I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

Mr. Zhu stood in the hall, holding a wine glass and constantly smiling to appease the guests, unaware that the two fat sheep he had his eye on had already vanished without a trace.

"Hehehe, with that kind of IQ, you think you can fool the two of us?"

"The mission is all completed, when is Chen Xi going to come back?"

"Never mind him, I'm going back to relax. My butt hurts from sitting all day."

Saori and Kim Nana were sitting in a bubble tea shop drinking beverages.

Huajing.

"I heard your factory has been visited recently?"

"Yes, it's the same where you are."

"What do you think this guy is trying to do? Copy other people's platforms? After all, all the products his company makes are based on this."

"Heh, it's nothing more than rebranding or buying solutions. This guy loves playing this game. He finds a designer to change the design of the same thing, then brags online that he's lowered the price compared to others... It's the same old trick in a new guise."

Several car company executives sat in a room, smoking and chatting animatedly.

"I don't see it that way. Didn't you see his recent Weibo posts? After years of hard work in Beijing, he's finally going to buy a house!" A car company executive shook his head.

"They're going to build their headquarters in Beijing, so they'll have to call themselves a local company from now on!" another person said sarcastically after hearing this.

"Haha, that's what you call having the right mindset! From now on, you can flatter people in meetings with a straight face." Several people next to him clapped their hands sarcastically.

"Building cars isn't that simple. Do you think it's like making air conditioners or power strips? He's been visiting all our factories these past few days, but he's really just here to do research. I think they're having a board meeting right now to decide on their car-building plans..." The person who had just been sarcastic added.

"Oh dear, all you bosses have really put me through a lot." At that moment, the door to the room was pushed open, and Duan Yixiong walked in.

"Oh, Mr. Duan, what makes you say that?" someone feigned surprise.

"It's all because you guys asked me to deal with Hengxiao's car manufacturing last time! I sent them a notice, but President Xu has a short temper and called me directly. As a result, I ended up arguing with him..." Duan Yixiong started his performance after sitting down.

Actually, he didn't argue with the other person at all. Their conversation was very calm. There were verbal exchanges, but it wasn't as serious as he described.

"Oh dear, Mr. Duan must have suffered a lot."

"Yes, yes, but the Xu family is too domineering."

The room was filled with falsehoods.

"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. I heard that another car company is about to be established, and its headquarters will be located here." Duan Yixiong pointed to the ground.

"That's right, that's why we're here today. Everyone knows what kind of person he is. He always tries to advertise that he's driving down prices to fool brainless consumers into supporting him. The result is that he crushes his competitors and ruins everyone's livelihood by exploiting the supply chain."

"Yes, yes, he visited me a few days ago and asked me about some car models, sales figures, and car manufacturing equipment. Although he's a complete novice and didn't say a word professional, I could tell that this guy wanted to build a cool-looking car that would sell like hotcakes..."

"He's trying to take over the low-end market, which means he's stealing our business! Hengxiao is aiming for the high-end market, at most competing with Future Auto, but who are we? We're all in this together..."

Li Weibin, who had been sitting silently to the side, twitched at the corner of his mouth after hearing this.

His current position is quite awkward. Dealing with Hengxiao Motors is fine, since they have nothing to do with him.

But the company that is entering the electric vehicle market this time is one of the shareholders of Future Motors.

In other words, he took other people's money and was then tied to their cause to fight against his own benefactor.

“Everyone is overthinking this. Before you started making cars, the bosses here all worked in the automotive industry. Making cars requires many conditions; it’s not something you can just decide to do.” Li Weibin forced a smile.

“Mr. Li is right. I don’t think you all need to be so anxious. In my opinion, he will most likely ask for your help. The purpose of building cars is just to create a product ecosystem. That is, to be linked with their company’s smart home appliances and mobile phones. As the saying goes, harmony brings wealth. It is better to sit down and talk about cooperation than to fight back and forth. Businessmen are all about money!” Duan Yixiong nodded.

He agreed with Li Weibin's words, that the more members the Environmental Protection Industry Association had, the stronger his power would become.

After the two men said that, the bosses present all shut up.

Little did they know that things were not as simple as they thought.

New mother-in-law.

"Alright, I'm leaving now!" Chen Xi looked at the numbers on the screen and smiled with satisfaction.

This operation was much easier than before he came here; he basically just "stole" a portion of the money from the 3X platform by delaying the process.

More than two hundred million!

"Huh? You're actually leaving?" Elaine's eyes widened.

The man in front of me clearly wanted to eat two dishes at once, but now he's saying he's ready to quit while he's ahead?

"Mm." Chen Xi nodded.

"You want to leave and then go buy cryptocurrency?" Elaine blinked.

"No!"

"why?"

"It's nothing, we achieved our goal." Chen Xi didn't explain further, stood up, clapped his hands, and said some words of praise to his teammates.

It's already evening, and the hotel venue is still brightly lit, but the atmosphere is completely different now.

Mr. Zhu sat on the ground, seemingly in a daze, while the investors below the stage bombarded him with questions.

The data on the screen showed that 3X had suffered a major defeat in the cryptocurrency market, and Wang Xianqi stood by like a puppet, at a loss.

The devastating defeat of cryptocurrencies was unacceptable to Mr. Zhu.

He himself is a tech person, and while the 3X system wasn't exactly groundbreaking, it wasn't much worse than some of the systems used by organizations today.

He had been staring at the screen the whole time, and the system was like a broken faucet that just wouldn't turn off. The stop-loss protection mechanism, which was supposed to be triggered, just wouldn't stop, just like in the forex market.

"What on earth is going on? There's a mole in the technical department!" General Manager Zhu muttered to himself.

This is the most likely possibility he can analyze right now.

Thinking of this, he immediately picked up the phone and made the call.

However, the results from the technical department were not what he expected.

"Mr. Zhu, the code... the code is still the same as before, it hasn't been touched." "Haven't been touched? Then did these billions of dollars grow legs and run away? Or were they blown away by the wind?" Mr. Zhu roared into the phone, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

"It's...it's a problem with market feedback. Just now, there was a sudden and terrifying selling pressure in the cryptocurrency market. Our system detected the risk and immediately executed a stop-loss. But every time a liquidation order was placed, the market price was just a tiny bit lower than our stop-loss price."

"Then why don't you cancel the deal?"

"Our system has been hacked..."

Mr. Zhu was stunned upon hearing this.

"President Zhu, President Zhu. What do we do now?" Wang Xianqi, unaware of the reason, ran over and helped the man up.

"Report the crime! Everyone, report the crime together!" shouted one of the attendees from China.

Upon hearing this, some people began to take out their phones and make calls.

Wang Xianqi was scared half to death. How could he be arrested just for giving a speech?
"Don't panic, stay calm! Their reporting to the police is useless. The contract is an investment agreement where the risk is borne by the investor. The current result is just an investment failure. The law enforcement team can't define it as a criminal offense at all. Besides, these people are from H country, and our platform registration is not on Xinjiapo... At most, the law enforcement team will freeze the account after their investigation, but our money is already gone, so it doesn't matter..." Boss Zhu began to analyze calmly.

What he said is not wrong. News reports often show Ponzi schemes exploiting Chinese people in Southeast Asia, only to exit gracefully in the end. This is one of the reasons why.

What Mr. Zhu wants to do most right now is to take his people back to Malaysia first, and then they can rebrand and run another lottery.

"Buzz." Just then, his phone rang again, and the screen showed Mr. Yang's call.

He gritted his teeth and immediately put his phone on silent.

Office buildings not far away.

"Everyone's worked hard today, let's go out for dinner and relax. It's on me tonight!" Chen Xi snapped his fingers.

"Yay!" The group of people in the association jumped up excitedly upon hearing this; they had been cooped up for days.

As soon as everyone stepped out of the elevator, another group of people poured out of the elevator opposite, shouting the same excited words: "We've struck it rich this time, boss!"

"what?"

"Ok?"

Chen Xi exchanged a glance with the man leading the group opposite him and exclaimed in surprise, as did the other man.

"President Zhou."

"Mr. Chen, I've long admired your name!"

The two shook hands.

The last time they met was several years ago in Crown. Zhou Sheng had seen Chen Xi on TV, but he had long forgotten about the incident of playing cards at the casino in Australia.

His current impression of Chen Xi is naturally that of a competitor.

"Is Mr. Chen here to start a logistics business at Xinjiapo?" Zhou Sheng asked.

"No, I'm here to work on other projects," Chen Xi shook his head.

Zhou Sheng naturally didn't believe this; he felt the other party was lying.

"What's going on? I think President Zhou has had some good news. Everyone's smiling so happily. Why don't you tell us?" Chen Xi pointed to the few employees behind him who were grinning from ear to ear.

"No problem, it's a really happy occasion today. How about we have a meal together? It would be good for me to be a good host. Huodudu has been developing in Southeast Asia for several years now, so I'm practically a local now." Zhou Sheng was in a good mood today and planned to show off to Chen Xi.

"Then I'll thank you for the treat, Mr. Zhou!" Chen Xi didn't refuse.

Half an hour later, at a Southeast Asian restaurant nearby.

"Mr. Chen, I might not like to hear this, but Huodudu has already established itself in the Southeast Asian market, and our users are quite reliant on it. Going to pick up goods here won't get you any market share. I advise you to give up on that idea." Zhou Sheng got straight to the point after sitting down.

“Yes, that’s true. It’s not suitable to develop here by hauling goods, since Southeast Asia basically relies on oil trucks for transportation. But then again, I didn’t expect Mr. Zhou to be so generous in advising me. If it were someone else, they might have been led astray by hauling goods and kept burning through money.” Chen Xi smiled.

"Um... In the past, I would have thought that way, but I made a lot of money today. Doing this now would seem a bit petty." Zhou Sheng regretted saying that earlier, but now he could only bite the bullet and explain.

"Oh? I wonder what kind of big money Mr. Zhou has made!"

"I've been operating in Singapore for a long time, sweeping through the cryptocurrency market! To date, I've made over a billion US dollars!" This is the moment Zhou Sheng has been waiting for, and now he can finally reveal the answer.

"Oh?" Chen Xi looked at the other person in surprise.

"Previously, Huodudu was besieged by numerous logistics companies in mainland China, but from today onwards, that problem will no longer exist. I'm not afraid to tell you, Huodudu will launch a counterattack!"

"Is it because of a billion-plus US dollars?"

"Of course not, this is just the beginning. Huodudu will implement a global strategy, not just limited to logistics!"

Is it integrated finance?

"That's right! So, Mr. Chen, that's why Huodudu will become the leading benchmark in the mainland market in the future. A steady stream of money will flow into the country in various currencies, and nothing can stop it from picking up goods. Do you believe that, Mr. Chen?"

"I believe."

"Ok?"

Zhou Sheng was stunned when he heard this, feeling as if he had punched a cotton ball.

"Do you remember the first time we met at Crown? Texas Hold'em!"

"It's you……"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Sheng's heart tightened, and he quickly looked to both sides.

The reason he was so nervous was because he had previously boasted in the media that he was the "God of Texas Hold'em" and that the company's start-up capital came entirely from the tens of millions he had won in casinos.

If people knew he won at the casino by playing Collusion, he would lose his title of genius.

However, Chen Xi just smiled and winked, without mentioning the matter: "The current logistics situation in China is like Texas Hold'em, with several players at the table. The casino dealer doesn't participate in the wins and losses; their profit comes from a rake. You've played in various casinos around the world, and different casinos have different rake methods. Some rake based on the pot percentage, while others take a rake from the game, when you buy chips, or from the Jackpot or table. If you want the dealer to keep you playing, you have to give them enough profit. If you kill everyone, who will play with you? If no one plays, how can the dealer maximize their rake profit? What if you encounter a ruthless dealer who accuses you of cheating and takes away all the chips you've earned? You just said that Huodudu wants to fight back, and no one can stop it, not even when they're picking up goods. I agree with that! You know that picking up goods is tied to Huahetong, and in the face of this huge money-burning machine, long-term development will only lead to its downfall. So what you just said is correct!"

Chen Xi's words left Zhou Sheng speechless; he didn't know what to say next.

"What do you mean by telling me all this?" Zhou Sheng finally spoke after a long silence.

"It's nothing. If you want this game to keep going, you need to play along with the house. You need to understand one thing: in industries like logistics, private companies can't be the leader forever! Huahetong may have 'Hua' in its name, but I don't want to explain how it got that name; you know. Qulahuo and Huodudu are independent private companies..." Chen Xi took a sip of water. (End of Chapter)