ryethenovel Chapter 18 Digging Holes
Chapter 18 Digging Holes
After a full day of team building activities, everyone went home. Everyone reported their safety in the group chat, and Zhou Lang felt relieved. He washed up and went to bed to rest.
After traveling together, his relationship with Shen Wanrou and Ling Yuanyuan became even closer.
Zhou Lang propped up a pillow behind his back, leaned against the headboard, and tidied up his phone's photo album for a while.
At this moment, a message box pops up in WeChat.
[Ling Yuanyuan]: Are you there? I want to ask you something.
[Ling Yuanyuan]: What do you think of the two of us?
Zhou Lang did not reply immediately.
He opened the Money Power System interface.
[Currently empty slots: None]
He has already activated the "All-Relying on Movement Technique" ability, which he obtained from Tian Wei, in a new slot that was refreshed in May.
The next empty slot will appear in two weeks, on Children's Day, June 1st.
He can now consider in advance which currency he should choose.
Ling Yuanyuan and Shen Wanrou are currently the most suitable candidates, and their financial resources are quite effective.
Name: Ling Yuanyuan
[Money Power: Gold Coins Falling from the Sky]
[Effect: Immediately gain 7 gold coins, then 1 gold coin per day thereafter. (Gold coin weight is random, ranging from 1 to 10g)]
[Status: Inactive, 85% chance of becoming your girlfriend]
[Ling Yuanyuan has a long-standing habit of storing gold. Her biggest regret is that in 2019 she bought a large number of gold bars at 320 yuan per gram, but sold them all in 2023 at 450 yuan per gram. Now that the price of gold has exceeded 1,000 yuan per gram, she is filled with remorse.]
……
Name: Shen Wanrou
[Money Power: Store Malfunction (Prism)]
[Effect: Every two days, you will encounter items with extremely unusual prices.]
[Status: Inactive, 25% chance of becoming your girlfriend]
[Shen Wanrou is adept at comparing prices when shopping, always managing to find high-quality goods at incredibly low prices. Those who have met her consistently describe her as thrifty, a good wife and mother.]
……
It's highly likely that Ling Yuanyuan will become his girlfriend. It seems that after witnessing Zhou Lang driving different luxury cars, she assumed that Zhou Lang's family background was much better than hers, so she took the initiative to pursue him.
Shen Wanrou had just gotten divorced, and she was probably thinking about finding a new partner and a new home. However, due to the entanglement of their social status, she only had a slight liking for Zhou Lang, but she hadn't taken any action.
Zhou Lang typed a reply to Ling Yuanyuan.
[Zhou Lang]: How about we try to make further contact?
[Zhou Lang]: We don't know each other very well, and it's unrealistic to expect things to progress in one step.
The other party displayed "The other party is typing...", which appeared and disappeared several times, and there was no reply for a long time.
One hour later.
Zhou Lang was watching a science documentary and was about to fall asleep when Ling Yuanyuan sent him another message.
[Ling Yuanyuan]: I don't like ambiguity.
[Ling Yuanyuan]: We can be boyfriend and girlfriend first, but we won't make it official yet, and there's no need for our families to know too early.
[Ling Yuanyuan]: What do you think?
Zhou Lang didn't care, since he knew perfectly well that Ling Yuanyuan didn't want to date him because she wanted to have feelings for him.
Zhou Lang almost laughed when he saw the words "not officially announced yet".
Ling Yuanyuan's idea was to prepare for both possibilities.
First, maintain your ambiguous relationship with him to prevent him from being hooked up with other girls.
Then, after she fully understands his financial situation and carefully weighs the pros and cons, she can decide whether to make their relationship public and move on to the next step of discussing marriage.
Such women are too calculating and scheming, yet they are not good at, or rather, disdainful of, hiding themselves.
Being around them can feel jarring and uncomfortable.
If it weren't for the money-powered system, Zhou Lang would never have bothered to interact with her.
However, in order to get her [Golden Coins Falling from the Sky] money ability as a backup option to embed in the slot next month.
Zhou Lang didn't mind agreeing to her request first to complete the system's authentication.
[Zhou Lang]: Okay
[Zhou Lang]: So we're considered to have reached an agreement now?
[Ling Yuanyuan]: Hmm
An unclear beginning will likely end in an unclear way as well.
Zhou Lang viewed the system interface.
[Active cash-based abilities detected, currently cannot be bound]
"OK, time for bed."
……
new week.
During his lunch break, Zhou Lang drove his RS6 back to Speedway and swapped it for a newly acquired Xiaomi SU7 Ultra.
The license plate number is also quite impressive: Qi X·SU7777.
Momo explained to him that this car was a custom-made version.
On top of the starting price of 52.99 yuan, an additional 10 yuan or more of optional extras are required to unlock specific paint colors and logos.
Racing Red exterior color, carbon fiber original color cutout front hood;
Fixed carbon fiber rear wing, 24K gold white ceramic car emblem;
Amber gold 21-inch wheels, paired with red six-piston calipers.
With a maximum horsepower of 1548 hp, an official 0-100 km/h acceleration time of 2.1 seconds, and a range of 520 km using the CLTC (Clear, Play, Sing) mode.
Red car, red calipers, black hood, canard front splitter and rear wing.
Zhou Lang glanced around and stared at the car for a while.
"Well, this exterior design, if you're looking for high emotional intelligence, would be described as passionate, flamboyant, youthful, energetic, and full of speed and passion."
"A person with low emotional intelligence would say: This car is too flashy."
Zhou Lang felt that at 26, he looked a bit old driving this car; it would be more suitable for college students aged 18 to 22 to drive it.
"Some other day, I'll drive this car to find Tian Wei and go for a spin."
He got into the car, started the engine, and slowly moved to the wide, enclosed road next to the Chengnan Market.
Once you've confirmed there are no other vehicles around, switch to launch mode and floor the accelerator.
The violent shove was more intense than a roller coaster, and Zhou Lang's scalp tingled slightly. He immediately released the switch.
"Yes, yes."
"When Tian Wei drives, it seems I have to be there with her, and I'll have to give her a few good instructions to take it easy."
"Xiao Ai, play your boss's song 'Are you ok', turn on the air conditioner, and navigate to Feichi Power Technology."
After a quick drive, I returned to the company.
With only a handful of parking spaces remaining, Zhou Lang drove around the park and found a corner to park.
This bright red car attracted attention the moment he drove into the park.
As soon as I sat down at my workstation, Xiao Liu next to me couldn't wait to ask, "Someone took a picture of a Xiaomi SU7 with a hole punched in it. Zhou Lang, is it your car again?"
Zhou Lang smiled, then asked cryptically, "What do you think?"
"Who else could it be?"
Xiao Liu looked on with envy: "Brother, I can't even imagine how exciting your private life must be."
"A garage full of amazing cars! Just the few we've seen alone must be worth over five million!"
Zhou Lang turned on his computer: "It's working hours, time to get to work. Aren't those ledgers due today?"
Xiao Liu wasn't in a hurry at all. He sighed and said, "Brother, Director Tian is on leave. These ledgers were originally due this Friday, but he kept adding layers of bureaucracy and brought it up to today. Headquarters just called and told us to take our time compiling them and not to rush."
"He actually takes leave? That's unusual."
Xiao Liu lowered his voice: "Brother, yesterday you had a Lexus lady on your left and a sister-in-law on your right, you managed to snag all the goddesses and wives that Tian Wenming wanted to seduce—he's probably desperate and went out to drown his sorrows."