CHAPTER 516: CHAPTER 196: UNLEASHING TALENT, TIME THIEF_2

In short, Ren Zhong’s video set the internet ablaze,

Even though the VIP viewing price was as high as 100 points, it still received up to a million paid views on the first day.

After deducting the platform’s share, he earned as much as fifty million points in just one day.

Based on past patterns, this level of viral hit could ultimately bring him a total long-term revenue of nearly three hundred million.

Ren Zhong learned again and reflected on what he lacked in the past timeline.

Even though he considered problems comprehensively, he usually had to concentrate to analyze, deduce, and summarize.

His thinking was born in the 21st century, causing him to subconsciously overlook how terrifying the traffic economy of the internet age was.

But you can’t really blame him for that.

Last time he killed the Demon Infant on the 82nd day, he had already liquidated Starship Manufacturing, holding over three billion, with no place to spend it, causing him to temporarily lose his desire for money.

This time, by resolving the Demon Infant ten days earlier, most of his funds were still in Starship Manufacturing.

In the past few days, Ren Zhong first spent thirty million to complete the modification of the Fourth Level exoskeleton, then shelled out twenty million from his own pocket to develop Starfire Town, and finally another thirty million to solve the Demon Infant, resulting in such massive spending that it drained his liquid capital dry, forcing him to utilize his Second Level Citizen privileges to secure a mortgage credit consumption loan from Liao Yuan County branch.

Apart from the company’s four billion mortgage loan, his personal debt peaked at fifty million.

He was short of money.

Ren Zhong also pondered that the manipulation of Starship Manufacturing might be his last chance for stock market wealth before his citizen level further increased, so he had the idea of becoming a video creator.

It could earn money and build his reputation, killing two birds with one stone.

Reputation, he realized after reassessment and reflection, was the third layer of disguise he could rely on besides wealth and citizen level.

The more he exposed himself to the sunlight, the less likely those "nets" searching for dark corners controlled by the Association’s special departments would target him.

I have no secrets, so why pry?

By evening, the Tanggu Group again instructed the resource recycling company’s general manager in Liao Yuan County to contact him.

As expected, the talks fell apart again.

The other party still had the attitude of having secured Ren Zhong, not realizing that he had already instructed Zheng Tian to lead the team to gather massive amounts of slug-type Ruined Beasts around Starfire Town, especially the Gold Juice Slug, to ensure none were missed.

Fourth Level Professionals like Jiang Kai were dispatched to the abandoned mines to collect several other types of Ruined Beasts.

Shi Xuan and Ying in the Qi Mountain wasteland tribe likewise received his command to search in Aluminum Prison Gully for over a dozen other types of Ruined Beasts specifically.

According to Sun Miao’s formula, the tissue fluid in the Gold Juice Slug’s remains was the core raw material for preparing Crystal Chip Protective Liquid.

The tissue components of the remaining near twenty types of Ruined Beasts were not needed in large quantities but had to be all-inclusive in variety.

Fortunately, though the total amount of Ruined Beasts around Starfire Town was not large, they were abundant in species variety.

It just so happened that Ren, in his "youth," had no other hobbies but enjoyed memorizing the distribution points of Ruined Beasts, allowing him to "visit" them at night and seek fortune while avoiding disasters.

Now he no longer needed to be the Dark Night Demon King, but the knowledge he accumulated back then was still proving useful today.

At the time Sun Miao just finished articulating the ingredient configuration plan for the Protective Liquid, Ren Zhong quickly counted on his fingers and laughed immediately, realizing Starfire Town had everything.

By the latest, the day after tomorrow, Ren Zhong could use the existing company equipment to prepare a solution sufficient to hold the Demon Infant Crystal Core.

That night, Ren Zhong received more good news.

Shi Xuan informed Ren Zhong that he had already contacted the hacker and Information Flow Shield Master who had initially helped him with his identity concealment matters.

Back then, he had spent ten million points to secure the help of these two.

Now, twelve years later, these two had long since retired, with both their citizen and professional levels improved. To get them back in action, ten million points would certainly not be enough.

Initially, these two were not interested in dealing with Shi Xuan again, eager to draw a clear boundary.

In the afternoon, Shi Xuan told them that the person looking to deal with them was a newly rich individual with a wealth of at least five billion, prompting them to change their tune, mentioning they might have free time soon and were considering a trip to Liao Yuan County, and would contact him once their schedule was decided.

When Ren Zhong’s video gained traction on the internet, these two found out from an unknown source, matching the information provided by Shi Xuan with the suddenly popular "War God challenging two levels up" online.