Offside game

According to information obtained from DreamWorks and its two sales partners, *Mechanical Civilization* has already been released globally and is still selling well. This has inevitably had some impact on the sales of *Prehistoric Evolution*, but fortunately, the impact is not significant, and it continues to sell well.

Ubisoft International has already transferred the sales revenue share of "Evolution of History" for the second month to Su Yi's account. In the second month, Ubisoft International sold a total of 156 million copies of the game worldwide, and Su Yi received nearly $2000 million in profit sharing.

After checking his securities account, he was astonished to find that the 50 million RMB he had entrusted to Kesai twenty days ago had transformed into 160 million RMB worth of cash and various securities. In just twenty days, it had more than doubled—an astonishing profit. Su Yi reviewed all of Kesai's trading records and discovered that the largest profits came from two futures trades. These two trades, while using leverage, yielded profits of at least 150% despite the relatively low leverage ratio. The success of these two trades was the result of Kesai's ubiquitous online information gathering and analysis. Su Yi then had another brilliant idea. He instructed Kesai to create a fictitious identity named Robert and register an offshore fund called Yousu Mutual Fund in Bermuda. Through complex transfer procedures, he transferred nearly 30 million USD—his share plus readily available cash from the fund account—to the Yousu Mutual Fund's account, allowing Kesai to operate in the international financial market.

From that moment on, this fund acted like a shadowy hand, meticulously analyzing information gathered by the Kosei through various channels. It then channeled its funds into the fluctuations of the international financial market, reaping profits and continuously expanding its power. When this monster revealed its hideous face to the world, all the institutions that believed they were manipulating the market trembled. At that time, it was still a small fund with less than thirty million US dollars, an insignificant ant among numerous behemoths, unnoticed by anyone.

When Su Yi woke up in the morning, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't had time to go to school to practice choir yesterday because of the intermediate-level training. He wondered how things were going and figured the instructor would be looking for him when he got back today. However, he had something more important to do. He called Mo Yuqing and found out she was at the company, so he went downstairs to find her.

"Xiao Yi, why didn't you answer the phone yesterday? Is something wrong?" Mo Yuqing hid her concern beneath a calm expression and asked casually.

"Something came up yesterday, but now there's something I'd like to discuss with Sister Mo."

"What is it?" Mo Yuqing asked.

"It's about Jin'er's illness." Seeing that Mo Yuqing's brows furrowed unconsciously as he spoke, Su Yi continued, "Sister Mo, perhaps I have a way to cure her illness."

Hearing Su Yi say this, Mo Yuqing immediately became concerned: "Xiao Yi, really? I've consulted many famous doctors, but none of them can help Jin'er with her illness. Do you really have a solution?"

"Sister Mo, do you believe me?" Su Yi asked first.

"I believe you," Mo Yuqing said earnestly, "but Xiaoyi, you need to know that Jin'er is everything to me. Can you tell me in detail?"

Su Yi organized his thoughts and said, "Have you ever heard of Qigong?" He picked up the porcelain cup in front of him, activated his manipulation technique, pinched the handle, clenched his palm, and when he opened it again, only a pile of powder remained in his palm.

Seeing Mo Yuqing's gaping mouth and incredulous expression, Su Yi was very satisfied with the current effect. This was the explanation he had come up with, since he couldn't tell anyone about the existence of the Mother Nest because he didn't want to take the risk. Therefore, he needed a story, a story that others could believe, to convince Mo Yuqing.

He continued, “Although many people use qigong as a guise to deceive others, genuine qigong does exist. My master is such a reclusive master. I met him by chance when I was very young, and he taught me this skill. But what I've learned is nothing compared to what he has. Although he knows qigong, he never uses it to fight. He's more skilled at using qigong to heal illnesses. He can cure many difficult and complicated diseases. Yesterday, I went to find him and asked him to agree to treat Jin'er. I told him about Jin'er's condition, and he's 80% confident he can cure her without any further danger. Sister Mo, would you like to give it a try?”

Hearing Su Yi's words and seeing it with her own eyes, Mo Yuqing felt more hopeful. Besides, even if she couldn't be cured, there wouldn't be any loss. Now, she wanted to seize any hope she could find. Therefore, she said, "Xiao Yi, I believe in you. When can your master start examining Jin'er?"

"I need a suitable place because my master doesn't like meeting strangers. I've already prepared that place, and if possible, it can be done the day after tomorrow."

"Alright." Mo Yuqing glanced at the date and said, "The day after tomorrow is Sunday, which is perfect since Jin'er doesn't have school. Is there anything we need to prepare?"

"No need, just bring Jin'er with you."

Mo Yuqing hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Can I...can I come along?"

Su Yi thought for a moment and said, "I'm sorry, Sister Mo, but Master doesn't like meeting strangers, and he can't be disturbed while he's treating patients, so even if you go, you can only wait outside." Actually, he mainly didn't want Mo Yuqing to know that there was no such thing as a master, so it was better to keep a distance.

However, even if they could only be outside, it would feel closer, so Mo Yuqing agreed.

After leaving Mo Yuqing's place, Su Yi thought about treating Mo Jin'er the day after tomorrow. Although the Kesei had transmitted the main procedures to him, he hadn't actually done it before. He wanted to be cautious and decided to find an opportunity to practice first to familiarize himself with the process. As for the animal, he'd start with a kitten or puppy, since it was just practicing with the mental cultivation technique and the mother nest's scanning function and wouldn't cause any real harm. He hoped the animal protection association wouldn't look down on him for this.

He drove to his rented house. On the way, Su Yi found a pet store and bought an adorable puppy. After an afternoon of experimentation, he was quite familiar with the process. Finally, he gave the puppy to a middle-aged woman who seemed to like animals. Su Yi then drove back to school to prepare for his counselor's talk.

When Su Yi arrived at the choir location, he overheard one of his roommates saying to him indignantly, "Su Yi, you're amazing! You even managed to get Miss Xie to help you get a day off. I have the utmost respect for you."

He subtly inquired and learned that when the instructor called roll yesterday, Xie Li told him that Su Yi had some urgent business and couldn't come today, so she asked Xie Li to help him ask for leave, and she would ensure his choir performance progress.

Sure enough, after the instructor came in, he only glanced at the number of people before walking over to Su Yi and asking him a few questions about what happened yesterday. Su Yi naturally made up an excuse to brush it off and got through the ordeal smoothly.

After training, Xie Li called him back. "Su Yi, why didn't you come yesterday?"

"Haha, I was busy with some things at the company and completely forgot about it. Anyway, thank you."

"That's not very sincere. How are you going to thank me?"

"This..." Seeing Xie Li's quirky and clever expression, Su Yi had a bit of a headache.

"You should at least treat them to a meal. This is so insincere."

"Of course, of course. What would you like to eat, beautiful lady?" Su Yi was genuinely grateful to Xie Li for saving him some trouble, so he readily agreed when she asked.

"I suddenly want to eat noodles from the third cafeteria." Xie Li suddenly said this, which surprised Su Yi. He had thought that a big meal was inevitable, but he didn't expect her to just make such a request. He rarely ate at the cafeteria himself. After all, the school cafeteria was always the place most criticized by students. Some people even joked that when they ate at the cafeteria in their freshman year, they would wonder why there was so much sand in the rice. But by their sophomore year, they would only say: "Oh, there's still a lot of sand and rice in this bowl."

"Don't worry about saving me money, I can eat whatever I want."

Xie Li shook her head and said with a bright smile, "No, I just want to eat the noodles from the third canteen. You can try them, they taste good."

In the end, they still ate noodles at the third canteen. Su Yi then realized that there were actually quite a few kinds of noodles here: noodles with soybean paste, beef stew noodles, stir-fried noodles with meat, stir-fried noodles with vegetables, stir-fried noodles with eggs… What was that Xinjiang-style hand-pulled noodles? Out of curiosity, Su Yi ordered that too; it turned out to be a dish consisting of a side of vegetables and a side of noodles…

Xie Li ordered a very ordinary tomato and egg noodle soup, but it looked quite delicious. She ate it with relish and even added two large spoonfuls of chili oil. Su Yi couldn't help but ask curiously, "You study music, is it okay for you to eat so much chili?"

"I'm used to it, and I don't think it hurts my throat. Don't forget I told you I'm from Sichuan," Xie Li said casually.

As the two ate, quite a few classmates who knew Xie Li passed by and greeted her. Many of them were probably beauties from their music department. However, Su Yi felt that these people, whether male or female, all looked at him with such ambiguous eyes as they left...

However, Xie Li seemed not to notice anything and continued talking to him as usual, so Su Yi didn't pay any attention to it.