Chapter 365: A Shocking Piece of News

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

But after hearing Hong Weiguo’s words, this time, Mayor Jiang’s expression changed drastically. Currently, his expression was very interesting. “Impressive, impressive, he lives up to his name as the legendary Mascot of Tianjing City. He can even do this?! As expected, as the saying goes, all kinds of abilities will have to kneel down in front of Young Master Dali’s luck…”

“Oh, why do you say so?” Upon hearing Mayor Jiang’s words, Hong Weiguo became curious. “It couldn’t be that my prodigal Dali has been right with selling the land? En, I know it was all converted into cash and not too bad, but it isn’t that exaggerated, right?”

“How should I put it…” Mayor Jiang smiled bitterly. “I suddenly realize that compared with his insights, I, as a mayor, am a little lacking in this aspect. Hey, Old Hong, why don’t you ask your Dali to be my secretary!”

“Our little prodigal knows nothing apart from playing every day.” Hong Weiguo almost choked to death on his cigarette. “You’re asking an 18-year-old kid to be your secretary, this is too careless of you, right?”

“Not careless, definitely not careless!” Mayor Jiang stared blankly. “If he comes to work here, it’s definitely my good fortune!”

“Forget it.” Hong Weiguo firmly shook his head. “I’m afraid he’d create havoc in our Tianjing city, then it’d spell big trouble. Speaking of which, what exactly is the reason why you asked me to come here today? Don’t leave me hanging!”

“Alright, looks like it doesn’t matter whether or not you see it now.” Mayor Jiang turned around, took out a document from the drawer behind him and tossed it to Hong Weiguo. “Look at it, now I suddenly believe that mysterious and supernatural things really exist.”

“What are you acting so mysterious for.” Hong Weiguo received the document. Then, after only a few glances at it, his eyes suddenly lit up. “This… this can’t be? Our country is delaying the matter of developing West Fourth Loop into a special economic zone, and instead will develop the outer area of Tianjing Mountain fully?! Such a huge piece of land? It’s that piece of land that belongs to my Dali?!”

“That’s right.” Mayor Jiang was completely at a loss for words as he fiercely rubbed his temples. “Initially, the country wanted to develop West Fourth Loop into a special economic zone, but it’s difficult to do so. You know as well that your Dali has started up a so-called New Lanxiang Campus City at the outer area of Tianjing Mountain, and the scale of construction is large and exaggerated. Moreover, there’s the tallest Dalaran library in the world there, and the base has already been constructed. In the future, it’ll definitely involve a lot of manpower, materials, and funds. In that case, it’ll appear quite redundant to develop West Fourth Loop as well. So, after those from above held a meeting for three days, at last, they decided to delay the development of West Fourth Loop and instead develop your Dali’s sci-fi town in full force. The main reason is that that piece of land is cheap, so it’s much easier to develop compared to West Fourth Loop’s, and it doesn’t need to involve so many citizens.

“Initially, I called you over today to tell you about this and get you to hurry up and think of a way to sell those pieces of land. Other things aside, just this piece of news alone, do you know how much money it would cost already?!” Mayor Jiang slowly took a seat and took in a deep breath, then he dispiritedly said, “With the relations between our two families, of course, you’d be the first person I’d tell about this. And in the end, you told me that you’ve sold all the land there, and at the price of 8 billion, no less…”

Tears trailed down Mayor Jiang’s face. This prodigal Hong Dali was just too much of a genius!

He couldn’t do it this way, his luck was just too exceedingly great, wasn’t it?!

“This prodigal.” Hong Weiguo roared with laughter. “I didn’t think that he’d coincidently really done the right thing by selling it! In this case, if that place won’t be developed, then wouldn’t the value of the land drop as well?”

It was a change in the place for the development zone. In that case, though the price of the land might not drop, it wouldn’t be possible for it to go up.

Mayor Jiang sat on the sofa with envy written all over his face. “Honestly, I’m really jealous and envious of you. Old Hong, why don’t I ask my son to learn how to squander from your Dali…”

“Squandering takes skills.” Hong Weiguo was ever so happy as he cockily laughed. “Looks like I haven’t made a wasted trip here today, hahaha. This is interesting!”

“Oh right, I haven’t asked you, who bought those pieces of land?” Mayor Jiang had many things to handle recently and was busy attending meetings. Thus, he naturally didn’t know about these matters regarding the transactions of land as he was not responsible for handling them. “Who exactly became the victim?”

“Ko Gohon.” Hong Weiguo was in an extremely good mood. “The Big Young Master of Toyoda Conglomerate.”

Pu!!!

…

Chenhui Building, ninth floor, Caiwei Entertainment.

Hong Dali lay on Li Nianwei’s lap as he casually asked, “Sister Cai, has our program liaised with the TV station?”

“It’s already done.” Zhang Cai nodded. “Once Station Director Huang of Tianjing Satellite TV heard that we want to broadcast ‘iPartment’ and ‘Where Are We Going, Dad’ at his station, he spent the whole night trying to find an empty slot to broadcast it, and now they have started to advertise it.”

“En, it’s fine since it can be broadcast.” Hong Dali licked his lips. “It’s really rather boring betting with Ko Gohon. Just broadcast all the dramas that have been done. I don’t care about whatever ratings.”

Upon hearing what he said, Zhang Cai secretly wiped her cold sweat off. This Young Master was unconcerned with even such a heavy bet. After all, they were cars worth 15 million and above. But that’s true, if he was really so concerned about this, he wouldn’t be the number one squandering Young Master in Heavenly State, Hong Dali.

“Alright, if there isn’t anything, I’ll go to sleep first.” Hong Dali let out a long yawn and mumbled, “I’ve really been busy to death during these few days, it’s really tiring…”

It was no wonder he said he was tired. This period of time, he’d gone everywhere back and forth. It was indeed very tiring.

In Hong Dali’s brain—

“System, I want to exchange for the survival side branch!”

Very soon, the mechanic voice of the System sounded: “Survival side branch—”

“Halo System. Explanation: The halo effect can be attained by followers that reach loyalty of 100% towards Host.”

“Halo increases the total of attribute points by 50% within an area of 1,000 meters. After which, with every 5% increase in the attribute points, the effective area will double.”

“Current attribute points of Host: 66 points. Please exchange.”

In that case, I can add the points to the fullest at one go using the halo?

Hong Dali instantly nodded. “Exchange!”

Ding. In front of Hong Dali appeared the interface of the halo. With just one look at it, Hong Dali was instantly elated—

Strength Halo: Increase the Strength attribute of the followers. Number of points needed for exchange: 5 points.

Agility Halo: Increase the Agility attribute of the followers. Number of points needed for exchange: 5 points.

Reflexes Halo: Increase the Reflex attribute of the followers. Number of points needed for exchange: 5 points.

Others: Unavailable for now.

What the heck, this is awesome!

Hong Dali looked at his attribute interface. He now had all attributes at full 100 points. After exchanging for the Halo System, two other options appeared beside his list of characters—Followers, and Family and Friends.

After entering the Followers menu, Hong Dali finally saw the attributes of his followers…

There were a total of nine people on it. Ling Xiaoyi and the other eight big lackeys. He could clearly see all their attributes. For instance, Ling Xiaoyi’s attributes.

Ling Xiaoyi: Strength 78, Agility 76, Reflexes 95…

Li Yang: Strength 89, Agility 86, Reflexes 85…

And so on.

All these values were not the full ones. Probably, it was according to the grading by the System. The standard full points, 100, was Hong Dali’s current state. The attributes of his lackeys were thus naturally lower.

Of course, this wasn’t important. What was most important was that the loyalty of all nine lackeys was at 100 points. This was very awesome, at least he could be at ease with them…

This is good, this is good. This aspect is very important. These nine big lackeys are my fighters, bodyguards, people running errands for me and so on. By increasing their attributes, it would naturally be more convenient for them to do things, humph humph.

Since there was such an awesome skill, that what was he waiting for. Of course, he exchanged for them immediately!

Hong Dali: “Exchange for all!”

In no time, three halos had appeared consecutively below Hong Dali’s feet. They were the Strength Halo, Agility Halo, and Reflexes Halo.

He had used 10 attribute points to exchange for a side branch, 15 points to exchange for a halo, and he was still left with 41 points. Next, he started to exchange for the levels of the halo. With one more point, the attribute would be increased by 5%, the effective area would double. Needless to say, fill it up to the max!

He rose the levels very smoothly, and one minute later, Hong Dali’s halo skill had been filled to the max. Then, after looking at the attributes of the nine big lackeys, this time, Hong Dali was instantly astonished—Ling Xiaoyi: Strength 100, Agility 100, Reflexes 100…

What the heck, the attributes for all nine lackeys were full, how scary was that!

And the area of the full attributes was even scarier!

For level one, it was an addition of 5% of attributes within an area of one kilometer. For level two, it was an addition of 20% of attributes within an area of two kilometers. And apart for the 5% increase in the attributes for each level, the distance had doubled! Level three was four kilometers, level four was eight kilometers, and after level 10, it was a full 256 kilometers. Totally scary!

“Mm…” Hong Dali was extremely satisfied. “This is good, this is good!”

He used the remaining attribute points on the gem processing skill, and at the same time, the voice of the System sounded again—

“All side branches have been opened. System has entered the preparation phase to upgrade. When all the skill attribute points have been filled, the System will automatically upgrade. Next level for Host: Big Prodigal, gain one attribute point for every 10 million squandered. At the same time, current side branches in System can upgrade again.”

“After the System upgrade, it will open a new direction for exchange—Family and Friends. Please stay tuned.”

After the announcement, the System said no more.

However, Hong Dali’s little heart was beating like mad. “What the heck! The next level is one attribute point per 10 million?!”

Then, it was a wild burst of surprise: “Can exchange for attribute points for friends and family! Dad, Mum, I’ll send health to you right away, wahahahaha!”

“I want to splurge! I want to squander!”

…

Imperial Hotel.

“Are the preparations done for our program?” Ko Gohon leaned on the sofa and asked his bodyguard. “This time, we can only win! No matter what, I want to win my cars back!”

“Everything has been prepared. We’re only waiting for the time for it to be broadcast.” The bodyguard respectfully said, “Everything has gone according to plan. I guarantee that there’s no problem!”

Ko Gohon fiercely slapped his thigh. “That’s good, heh heh. I’ll see how Hong Dali fights with me this time!”