My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy! -
Chapter 120 - 98 Keeping Up with the Times
Chapter 120: Chapter 98 Keeping Up with the Times
Hmm...
Meng Lang silently put down his book, turned on his phone, and checked the current US Dollar exchange rate right away.
Then he opened the calculator app.
"Five nine zero zero, times, six point two eight, equals..."
37052!
Hiss~ 370 million!
Meng Lang automatically disregarded the insignificant remainder of 520,000; if he rounded up, he could almost reach... four small goals?
Stay calm! Stay calm!
Nothing was set in stone yet, Meng Lang took a deep breath.
He had thought about how to make a bit more money, after all, 7 million might look like a lot, but it was absolutely insufficient in the face of a disease that left all humanity helpless.
And in the near future, his lifesaver would require a large sum of money.
Continuing to fund Changqing Biological not only would provide a stable, high-return investment but would also speed up the development of the drug—killing two birds with one stone!
In his plans, his way of getting rich had to be low key and unobtrusive, fast, legal, and ideally create a consistent and stable channel of income!
Having read many novels and watched quite a few TV shows, Meng Lang could think of several ways to get rich quick:
1. The code for a small game that would become hugely popular in the future.
It didn’t require much data, which made it perfect to fit into his autobiography, and in ideal conditions, it could pull in tens of thousands daily, becoming a cash cow.
The upside to this method is the constant flow of ongoing income; a small code every day could snowball into potentially becoming the world’s richest person, right?
However, the downside is that money comes in too slowly.
And... releasing a future game ahead of time might cause key medical talents to become addicted and unable to extricate themselves from gaming. Wouldn’t he be really digging his own grave then?
Wouldn’t that be dragging down human civilization?
2. A high-quality company that has just started.
For instance, the likes of Ali Baba, going through angel rounds, Series A, Series B—one round after another, turning a mere 7 million into 70 billion is not impossible.
The upside of this method is the ability to invest mindlessly and reap the returns, but the downside is still that money comes in too slowly.
Even if you increase your investment by 1000 times in 10 years, that’s still too late to quench a thirst.
3. Antiques and cultural relics.
Picking up bargains is an experience almost every male protagonist must go through.
One only needs to provide the three elements—time, location, and item—buy it for a few hundred, and then find an auction house where the appraisers will gasp in amazement, and the money can probably be sent in just a month or two!
This way the money comes fast, but generally speaking, the value of openly auctioned items won’t be too high, topping out at tens of millions at most.
Those cultural relics worth more than a small goal are rare treasures, many of which are of national treasure level.
Even if you find a bargain, you can’t sell it, and handing it over to the nation for a consolation prize of ten or eight thousand along with a flag would purely be charity work.
Besides, he wasn’t an antique appraiser anyways; constantly finding bargains as if he had a detector, wouldn’t others ask if his last name was Zhuang?
Like a lottery, this could be done once or twice but wasn’t sustainable, lacking the potential for continued development.
4. Selling patents.
To select the most valuable cutting-edge technology patents from a massive archive of future records.
If he wanted money quickly, he could just sell the patents, and if he wanted sustainable development, he could collect patent fees or start a company and run it himself.
This method seemed quite perfect at first glance and could also inadvertently speed up the technological advancement of human civilization, hitting multiple targets at once.
However, the downside is that with too many patents and suspiciously unexplainable origins, it would be easy to become a target for those with ulterior motives.
Having shallow roots and already targeted by fate, this approach seemed to have a penchant for courting disaster.
Thus, this option could only serve as a backup plan for now.
Overall, these methods all had their flaws to a greater or lesser extent, but relatively speaking, finding bargains suited him best.
Yet, he hadn’t expected his brothers to play such a big game this time.
Picking up a fishing rod and stumbling upon several billion!
He certainly had heard of Bitcoin; recently, it had been hyped up a lot, leading to the emergence of all sorts of terms like "miners," "mining machines," "coin circles," and so on.
Simply put, Bitcoin is a digital currency with a fixed total supply of 21 million, which cannot be over-issued and features decentralization, globality, and anonymity among others.
It is precisely because of these characteristics that it is often used as a tool for money laundering, as mentioned with that bigshot in the book.
As long as it’s preserved properly, wealth hidden in this way is quite hard to detect.
Currently, the closing price of one Bitcoin is around 46,500 Yuan, with the US Dollar hovering at about 6752.
A string of virtual numerical codes is equivalent to an ordinary person’s annual salary; no wonder the book described that time as "an era of madness."
To be fair, setting aside the various controversial labels like "Ponzi scheme" and "financial bomb,"
for Meng Lang, this was indeed the quickest and most suitable way to become rich overnight.
If handled well, the 370 million could be credited to the account in an instant, not only was making money fast, but it was so fast it practically flew.
Secondly, due to Bitcoin’s anonymity and transactional attributes, Meng Lang essentially had a secret account.
When he wanted money, he could sell a few coins, and he didn’t have to use his own account for transactions.
This way, it perfectly solved the "huge wealth of unknown origin" risk.
The book also included a Bitcoin price trend chart, a very obvious hint!
Because like futures, Bitcoin can be traded with leverage...
Of course, if your massive funds go in, whether you’ll be targeted by some financial tycoon and then get played until you lose all your capital, that’s a matter of wisdom.
"Trading coins... it’s indeed a great reason for getting rich quick," Meng Lang said, stroking his chin.
In recent years, those who struck it rich thanks to this have been too numerous to count, will one more nouveau riche throw off the ecological balance?
But the urgent task at hand was to pick up that huge loss.
He immediately downloaded a "Xianyu" APP, then registered an account and began searching for the keyword "fishing rod."
A massive array of second-hand goods refreshed on the screen, dazzling to look at.
He narrowed the search to Su City and set the price range around 800.
Immediately, only four items remained on the page.
Meng Lang frowned, having just glanced over and seen that fishing rods were cheap, with basic ones going for tens or hundreds, and professional ones for around four or five hundred. He did not expect there to be so many second-hand fishing rods priced at 800.
The rich are damn plenty!
But good for me, I’m one of the rich too!
Without a second thought, he directly messaged all four sellers to place an order, indicating that he would pay for the delivery fees if they used a same-day express service.
Ever since my bank account had quite a few more zeros, my indecisiveness miraculously cured itself without any medication.
A cause for celebration indeed!
In less than ten minutes, two of them directly replied agreeing to the trade.
Twenty minutes later, another seller was sorted out.
Half an hour later, the last seller came online and agreed to the trade!
Meng Lang breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he was only betting on a possibility, he just hoped that the fishing rod worth 59 million US dollars hadn’t been sold yet...
...
Su City, Warehouse Street Prison.
This prison, covering an area of about 90,000 square meters with its main gate at Warehouse Street No. 10, held more than 2,000 inmates, making it the largest prison in Su City.
Below the high walls covered with barbed wire, a group of prisoners casually sat in the spacious yard, clearly divided into two separate factions, a testament to the presence of distinct cliques.
The leaders of the two groups were smoking, one a muscular man with tattooed arms, the other a middle-aged man with a pugnacious face.
"Brother Biao, I heard you’ll be released next week. Congratulations!" The tattooed man said, his smile not reaching his eyes.
"Heh, Ah Hao, you’re not far from freedom yourself, right? Joy for both of us," Brother Biao said as he blew a smoke ring and waved his hand, looking quite pleased.
"We’ll see each other on the outside then. We’ve been at each other for so long, it’s like we’re friends through conflict. We should collaborate if there’s a chance after we’re out!"
"Heh, naturally, that sounds good!"
"But before I get out, don’t you get killed by your subordinates. I heard while you’ve been in here, they’ve nearly drained your company dry, heh heh!" the tattooed man said with schadenfreude.
Brother Biao frowned but then suddenly laughed it off as if unconcerned.
"If the company is gone, it’s gone. With the brothers following me, I can make a comeback sooner or later."
"Make a comeback? Ha!" The tattooed man laughed as though he had heard a hilarious joke.
"What era do you think it is? Without money, who’s going to follow you? Rely on loyalty and drink the northwest wind?"
"Hmm, you’re right, it’s not the times anymore when you can just get a few tattoos and count cash at the den.
These days, you’ve got to keep up with the times!
Heh heh! As long as you’ve got brains, what’s yours will stay yours, and nobody can take it away..."
Brother Biao laughed with a touch of pride, stood up, and left after patting the tattooed man on the shoulder.
With his back to the bewildered tattooed man and his group, Brother Biao revealed a disdainful smile.
Hmph! Country bumpkins who don’t even understand blockchain...
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