Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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The system took out its phone and showed him the bank's balance notification: "This is my personal bank account. Count how many digits are in it."

The long balance figure made Old Tang a little dizzy for a moment. He took the phone and started counting the numbers on it.

"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions..."

With over $3 million lying in Lu Mingfei's private account at Citibank, Lao Tang understood that this was definitely just the tip of the iceberg of the other party's strength. Who would put all their money in one bank account?

Moreover, the bank account only contains liquid funds; these wealthy people also have tangible assets in addition to liquid funds…

Over 3 million! Even if you live to be a hundred... you'd need to spend about $1 a day to spend it all! And that's just the amount in your bank account, assuming it only decreases and never increases!

Even after rounding down the $300 million, based on the Federal Reserve's fixed interest rate of 4.25% at the beginning of this year, if you spend $10,000 a day, you'll actually earn $30,000 in interest. You can't possibly spend it all!

Can you really earn 1 million? Earn $10 a day just from bank interest? And you can earn 1 billion?

Oh no, Old Tang felt that he would only be able to keep company with money for the rest of his life... His mind was filled with 30 million, 100 million, 1 billion, and he was dizzy for a moment.

Xia Mi, who was watching from the side: Hmm...?

What's going on... Wasn't he supposed to be the one tricking Lao Tang into buying it under his own name? What is Lu Mingfei doing?

Old Tang's almost fainting expression puzzled her for a moment. To be honest, if she were in Old Tang's shoes, she felt she probably couldn't pull off that look of being overwhelmed by money.

Even with a thousand kinds of wisdom, Yemengad couldn't match the natural talent of truly lowly humans. Learn, and you'll learn in silence, Xia Mi, learning has no end...

The system looked at Xia Mi and said, "Put your project on hold for now. Old Tang should work on my project first."

"Hmm..." Xia Mi nodded gently. You're the boss, you make the decisions!

She discovered that Lu Mingfei's behavior was quite perplexing, and he would occasionally reveal some clues, but surprisingly, no one seemed to doubt the extraordinary abilities of this boss.

Has Norton's research on human nature become so terrifying?

Taking the phone back from Old Tang, who was stunned by the money, the system told him, "I'll send you the research needs in a bit. Just send me a list of what you need, and tell me what equipment or manpower you want to buy."

"Oh, okay, okay..." Old Tang snapped out of his daze and said, slightly nervously, "Boss... can we sign a contract?"

Sign a contract? This thing only works on ordinary people... Well, because Old Tang is too overpowered, I almost forgot he's just an ordinary human.

"Sign it. The new contract will be sent to you in a bit. Take a look and see if there are any problems. If there are no problems, sign it and then start preparing. We'll start researching tomorrow." After the system finished speaking, it added, "I'll also give you a $5000 progress research bonus for today."

"thank you boss!"

Old Tang wished he could kneel down and lick Boss Lu's shoes. Boss Lu wasn't a capitalist at all! He was practically Old Tang's God!

"You need to write down your research ideas, but you don't need to write them down yourself. I will send someone over to help you record them. You just need to tell him."

"Roger that, boss!"

Old Tang even wanted to give a salute to express his boundless loyalty to his boss!

……

"Boss, isn't it a bit much to just throw money at people like this?" Xia Mi, now a loyal lackey of the capitalist, said as she came out of the lab, "It's all about profit, there's no loyalty or affection involved!"

After exiting the system, Lu Mingfei logged out and logged back in. Hearing Xia Mi's words, he couldn't help but wonder, "Is there a conflict between loyalty and self-interest?"

Old Tang is an employee who works for himself, and the price the system offers him is one that the system deems reasonable.

The maximum is 6 million US dollars, which seems expensive, but the system has actually already lowered the price. That's why they said the next 100 million or 1 billion US dollars were to keep Tang on the hook and make him work harder.

Otherwise, if we give too much money at once, what if Old Tang just gives up and abandons the project? A few million dollars to buy Captain America enhancement technology—others would be lining up for that kind of money and wouldn't know where to start…

"Hmm..." Xia Mi thought to herself, "That's not what I meant. It's that you didn't show the charm of a great dragon-slaying hero!"

She was still curious to see how Norton would show off his skills, but nothing came of it.

She said, "Boss, you're paying him such a high price to work, but what if someone else pays him an even higher price to betray you?"

“That is indeed a problem.” Lu Mingfei didn’t even need to look through the system’s analysis logs before he said without thinking, “But to talk about feelings, you have to keep the person here first before you can slowly talk about them. Besides, how can he understand my feelings if I don’t spend money? Otherwise, will he just talk about them?”

“That makes sense…” Xia Mi sensed something was wrong, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on it.

"By the way, have you finished your winter break homework?" Lu Mingfei asked, inquiring about preparations for the start of the new school term.

"Winter break homework?" Xia Mi asked, puzzled. "I didn't hear the teacher mention anything about it. You have winter break homework to do?"

As a recognized academic genius, the teacher has given up on assigning her homework. Xia Mi used to do some homework, mainly because she could sell the answers to earn some pocket money.

“Yes…” When Lu Mingfei heard that Xia Mi didn’t have any winter break homework, he thought to himself that as the top student in the grade, just like Xia Mi, the teacher probably wouldn’t say anything if he didn’t have any homework, right? Why not give it a try?

“Just let someone else copy it and do it. Doing it yourself is a waste of time.” Xia Mi stretched her hands and muscles and said, “But boss, is this Old Tang okay? I’m not jealous of his talent, it’s just that his talent for learning alchemy is too heaven-defying. It’s hard not to doubt whether he’s even human.”

“Su Enxi and the others tested him before. He’s just an ordinary person; there’s not a trace of dragon blood in his body,” Lu Mingfei replied.

"Hmm..." Xia Mi tried hard to recall if she had ever seen a book about dragon cocoons parasitizing people, but it seemed not.

Neither Su Enxi's nor the information from Kassel College contains this knowledge.

Human hybrids only know that the death of a dragon's body is not true death; they can emerge from their cocoons and regenerate a new dragon body to roar across the world once more.

Since she hadn't seen any books on this subject, she shouldn't have any knowledge about it either. She shut her mouth and decided to go and take a look herself later.

"What are we having for dinner tonight?" Lu Mingfei asked Xia Mi.

“Anything is fine…” Xia Mi said, “I’ll make some soup tonight.”

"What soup?"

"Tremella soup," Xia Mi said. "Tremella, which can be bought easily in the market now, was one of the eight delicacies in ancient times. It was a rare item when it couldn't be cultivated artificially. Now it's everywhere and you can buy a piece for just a few dollars."

"Oh?" Lu Mingfei was also a little surprised to hear this. Was dried white fungus, which can be bought casually in the market, really as popular as it used to be?

"Yes, I was thinking about what to cook and what to eat when I looked up a recipe. In the 50s and 60s, a chef made a bowl of white fungus soup for Zhou, but Zhou thought it was too expensive. It was only after the breakthrough in planting technology in 1977 and artificial cultivation that it began to enter ordinary people's homes."

"You know quite a lot..." Lu Mingfei nodded slightly, thinking to himself that he just didn't have much money...

By the way, I just gave Old Tang such a large sum of money, while Xia Mi only earned tens of thousands by going on an adventure to Japan with me. I hope she won't feel resentful about that.

Lu Mingfei glanced at Xia Mi and noticed that she didn't seem to be bothered by the matter. She rested her slender fingers on her smooth, delicate chin, frowned slightly, and said thoughtfully, "What kind of white fungus soup should I make? White fungus and pear soup seems good? Chicken soup also seems like a good idea..."

She was still thinking about what to eat later...

Hiss... Lu Mingfei suddenly came to his senses. Wasn't slaying dragons and saving the world mission (4)? He had already defeated the White King, but with so many objectives for mission one, he hadn't succeeded in even one?

Is the system too busy slaying dragons?

Something's wrong...

Lu Mingfei flipped through an analysis log from a very long time ago.

The system is analyzing things all the time; he can't find it by himself. The system silently pins the relevant analysis logs to the top for Lu Mingfei.

[...Neither proactive nor refusing, nor taking responsibility...]

Putting aside the ordinary girls at school, Xia Mi wasn't tempted by Lu Mingfei at all. She had the outward appearance of a little money-grubber, but she never had any crooked thoughts about taking things further with Lu Mingfei or pulling off a big heist.

Su Enxi, Jiu De Mai, and Ling San Nu also showed no particular inclination...

"Is something wrong?"

Lu Mingfei reflected on his behavior in front of them. Apart from not directly flirting with them, they also did not have any intention of flirting with Lu Mingfei.

He saved the world himself? That doesn't make sense!

[…The plan has changed…]

System analysis shows that slaying dragons is much simpler than picking up girls, and it's also much faster in terms of progress.

To be precise, of the four tasks, except for the first one, the remaining three are all progressing faster than the first task.

Lu Mingfei is now far stronger than Chu Zihang. He has billions of dollars in his hands, is quite wealthy, has slain dragons to save the world, and has already defeated the White King.

Based on the chicken-eating-rice theory, the last three tasks are almost completed, so catching up on the first task will be easier.

These days, Lu Mingfei can have countless women lining up to sleep with him at the slightest beckoning of his finger, but he's encountered four oddball women who aren't interested at all...

In Japan, Lu Mingfei had encountered many women who could be described as stunningly beautiful, enough to be included in the system's records.

However, just like he rejected Su Xiaoyan, Lu Mingfei rejected her because she had a family and children, while Lu Mingfei didn't share Cao Cao's preferences.

As for the remaining women... Lu Mingfei felt that the list of targets was already enough. Seven targets, enough time to sleep in different beds for a week.

Well, actually it wasn't that Lu Mingfei himself was already satisfied, but rather that he saw a comment about love in the system analysis log.

A person only has one heart. You can hold countless people in your heart and love them all, but it is inevitable that love will be divided by quantity.

If you love too much, you'll stop loving, and your feelings will gradually fade away.

Take a day off

The payment for my writing finally came in, and in my excitement I went and got a rotten wisdom tooth pulled. Now I'm starting to regret it; I should have saved up some more articles before getting it done…

Chapter 172 The stars are dim, the sun and moon shine brightly.

After buying the vegetables they wanted at the market, the two went home to cook.

Xia Mi pondered her own chicken and white fungus soup, Lu Mingfei cooked other dishes, and Panpan helped with washing vegetables and so on, each contributing their share.

An hour later, a sumptuous dinner was freshly prepared, steaming hot.

"Try the soup I made." Xia Mi divided the two bowls of soup and placed them in front of the two people.

The slightly golden chicken soup was crystal clear, with no scraps of meat or broken bones, and no floating oil. Only a single white fungus bloomed in it.

"It looks quite appetizing!"

Lu Mingfei took a small spoonful of soup, blew on it, and then slowly drank it.

The chicken flavor is very strong, while the white fungus flavor is very mild, and it tastes a little sweet.

"tastes good."

Panpan spoke first.

"Yes, it really tastes good." Lu Mingfei nodded as well.

"If you like it, drink more." Xia Mi smiled broadly after receiving their approval, and diligently cleaned up the dishes after the meal.

Lu Mingfei and Panpan didn't really notice her attentiveness; it's normal for people to be more diligent when they're in a good mood.

……

The night sky was clear, with a full moon hanging in the sky, shining brightly and overshadowing all the stars.