Ten Million Years Stuck in The Multiverse's Back-Up Information Centre

Chapter 20

Scilla settles down comfortably on one of the comfy looking bean bag chairs in front of her bed. She doesn't even treat Kaori as a guest. Kaori sits on the bean bag chair beside Scilla and makes herself comfortable. The only way to know that this is Kaori's first time at Scilla's place is her wandering curious eyes.

Scilla starts blabbing excitedly while Kaori takes out her phone and replies perfunctorily.

"Let's watch a movie!"

"Up to you"

"Uncle Mer is already making the popcorn downstairs. What else do you want? Maybe candy or hotdogs or...BOTH!"

"Up to you"

Even though Kaori replies halfheartedly, it doesn't dampen Scilla enthusiasm. In fact, I'm not sure she even notices.

Thirty minutes later, everything is set up. There is popcorn, ice cream, hot dogs, gummies and many more snacks. Scilla finally decided to watch a new horror movie that came out last week.

The bean bag chairs are pushed together and the girls settle comfortably on it covered with a blanket and munching on the snacks.

Five minutes later, Kaori notices UniZon threads entering her pores. Kaiser is cultivating.

Half way through the movie, Scilla dozes off. Yep, she is one of those people. However, Kaori had to give it to Scilla, the movie's effects were realistic and well done but she wasn't scared at all.

Kaori never liked horror movies. She finds them stupid. They pay so much attention to scaring people that they forget what a plot or story progression is.

Seeing Scilla sleeping, Kaori takes out her laptop. Since Kaiser is already cultivating, she can focus on other stuff.

Previously, Kaori was extra careful when it came to investing or making money in general because of attracting too much attention. She could always cover her tracks so that no one on Kumia would be able to find her, but she has always been a very cautious person. This was how she survived in her past life.

Kaori didn't want to attract too much attention to herself previously because she felt she didn't have enough power to protect her family. Also because it was too bothersome. But now, it's different. She is more than 10 times stronger and faster than the strongest and fastest person on Kumia. She is basically a superhuman. Who should she fear now? And...the most amazing thing is...she will keep getting stronger, this is just the beginning.

Kaori stretches her fingers out and rolls her neck.

'Now that I am getting serious, time to make some waves.'

Kaori opens up a brand new account for stocks with the pseudonym 'Light'. She then sets up multiple encryptions, firewalls and traps on her account and her information in the government system. The traps are so cleverly placed that even after the person gets trapped in it, they won't know. The trap will redirect them to a random person's information, leading the person on a wild goose chase. Additionally, a virus is then planted on the person's device. The virus gives Kaori full access to the person's device, allowing her to go through the device like it's her backyard. The virus can also jump from one device to another as long as Kaori wills it and the devices stay close together for 10 seconds.

After doing all this, Kaori starts investing. She currently has $1.2 million in her account, she transfers $700k to the bank account she just set up under Light. She starts browsing in the available stocks and doing the relevant research into each stock and its company's situation.

Among the light spots Kaori absorbed in the BIC, there are some planets and universes that are more advanced than Kumia economically. Therefore, Kaori, who has absorbed the light spots from the top business people in that planet or universe, playing in stocks on Kumia is just child's play to her.

Kaori's fingers swipe and type on her phone with a relaxed lazy expression, almost like she is playing an online game.

One hour later, after accurately predicting the rise and fall of some relatively big stocks like a psychic, Kaori managed to more than double her initial capital of $700,000 to $1,700,000. Therefore, in total, Kaori has about $2,200,000 in her accounts. This is an insane amount of money for a 17 year old, but Kaori is still not satisfied.

'It should be okay for now. Argh the market in this country is too slow and boring...'

Kaori closes the stock exchange app and opens up a search engine. She starts searching for a place to set up her lab to carry out her work. She has several requirements that make the search a bit complicated. It should be on the outskirts of the city, preferably in an isolated or abandoned area. The walls should be made up of T7 Tesmun, which is Kumia's several levels improved version of industrial grade concrete from Earth. It should be located in an area where the government will not pay too much attention to the facility; preferably right on the city border. Convenience of the transfer of property; facility should be privately owned. Finally, remaining anonymous during the transaction.

After two more hours, Kaori still hasn't found the facility that fits her requirements.

She shuts her phone and takes out her laptop. She opens it up and opens a search engine on her browser. She types a series of commands and a command window pops up beside the browser. She stretches her fingers and arms like she is getting ready to partake in a high intensive thumb wrestling match. She gets comfortable and starts typing in the command window. Due to her grandmaster level coding skills coupled with her recent breakthrough in cultivating UniZon, her fingers move so fast that they leave afterimages on the keyboard almost disappearing.

As she types, several windows pop up on her screen showing different locations, structures and maps. Right now, Kaori hacked into the search engine's database, optimized it by filtering the results based on her requirements, and is actively using it's satellite to conduct a search for the building that fits her preference. Also, in every search engine, there are restrictions the government places on how much information can be collected by it's satellite; Kaori simply bypasses those restrictions like she is walking through her backyard. She does all this without anyone from the search engine's tech team or the government discovering even a trace of her hair.

Soon enough, she finds something. It is a two storey laboratory facility on the outskirts of City A, an hour drive away from the abandoned farm Kaori found the UniGem. It was built about 40 years ago and used to be owned by the government to be used for research on the X-trait. However, due to no progress in the research, it was sold to a pharmaceutical company about 10 years ago. This is actually a common occurrence both with government-owned or privately-owned X-trait research facilities.

Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical company seems to be in some kind of slump for the last five years, not yielding any result from their various researches and barely holding on. Therefore, to raise funds to keep the company afloat, they started selling off their properties. However, this particular facility is quite tricky to sell. They can't sell it back to the government because the government sold it to them so therefore, they have no use for it. No other pharmaceutical company or industry is interested in the facility because of its awkward location which is about five hours away from their headquarters. When it comes to medicine, transportation can be time-sensitive depending on the medicine.

Therefore, the facility has been on sale for the past two years. Additionally, from the look of things, the company would be filing for bankruptcy in about a month. At this point, the company has given and has probably forgotten about the property for sale. This is the best time to contact them cause they would probably sell it at a cheaper price as they are tight for cash right now.

Kaori proceeds to send an encrypted email to the company indicating her intention to buy the facility for $300,000. Kaori expects them to be skeptical at first but she knows that they would ultimately take her offer.

Forty minutes later, after multiple negotiations, and emailing back and forth, the deal was finally made. They sent her an electronic copy of the title deed and transfer of property agreement, which she signed electronically. Kaori electronically transfers the money and the keys are left in a safety deposit box at a storage facility near the laboratory. Even though Kumia can be considered more advanced than Earth, this transaction is still not considered safe or reliable so people generally prefer to do these kinds of transactions in person. However, the pharmaceutical company seemed more desperate than Kaori thought and they had no issue with the transaction. On the other hand, Kaori was not worried because if they try to cheat her, she has a special way of dealing with them.