Chapter 127: Fooling Ghosts

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lifted his head to look at the huge white beehive that was slowly rising like a mountain in front of him. Even for him, ripples couldn't help but rise in his heart at this moment: "Money printing machine, this nickname is quite appropriate."

"Ji Bochang grabbed huge sums of money by providing life-buying money to dignitaries for a long time, which was used to support Yunshan Pharmaceutical's research on cloning technology, and the cloning object was himself." Seeing Lan Shiwen pointed his finger at the white beehive in front and continued: "By selling the lives of massive clones to Wealth Wu Tong, Ji Bochang obtained a large amount of copper coins, which were then used to buy life for himself."

Simply put, he had been using a fake version of himself to fool ghosts all these years.

"Is that all?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's brows furrowed: "You and I both know the rules of Wealth Wu Tong. The price of buying life is more expensive each time, but the price of selling life is lower each time. If it were just cloning himself to sell for money, after a few transactions, human life wouldn't be worth much money."

"You are right, so cloning himself to sell for money is actually just one of the ways Ji Bochang 'prints money'." Seeing Lan Shiwen's brows relaxed, and a polite smile appeared on his face: "His main source of income is earning the price difference from other people's transactions."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's eyes narrowed slightly, and he instantly understood what Seeing Lan Shiwen was talking about.

"We found a large number of genetic sample backups in the independent database and physical cold storage of Yunshan Pharmaceutical. There is no doubt that they do not belong to Ji Bochang, but to Ji Bochang's 'customers'."

Seeing Lan Shiwen turned around, facing Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, with his back to the white beehive behind him: "Yunshan Pharmaceutical as a company is large enough, and their business scope covers the Central Plains and Nine Provinces. The beehive base in Yun Province is only for Ji Bochang's personal use, but that may not be the case for branches in other states and prefectures. Life is so precious that many people are willing to spend a lot of money for it."

The transaction process between Ji Bochang and "customers" is roughly like this:

【Step 1: Ji Bochang hangs up calligraphy and paintings created by himself in auction houses and other channels, and gives a reference price.】

To be honest, Ji Bochang's calligraphy is quite bad, and his painting level is only slightly better than Nobita Nobi's. Only some old customers, as well as those in the circle introduced through private channels by old customers, know the true value of these calligraphy and paintings.

【Step 2: Customers spend huge sums of money to bid for Ji Bochang's calligraphy and paintings, and then are invited to Ji Bochang's home. Ji Bochang personally confirms that the other party is indeed trustworthy, and then hands the calligraphy and paintings to the other party.】

Every calligraphy and painting sold by Ji Bochang has red tassels on the scroll, with copper coins worn on them as decoration. This is his personal symbol. But very few people know that what makes the rich spend a lot of money is not the calligraphy and painting itself, but the copper coins hanging on the scroll for "decoration."

【Step 3: High-quality customers who have traded with Ji Bochang more than 2 times will be further invited to the technology park in the western suburbs of Yun City to see the beehive. Here, they will initially learn part of the truth about life-buying money and become true "insiders," Ji Bochang's core customers.】

【Step 4: Yunshan Pharmaceutical will collect their genetic samples with the consent of core customers to mass-produce their clones. After the clones mature in the culture warehouse, core customers will be arranged to meet with 'Wealth Wu Tong'.】

【Step 5: Core customers sell the lives of clones to Wealth Wu Tong and get copper coins. Ji Bochang will take a cut from their life-selling proceeds. The cut ratio is 3/7, Ji Bochang 7, customers 3. For every 10 copper coins core customers get through selling life, Ji Bochang will take 7.】

Hearing this, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe already understood what kind of heavy weight Ji Bochang's "core customer list" had...

After finishing these, the bright smile on Seeing Lan Shiwen's face slowly converged. His expression became a bit regretful, and he continued:

"It's a pity that Ji Bochang had early plans for his own death. A week before he passed away, Yunshan Pharmaceutical had already started to destroy all work records related to beehive facilities. We have incomplete genetic data, and we have mastered Ji Bochang's bank statements and social contacts in recent years, but it is difficult to quickly determine who these genetic samples belong to."

"But it doesn't matter. Now it is the information age. As long as our system wants to check anyone's identity, it can always check it out. It's just a matter of spending more effort and writing more reports."

Looking at the serious expression on Seeing Lan Shiwen's face, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe remained silent for a long time.

After a long time, he cautiously opened his mouth: "You can't check everything, right? What if you really find something?"

"You are right. Do you know what I found out recently?" Seeing Lan Shiwen asked with a smile.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head: "I don't want to know at all." "This is not up to you." Seeing Lan Shiwen didn't give Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe a chance to refuse. He said directly: "In the files I am authorized to access, Ji Bochang has at least 7 recorded deaths. And this is only the part we can check. The actual number of his deaths will only be more than 7 times."

Hearing this, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, who was preparing to leave here immediately, stopped his steps.

"7 times...?"

A look of shock froze on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's face, making him stiffen in place.

This is not right, quite not right, it can even be said that this is fundamentally impossible!

"Wealth Wu Tong's rule is to raise the price on the spot. From the second transaction, the price of each transaction will be the square of the previous one."

That is a square multiple. No matter how good Ji Bochang is at making money, no matter how he earns the price difference from customers, even if all the cloning machines of Yunshan Pharmaceutical are running at full capacity 24 hours a day to print money for him, Ji Bochang could never afford the high price of buying more than 7 lives for himself.

Because according to Wealth Wu Tong's price-increasing rule, the price of the 7th time selling life to the God of Wealth is—about 4.3 billion copper coins."

The price of the 8th time buying life is 4.3 billion × 4.3 billion.

"Either Ji Bochang has other more efficient money-printing means, or he found a loophole in Wealth Wu Tong's rules and frantically brushed money by way of card bugs... or, the price he bought life for wasn't that high at all?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe smoothed his breathing, not letting Seeing Lan Shiwen read any emotions from his reaction, and asked: "What are the specific causes of death for these 7 deaths of Ji Bochang?"

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"No comment." Seeing Lan Shiwen shrugged: "The eerie archives of Yun Province are not open to the public for free. If you want to get information, you have to exchange it with something of equal value."

After a pause, Seeing Lan Shiwen: "The same goes for life-buying money."

"Of course, this is very fair." Ning Zhe didn't feel surprised: "Let me guess, you want to know information about Retirement Village?"

Seeing Lan Shiwen nodded.

"Understood." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked around at the cameras and surveillance probes scattered on the dome above the white beehive: "There is no free lunch in the world. I know that you let me come here and revealed the results of your investigation into Ji Bochang's inheritance to me from the beginning because of this."

For the inheritance of the Yin family.

Seeing Lan Shiwen nodded and added: "This place has been fully taken over by our people, don't worry about eavesdropping."

"Because your people are already recording, right?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had no temper instantly. He moved his gaze away from the surveillance probe on his head and looked directly into Seeing Lan Shiwen's eyes: "Okay, okay... have you heard of the 'Xiyi Ghost Realm'?"

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