NOVPUB
Chapter 146: Chapter 132: Arbitrage Begins (Seeking Votes!)_1
Of course, Tang Qing, who left the Internet cafe, would have no way of knowing that someone from another country would be tracing the source of his funds. Even if he knew, there was nothing he could do about it. This money-making operation was practically a windfall and he couldn’t just stop doing it. Besides, he himself wasn’t exactly on the straight and narrow. He couldn’t really expect everyone else to play by the rules, could he?
That would be brain-dead.
Over the next few days, Tang Qing continued attending school as usual, reading extre-curricular books, occasionally daydreaming. The teachers had completely given up on him, as long as he didn’t disrupt the class, even if he read a Chinese book during math class, the teacher would look on with benevolence, almost offering him a cup of tea.
Wang Yan and Li Kai were studying hard in order to catch up with Tang Qing.
On Sunday, Tang Qing visited Lin Jiaxue’s place. This time, the two younger cousins didn’t insist on going because they were both on vacation, and they had a lot of winter break homework to do. Their aunt’s school holiday started early, so she made the two cousins do their homework every day, hoping to have all of it finished before the Chinese New Year so that they could enjoy their vacation.
Fortunately, the two younger cousins didn’t go, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to play kissy games with Lin Jiaxue.
At Tang Qing’s persistent request, they engaged in a half-hour-long ’ceremonial’ wet kiss without touching. In the end, Lin Jiaxue had to push him away because her mouth was a little swollen. Tang Qing’s ’iron mouth’, on the other hand, was absolutely fine.
After the kiss, seeing Lin Jiaxue’s slightly red lips, Tang Qing felt a bit of sympathy, then...he heard that saliva could reduce the swelling, and resolutely kissed her again.
They spent the whole day at Lin Jiaxue’s place, watching the version of ’The Condor Heroes’ starring Louis Koo. This was the local TV station’s weekend big giveaway, a ten-episode rolling broadcast. And the classic was indeed a classic. Tang Qing had watched this version of ’The Condor Heroes’ several times before, but he still found it engaging. The performance skills of this group of professional actors were impeccable, far surpassing the young actors of later generations.
Of course, Tang Qing didn’t think there was anything wrong with these youngsters, he just thought they shouldn’t be in the film industry. The films they made were simply unbearable to watch. When they cried, they couldn’t muster up any tears, but their ’charming’ laughter and professional poses were hilarious. Their emotional scenes were a complete bust and when they got injured, they made it seem like the end of the world. Although not all the youngsters were like this, the growth of young idolization in the later generations indeed messed up than entire entertainment industry.
Secretary Da Kang’s films were much more pleasurable to watch.
Considering that the investment of ’In the Name of the People’ was less than the paycheck of one of these youngsters, Tang Qing felt that the entertainment circle of his later generation country had been ruined by these entertainment companies. Because the stars’ paychecks were not solely decided by the youngsters themselves. They were set by their agents and entertainment companies, and the youngsters had to bear the brunt of public criticism.
Damn it, these unscrupulous businessmen only know how to make money. Once I get rich, I’ll invest heavily in movies that require real acting skills. Any actor without real skills will be sidelined. We can’t let these businessmen spoil the social mores.
So, after Tang Qing’s relentless ’de-swelling’, Lin Jiaxue’s mouth...swelled even more. However, she didn’t complain much. Though it hurt a bit, she put up with Tang Qing. This was a habit formed since childhood. As long as it wasn’t an unreasonable demand or a matter of principle, Lin Jiaxue would always yield to Tang Qing.
When Lin Jiaxue’s parents came back in the evening and saw their daughter’s lips, they initially thought she had reddened lips from eating spicy food. But after a while, they realized what was up and giggled to themselves. Their ’mysterious’ smiles made Tang Qing and Lin Jiaxue realize they had been found out. So during dinner, Lin Jiaxue kept her blushed face down and focused on her food, while Tang Qing sat by her side with a goofy smile, serving her food.
...
February 1st
Tuesday
Tang Qing was also on vacation now.
Last night at Sky Eye company’s dinner, Dou Jiao, the unscrupulous host, made him drink two bottles of Baijiu. He had never realized before that Dou Jiao was actually such a binge-drinker. After a bottle of Baijiu, she exhibited no signs of inebriation, walking steadily and speaking clearly.
Of course, Tang Qing also had no issues whatsoever. The moment the high-alcohol Baijiu entered Tang Qing’s stomach, before the stomach acid could even react, the Origin Qi had already broken it down into water and carbon dioxide. Although he could drink as much as he wanted without getting drunk, Tang Qing still couldn’t stand the taste of Baijiu.
Coca-Cola was much better.
At that time Dou Jiao instigated that since it was the boss’s first formal meeting with the employees, he couldn’t be a wimp. In order to ’shock the upstarts’, Tang Qing directly took a bottle of Maotai, put it to his mouth and started chugging, stunning onlookers who were all shocked. In less than a minute, Tang Qing had finished the whole bottle of Maotai and even gave a burp.
Seeing that Tang Qing’s complexion hadn’t paled in the slightest, indicating he wasn’t at his limit, no one else dared to make a fuss. Someone directly downing a bottle of Maotai, spoke to his commitment and pushing any further would have been excessive. Dou Jiao, not to be outdone, tried to challenge Tang Qing, but she couldn’t hold on after half a bottle and ended up slowly sipping the rest.
After dinner, of course, they had to go for some entertainment. Again, Dou Jiao came up with the plan. She found a KTV venue where they all sang their hearts out until after 10pm, when they finally dispersed.
...
Tang Qing got up early this morning. He was excited because today was the day Liu Qian was supposed to transfer the money.
Unable to rush Liu Qian, after breakfast, Tang Qing laid on his bed staring at the ceiling and daydreaming, his mind wandered to unknown places.
Nine-ten AM.
Tang Qing was brought back to reality by a system notification. He immediately sat up to take a look. He had received three billion RMB. Tang Qing’s face broke into a huge grin and he quickly sent Liu Qian a message stating that he had received the payment.
Afterwards, he got up and went to the mirror in his wardrobe, took a deep breath and smiled, his mouth curving upwards.
Set sail.
Begin the journey.
Tang Qing quickly changed his clothes and went out. He was dressed the same as last time, wearing a mask, but he switched to a different Internet cafe, being careful never hurts after all.
Once he got to the Internet café, he chose a computer surrounded by bratty kids.
He downloaded an anonymous browsing browser again, tweaked a few settings, and logged on to that website.
He went into the account categories.
He clicked open the customer service chat box.
The same command line style black and white chat box popped up. Tang Qing felt uncomfortable seeing it the first time, but the second-time felt much better.
He would never think low of the other party just because their interface was ugly, he just thought that the person was truly low-key, practically burying themselves in the ground.
The first line was still automatically generated by the software:
"CAN I HELP YOU?"
Tang Qing promptly entered the order number that the other party had given him last time.
Apparently, this dialogue box has a language recognition system.
As soon as Tang Qing typed in the order number and hit enter, a message popped up: "PLEASE WAIT..."
Well, if he must wait, he will wait.
A minute later, a human operator came online: "Hello, your order is ready. Once you have paid all the funds, we will tell you how to retrieve the account. Deducting the $50,000 deposit from last time, for two hundred accounts, you need to pay $1,950,000. The account for this transaction is XXX, will you pay now?"
The account number this time was not the same as the last.
But it made sense, a crafty rabbit has three burrows. Given that these customers were all anonymous to begin with and to avoid confusion, it wasn’t unusual to switch accounts each time.
Tang Qing typed: "Yes, give me two minutes."
Then Tang Qing asked the system to transfer $1,950,000 to the account. After it was done, he typed: "I’ve transferred it, check it on your end."
Less than half a minute later, the other party sent a message:
"Okay, the money has arrived, and it has been verified without errors. Here is the website address where the account information is kept. Please record it now and let us know when you’re done, we will delete the website content."
"Okay, let me take note of it first." Tang Qing replied. Although he was curious why the other party didn’t send him an email or just give it to him in the dialogue box, and he even had a foreign email account prepared. However, he didn’t ask further. If the other party chose this method, and it was their only one, they obviously had a valid reason.
Tang Qing logged into the given website.
The entire website only had two colors: black and white. White background, black font, and all it contained was a lengthy table.
The table from top to bottom was filled with densely packed account information such as the bank where the account exists, account number, password, electronic key, transfer website, consultation phone number, etc.
However, Tang Qing only needed the account number and password. With the system, he didn’t need to log onto the bank’s website to make a transfer, nor did he need to consult with anyone.
Tang Qing promptly copied them down and saved them in a TXT file on his desktop.
It’s bloody expensive, at eighty thousand RMB each, but considering their functionality, Tang Qing thought it was worth the price.
"Okay, I’ve documented it." Copy and Paste was a right-click away - quick and easy. He felt assured as he could copy the content of the web page. If the other party had asked him to download an EXCEL or WORD file, he wouldn’t dare to, as they could contain codes beyond his understanding. If those were traced back to him, it wouldn’t be good.
"Okay, thank your patronage. Please contact us if you need anything else."
However, the other party had replied within a second. Apparently, the person on the other end had the reply prepared and was waiting for his confirmation.
"Okay, goodbye." Tang Qing typed.
Closing the dialogue box, Tang Qing also closed the browser. As for the account information, Tang Qing had saved them in the system. As a banking system, it naturally needed to have account information storage functionality, whether to link it or not was another matter. Otherwise, why would it be called a banking system? He knew the system had this functionality a long time ago.
After that, Tang Qing switched off the computer, to be on the safe side.
Leaning on the chair in the internet cafe, Tang Qing was ready to give it a try.
He couldn’t use the account of the American he had linked previously. That means he could only link two American bank accounts and three German bank accounts.
Tang Qing commanded the system to first link an account from Citibank in the United States and an account from the German Commercial Bank.
It has begun
Tang Qing was a little excited.
He immediately transferred $1,375,000, equivalent to 11 million RMB inside the system, to the Citibank account.
He planned to calculate his profit margin using the recovered currency value in the end.
The key moment was here.
Tang Qing took a deep breath and commanded the system to transfer all the money from the Citibank account to the German Commercial Bank account.
A minute passed.
Two minutes passed.
Tang Qing didn’t receive any deposit notification.
But Tang Qing was not panicking.
It was apparently unrealistic to expect a huge inter-bank, cross-border transfer to be instantaneous.
Besides, didn’t the guy said earlier that the slowest would be half an hour?
The moment to witness the miracle had arrived.
