Rebirth 2010, the best

Chapter 134 Digital Currency
Shen Wan's house is kept very clean.

She has a simple little bookcase, which is already filled with all kinds of books.

In the apartment of more than ten square meters, besides these books, there are various beautiful clothes stacked on simple hangers, a computer with an arm-mounted microphone in the corner, and some furry toys.

It looks simple, but every detail is taken care of very cleanly.

It can be seen that she is not a lazy person.

That is if you can ignore the empty or full wine bottles on the simple stove.

"Brother Lu..."

Looking at Lu Yao who returned home with her, the girl was a little at a loss for a moment.

She tried to understand the meaning of that sentence, but when she saw Lu Yao holding a plastic bag with wine bottles since he entered the room, she didn't know what to say.

After thinking about it, I could only come over and hug Lu Yao gently:

"Brother Lu, let's take a bath together."

"I won't wash it anymore."

Lu Yao checked the time on his phone.

It's almost 3 a.m.

He put the last bottle of wine into a plastic bag, turned around, looked at the girl with a puzzled expression, and said:
"Quit smoking and drinking..."

Having said this, he paused.

Added a sentence:
"Well, I command you."

"!"

A hint of joy appeared in the girl's eyes, but it was immediately followed by confusion.

But Lu Yao continued:

"I'll send you something later, study it. As for its specific effects... I'll tell you then. Well, have a good rest, don't think too much when you sleep, try to calm yourself down. If you really can't sleep, read a book until you feel sleepy. If you still can't sleep... contact me tomorrow and we'll go to the hospital for a check-up. Okay, that's it, I'm leaving now."

"no!"

Instinctively, she hugged Lu Yao:

"Brother Lu, don't go..."

"..."

Being held like this by her, Lu Yao was particularly calm and just patted her on the back:

"Okay, let me go."

"no, do not want!"

As she spoke, her hand pulled the elastic band of Lu Yao's sweatpants.

"……stop."

Lu Yao had to call for a stop again, but this time, the girl became more determined. Until Lu Yao's voice became louder:
"stop!"

The girl's hands froze.

Her slightly red eyes subconsciously raised up and she saw the familiar "coldness" again.

"Ugh……"

Lu Yao couldn't help but sigh again.

The girl in his arms was pitiful, but the more so, the more bitter he felt.

These twenty years or so have been too hard for her.

It is the bitterness that cannot be covered by the sugar coating and is destined to have no results.

What she really needs is a candy.

It should be a candy sprinkled with sunshine.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a candy on the kitchen counter... It was wrapped in pink paper, like the kind that restaurants put at the checkout counter for customers to clean their mouths.

After thinking for a while, he suddenly said:
"Close your eyes."

The girl was stunned, but seeing Lu Yao's serious look, she chose to obey.

He closed his eyes obediently.

"……let me go."

She obeyed again.

But after letting go, the tears in the corners of my eyes turned into shooting stars and slid down my face.

At this moment, she heard the sound of plastic wrapping.

But at this moment, the sad emotion filled her body and mind, so she chose to ignore it.

Until...she felt warmth touching her lips.

I opened my mouth subconsciously.

The tip of the tongue gently resists, just like a cat.

A warm feeling.

At this moment, she suddenly tasted a hint of sweetness.

Instinctively opening his eyes, he saw the finger that still had a trace of crystal light, and the gentle smile on Lu Yao's face:
"Is it sweet?"

he asked.

"……Um."

The girl nodded subconsciously.

Lu Yao laughed:

"Sweet is good. After all the hardships come happiness. I wish our little friend Shen Wan a sweet life in the days to come. Vanilla flavor, cream flavor, sweet orange flavor...any flavor is good. Silly girl, you deserve a better life. Right?"

His words were so gentle, carrying the most sincere wishes, and reached her heart.

But after the girl was stunned for a moment, tears suddenly burst out.

Unable to suppress the pain in her heart any longer, she hooked her arms around Lu Yao's neck.

Sobbing sounds were heard in the room.

And Lu Yao finally knew the taste of that candy.

It turned out to be a mint candy.

……

3 points.

Lu Yao walked out of the community, took a taxi, and returned directly home.

I took the performance costumes and two empty USB drives and went straight back to school.

At about 4:, when he returned to the dormitory, he was suddenly stunned:
"You haven't slept yet?"

Looking at Liu Mingze sitting in front of the computer, Lu Yao was a little surprised.

"No."

Liu Mingze, who was somewhat troubled, shook his head:
"Why are you back at this time?"

"I couldn't sleep at home, so I came back... What are you doing?"

"Give Professor Shen some points."

Liu Mingze scratched his head speechlessly:

"The season ends on Christmas. His score is too dangerous, but luckily he has reached 2400 points. My teammates and I have raised the score to 2700, and the dragon line is stable. His appearance rate in the games is also enough to reach 70%, so there will definitely be a dragon. We are sniping the studio now."

"Ok."

Lu Yao nodded, glanced at Yu Kun who was sleeping soundly, put his things in the cabinet, and turned on the computer.

"You want to work?"

Liu Mingze asked.

"No... I discovered a new thing called Bitcoin. Do you know about it, Lao Liu?"

"I don't know, what is that?"

"Well... you can try it. To put it simply, imagine the Internet as a mine, and your computer is your excavator, going to the mine to mine Bitcoins."

"…What's the use of this thing?"

"It can be sold for money. One Bitcoin is worth $0.0008."

"……How many?"

Liu Mingze was speechless for a moment. He thought to himself, if it's 0.8 or 0.08 USD, I'll accept it.

What is 0.0008?
But Lu Yao smiled and shrugged:

"Just dig it for fun. I'm quite optimistic about it. Maybe I can make a fortune in the future."

He couldn't say too much, like the bitcoin behind was worth hundreds of thousands. In fact, he had thought about this thing since the beginning of his rebirth, but he was not too anxious. First, he had a laptop at home, and he really couldn't mine it. Second, before the end of 2011, this thing was just an entertainment concept and was not worth anything at all.

Moreover, in 15 and 16, there was a large-scale hacking incident involving Bitcoin, and almost all trading platform accounts with more than 1000 Bitcoins were affected.

He didn't want to save too much, so he just planned to dig a little and call it a day.

Now that I have a desktop computer, it's almost time to start this stage.

As for Liu Mingze, he always took Lu Yao's words seriously.

In other words, the other three people in the dormitory took his words seriously.

Even if sometimes they don’t understand.

But perhaps it was because of Lu Yao's natural aura of reliability that after hearing the words "a windfall", he nodded:
"Okay, then tell me how to do it."

"You don't want to fight anymore?"

"No more playing. The studio is probably closed. I haven't seen a queue in over ten minutes."

"Row."

So Lu Yao climbed over the wall directly and taught him how to do it.

To put it roughly, Bitcoin mining is actually quite simple. Download the mining software, create a new text file, write parameters such as the mining pool, miner number, miner password, number of threads, etc., save it and change the extension to bat format; open the mining software to start mining.

Of course, this is the simplest process.

Bitcoin is currently in the process of transitioning from CPU to GPU mining. GPU is a little more complicated, but it is no problem for Liu Mingze and Lu Yao.

Soon, the buzzing sound of the computer case was heard in the dormitory.

“…It’s starting now?”

Looking at the screen full of codes, he asked subconsciously.

Lu Yao nodded:
"Well, remember to save these to a USB drive. This will prevent others from hacking your account."

“…How many do we need to dig?”

"You can mine as much as you want. We can mine dozens of them a day with GPUs."

"Ok."

Liu Mingze shrugged indifferently, yawned, stood up and said:
"Take a shower and go to bed."

"Ah."

Lu Yao also nodded.

It's already 5 o'clock, I really need to go to bed.

Lying on the bed, he looked at the "Miss you" text message sent by Shen Wan and replied:
"Have you slept?"

"Not yet, Brother Lu. I'm trying. I promise that I won't drink anymore from today. Brother Lu, I will always listen to you!"

"Okay. Be good and listen to me. If you have insomnia, go to the hospital."

"Uh-huh!"

"I am going to sleep good night."

"Good night, Brother Lu... Can I see you tomorrow?"

"it is good."

"Well! Brother Lu, go to sleep, good night!"

He didn't bother to guess how ecstatic the girl would be after he agreed.

No need.

Life is bitter and always needs some sweetness.

……

"Lao Lu, do you mean this Bitcoin will be valuable?"

"Yes." Lu Yao nodded, packed up his wallet, took a look at the mining software running on Yu Kun's computer, and said:
"Just keep it. Remember to find a good quality USB drive to store it."

"If the price is higher than 100 yuan, I will wash your pants for a year!"

"Do I need you?"

Lu Yao rolled his eyes, took his wallet and walked out.

He slept until noon, and Shen Wan was already waiting for him at the school gate.

The two of them didn't say what they were going to do today, but looking at the dark circles under the girl's eyes without makeup, Lu Yao knew... where the best place for a "date" was.

……

On Sunday night, Mr. Xu, who had rushed back home, expressed his difficulty in understanding why the other three people in the dormitory did not turn off their computers before going to bed.

But after hearing what the three were doing, he was stunned and said:

"It seems that there are indeed a group of people abroad who are very optimistic about this thing. Lao Lu, are you also optimistic about it?"

"Yeah. Digital currency is a new thing, so I have to try it out. You want to come too?"

"Row."

So, three computers became four.

On Monday, the 21st, the four people who had not given birth got together again at noon.

But I didn't go to Shinso, but practiced again in the school practice room.

In the words of Mr. Xu who just finished playing a solo:
"You know what, this song gets better and better the more I listen to it. Teacher Wu is really amazing."

His words were recognized by several people.

Including Lu Yao.

Indeed... an expert can tell whether a work is good or not with just one touch. In terms of the degree of completion of this song, Lu Yao felt that it was even better than in his previous life.

It's so smooth that you can't get enough of it.

In the next few days, Wei Qianqian and Mr. Xu were very busy.

As the performance approaches, their student union has more work to do.

On Wednesday, Lu Yao also mined 193 bitcoins from the first USB flash drive.

He put the USB drive into a box and called Shen Wan.

When the girl heard that Lu Yao wanted to see her, she appeared in front of him within an hour.

It's really available on call.

After taking some calming Chinese medicine, the girl looked much better and asked curiously while holding Lu Yao's arm:
"Brother Lu, where are we going?"

"I'm not going anywhere, I'm giving you a gift."

Lu Yao handed over the box containing the USB flash drive:

"Christmas gift."

The girl's eyes were full of surprise, but after opening the box, the surprise turned into confusion.

But it disappeared immediately.

Although she didn't know what this USB drive was used for, she nodded vigorously:

"Thank you, Brother Lu, I like it very much!"

"You like shit."

Lu Yao rolled his eyes while drinking the milk tea she bought.

Then he said:

"After you go back, remember to plug this USB drive into your computer for ten minutes every month. It doesn't matter if you don't understand what's inside it now. You just need to know that it's called Bitcoin and it's a digital currency. There are 190 Bitcoins inside. It's a new thing, but the encryption technology it uses is very unique. I have a feeling it will be very valuable in the future. If the USB drive is not used for a long time, the data will be lost, so to be on the safe side, it's best to plug it into the computer for ten minutes every month."

"Uh-huh."

Shen Wan really didn't understand.

But she remembered every word and every sentence Lu Yao said.

"Its current trend is growing slowly. But you have to learn to make friends with time..."

"…Isn't this the rhetoric used by investment banks?"

Lu Yao was stunned again.

Looking at her in surprise:
"nice."

"Hee hee~"

The girl smiled like a flower:

"I will try my best to follow Brother Lu! I will definitely not hold you back!"

"Ah."

Lu Yao approved of her attitude and said:
"Anyway... just think of it as a beautiful dream that will make you rich overnight in ten years. Dreams may not be accurate, but they are better than nothing. Of course, you can also dig it yourself, and I will teach you later."

"Uh-huh!"

The girl nodded again and solemnly put the box into her bag.

But his tone became heated:

"Brother Lu..."

"Ok?"

"I saw... a new theme hotel opened over there."

"Go, go, go."

Lu Yao waved his hand silently and put down the cup of milk tea:
"Okay, I'm going back to school. I have work to do in the afternoon, so remember to take your medicine on time."

"what?"

Suddenly, a sense of loss crept onto her cheeks.

But it soon disappeared:

"Yes! I understand, Brother Lu, then... I won't go with you. You go first, and I'll go later."

Lu Yao thought to himself that your vigilance really makes you a natural anti-reconnaissance saint.

Smiling and nodding:
"Well, let's go."

He just stood up and walked out.

Shen Wan watched him with an obsessed gaze until he disappeared outside the milk tea shop...

She directly picked up the cup of milk tea that Lu Yao had just drunk and walked out with the straw in her mouth.

He didn't even touch his own cup.

The doctor told her not to eat sweets and to eat a lighter diet.

Brother Lu told her to follow the doctor's advice and she would be very obedient.

……

"Dudu, hey. What's up?"

Hearing Hu Li's voice, Xu Ruochu asked directly:
"Did you say no to that robot project?"

"Which one?"

“Angel investor of the robot programming studio in Ningbo.”

"Oh, you mean that. Lu Yao said that they are playing with concepts and are not reliable at all. The so-called AI is just fooling people. AI requires a large cluster model with high cloud computing... or something. Anyway, what it means is that the direction they are going is fundamentally wrong."

"..."

Xu Ruochu's mouth twitched.

Speechlessly looking at the excellent internal evaluation report handed over by Xiao Min, he couldn't help but say:
"But our internal evaluation is excellent."

"Does anyone among us understand AI as well as Lu Yao?"

"you……"

For a moment, Xu Ruochu was speechless.

I do not know what to say.

She waved to Xiao Min helplessly, motioning her to go out, and then sitting in the office, she threw the evaluation report directly into the shredder.

Didn't even think about it.

Ask directly:

"Where are you? When will you be back? The company is about to start reviewing its investment status for this year."

"...Nice. Didn't I tell you I'll be back after Christmas?"

"Nice? ...What are you doing in Nice?"

"I came to see Lu Yao's sister. I've been here all day and am just about to leave."

Xu Ruochu's eyes moved:
"Did you go to see Lu Yao's sister?"

"Yes, I just finished my meal and sent her to the restaurant. Xu Min is driving me to the airport now."

"Wait a minute... You just finished your meal and then sent... Lu Yao's sister to the restaurant? What's the logic?"

"His sister has a part-time job at a restaurant. She can help pay for her studies."

"Uh...how's it going?"

"You mean his sister?"

"Ah."

"It's OK, that's all I can say. Anyway, I'm quite busy. I work as a waiter from 4pm to 9pm, and after work I have to work as a cleaner in the mall..."

"So hard?"

"Yes. The main reason is that the money she used to go abroad this time was the scholarship money that Lu Yao received for her college entrance exam. So she was under a lot of pressure... I even advised her not to be so stressed..."

"...You didn't tell her about you and Lu Yao?"

"No...yes, I'm with Xu Min."

Suddenly, Hu Li said this out of nowhere.

Xu Ruochu understood what she meant instantly.

Obviously, with her cousin following her this time, it was not very convenient for her to do anything.

But she was in Nice and needed her cousin to act as a guide.

So Xu Ruochu narrowed his eyes, thought for a moment, and said:

"Give her the phone."

"Well, okay, you should think the same as me. I was just about to call you to tell you about this."

"Well, let me tell you."

"Okay, I'll give her the phone."

Soon, a female voice sounded:
"Hey, Xiaochu."

"Merry Christmas, cousin."

"Ha~"

The two exchanged a few pleasantries, but from their tones, it seemed that although she was a cousin, their relationship was not particularly close.

"Cousin, Lu Qing is the sister of a good friend of Xiao Chen. Don't you know her situation? Find her a sinecure at the port. Raise her salary appropriately so she doesn't feel stressed, but at least don't work as hard as she does now."

"Well, okay. I'll take care of the arrangements then."

Xu Min agreed easily.

"Well, cousin, you can contact Lu Qing more often. She's a nice person. Lu Yao and Xiao Chen also have a good relationship and they all know us."

"Okay, I understand."

"Uh-huh……"

Soon, the phone was hung up.

She received a text message from Hu Li, which was an emoji package:

"【Grinning teeth】"

"If you have any conscience, come back quickly. I'm almost too busy."

The message Xu Ruochu sent fell on deaf ears.

She shook her head helplessly, put on her rimless glasses, and focused her attention on the piles of documents on the table again.

(End of this chapter)