Xu Qianghua and the ladies stayed in the study room for a few hours. During that time, Su Meiyu went out and brought in lunch. Eventually, the maids left the room to get back to work.
"Grandma Su, I'll buy you the remaining 90 terminals so everyone can be ready" Xu Qianghua said.
"Qiangqiang, I need 85 because there are 5 children who are going to leave" Grandma Su replied.
"Okay, 85 it is. I'll buy them and send them to the orphanage tomorrow" he agreed, understanding the reasons for the reduction.
They chatted about other things for about half an hour before she left to take care of other matters.
Xu Qianghua then went back to Liu Meiying's office to check for any new changes.
This time, Liu Meiying saw him coming in and asked, "Did you have a good chat with Grandma Su?"
"Yes, I did. I told her and the maids about my rebirth" Xu Qianghua said.
"Oh? And how did they react?" Liu Meiying asked.
"That's what surprised me. They didn't question or doubt what I said and accepted it calmly" he said as he lifted Liu Meiying and sat down where she had been sitting, wrapping his arms around her.
Liu Meiying closed her eyes, feeling comfortable in the embrace.
"So why did you call Grandma Su?" she asked.
"Did you know she has a group of people who are loyal to me?" he asked instead of answering her question.
"Yes, when you were born, she started searching for people who are smart, beautiful, and loyal," she nodded.
"Yeah, so I want to make sure they are ready when the change happens," he said, thinking to himself.
'Should I tell them about how the game merges after the game is released?'
'What should I do, system?' he asked internally.
[I think you can tell them after the game is launched as it would mean that there is no change in the timeline for the past life and at the same time the world's will has not noticed us yet] the system concluded.
'Has the world's will still not found us?' Xu Qianghua was surprised.
[Yes, I have not detected anything from the will of the world, which I have been monitoring. It is likely too busy perfecting the game or does not see us as a threat] the system said.
'That's good because I do not want to deal with that rule stickler' he thought with a sigh.
"What are you thinking about, Qiangqiang?" Liu Meiying asked, looking at him when he didn't say anything after finishing his sentence.
"Nothing. The stock market should close soon" he said, glancing at the time and seeing it was almost 3 pm.
"Yes, the stock price crash for the Group is still ongoing, but it will soon stop as the stock market will cut the company off so that we can no longer short-sell it. And with the way things are going, the possibility of the company being delisted is high" Liu Meiying added.
"So are you going to keep at this tomorrow?" he asked.
"Yes, after the stock market closes today, I will tell some of my trusted people to keep an eye on this and see if there are any changes. Other than that, I just have to short-sell the company until it is delisted, and because we shorted, we get all the money from this" she said with a big smile.
"Yeah" Xu Qianghua nodded, trusting the professionals since he did not know much about this part.
In his past life, Xu Qianghua studied Computer Science as a major because he had Liu Meiying to handle the company, so he just wanted to help expand the fields that the company could enter, and that's why he did not have a lot of knowledge about these matters.
As they were talking, they saw that the stock market had issued the cut-off of the Xu Group stocks. This also meant that the first incident that Xu Qianghua deemed important for him to make money had ended.
Now all he had to focus on was the second incident related to the Jiang Group and the WayFlower Group.
After that, Liu Meiying got up and stretched.
"I am going to make dinner today. What would you like?" she asked.
"Anything is fine because everything you make is delicious" he said.
"Okay, sweetie" she said as she lightly kissed his lips and left the room.
'Now what should I do?' Xu Qianghua thought as he sat there looking at the stock market page.
'Oh right, first let's order personal terminals for the orphanage.' He quickly opened up the online store, looked at the terminals, and bought the best ones available.
Each one cost around 1500 luminas, which is pretty cheap. He then bought 90 personal terminals in case extras were needed, which cost him 135,000 luminas.
Xu Qianghua then made a call to Grandma Su and told her that the terminals would be arriving soon.
"Okay, Qiangqiang. By the way, do you want me to call them and tell them to come back?" she asked but did not specify who "they" were, wanting to keep it a secret on the call and test Xu Qianghua.
"Aren't they busy right now with the missions you sent them? Anyway, I do not need them until the end of this month, but tell them that I will ask them to do something on the 21 st" Xu Qianghua said.
"Okay, then we will talk after I receive the terminals" she said, giving him a quick goodbye and disconnecting the call.
Grandma Su was talking about a group of people who, like Liu Meiying, are geniuses with their powers in this world. They are temporarily under Grandma Su, but she created this group for Xu Qianghua as a helping hand led by Liu Meiying.
They usually do not meet each other, but in his last life, after the game merged, they went into their fields and became one of the giants in them, similar to Liu Meiying.
Xu Qianghua found out about this after he learned about Shadow. That's when Grandma Su started to reveal everything that could be used at his disposal.
The reason why Grandma Su did not tell Xu Qianghua about this after the game first merged was that when the game merged in his last life, everyone was transported into different areas unless they played the game and chose where their starting location would be.
Yeah, the World's Will is really bad at doing these kinds of work. It did not promote the game before it was released, and when the game merged, it did not care about what kind of skills and talents everyone who did not play the game got and just randomized it to save energy by not stopping time for people who never played the game.
It knew that if it did, then they would take forever as they would never believe that what they are seeing is real and do weird stuff like the main characters do when they are thrown into a new world.
It also transported everyone evenly all around the new world so that it would not crowd one single area.
But there are variables such as the one with Xu Qianghua and the Liu family ladies who were asleep in the same bed, so they were all teleported to the house Xu Qianghua bought when he first put real-life money into the game.
As for the maids, as they were in the same house, they were also teleported to the same house, so that was convenient.
But because of the random teleports, they did not meet Grandma Su until Shadow was formed and became well-known.
Liu Meiying, who had already set up her chamber of commerce, was able to find some information about one of the higher-ups of the organization, which is how she found that she knew the person.
She thought it would be hard, but it was not as it seemed that when she learned about the information about Shadow, they also tracked her chamber of commerce and learned who the owner was, and that is how they found each other.
But now Xu Qianghua wants everyone loyal and dear to him to log in before the game starts and make sure all of them are together.
And he got an item that will help him and people from his family keep in contact and also a way to keep them safe.
Family Sign Token (Chaos)
Description: This is a necessary item for a family to have so that they can contact and protect their family members.
This may have a similar name as the Family Token which is needed to create a family, but the Family Sign Token is something that was rarely seen in his last life.
This token is a mother token that can create duplicate tokens for the family members to use and carry.
This token is a special tool that has multiple functions, although Xu Qianghua only knows some of them, they are still really powerful.
One of the functions is that people with this token can communicate with the other token holders similar to the smartphones from Xu Qianghua's original world and the personal terminal he is using right now.
Another function is similar to a life-saving talisman where the main token holder can set up a projection of themself or someone stronger than themself for the family members, which will be useful if they are ever in danger.
At the same time, if something happens and they die, depending on the quality of the token, they can be resurrected.
For example, if they have a gold token, which is the lowest token available, their soul will be taken the moment they die, and the token will teleport back to the mother token with all the necessary information.
Tokens of a higher level have better functions.
This is something that a lot of people want, as this token can be used for any organization other than as a family token, like a chamber of commerce token where the people who are working under can communicate more so that the organization can improve, or as an assassination organization's insignia that can be used as a key.
There are many uses for this token, but they are hard to find. From what he remembers, there was one in the game mall when the game was launched, and after that, there were about a hundred or so tokens in this world.
And they got these tokens from doing missions that ranges from almost losing your cultivation due to severe injuries to even getting your family destroyed.
So whenever there is a family token with a person, they are usually never maliciously killed, as people know that if they do, they have to go far, far away, as the family or organization that owns this token will take revenge.
'So, system, how could I get this token as a sign-in reward?' Xu Qianghua asked the system in a stupefied voice.
[Host, this happened because of the space-time storm. As I said, when I was trying not to get us killed, I had taken in a lot of its energy, which helped me evolve and at the same time left me with enough energy.]
[So when the weekly sign-in happened, the space-time energy was used, which resulted in you getting this item.]
[But remember, host, this is not something that happens every week. A lot of the energy was used to get this item, and the rest needed to be saved for your rewards from creating your family and making it stronger.]
[So the sign-in rewards for the next one will not be the same, and this will continue until I can save up the energy that is being collected from the small crack that I have created so that I can continuously draw more of this energy,] the system explained.
'So this can happen again?' Xu Qianghua listened to everything the system said and focused on this point.
[Yes, it will happen again, but it will take time or require a similar or stronger energy source for me to draw from,] the system clarified so that her host won't have a misunderstanding later.
'Yeah, figured. I mean, this alone is enough to buy a middle-level world that is about to upgrade if I sell it to one of the top 100 races. But that would be unnecessary as I need to use it more than them,' Xu Qianghua thought as he slowly rubbed the surface of the token that has a pen symbol, which is used as a way to know that this is an unowned mother token.
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