Ruby.Lee grasped the bald man's hand tightly with gratitude, sincere thanks shining in his eyes.
"Big brother, thank you so much!"
He turned around and walked out of the door, not forgetting to turn back and express his gratitude again.
"Big brother, thank you, ouch!"
Immediately after, Ruby.Lee quickly walked downstairs, secretly rejoicing in his heart.
"See that? He's even thanking us. What a sucker. Hahaha." The burly man pointed at Ruby.Lee's back and said to the yellow-haired guy with a laugh.
Ruby.Lee chuckled to himself inwardly. He had easily gotten 2.7 million yuan, and with the 2.5 million from the bank, he now had a total of 5.2 million yuan.
520, what an auspicious number.
Just as Ruby.Lee was enjoying himself, a sudden voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Hey, young man, come here. Auntie wants to talk to you about something. Did you just borrow money from the third floor?"
"Hey, young man, come on. Since you've borrowed money, you should spend some. Auntie has a fan in her room. It'll keep you nice and cool."
Ruby.Lee looked up and saw, under the pink lights on the second floor of the red-light district, a glamorous woman in a light blue cheongsam waving at him. The slit of the cheongsam was extremely high, revealing a pair of alluring long legs in sheer stockings.
Ruby.Lee couldn't help but smack his lips, secretly exclaiming in his heart: So white...
As a native of Xijing, Ruby.Lee naturally understood what she meant. He quickly waved his hand, indicating that he still had important matters to attend to and couldn't be delayed by such romantic affairs.
The situation in the red-light district was complicated. He had heard that even if Superman went in there, he'd have to have his red underwear stripped off before he could get out...
Women would only slow down his speed of hoarding supplies.
"What? You think Auntie is old?"
"You young man, you have quite high standards."
"Come in first. Auntie has some foreign exchange students here. They're really beautiful..."
Seeing that Ruby.Lee didn't want to come in, the woman quickly changed her approach.
Ruby.Lee quickened his pace and left without looking back.
Foreign exchange students, my ass. That woman was older than the combined age of two female college students.
She could deceive young guys, but Ruby.Lee had helped countless domestic sex workers in Huahai City over the years...
By the time he was done with all this, it was already 2:30 in the afternoon. Ruby.Lee had been busy all morning and his stomach was already growling with hunger.
He randomly found a restaurant and had a quick bite, then bought a plane ticket for the next morning. Although Xijing City was his hometown, he had spent most of his time in Huahai City. Especially since all his enemies were in Huahai City, if he wanted to take proper revenge on them when the apocalyptic world came, he naturally had to go back to Huahai City.
"Boss, a bowl of spicy and numbing soup, no meatballs!"
Ruby.Lee randomly found a place to sit down and called out to the inside.
"What? Say that again? Spicy and numbing soup is meant to be eaten with meatballs. What else would you eat without meatballs!"
The boss was an old man, wearing a white vest and blue shorts. Hearing Ruby.Lee's words, his hand that was scooping food paused.
Seeing that the old man was getting angry, Ruby.Lee quickly made a joke and said, "Just kidding, just kidding, old man. A bowl of spicy and numbing soup, with lots of meatballs."
"Ah, that's right. Eating spicy and numbing soup is all about the meatballs."
The boss laughed and said. This young man was really scary. How dare he play such a joke on me, an old man?
Ruby.Lee was quite willing to interact with these simple and honest folks in his hometown.
Unlike in big cities, where there was scheming and clique-forming everywhere, and anyone could bully him.
The old man served the food, and Ruby.Lee went to pay.
He took out two one-hundred-yuan bills. "Old man, buy more ingredients. Your meatballs are really delicious. Make more. I believe your business can be even hotter."
Ruby.Lee kindly reminded the old man to stock up on more food.
After all, the old man was quite interesting, and Ruby.Lee didn't want someone like him to fall in the soon-to-come apocalyptic world...
But that was all he could say. After all, it was the hottest time of the year.
If Ruby.Lee told others that the Ice Age would arrive in a month and the whole world would be frozen, he'd probably be regarded as a fool and sent to a mental hospital.
Ruby.Lee didn't want that.
"Okay, okay, okay, young man. Uncle will listen to your advice. I'll make more."
"I'll go buy ingredients tomorrow. Hahaha, come often. I'll treat you to meatballs."
The old man said happily.
Back at his seat, Ruby.Lee suddenly had an idea.
"Oh! How could I forget about this!"
Ruby.Lee slapped his thigh and quickly took out his phone.
He opened one app after another, all of them being online lending apps.
Right, credit cards. Ruby.Lee had three credit cards with a limit of 200,000 yuan each. He was going to max them all out.
After this round of operations, Ruby.Lee sat in the restaurant for another 150 minutes.
After the operations were completed, Ruby.Lee twitched his lips as he looked at the additional 2.5 million yuan on his card.
Damn it, does 250 have a beef with me or something? Not a penny more, not a penny less, just right...
Now Ruby.Lee had a total of 7.7 million yuan. He didn't even know how to spend all this money.
...
At Huahai International Airport, Ruby.Lee got out and hailed a taxi.
"Huahai News, recently, our city's Huahai International Cargo Port has witnessed a peak in cargo transportation, and the import and export trade transaction index has been rising sharply."
"This year, our city's Huahai International Cargo Port has become the world's largest cargo port. According to relevant data, more than 100,000 cargo containers enter and exit the port every minute."
"Including but not limited to agricultural products, aquatic products, fruits, various meat products, high-end snacks, tobacco and alcohol, fresh produce, high-tech electronic devices, biomedical devices and drugs, textile and clothing, various building materials, weapons and equipment for assisting other countries, large machine tools, petrochemical products, dairy products, children's toys, adult products, pet toys, and so on..."
In the taxi, the radio was broadcasting Huahai City news.
The drowsy Ruby.Lee was suddenly awakened by the content of the news.
The world's largest cargo port?!
"Hey, good grief! If it weren't for the news broadcast, I'd still be stupidly planning to go shopping."
"I was just thinking, relying on just me to buy things, how many trips would I have to make to hoard enough food and supplies for a lifetime?"
"Damn stupid!"
"My space is infinite. That means it can hold any amount of things. So, all the supplies in this one small port can fit in there too..."
"Brilliant! Brilliant!"
Ruby.Lee's brain was working quickly, and he soon figured it out.
Instead of running around shopping laboriously, it would be better to do something big.
The supplies in this one port, Ruby.Lee couldn't even imagine how many good things there could be.
If all of them were taken into his space, he wouldn't be able to finish them in 10,000 years.
But he couldn't guarantee whether the things would go bad when stored in the space.
But he had read so many post-apocalyptic novels, and it seemed that in those novels, the spaces could keep things fresh all the time.
No, I have to test it when I get back.
Soon the car drove to Huahai Community.
Ruby.Lee paid the fare and got out of the car.
"Hey, where the hell am I going to live?"
Ruby.Lee looked at the luxurious entrance of the community and then realized that since he had quit his job, he couldn't live in the dormitory anymore.
Damn it!
I'll stay in a hotel. I'll stay in a five-star hotel!
I won't stay in any hotel that costs less than 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a night!
Anyway, he didn't have to worry about not having enough money to spend now.
He could just take the supplies from the port when the time was right.
Having figured this out, Ruby.Lee opened the navigation map and navigated to the nearest five-star hotel.
"Woof! Woof! Woof!"
A burst of dog barking caught Ruby.Lee's attention.