Rebirth Of The Godly Prodigal

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Chapter 251: Choice of Advancement

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Nianwei and Ling Xiaoyi were chatting and laughing while Hong Dali had to make a choice!

The choice regarding which system branch was he going to choose!

Because, during the time that he was asleep, the cold sound of the System actually sounded off in his mind—

"Main Mission: Squander 10 million in two weeks time, mission completed. Mission Reward: Five additional attribute points."

"Host's current exchangeable attribute points are 10 points."

"Every time the Host uses 10 points, one welfare side branch can be exchanged."

"The welfare side branch consists of [Science and Technology], [Skills], and [Survival], three options. (Note: You can choose more than one.)"

"Host currently has 15 attribute points in total, please choose."

Hearing the System's voice in his mind, the asleep Hong Dali, as if sleepwalking, murmured, "The mission is completed? Oh... What shall I choose then? System, is there any specific explanation?"

System: "Science and Technology mainly is to use attribute points to exchange for blueprints. Skills will provide the Host with two types of usable special skills. Survival is to increase the survival capability of the Host. Please choose."

Hm, choose one from three. This is a bit hard, what should I choose...

Hong Dali turned and tossed about and thought about it. "Blueprints are good, this must be the legendary black technology, right? The items created from the blueprints from the System will definitely be very awesome. Should I exchange for this one... But New Lanxiang hasn't completed its construction yet. I don't have any research labs yet even though I have the blueprint. Without the lab, I will not be able to produce anything even with the blueprint. It's too early to be waiting for the laboratory now...

"Increase two special skills? This one isn't very clear, but compared to the others, survival doesn't seem to be something that I needed yet. At least within the Nation, no one should be able to kill me. After all, I'm a symbolic person now, the National Security Bureau will be in charge of my safety. What's more, I'm just a little... Oh, I'm a big prodigal now. I'm so harmless, who would come looking to trouble me for no reason?

"Yup, since I can choose more than one, let's choose..." Hong Dali directly made his choice. "I shall choose the 'Skills' side branch!"

After he said these words, very quickly, the System replied, "Host has chosen the side branch, please wait for a moment."

Ding.

A soft sound sounded in Hong Dali's ear. Then, in front of his eyes, two skills appeared. Hong Dali took a look and was instantly stunned.

On the left side skill, big words were written on it: [Machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation.]

On the right side skill, big words were written on it too: [Gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement.]

"Machines? Gems?" Hong Dali's head was full of question marks. "What is this? Are these two skills very awesome?"

However, they were, after all, given to him by the System, there shouldn't be any issue with its quality. Hong Dali looked at the skill on the left first.

"Machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation: Host can choose to breakdown any machinery related to science and technology. After using the machine breakdown skill, the broken down parts will become the most basic unassembled form. Host will be able to obtain one to three spare parts that are still in perfect condition."

"Perfect condition spare parts will have attribute enhancements. Their performance can be enhanced from 30% to 1000%. The result depends on the price of the machine that was broken down. The more expensive it is, the better is the enhancement of the spare parts."

"After breaking down and obtaining all the spare parts required for a machine, Host can choose to use machine assembly. The spare parts will automatically combine and form a brand new piece of machinery. The exterior looks will resemble 80% and above of what it was like before it was broken down. However, the performance of the new machine will be greatly enhanced and will also have other practical abilities."

"Note: This skill can be leveled up, attribute points are used to level up."

"Level 1 to 10, every level requires 1 attribute point, able to breakdown machines under 100,000 yuan."

"Level 11 to 20, every level requires 2 attribute points, able to breakdown machines under one million yuan."

"Level 21 to 30, every level requires 3 attribute points, able to breakdown machines under ten million yuan."

"Level 30 and above, unable to be leveled up in the current condition. System needs to be upgraded before it can continue to be leveled up."

"Addition explanation: Currently, Host can only breakdown machines that belong to yourself."

What the heck! Seeing the skills explanation, Hong Dali's eyeballs almost popped out!

This skill is really awesome! This is totally—a standard prodigal skill! Look at it, breakdown into spare parts, so the thing that's being broken down definitely must be something not bad too. It will cost at least 100,000 yuan, then one million, then ten million...

Oh, what the heck, doesn't that mean that when I reach the maximum level, I can just buy a helicopter and break it down too? Breakdown a few helicopters and then assemble a new super awesome helicopter?

Once he thought about this, Hong Dali instantly felt that with this skill, he could do anything he wanted from now on—his first thought was that he could finally have a car that could match Chuyin's science-fantasy-like sports car!

Three Prayer Angels and one Soaring Angel. Should I breakdown them, or breakdown them, or breakdown down...

This is such a difficult question!

Hong Dali thought for half a day before finally coming to the conclusion—he shouldn't consider this yet, otherwise, he would have to walk when he left the house...

This machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation was already so awesome, then the other one...

Hong Dali hurriedly looked at the other skill—gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement.

"Gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement: Host can choose to process any ore that contains gems in it. After using the gem processing skill, the outer slag of the ore will directly breakdown and reveal the gem inside."

"Gems processed by this skill will have additional attributes. Host can choose between strength, agility, reflexes, health, and energy supply to select one, two, or three types to infuse into the gem. The higher the level of the skill is, the higher the quality of the gem and the higher the attributes that can be infused."

"Energy supply: After choosing this attribute, it will turn the attribute of the gem into the attribute of an energy source and continuously supply energy. The higher the quality of the gem, the higher the level of energy source."

"After choosing the type of gem, Host can choose to embed the gem into a piece of jewelry. The jewelry that is embedded with an attribute gem will fully display the attribute of the gem. It will affect whoever wears it."

"Host can only choose to embed an energy supply gem into a machine. It will greatly save on energy loss and also provide an additional source of energy."

"Note: This skill can be leveled up, attribute points are used to level up."

"Level 1 to 10, every level requires 1 attribute point, able to additionally infuse the gem with 1 point of an attribute."

"Level 11 to 20, every level requires 2 attribute points, able to additionally infuse the gem with 2 points of an attribute."

"Level 21 to 30, every level requires 3 attribute points, able to additionally infuse the gem with 3 points of an attribute."

"Level 30 and above, unable to be leveled up in the current condition. System needs to be upgraded before it can continue to be leveled up."

"Addition explanation: Currently, Host can only breakdown ores that belong to yourself."

This...

Hong Dali excitedly touched his nose. This skill is very awesome too, isn't it! The other attributes such as strength, agility, and reflexes aren't important, the most important one is health! Health!

These years, who doesn't wish to live healthily?

A gem that can increase one's health. What the heck, this is totally cheating!

Hong Dali was so excited that his eyes went blank. These two skills are totally incredible, aren't they!

I want to upgrade the System, I want to squander, I want to level up the skills!

However, Hong Dali was in a difficult spot again—he still had five attribute points and couldn't decide where to add them on first...

It was obvious now that the other two side branches didn't need to be added so hurriedly. These two skills should instead be leveled up first. Therefore, Hong Dali finally made the decision. "System, add the five attribute points from completing the Mission all onto machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation!"

Once Hong Dali finished saying this, with a PA sound, the skill points of machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation was instantly changed to 6 points!

The System gave a new prompt: "Currently, Host can breakdown machines under 60,000 yuan."

With this new explanation, the rest was simple—Level 11 to 20 should be able to breakdown 100,000 yuan to 900,000 yuan machinery, Level 21 to 30 would be to breakdown one million yuan to nine million yuan machinery.

The only problem now was what this based on. Hong Dali hurriedly asked, "System, what is the pricing based on?"

The System's answer was really simple: "The average price of the same products in the market."

It was clear now. For example, for an object, here was selling for 85,000, the other city was selling it at 95,000. Thus, the average was 90,000 yuan, which was the breakdown price...

After everything was accounted for, the System started to announce the next mission. "Main Mission Two released: Squander 50 million yuan in three months time. Upon failure, Host will lose 20 attribute points from each attribute. If completed, there is an additional reward of 20 attribute points."

Hong Dali: "..."

As expected, the more I squander, the more serious the punishment is. 50 million in three months time, yup, that shouldn't be a problem!

After the System's voice disappeared, Hong Dali couldn't wait anymore and instantly crawled up. He had already been laying there for quite a while. He rubbed his eyes and asked, "Sister Nianwei, what time is it now?"

Li Nianwei smiled and said, "It has just reached 9 now. Young Master, there is no need to rush. If you are still tired, why not rest for a while more? Xinxin is playing badminton with Sister Cai now, and Sister Zixuan is also gaming on the third floor."

"Oh..." They were having their free time now, this was quite good. Hong Dali stretched his waist. This was the perfect time to experiment on the new skills he acquired from the System. The question was, what should he breakdown...

Luckily, he found the solution very quickly—that's right, it was his phone!

Brouhaha, this item is good. Smartphones are something that everyone must have. He shall make a super awesome smartphone that looks normal on the outside. He shall breakdown his phone first!

Chapter 252: Perfect-Grade Nouveau Riche Golden Smartphone

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Thinking up to this point, Hong Dali hurriedly waved over a lackey. "Li Yang, what is the best phone on the market currently?"

"Smartphone?" Li Yang thought for a while and said, "The smartphone designed for the masses should be the Pear Phone, I think? The one that has a bite on it. Currently, the market price for it is 2,500 yuan and is considered to be the best phone for the masses. If you want something even better, you will have to tailor make it, like the phone you are using now, Young Master. Young Master, you want to change your smartphone?"

Hearing Hong Dali ask about smartphones, Li Nianwei was a bit curious too.

"Ah, haha, I just feel like squandering." Hong Dali laughed loudly and said, "Li Yang, go and help me buy... Yup, buy a hundred Pear Phones. I thought of a new idea to squander today!"

Li Yang left in bewilderment. While walking, he thought, Young Master thought of another new idea to squander today. I wonder what this new idea is. Buy a hundred Pear Phones? This item... Forget it, I shan't be bothered about it anymore. Young Master is a godly person, his wisdom isn't something that we lackeys can fathom!

Li Nianwei curiously asked, "Young Master, this idea of yours... Do you need our help?"

"Er..." He couldn't let anyone see what he was going to do, so Hong Dali decisively shook his head. "Ah, no need, no need. I'm just going to try out something, the rest of you just go and do your own stuff. Oh right, Sister Nianwei, when Hatsune Miku is created, how about opening a concert for you and Chuyin? Thinking about it, I haven't opened a concert in a very long time, hehe."

"Sure!" Upon hearing that she could do a concert again, especially that this time it was with Hatsune Miku, even with Li Nianwei's indifferent character, she was still excited. "That will be great. By that time, the concert will definitely be very lively."

"That's for sure. Previously, I was thinking that it wasn't worth your time joining those small competitions and such. Once Hatsune Miku is created, the masses will definitely be astonished! Haha!" Hong Dali's eyes were full of expectation. Hatsune Miku, coupled with the goddess-level singer Li Nianwei, hehe...

"Then, I shall thank you first, Young Master." Li Nianwei smiled and said.

The two of them waited for a while more. After 10 minutes or so, Li Yang came back carrying a large boxboard and panting heavily. "Young Master, I have bought back the Pear Phones you asked for. Puff... Puff... I wiped out the storage of three Pear Phone shops in the vicinity. Now, there isn't a single Pear Phone left to be found nearby, only their packaging is left."

"Good job!" Hong Dali delightedly said, "Reward, 10,000!"

"Thank you, Master!" Li Yang decisively bowed and thanked him.

"Haha, I shall go and tinker with it now." Hong Dali carried the boxboard into an individual small office. As he walked, he said, "Sister Nianwei, go and play with them first."

"OK, Young Master."

Upon entering the room, Hong Dali pulled down the curtains and locked the door. Then, he excitedly took out all of the smartphones in the box.

It wasn't an easy task to take out a hundred smartphones. He only completed it after a whole 10 minutes or so. Hong Dali wiped away his sweat. "I shall use these phones to test how my skill actually works."

Saying so, he picked one of the phones and walked to an empty area. Then, he silently said, "Breakdown!"

Speaking of which, it was really amazing. Under his watchful eyes, the phone in his hand floated in the air just like that. Then, with a Shua sound, it became a pile of spare parts. And in his hand, a black phone screen quietly lay there!

At the same time, the System interface in Hong Dali's mind also provided a caption for this screen—

"Perfect-grade smartphone screen. Special extra ability: Pressure resistant. It can easily withstand two tons of pressure and not suffer any damage."

What... What the heck, what kind of strong ability is this!

Just such a smartphone screen can actually withstand two tons of pressure smashing on it!

"This is good." Hong Dali laughed loudly. "From now on, my smartphone doesn't need any more screen protectors! Brouhaha!"

This ability is definitely very useful! Very useful indeed!

Let's continue!

PA! Another phone was broken down, this time it was a motherboard that remained. The System gave its caption again—

"Perfect-grade smartphone motherboard. Special extra ability: Water resistant. Even if it's in the process of charging and thrown into the water, nothing will happen to it."

Oh, hehe, this is awesome too. Smartphones are most afraid of being dropped onto the floor and into the water. With this water resistance, what do I still need to be afraid of... However, this ability feels quite average. The one I am using now is already waterproof—let's continue to breakdown!

PA! Another motherboard!

This time, the extra ability was awesome: "Super strong reception. It can receive satellite signals from anywhere in the world, no matter if there is interference or not."

Brouhaha! This one is better than the one just now! This ability is very useful. From now on, I don't need to be afraid if there's no reception in the elevators anymore, hahaha!

Looks like I did the right thing in picking this skill. Hahaha, this skill is really too awesome!

Hong Dali was overjoyed and continued to breakdown the smartphones— PA! It was a battery this time!

"Perfect-grade smartphone battery. Special extra ability: Super battery. It can better absorb and keep the electricity charged inside. Its battery capacity is five times that of a normal phone, and it will also never be damaged."

What the heck! What the heck!! What the heck!!!

Hong Dali's eyeballs almost popped out from staring at it!

This extra attribute is totally invincible! From now on, I will not need to be afraid that my smartphone will run out of battery anymore when I am reading novels in class! Five times the capacity of a normal battery! Brouhahahahaha! This time, I can read the novels anyway I like. I can read it from morning till night and don't have to worry that it will run out of battery!

This time, I will not just read novels, I will listen to songs too, I will watch videos too, I will even play games on it too! Didn't Liu Mingxin give me a Chess Cards account with unlimited game coins in it? This time, I'm going to play those games that will lose a billion coins with a bet of 100 million coins! I will lose from morning till night!

Hong Dali was overjoyed and continued to breakdown the smartphones!

After that, the items were all roughly the same types. Basically, they had all kinds of awesome abilities. After he broke down all the hundred smartphones, in the end, Hong Dali took out his limited edition smartphone that cost over a hundred thousand yuan and broke it down!

PA! Unexpectedly, the item that was less left this time was the outer cover of the smartphone. He thought that it would be a motherboard or a battery...

However, when Hong Dali saw the caption for the cover, he was instantly astonished!

"Perfect-grade smartphone outer cover. Special extra ability: Water resistant, super pressure resistant, a nouveau riche appearance."

"Water resistant: Can be used normally in the water without fear of battery discharge or damage to the interior components."

"Super pressure resistant: It can sustain the pressure of 50 tons and not be damaged, there will not even be a scratch on it."

"Nouveau riche appearance: The entire phone body is the luxurious and kind nouveau riche golden color, extremely beautiful and artistic."

OK, looks like the third extra ability is purely to fill in the numbers—but I like it!

Now that I have this nouveau riche appearance outer cover, combined with all those awesome extra attributes... Next time, if anyone dares to offend me, I will just use this smartphone as a brick to smash him! And I will definitely not need to worry that there will be damage to the smartphone!

After all the phones were broken down, Hong Dali chose meticulously and obtained the following perfect-grade spare parts:

One perfect-grade motherboard, extra attribute: Super reception, able to receive satellite reception from any place.

One perfect-grade screen, extra attribute: Super pressure resistant, able to withstand 50 tons of pressure(this one is better than the first one).

One perfect-grade battery, extra attribute: Super battery, have a battery capacity that is five times that of a normal smartphone battery.

One perfect-grade outer cover and a perfect-grade camera, extra attribute: Super electric eye, 80 million pixels.

Having these perfect-grade parts, Hong Dali couldn't bear to wait anymore. He placed all of the parts on his hand. "Machine assemble!"

Thus, all of these parts flew up and gathered in the air. With a PA sound, a super cool nouveau riche golden streamlined smartphone came into existence.

This nouveau riche golden smartphone was practically the fighter jet amongst smartphones. The whole smartphone body was as big as a palm, a super big screen that was 5.8 inches and had the most incredible parts out of all the smartphones that he broke down. Even the pickiest person wouldn't be able to find a single fault on this phone!

And when Hong Dali saw the caption for this smartphone from the System, he was totally astonished!

"Perfect-grade smartphone: All of the parts are perfect-grade. When combined, the performance increased again. It now also has a super-large interior memory capacity of 2,048 GB, and also a surround stereo sound speaker."

Actually, this wasn't much, just that the performance was enhanced. What caused Hong Dali to be surprised was the next factor.

"This smartphone can undergo a second transformation, one more independent perfect-grade part can be attached to it."

This condition is very awesome!

It can attach another independent perfect-grade part to it!

That means to say that if I have a better part next time, I can just install it on this smartphone!

That means, this smartphone can still be upgraded! What shall I put on it next time? A lighter? A nail-cutter? An electronic scale?

Speaking of which, such a gorgeous phone suddenly shooting out a small fire after aPA sound, that will be very cool, won't it!

Brouhaha! I shan't care so much anymore, this item is enough for me. Next time, if there is something good, then I will just install it on this smartphone!

Now that Hong Dali had already gotten this super awesome and majestic smartphone, his mood was super good.

He then casually assembled a few more perfect-grade smartphones. As for the remaining spare parts... Hong Dali randomly picked one up to have a look. The caption that the System gave was: "A damaged spare part. A normal spare part that was left after being broken down. Can't be used."

Oh, so it's considered damaged. Rubbish, just throw them all away!

Speaking of which, there were only four to five types of important components for a smartphone. Hong Dali gathered all of the remaining perfect-grade parts together and assembled another 20 or so perfect-grade smartphones. Then, he brought them out of the room and shouted, "Sister Nianwei, Sister Xiaoyi, come and collect your phones! Haha!"

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Hearing that Hong Dali was giving out smartphones, everyone there all came up.

Hong Dali was thoughtful. For the last 20 plus smartphones that he assembled, he didn't use the best perfect-grade parts to match them together. The main ones he used were the pressure resistant, super strong reception and a battery capacity that was three times that of a normal phone.

After all, it was enough for himself to know about his skill. If he used the best parts for all of the smartphones, it would cause people to become suspicious. If that happened, It wouldn't be a good thing for both him and others—the System was his greatest secret, it definitely must not be known by anyone else. If not, it wouldn't be good if he was sent to a laboratory and cut-up like a guinea pig.

As for pressure resistant, super reception, and super battery, these three features couldn't be easily noticed. At least, it wouldn't be that obvious, he could directly say that it was because the phone's quality was very good, that's all...

Regardless of that, Hong Dali gave these perfect-grade phones to everyone, one each, as if it were some cabbage that was thrown on the roadside. In the end, he still had a few phones left and decisively kept them for his parents. Then, he grinned and said, "I was bored and bought a few phones to give to everyone for fun. One each, don't complain that it's too little."

Who would complain that they had too little phones, one was enough...

Tang Muxin curiously asked, "Dali, you tinkered inside for so long and just came up with these few phones? Is there any difference from the ones we normally use?"

"Yup..." Hong Dali touched his chin and said, "There are still some differences. Oh my, stop asking, just know that the quality of this phone is very good. I experimented with them for a long time just now—these screens are very sturdy, there is no need for screen protectors anymore!"

"Are you serious..." Tang Muxin flipped the phone for a while and played with it. Then, she carefully used her fingernail to scratch it. Indeed, there wasn't any problem. She instantly smiled and said, "Since it's a gift from you, I will just keep it. It's best if there's no need to cover it with protectors, hehe."

Li Nianwei pressed her lips, smiled and said, "Since this is something the Young Master gave, it definitely is quite good."

"That's for sure." After everyone took a phone, Hong Dali snapped his fingers and said, "Let's go, I was too sleepy when Brother Le and his team came just now. Let's go and take a look at how they are doing!"

Previously, Hong Dali didn't receive them when Le Anxuan and his team came. Now that he was invigorated, he naturally had to go and take a look—also, Hong Dali finally remembered, he was supposed to go over to Lin Chuyin's house to help her move...

Speaking of which, Lin Chuyin's laboratory definitely had a lot of useful stuff! Looking at the rubbish she threw all over the floor, just pick any of it and it might be some awesome invention!

Hong Dali's group instantly went downstairs.

The elevator quickly reached the fourth floor. Now, there was already a signboard hanging up there—Photon Force Laboratory.

Awesome!

Upon entering the door, they saw that the fourth floor was already packed with all kinds of machinery, wires, and stuff. Quite a lot of people was busily moving things around. Just for computers alone, there was 20 plus of them. There was also someone holding a welding torch and welding something.

The most awesome thing was a human body model inside. He was wearing the Virtual Nodes Projection Suit and doing all kinds of funny actions...

"Haha, Brother Le, I'm here. How are things here?" Upon seeing Le Anxuan, Hong Dali directly walked over and said, "Wow, no wonder you guys spend money so fast. There's so many stuff!"

"Greetings, Young Master!" Seeing that Hong Dali was here, the eight people from Le Anxuan team, including Le Anxuan himself, walked up to welcome him. Only then did Hong Dali carefully looked at each of them. They were all about 30 plus, dressed like country bumpkins, and it was obvious they belonged to the research field. Their looks were quite untidy, their hair messy like a bird's nest, their body having oil patches at one place and black stains at another, basically quite ugly.

Of course, their brains were definitely not ugly...

"Hehe, hello, everyone. Just now, I wasn't really fully awake yet." They found a place to sit down and Hong Dali asked, "Is everything OK here? If you need anything, just ask. I don't know how to do anything else, but I can definitely spend money!"

"I knew that Young Master is very magnanimous!" Being a type of geek, naturally, Le Anxuan wasn't very good at conversing. He decisively chose to introduce their research progress to Hong Dali. "Young Master, currently, this set of technology is basically formed. Look, this is the newly created, most conforming with the human body composition rubber material quality nodes projections suit. Wearing it on the body definitely will not cause the body to go out of shape. Also, on this suit, we have welded over a thousand projection nodes on it. With these nodes, no matter what kind of complicated actions the human model does, it will be perfectly projected into the computer."

"Yup, this is very good, indeed!" Hong Dali was overjoyed as he heard this. "This way, it will be much easier for us to make the CG animation, hehe."

Tang Muxin, who was carrying Little Meow, curiously asked, "Dali, are you intending to do a CG animation movie?"

Hearing Tang Muxin ask this, everyone was curious too.

Very obviously, the Hong Dali who always had fantastic ideas was probably going to squander on something fun again.

"Yup, I do indeed have this plan." Hong Dali touched his chin and secretly thought, The System requires me to squander 50 million in three months time. Three months isn't too long or too short, making a CG animated movie for fun might be quite interesting too. However, from the current look of things, there definitely isn't enough time to make a purely CG animated film. However, I can consider mixing virtual with factual, yup... Then, what should I actually do?

Speaking of which, Hong Dali knew of quite a few outstanding animes—such as Dragonball, One Piece, Saint Seiya and such, these were all big hits from his previous life.

Hong Dali touched his chin and secretly thought, Dragonball requires flying all around, this technology difficult is quite high, not viable. One Piece is on the sea, there aren't any conditions for doing this. However, Saint Seiya has quite a simple plot... Yup, I can just try and edit the plot, hehe!

The more he thought, the more his eyes shone. He suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Brother Le, can you make another few suits according to my requirements?"

"Oh? Make a few more?" Le Anxuan thought for a while and said, "That isn't an issue. However, I don't know what kind do you want? We need to tailor make this projection suit. After all, it will influence the effects a lot if it is too big or too small."

"That's not an issue!" Hong Dali laughed and said, "Because I have a brilliant idea. I'm going to make a CG animation film!"

"Really!" Tang Muxin was surprised. "Then, Dali, quick, tell us about it. What is this anime about?"

"Speaking of this anime, it will be a long story!" Hong Dali again entered storytelling mode. "In the distant future, because of the eruption of a nuclear war, most of the places on Earth were destroyed. Only the sacred land, Sky City, was left, and it was the last sanctuary of humankind...

"Those who ruled the Sky City, they are called the ecliptic of the 12 zodiac signs!

"On the mountains near Sky City, they built the 12 golden temples, each one guarded by one of the warriors of the 12 zodiac signs!

"However, facing the disasters of the outside world, these 12 protectors were unwilling to open up the Sky City to allow more commoners to live inside.

"Therefore, the kind Goddess—the personification of the Vermilion Bird, Sister Nianwei—represented the commoners to appeal to the leader of the 12 golden temples, Lord Green Dragon, to request him to open up the sacred city so that the commoners could hide inside from the disasters of the outside world.

"Actually, this was supposed to be a good thing. However, the poisonous snake of the 12 temples was secretly under the control of a hidden enemy. When the Goddess came to appeal, he shot her with a poisonous arrow!"

Upon reaching this point, everyone all "AHed" in unison!

Hong Dali continued, "The snake's poison was the strongest. The Goddess was shot and was about to pass away. Luckily, beside her, there were five holy warriors who protected her!

"These five saints wore powerful mechanical holy garments, and they had always been fighting for the Goddess!

"At this time, to rescue the Goddess, they could only obtain the blood of the sacred beast, the Black Tortoise, which could cure any poison, to heal her. However, the sacred beast Black Tortoise lived in the Green Dragon's temple, the leader of the 12 temples!

"Therefore, to awaken the Goddess, the five holy warriors started a fight to barge through the 12 golden temples!"

When Hong Dali reached this point, everyone instantly clapped furiously. "Good!"

Actually, speaking of which, the plot of Saint Seiya was quite simple. It was basically about the Goddess Athena being hurt and then the five saints rescuing her. And such a story, from a practical view, was quite suitable for Hong Dali to tell—he couldn't remember those plots that were too complicated...

Therefore, he chose the most classic plot from Saint Seiya, the 12 golden temples.

If it was according to the original work, these were the 12 constellations and the venue was in Greece.

However, it was obvious that Hong Dali was patriotic. Since he planned to reproduce Saint Seiya from his previous life, naturally, he had to edit the settings in the plot to better arouse the resonance of other people.

Therefore, very naturally, this story that Hong Dali told gained the liking of everyone present.

Now that he had finished telling the rough background and plot of Saint Seiya, naturally, the rest was the specific division of work.

Le Anxuan asked, "Young Master, how do you want us to cooperate?"

Speaking of which, although the individualism of Le Anxuan and his team was very strong, they were still naturally happy when the things they invented were of help to the Young Master.

"Your task is very simple." Hong Dali thought for a while and said, "Isn't the current suit designed to be rubber fitting? Later, I will make a rough design of the mechanical holy garment. Then, make a suit based on that design. This way, we can stimulate the entire appearance of the character, hehe."

"OK!" This type of stuff wasn't difficult as long as they were willing to spend money on it. Thus, Le Anxuan instantly nodded.

"Hm, lackey, ask Sister Zishan to come over here for a while." Hong Dali instructed one of the lackeys. "I can only think of a rough design for these mechanical holy garments, we still need Sister Zishan to be in charge of designing it out properly."

"OK!" Li Yang answered and ran out like the wind.

Shortly later, Jin Zishan, whose face had already almost recovered, came. Once she saw Hong Dali, she smiled and asked, "Young Master, you needed me for something?"

Chapter 254: "I Am MT"

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"Ah, Sister Zishan is here." Hong Dali instantly asked someone to get her a chair. Then, he said, "I'm planning to ask you to help me draw a dozen or so armor designs. This armor is very powerful, especially its appearance. It definitely needs to be golden and shiny, and it's best if it can shine others blind!"

One should know that Saint Seiya didn't have a very good storyline. What really attracted the viewers and readers was the several differently designed holy garments. Those were really the romance of men.

"Wait a while for me to draw it." Hong Dali took up a pen and drew on the paper crookedly.

Speaking of which, this fellow was a standard useless person, the type that wasn't good at anything.

His singing was off-key and out of tune, his studies were only passable and he basically didn't listen in class...

Even for drawing, he could only just barely draw an outline. It could only just be made out that it was a human with armor on him. Even his lackeys couldn't bear to watch his drawing. Young Master's drawing skill is really amazing, as awesome as always—since I can't tell what he is drawing anyway!

Almost half a day later 1 , when everyone was already sweating profusely from watching his drawing, Hong Dali finally completed it—they could barely tell that it had a head, two elbows, and two legs. It actually looked quite cartoon-like...

This cartoon character wore a crooked set of armor, and they could roughly recognize the various pieces. Surprisingly, from the overall appearance, this drawing was still quite interesting...

"Dali, is this drawing of the future world's male cubicle symbol?" Tang Muxin asked.

"This..." Hong Dali angrily said, "I'm not telling you!"

"Hehe, your drawing really sucks!" Tang Muxin instantly laughed lovably and very happily. "I was just kidding. At least, I can tell that if we disregard this small person, the armor still seems quite unique."

"Isn't that for sure?" Hong Dali proudly said, "This holy garment looks like this when it's worn. When it's taken off, it can transform into the form of a Pegasus, it's really cool!"

"What Young Master means is that when this armor is taken off, the different pieces can combine together, is that it?" This time, Jin Zishan really understood. "This set that Young Master drew is Pegasus, are there any others?"

"Yes, there is!" Hong Dali nodded and said, "There's also swan, fairy, wolf, and scorpion!"

Tang Muxin: "..."

Li Nianwei "..."

Jin Zishan "..."

The rest "..."

Jin Zishan felt that it was a bit difficult. "Young Master, the holy garments that these five people are wearing, they aren't of the same type?"

It was no wonder she asked this. Pegasus, swan, wolf, and scorpion could still be considered to be animals, but what was a fairy doing there?

"Er... That's true..." Hong Dali touched his chin. "We should make them all of the same type... Then, let's do this, just make them all animals. Aries, Pegasus, Swan, Ox, and Cancer!"

"OK..." This time, it was better by a little bit. Jin Zishan nodded and said, "I can try drawing them. Oh right, Young Master, who is the main character? I have to design him better."

"The main character?" Hong Dali started touching his chin again.

At times like these, one could tell that Hong Dali was different from the others. If it were some other people who were transmigrated into this world, they would definitely just wholly use the original plot. They would definitely choose Pegasus as the main character. However, Hong Dali, this superprodigal, was obviously someone who didn't play by the book.

What meaning would there be in just wholly copying the story from his previous life? Therefore, Hong Dali very directly decided. "Let the Ox be the main character! Ox, yup, I like this name, haha! I have even thought of the theme song!"

"You have even thought of the theme song?" Tang Muxin surprisingly asked, "What is the name of the theme song?"

"The theme song shall be called 'I Am Ai Muti'!" Expectedly, Hong Dali used another classic cartoon's theme song from his previous life. "I'm defending!! Deng~ deng deng~ deng deng deng~~ My name is Ai Muti, a body of steel, I block, I dodge, I use my body to protect you! Don't be afraid anymore, I'm still standing, my sisters and brothers, don't save you firepower! Everyone said that T is strong, he is the highest honor in the team, no one will fight for your position, explode your cosmos, give you all the enemy! Attack, don't hold back, heal, make sure I am invin~ cible! OT, I will cover you, don't worry! Shield wall, be ready, everyone full fire!"

When he finished this ugly song of his, everyone was already laughing till they were banging the table with their hands.

Actually, this song that was adapted from the original "Pegasus's Dream" was still quite impassioning. However, once Hong Dali sang it, the feeling totally changed, it sounded like one-person crosstalk...

Luckily, at least Hong Dali managed to convey the feel of the song...

The crucial thing was the lyrics. Small children would definitely love it—since Saint Seiya didn't exist in this world anyway, no one would know what this song originally sounded like, right?

The stuff that Hong Dali adapted into was all quite down to earth. He changed the setting, plot, and everything. Just this cartoon alone included concepts from Saint Seiya, I Am MT and Iron Man. Combined with the background of Heavenly State, it was indeed awesome and cool!

Now that the main character and theme song were decided on, everyone laughed for quite a while before Tang Muxin grinned and asked, "Dali, you are really talented. Then, where should we film it at? And what characters are there in it, who is going to act them?"

"The venue?" Hong Dali touched his chin, thought for a while and said, "Just film it at the outer area of Tianjing Mountain. Since we are going to build a sci-fi city there anyway... I think we can just use the New Lanxiang school to film it. Yup, we can just build the golden temple of the 12 zodiacs there and dig a large lake in the center of the school. Next time, Big Turtle can just swim there, hehe."

OK, looks like they could even save on the filming scene this time...

Then, it was time to announce the cast. Hong Dali grinned and counted on his fingers the people he knew around him. "Sister Nianwei naturally will act as the Goddess. Yup, Mu Zixiao shall act the Tiger. Geezer Wang's kungfu is the best, he will act the most powerful Rat. I wonder if Liu Mingxin has the time to act the more cool and handsome Dragon. Also, there's that Liang Yifeng who is especially good at reading poetry, this fellow definitely has to act the Chicken. Haha, this one is good!"

"Then..." Then, it was the people who followed him. Hong Dali continued, "Driver, Uncle Wang, shall act as Horse. He will have a fighting scene with the Goddess' Pegasus! As for Xinxin..." As Hong Dali reached this part, he looked at Tang Muxin until her small heart was jumping furiously and nervously said, "Dali, can I act too?"

"My Xinxin shall act as Rabbit, then." Hong Dali laughed and said, "You will definitely be very beautiful and adorable!"

"Great!" Tang Muxin instantly cheered. This little lass who loved to perform excitedly kissed Hong Dali's face!

"Sister Xiaoyi shall act as Goat!" Hong Dali continued to arrange. "The lackeys can each find a role to act too. We shan't let outsiders enjoy the benefits. This way, it should be about it, hehe."

They had such a large group of people here, there was basically enough people to fill up all the roles. Tang Muxin asked, "Dali, who are you acting?"

"Me?" Hong Dali decisively shook his head. "I'm so fragile, I shan't join in on the fun. I will supervise the shooting scenes. I will deduct the wage of whoever dares to slack off, brouhaha!"

Everyone: "..."

Regardless of that, this cartoon movie that was probably the most unique and horseplay-like in the film's history of Heavenly State was thus decided. Hong Dali asked Ling Xiaoyi, "Sister Xiaoyi, remember to help me calculate the cost. You know that I'm really insensitive to numbers..."

"Yes, Young Master." Upon thinking that she would soon appear on the screens of cinemas too, Ling Xiaoyi was also very excited. "I will do my best to perform in the film."

At this time, Jin Zishan had completed the first draft of the drawing and showed it to Hong Dali. Hong Dali was very pleased with it. "Good! Sister Zishan is really awesome indeed, the mechanical holy garment you drew is really beautiful!"

Everyone gathered around to have a look. Indeed, on a piece of white paper, a mechanical Pegasus proudly stood. Although there were only a few strokes of the pen, they could already see its main structure. It was filled with a metallic sense, and each component was stated too. Although it was still quite different from the holy warriors from his previous life, the difference wasn't very big.

Below was the drawing of a human wearing the mechanical holy garment after it turned into armor form. The corresponding components to Pegasus form were also stated.

It wasn't an overstatement to say that just this drawing alone helped everyone to understand what the mechanical holy garment that Hong Dali was talking about really was like.

"Sister Zishan, you are really good!" Tang Muxin exclaimed in surprise and said, "Your drawing is excellent! Hehe, of course, our Dali is awesome too. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have met you too, Sister Zishan!"

"Yes, I will never forget that it was the Young Master who saved my life." Jin Zishan looked at Hong Dali and smiled.

The sincerity in her eyes was clearly shown.

This caused Hong Dali to feel quite shy. He sniffled and gave a dry laugh. "It's nothing. Actually, it really was nothing. I was just planning to have a swim, hahaha, haha!"

Everyone laughed upon hearing this.

"Young Master." At this time, Ling Xiaoyi, who was meticulously looking at the drawing, asked, "If we make the model according to this drawing, it should be quite easy. However, I'm afraid that it might be really stiff when we wear it."

"Who said that we are going to make models for it?" Hong Dali very naturally answered, "Of course, we are using the real ones! It definitely has to be real!"

"Real ones!" This time, everyone was astonished.

Young Master is planning to create real mechanical holy garments just for shooting a film!?

Chapter 255: Can I Give You a Hug? (Part One)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

A movie! That was a movie! Filming a movie, they had never heard that props for filming movies had to all be real!

Look at those blockbuster movies locally or abroad, the props were all fake, it was just that they looked good from the outside—that could then save costs! You want to set up real stuff this time?

A mechanical holy garment that could really be worn?! And its different pieces could be combined together?

Oh god, how much would that cost!

At the start, everyone thought that Hong Dali was saying that he wanted to throw 50 million into it just for fun. But now, thinking about it, they were the only ones who thought it was for fun! This fellow was planning to really throw in 50 million!

The problem was that it wouldn't necessarily be enough!

At present, it would be very good for a movie to be able to earn money, and a return of close to 100% from its investment was already considered a best-seller. Now that he wanted to invest 50 million into it, wouldn't he suffer many losses? Even if this film was awesome, it might not be able to bring in money!

However, clearly, other people were other people, and Hong Dali was Hong Dali. This fellow never acted ordinarily...

"Of course, it must be real!" Hong Dali said strangely. "Don't we have Chuyin? Though the source of energy of her exoskeleton armor will be a problem, as long as it's only creating an armor suitable to be worn on the body, that will definitely not be a problem. At most, we'll spend more money!"

"Oh my god," Tang Muxin said despondently. "Luckily you aren't planning to film a big robot. Otherwise, won't you have to create a real robot to be used as a filming prop?"

Once she said that Tang Muxin instantly regretted...

"Robot?" As expected, Hong Dali was immediately excited. "There definitely has to be a robot. In the future, I plan to film a movie related to robots. By then, we'll create a few sets of robots to play with!"

Tang Muxin raged. "Dali, just treat it like I didn't say anything just now, ok?"

"No!" Hong Dali decisively shook his head. "We have to film such a movie in the future!"

Humph, humph, not to mention others, I'm after all someone with the System. Moreover, I've just learned two awesome skills just now. If I were to film a robot movie, hey, why don't we create a hundred sets of Gundams and disassemble them, then reassemble it again? Can that type of Gundam in the cartoons really be created?

It's possible, it's possible! Wahaha, I just don't know how much 100 sets of ordinary Gundams will cost...

Of course, with respect to what Hong Dali just said about the robot, everyone just treated it as if he were joking. Anyway, they needn't worry about this, for it can't be created no matter how much money was spent, right?

Now that the movie had been confirmed, Le Anxuan and the others also understood the main direction of their research from now on—this did not count as interfering with their independent researching, as it'd only changed the method of their research slightly.

They could foresee that after they'd completed their research, by then, this movie would definitely be very nice to watch after it'd been filmed.

"Ah, let's go there to have a look." Hong Dali stood up and stretched, but soon after, he was stunned. "Chuyin, when did you arrive? Why didn't I notice it at all?"

Lin Chuyin was standing behind everyone like a ghost, without any realization that she resembled a ghost appearing to scare people. "I've just arrived. I saw that you were talking, so I waited for a while. Uh, my laboratory has already been moved here. It's there."

Then, she pointed conveniently, and Hong Dali only took a look before he completely broke down...

The reason why Hong Dali completely broke down was because Chuyin had really moved her laboratory over—look at those spare parts all over the floor, look at those steel plates that had been stacked up, look at those movers who were currently reconstructing the laboratory, look at that laboratory which almost had only the door left...

"You didn't move the entire laboratory over here along with the walls, did you?!" Hong Dali almost went into a frantic tizzy. "There's no need to make another iron house over here! Even if you want to, you don't have to move it into the main hall!"

"Uh..." Lin Chuyin thought for a while, then tilted her head and asked strangely. "Is there anything wrong with that?"

"Yes... aye?" Speaking of which, it was true though, what was wrong with it? Setting up an iron laboratory on the fourth floor here, it seemed like there really wasn't anything wrong with it... Hong Dali thought for quite a while and still didn't think of how to reply to her. Thus, alas, he could only helplessly say, "Alright. Anyway, things have already come to this point, just leave it like this for now then..."

"Uh, that's good." Lin Chuyin looked around, and soon after, she was very satisfied with this place, which was rare for her. She said, "It looks good over here, there are many types of equipment—many that I'd always failed to get."

As she spoke, she walked towards the side of a Virtual Reality Node Projection Suit, lifted it up and scrutinized it. Afterward, she asked strangely, "Virtual Reality Node Projection Suit? Won't so many connectors affect movement?"

Aye?! Too many connectors will affect movement?

Upon hearing what Lin Chuyin said, Hong Dali and Le Anxuan were instantly stunned.

As expected, she was the super technological geek. One sentence by her had pointed out the biggest problem with this Virtual Reality Node Projection Suit—with so many nodes and connectors literally filling the entire suit, it unavoidably caused too much wiring, and thus, the person wearing this suit wouldn't be able to move freely!

"This..." Le Anxuan's head was full of sweat. "We'd previously researched on how to better define the character's image, thus, we'd never focused on this aspect. Previously, the experimenter, too, didn't have to make any large movements, so... So we'd neglected this aspect...."

Hong Dali, meanwhile, hurriedly asked, "Chuyin, do you have any good ideas?"

"Uh, it's very simple." The technological geek whose intelligence quotient was as high as 180, a member of the international Holy Grail association, expressed that this question didn't even contain the slightest difficulty. "Combine all the wirings connecting the nodes onto the main board, and then connect it wirelessly. Just like that device I'd set up that time. However, you need to be careful when you combine them—once you mess up the wiring, it'll be very troublesome, and putting the suit on can easily cause the limbs to be twisted. I've tried once before, but because my tools were not delicate enough, I haven't been able to succeed."

Towards the end, she added, "However, the tools here are very complete. I want to try a few more times."

She spoke casually, but everyone present beamed with joy as they listened.

As expected, Lin Chuyin was awesome. Look at this idea of hers—change the wiring to wireless ones. It was easy to say, but it wasn't easy to come up with this idea. At least, Hong Dali and the rest had never paid attention to this.

"Then..." Le Anxuan, by then, was completely convinced. "Miss Lin Chuyin, do you still have any more suggestions?"

"Remember to leave more holes on this rubber suit," Lin Chuyin said blandly. "Or else, it will be stuffy."

Le Anxuan's tears rained down his face: "..."

"Hehe, OK, OK, let's not talk about this for now." Hong Dali grinned as he pulled Lin Chuyin's hand and said, "Go go go, let's go there to take a look. The team researching on voice programming has arrived. We didn't have the chance to greet them just now, you've come at just the right time."

"Uh, OK." Lin Chuyin wasn't conscious at all of the fact that her little white hand was being pulled by Hong Dali. In fact, she didn't quite have the desire to defend against this action of his. Had it been someone else who dared to do so... It would be 30,000 volts without question!

Instantly, the group went in front of the voice programming team, and Hong Dali walked over to greet them. "Hello, everyone. I haven't had the chance to greet everyone previously, hehe. I ask for your forgiveness, big brothers!"

This was the team sent by Uncle Chief. For his sake, I have to give them face for sure!

This team had only eight people in it, and currently, they were sitting in front of a computer doing programming. The person in the lead saw Hong Dali coming over, hurriedly stood up and smiled as he introduced himself. "Greetings, Young Master Dali. I'm Du Jiechao, currently the head of this team."

This Du Jiechao was dressed ordinarily, was rather skinny, and thus, looked quite thin. On his thin face grew a mustache that wasn't very thick. One look at him would instead make him look like a perverted uncle...

"Hello, hello." Hong Dali hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook his hand, as he smiled and said, "You've all worked hard."

"Hehe, it's a small matter." Du Jiechao invited Hong Dali and the rest to take a seat. Afterward, he instantly reported the progress. "At present, the programming will take about three weeks, and it will mainly be the scripting of the programming of the tone of voice. After all, the language composition in our Heavenly State is very complicated, and there is a huge difference between the tone of voice used to say different words. Thus, this step is the most troublesome of all. The types of voice in the later part will be simpler—we can just select a suitable one to be inserted in and used."

"En, that's good, that's good." Hong Dali beamed with delight. "Three weeks are just nice, I'm not in a hurry on my side. Big brothers, just take it slowly. We want quality, there must be quality, HOHO."

"En, the quality will definitely not be a problem, Young Master Dali. You can rest assured on that." As he spoke, he stealthily touched Hong Dali's leg, and then said with a hidden meaning, "We're all working for our leader, there'll definitely not be a problem!"

What he meant was, they were all working for the Nation. Thus, they were all family. Family would never cheat each other!

"Yes, yes, yes," Upon hearing what he said, Hong Dali instantly recalled that piece in his house that stated: "Squander for the sake of the strengthening the Heavenly State." Thus, he grinned from ear to ear. "In future, just tell me if there's anything you need, don't stand on ceremony! I guarantee that all of you will be satisfied!"

I'm squandering on the orders from above. Thus, I'm outright and confident about it!

Alas, just then, Lin Chuyin said something that broke everyone's heart...

"Then, can she cry?" Lin Chuyin's tone was insipid as usual, but it made everyone's heart ache very badly. "Can she laugh?"

"This..." Upon hearing Lin Chuyin's words, Hong Dali was stunned for a moment. Soon after, he fiercely said, "She can, she definitely can!" As he spoke, Hong Dali looked at Du Jiechao. He normally behaved in a happy-go-lucky manner, but this time, he said with rare seriousness, "Big Brother Du, no matter what, it must be able to laugh and cry! Definitely!"

"I understand, I understand!" Du Jiechao was also shocked by Lin Chuyin's words. Thus, he resolutely nodded and said, "It definitely will! Definitely!"

"Chuyin," Hong Dali walked slowly in front of Lin Chuyin, as he spread out his arms and had the most innocent smile on his face, as he gently said, "Can I give you a hug?"

Chapter 256: Can I Give You a Hug? (Part Two)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Can I give you a hug?

Had these words come out from the mouth of someone else, that would definitely seem like a pervert trying to take advantage of a cute girl.

However, when it came out of Hong Dali's mouth, it only made people feel like... This fellow definitely did not have any lust in him, and it was definitely a hug of pure friendship, definitely not taking advantage of a girl!

Even Tang Muxin didn't think of objecting to this.

Needless to say, that was a miracle.

Of course, Lin Chuyin's reaction could also be counted as a miracle...

"Uh, OK." Lin Chuyin tilted her head, her two long sky-blue ponytails tilted to one side, and only her voice sounded bland as always. "Then, what should I do?"

"You don't need to do anything." Hong Dali gently said, "Just relax your body."

"Uh, OK..." Lin Chuyin quietly stood there and didn't move an inch, as she stared at Hong Dali with bright eyes without any distracting thoughts.

Hong Dali gently hugged her.

It was very pure, very friendly, without the slightest desire in it. It was as pure as a piece of white paper. Just like the clear blue sky and the water that had just been distilled.

The two of them gently embraced.

There was nothing impure about it, that feeling was like two true good friends who'd finally met after being apart for many years.

"Uh, this feeling..." Lin Chuyin didn't make any movement, as she let Hong Dali gently hug her, yet she mumbled, "It's like... a very warm kind of feeling. Is this... a friend?"

"Yes." As he gently hugged Lin Chuyin in his arms, Hong Dali gently said, "We're good friends, and this will never change."

"This feeling... seems... very comfortable?" Lin Chuyin was rather undecided. However, this feeling only lasted for a short while. Soon after, Lin Chuyin mumbled again, "No change in heartbeat, no change in body temperature, but, why do I feel like... I like it very much?"

Li Nianwei covered her mouth.

Tang Muxin had long ago burst into a flood of tears.

Lin Chuyin, this goddess, nobody knew that what she truly pursued was only to be like an ordinary girl with feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, and joy. She only wanted to cry or laugh once.

This was all that she wished for.

Unfortunately, it couldn't be fulfilled.

"It'll get better in the future," Hong Dali mumbled. "Because, we're friends, we're the best partners..."

"Uh, OK." Lin Chuyin thought for a while, and soon after, she turned her body around. It wasn't that she hated Hong Dali, it was just that she needed to find something that she could do again. "Alright, it's getting late, I need to organize my things. Uh, can you help?"

"Young Master..." Hong Dali's lackeys around him looked at Hong Dali with great anticipation. As long as he gave out the order, they'd definitely help Lin Chuyin solve all the troubles!

"Everyone, go and help out," Hong Dali suddenly roared with laughter. "Because we're friends! We're partners!"

"Hahaha, everyone, go, go now!" Upon hearing Hong Dali's words, everyone rushed upstairs.

The more the people, the greater the strength. Those setups that Lin Chuyin had brought over were all neatly organized. Every single setup was put at the most suitable place according to Lin Chuyin's instructions, and there wasn't the slightest mess. The room which had originally been hard to even enter was now as clean as a room prepared for newlyweds, and the floor was cleaned to the point where a fly would have broken its leg if it landed on it.

"Uh, it has indeed been cleaned up faster than me doing it alone." Lin Chuyin looked at her laboratory and felt that there was something that was slightly different. "It does look better now. Is this... friend?"

"Hahaha, yes, yes." Hong Dali elatedly placed his arm onto Lin Chuyin's shoulder, and he felt that it was hard and stiff. "If not, why would there be a saying that with friends, you can travel the world. Without friends, it's hard to even move an inch? We're good friends!"

"En, we're friends." Lin Chuyin tilted her head and thought for a while, then asked, "Then, what can I help you with?"

"Aye?" Upon hearing this, Hong Dali decisively shook his head. "Friends may not necessarily be of help, en, how do I put this, as long as we're happy together, that's enough. As for whether I need your help, it depends on the situation. However..."

He touched his chin and thought for a while. Then, he suddenly said, "However, it does seem like there's something we can start up! Chuyin, come with me!" Hong Dali pulled Lin Chuyin by the hand and left. As he walked, he exclaimed, "Sister Zishan! Sister Zishan!"

"Uh, what's the matter?" Lin Chuyin insipidly asked.

"You'll know once you come," Hong Dali grinned and said, "You'll definitely be interested once you see it!" With the two of them in the lead, the group returned to Jin Zishan's side, as Hong Dali asked, "Sister Zishan, lend me that piece of drawing you drew. Chuyin is very capable, she'll definitely be able to make it!"

"Alright." Jin Zishan never had the slightest objection against Hong Dali's words. She instantly handed the pegasus mechanical holy garment she'd perfected to Hong Dali. "Young Master, have a look. Is it better this time?"

"En, not bad! Good!" Hong Dali took a great liking to the pegasus mechanical holy garment after it'd been perfected. "It's this, then! Haha!" Soon after, he passed it to Chuyin. "Chuyin, look and see whether you can create this!"

The pegasus mechanical holy garment now had a streamlined appearance throughout, with the texture of heavy iron, paired with the thin black stripes on top. It looked gorgeous!

Jin Zishan was truly a professional at this! 32 likes to her!

"Uh, this should be feasible." As a technological geek, Lin Chuyin naturally took a great liking to this type of thing. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it. This was a rather rare feeling to her. "This is not too bad, and it looks better than mine. En, it can be done with just slightly more work done. It can carry a voltage of 30,000, with a mega particle gun. If there's enough space, it can carry another super electromagnetic gun. However, if it carries the super electromagnetic gun, it has to be connected with high tension wires, and it's more dangerous."

Hong Dali: "..." Li Nianwei: "..." Tang Muxin: "..." Le Anxuan: "..." And the rest: "..."

Don't be so violent ahhhh!

Hong Dali almost went berserk as he said, "Chuyin, can we not think of weapons once we see this kind of thing, it's very scary! And you still want to connect high tension wires? This is an iron shell! If you connect high tension wires, you'll electrocute yourself to death!"

"Uh," Lin Chuyin said as a matter of fact. "That's why I said it's more dangerous."

She stared at it for a while again, and afterward, she raised her right hand and said blandly, "In my name."

After which, Le Anxuan, who was at a side, almost glared till his eyeballs dropped out—an exoskeleton armor actually appeared on Lin Chuyin's arm! Though this set of exoskeleton armor still looked rather messy and was far from the streamlined shape that Jin Zishan had drawn, Le Anxuan was very certain that this was only because that girl with the blue hair and two ponytails didn't do it that day, or she'd only designed an exterior that didn't look as good!

After all, not many people in the world Jin Zishan's talent in drawing.

Lin Chuyin looked at her right hand, then compared it with Jin Zishan's drawing. Soon after, she said, "A large portion of it can be manufactured, but the exact appearance needs to be changed. Otherwise, according to its looks, there will be many key parts that will not be able to move freely. It would roughly be the fingers, elbows, shoulders, legs, and so on. Moreover, there are many parts here that need to be made into independent parts. Otherwise, it'll injure people."

Finally, she concluded. "In conclusion, it can be manufactured."

Can be manufactured!

Lin Chuyin said it can be manufactured. In that case, it really can be manufactured!

With that big brain of hers that was comparable to a calculator, there wouldn't be any possibility of her lying about it.

Hong Dali beamed with delight as he heard that and delightedly said, "It's good that it can be made, hehe. But let's not be anxious about this, take it slowly, don't overtire ourselves." As he spoke, he stood up and returned the drawing to Jin Zishan. He stretched for a long while, then said, "Let's go, it's noon already. Everyone, let's go and have a meal! After the meal, we can have a walk around this afternoon. Brothers, let's go!"

To put it simply, they had their lunch.

After lunch, Hong Dali let out a satisfied burp, smiled and said, "Alright, let's go find Big Turtle to play with! We ought to also talk about some serious matters today! En, Sister Nianwei, Sister Cai, come along too. Let's go and find the boss of Director Lin's company to negotiate our transaction!"

This superprodigal Hong Dali actually said to handle serious matters!

This was really a miracle!

For a moment, everyone was astonished. However, Li Nianwei knew what was going on. Thus, she smiled and said, "Everyone, let's go together. Young Master is going to do something big."

Now that Li Nianwei had spoken, who would object to it? Thus, the group instantly went to Fengyuan Lake to get Big Turtle, then they went towards the outer area of Tianjing Mountain.

Very quickly, they reached the production set of Lin Hao and the rest in Tianjing Mountain. As expected, by then, there was already a smartly dressed and well-mannered middle-aged man wearing sunglasses with gold edges waiting over there. Once he saw Hong Dali and the rest coming over, he hurriedly went forward to welcome them. He stretched out his hand and said, "Young Master Dali has arrived, greetings, greetings. I'm the CEO of Penghui Films, Lao Deming. I've heard of Young Master Dali's big name long ago, long ago."

To speak of Hong Dali being a superprodigal now, it didn't seem like a contemptuous term. Thus, Lao Deming didn't have many reservations.

"Hehe, you're too kind, Director Lao." Hong Dali and the rest went to find a place to seat in a high-spirited manner. Then, Hong Dali went straight to the point. "Director Lao, Director Lin should have told you about what's happening today, right?"

"Yes." After Lao Deming took a seat, he adjusted his glasses and asked rather skeptically, "What Young Master Dali means is, asking our Penghui Films to merge with Caiwei Entertainment. This..."

"Yes, that's right." Hong Dali nodded and said with a smile, "To put it this way, I favor your company's technology very much. Director Lin also gets along with me rather well. Thus, I had this idea. What do you think, Director Lao?"

"Then..." Lao Deming carefully asked, "After the merger, what would the company be called? Also, how do we make arrangements with regards to management decisions regarding the executive director and so on?"

Chapter 257: God of Fortune Hong Dali

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Speaking of which, there wasn't a big problem with the merger. What Lao Deming was truly concerned about was who would be the boss.

It was rather difficult to do business in the films and entertainment industry now. In the face of the technology blockade by Hollywood, the cost of making a film had been increasing. Moreover, these few years there hadn't been many big hits. It wasn't easy to come across a "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre: Pugilistic World." Furthermore, it was done in collaboration with Hong Dali.

It wasn't an overstatement to say that the sales growth of Penghui Films now was rather pessimistic—had it been optimistic, Lao Deming wouldn't have wasted his breath talking to Hong Dali here now. After all, nobody would wish for his own company to be taken over by others, right?

However, the problem was that this superprodigal Hong Dali, at the present moment, was really too great.

The top 8 rankings of the download count on So Cool video-sharing website were all started up by Hong Dali, and the follow-up details had not even been counted in yet.

In the collaboration on "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre: Pugilistic World," Hong Dali was also the one that altered the script.

Li Nianwei, the number one goddess in Heavenly State, was made famous by Hong Dali, and "I Am a Singer" had boosted the popularity of more than ten celebrities who were previously not really known figures at once.

In the face of such pressure, Lao Deming had to give in.

He had no choice. If Hong Dali had the slightest unhappiness and decided to make the movie himself, he'd really be broke by then...

Thus, once he said this, Lao Deming's little heart beat rapidly, as if there was a little deer inside it.

"Oh, that's simple." Hong Dali answered as a matter of fact. "My Sister Cai will be the director."

"This..." Lao Deming's hands instantly started trembling. "Young Master Dali, look at the scale of our company. After this merger, it won't belong to me anymore, do you think I'll agree?"

What he meant was obvious. If you're not going to make me the director, I'll not carry out the merger then. I'd rather be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. After all, I'm in charge, and at least my words carry weight.

If he had to address Zhang Cai as director after the merger, wouldn't it be akin to him handing over the whole company to someone else?

However, Hong Dali totally ignored what he thought, and directly threw out a heavy bomb. "En, then it looks like I can only find someone else for this film which I'm planning to invest 50 million into..."

50 million!

Lao Deming instantly froze...

He'd worked so hard to find sponsors, and he'd only gotten 10 million for this "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre: Pugilistic World" film originally named "Wind Pursuer." In the end, this young man in front had told him that he planned to invest in a film worth 50 million...

Thus, Lao Deming was very depressed now.

Because he could really feel a deep sense of danger. Other things aside, if this prodigal were to collaborate with other companies, then that company would definitely rise overnight, to an extent where its popularity would shoot to the max. Lao Deming was definitely certain that the casting line-up for this film would be grander than he could ever imagine.

Especially since he'd heard that lofty declaration by Hong Dali previously!

"Why must Hollywood be in Merika?"

Now that he saw it, Young Master Dali was really planning to make movies! With that wealthy background of his, the often unexpected ideas by this prodigal, and coupled with the estimated investment of 50 million—what the heck, even if he wouldn't be the first person in charge, with this film alone, he would be able to gain quite a lot of benefits as well!

Since he'd come today, Lao Deming was actually already prepared to agree to it. It was just that he didn't think that he would be defeated by just one sentence without even the courage to negotiate the terms...

"Alright!" Lao Deming fiercely nodded. "Young Master Dali, what benefits can I gain after the merger?"

People would die for money, just like how birds would die for food. Naturally, he had to make it clear about what he would gain from this.

"In the future, for the movies that I make, you and your team will get half of the dividends." Hong Dali directly stated a term that was completely irresistible. "You don't need to fork out a single cent out."

Lao Deming immediately knelt down. "Thank you, My Lord!"

He'd learned this by now too...

"Hehe, you won't lose out by working with me." Hong Dali roared with laughter. "Sister Cai, tell him about the movie that I'm going to film. Currently, this 'The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre: Pugilistic World' is about to enter the later part of the production phase, right? Once this movie is completed, let's start our project!"

Speaking of which, this Lao Deming was really a rather magnanimous person. If not, he'd really not have been able to get Penghui Films into the top few in Heavenly State within just a short few years' time.

Many a time, boldness and decisiveness were the keys to doing business. The indecisive ones would often lose out good opportunities.

Thus, Lao Deming was obviously very happy now.

Because he'd once again proved the validity of the sentence "There's no such thing as suffering losses when working with Young Master." When Zhang Cai had told him about the gist of what the film was about—CG animation movie that Hong Dali was going to film, "The Holy Warriors of the Goddess"—Lao Deming knew that he'd made the right bet.

Soon after, he broke out in cold sweat as if he'd been depleted of all his energy...

The Holy Warriors of the Goddess starred Li Nianwei, Black Tortoise, Mu Zixiao, Geezer Wang, Liu Mingxin, Liang Yifeng, Wang Mingyu, as well as Hong Dali's lackeys. The number one super technological geek in history, Lin Chuyin, was to be the engineer of the production of the holy garments. The estimated budget was as high as 50 million, and it could be said to be the most highly invested movie in the country in recent years. Moreover, the setting was chosen to be at the sci-fi school town that Hong Dali was going to construct—New Lanxiang city campus...

The holy garment was real, the city campus was real, and coupled with the Virtual Reality Projection technology and after some enhancements by the animation production team, it could be said that, though this was an animated film, everything inside was real!

With regards to such a movie, Lao Deming was first shocked till his heart almost stopped beating, and afterward, he was so happy that his heart almost jumped out...

This was sick. Who would've thought that Young Master was planning to spend such a fortune in the making of his first movie?

He could almost imagine that the storyline and whatnots needn't be taken into consideration, for the amount of money invested in the money alone, paired with those things set up by Young Master, could definitely scare the entire film industry out of its wits.

He had made such a wise decision by directly agreeing to it previously!

Thus, after Lao Deming had heard about all the details, his gaze when he looked at Hong Dali was completely different now.

In the future, I'll fight to the end against anyone who tells me that Master Hong Dali is a prodigal! How could he be a prodigal? He is obviously a God of Fortune sent to earth by the Jade Emperor!

Thus, Lao Deming's attitude when talking to Hong Dali now made everyone doubt their hearing. "Young Master, you must be thirsty, right? I'll get someone to make you some tea at once. What flavor do you like? Once you say it, it'll instantly be sent over! If you don't like tea, coffee or fruit juice is fine as well!"

"Forget it." Hong Dali pouted. "Stop talking to me about useless things. Oh right, I've just thought of something."

"What is it, please say it, Young Master!" Lao Deming's humble attitude was like that of Hong Dali's most loyal lackey.

"En, do you know where to get ores? Best if it's the type that has gemstones in it." Hong Dali asked.

The reason why he asked Lao Deming was that since this fellow was someone who made movies, he'd definitely have been to many places—even if he didn't run around the world with his production crew, he would at least know about where to get this type of thing.

He'd just acquired two skills. The first one was the machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation skill, which had already been tried out and was rather awesome. The second one was gem processing, embedding, and magic enhancement—it naturally had to be properly tried out!

"Ores? Gemstones?" Upon hearing what Hong Dali said, Lao Deming carefully thought for a while, then suddenly said, "If I haven't understood it wrongly, Young Master can visit Qingwu district in Beijin City, near to the north of Tianjing City. There should have what Young Master wants."

"Qingwu district in Beijin City? There are many ores there?" Hong Dali was rather confused by Lao Deming's words.

"En, there's a stone-gambling market there, it's very suitable for Young Master." Lao Deming smiled and said.

"Stone-gambling?" Hong Dali was full of questions in his head. "What's that? It's related to gambling? Is it fun?"

He had to clarify this. This Great Prodigal System of his banned the host from gambling. This stone-gambling was like buying the lottery. That was very troublesome. He couldn't touch it for sure, who knows what would happen if his points continued to be deducted!

"Yes, it's stone-gambling. Its background is quite big. It refers to, when the jade gemstones and so on are extracted, there's a layer of air-slake on it, thus, we don't know whether what's inside will be good or bad. We have to cut it open before we know whether the jade we bought is good—this is called stone-gambling. The thickness of the exterior layer depends on the level of the extent of its air-slake. If the air-slake extent is high, the layer will be thick. A piece of jade may have a good exterior due to its raw material and colored crust. However, though a green color may appear by the first cut, it's possible that by the second cut, the green color will be gone. This is something that commonly happens. Away from the mine, the probability of striking it rich with betting is only one in ten thousand, while the probability of striking it rich in the jade mountains is much higher. After the value of the jade shoots up, they'd strike it rich overnight. But most of them fail in the end."

After Lao Deming had finished introducing stone-gambling, he peeked at Hong Dali. "However, Young Master, I think that there shouldn't be a problem if you go for this stone-gambling..."

Wasn't that obvious? Which member of the upper class in Tianjing City didn't know that this Hong Family's little prodigal's luck was exceedingly good?

"In this case..." Hong Dali was rather despondent. This stone-gambling seemed almost the same as the lottery, and it was rise or plunge either way. If it plunged, it meant that there weren't any good stones, and all his efforts would be in vain. But if it rose and a few million was instantly deducted by the System, he wouldn't have to live anymore...

But how did Lao Deming knew about this? Upon seeing that Hong Dali was a bit skeptical, he hurriedly said, "Sigh, what a pity, my luck is bad. I normally like to engage in some betting as well, but I'd lose at least nine out of ten bets. Especially the last time, I lost a rough stone and lost more than 500,000. With Young Master here today, why don't we go and try our luck."

Uh, one bet cost him more than 500,000? Lao Deming's tone made it seem like this is some petty business, this fellow is definitely planning to take advantage of me.

However, what Lao Deming said had instead reminded Hong Dali—the difference of a small and big bet over stones!

What it meant was, if you want to play it big, you can play it big. But if you want to play it small, no problem as well, it's all up to you.

This is much easier. I'll just go and try it out first and buy a 10,000 yuan stone to play with first!

Then there won't be a problem! Wahahahaha!

"Director Lao, you're really something, haha!" Hong Dali currently was extremely overjoyed. "Then, let's go and take a look now! I'm really quite curious how this stone-gambling is played!"

"Young Master, you really want to go?" Lao Deming obviously wasn't able to react to it for a while, as he thought, Those few words that I said just now convinced Young Master, this big prodigal with exceedingly great luck? Wahaha, Young Master is awesome! As expected, there'll only be benefits by following Young Master!

Chapter 258: The Idol in the World of Prodigals

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Since it was already decided that they would go for stone-gambling, the group instantly set off.

Hong Dali snapped his fingers, grinned and said, "Since it's still early, why don't we go there and have a look. Anyway, the journey isn't too far, we'll probably reach there in a short while."

"That's good, Young Master. Please go first, I'll go get the car right now to lead the way for you." By now, Lao Deming had confirmed Hong Dali to be the money god. Thus, he was extremely earnest in his words and actions. Anyway, looks like he wouldn't have to spend money himself for today's stone-gambling, and he could enjoy it along with him too. Whoever didn't go for such a good thing was a fool!

Obviously, Lao Deming wasn't a fool. Thus, the group instantly got onto the car and a little incident that occurred in the middle of it—Hong Dali had always wanted to test out the skills from the System through the stone-gambling, then he recalled that he'd previously already used that machine breakdown, assembly, and transformation skills. Once he thought of these two skills, he wanted to try them out with these few cars.

If he disassembled hundreds of these Prayer Angels and reassembled a new true Prayer Angel, wouldn't that be cool?

Unfortunately, he could only think about it. It wasn't that he couldn't fork out the money, the problem was that his skills points were not enough to disassemble them...

Alas, Hong Dali could only helplessly get onto the Soaring Angel—what the heck, in the future, he must reconstruct this car!

Regardless, the group had finally traveled on the road towards the stone-gambling place.

In the car, Tang Muxin stealthily pulled Hong Dali's arm with anticipation in her eyes as she asked, "Dali, won't you strike a fortune by betting on stones? It's stone-gambling, I've heard about it before—it's very exciting! It's totally dependent on luck! You have always been very lucky. By then, you can just pick and buy the valuable ones. As long as you win one bet, you'll get rich!"

"Oh..." Hong Dali nonchalantly sniffled. "We'll try it when we get there, there's no rush."

"En, I trust that you can definitely do it!" Speaking of which, Tang Muxin was more and more like a housewife. She had increasingly fewer objections to her status as Hong Dali's fiancée—the little lass' attention now was almost entirely on Hong Dali...

Very soon, they reached the place. Lao Deming got off the car first and earnestly ran to open the car door for Hong Dali, smiling as he said, "Young Master, we've arrived. Do we get off the car and go in now?"

"En, sure." Hong Dali got off the car and glanced at the surroundings. Very quickly, he saw a few groups of people not far away. They were dressed rather smartly, and, though Hong Dali couldn't see the brand of their clothes, he was sure that they were not ordinary people—definitely second-generation nouveau riches who lived nearby.

Speaking of which, the gathering of such a big group of second-generation nouveau riches was indeed enough to attract attention. Hong Dali asked, "Are they here to bet on stones as well?"

Lao Deming nodded and said, "En, it should be. In Tianjing, people would normally have to tone down. They don't have to be mindful of their behavior here. These people are all the rich young masters who live nearby. At night, after they have nothing more to do after drinking wine, they'd go to the streets to make a ruckus or come over here to play with stones. To them, they can have as many women as they want, and furthermore, with their powerful and influential family backgrounds, they especially love thrills." Speaking up to this point, Lao Deming carefully reminded. "Young Master, this bunch of people are used to being wild and overbearing. They are occasionally caught by the police but get released with just a phone call. Normally, nobody will dare to bother with them. You have to be careful."

"Oh, that's fine." Hong Dali sniffled. "I'm here to bet on stones, not to beat people up..."

"Hey, where did this rich young master come from? Why do I feel that he looks a little familiar?" Just then, a group of second-generation nouveau riches came over, and the person in front glanced at those three Prayer Angels and one Soaring Angel and asked strangely, "It's impossible that I'm unaware of a young master who brings out so many good cars at once. Could it be that this fellow came from another place?"

Though this group of second-generation Big Young Masters were wild and loved thrills, they all had keen sights about things. Though they hadn't watched "Unexpectedly" that Hong Dali had starred in, they still had a rough impression of him from the Internet. Moreover, coupled with Dali's grand appearance, he was naturally different.

"Hehe, hello, big brother." Hong Dali had a very good temper by nature, thus, he instantly greeted this group of people once he saw them. "I've heard that it's rather interesting to bet on stones here, so I came to take a look."

"Aiyo." That second-generation rich young master scanned Dali from head to toe, then smiled and said, "You look talented with an extremely fine aura. Your cars are all good cars, and your woman is a rare beauty as well—she must come from good family background. Seems like there will be a good show to watch."

"Haha, thank you for your praises. It's my first time coming here, why don't you help to lead the way?" Hong Dali beamed with delight.

Speaking of which, people from the same roots would cultivate different types of characters. There were some second-generation riches who were extremely arrogant and supercilious and attracted hate from around the world. Meanwhile, there were those who were still decent on the outside no matter how wild and playful they were.

Obviously, the person Hong Dali met today belonged to the latter.

This person stretched out his hand first. "No problem. I'm Yang Chao," As he spoke, he pointed to a good-looking woman beside him who was over 20 years old and said, "This is my wife, Su Yan."

"Brother Yang, hello! I'm Hong Dali." Hong Dali was indeed a sweet talker. "Hello, sister-in-law!"

Su Yan smiled as she teased. "Young Master Dali, this is your girlfriend, right? Look at her, I'm liking her just by looking at her, hehe."

Fine, one sentence caused Tang Muxin to decisively become a traitor. "Sister Su, I'm not as good as what you said..."

Afterward, the two women got close to each other naturally as they stood together and chatted enthusiastically.

"Dali, Dali, why does it sound so familiar the more I hear of this name..." Yang Chao mumbled for a while, and soon after, he saw Li Nianwei, who was wearing her sunglasses and had been standing behind and not been talking much. "Why do I find this pretty girl so familiar too..."

He took a few more looks, and this time, he was truly surprised. "You are goddess Li Nianwei?!" Then, he looked at Hong Dali again. "You're that Young Master Dali that promoted Li Nianwei through her rise to fame overnight?"

"Uh..." This time, it was Hong Dali's turn to feel embarrassed. "It seems like it..."

"Idol!" Yang Chao wasn't shocked to see Li Nianwei, he was instead shocked to see Hong Dali. "You're the legendary superprodigal, right?? Aiya, aiya, idol, you're definitely an idol! I was thinking of doing things as you did, but I'm not as lucky as you, how sad!"

Speaking of which, this group of second-generation riches that Yang Chao belonged to didn't lack women at all. To them, as long as they were willing to, they could change one woman per night without any difficulty, and it was even as simple as eating and drinking. Thus, after coming into contact with many women before, they naturally weren't that excited anymore.

Thus, though Yang Chao liked Li Nianwei a lot and thought that she was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen, obviously, Hong Dali still attracted him more.

Thus, he hurriedly asked, "Um, Young Master Dali, can you teach me how to squander?"

Can this be taught? Squandering is a type of skill!

"Hahaha." Hong Dali instantly played dumb. "Let's go and bet on stones first..."

"Ah, yes, I was too long-winded." Yang Chao laughed heartily. "I was a little too excited upon seeing my idol, too excited."

By then, those people behind him had also learned of Hong Dali's identity and instantly roared with laughter.

Speaking of which, Hong Dali was actually not very clear about the level of his popularity.

That wasn't his fault actually, for he was really a carefree and thoughtless person...

To the group of civilians, he'd made Li Nianwei rise to fame overnight, and created "Unexpectedly" and "I Am a Singer." Thus, his explosive popularity within the circle of civilians was naturally undoubted.

Meanwhile, to the group of people who were the true nouveau riches, he was even more of a legend.

Someone who squandered and spent money with all his might earned more money the more he spent, and he even subdued the Big Turtle. This was naturally not a joke. Fortunately, those that filmed Big Turtle covered his face with a mosaic, or else he'd probably not even be able to go out of his house in the future...

Now, Hong Dali brought Li Nianwei, Tang Muxin, his lackeys as well as Lao Deming, while Yang Chao brought Su Yan and a group of friends with him. Everyone chatted and laughed as they walked into the area where the stone-gambling event was to be held. Hong Dali was instantly shocked by the huge scale of the stone-gambling scene.

There were over a hundred exhibitions on jade quarry, and there were many overseas businessmen who did big businesses with jades and many studios with the names of over a hundred vendors, enough to keep all eyes occupied. Moreover, the jade quarry stones in every studio had long ago made Lao Deming's eyes sparkle due to his liking towards dealing with this stuff. Had Hong Dali not been beside him, it was almost certain that he would have pounced forward and prepared to auction for them a long time ago.

"Alright, Young Master Dali." After bringing Hong Dali and the rest in, Yang Chao smiled and said, "You're a guest today since you've come from afar. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether I engage in betting today, so I'll be the guide, how's that?"

"That will be great." Hong Dali grinned and nodded. "Thank you."

"En." Yang Chao instantly started to introduce. "All these jades today are open to bids, meaning that you can directly buy them on the spot. Afterward, you can use the tools on the stalls set up there to dissect the rocks, and if what is dissected turns out to be a top grade green jade, then it's a gain, otherwise, it's a loss."

Though Yang Chao did not run a jade business, he'd dabbled in these things frequently. It was just that he lost most of the time, which really made him suffer quite a bit of loss.

Fortunately, his family was wealthy, so he didn't care about that bit of money as he only looked for the thrill in it.

After knowing about Hong Dali's achievements—especially after that episode of the Perfect Plan program on the television after Hong Dali had made Li Nianwei famous—after he'd watched it, he had treated that sentence said by Hong Dali, "I only wanted to squander" as a classic.

Unfortunately, he couldn't learn even ten percent of Hong Dali's skillful way of squandering.

Now that he'd finally run into him today, he naturally had to properly learn from him. Thus, he became the guide for Hong Dali without hesitation and properly displayed the knowledge he had accumulated over the years.

"Oh, is that so." Hong Dali nodded. "That's good, that's good."

"Young Master Dali." Yang Chao spoke as he led the way for Hong Dali. "There are both high-value and low-value stones here. However, I reckon that with Young Master Dali's generosity, you'd definitely take those that are of the best quality. This is the most exciting part too—one single cut will decide whether it's a complete loss without returns or striking rich overnight. It's all dependent on luck."

He knew that Hong Dali was lucky, so he would, of course, encourage Hong Dali to play the most exciting one.

However, to his surprise, Hong Dali touched his chin and instead shook his head and said, "Squandering takes skills, we'd better test waters first. Are there any of them that costs a few hundred yuan? A few thousand yuan will do as well."

"Few... few hundred?" Yang Chao was stunned upon hearing that.

This feeling was as unbelievable as a few billionaires coming to gather and playing mahjong while betting a few yuan at one time. "Young Master Dali, are you sure you didn't mean a million?"

Chapter 259: Brother Dali's Small Spending

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

You're such a high profile person and yet, when you're in here, you only play with hundreds and thousands of yuan... People would laugh to death if they heard about this...

"Ah, it's testing waters." Hong Dali didn't care at all. He was never concerned with matters about pride. "I'm here just to play casually."

"Alright." The more Hong Dali said this, the more curious Yang Chao was. This Hong Dali had always called himself a superprodigal who said that "Squandering is a skill." He must have his reasons by doing so. He'd better learn from him properly today and see whether it was true.

Betting on stones was actually the same as gambling, which would result in losses most of the time. Though there were abundant untrimmed jade quarry stones here, it was already considered good to have a jade within one in ten ores. Thus, the more Yang Chao saw Hong Dali behaving like that, the more cautious he became.

Can squandering really be a skill? Yang Chao thought, and soon after, he recovered from his thoughts. "This stone-gambling scene has always spread optimistic news—we often hear people striking it rich overnight—but actually, the people who suffer losses are the vast majority. I have experienced it a great deal myself. Seems like Young Master Dali is indeed a genius among all prodigals!"

Meanwhile, what Hong Dali was thinking was: I can't buy it big. Otherwise, if I really happen to be spot on in my betting, my little stick would be gone instantly!

With such a group of people entering the place, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.

Truthfully speaking, those that could come here were all interested in stone-gambling. But such a spectacle of a huge group of people entering while surrounding a single person was something they truly had never seen before. Thus, everyone was curious about the identity of this young man who was obviously the leader. Of course, the shrewd ones had long ago recognized that this fellow was that famous superprodigal of Tianjing City, that person with exceeding luck. Thus, more and more people crowded around and, very soon, everyone was following Hong Dali. After which, they entered the cheapest studio in the way...

"It can't be. That's Hong Dali, the superprodigal, could he be planning to buy the cheapest untrimmed quarry stones?"

"By right, it's impossible that he would spend so little in this. This is a little strange."

"Stop going on and on about it, who isn't jealous about that luck of his, there'll definitely be a good show coming up today."

"En, that's right, we'll just watch and see. Don't talk useless nonsense."

Hong Dali stared at the studio ahead of him. There were numerous jade ores displayed on the stalls, and they were all quarries the size of a fist. With a few hundred ores piled up, the scene was rather grand.

"Five hundred yuan for one piece?" Hong Dali pointed at the quarry inside. "Brother Yang, can we directly buy this thing?"

"Yes." Yang Chao nodded. "It's an open bid today, meaning that you can freely choose an untrimmed quarry stone that isn't numbered, and bid for it openly. There's still a closed bid, which is numbering the untrimmed jade quarry stones, and after the customers have seen them, they will fill in the bidding form, and lastly, when the quotation is opened, they will auction for it at once, and the highest bidder gets it. However, all the untrimmed quarry stones over here are of the lowest quality which nobody would normally bid for. Thus, they will directly put a price to it, and you can buy it directly if you want to and cut it open for fun."

"That's good, that's good." Hong Dali beamed with delight as he heard that. "I like this, I'll use ten yuan to cut it open for fun first."

"This..." Speaking of which, Yang Chao had idled around here for such a long time but never bought an untrimmed quarry stone of such quality. However, since he'd come here with Young Master Dali today, in order to learn the unique squandering skill, he went all out. "In that case, Young Master Dali, please cut it open first. A professional will record it down."

After the people surrounding him heard that Hong Dali was going to cut open this crushed particle of almost no use at all, they were instantly astonished.

They were not stunned at the huge spending of Hong Dali, but instead, this amount spent was really...

Isn't it embarrassing for someone of your status to play this low? How would others see it? How will you survive in the future in the literary and artistic industry?

Afterward, they came to understand what it meant by the moment to witness a miracle...

How was it possible that Hong Dali knew how to cut this thing open? He was only responsible for buying it.

Eventually, someone who was a professional at cutting stones came over to help. After Hong Dali casually asked his lackeys to bring tens of untrimmed quarry stones over as if he were buying fruits in the market, they started to cut the stones.

Pa! One cut. The first quarry stone... junk!

Yang Chao: "..." Su Yan: "..." Lao Deming: "..." The rest: "..."

Wasn't Hong Dali known to have exceeding luck?! How could it be junk? This wasn't logical!

Tang Muxin was unsurprised and completely unconcerned, on the other hand—she believed in Hong Dali's luck and definitely did not have the slightest doubt about it. Thus, she grinned as she hugged Li Nianwei's arm, softly smiled and said, "Sister Nianwei, seems like we'll be gaining quite a lot today. Normally, the worse Hong Dali's luck is at the start, the greater it'll rebound later!"

The little lass still remembered how Hong Dali had dramatically turned the tables around during the family meeting...

By then, the professional cutting the stones had already started on the second stone. It was junk once again...

Yang Chao: "..." Su Yan: "..." Lao Deming: "..." The rest: "..."

The third piece, it was still junk...

"Yang Chao: "..." Su Yan: "..." Lao Deming: "..." The rest: "..."

When they'd reach the fourth piece, Yang Chao couldn't stand it anymore and asked his mate in a low voice. "Young Master Dali's luck shouldn't be like that, I feel that he's not much better than us..."

His mate thought for a while, then said with certainty, "What the heck, those untrimmed quarry stones definitely didn't have any jade stones inside in the first place. Have you seen people getting jade stones out of the untrimmed quarry stones over here before?"

"En..." Yang Chao thought for a while, then nodded his head with absolute certainty. "This must be the case! I knew it, it's impossible for Young Master Dali's luck to be so bad. The stones here definitely don't have any jade in them!"

As expected, the fifth, six, and seven pieces were all junks as well.

By then, even the stone cutter's hands had started to tremble...

To speak the truth, this stone cutter had worked here for many years, and he'd cut at least nine to ten thousand untrimmed quarry stones. Most of it had turned out to be pieces of jades with mediocre quality. In stone-gambling, whatever was cut open was it, and nobody could blame it on him.

The problem was that this person that he served today was different. That was Young Master Dali, definitely the number one in the world of luck. If junk was produced at every cut, people would definitely suspect that this place was scamming people. Though he wouldn't be implicated, that boss of his would definitely be beaten to death. Even if he was half dead after being beaten up, his boss might vent his anger on him...

As expected, the eighth, ninth, and tenth pieces were also junks. Just then, another person who was sweating profusely appeared beside the stone cutter. As expected, it was the boss of this studio who had rushed over upon hearing news about what was going on.

By then, ten pieces of quarries had been cut, and they were all junks. The crowd below had begun to make noise—

"Boss, are you sure that you're doing it right? This is Young Master Dali, you should have heard of his luck before, right? If even he cannot extract the jades out, you owe us all an explanation, right? En?"

"That's right. I say, boss, the untrimmed quarry stones here are indeed not expensive, but you can't just use some random stones to trick people. Do you think we're all fools that can just be played around like that?"

"If even Young Master Dali cannot extract jade from these untrimmed quarry stones, we don't even need to think about it anymore. Quickly tell us what's going on."

The boss' entire body was almost soaked with sweat. What he feared most was to anger the public. By then, once one person took the lead, he'd be beaten till he was half dead! Thus, he hurriedly explained. "Everyone, these untrimmed quarry stones of mine are really authentic, I'll definitely not use junks to trick people! As for why these untrimmed quarry stones did not produce jades, I don't know as well..."

What he said was akin to not saying anything at all. Everyone was instantly unhappy with him.

Fortunately, at this point, Hong Dali spoke. "Boss, give me 10 more pieces!"

Small ancestor, please don't harm my business. Find another one, will you...

The boss almost cried. "Oh, Young Master Dali, I'm setting up my stalls here only to let people have a feel about how it works and practice their cutting skills. Your status doesn't match mine. There, over there are pieces of stones all at 1000 yuan each! Go and take a look there!"

"Oh..." Hong Dali was about to turn his head around when the boss over there couldn't stand it anymore. "What are you talking about? You're planning to drag me into this, aren't you? Why don't we practice it between us?"

After all, the person who charged 1000 yuan per piece was more confident than the person who charged 500 yuan per piece. This boss who charged 500 yuan per piece instantly got scared and anxiously said with beads of perspiration on his head, "Then open mine, open mine!"

"Oh." Hong Dali directly got another batch of stones. "Then, I'll buy 20 pieces first."

The boss almost got down on his knees...

The eleventh piece, junk. The twelfth piece, junk. The thirteenth piece, junk again...

By then, everyone around had gotten rather angry, and a few hot-tempered ones already wanted to come forward and beat someone up.

Speaking of which, these untrimmed quarry stones were not worth much. People could buy over 100 pieces without even batting an eyelid. The problem was that you couldn't take a huge bunch of junks that couldn't extract even one piece of jade to trick people, right?

The boss was on the verge of crying. "Young Master Dali, please take it easy..."

Hong Dali: "Oh, I'll buy more, then. If there still isn't a jade from this batch, then I'll buy 50 more pieces."

The boss froze. Anyway, he definitely did not become like that because he was too happy.

By then, there was an increasing commotion among the crowd, and the boss was close to hanging himself to death. Alas, the stone cutter suddenly shouted as if he'd gone insane. "It's here! It's here, it's here, it's here, it's here!" Those that didn't know what it was about would've thought that his wife was pregnant...

"What, what! Let me see, let me see!" Yang Chao was the first to rush forward, and he was stunned after taking only one look at it. "What the heck! It's a hibiscus! A hibiscus!"

Fortunately, it wasn't a lotus sister(a woman who had gotten famous on the internet)... Hong Dali strangely asked, "What's a hibiscus?"

Yang Chao hurriedly explained. "The hibiscus type of jade is typically green, not yellowish at all. It's very simple and elegant, and there isn't an obvious edge of the fiber and particles. Though it isn't very transparent, it's mild and elegant, with a refined type of beauty. Just this piece alone is worth a lot!"

"What type..." Hong Dali was entirely unclear. "This type is very valuable?"

"Yes!" Yang Chao explained. "At present, there are 50 types of jade that are commonly found.

"The glass type of jade has the highest level of transparency, with the most luster. From the words alone, it's as transparent as glass, and the glass types can be said to be own title of highest quality jade of all. Of course, there are many types of glass jades.

"The ice type, its transparency and luster are a little lacking compared to the glass type. As seen from its name, it's as transparent as ice.

"Youqing, it refers to a darker green type. Its color is not purely green, it has a little grey or blue mixed within. Thus, it's not bright enough, and the top grade sapphire costs over tens of thousands.

"Bingnuo, its texture is between transparent and non-transparent, just like fully cooked glutinous rice.

"Huaqing, it refers to the type which the green color is spread out in the shape of veins. Its color can be light green or other, and its texture can be rough or smooth.

"I won't list out the rest of them." Yang Chao smiled and said, "If we encounter more of them, I'll explain them further to you."

"Oh..." Hong Dali did not remember anything, and currently, he was holding the hibiscus jade that had just been extracted. "This thing is not bad..."

Of course, it was not bad. Just then, the System in his head had clearly displayed the attribute of this piece of hibiscus ore: "Agility+2".

Needless to say, if this thing were to be made into jewelry, he would gain two more agility attribute points!

Chapter 260: 10 Million, to Round It UpTranslator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Actually, two agility attribute points were not much, but neither was it little.

Had it been added to an ordinary person, two points would make almost no impact, and there won't be much difference. Even if it were 20 points, there wouldn't be a significant change as well.

However, if it were added to an athlete...

That would have a completely different significance to it, and the world record would definitely be broken again.

Of course, Hong Dali was totally not thinking about that. Of course, a sports competition would require real ability to be put to use, and relying on this to cheat would be too careless—there would be a greater possibility that this would not have any effect on an athlete who had reached the limits of the human body.

Meanwhile, what Hong Dali was thinking about was another aspect—the health attribute.

In the midst of this gemstone refinery mission, the System had stated clearly that there was a choice of "health," and what he wanted the most was this "health" attribute.

It was definitely the best present he could give to his loved ones, right?!

There was something else that Hong Dali was even more happy about—the System didn't increase the monetary amount further though he'd won in this stone-gambling!

This was extremely important. What Hong Dali feared most was that the System would increase the necessary Squandering Value after he'd won. If that were the case, it could easily deduct numerous attribute points—after his health points had been deducted completely, what difference would that make from him being dead?

However, he had to study properly into why there was no money counted for stone-gambling. After winning the lottery, the Current Squandering Value was directly deducted. Meanwhile, this stone-gambling... Upon thinking till this point, a stone vendor loudly shouted, "Young Master Dali, can you sell me this piece of jade?"

"Oh." Hong Dali thought for a while. "I'm not selling it, I'll give it away!" That stone vendor went away crying his heart out...

The key reason why he didn't sell it was that Hong Dali understood why the stone-gambling did not result in any money counted!

After the lottery had been bought, there was directly the Current Squandering Value shown. However, stone-gambling was different—as long as he didn't sell the stone that he had gotten from betting, it wouldn't be worth a single cent, and this thing would not have a definite value on its own.

Now I have nothing to worry about, there won't be an issue as long as I don't sell it. Then, what am I waiting for?!

Thus, Hong Dali no longer had the slightest interest in those 500 yuan untrimmed quarry stones. He didn't even take a look at the remaining ones as he directly said, "It's about enough, throw away the remaining ones."

This was the number one prodigal of Tianjing City—when he said he wanted to go to another place, the crowd surrounding him was instantly curious.

Everyone knew that Hong Dali had always been generous with his spending. Yang Chao, by now, was already curious to the max. He anxiously said as he walked, "How much is Young Master Dali planning to bet on this time? It's all open bidding today. I believe that as long as Young Master Dali likes it, nobody would fight for it with you!"

"Oh, I'll place a bigger bet." Hong Dali snapped his fingers. "High-quality."

Where were these high-quality stones mentioned by Young Master?

50,000 yuan a piece? That's spare change! It has to be at least 100,000 yuan and above, without any discount! You need to understand Young Master Dali's style—not necessarily the best, but it must be the most expensive one!

Thus, without further ado, Yang Chao brought Hong Dali to the front of the most expensive studio.

The stones here were 100,000 yuan and above, and the expensive ones were even close to a million!

One piece of untrimmed quarry stone for one million yuan, this was definitely big spending.

Currently, in this studio, there were a few people holding their cameras and continuously taking pictures of the few pieces of untrimmed quarry stones, and the rest were writing and drawing.

Hong Dali felt strange by seeing this, what were those people idling around there for? What were they doing by only looking and not buying?

"Brother Yang, what are they up to?" Hong Dali pointed to a bespectacled middle-aged man of around 50 years old who was wearing round traditional spectacles, with a retro side parting hairstyle, and had a little bit of mustache on his upper lip, and asked, "These are all reporters who have come to gather news?"

"This..." Yang Chao was rather amused as he shook his head. "That's not the case. These people are stone-gambling lovers, and they would normally pick the best few pieces of stones when they come. However, of course, ordinary people wouldn't be able to bet on all the stones, so they're planning to bring pictures of the stones back to at least get the satisfaction of looking at them. Of course, there are many people here that can afford to bet, but it's just that they are more rational and are unwilling to bet their assets on it, so they're here just for the fun of it."

"Oh, I see." Hong Dali touched his chin and looked at a few pieces of untrimmed quarry stones in the studio.

By then, everyone around had started their own discussions. "Hey, dude, how many stones do you think this Young Master Dali will buy?" "I'm guessing 70 to 80 pieces. The quality of the stones here are much better than that side, as long as one gemstone is extracted from it, that's a windfall for him." "70 or 80 pieces, even if it's 200,000 yuan per piece, it'd require at least 1.5 million and above. Would this Young Master Dali really spend so much? He doesn't even know how to bet on stones!" "Tsk, Young Master Dali is famous for being generous, how would he be mindful of a million yuan or so? Just wait and see!" "That's true, haha!"

While those people were having discussions below, Hong Dali instead felt that these stones were very fun to play with.

The biggest of the few untrimmed quarry stones before him, which were placed in the middle, had to weight at least a hundred kilograms. More than ten pieces of untrimmed quarry stones of different sizes surrounded it, and it was as if an emperor had brought his entourage along with him for a trip. Of course, it was also not wrong to say that it was like a city with an uneven structure. Anyway, its exterior was rather unique.

Just then, that middle-aged man wearing a pair of round and old-fashioned glasses with a little mustache went to take a few more pictures, and soon after, when he spotted one of the stones, he started to stroke his chin.

His target was one of the pieces of untrimmed quarry stones that looked like it weighed about tens of kilograms, and the bidding price was 580,000 yuan.

580,000 yuan, it was truly not a small amount. Thus, he hesitated.

However, why would Hong Dali care about him? He looked around again and asked Ling Xiaoyi, "Sister Xiaoyi, how much do these untrimmed quarry stones in front of me cost in total?"

"All these?" Ling Xiaoyi did a rough calculation. "Young Master, it's a total of 5.6 million."

"Oh..." Hong Dali oh-ed for a while, then asked Yang Chao again, "Brother Yang, are there still untrimmed quarry stones of better quality here? Or there's only these?"

Yang Chao glanced around and pointed to somewhere. "There's still some more over there, they total up to about 4 million yuan and above. Why, Young Master Dali, are you planning to play it big?"

Upon hearing their conversation, the onlookers began to listen intently.

What did he mean by asking about how much they cost in total?

Soon after, they understood what that meant very quickly. Hong Dali didn't even look carefully and instantly smiled and said, "Then, get 10 million yuan worth of these, to round it up."

*Kacha... *

Kacha...

There were sounds of hearts breaking all around the area, and numerous onlookers clasped their chests and exclaimed. "Aiyo, my heart... Does this Young Master Dali even know how to bet on stones? Who plays as he does, this is not like buying vegetables on the market!" "He offered 10 million without even looking at them... I concede, I really concede, he really lives up to his fame as a prodigal..." "We've never spent so much though we've been here for so many years, right? 10 million spent at one go, and it's to round the number up..."

It really had been an eye-opener for them today—If you're spending 100 yuan which was rounded up from tens of yuan worth of stones, that was still fine. However, it was definitely the first time these people heard of someone who rounded up the amount this way...

580,000 rounded up to 10 million...

However, Tang Muxin and the rest who had often followed Hong Dali around thought that it was rather normal. Regarding Hong Dali's amount of spending, that normally was as big as it could be!

Just then, the director of Penghui Films, Lao Deming, who had faithfully followed and carefully tended to Hong Dali, was so shocked that his heart almost leaped out. "Ten million spent just like that. Oh god, it's enough to film a blockbuster movie already..."

"Young Master Dali," Yang Chao was now truly full of admiration towards Hong Dali. "You're really planning to buy them all to cut open?"

"Ah," Hong Dali said as a matter of fact. "I'm buying and cutting them open for fun."

Ten million to buy untrimmed quarry stones to cut them open for fun...

Yang Chao felt that the amount of information today was a bit too much.

After all, he could be counted as one of the top few aristocratic young masters in Beijin city. His Yang family had a huge wealth of a few billion in assets in total, but it was already very impressive of him to splurge about a million to have some fun here. Now that he compared himself with Hong Dali—forget it, he'd only be left with tears by saying more. It was truly child's play, people truly couldn't be compared against each other...

By then, Ling Xiaoyi had already gone to make the necessary arrangements. The eyes of that middle-aged man who had been taking pictures previously immediately lit up upon him hearing that Hong Dali wanted to buy all the stones. Upon a few more careful glances, he instantly went to stand behind Hong Dali and said in a small voice, "It's Young Master Dali? Which piece of untrimmed quarry stone have you taken a fancy to?"

"You know me?" Hong Dali strangely asked, "We've seen each other before?"

"Ah, hehe, it could be said so. I've seen you on television," The middle-aged man grinned as he said, "I've come here not because I had nothing better to do. Actually, I'm a stone-gambling lover too, and I just came to see whether something good will be extracted from that piece of untrimmed quarry stone that I fancy."

"Oh, is that so." Hong Dali indifferently said, "I'm cutting it open for fun. If there's something good inside, I'll give it away."

Everyone collapsed on the spot.

Round up the cost to ten million to cut the stones open for fun, if there's something good he'll directly give it away...

Even if one could not compare himself with others, you can't undermine their confidence, alright!

By then, Xiaoyi had already handled all the necessary procedures, and now these few pieces of untrimmed quarry stones belonged to Hong Dali. Hong Dali grinned as he said, "It's all done? Then let's cut them open and see, what if there's something good, heh heh."

Everyone rolled their eyes in unison: "Are you cutting open a watermelon, to 'cut them open and see...'

The stonecutter instantly came over. By then, his palms were soaked with cold sweat as well. Such big spending by this Young Master Dali gave him huge stress.

This was a big scene, and this batch of stones was all of good quality and came in huge sizes. Just this piece in front of him alone was already worth 420,000 yuan. If a top-grade jade was really extracted from it, it would increase in value by over ten folds—that would be five to six million yuan.

"I'm really cutting it now!" Since things have come to this point, the stonecutter braced himself for it. What the heck, I've done this for so many years, but why does my heart still beat so rapidly when I'm just cutting a stone? I really regress the more I live.

"Cut it." Hong Dali was not worried at all. "Do it fast!"

The stonecutter instantly trembled a little. Dude, I'm afraid you're the only one capable of speaking about cutting stones as if it was chopping someone's head off...

After he'd put the untrimmed quarry stone under a stone-cutting machine beside him, the stonecutter wiped his sweat off and said to Hong Dali, "Young Master Dali, I'm really cutting it now!"

"En, yes, get started." Hong Dali was getting a little impatient. "Hurry up, there's still so many over there..."

After he finished speaking, the crowd which was initially very noisy instantly become silent. Everyone held their breaths, with their pairs of eyes staring intently at the piece of untrimmed quarry stone under the stone-cutting machine.

Young Master Dali's luck has always been great, what exactly will be extracted from this piece of untrimmed quarry stone?