Chapter 739: Procurement Task (Part 2)

Clicking open the Task area, Lu Yi looked at the rows of pinned Tasks, his eyes turning red.

With slightly trembling hands, he gripped the mouse and clicked on one of the pinned Tasks; it was a construction material procurement Task posted by the administrator of this mysterious chat room he was in, involving supplies such as cement, sand, and steel bars.

After looking for a while, Lu Yi not only clicked his tongue in secret, but the procurement quantity requested by the other party was also massive, far exceeding the demand for building a large commercial plaza, and the price offered was quite good as well.

He had seen the administrator post similar Tasks in the chat room before, and according to the members' summary, the profit was around twenty percent—and that was net profit, not gross profit.

One must know that with the current development of commerce, it is very difficult for the vast majority of trades to achieve a net profit of over ten percent.

Lu Yi had been handling his family's business for over a decade, so he naturally understood the ins and outs of it.

Some time ago, his own company's finances were once very tight due to high tariffs encountered on overseas exports.

It was all thanks to the invitation prompt that had inexplicably appeared on the laptop in his office, which had been harassing him for several days.

At the time, Lu Yi was also annoyed to the point of being unable to stand it; reformatting the computer or even switching to a new laptop didn't work, so he could only helplessly accept the invitation, download, and log into Magic House.

It was precisely because he later half-believingly took on a chat room Task and relied on the decent cash reward he earned from completing it that he slightly eased his company's tight finances.

Regarding this chat room that felt like a secret business circle, Lu Yi now trusted it very much.

This chat room placed great emphasis on personal privacy; except for the administrator who knew everyone's information, all members were required not to reveal their true identities within the chat room, otherwise they would be kicked out after accumulating three warnings.

Of course, the chat room would turn a blind eye to exchanges between members in private.

At least Lu Yi knew the true information of two people in the chat room; when they communicated in the chat room, they felt they got along quite well, so they used private messaging to tell each other their real-world identities and had already verified the authenticity by phone in reality.

With previous experience, Lu Yi naturally knew that the chat room's Tasks were a benefit.

However, he also had to find some Tasks that he was qualified to take!

The Tasks posted in the chat room were initially unrestricted, and anyone could take them.

However, there had been instances before where someone maliciously took many Tasks and ultimately failed to complete them while also preventing others from doing so; after being discovered by the administrator, they denied it and used inferior products to complete the Tasks, eventually being kicked out of the chat room. It was said that even their company and personal bank accounts were all wiped out by the hackers of the organization named 【p·c·f】 behind the chat room's backend.

Since then, the administrator began to have qualification audits for those claiming Tasks; for example, if a member invited to join the chat room did not possess corresponding financial strength or did not have an enterprise related to building materials under their name, they would be unable to pass the qualification audit when applying for Tasks related to the procurement of building materials.

The procurement Task related to building materials had already been claimed by someone.

Lu Yi could only look greedily at this Task, which was expected to bring the claimant a net profit of at least over forty million, and turn to other pinned Tasks to search for ones he could do that had not yet been claimed.

Almost at the same time Lu Yi was excitedly searching for a suitable Task in the chat room, thousands of miles away in the Southeast Asia region.

Kuala Lumpur, the largest city and capital of Malaysia.

Ethnic Chinese Zhang Gongmu, just like Lu Yi in the Tianfu Capital of Xia Country, was also looking at the chat room Task displayed on his smartphone screen with glowing eyes, his mouth muttering excitedly and incessantly.

"I can't do this Task, this one won't work either... I can do this one, hurry and take it... this one won't work... this one is okay..."

Zhang Gongmu was a Malaysian Chinese born and raised in Kuala Lumpur; his ancestors were from Southern Fujian and followed fellow villagers to Nanyang at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

After more than a century, the Zhang Gongmu family had completely integrated into the local area.

Chinese people have had a tradition of generational naming since ancient times, and Zhang Gongmu's family was no exception, always using the Five Constants and Five Virtues advocated by Confucianism—namely 'Benevolence, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom, Faith, Warmth, Goodness, Respect, Frugality, and Yield'—as the generational rotation.

The 'Gong' character in Zhang Gongmu's name represented his generation.

Like the vast majority of Southeast Asian Chinese, Zhang Gongmu also had two names; he had a Malay name called Zanlabi Zhang, with Zanlabi meaning 'pious believer of God' in the local language.

In many monotheistic countries, it was quite common for minorities to voluntarily choose to join a religion to obtain protection in order to avoid unnecessary trouble.

However, because there were many ethnic Chinese within Malaysia, some Chinese, including Zhang Gongmu, still used their Chinese names in daily life.

Zhang Gongmu's family operated a rubber plantation within Malaysia; after more than a century of development, although it had gone through several twists and turns, their family's rubber plantation was not only preserved but grew increasingly stronger, still covering over 1,700 hectares today, roughly equivalent to more than 4,000 acres.

This scale was already considered a relatively large rubber plantation in Malaysia, and the Zhang family also had their own company specializing in selling natural rubber.

A few months ago, when Zhang Gongmu was heading to Singapore to discuss business, his mobile phone suddenly received an invitation code.

Originally thinking it was sent by a client from earlier that day, he followed the prompt to download a chat software called Magic House and joined a chat room.

Although Zhang Gongmu soon figured out that he had made a mistake, he did not exit the chat room.

Because he discovered that in this interesting chat room, the administrator would often post some Tasks; after members claimed and completed them, they could not only obtain decent rewards but also earn points to upgrade their membership level, and even exchange points for some good things.

Many overseas Chinese were not as keen on politics as other immigrants, but no one would complain about having too little money.

Zhang Gongmu was one of the latter; over the past few months, after discovering that the chat room he joined—which was entirely composed of ethnic Chinese—would have the administrator post some Tasks from time to time, and that there were even Tasks for purchasing rubber among them, his choice was self-evident after carefully checking and confirming that the price offered by the other party was slightly higher than the market rate.

The subsequent development was even more wonderful than he had imagined; there were no tricks in the chat room's Tasks, and they almost entirely followed commercial processes. There were advance payments, and the final payment was almost always made immediately upon delivery; the common commercial situation of payment delays had never occurred once.

Since then, Zhang Gongmu had taken this chat room to heart; he would almost spend time every day to browse the chat room, taking the opportunity to see if any procurement Tasks that could make him a big profit would pop up again.

Today, the Task he had been looking forward to appeared.

PS:

Sorry, yesterday's update was blocked; it took over five hours of editing before it was released, and the subsequent part of this chapter that originally had descriptions of domestic government dynamics also had to be completely deleted.

Writing about the real world leads to blocks, so I will finish it in these two days.

If there are those who feel the real-world content is redundant and looks dull.

Although I am responsible, I really cannot be blamed entirely.

I planned many plot lines for the real-world story to make this book look like more than just a fan-fiction of 【Transformers】, but it is always blocked, which makes it impossible for me to write many of my plots.