Traveling through the second dimension, the joy system encourages me to laugh heartily!

Of course, he can manifest more.

But at the moment, even if this amount of gold is sold at a 50% discount, it should be enough for him to use for a while.

Wait until you are short of money in the future to change it. He will be stronger and safer.

More than 20 minutes later, Chen Ming got off the bus and stood at the gate of Lao Longxiang, looking around at the tall buildings and the hustle and bustle of traffic.

Houses here are extremely expensive and each one is worth a fortune, which is something an average person cannot afford even if they work their entire lives.

The cars here are luxurious and extravagant, Mercedes-Benz and BMW can be seen everywhere, and only top luxury cars can attract attention.

At this moment, a Porsche drove past a shirtless worker carrying a heavy object, creating a sharp contrast and making the whole picture seem unreal.

On the pedestrian street next to it, you can see pairs of young beauties walking with their arms around middle-aged men.

The extreme collision of poverty and wealth made Chen Ming sigh secretly after seeing this world-famous painting - perhaps this is the most basic logic of this world.

Fortunately, I can change my fate soon.

A smile flashed across Chen Ming's lips. He touched the ten gold bars in his backpack and walked into the gold shop calmly.

On the way here, he searched for the sale of gold on a certain website and a certain B.

The answers were extremely polarized:

Some people say it's okay, saying your amount is just a small one, and generally they won't ask about the source of the gold. After all, there are too many wealthy people in this world, and some good houses in Ling'an City start at tens of millions... If you insist on asking what the problem is of selling gold, then the biggest problem is where to find it.

Some people also say that there is no doubt that you will die. Bank transfers will be marked as gold transactions, and you can check it and it will be confirmed. Hand it over to the state for security immediately, and you can even exchange it for a banner!

Chen Ming didn't know who to trust, but there was no way he would hand it over!

Now that things have come to this, I might as well face my fear and come clean!

Anyway, there are only two possible outcomes.

If someone calls the police, then at worst he will go to World No. 1 to develop for a few decades, and then come back and just stop eating beef.

If everything is peaceful, everyone will be happy.

"Hello sir, what can I do for you?"

As soon as Chen Ming entered the door, a shopping guide greeted him politely with a smile on his face.

Unlike the novels he had read, he did not encounter any sarcastic remarks from the shopping guide.

"Do you recycle gold here?" Chen Ming went straight to the point.

"Of course!" The salesperson smiled and extended his hand, "Sir, this way, please."

As she spoke, she walked in front, twisting her slender waist, leading Chen Ming to a window at the back of the store.

"Master Jin, a customer wants to sell gold. Could you please take a look at it?"

The salesperson greeted the old man behind the counter respectfully, then turned to Chen Ming and said, "This is our gold master, who specializes in gold appraisal and recycling. He will check the purity of the gold you brought. You can consider whether to sell it after the inspection and the quote."

After saying that, the shopping guide gave Chen Ming a professional smile, then turned around and left with a twist of her slender waist.

"Hello, did you bring the gold?"

Master Jin in the window asked politely.

"Yes."

Chen Ming took out a gold bar from his backpack and placed it on the electronic scale beside him. The weight was displayed as [1000 grams].

"Is this... the bank's investment gold bars?"

Looking at the familiar pattern, a look of surprise flashed across Master Jin's expressionless face: "Wouldn't it be more convenient for you to just take it to the bank for recycling?"

"There's nothing I can do. This was passed down to me by my grandfather, and I can't find the receipt for purchase." Chen Ming shrugged.

In fact, he learned this from a netizen on a certain website. According to the netizen, the investment gold bars sold by banks do not have anti-counterfeiting functions. Therefore, as long as the gold is real and the appearance is the same, it can be completely indistinguishable from the real thing - of course, this indistinguishable from the real thing means pretending to be the bank's investment gold bars in the gold shop.

Without the receipt, the bank will not accept it.

Chen Ming didn’t know whether what the netizen said was reliable, but the materialized gold bars had to look good, so he directly adopted the netizen’s suggestion.

Master Jin laughed and shook his head when he heard this.

Although he obviously did not believe what Chen Ming said, he did not ask any further questions. Instead, he silently picked up the bottles and jars beside him, occasionally dripped a few drops of unknown liquid on the gold bars, and then observed them carefully with a magnifying glass.

Finally, they even took out a handheld gold spectrometer, emitted specific light to illuminate the gold bars, analyzed the light absorbed and reflected by the gold bars, and thus determined the composition and purity of the gold.

After a long while, he took out a piece of cloth and wiped the gold clean, then placed it on the electronic scale beside him. Seeing that the weight displayed on it remained unchanged, he nodded and said, "100% pure gold, a rare item with a purity of over 99.99%..."

As he spoke, he glanced at Chen Ming with a smile and continued, "Today's gold price is about 680 yuan per gram, and our store's recycling price these past two days has been 613 yuan per gram. However, your gold bar lacks receipts and certificates, so the price needs to be lowered a bit. How about 600 yuan per gram?"

"can."

Chen Ming nodded in satisfaction. This price was far beyond his expectations. In the novels he read, the protagonists always sold this kind of gold of unknown origin at a 5% discount.

The discount here is only 8.8%. They are really a conscientious merchant.

In fact, Chen Ming was lucky. The economic situation has been declining in the past two years, and the international environment has become increasingly tense, which has led to a continuous rise in gold prices.

Many people’s first reaction is that the sharp rise in gold prices means that gold shops will definitely make a lot of money, but in fact this is a misunderstanding.

In fact, many gold shops are now unable to hold on, and many are losing money and going bankrupt.

The same goes for Lao Longxiang. In just half a year, it closed 250 stores and its market value evaporated by 1000 billion yuan.

Because gold is a rare precious metal on the Blue Planet, its production is always in short supply.

As gold prices continue to rise, the rush to buy gold in the market will intensify, which will make gold spot in the market even scarcer.

A gold shop cannot lay golden eggs on its own, and it makes money by trading gold. If it lacks gold, it cannot make a profit.

However, the store rent, staff salaries, and other rigid expenses are inevitable, and the result is a loss of money.

In addition, the gold shop has another business, which is the deposit of gold bars.

Friends who often go to gold shops to buy gold bars know that the gold bars sold in gold shops have a premium compared to places like gold exchanges.

For example, gold bars of the same purity are sold at 700 yuan per gram in gold shops and 680 yuan per gram in gold exchanges.

The reason for the premium is that you can leave the gold bars you buy in the gold shop and still earn interest every year.

This is equivalent to a financial product, and one gold bar can even be sold to 100 customers.

As long as the customers do not come to withdraw the money, the gold shop can use the money to invest in financial management, which is also the source of interest for the customers.

But now that the price of gold has risen sharply, these customers have come to collect the gold bars they deposited.

What is this? This is a bank run. Banks can't handle it, and gold shops will naturally go bankrupt.

Although Lao Longxiang's family was wealthy and could barely hold on without going bankrupt, his gold reserves were no longer sufficient to cover his expenses and were about to run out.

Therefore, the gold recycling price has been increasing in recent months, and the more we can collect, the better.

Chen Ming happened to come to sell gold bars at this time, which made him feel that Lao Longxiang was a conscientious businessman.

He was very satisfied with the purchase price, so he simply took out the remaining 9 gold bars in his backpack.

Master Jin said nothing more when he saw this. He took the gold bar and meticulously examined it. Then he looked up at Chen Ming and said, "A total of 10 kilograms of pure gold, with a total value of 600 million yuan. Are you selling it all?"

"Of course!"

As he spoke, Chen Ming provided his payment card number.

"Please wait, the money will be transferred to your card within an hour." Master Jin took off his gloves and extended his right hand with a smile: "It's a pleasure to work with you."

"Happy cooperation!"

Chen Ming stretched out his hand and shook hands with him.

While waiting for the finance department to transfer the money, Master Jin came over mysteriously and whispered, "Add a green bubble. If you have more gold to come up with, you can come back to me. I can take any amount. It's guaranteed to be safe! But the most I can give you is 500 yuan per gram."

"Oh? Didn't you charge 600 yuan per gram for the ten kilograms of gold? How did it become 500 now?"

Chen Ming asked calmly.

"That's not much money, not even enough to buy a nice house in Ling'an City," Master Jin said bluntly, without hiding anything. "But if you continue to sell gold, we, Old Longxiang, can afford it, but you will be easily discovered."

"Even if you sell your gold to several different stores, it's useless. Going through this formal gold recycling channel, while the price is higher, will include a note of the transaction details when the money is transferred to you. If you do this too often, the bank will inevitably notice an anomaly in your account. Once they check the records, they'll find they're all gold recycling proceeds. Then they'll have to deal with a one-stop service of supervision, investigation, and confiscation..."

"How do you know I'll continue selling gold?" Chen Ming spread his hands and said, "My grandfather only passed on ten to me!"

Upon hearing this, Master Jin laughed heartily and said, "Little brother, I've been in this business for decades. I'm good at judging gold, and even better at judging people. If the average person only had ten gold bars, they'd definitely treasure them like treasure. But the way you took the gold bars out of your backpack just now, and the way you acted, you treated them like dirt. You've obviously been around a lot!"

Chen Ming sighed inwardly upon hearing this, this old man was really good at judging people.

But there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, he had as much gold as he wanted, so his movements and expressions were naturally a bit casual - that was human nature; things that were easily obtained were often not cherished.

Fortunately, Chen Ming had no intention of hiding the fact that he owned a large amount of gold. On the way here, he was mentally prepared for the gold shop to call the police on the spot.

The current situation is much smoother than his original plan of escaping to World No. 1.

So Chen Ming didn't explain any further and readily added Master Jin's green bubble.

Anyway, he is not afraid of being robbed by the other party.

Of course, the next transaction will have to wait until the money is spent. By then, Chen Ming’s strength will be stronger and his security will be more guaranteed.

Ten minutes later, Lao Longxiang's finance department finally transferred the 555 million yuan payment to his account. The deductions were used to pay taxes, including value-added tax, consumption tax, urban construction tax, education surcharge, and stamp duty. (The tax rates on Blue Planet differ slightly from those on Earth, so don't dwell on that.)

After selling the gold, Chen Ming walked out of Lao Longxiang with a smile on his face.

An hour ago in the main world, he was just a poor security guard with no money or power, but in the blink of an eye he became a millionaire?

I have to say, it’s great to have System Dad around!

Chapter 5: Let’s Eat

While taking a taxi, Chen Ming clicked on the text messages, and a text message from the bank appeared in the first column: Lao Longxiang Co., Ltd. transferred 5550000 yuan to your account ending in **** at 15:15, and the balance is 5561111 yuan.

Among them, 11111 yuan was his previous savings.

Although 555 million is not enough to buy a good house in Ling'an City, based on his previous salary as a security guard, he would have to work for at least 100 years to save up this 555 million!

And now... he just consumed some magic power, which will be restored automatically. Rounded up, it is almost equivalent to free money.

"Finally, I'm financially free! Even though it's not much yet, I can start acquiring the power of joy."

Thinking of this, Chen Ming got on the taxi that arrived, sat in the back seat and opened the Douying APP on his mobile phone - don't get me wrong, his target was not the female anchor in the live broadcast room.

Although there are some good-looking female anchors, it is estimated that it is difficult to find one that meets the system standards in terms of purity. There is no need to waste time looking for a needle in a haystack.

Compared to a society full of feasting and drinking and material desires, the probability of finding a girl who meets the system standards in school is even higher.

But Chen Ming is neither a student nor a teacher, so it is obviously not appropriate for him to sneak into the school directly - it is risky and inefficient.

At times like this, you need the power of tools!

After opening Douying, Chen Ming skillfully clicked on the search bar above and entered Ling'an City Our Lady of Mary Girls' Middle School - as far as he knew, this was the high school with the most beautiful girls in Ling'an City.

There is a location address in the lower left corner of the searched video.

When you click on that address, the videos that pop up are all released by Our Lady of the Assumption Girls' School, and the creators of the videos are either students or teachers.

Moreover, those who dare to show their faces in the video are generally the most good-looking ones in the class, which is equivalent to a wave of screening in advance.

Combined with the identification function provided by the system, accurate searches can be performed, which is much more efficient than sneaking into schools one by one.

Hard work pays off. In the first school he searched, Chen Ming found two girls who met the system standards.

[Name]: Li Luna

【Age】：18

[Height]: 171cm

[Weight]: 55kg

Overall Appearance: 81 (The system can exclude the influence of makeup, plastic surgery, and beauty filters.)

【Power Bank】：0

[Status]: From a well-off family, three generations have been in politics.

[Favorability]: 0 (Does not know the host.)

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Name: Jin Liya

【Age】：18