Resurrection Empire

Chapter 621 - 234: Approachable and Arrogant Because of Talent

Ren Zhong and Gao Sheng didn’t converse for long. The other party merely expressed Purple Crystal Mining’s admiration for him and wished him continued success, while also informing him that Gao Tianhua, the general manager of the Yangsheng City branch, would soon pay a visit to discuss the full intention of Purple Crystal Mining, before ending the call.

This feeling was somewhat familiar to Ren Zhong.

When he was about to leave high school years ago, he had received quite a few similar calls.

University presidents from far-off Beijing personally called his parents to express their interest.

On that day or the next, staff from various universities’ admissions offices would visit with gifts, show warmth and concern, and offer various promises.

It proves that regardless of the era, true talent always receives attention.

Even though the academic system on Source Star is fundamentally "knowing what happens but not why," in this space age, one can only wonder how much rote knowledge Source Star has accumulated — even just "knowing what happens" requires high intelligence.

Therefore, Source Star’s academic system still demands talent.

Ren Zhong found this deeply contradictory.

On Source Star, at least eight billion people don’t even have the opportunity to learn real knowledge.

No one can say how many of these eight billion have brains as talented as, or even more gifted than, his own.

But all this intelligence is wasted.

A leader like Purple Crystal Mining also lacks people.

The brains taken away by Hunters surely aren’t used for normal thinking purposes.

Otherwise, a so-called champion like himself wouldn’t be given such attention.

Ren Zhong mused internally on how many brains Hunters have taken from Source Star over hundreds of years—an astronomical number, no doubt.

Surely not every brain becomes a Ghost Particle Communicator?

Perhaps the communicator is just one function of the brain?

"Ren Zhong, what’s wrong?"

The leader of Liao Yuan Science College, who was waiting for him to sign the contract, couldn’t help but ask when he saw Ren Zhong deep in thought.

Ren Zhong snapped back to reality and smiled, "It’s nothing. I just received a call from Mr. Gao Sheng, the CEO of the First Continent Branch of Purple Crystal Mining. We exchanged a few words."

The college leader was momentarily surprised, then showed a look of understanding.

"Ren Zhong, I thought about it, and I think we need to revise the contract numbers a bit."

"Why’s that?"

"Your image rights are worth fifteen million per year."

"Thank you."

"No need to thank me, it’s what you deserve. I hope wherever you go in the future, you can tell others that Liao Yuan Science College is your alma mater."

"Of course. It’s truly the place where I first encountered knowledge, my cradle for development."

"Indeed."

...

In the hotel suite, hearing the visitor alert from the butler, Ren Zhong turned off his tablet with a snap.

In the almost two hours just now, he completed all the automated stock market trading program setup for the coming days.

His entire stock market layout was finished ahead of schedule.

Last time, these operations took him a whole night, totaling eight hours.

The lengthy duration was due to two major reasons.

First, he had to use browsing financial reports, trend curves, and related news to create a smokescreen.

Second, he only remembered twenty to thirty demon stocks; to gather a hundred stocks, even for the simple operation of selecting the top fifteen leading stocks in the target sector, there were details to consider, like how much money to allocate to each stock, which had to be carefully deliberated.

After all, he only knew the sector trends and was unclear about the specific situations of each stock.

But with his prior "failed" experience, he was clear about everything this time.

He quickly optimized the capital allocation plan.

Last time, his final overall success rate was "only" 80%, and overall profit rate was "only" 55%, which was "barely satisfactory."

But the Securities and Exchange Commission and other organizations still couldn’t accept his "barely satisfactory" performance, and embargo orders and asset freeze orders still appeared punctually as usual.

I merely wanted to live discreetly and interact with you as an ordinary stock market expert.

Yet you are aggressive, like rats not even sparing the smallest scraps of meat.

Anyway, as long as I earn over ten billion, you’ll target me.

So be it. I’m done pretending and laying my cards on the table.

I’m curious to see what you’ll do if I increase the overall profit rate to above 80%.

Thus, with the same 20 billion total capital pool, still divided into 100 portions, the top ten stocks with the highest gains last time held a whopping 10 billion, with each stock seeing a 1 billion entry amount on average.