What the hell.
Are you kidding me?
This must be some spam text message from an online scam!
Meng Hao fumbled, trying to snatch his phone from the basin of water... but the more anxious he became, the clumsier he got.
The phone, usually so manageable, turned into a loach in a muddy pool.
Incredibly slippery.
After finally getting his hands on the phone,
It had taken on too much water.
It had frozen.
Panicked, Meng Hao, disregarding the shampoo foam still on his head, casually grabbed a towel to cover himself and rushed to the computer.
Boot up.
Log in to the bank website.
Enter personal information and password.
Driven by money, his actions were fluid and practiced.
Sure enough.
One hundred million US dollars lay in the account, provocatively staring him in the eye.
Gulp.
Meng Hao remained stiffly in front of the computer for a full thirty seconds.
He didn't even realize the towel had slipped from his lower body.
He remembered the mysterious message from the buyer on Taowang platform earlier.
Could it be...
That it wasn't a prank?!
Damn it.
This 100 million US dollars... converted to Great Xia currency, that's 700 million... it's a bit hot to handle.
Could the other party be some international mafia organization?!
If he couldn't fulfill their request, they might dismember him alive!
Even if he fulfilled their demand, after delivery, they might double-cross him, kill him, and steal the money!
The more Meng Hao thought about it, the colder he became.
Just as he was about to find the buyer, clarify things, and return the money,
The system's virtual interface reappeared on Meng Hao's retinas.
[Congratulations to the host. Sold 10 mechs, 3000*10, a total of 30,000 Tech Points have been issued.]
[Friendly reminder: Completed tasks are irreversible and cannot be reset. Otherwise, it will be considered a failed task, and the host will be erased.]
Uh!
Meng Hao's hand, about to tap the keyboard, stopped.
Damn it.
Human greed knows no bounds!
Greed is the original sin of mankind!
He was digging his own grave!
In order to get the reward of 30,000 Tech Points, he was about to put himself in danger!
Things had come to this.
Meng Hao could only brace himself and push forward.
Otherwise, he wasn't sure if the imaginary international mafia organization would kill him, but this heartless system definitely would!
...
Fortunately, the other party didn't demand a specific delivery time, which allowed him to plan.
Mechs weren't that difficult to build.
He could teleport back to the desert base to develop and manufacture them.
However, the other party requested the addition of aerial assault equipment.
And he had boasted about adding F-35s!
Seriously.
That's the US's top fifth-generation fighter jet.
Meng Hao wished he could slap himself hard.
What a big mouth.
What a reckless promise.
He was practically inviting death.
Furthermore.
He also needed to establish a toy company in the Stone Forest.
Otherwise, if outsiders or the public questioned where Meng Hao got these "toy mechs," his desert base and military industrial system would surely be exposed.
However.
With 100 million US dollars... equivalent to 700 million Great Xia currency in hand.
Establishing a company and purchasing factory space shouldn't be a problem.
The key was how to solve the F-35 issue.
As the saying goes, many hands make light work; pooling wisdom is the correct way to solve problems.
Thus, Meng Hao made a breathtaking decision.
He skillfully opened his browser, typed a long string of characters, and navigated to a comprehensive website called "Little Broken Station."
...
Little Broken Station.
The most popular comprehensive website among Great Xia's youth... bar none.
This website, representing a new generation of youth culture.
It integrated modern entertainment methods such as watching dramas and anime, Bilibili-style videos, forum chats, and live streaming.
As a veteran user of Little Broken Station.
Meng Hao planned to seek help from the big shots in the forum section.
Based on Meng Hao's years of experience on Little Broken Station.
These talented individuals, who spoke well, knew everything under the sun, and could even hand-craft nuclear bombs, would surely provide a perfect solution.
Indeed.
To go to Little Broken Station to seek a solution on how to equip a mech with rapid assault capabilities, Meng Hao could be considered a "talent" without precedent.
He posted a thread.
[Help! How to provide mechs with a remote assault mode?]
Five minutes passed.
Ten minutes passed.
Half an hour passed.
Little Broken Station lived up to its reputation as a website with massive traffic.
In just over half an hour, a regular post had garnered thousands of views... with zero replies.
After all.
Asking how to equip a mech with a remote assault module was a question that only someone with severe brain damage from 800 years of strokes would come up with.
Seeing no replies,
Meng Hao scratched his head.
He assumed his description wasn't detailed enough.
He continued to describe the problem in detail and bumped the thread again.
[Mech, height 11 meters, composite metal body, driven by lithium batteries, with a battery life of just over four hours...]
[The mech has multiple external ports reserved, and space is reserved in the core control code for insertion...]
[The mech has poor endurance. Please provide solutions, esteemed experts...]
It was already 11 PM.
The post's readership had surged to nearly two thousand.
Still no replies.
It was likely that any user who clicked on this post again had only one thought in their mind.
This guy is definitely a long-term stroke patient, confirmed.
Meng Hao became anxious.
He suddenly remembered another function in Little Broken Station's forum section.
Paid assistance.
This was a feature present on multiple social media platforms like Zhihu and Weibo.
The platform provided a free bounty reward system.
The person seeking help would pre-deposit the reward amount into the platform account.
After confirming the reward amount, the platform would freeze the pre-deposited funds and, backed by the platform's credibility, would push the query to a wider range of users based on the bounty amount.
Once the problem was solved, the bounty would be awarded to one or more selected answerers chosen by the person seeking help.
However, the amounts for these paid consultations were mostly small.
Basically, a few or tens of Great Xia coins. A bounty of a hundred was already rare, and a bounty of a thousand was almost unheard of.
Having decided to use the bounty reward, paid question method to seek help, Meng Hao did not hesitate to edit the post again.
The question and details remained unchanged.
Regarding the bounty amount, Meng Hao unceremoniously pulled the figure to the maximum.
Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine yuan and ninety-nine cents.
Clearly.
It wasn't that Meng Hao was reluctant to spend one more cent to reach one million.
It was simply that the platform administrators of Little Broken Station would never have imagined anyone posting a bounty request exceeding 10,000 yuan, so they set the maximum bounty amount at 999,999.99 yuan.
However, to Meng Hao.
A mere million Great Xia coins.
Compared to the 700 million in his account, it was insignificant.
As long as his problem could be solved.
Even adding another 9, or two 9s, wouldn't be an issue.