot restaurant every summer and winter break, rain or shine, without exception.
But not coming these past few days naturally caught Sister Wang's attention, hence this phone call.
"Sister Wang, I've had some matters to deal with here."
Su Yuan said.
"That's fine, take care of your matters first. At the hot pot restaurant, you can come whenever you're available."
Sister Wang immediately said.
The original self was honest and hardworking - any boss would appreciate such an employee.
"I probably won't be able to come in the future."
Su Yuan replied.
"Won't be able to come?"
Sister Wang seemed somewhat surprised, remaining silent for a while before saying: "That's fine too, you can come whenever you want in the future."
They exchanged a few more pleasantries before hanging up.
"The hot pot restaurant...."
Su Yuan's gaze turned somewhat complex - that place contained almost all of the original self's rest time.
For one hundred yuan, he could stand outside the shop all day, calling out to customers all day.
"It's all in the past now."
Su Yuan sighed inwardly.
After obtaining the All-Knowing Mirror, his future would be infinitely brilliant.
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Time passed.
In the blink of an eye, a week had gone by.