We offered you a summer job, but you went and became a mercenary?

Lin Ye's smile froze.

He patted the back of his phone in disbelief and pressed the power button several times.

No response.

The phone's motherboard burned out.

Lin Ye's brows furrowed into a tight knot.

He realized it instantly.

It must have been that Lei Zhentian and those old men at the entrance of the community this morning released too much energy. The severe magnetic interference not only caused him to only get one cent when grabbing red envelopes, but also completely destroyed this three-year-old second-hand mobile phone!

"Those damn after-sales guys!" Lin Ye cursed inwardly. "Asking for 20 million is way too little!"

Wang Hao, who had been terrified, was stunned when he saw this scene.

He looked at the broken cell phone in Lin Ye's hand, which was still emitting black smoke, and then at the exaggeratedly designed "military router" on the wall.

A sudden inspiration struck Wang Hao, as if he had grasped a lifeline, and he instantly regained his sense of superiority.

"Pfft."

Wang Hao couldn't help but burst out laughing.

He pointed at the broken phone in Lin Ye's hand, laughing so hard that tears almost streamed down his face.

"Oh my god, that scared me to death! I almost believed it!"

Wang Hao slapped his thigh, looking at Lin Ye with disdain.

"Dude, you really pulled off that stunt! Those four extras must have cost a fortune, right? They even nailed that crappy metal box to the wall to install a military router? Why didn't you just say you were laying nuclear power cables?!"

Wang Hao walked up to Lin Ye and pointed at the malfunctioning phone.

"Your crappy phone isn't even worth fifty yuan, is it? 10 Gigabit broadband? 3 millisecond latency?"

Wang Hao pulled out the latest iPhone from his pocket and waved it in front of Lin Ye.

"If you're going to show off, at least have something real. You can't even afford a decent phone, so what are you pretending to be, some kind of state agent?"

The boy with glasses and the slightly chubby boy looked at each other in bewilderment.

They looked at the router on the wall, then at the broken phone in Lin Ye's hand, and indeed felt that the contrast was too great.

What kind of national leader would use this kind of electronic waste?

Lin Ye threw the broken phone on the table in extreme frustration.

He couldn't be bothered with a clown like Wang Hao.

Working people value practicality; arguing with fools is just a waste of breath.

Lin Ye turned his head and looked at the boy with glasses next to him.

"Excuse me, can I borrow your computer for a moment?" Lin Ye pointed to the laptop running on the desk.

The boy with glasses is named Zhou Yu, and he is a typical academic high-achiever.

Although he suspected Lin Ye was faking it, he was too soft-hearted and pushed the computer over anyway.

"You can use it, I just happened to have my computer on."

"Thanks."

Lin Ye pulled out a chair and sat down.

Wang Hao stood to the side, arms crossed, sneering repeatedly.

"Oh, you don't even have a computer? I'd like to see what kind of fancy websites you can access. Are you perhaps using a balance check system from an all-night internet cafe session?"

Lin Ye completely ignored him.

He placed his hands on the keyboard.

"Crackling and popping!"

A string of extremely complex code and an IP address were entered into the browser.

The webpage redirected three times, each time using an extremely secure encryption protocol.

Finally, a completely black login screen appeared on the screen.

There is only a golden scale symbol on it.

This is the login interface for UBS's highest-level VIP offshore account.

Lin Ye skillfully entered a long string of account information, and then entered the password.

"Verification successful".

"Welcome, esteemed Mr. Shura."

Page refreshed.

An extremely simple account balance interface popped up.

Lin Ye leaned back in his chair, looked at the numbers on the screen, and let out a long sigh of relief.

This was the reward earned in the midst of gunfire and fighting terrorists in the Middle East.

Wang Hao originally wanted to continue his mockery, but his gaze inadvertently swept over the computer screen.

His voice abruptly stopped.

Wang Hao stared wide-eyed at the row of numbers.

Zhou Yu and the slightly chubby boy also curiously came over.

In the very center of the screen, a large number was prominently displayed:

Available balance: USD 2,172,449,720.00

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million, hundred million, billion, billion...

Zhou Yu pushed up his glasses, his lips trembling, and tapped the zeros on the screen, counting them over and over again.

"Two... twenty-one billion?!" Zhou Yu's voice suddenly split.

The slightly chubby boy's legs went weak, and he leaned directly against the wardrobe.

The mockery on Wang Hao's face froze completely, turning him ashen-faced.

He felt his breath catch in his throat.

2.1 billion!

And the unit following is USD!

US dollars!

Converted to RMB, that's over 14 billion yuan in cash!

Although Wang Hao's family owns a factory, their cash assets are only tens of millions, which is nothing compared to this string of numbers.

The scariest thing is that this is a readily accessible cash account!

"This...this must be a webpage editor! It's fake!" Wang Hao's teeth chattered wildly as he desperately tried to find a reason to convince himself.

Lin Ye sighed.

He was too lazy to explain and simply clicked "Logout" in the upper right corner.

The webpage instantly erased all browsing history and reverted to a normal search page.

Lin Ye stood up and returned the computer to Zhou Yu.

Thanks.

He glanced at his work pants and then touched the completely broken secondhand cell phone in his pocket.

"It's time to spend some of the hard-earned money I've saved from summer jobs."

Lin Ye walked to the lower bunk by the window, unzipped the snakeskin bag, and muttered to himself.

"I'm going to Jiangcheng's biggest electronics mall and shopping center tomorrow for a shopping spree!"

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The next morning.

Lin Ye slept in comfortably.

That lower bunk by the window was really nice; the sunlight just reached the foot of the bed, and the ventilation was excellent.

As for Wang Hao, the roommate from yesterday, he didn't come back all night. He was probably scared out of his wits by those agents who were installing military fiber optic cables.

Lin Ye finished washing up in the restroom.

The new black Li-Ning T-shirt he bought last night was all wrinkled from sleeping on it. Too lazy to iron it, he simply pulled out a yellowed white T-shirt he used to wear in high school from the bottom of the snakeskin bag and put it on.

She was still wearing the same cargo pants on her lower body, and on her feet were a pair of plastic flip-flops that cost ten yuan.

"Working people should look like working people; being comfortable in their clothes is the most important thing."

Lin Ye looked at himself in the mirror behind the dormitory door and was very satisfied.

He locked his dormitory door, strolled out of the school gate, hailed a shared bicycle, and headed straight for Jiangcheng's most upscale digital shopping mall—Jiangcheng International Digital Center.

With over two billion US dollars in demand deposits in hand, I must fully equip myself today.

Top floor of the digital center.

This is the most exclusive electronics customization area in the entire city of Jiangcheng.

Those who come here are either rich or powerful; even a simple peripheral like a mouse can cost several thousand yuan.

Lin Ye, wearing flip-flops, walked "pat-pat" on the gleaming marble floor, heading straight for the sprawling "Alien" high-end custom experience store in the very center.

The store is decorated in a very high-tech style.

Several salespeople dressed in sharp suits were gathered in the break room, drinking coffee and chatting.

Store manager Liu Qiang was holding a Starbucks and preparing to hold a short morning meeting with his employees when he looked up and saw Lin Ye swaggering in.

Liu Qiang's brows furrowed into a tight knot.

Are the security guards in shopping malls blind these days?

Why are even scavengers allowed in?