Luo Yun glanced at the USB drive in mid-air and reached out to take it.
"You could have just robbed me, but you managed to fool me with a USB drive. You did have some thought to it."
Luan Yenan shrugged, offering no explanation regardless of what Luo Yun said or thought.
Whether Luo Yun believed her or not was no longer her concern. Her only goal was to secure the start-up capital. Once she had the money, explanations and clarifications were no longer her responsibility.
Once the value of the projects on the USB drive is discovered, there will be plenty of people who will come to inquire about them and beg to cooperate with her.
These past few days she has been in contact with the mysterious person codenamed "Universe"—the one who gave Zuo Baixuan the mission.
After gaining the trust of "Huanyu," Luan Yenan also learned of their difficulties. He proactively provided a lot of the core source code of decentralized virtual currencies from the original world.
Inspired by this, Huanyu suddenly had a breakthrough and, as if he had a cheat code, worked day and night to complete the prototype of the virtual currency and named it "Blockcoin".
That's why Luan Yenan has that PPT on his USB drive today.
The PowerPoint presentation explained the basic principles and prospects of the virtual currency "blockchain".
After receiving the complete set of top-of-the-line equipment yesterday, Luan Yenan created a very basic offline wallet and obtained the first batch of "mined" "blockcoins" from "Huanyu".
Once the offline wallet is confirmed to be stable, put the entire software onto this USB drive.
It's easy to imagine how valuable this USB drive will be in the future.
As long as Luo Yun can understand the business opportunity behind this, this USB drive will be able to earn back her investment of today a thousand times, ten thousand times, or even a hundred million times in the future.
The condition is that she has to be careful not to lose the USB drive.
In the original world, there were programmers who had been researching decentralized virtual currencies. After discovering that a certain coin was incredibly valuable, they suddenly found that their old storage devices had disappeared.
How frustrating would that be?
As Luan Yenan thought of an interesting story, a smile crept onto his lips, and he unconsciously rubbed his thumb and forefinger together.
Luo Yun over-interpreted the subtle gestures he made.
Luo Yun stubbed out her cigarette in the gold-rimmed ashtray and handed the tablet on the table behind her to Luan Yenan.
"I'll just deposit the points directly into your points account. I don't really want to welcome you, but you'd better use them within a year, otherwise they'll expire. That's the rule, and I won't give you any special treatment."
Luo Yun's reminder came reluctantly.
His tone was full of disdain and unwelcomeness.
Luan Yenan didn't respond, but handed the tablet to Zuo Baixuan: "We can even exchange it for shopping vouchers for the Luo Group Mall, and we'll find a chance to use them."
"..." Luo Yun felt even more upset.
I really want to hit someone.
But I can't find an excuse.
"As for cash..." Luo Yun glanced at Zuo Baixuan.
It might be easier to connect directly to this Omega.
"Just transfer my winnings directly to my account. As for the investment portion, I've prepared a separate card; I'll send you the card number now." Luan Yenan sent the message on his phone.
When Luo Yun received the account number, she didn't even have the energy to be angry anymore.
Today was a complete defeat, but it was my own fault.
“Okay, I can transfer the money to you right now. As agreed, no matter what your project is, I’m investing! I won’t regret it! That’s really great, Luan Yenan!” Luo Yun transferred the money directly in front of Luan Yenan.
Anyone else standing here would be trembling.
He wondered if he had offended this powerful figure in Beijing's elite circles.
As for Luan Yenan...
So what if I provoked them, and so what if I didn't?
She's interested in seeing the consequences.
The wealthy second-generation heirs in this room pooled together nearly ten million in prize money.
Luo Yun transferred over nine million yuan in odds to Luan Yenan's account, and at the same time transferred ten million yuan to the investment account.
They are indeed very wealthy and powerful.
The good news is that today's fun is still a huge one, and the impact it has on the market will generate far more than just a few million in revenue.
So after Luan Yenan left, Luo Yun smiled again.
She even stared at the USB drive in her hand for a long time, thinking.
He snapped his fingers at the bodyguard: "Notify Secretary Zhang that I need to work overtime tonight. I have a project that I need her to analyze."
A qualified bodyguard will not speak ill of any of his employer's actions.
But this bodyguard was a trusted confidant of Luo Yun, who had been sent to her side by the Luo family as soon as she came of age, and was used to all her behaviors.
All my recent investments were impulsive and blind.
Even if Luan Yenan swindled nearly 20 million today, it shouldn't be necessary to trouble Secretary Zhang, right?
Secretary Zhang is Luo Yun's secret weapon for building the Luo Sheng International Circuit, so why would she easily trouble him?
Is the project that Luan Yenan brought really that important?
The bodyguard was suspicious, but dared not question it.
...
When Luan Yenan returned with Zuo Baixuan, laden with their spoils, he felt as if two tails had appeared behind him.
She didn't want to pay attention to it, and simply returned to the parking lot with Zuo Baixuan, back to their unassuming and simple car.
Anyone with a discerning eye would surely notice the unremarkable "京A·XXXXX" consecutive license plate on the car at this moment.
Even if a big shot tries to keep a low profile, the license plate they use is enough to buy several ordinary cars.
Both Huang Mao Fan Jianian and Zi Mao Dong Weicheng were extremely annoyed at this moment.
Why do you have to mess with this tough opponent?
Anyone with eyes can see that this license plate was given to the car by an elder in the family.
So the car was naturally given to me by my elders.
We just hope she won't be so flamboyant; it's not that we're marginalizing her.
It's a top-tier Alpha, after all.
Even though various families have no shortage of S-class Alphas, the top-tier beings are enough to make people instinctively fearful.
Fan Jianian saw that Luan Yenan was about to get into the car, so he hurriedly ran over.
Luan Yenan didn't even look up.
Fan Jianian hurriedly spoke up: "Miss Luan."
"What else do you want?" Luan Yenan still showed no intention of speaking, so Zuo Baixuan asked on his behalf.
Fan Jianian pursed his lips.
He's an Alpha, a rich kid. He looks down on Omegas who got their status through being an Alpha.
However, at this moment, they dared not act rashly.
Luan Yenan simply couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention.
It was already a favor that Zuo Baixuan was willing to ask him a question.
He gritted his teeth, bowed deeply, and said, "Please forgive us for our previous disrespect towards you two; we were simply blind to your greatness."
Luan Yenan did not respond and got into the car.
When Zuo Baixuan saw Luan Yenan get into the car, she didn't say anything more and got into the passenger seat. She fastened her seatbelt and waited for Luan Yenan to start the car and drive straight past Fan Jianian.
Fan Jianian didn't dare to stop him, but the bow was frozen in mid-air, and he didn't know whether to lift it up or continue bowing.
It wasn't until Dong Weicheng, who was hiding nearby, patted him on the shoulder and said, "They're gone, what are we going to do now?"
Fan Jianian was covered in cold sweat, feeling helpless about the fact that he had spent the money but gained nothing.
But after thinking for a long time, he shook his head and said, "Now we can only take it one step at a time. Luan Yenan doesn't have a real, solid relationship with these rich second-generation kids in Beijing's social circle; they're just tied together by interests. We just need to maintain good relationships with the others in the circle."
Dong Weicheng was clearly more cowardly than Fan Jianian. He nodded repeatedly in agreement when he heard him say that, but he was very uneasy, fearing that Luan Yenan would hold a grudge and suddenly stab him in the back that day.
In reality, Luan Yenan couldn't be bothered with the two lackeys at all.
I was in a hurry to leave, just wanting to get on this westward-bound highway before sunset.
Zuo Baixuan was in a good mood because of the gradient of colors in the sky, which was layered with crimson, purplish-red, pink and light blue. She exclaimed, "So beautiful."
Luan Yenan got the desired effect and curled the corners of her lips into a smile.
Zuo Baixuan caught Luan Yenan's smile out of the corner of her eye. Seeing that she was actually in a good mood, she asked curiously, "You shouldn't be angry with that Fan guy with the yellow hair. Why did you completely ignore him just now?"
“If every apology can be met with forgiveness, then he’s oversimplifying the world,” Luan Yennan said, as if it were a universally acknowledged truth that one plus one equals two.
Zuo Baixuan, however, felt that she had learned something.
She certainly understood the logic behind that statement, but actually doing it might not be feasible.
She tends to forgive those who haven't crossed her bottom line.
Luan Yenan added, "When he learns to genuinely respect you, I'll give him a good look."
So you ignored him just now because of his attitude towards me?
Zuo Baixuan pursed her lips and remained silent. Asking the question aloud would seem deliberate and unnecessary.
She held her breath for a while before exhaling, unable to figure out what was wrong with Luan Yenan.
She was clearly the one who disrespected Omegas the most before, but now she's become a champion of justice.
Regardless of how much truth or falsehood Luan Yenan was saying, as long as she acted convincingly, Zuo Baixuan held back.
Seeing that Zuo Baixuan did not respond.
Luan Yenan changed the subject: "So, have you thought about what you need to ask of me?"
"Yes, I've thought it through." Zuo Baixuan nodded.
It's possible that Luan Yenan saw through her hesitation before she even started.