After the phone call, Hong Dali smiled at Gong Zhiwen and said, “It’s done, Uncle Gong. Yes, since you are my dad’s ally, then I think there should be some changes to our terms.”
“Okay, tell us about it, Young Master Dali.” After he heard that Hong Dali thought there should be some changes to their terms, Gong Zhiwen quickly nodded. “I am listening.”
“Right, it’s like this.” Hong Dali bobbed his head as he spoke. “I’m a squanderer and have no hobbies except spending money. I will take all the rough stone. I want to have the first pick of whatever gets prospected and you can have the rest. Are you okay with that?”
Gong Zhiwen took in a sharp breath when he heard what Hong Dali said.
He was undeniably the legendary super prodigal. See how extravagantly he spends!
The best offer he had given was to claim 20% of the profit after taking out the cost of the rocks and give the remaining 80% to Young Master Dali. Now, Young Master Dali was going to pay for the rough rocks and give whatever he did not want to him for free! With Young Master Dali’s character, he would definitely not take all of it. At most, he would take a few pieces, perhaps a few that he liked, and give all the rest of it away. Gong Zhiwen would not have to come out with a single cent!
If they really managed to prospect one of those magical stones that had health-giving properties…
Such a good deal, he would be a fool not to accept!
Damn, this was a big gamble, undeniably a big gamble! If this gamble paid off, he would be able to strut proudly in the Chamber of Commerce in the future!
Gong Zhiwen nodded his head like a chicken eating rice. “No problem, absolutely no problem! If Young Master Dali likes such things, we can cooperate more often in the future. Of course, I guarantee you will not lose out. Young Master Dali will get half of the profits!”
“Forget it.” Hong Dali waved his hand graciously. “This is just a small amount. It doesn’t matter. Anyway, I only care about squandering, not earning!”
Stone-gambling. The last time Hong Dali went stone-gambling he was just trying it out and spent only a total of ten million. The amount involved this time was totally unlike the previous time. This time his purchase of uncut rocks would cost at least hundreds of millions!
A few hundred million! Gong Zhiwen’s good friend CEO Zhou, who dealt in uncut jade rocks, had to use a freighter to transport the uncut rocks. Otherwise, there would be no way to transport it by sea. It was hundreds of thousands of tonnes of uncut rocks this time, and on a completely different scale as compared to the previous time he went stone-gambling.
Now that he had finished negotiating with Young Master Dali, Gong Zhiwen immediately called out to CEO Zhou who was on the freighter. “CEO Zhou, Young Master Dali has agreed. Do you want to come down and take a look, too? Everyone else who has followed us to get an eyeful can come down, too!”
Once he had finished speaking, a few heads immediately stuck out from the freighter. Hong Dali took one look and exclaimed happily, “Ah, Brother Chao! I never thought you would be here!”
One of the heads that stuck out among the group of the second-generation rich was someone Hong Dali knew. When Lao Deming brought Hong Dali to Beijing City the first time he went stone-gambling, they met Hong Dali’s diehard fan, Yang Chao!
“Hahaha, Young Master Dali, we have not seen each other for a long time!” Yang Chao greeted Hong Dali from the freighter. “I heard CEO Gong say that he was going to look for you to do stone-gambling. That’s my favorite activity, so I brought a few friends and came along to take a look. How does Young Master Dali intend to play today?”
The group of second-generation rich young masters headed by Yang Chao was crazy and loved excitement. Stone-gambling was their favorite past time. Almost everyone knew that Hong Dali had unbeatable luck. Once they heard that something interesting was going to happen, all of them came over to have a look.
“Today we’re just having some casual fun.” Hong Dali smiled and waved at Yang Chao. “Brother Chao, do you want to come down and play? It’s quite fun. These little darlings don’t bite!”
“This…” Yang Chao and his group of fair-weathered friends looked down at the sea that was teeming with sharks and gulped.
At the moment, it looked like these sharks really did not bite. However, knowing about it was one thing, actually jumping down was another matter…
“You have no guts!!” Yang Chao’s fiancée, Su Yan, stood behind him and gave him a vicious kick on his bottom. “Get down there and test the water!”
Yang Chao: “Ahhhhhhhhh—!!!”
Two minutes later, when they saw Yang Chao sitting steadily on the back of a shark and cruising the seas like riding a motorbike, all the other young masters could no longer stay still. They all started jumping into the sea one by one like dumplings going into a pot. Plonk, plonk, plonk, they all dropped into the sea before being lifted on the backs of sharks which went in under them. The feeling was unlike any other!
This group of rich young masters was usually in the city racing cars, hitting on girls, and stone-gambling. They were just looking for something exciting to do. However, no matter how exciting those activities were, they were completely incomparable to this shark riding.
“Idol!” A rich second generation exclaimed. “I feel that I am very impressive driving my two-million-dollar luxury car and dating the hottest girl. Compared to Young Master Dali today, that’s just child’s play. Comparisons are odious!”
He asked next, “That, Young Master Dali, teach me how to squander? I want to learn, too!”
Can this be taught? Squandering was a type of skill!
“Ahahaha.” Hong Dali immediately changed the subject. “Let’s go stone-gambling first…”
Seeing that Hong Hong was finally ready to gamble on stones, Gong Zhiwen finally set his mind at ease. Okay, great. As long as Hong Dali has decided that he will do stone-gambling, everything will be fine. To be honest, he had already found out that this fellow was carefree and thoughtless. He did everything based on his mood. If he had decided that he did not want to do stone-gambling, it would be super depressing!
Since it had already been decided, Hong Dali and his followers followed Gong Zhiwen, CEO Zhou, and Yang Chao onto the freighter. The group chatted and laughed as they boarded and made their way onto the deck of the freighter. There were indeed countless large containers on the deck. The doors of these containers had been opened. They were filled with hundreds of uncut rocks of various sizes, all of which were huge jade stones. The smallest looked to weigh at least a ton. There was also a variety of stone cutting equipment around the stones. It seemed that they had moved an entire stone-gambling den here.
Before they came, Yang Chao already knew that he would have a good time today. However, when he and his group of friends saw the large number of uncut stones, they were still rendered speechless and their eyes glinted with excitement. If not for the fact that Hong Dali was right next to him and he was afraid of appearing foolish, he would have rushed forward and licked the stones.
“Young Master Dali,” Gong Zhiwen asked tentatively. “The stones here have all been carefully selected. All of them are of superior quality and almost guaranteed to contain jades. However, I cannot confirm their qualities. Now, it’s up to Young Master Dali to choose one yourself.”
“Yes, I know.” Hong Dali asked CEO Zhou, “Uncle Zhou, these things, what do you call them, uncut jade, right? How much are they worth?”
Getting the facts straight at the beginning would prevent disagreements later on. It was right that the price should be decided upon first.
“A total of three hundred and seventy-five million yuan,” CEO Zhou said quickly. “If it were someone else, I would not give them a discount. But Young Master Dali is a friend introduced by CEO Gong. I definitely have to charge you cheaper. Make it three hundred and sixty million.”
He cut the price by fifteen million yuan right from the beginning, which was really giving Hong Dali due respect.
However, the prodigal Hong Dali didn’t care about such things. He sniffled and told Ling Xiaoyi, who was next to him, “No need for a discount. I will give you a round figure of four hundred million. Xiaoyi, transfer the funds.”
Yang Chao and everyone else exclaimed, “My god, Young Master Dali is really generous! I have finally seen it for myself today!”
“…” CEO Zhou was stunned for a long time before he thanked Hong Dali profusely. “Thank you, my Lord!”
To be honest, the cost price of his uncut stones was at most 40 to 50 million. Hong Dali increased his profit by another hundred percent with just one sentence!
“Young Master Dali is great!” Gong Zhiwen wiped the cold sweat off his forehead vehemently. Hong Dali really lived up to his name. “Shall we start cutting the stones?”
“Ah, no hurry.” Although he did not really want to wait for Ling Xiaoyi and CEO Zhou to complete the funds’ transfer, Hong Dali was in no hurry to get started. He shook his head. “Well, cutting jade it’s all about luck, we should have some kind of ceremony or ritual—wait, let me chant a spell. Yes, yes!”
Was it necessary to have a ritual and chant spells before cutting stones? Everyone was amazed and yet respectful at the same time—did you see that? Otherwise, how could his luck be so good? He was obviously a reincarnation of Buddha!
In fact, Hong Dali was pulling up the Great Prodigal System in his mind. He said, “Points available for exchange.” During that period of time, he had bought materials to revamp the aircraft carrier, miscellaneous spendings, as well as the money he had just spent to buy the uncut jade. All of it should add up to a substantial amount.
With a “Ding” sound, the System’s cold, mechanical voice said—
“The Host has a total of 58 attribute points available for exchange. Please select where to use them.”
“Usage Method 1: Upgrade Skills [Machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation]. Method 2: Upgrade Skills [Gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement]. Method 3: Exchange for science and technology blueprint. Method 4: Exchange for Survival Side Branch Skills.”
Right at that moment, he was not in a hurry to upgrade the other skill trees. The uncut jade was right in front of him. Hong Dali had obviously pulled up the System at that time to deal with it. “Upgrade Skills [Gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement]!”
Gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement could enhance any rock that contained precious minerals or stones. The enhanced stone would have additional attributes. Finally, Hong Dali could choose to imbue it with up to three attributes from strength, agility, reaction, health, and energy. The higher the skill level, the better the quality of the gem, and the higher level of the attributes added.
What did Hong Dali need the most? It was not all kinds of other attributes, it was energy!
The Mechanical Holy Garment required energy, the Granzon required energy, the two aircraft carriers needed energy, even the Mechanical arm, Running Dog needed energy!
At present, Hong Dali’s Gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement had thirty basic skill points added to it. That was the maximum points needed for Skill Level One. When he chose to upgrade this skill, the System’s voice suddenly explained, “The host needs to upgrade this branch to unlock the next level. Branch upgrade requires 10 attribute points. After unlocking, there will be new features available.”
“Unlock.” Need he even consider? Unlock it immediately!
