Chapter 523: Chapter 466: Bai Ze

Upon reading the text on the communication interface, Li Cheng raised an eyebrow, casually took off his work gloves, walked out of the automated warehouse, and returned to the office, opening the door.

Outside the door, between the shelves, the Special Affairs Bureau’s Fuding Hualong and Su Jie wore hats, disguised as ordinary customers.

And standing between the two was a tall figure wearing a White Tiger mask and a Daoist robe.

All three represented the Special Affairs Bureau. Li Cheng casually closed the office door and opened the door to the surgery room, “Come in and speak.”

“Uh, okay.”

Su Jie and Fuding Hualong were slightly uneasy; a few days ago, they were equal acquaintances with Pifu, but upon meeting again, the other had already become a world-renowned…

Terrorist? The strongest lone wolf? The only designated AAA equipment customized Pifu in the entire killing field? It’s really hard to describe.

Li Cheng opened a row of specimen refrigeration cabinets and casually asked, “Are you drinking tea or coffee?”

Su Jie glanced at the tea canister among the specimens of mutated monster heads that seemed to have died with unresolved grievances, then looked at the coffee canister among the severed limbs of humanoid creatures, and decisively said: “We drink milk tea.”

“Here you go.”

Li Cheng took out three cups of Honey Snow Ice City from the bottom of the refrigerator and tossed them over, then casually jumped onto the surgery table and nonchalantly said, “So what’s the matter this time? And this person is…”

“Let me introduce myself, Bai Ze, Level 27.”

The person wearing the White Tiger mask, who claimed to be Bai Ze, handed out a business card, their voice muffled and naturally resonant, making it impossible to discern gender or age.

The front of the business card stated his position: Special Affairs Bureau Headquarters–Comprehensive Affairs Department–Organization Coordination Division.

The back of the business card was followed by a string of impressive titles, including Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank International Advisory Committee Member, Special Advisor to the Supercomputing Center, Advisor to the Deep Space Exploration Project, United Nations World Health Organization Epidemiology Expert, etc.

It particularly exuded the vibe of those social media marketers boasting in their Friend Circle. It was just short of a string like “Global Young Leader,” “Vice President of the Internet Development Association.”

Considering the attitudes of Su Jie and Fuding Hualong, this Bai Ze was evidently not a fake but rather a strategist directly affiliated with the Special Affairs Bureau Headquarters, representing the will of the higher-ups.

“This is a little token from the Special Affairs Bureau.”

Bai Ze raised his gloved palm and placed an item on the table.

It was two oversized cylindrical batteries, almost the size of a 2-liter cola, wrapped with black and gold metallic stickers on the exterior. In the central part, there was an embedded LCD panel capable of displaying images.

[Item Name: Hidden Energy Reserve]

[Type: Battery]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: Stay prepared just in case. The user can infuse Spiritual Power into it, with an upper limit of current level * 75 points. The extraction rate is related to Perception and Intellect attributes.]

[Consumption: 50 points of Sanity Value]

[Cooling Time: None]

[Use Conditions: None]

[Note: This item is a bound item; once bound to a player, it cannot be transferred.]

[Note: You promised me a lithium-ion battery, and you, this profiteer, actually sold it to me for a hundred?!]

[Note: Source God, activate!]

Hmm?

Li Cheng paused while drinking milk tea. Spiritual Power Value has always been crucial in determining a player’s combat strength, and randomly a potion that can restore mana wouldn’t be priced at less than five hundred Game Coins.

The more Spiritual Power restored, the faster the rate, the higher the price.

This [Hidden Energy Reserve] binds energy storage to the player’s level. At Level 40, the total cap reaches an astounding 3000 points, making it absolutely strategic-grade equipment.

Akin to, if not surpassing the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills.

Li Cheng put down the Honey Snow Ice City, “What’s this? Too courteous, huh.”

Bai Ze shook his head and said, “Our attitude at the Special Affairs Bureau has always been consistent, exchanging true heart for true heart. We warmly welcome like-minded comrades willing to join; we also fully understand friendly individuals not yet joined.

Although Mr. Pifu hasn’t registered as a Bounty Hunter at the Special Affairs Bureau, we’ve always recorded your Contribution Value on our side.

This item is merely compensation and gratitude for previous contributions.”

“Alright.”

Since the other party said so, Li Cheng received the two heavy batteries justifiably.

“There’s one more thing.”

Bai Ze took a folder from his Daoist robe, and after opening it, it contained a large amount of documents.

Li Cheng picked up the documents, “IPO fundraising and listing plan?”

“That’s right.”

Bai Ze said, “The core business of [Star-casting Anvil] is to transform culturally significant artifacts into items and Skill Scrolls within the killing field system, right?

This business is unique compared to manufacturing services of other guilds; it doesn’t rely on Extraordinary Materials, possessing a naturally advantageous cost structure.

We can assist in setting up a shell company registered in the Cayman Islands for you and allow [Star-casting Anvil] to list and raise funds on the A-share and NASDAQ markets in the real world under the guise of ‘AI Cloud Services Company.’

To ordinary investors, it appears as a well-operated, rapidly growing company, but only players and world reality tycoons know it is actually [Star-casting Anvil].”

Having said that, Bai Ze flipped open the details and explained: “After listing, the Saudi PIF Public Investment Fund, Qatar Investment Authority, and Singapore Sovereign Fund will all immediately invest in it.

Easily covering the Perfect Quality Scroll consumed by you on this occasion.

Rather than these sovereign funds hoping for quarterly shareholder dividends post-IPO or stock market volatility to allocate retail investor money in favor of large holders,

it’s more that they are optimistic about the future development of Star-casting Anvil and your future heights.”

“Ha?”

Li Cheng rubbed his chin, “Am I that famous?”

“Hehe,” a friendly chuckle came from beneath the mask, “Reaching Level 21 in under a year. Even many protagonists in literary works don’t level up this quickly.

Without any accident, you are almost assured to enter the top tier in the future, potentially even reaching Level 40.

For those wealthy small and weak nations, money is no longer of primary importance. Killing field spatial entity is vast and boundless, resources endlessly replenished, maybe in the end, even the status of petroleum as chemical raw materials won’t be retained.

Getting replaced by nuclear fusion reactors and new materials.

Therefore, for them, only two things are of life-and-death importance: one is to invest heavily and cultivate Transcendents with strong national identity while the current international order hasn’t totally collapsed, and numbers in the bank still matter.

To have someone to pull them at a critical moment.

Secondly, to establish good relationships and spend money for peace.”

Even a dignified major country like Dai Ying can be brought to ecstasy by a blast of [Primordial Era]; ordinary people and Transcendents are two species, and low-level Transcendents and high-level Transcendents are two species again.

Li Cheng activated the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method and rapidly browsed through the listing plan; finding no issues, he signed the shell company authorization document.

The irony is, the Cayman Islands, a real-world tax haven, is a British overseas territory in the Western Caribbean Islands.

Thank you, Dai Ying.

“That should do it, right.”

Li Cheng put down the papers, suddenly thinking of something, “Wait, do other high-level players also do this? Setup a shell company for listing to raise money?”

“For those high-level players with distinctive businesses, yes.”

Bai Ze’s tone was slightly nuanced, “Stock prices fluctuate with Transcendent conditions. Once a high-level player’s recent task evaluation drops, stock prices will follow suit.

If a high-level player dies, the stock he represents will plummet until delisting.”

Damn, found the reason big A-share market has been stuck at 3000 points.

Li Cheng looked at the listing proposal in hand, expression difficult to hold, seemingly imagining stock investors’ dialogues a while later.

[“Others greedy, I fear; others fear, I increase my position.”]

[“Don’t talk to me about technical adjustments; when I gamble stocks, I always go all-in.”]

[“Star-casting Anvil grants me financial freedom! I love Star-casting Anvil!”]

[“Flying acrobatics.”]