Three million in IOUs.

Lin Chen was a man of action.

Frankly speaking, Bai Shuyi couldn't quite understand his actions.

After they left in the car, Bai Shuyi asked as she drove, "Just for that slap, you're really going to pay them an extra million?"

"As if."

Lin Chen chuckled.

The Ye brothers wouldn't get a single cent of that money.

Not that Lin Chen was trying to be a deadbeat.

Because it was unnecessary.

The Ye Teng Hu and Ye Teng Long brothers had already sold their game accounts.

By the time Lin Chen finished filming the show and returned from Jing City, the world would have undergone a massive change.

In a world invaded by the game, two ordinary people without any inherited game abilities would likely become monster fodder without Lin Chen even having to lift a finger.

Lin Chen felt no pressure at all about not repaying the money.

Over the years, many families had been ruined by borrowing money from Ye Teng Hu.

Why should Lin Chen feel any pressure?

"Just you wait and see."

Lin Chen didn't explain too much to Bai Shuyi.

The car arrived at the Longhai TV station.

"Then I'll head back first," Bai Shuyi said as Lin Chen was about to get out of the car.

Lin Chen nodded and said, "This trip will probably take a week. I won't be back until at least the 27th. You'll probably be bored alone in Longhai. I suggest you go home and say school's out for break. After all, you saw how troublesome the Ye Teng Hu brothers can be. I can't guarantee your safety while I'm not there."

He made an excuse to send Bai Shuyi home.

Lin Chen calculated the time.

By the time he came back from this trip, the game would have invaded the real world.

Bai Shuyi's parents were getting old, and he didn't know if they had game accounts.

Sending Bai Shuyi home now would at least give her a chance to protect her parents and family when that moment truly arrived.

It wasn't just Bai Shuyi.

In fact, when Liu Mengyao heard that Lin Chen was going to Jing City, she said that she could also ask the school for leave and go to Jing City to play, but Lin Chen refused, telling her to stay home and spend time with her family.

"Okay, then I'll go home and have some fun for a few days."

Bai Shuyi had no objections to Lin Chen's suggestion.

She had come to Longhai because of Lin Chen.

Besides helping Xue Mo and finding out information from Lin Chen, her father's health had been poor recently, and Bai Shuyi had used the school in Longhai as a stepping stone to transfer back to her hometown to study.

That way, she could go back and take care of her ailing father at any time.

Bai Shuyi had mentioned this to Lin Chen before. Regarding Bai Shuyi's father's illness, Lin Chen remembered that the game's invasion of reality didn't bring only disasters.

There were also benefits!

And one of the benefits was that all human diseases on Blue Star disappeared!

Even paralyzed people could walk.

Blind people could see.

Severed limbs could be regenerated!

Cancer vanished without a trace.

Clearly, this was a bit unscientific... it was very unscientific!

It was more like a mysterious power, a magical energy.

It fit the setting of the game world.

However, Lin Chen couldn't yet draw a conclusion as to why this was happening.

For example, the newly launched soul cultivation system in the game.

It seemed very mysterious.

But was it really that mysterious?

The Blue Star Dragon Kingdom had sages who proposed the concept of soul cultivation as early as ancient times...

In addition, the opening of the cultivation system also brought a major change!

Originally, players in the "New World" game all had a hunger system. Once the hunger value dropped below 70, attributes would be reduced, and below 30, they would enter a state of weakness, with all kinds of physical resistance reduced, and the effects of negative states potentially prolonged, and so on...

Once the hunger value dropped below 10, death was possible at any time!

However, after entering soul cultivation, players could use the energy of soul cultivation to obtain satiety, meaning that they could go without eating the delicacies in the game for a month.

Even a year!

In addition, the method of soul cultivation also gave birth to a new currency in the game...

Soul crystals!

This was a necessity for soul cultivation, and also a consumable.

Because soul cultivation was a continuous process that required constant consumption of soul crystals, the value of soul crystals became extremely precious, enough to replace the status of gold coins.

And in the "New World" game, the major deities, holy lands, countries, ethnic groups, and even the Demon Caves, all opened gold coin exchange for soul crystals as soon as the soul cultivation system was launched.

An ordinary soul crystal was equal to ten thousand gold coins.

A medium soul crystal was equal to one hundred thousand gold coins!

A high-grade soul crystal was equal to one million gold coins!

A top-grade soul crystal was equal to ten million gold coins!

A dazzling soul crystal was equal to one hundred million gold coins!

Very expensive!

From this, the value of soul crystals could be seen.

Lin Chen definitely had to stockpile this stuff.

However, Lin Chen wasn't in a hurry. He first had Zhang Chunlin collect gold coins, trying to collect all the gold coins on the market!

A very simple principle: players all had to use gold coins to exchange for soul crystals.

So many forces and groups in the game had enough soul crystals in reserve for everyone to exchange, so Lin Chen only needed to monopolize the gold coins. After collecting enough gold coins, he could exchange them as he pleased!

Lin Chen now had more than a trillion gold coins in the game!

But that wasn't enough.

That was only a thousand dazzling soul crystals.

Of course, in the game, this was a huge fortune.

Even richer than many small countries and ethnic groups.

But in Lin Chen's opinion, it wasn't enough. He wanted more!

Anyway, the ratio of game coins to real currency had already fallen from one-to-one to one hundred thousand-to-one. According to this ratio, Lin Chen had spent more than a million on gold coins.

He could still collect a lot!

Lin Chen's plan was to reserve at least:

Ten thousand dazzling soul crystals.

One hundred thousand top-grade soul crystals.

One million high-grade soul crystals.

Ten million medium soul crystals.

One hundred million ordinary soul crystals!

Calculated this way, Lin Chen still needed a lot of funds.

Still short by about twenty to thirty million.

A big gap!

However, Lin Chen still had a few days left. He could earn some money by going on the show, but the bulk of it would mainly come from Kuaiyin. If that didn't work, he would ask Bai Shuyi and Liu Mengyao to invest some.

The TV station's program team sent an assistant to receive Lin Chen.

There was no one else.

After all, although Lin Chen was popular now, it was only black popularity. He wasn't a big shot. In this realistic society, he was just an ordinary person who had suddenly become popular.

Next, Lin Chen got his makeup done as usual.

An hour later, Lin Chen passed the audition.

Then he came to the studio. The beautiful host Xiao Xiao greeted Lin Chen generously in a business suit, and then began her opening remarks, followed by an interview with Lin Chen...

The recording of the program was not very smooth.

Because some of Lin Chen's words shocked the entire program team.

The recording was even suspended at one point.

The director directly communicated with Lin Chen, but Lin Chen still insisted.

"You're shouting out to the Dragon Kingdom military on our program. I'm afraid..."

"Don't worry, Director!"

Lin Chen said in a deep voice, "What if the dream I had comes true? With the current prices in the 'New World' game, even if the military invests a lot of resources, it won't cost much at all."

"It's not a matter of money!" The director was very embarrassed. He said, "Although your dream, including the things you said, shocked us, what about after the shock? It's just your dream. Everyone will just listen to it as a joke!"

"Since that's the case, then what are you afraid of? Anyway, these are my personal words and actions, and I'll take responsibility in the end! Besides, if the military really listens to me and the scenario I dreamed of doesn't come true afterward, do you think the military would actively disclose that they've been tricked and let the whole world laugh at them?"

Lin Chen said with a smile, "Director, please rest assured, these remarks of mine are safe!"

"Okay, since you insist so much, then I think it's necessary to add a line to Xiao Xiao's script saying that these are your personal words and actions, and have nothing to do with us, how about that?" In the end, the director was still compromised by Lin Chen's persistence.

However, he didn't want to take responsibility.

So he came up with such a method.

"Okay, whatever you want!"

Lin Chen didn't care.

Take responsibility?

He wasn't afraid!

Once the game descended upon reality, who would dare to hold him responsible?

In terms of combat power, Lin Chen was already outstanding in the game.

As for financial resources, Lin Chen was nothing in reality.

However, Lin Chen's share of the wealth in the game a few days later would exceed 50% of the entire game, or even more!

After completing the recording of the "Contemporary Youth" program, Lin Chen packed his luggage.

...

Longhai City, waiting hall, Lin Chen took out his phone and looked at the time.

April 22nd.

Afternoon, 4:20 PM.

Only six days left until the game invaded reality...

No, it was five days!

Today was almost over.

The plane was still two hours away.

Lin Chen sent a message to Liu Mengyao, then took out his game helmet and put it on.

He went online and played for a while, and claimed his daily soul cultivation points.

With Lin Chen's current status in the game, soul cultivation was definitely done with dazzling soul crystals, and Lin Chen was far ahead of first place on the soul cultivation leaderboard with his second-tier cultivation!

Soul cultivation could increase attribute values.

In addition, Lin Chen could now open the Supreme Treasure Box.

He opened three sets of pet equipment, and the attributes of the three war pets were also increased.

Lin Chen could now even solo the Nantianmen dungeon!

His spell attack power had also exceeded 100,000!

Then, Lin Chen's gaze turned to the rewards of the Heavenly Palace Chaos dungeon...

Hidden Job Certificate: Sky Walker!

[Sky Walker: Unrestrained, free, and carefree, that is the Sky Walker! After changing to Sky Walker, you will become an all-around warrior and mage. Whether ranged or melee, you will be able to handle any battle with ease!]

Lin Chen did not open a hidden job with wind magic attributes.

However, he opened the most balanced but also the most difficult job in the "New World" game.

At the same time, it was also an extremely powerful job!