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Chapter 599: Chapter 503 System Upgrade, Teleport at Will (Subscribe please!)_1
Tang Qing’s words made the old man’s face stiffen.
"..."
"Pfff..." The little girl couldn’t help but laugh upon seeing her grandpa’s confused expression. The other girls burst into laughter as well. This joke was good enough to keep them laughing for days.
"I’m sorry, elder. Tangtang was joking." Lin Jiaxue hastily apologized. She also recalled the grandfather and granddaughter, but she guessed they wouldn’t remember her since she had been standing among the crowd with Tang Kai at that time.
"Haha, it’s fine. I feel much younger talking to you. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Qiu Jie and this is my granddaughter, Qiu Wanrou." Qiu Jie introduced himself graciously. It had been a long time since someone had dared to joke around in front of him, making his mood significantly better.
"My name is Tang Qing. And this is my..." Tang Qing proceeded to introduce all the girls.
"You’re Tang Qing? The champion of the nationwide examination, Tang Qing?" Qiu Jie was surprised to hear this.
Tang Qing was taken aback. Was his fame that widespread?
"Yes, elder, you know me?"
Upon hearing Tang Qing’s confirmation, Qiu Jie laughed and began to see Tang Qing in a new light. He said, "I’ve just heard your name before. Very good indeed. It’s getting late, and there’s a dinner party waiting for us. You guys enjoy your meal. I’ll cover the cost, as thanks for the help you gave me last time. Please don’t refuse. I can afford a meal."
Last time they parted in a rush without a chance to express gratitude. Now that they had meet again, it was only right to return the favor.
"Well... alright, I hope it won’t hurt your feelings too much, Mr. Qiu." Seeing the old man’s determined gaze, Tang Qing had no choice but to accept. This meal would resolve the debt, otherwise, Qiu Jie wouldn’t be able to rest easy.
"Haha, don’t worry about that. Wan Rou, let’s go." Qiu Jie laughed heartily.
"Oh, farewell, Brother Tang."
After saying her goodbyes, Qiu Wanrou reluctantly followed her grandfather up to the second-floor box.
"Who was that, Tang Qing?" Zeng Rou couldn’t resist asking.
"I met them while on vacation in Thailand. I helped them with a small matter. I thought I would never see them again, but surprisingly, we just ran into each other." Tang Qing briefly explained after taking a seat.
"You guys went to Thailand? Was it fun? Did you go to see any of the exotic performances?" Zeng Rou asked excitedly. Her outgoing personality had always been a little unrestrained.
"No, we just wandered around. Let me tell you, those performers live such miserable lives. From a young age, they have to..." Tang Qing began to slowly explain the life of those performers.
After hearing about the tragic process these people have to go through-
None of the girls had any interest in going to see the performances anymore. No buying, no harm.
After finishing their meal-
They were indeed told by the front desk that they didn’t have to pay.
So-
They had saved a meal’s worth of money again.
Feeling full and satisfied, they leisurely strolled back to school. After dropping Lin Jiaxue off at her dormitory, Tang Qing immediately returned to his nearby home. He stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, lost in thought as he looked at the still bustling night scene of Shanghai.
He was silent.
Many thoughts crossed his mind. The tasks at the Command Room were getting more numerous and burdensome. Unlike his regular companies, the operations at the Command room are not just about making money but also held a great influence on his future, it was a high stakes game where failure is not an option.
The companies under him are only about owning money, whereas the operations in the Command Room are about a deeper level of ownership of power in this world. The resulting conflicts are different; company conflicts are simply about making money, conflicts within the Command Room also involve killing and power struggles.
Just thinking about it gave Tang Qing a headache. Walking this fine line, he could only hope for more investment to avoid potential crises. His current power is still too weak. While his personal fighting strength is almost at its peak and influence is vast, reaching almost globally, it’s too spread out to form a strong non-violent deterrent. Apart from his territory, he has no absolute deterrent influence in other areas.
He could only be regarded as a slightly stronger bandit chief at best.
Such a result was unacceptable to Tang Qing, but building such influence is not an overnight job, it requires a long-term infiltration and influence while maintaining secrecy, which is truly difficult.
As Tang Qing was deep in thought-
The two level 4 fighters, like statues, stood silently by the door. Not making a sound at all, they seemed to blend into the background. If a thief were to break in late at night, they might get scared away by these silent warriors.
Luckily, these two fighters could laugh, otherwise, he wouldn’t dare to use them for fear of scaring Lin Jiaxue.
At midnight-
"Beep beep beep..."
A hurried sound rang in the quiet room, the alarm on Tang Qing’s watch.
Tang Qing snapped back to reality and pressed a button on his left watch, immediately silencing it. Although the watch looks like a regular digital one from the outside, after it was modified by the group of scientists, it had gained many functions.
Recording sound and video is the basic function. It could also be used as a weapon, launching thin needles with either anaesthetic or poison. However, this function needs to be used in conjunction with nerve telekinesis and there are no buttons on the watch to trigger this mechanism. Only when Tang Qing’s nerve telekinesis permeates into it, can it be activated.
This precaution is to prevent someone from unintentionally touching it and harming people.
As soon as it passed twelve o’clock, the sound of the system’s monthly assessment pass played.
Tang Qing immediately checked his information:
Name: Tang Qing
Level: Level 5
Experience: 1595/1600
This month’s loan quota: 0/8 million
This month’s personal quota: 0/1.6 million
Withdrawable Assets: 11,12650,000
Spirit: 548
Physical Fitness: 548
Origin Qi Value: 0
Exchangeable Foreign Currency: US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, Ruble.
The experience bar in the information remained unchanged, but Tang Qing wasn’t in a hurry. The new monthly task had been refreshed, so he would gain eighty points of experience once he had completed the monthly lending task. Hence, Tang Qing ordered an RMB loan of 1.6 million from the system.
The next moment.
A surge of leveling up sensation came.
Tang Qing then refreshed the information interface:
Name: Tang Qing 𝓷ℴ𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝒸𝓸𝓶
Level: Level 6
Experience: 75/3200
Monthly Loan Quota: 0/8 million
Personal Monthly Quota: 160/160 million
Withdrawable Assets: 11,1545 million
Spirit: 548
Physical Fitness: 548
Origin Qi Value: 60
Exchangeable Foreign Currency: US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, Ruble, Thai Baht.
After leveling up to level 6, the system rewarded 3.2 million RMB and 60 Origin Qi Value points. This was usual during a level upgrade. However, it was a bit of a headache this time as the task upgraded after it refreshed. Hence, a level 5 task is tasked with upgrading to level 6. Expecting the next level upgrade might reach the year-end.
Particularly, seeing the new exchangeable foreign currency available, Tang Qing had an even more irritating feeling. He had been waiting to see if the new currency could alleviate the fading arbitrage opportunity for US dollars. But to his surprise, he received Thai Baht as the new currency.
What the hell is the use of Thai Baht?
Similar to the Japanese yen, it is also a currency with a very small arbitrage opportunity. Its disappearance would seemingly make little difference. But whatever, Tang Qing thought, considering he now has plenty of ways to make money, and there’s no shortage of it recently, so he might as well continue making good use of the US dollars. If it depletes significantly, he can still afford to halt for a while.
Tang Qing then looked at his two attributes, pondered, and decided to max out his spiritual attribute first. Now, the skills he practiced mainly have to do with Neural Telekinesis, and it has been a long time since he’s learned real combat moves, so he will add a few points to physical fitness later.
With a fleeting intention.
The next moment, Tang Qing’s attributes turned into-
Spirit: 600
Physical Fitness: 556
Origin Qi Value: 0
Fifty-two points were added to the spirit and eight points to the physical fitness.
The spiritual attribute has reached the limit for unlocking the level 6 gene lock. Looking at his shortage of forty-four points in physical fitness, Tang Qing shifted his gaze to the Achievement Task (1) with a speechless expression, implying he must complete the task of issuing 300 billion RMB in Asian Dollar first, so as to unlock the level 6 gene lock.
Then Tang Qing went back to his bedroom and zapped into the command room.
He called out Little Two and brought up the robot exchange list:
"Level 1 Fighter, Physical Fitness 100, Spirit 100, Skill: Proficient in All Soldier Skills, Price 1 million, No Purchase Restrictions, No Active Area Restrictions, Can be Upgraded and Strengthened."
"..."
"Level 5 Fighter, Physical Fitness 500, Spirit 500, Skill: Proficient in All Soldier Skills, Price 5 million, No Purchase Restrictions, No Active Area Restrictions, Can be Upgraded and Strengthened."
"Basic Intelligence Analyst, Physical Fitness 100, Spirit 100, Skill: Proficient in All Analytical Skills, Price 2 million, No Purchase Restrictions, No Active Area Restrictions, Can be Upgraded and Strengthened."
"Spy, Physical Fitness 200, Spirit 200, Skill: Proficient in All Infiltration Skills, Price 5 million, No Purchase Restrictions, No Active Area Restrictions, Can be Upgraded and Strengthened."
"Scientist, Physical Fitness 200, Spirit 200, Skill: Proficient in All Research Skills, Price 10 million, No Purchase Restrictions, No Active Area Restrictions, Can be Upgraded and Strengthened."
The robot exchange list hasn’t changed much, with the addition of a level 5 fighter exchange option.
Tang Qing frowned slightly, somewhat disappointed -- such an upgrade felt rather flat.
"Little Two, what other changes came with the Combat Dispatch Center’s upgrade this time?" Instead of running around, Tang Qing decided to ask Little Two directly.
"Commander, the Research Area has upgraded to Level 2. It is equipped with more advanced research equipment and can accommodate more scientists. It also provides a boost to research speed. In addition, the system has gifted one teleportation node, which is stored in the Transmission Area. Finally, the Commander can teleport to any area within the Combat Dispatch Center at will." came Little Two’s voice.
The talked-about changes were expected, but the last one was quite exciting for Tang Qing. He hurriedly stood up and asked: "Are you saying I can teleport to any area from here?" Before, he was troubled by moving around on a skateboard, but teleportation was a lot faster.
"Yes, Commander. Here is a map and coordinates of the entire Combat Dispatch Center. Once you tell me the coordinates, I can teleport you there directly." Little Two spoke as a flat map with zooming function appeared in front of Tang Qing.
This time.
Tang Qing managed to see the full view of the entire Combat Dispatch Center.
As expected, the Training Area was indeed the largest, taking up almost a tenth of the area when combined with all the other areas. After all, the Training Area spanned about three thousand square kilometers, so it justified its large size.
Since he saw it, of course, he had to try it. Immediately, Tang Qing looked at a corner of the Training Area he had never been to before and reported two coordinates to Little Two. All the coordinates were positive numbers, with the lower-left corner as the origin point.
The next moment.
Tang Qing only felt a change in his vision as he appeared in a city.
This was a modern city, with not many but some high-rise buildings, neatly lined up. The roads were clean and tidy; there were only signs of shops on both sides of the street, all in Chinese, and apart from the shelves, there were no goods inside.
There was not a single soul on the street; a gentle breeze blew, bringing a slight chill.
This was a ghost city located at the northwestern corner of the Training Area. As per the function description, it serves as a city battlefield for training and simulation. Simply put, this nearly twenty square kilometers large ghost city was intended to be destroyed.
