157: Chapter 157 System 2.0 Officially Launched

An Xiaonuan finished speaking, ignoring the Old Witch's reaction, and left with the excuse that she had work to attend to.

The Old Witch stood stunned for several seconds, then her chest heaved violently. She grabbed something at random and raised her hand as if to throw it, but eventually held back.

"Don't get angry, don't get angry, getting angry only hurts yourself." After a long while, the Old Witch's heaving chest finally calmed down.

However...

Facts proved that this was merely self-deception.

Ever since the Old Witch voluntarily showed weakness, and after An Xiaonuan realized the tables had turned, she began to let her true nature shine. Of course, she wouldn't deliberately look for trouble; after all, nobody had nothing better to do than to stir up trouble when they were living a perfectly fine life.

Mostly, it was because An Xiaonuan had already decided to resign at the end of the month and didn't care about the salary anymore, so she became relaxed after handing over most of her work.

She arrived on time, left right on the dot, and when bored at work, she would play on her own at her desk or read books on finance to charge up for her new journey, without disturbing others.

Yet, this made her an outlier in the entire team, and seeing this scene made the Old Witch feel deeply resentful and frustrated.

But as the saying goes, if you aren't ruthless, you can't stand firm; those who are ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don't fear death. At this moment, the Old Witch was the ruthless one, while An Xiaonuan was completely "not fearing death"—there was a significant gap in their levels.

So, even though the Old Witch looked at An Xiaonuan with deep resentment and frustration, she didn't dare to cause trouble for her again.

Therefore, that feeling of stifled frustration remained bottled up inside her.

Consequently...

Well! The Old Witch's breast nodules increased again.

Time passed until the middle of September. That night, after An Xiaonuan fell asleep, Chen Sheng went to the study, opened the international financial trading software, and listed all the crude oil futures he had previously purchased for sale, adding 1.3 USD per lot to the existing price.

Although intelligence showed that this wave of crude oil futures would continue to rise until the end of September, someone once said, "Don't earn the last copper coin," and he thought it made a lot of sense. Besides, regarding futures, although he had played twice, he still only understood it vaguely.

So rather than maximizing profits by cutting it close to the deadline, it was better to take a relatively low average based on the rise during this period and conduct a predictive price-hike trade.

Earning more or less depended on luck. Of course, if they didn't sell, he could still trade at the day's price later.

After completing the listing, Chen Sheng logged into green bubble and asked in the part-time driver group as usual if there were any videos of eccentric customers.

As for whether anyone would reply after he sent the message?

Let's just say that drivers doing part-time ride-hailing are all night owls, and this was the most active time of the day.

Today, he was lucky enough to receive two videos of eccentric customers. After negotiating the price and getting the videos, Chen Sheng immediately imported them into the editing software and started working.

Tick-tock, tick-tock~

When busy, time passes quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was midnight.

When the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand all returned to zero, a mechanical prompt suddenly sounded in Chen Sheng's mind.

【Ding~ System update complete! host, Intelligence System 2.0 is at your service.】

"Uh~" Chen Sheng was stunned for a long while before he muttered, somewhat belatedly: "It's finally updated?"

To be honest, during the first few days of the system update, he, who had gotten used to opening the system to check the daily intelligence after dropping An Xiaonuan off at work, felt a bit unaccustomed to not being able to open it.

But as the agency company sent news of success and he poured his energy into the construction of the branch store, he slowly got used to it, to the point where he felt he had almost forgotten the existence of the system.

Of course! The main thing was that he had money in his pocket; he figured when the money in his account hit the bottom, he would quickly remember the system.

After sighing, Chen Sheng quickly cheered up and asked: "System, what changes does this update have?"

【Ding! After this update, the original daily sign-in has been changed to a weekly sign-in, and the intelligence will automatically refresh every Monday at midnight.】

【Ding! After this update, the scope of intelligence has been expanded from the host's current city to the host's current country, and the intelligence will no longer be limited to matters related to the host.】

【Ding! After this update, a special intelligence category has been added. Each time unread intelligence is updated, there is a chance to refresh special intelligence.】

After the system finished speaking, Chen Sheng quickly pressed on with his years of experience as a bookworm and asked: "System, did you forget to give me an update gift pack?"

【Ding! Sorry, there is no update gift pack.】

Well, that didn't work.

However, Chen Sheng wasn't annoyed. It was just a shot in the dark; if there was one, great, if not, it didn't matter.

"Open system panel." Chen Sheng thought silently.

host: Chen Sheng

Level: Level 2

Upgrade experience points: 0 / 50

Unread intelligence: 3

"WOC!" Seeing that there were three pieces of unread intelligence, Chen Sheng quickly rubbed his hands warm and clicked on the unread intelligence.

【Weekly Intelligence 1: Recently, the web drama "Evil Mother-in-Law Online, Unfilial Children Kneel Down" has had some investors withdraw due to certain factors, causing filming to stall. Director Yi Wei is looking for investors everywhere.】

【Note 1: After the web drama goes online on the platform, it gained 5 million views in a short time.】

【Note 2: The production cost of this web drama is not high. If the host wants to invest, it is recommended that the maximum amount does not exceed 500,000.】

【Note 3: Director Yi Wei's contact number: 136XXXXXXXX...】

"Yo! It really is upgraded; it's different." Looking at the word "investment" that appeared, Chen Sheng nodded with satisfaction.

However, he had never dealt with investing in web dramas before. Chen Sheng planned to find some professionals tomorrow to ask about the specific process.

Shifting his gaze down, Chen Sheng looked at the second piece of intelligence.

【Weekly Intelligence 2: Recently, news of the upcoming demolition of Luoguo Alley in Bian City has spread again. It has been confirmed that the Wangxi Group is preparing to build an intelligent center next door.】

【Note 1: The specific demolition time has not yet been determined.】

After reading this information, Chen Sheng silently took out his phone, opened the navigation, entered Bian City, and then...

At this moment, there was an MMP he wanted to express to the system, not sure if he should say it.

He didn't expect that just after praising the system, it started causing trouble.

Not to mention that the demolition time was undecided, just the fact that Bian City was not ten thousand miles away from Shu City, but even by plane, it would take two or three hours; this was really making him fly all over the country.

Of course, those weren't the only problems.

For example, what were the local policies?

As an outsider, did the local policy allow him to earn the price difference by relying on demolition?

Or, as mentioned in the intelligence, "news of upcoming demolition has spread again." Faced with such news, would the residents or merchants of Luoguo Alley be willing to sell?

Chen Sheng curled his lips in disdain and looked at the third item.

【Weekly Intelligence 3: In the second-hand market in Qian'an City, a street stall selling old books and other items contains a 50% new Hero brand red gold pen. The current market price of the pen is about 20,000 yuan.】

"What kind of Hero brand fountain pen is worth 20,000 yuan?" Chen Sheng expressed his lack of understanding.

According to his knowledge, only those pens inlaid with diamonds and gold made by luxury companies would have a market price exceeding five figures. He didn't expect domestic fountain pens to have such high-end items.

Of course, this wasn't him looking down on domestic goods; after all, as everyone knows, high-end domestic goods are things ordinary people can't afford.

So Chen Sheng opened the search interface again and entered "Hero brand red gold pen."

After the relevant information refreshed, looking at the screen full of red gold pens priced at a few hundred, he was even more confused.

"Forget it!" Not wanting to think about it, Chen Sheng simply turned off his phone, the system interface, and the computer, and slipped back to the bedroom to sleep.

The next day.

Chen Sheng still dropped An Xiaonuan off at the company first, then opened TikTok, entered keywords like "how to invest in short dramas" in the search box, and after clicking search, Chen Sheng started watching the related videos and news pushed by the system.

Before TikTok, the common catchphrase was "ask Baidu if you have questions," but now, it must be said that it is more convenient to use TikTok for things. Anyway, Chen Sheng felt that watching others explain through videos was easier for him to understand than dry text.

After selecting some videos and information he thought were valuable and roughly reading through them, Chen Sheng had a general flow of short video investment. Immediately, he called Lawyer Wang, who had helped him handle the "one false claim, three compensations" case, and consulted him on the aspects to pay attention to when signing investment agreements.

After finishing these, he didn't call the director, but drove to the No. 2 A Small Shop Here that was under renovation near Shu City University.