After bribing Li Nannan, Jiang Ye threw himself onto the bed to sleep.
Having slept only a few hours over two days and two nights, he was utterly exhausted. He slept as if the world had ended.
He slept from afternoon to night, and then from night to morning.
At noon the next day, a cold hand touched his face, pinching his cheeks back and forth, waking him up.
He opened his eyes to see a fair face hanging over him, its blonde hair so light it fell and blocked the sunlight from the window.
Isabelle pouted. "You sleep like a corpse, you don't move no matter how much I poke you."
Jiang Ye yawned, rolling over like a lazy pig. "I'm done sleeping, I'm done sleeping. I'll get up now."
His eyes suddenly fixed. A pair of shapely long legs rested on the edge of the bed, his thighs plump and his calves graceful, his round, perky buttocks half-covered by black briefs. Isabelle was only wearing a top.
Swallowing, Jiang Ye tentatively reached out and placed his hand on her thigh, which was in front of his eyes.
"So smooth," he said.
Isabelle smiled, her face flushing. "You really are a scoundrel. It's good you're not dead. I'm going to make a delivery, there's a rotorcraft to send."
Jiang Ye sat up, his hand still on her thigh, and asked in surprise, "Has someone on this planet bought a rotorcraft?"
"Yes, and not just one," Isabelle nodded.
"Damn it," Jiang Ye muttered. He remembered what the Cao County citizen had said earlier, that some people had been lucky enough to find the remains of the water jellyfish and made a lot of money. These must be those nouveau riche buying them.
"Why are you angry? Their rank is much lower than yours, they won't catch up anytime soon. Besides, I'm delivering a large item for them, and you'll get a thousand yuan commission," Isabelle got up and took Jiang Ye's hand off her thigh.
"Speaking of commission, how much money is the express center contributing to me daily now?" Jiang Ye asked.
"Yesterday it was 983,300 yuan, and the day before it was 961,900 yuan," Isabelle said precisely, clearly having paid close attention.
"A million a day, nearly thirty million a month. That's a good earning speed! Seventy million for the express center, wouldn't that mean it's paid for in just over two months?" Jiang Ye said.
"That's right, would I lie to you? Didn't I tell you back then that this express center was a great opportunity?" Isabelle said proudly.
"But there's one thing I don't understand, where does this money come from?" Jiang Ye asked.
"Didn't I explain it to you?"
"You didn't explain it clearly."
"Then I'll explain it to you again," Isabelle sighed.
"Items in the Galaxy Mall are sent from their source locations to major express stations via instantaneous transmission technology, and then from the major express stations to minor express stations, until they are finally delivered into the buyer's transaction vault."
"And instantaneous transmission technology has a characteristic: transmission mileage and transmission cost increase in a parabolic manner."
"For example, to transmit one kilometer, the cost is 1 cent. For two kilometers, the cost is 4 cents. For three kilometers, the cost is 9 cents."
Jiang Ye quickly recalled his middle school math textbooks. Fortunately, his foundation was solid, and the parabolic curve instantly appeared in his mind.
Isabelle paused and continued her explanation:
"Originally, the express center on this planet was in space, and its distance to the various colonial administrators was 3. So, the cost of transmitting from the express center to the transaction vault was 9 cents."
"Now, you have funded a new express center. This express center is at a distance of 1 from the colonial administrators, and at a distance of 2 from the original express center. The total distance is still 3. However, the goods first arrive at your express center and are then sent to the colonial administrators' transaction vaults, reducing the cost to 1 cent plus 4 cents, which is 5 cents."
"So the cost is reduced, and a portion of the saved money is given to you," Isabelle finished, pushed open the door, and said, "I'm not wasting any more time with you, I'm busy."
Jiang Ye nodded, suddenly enlightened.
Then, thinking of something, he suddenly stood up and opened the window, sticking his head out.
"Remember to put on your pants before you go deliver!" he shouted.
Isabelle froze, then laughed and cried, turning back and giving him the middle finger. "How could I forget something like that?"
Jiang Ye closed the window, stretched, and went downstairs to the first floor of the base vehicle. He opened the base panel.
He first focused on checking his earnings from the previous day.
Cao County citizen transferred 601,000 yuan.
The 200 poultry farmers transferred a total of 990,000 yuan.
The long-legged, fair-skinned one brought in especially a lot, reaching 1.06 million. It was worth Jiang Ye investing 4.4 million yuan and sending her two clothing printers.
Including the commission from the express center, 983,300 yuan.
The total came to an astonishing 3,634,300 yuan!
Just by lying down and sleeping, he earned over 3.6 million yuan in a day!
Originally, when Jiang Ye heard that someone had bought a rotorcraft, his heart had skipped a beat. He thought, "The common folk are going to rise up, it'll be harder to handle them later."
Now, seeing his own income, he suddenly felt at ease.
He could truly win while lying down!
His personal account balance had indeed risen from 75,425,000 yuan before he slept to a staggering 79,059,300 yuan.
Nearly eighty million!
Jiang Ye decided to spend some money to upgrade himself. He still needed to maintain the level difference.
He clicked on "Base Upgrade."
He clicked "Confirm!"
After spending 20 million yuan on the upgrade, his account balance was 59,059,300 yuan.
Prompts gradually appeared on the base panel:
"Congratulations! Your base level has been upgraded to Level 18!"
"New items added in this upgrade:"
"Base vehicle has a new air purification system. The air inside the vehicle will automatically filter out toxic components and fine particles."
"Galaxy Mall has added 4 new items."
Jiang Ye was very satisfied. With this upgrade, he wouldn't have to worry about gas attacks while staying in the base.
He casually checked the conditions for the next upgrade.
It was still very vulgar:
"To upgrade to Level 19, a fee of 25 million yuan is required."
"The taxation is too harsh!" Jiang Ye winced with pain.
When he was young, he heard that the rich paid 45% income tax and felt smug. He never expected that as an adult, he would be the one paying heavy taxes.
He decided not to upgrade for now. 25 million yuan was not a small sum. He would wait until he had more idle cash.
Jiang Ye opened the Galaxy Mall to check the new items.
In previous upgrades, large items were added.
Unexpectedly, this time all 4 items were small:
"Item: Electronic Novel Reader"
"Item Description: A novel reader the size of a small book, charged by the solar panel on the back. It can browse up to 3.65 million novels of different genres. Even if you read ten thousand books a day, you can read for a whole year!"
"Price: 5,000 yuan"
Jiang Ye gasped. He didn't expect that there would be entertainment items already.
He felt that the sales of this thing should be good. This planet was too boring, with no games to play and no TV to watch. Reading novels was a good way to kill time.